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In an open organization, measuring performance for particular roles like community managers may not be straightforward, especially when comparing those roles to others with more defined success metrics, goals, and outcomes. In my experience over the past six years, I've worked closely with my manager to make sure that we are in sync with my objectives and what I need to do in order to maximize my impact in my role as a community manager. read more

Spanish phone maker BQ launches its 2nd Ubuntu Phone this month; the Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition.

FireFox and Chromium are the two most popular open source browsers, though there are actually thousands out there. And what about the non-open browsers? Let's hash it out. What is it about browsers that make them so useful? What features do you like best? read more

Open source software is changing academic research, enabling new discoveries and innovation in ways that were previously impossible. Every month I take a look at open source tools you can use in your digital humanities research and some humanities research projects that are using open source tools today. read more

This article explains the use of IBM Electronic Service Agent (ESA) and the configuration that administrators must perform for reporting hardware problems for IBM PowerKVM hosts automatically.

All AUR (Arch User Repository) package maintainers received an email on June 1, 2015, that notifies them about the fact that the entire software repository will be migrated to a Git-based platform starting June 8, 2015.

Not that many years ago, buying a new PC meant spending hundreds of dollars just for an entry level machine. Fortunately these days the barrier to entry has been greatly reduced.

I realize that an older Pentium 4 with 1 gig of RAM isn’t gonna spin and shine, bringing out the wow factor right away, but there are most certainly ways to make it better than a dull wallpaper and dreary decorations from Windows 2000. And I will say this again…to many of you this won’t made a bit of difference. But to those of us who introduce Linux to people who have a real interest in using something other than the buggy, crash-prone Windows system? There are a number of things we can do straight out of the gate to get the new Linux user’s attention quickly and in a positive way.

The Linux Mint team has just announced that Cinnamon 2.6 is finally stable and ready for download. They also detailed this latest release of the desktop environment, and it's got to be biggest update made until now.

Welcome to part 5 of HowToForge's shell scripting tutorial series. In this part, you will learn how to efficiently structure your scripts by creating functions. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to know how to create functions in the Linux Bash Shell, pass parameters to your functions and return some values from a function to your main code.

Having briefly discussed eight Linux file managers in my previous article, this article concentrates on my favorite GUI-based file manager. Konqueror is an amazingly versatile and powerful file management program that is also a very good web browser and FTP client. It is provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, and many other Linux distributions as a part of the KDE Desktop Environment. I find Konqueror an indispensable tool because it can do so many things very well. read more

The Meizu MX4 UbunMeizu MX4 Ubuntu is the first phone with the operating system from Canonical from Meizu. It's also the first high-end device to ship with this OS, so naturally there was a lot of interest in the community. The problem is that it's no longer available in the store. The phone has disappeared from the official store, and there is no information as of yet why that has happened.

A controversial program allowing the U.S. National Security Agency to collect millions of domestic telephone records expired Sunday night after the Senate failed to vote on a bill to extend the authority for the surveillance.

In a recent analysis of more than 30,000 websites, most had at least one serious vulnerability for 150 or more days last year. "These are the vulnerabilities that can get you into trouble," said Jeremiah Grossman, founder at WhiteHat Security, the company behind the report. "They can compromise some or all of your systems, get user data, or take over accounts."

How to upgrade your VPS cPanel/WHM version from command line.

You’ve heard that “when Wall Street sneezes, the world catches cold"*, and there are dozens of variations. But perhaps the line needs to be brought up to date. When a large technology platform company dozes off, companies that rely on it for innovation feel the chill – and the chill can be fatal.

KDE Applications 15.04.1 are now available in Kubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) via a handy PPA repository that is available right now.

Whenever I watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica, it breaks my heart when they avoid Cylon hacking by disconnecting all networks....... Anyone who has had their Wi-Fi go down knows just how much we depend on computer networks in our every day lives.

NagiosQL is a web based administration tool designed for Nagios, but might also work with forks. It helps you to easily build a complex configuration with all options, manage and use them.

LinuxGizmos.com and Linux.com would like your help in choosing the top 10 community backed single board computers (SBCs) that run Linux or Android. Read our detailed post describing this year’s survey, and then fill out our short 2-minute survey.