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Meld, the open-source diff and merge tool, which has been updated to version 3.15.2, a release that introduces better support for the GTK+ 3.20 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit.

So you've gotten, via inter-library loan, the pdf's you requested to aid you in researching the article you're writing. For purposes of putting them on your e-reading device, the form they're in is probably perfectly suitable. But what if you'd like to do other things with one or more of them, such as printing them out? There is quite a range of pdf manipulation tools that can help you put them in a form more congenial to such aims.

The time has come for us to take the first test release of the upcoming Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 distro for a test drive, as its developers have just announce it earlier today.

Many people know about cat command which is useful in displaying entire file content. But in some cases we have to print part of file. In today’s post we will be talking about head and tail commands, which are very useful when you want to view a certain part at the beginning or at the end of a file, specially when you are sure you want to ignore the rest of the file content.

NFS is a distributed file system protocol built on top of Sun's RPC (remote procedure call). NFS is popularly used to share directories and files in LAN network environments, and is also adopted in many Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and cloud storage backends. In a typical NFS deployment, an NFS server exports part of its local file system as NFS shares, and one or more remote NFS clients mount and access exported shares within their own file system.

The source code release of the 2D drawing package Toonz as OpenToonz is ready for download from github at: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz

Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS Beta 2 has been released as part of today's Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Final Beta, bringing a complete redesign of its Unity user interface.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition we take a look at what's new in the world of Linux gaming. Open gaming roundup for March 20-26, 2016 Tomb Raider coming to Linux Feral interactive announced the Tomb Raider reboot is coming to Linux this spring. Join them on March 30 at 6 p.m. GMT on their Twitch channel for a live demo. read more

Now that everyone is enjoying Linux kernel 4.5, the time has come for early adopters to take Linux kernel 4.6 for a test drive.

Google said that since Windows, Mac and Linux users prefer to launch their apps from within Chrome, it is discontinuing the app launcher.

Staring and screaming at Xcode – 11/10, would watch again Remember when soccer's governing body FIFA spent $30m making a film about itself starring Tim Roth and Gérard Depardieu?…

Moritz Bunkus announced the release of MKVToolNix 9.0.0, the open-source MKV (Matroska) manipulation software.

At SXSW Interactive 2016, I had the amazing chance to attend a panel of visionaries talking about lack of women in the tech industry. The panel included: Michelle Mandansky, Laura Weidman Powers, Trae Vassallo, and Megan Smith. read more

This is Part 3 in a series of articles on community management best practices. Also read: read more

By design Unity launcher is placed at the left side of Ubuntu desktop and has remained immovable ever since it was introduced to the public in 2010. Ubuntu users who wanted to have Mac OS X-style launcher have had to either replace Unity launcher with an alternative dock such as CairoDock or Docky, or even switch to a more customizable desktop environment such GNOME.

Today we would like to inform you about the first maintenance release of the GTK+ 3.20 toolkit for the recently released GNOME 3.20 desktop environment.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Toonz animation software's open source release, Apple's CareKit, a GNOME usability study, and more!

While the GNOME desktop environment has its fair share of detractors, there are some who appreciate its simplified approach, so the recent release of the latest version is an eagerly anticipated event.

As an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 3 for a low-cost 64-bit ARM (AArch64) development board is the PINE 64, which was successfully Kickstarted as a "$15 64-bit single board super computer" that generated more than 1.7 million dollars. The PINE 64 is still shipping out in limited quantities for now, but the folks behind this project were kind enough to send over a sample of their PINE 64 1GB SBC for some benchmarking.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core products. You can now move the launcher bar from the left side of the screen to the bottom. It requires a hidden terminal command, but it’s now an officially supported feature! Terminal: gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom