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Joomla! has been known for Joomla! Platform and Joomla! Content Managment System (CMS). The newest addition to the mix late last year was Joomla! Framework. Many say it's an exciting project with innovative development, so we interviewed our own Don Gilbert, who has been coordinating the project's efforts, to find out how it's going and what's new with the project.

AT&T offers their basic DSL service starting at $14.95 a month. People might ask themselves why it’s so inexpensive when compared to Time Warner Roadrunner service. If they had a chance to run each service side by side the answer would be obvious. But it’s not all bad. The AT&T customer gains the opportunity to learn a new technological term — buffering.

Jugaad Innovation: Entrepreneurs in the developing world use ingenious workarounds to innovate amid scarcity, like the $25 fridge made of clay that needs no electricity. Author Navi Radjou argues this "jugaad" innovation can teach western business a thing or two.

Connecting the World: What's the best way to get Silicon Valley engineers to design for the developing world? Make them use the same patchy networks and basic devices their customers use. Journalist Mat Honan explains how low end tools are helping connect the world.

In continuation of my OS X Is No Longer On My Main System, But I Already Have Regrets article from earlier in the week, I have now found more comfort in using Unity 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for the ASUS Zenbook Haswell ultrabook, but the HiDPI experience with Ubuntu's Unity is still far from perfect.

Over the years, Kate received a lot of new features and many improvements, turning it into a feature-complete editor with support for a huge number of languages.

A Cyberpunk FPS with strong RPG elements, how can you not love Black Ice? It looks fantastic.

SolidFire is adding new features to its all-flash enterprise storage solution for the cloud and Big Data.

This week, we look at the open source OwnCloud enterprise product, the link between cloud and big data and how VMware beat AWS to the Desktop as a Service punch.

I recently wrote about how the Birdie project, a lightweight and attractive Twitter client for Linux, was being rewritten and reborn as Birdie 2.0, an entirely new codebase. The Birdie Development team were kind enough to provide The Linux Rain with a private preview build of the new upcoming Birdie 2.0.

Since Steam was ported to Linux, which really is very beneficial for the Linux in general and for the Linux gamers in particular, games like Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike found their way natively on the Linux platform. There are also the well-known shooters actively developed like Alien Arena, Xonotic, UrbanTerror or AssaultCube.

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. It is designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write. Readability is at the very heart of Markdown. It offers the advantages of plain text, provides a convenient format for writing for the web, but it is not intended to be a replacement for HTML. Markdown is a writing format, not a publishing format.

If you do a Web search for 'linux delete blank lines' you'll find lots of command-line advice. Some of the advice, though, only applies to special cases. Here I explain two elegant and general methods for finding and deleting any blank lines in a text file.

Setting the State: Products, Innovation and Market Share

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