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Dia is an application designed for quick creation of structured diagrams such as simple, line-based illustrations, flowcharts, UML charts and network diagrams. Being a vector based tool, there is some overlap with other applications such as Inkscape, but Dia's focus is on diagrams that are more functional than aesthetic.

JetBrains' Andrey Breslav using IntelliJ IDEA to write Kotlin code.

Here's another installment of the Linux CLI basics series. This time we will deal with other interest-worthy tasks, like setting up your keyboard layout or using utilities to find files on your drive(s). We hope that the series will help you become a keyboard/terminal guru.When you're using some fancy desktop environment, changing the layout of your keyboard is simple and easy. A few clicks, you choose your preferred layout and maybe other localization settings and that's that. But what if you find yourself at a command-line-only machine and you have to use the machine, but the layout is set to French?

The list of changes is smaller than I expected after finally experimenting with Xubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot. In fact very little has changed, but things are running better than ever. Some of the default applications have been replaced, but nothing major. That being said, I certainly have high hopes for 12.04.

NVIDIA this morning formally released the 295.20 display drivers for Linux x86/x86_64...

The return of the 7-inch form factor tablet brings with it an Ice Cream Sandwich and some improved specs

Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 Scanner by default unknown in the system Ubuntu 11.10/Linux Mint 12, But do not give up, because in Linux Mint/Ubuntu ”Everything is possible” and ”We Love Hacking”

If all the code in the upcoming release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution were to be written today, it would cost $17 billion, according to an analysis by free and open source software consultant James Bromberger.

The open source Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser is the first of a new era for Firefox. Firefox 10 is an ESR (Extended Support Release), with at least 42 weeks of support. In contrast with Mozilla's new rapid release cycle new non-ESR releases are out every six weeks.

Barely two weeks after being released, Mozilla is already updating Firefox 10. Firefox 10.0.1 was released late Friday with no advance notice from Mozilla.

I think they have done a very good job with Gnome 3. Gnome 3 was an effort to figure out how they can substantially improve the desktop. One interesting thing they did with the shell was that they made it possible for end user to script the desktop in a very easy way with Javascript extension.

The Chakra Project Linux is originally forked from Arch Linux and follow the principles of KISS [keep is simple stupid]. Here Chakra LInux 2012.2 has been released with KDE 4.8 and Qt 4.8 and many new packages. They introduce new "Ronak" theme for this version with attractive and stunning design and looks.

Relational DBMSes 'too rigid' The companies peddling NoSQL databases, which are increasingly needed for web applications that have a scale that breaks relational databases, are drooling over the prospects of their products going mainstream this year.…

I cannot say that my previous attempt to run DreamLinux was successful. It was the version 3.5, and there were issues with font size which prevented me from running any tests at all. Since then, DreamLinux team released another version of their distribution, version 5.0.

IT is transforming from a top-down dictatorship to a service catalogue and it's not an easy transition, but if you saw how some perceive you as obstructionist, you might want to accelerate the change.

Bridge Linux 2012.1 has been released. Bridge Linux is an Arch Linux derivative that includes a GUI desktop (Xfce) and a few standard applications. Bridge Linux 2012.1 Screenshot Tour

This is a review of the Kindle Fire, based upon using it extensively for two months. It's not a perfect device, but it's fantastic for its price. Plus, it's a way for Linux users to stream Netflix.

The first release of the KDE 4.8 series of Chakra has been released , codename Archimedes, Chakra GNU/Linux featuring Linux 3.2 and KDE 4.8. With this release KDE is updated to 4.8.0, kernel to Linux 3.2.2. A new theme, Ronak is introduced. Updated Qt, boost, subversion, phonon packages, libxcb stack to name a few of the newer base packages included. A switch to GRUB2 has been decided on, to be more compatible with any other Operating System.

Coming up in the next few days will be benchmarks of Mesa 8.0 with Morphological Anti-Aliasing (a.k.a. MLAA) plus some other imaging-oriented work/announcements to come in the near future. With that said, this weekend prior to leaving for Munich I ran some tests of the Radeon Gallium3D and Catalyst drivers when comparing the image quality...

The Indicator Applet port to GTK3 has finally landed in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. This, along with some changes to the GNOME Panel default settings, finally "fix" the Classic (fallback) GNOME session in Ubuntu 12.04:

In this tutorial I want to focus on how to change the Apache server name to whatever you want, so you can give your own name or sentence to Apache server headers that are sent to whois programs or websites, for example you can type "YTS", "GWS" or "Microsoft-IIS/7.0" to misguide the hacker to guess which Linux OS or which version of Apache you are using.