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Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that is released under the BSD license. It blends the functional and object-oriented programming models.

The developers of Worlds of Magic email me in to ask if we could do a shout out for their game. The game itself is meant as a spiritual successor to Master of Magic.

When will the Linux Desktop madness end? Dietrich Schmitz surveys the options and leads the way from insanity to sweet serenity. Serenity now!

One often wishes to cut and paste commonly used commands into a shell script for later reference, and reuse. So we introduce an approach for invoking parameterized functions in a bash script.

Philip Müller and the Manjaro development team has announced the first maintenance release for Manjaro 0.8.5, which was made available for download two weeks ago.

On April 21, members of the Fuduntu team that are involved with the creation of the new post-Fuduntu distro met in #fuduntu on IRC to discuss some key aspects of the new distro. This was a public meeting and members of the community were invited to join in the discussion.

Nearly one year ago, Valve has started porting and testing the successful first-person shooter Left 4 Dead 2 with the current version of its graphics engine Source on Linux. At the same time, the managing director of the company Gabe Newell has informed me that the company has enormous problems with the graphics drivers on Linux and is urgently looking for Linux developers.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers Apache (instead of nginx), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

The following tutorial will teach you how to install the Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating system.

The GNOME 3.8 release kept me pretty busy. In the run up to UI freeze I was focusing on tracking bugs, providing guidance and testing. Then it was marketing time, and I was spending all my time writing the release notes as well as some of the website. (Kudos to the marketing team for a great 3.8 release, btw.) With 3.8 behind me, I’ve been able to turn back to some good honest design work. I’ve been looking at quite a few aspects of GNOME 3, including Settings and GNOME Shell. However, in this post I am going to focus on some of the application design activities that I have been involved in recently. One of the nice things here is that I have found the opportunity to fill in some gaps and pay some attention to some of the long-lost applications that are in need of design love.

While the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver already has support for at least 36 variants of Intel's forthcoming Haswell processors with faster integrated graphics, it turns out some were missing. The reserved PCI IDs weren't added and it turns out that some products are actually going to be using the IDs.

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest.

Gender shouldn't be an issue when developing open source software, so why is GitHub giving free private repositories to female developers?

Brian Manderville has announced a couple of hours ago, April 28, that the 4th release of his Descent|OS Linux operating system is now available for download.

Calligra sees improvement in read-only mode handling and initial code for COffice (Calligra for mobile); Fill Tool is ported to strokes KDE-PIM adds an option to limit the item age in Google Calendar; introduces theme manager. Work on Nepomuk Service 2. Wacom tablet management sees large GUI rework and more utility classes. Artikulate adds course skeleton. KDevelop includes updated Branch Manager dialog.

Eugenio Paolantonio had the pleasure of announcing today, April 27, that the 4th version of his Semplice Linux operating system is now available for download.

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Next week's scheduled launch of the public Left 4 Dead 2 Beta app (similar to the TF2 Beta) will include a native Linux client!

Beware the effects of working collaboratively on an open source project. Dietrich Schmitz cautions how one Elitist can lead a company or project down the primrose trail.

Ubuntu 13.04 was released yesterday, but is 13.04 a hit, or miss? This release brings some major underlying changes to Ubuntu, though Unity is still nearly the same. Here are some of the new features for anyone that is looking for an excuse to download Ubuntu 13.04.