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Are you a Linux nerd, by that you use two different distros on your PC? If so, do you play games via Steam? If this is the case, I wrote a how-to that explains how you can save lots of storage space by sharing your games' data files across both distros! It's easy.

The mutt mail client could be made to crash or run programs as yourlogin if it opened a specially crafted email.

eepDater provides a very simple, but functional, GUI for selecting which package updates you'd like to install on your computer via apt-get.

Zimbra Community 8.0, the latest release of the groupware collaboration suite, is available in a free edition in addition to standard and professional versions.

In today's open source roundup: Valve releases an open source Direct3D to OpenGL translator. Plus: Ubuntu smartphone prices, and a baby becomes a Linux user.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Akonadi server now supports searching via 3rd party search plugins which means it can retrieve results very quickly; it also supports server-search (searching items not indexed by a local indexing service) Systemtray allows DBus-activation for Plasmoids Dolphin and KMail's messagelist filter and search windows have been ported to Baloo Okular adds tabbed interface In KDevelop, it is now possible to jump to runtime output error messages Kate adds keyword-based completion model Google Drive API support has been added. Read the rest of the Digest here. Dot Categories: Developer

This post follows up http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/197613/index.html In particular, it could be performed after basic setup to make system management more comfortable then only CLI. For instance assigning floating IP is just a mouse click instead of shell script

It’s beginning to appear to us as if Oracle has absolutely no idea how to deal with the security issues posed by Java. This should come as no surprise to anyone, especially given the fact that the company has been unable to deliver a working website, albeit a highly complex one, even after burning through $100 million of Oregon’s money.

The MSI B85M-P33 is a micro-ATX motherboard that's friendly with latest-generation Intel Haswell processors while the cost of this motherboard will only set you back about $60 USD.

When we briefly got our hands on Valve's prototype Steam Controller earlier this year, we found the face buttons placed right up against the lip of the circular touch pads more than a little awkward to use. Now, Valve is showing images of a new version of the controller that replaces those buttons and the planned touchscreen on the face of the controller with new analog directional and action buttons that resemble the layout of many other gaming controllers.

Time to get excited again folks, Satellite Reign the crowdfunded real-time class-based strategy game that is from the creator of Syndicate Wards has shown off some footage! It will of course be native on Linux.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft and Google are both out to stifle any device that doesn't have a firm allegiance to either Android or Windows. The report says that both companies have told Asus to end its dual-OS product lines and that Asus is complying. The WSJ says Asus' newest dual-boot product, the Transformer Book Duet TD300, which we wrote about during CES 2014, will never see the light of day. Asus' all-in-one PCs, the Transformer AiO P1801 and P1802, will be pulled from the market.

Marvell has reached its Indiegogo goal for “Kinoma Create,” a Linux- and JavaScript-based hardware/software platform for quick and easy development of IoT gizmos. Kinoma Create is defined by Marvell’s Kinoma division as a “construction kit” for developing Internet of Things (IoT) consumer electronics and companion apps. The platform “helps software developers become makers, makers tackle […]

In a historic decision on Friday, the United States has decided to give up control of the authoritative root zone file, which contains all names and addresses of all top-level domain names.

I've used Kontact (KDE's full feature groupware app) since it was available. I used KMail on its own before that. In that time I had never (!) reset the configuration or started from a clean start. I just migrated from version to version carrying over all my settings and local mail as new version became available.

This means I went through the various epochs: when IMAP became the better supported system; grouwpare server support; akonadi; semantic search integration (both Nepomuk and Baloo) with the same configuration and data on disk.

A Cubestormer 3 robot based on a Galaxy S4 Android phone and eight Linux-driven Lego Mindstorms EV3 bricks aims to beat the Rubik’s Cube solving record. The Cubestormer 3 was formally unveiled today at the Big Bang Fair held in Birmingham, UK, and is expected to beat the 5.27 second record set by the Cubestormer […]

If being on the cutting edge of cloud infrastructure interests you, it’s probably time to take a look at OpenStack. OpenStack is the open source engine powers modern datacenters.

htop is an improved version of top, a complex process viewer which allows to visualize processes in real time, see memory and CPU consumption, send signals to processes, renice processes, and sort them by various options.

Zorin OS 8.0, released last month, is available in the free core and free education versions, as well as in a paid or ultimate version that provides support and a few other features. Though it is an interim upgrade, Zorin OS 8.0 has several very noteworthy changes and software improvements that make it worth using despite the shorter support period.