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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget read more

In my spare time, I work on a a simple photo roll publishing application called Pygmyfoto.

LXer Feature: 02-Jul-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Sorry its a day late. Enjoy!

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 12.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

While most haven't yet heard of the Unvanquished game, it's a promising but yet-to-be-released open-source multi-player game...

These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint. Yet is Canonical, promoter of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, catering to real demand among users, or simply following hype? Here are some thoughts.

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, June 30th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Indie Royale has a few Linux games in their offer this time. Unfortunately it's only three out of the nine games in the bundle. Harvest: Massive Encounter looks the most interesting.

A simple command to convert a video to slow motion

This is a task / todo list written in PHP. It requires no SQL database whatsover, all the data is saved in a JSON text file. The visual side is made with the excellent HTML5 Kickstart framework. Features include adding, editing and deleting of tasks, and marking them as finished. MIT/X11 license, download and demo available.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 26 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Libreoffice, Bryan Lunduke, Microsoft blocking the Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Cyanogenmod, Codeweavers Crossover, Wine, TomaHawk, the kernel and more...

PhpSysInfo is a fabulous PHP script that easily to displays system and other monitoring information for Linux-based computer system.

With my new laptop, I've installed Debian Testing on it, and so I finally had a chance to experience GNOME 3.4 personally. Wow, it really is as unusable as everyone has said; painfully so. So, next stop: xfce, as I had planned. Which means I ran into more problems.

Following up the interest that was generated about the Skeltrack library, we arranged a quick interview with the currently only developer of the project Joaquim Rocha, in an attempt to learn more about this amazing and very promising project.

While most of the native Linux games that can be easily automated are built atop the id Tech engine or some spin-off there of the open-source id Tech 2/3/4 engines, here's something new to play with this weekend. There's also some early results to explore...

Sometime is useful to have information on a system when you login into it via ssh or via a local terminal, or perhaps just to have a warmer welcome with some ASCII art and information on your system, on Linux there are many software that do this work, we can call them Shell information tools.

These tools are designed to run in a terminal to show information on your distribution/system.

Community KeynoteAgustín Benito Bethencourt Yesterday, nearly 300 hackers grabbed their badges at the Estonian IT College in Tallinn and launched Akademy 2012. Mathias Klang's keynote, Freedom of Expression, got things going quickly with his urgent call to action for those who stand for freedom, which often disappears gradually and in a slow creep. Some people kicked off the conference on Friday night at the pre-registration party sponsored by Intel or even arrived earlier in the week to explore Tallinn and sample Estonia's beers. During the first day of Akademy, there were sessions on release management, Plasma Active, and the future of KDE and Qt technologies. read more

The Ultra KSM (UKSM) patch-set for the Linux kernel continues to be maintained for providing transparent full-system memory de-duplication for Linux...

Next week the annual Debian developers conference, DebConf, will begin in Managua, Nicaragua...

Gdev, the GPGPU run-time and resource management engines that provides an open-source NVIDIA CUDA run-time, is still being worked on at the University of California Santa Cruz in conjunction with PathScale...