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LyX is a graphical tool, with a familiar drop-down and content-driven menu system, for writing and editing LaTeX documents. TeX and its higher-level macro language, LaTeX, are powerful document markup languages that are the de facto standard for Linux users. New users can find them difficult to work with because you must know the available markup tags, the contexts they can be used in, and how to use a text editor and previewing tool. LyX simplifies the entire process of working with LaTeX documents not just on Linux. Learn how to install, use, and customize LyX on Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS X systems.

When Edward Snowden leaked intelligence files, a storm was triggered in the cloud, leaving a path of destruction. Snowden’s email provider Lavabit shut down. So has the email offering of Silent Circle. The Guardian ran a story declaring: Lavabit’s closure marks the death of secure cloud computing in the U.S. And the EU is not entirely unaffected either. Be it by the Tempora program in the UK or the U.S. National Security Agency facilities that reportedly reside in Germany.

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You know the general trend: NoSQL databases are catching on for big data applications. The challenge: Where are the NoSQL partner programs? A quick check of the market finds very few in place.

This week, we look at the top 100 cloud experts to follow on Twitter, advice for sys admins by sys admins and the merits of hacker insurance

Updated otrs package fixes security vulnerability: It was discovered that otrs2, the Open Ticket Request System, does not properly sanitise user-supplied data that is used on SQL queries. An attacker with a valid agent login could exploit this issue.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Swift, the Openstack object storage. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has identified the following listed problems.

Everything you wanted to know about the Internet in one easy infographic: Who's the top browser? We got that. Which company is in second after Facebook in social? The answer might surprise you. I give you the Internet in a nutshell.

Open Visual Traceroute is a program to visualise the route and measure packet loss on a network. This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step installation of Open Visual Traceroute on Ubuntu.

In this roundup: ZTE's Firefox OS phone is perfect for hunting season! Plus: Metro Last Light comes to Linux, and Netrunner 13.06 protects your privacy and fights censorship!

Eclipse boasts of an extensible plug-in system for customizing IDE to support various programming languages including Java, C/C++, etc. Eclipse CDT is one such plugin which converts Eclipse into a fully functional IDE for C/C++ developers. This tutorial talks about how to set up C/C++ development in Eclipse by installing Eclipse CDT.

The report cites a court filing by Google in which the Internet giant revealed that Gmail users should have no expectation of privacy. None. The thing does not exist. If you use Gmail, forget about privacy. Google says you should have known that right from the beginning. And if there’s no privacy with Gmail, good luck with that email service from Microsoft, Yahoo! mail and all the others.

Martin Gräßlin, the German KWin window manager maintainer for KDE, is making good progress in porting the code-base for KDE Frameworks 5 compatibility...

Canonical is going to finally shutdown Ubuntu Friendly, their community approach for users to share with other Ubuntu users how well their laptops/desktops work with the Linux distribution...

There was a Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee meeting yesterday where more features of Fedora 20 were approved.

This makes me giddy, Enemy Starfighter a space combat simulation game has a brand spanking new trailer to show off some of the progress that has been made on the game.

Recently, I was tasked with finding files that had been modified in the past 5 days. I was to copy these files from a SAN Snapshot and move them over to a recover area that anyone could get to. We were doing this in Linux because the snapshot, which was a NTFS filesystem would only mount in Linux. It seems that Linux is more forgiving of errors on a hard disk than Windows is when dealing with NTFS.

The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.2 (Codename 'Brotkasten on Speed'). This release features the Linux kernel 3.10.5 and is exclusively meant to run on 64bit CPUs. The Debian base system was updated to the released version 7.1 wheezy to provide a stable user experience. The KDE Plasma Desktop ships with version 4.10.5.

For those in the market for an Intel Z87 Haswell motherboard, the ECS Z87H3-A2X Extreme is a great candidate and sells for less than $250 while packing a plethora of features and is mostly compatible with Linux.

Conventional wisdom says Apple will have to release a low-end iPhone next month to compete with Android in emerging markets, but since when did Apple ever listen to the howling masses. Apple doesn't need a low-end phone. It needs a killer high-end one.