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KDE Plasma 5.6 Wednesday, 02 March 2016. Today KDE releases a beta update to its desktop software, Plasma 5.6. This release of Plasma brings many improvements to the task manager, KRunner, activities, and Wayland support as well as a much more refined look and feel.

The history of free and open source software, including but not limited to GNU and Linux, can be segmented into three distinct generations of programmers and users.

The the super-fast Thunderbolt 3 connector technology will be featured in a new model of Dell's upcoming XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux. Thunderbolt 3 will be available via a USB Type-C port.

My phone has now become a more important device than a laptop or desktop computer. It appears to me that the only tasks we really need to perform on computers are specific to a particular niche whether that is video editing, writing books, programming or making music. So why do we obsess about the desktop environment, the menus and how good the audio player is?

Sabayon is a free, open source and Gentoo based Linux distribution. It aims to provide the easy to use, simple and yet powerful Linux operating system. Sabayon team has made the monthly release Sabayon 16.3 available to download with bug fixes and applications updates.

Over dinner a few years ago, Kevin Kelly told me neither of us would be remembered a thousand years from now—nor would our work, even though we both (especially he) enjoyed a measure of celebrity, our bylines on books and magazine mastheads. Death, rot and other forms of change would erase nearly everybody while altering nearly everything.

WordPress is a popular, dynamic, blog-focused content management system. The software is built upon a LAMP or LEMP stack and features an extensive plugin framework and theme system, which allows site owners and developers to deploy easy-to-use and powerful publishing tools. This tutorial will help you how to install and configure WordPress with Apache2, MariaDB and PHP 7 on Arch Linux.

DROWN is the latest major security vulnerability to affect the open source OpenSSL encryption library, but it's not the same as Heartbleed.

Making a change to open source code can be a rush. Recently I was working on software to provide a console command-line interface for users to interact with the NodeJS API client for HPE's Operations Orchestration product. I realized I needed to use a library someone else wrote to parse all the arguments and display a nice command usage output. Something like this: read more

The month of February kept up with the trend of bigger and better things happening in the Raspberry Pi world. From new games to updates from the International Space Station, things keep moving on for the Raspbery Pi and the Raspberry Pi community.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2016 issue.

Develop a program code to add functionality and features to your Pi Glove, bringing interactivity to your fingertips

And is this a bug or a beauty in OpenSSL? Line break Hello, world. Welcome back to Line Break, our weekly column of terrible code readers have spotted in the wild – think of it as a group therapy session.…

The first reason is, because if you don't...I'm telling mom! Now that we have that bit of business out of the way, let's seriously talk about Ubuntu Unity...the much-maligned desktop interface introduced by Canonical in the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition.

Renaming multiple files manually can be a pain and not everyone is comfortable performing such operations from the command line. Below you'll find 3 Linux GUI utilities that should be able to cover most of your bulk renaming needs.

As a hiring manager of systems administrators (sys admins) for the past three years, I know the kind of candidates I'm looking for to join my open source team. My responsibility, of course, is to try to hire the best and brightest from around the world. The candidate's responsibility is to tell me what they've done and how, and what they want their future to look like. I am also looking for that spark. That thing that tells me this candidate is dedicated to the success of open source. read more

JavaScript for the masses Oracle has published the code for its long-awaited open source JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) version 2.0.0.…

The ownCloud 9.0 self-hosting cloud server will be officially released in the coming weeks with numerous new features, some of which we have revealed here during the past few months.

"Personalized content" is a phrase so vague that it could mean just about anything. That quality makes it just about perfect for use by a patent troll. This month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's patent lawyers have honed in on a patent describing a way of "presenting personalized content relating to offered products and services," owned by Phoenix Licensing LLC, a patent-holding company controlled by Richard Libman, an Arizona man who's sued more that 100 companies.

Test Tutorial: In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux Professional Institute Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this first in a series of six tutorials, Sean introduces you to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) concepts, architecture, and design. By the end of this tutorial, you will know about LDAP concepts and architecture, directory design, and schemas.