As reported a few months ago, KDE software has plenty of use among scientists, who may use Plasma workspaces for their daily jobs or develop applications on top of the KDE Platform. We interviewed Thomas Friedrichsmeier, the lead developer of RKWard, a KDE Integrated Development Environment for the statistical programming language R.
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KDE Science: Thomas Friedrichsmeier on RKWard, Toolkits and the KDE Platform
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Setting Up A Mail Server Using Exim4, Clamav, Dovecot, SpamAssassin On Debian
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This howto describes one way to build a scalable, secure, full-featured mail platform. It offers virtual hosting of mailboxes in maildir format with support for quotas and server-side filtering, domain aliasing, address aliasing, address forwarding, catchall addresses. Relaying is secured with STARTTLS and SMTP-AUTH.
Read more »Firefox 4 gets fast
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Mozilla adds hardware acceleration to its latest beta release. It's not entirely a surprise but Mozilla has included hardware acceleration in its latest beta release, beta 5. It's not a surprise because the previous beta had the capability built-in but it wasn't enabled.
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pywo - Python Window Organizer
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PyWO allows you to easily organize windows on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts. It's inspired by Quicktile, Compiz plugins: Grid, Put, and Maximumize.
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OpenStreetMap reaches 300,000 contributors
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The OpenStreetMap Project has announced that it has surpassed more than 300,000 registered contributors and that it is now accepting venue suggestions for next year's State of the Map conference
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10 useful video Tutorials for Gimp users
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One of the best thing about Gimp is that you can do a wide range of things with It. Today I’ve collected 10 useful GIMP video tutorials, so If you are a fan of Gimp this is the right post for you.
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OpenShot Video Editor 1.2.2 Released with New Effects, 3d Titles and Netbook Optimizations
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OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way.
The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:
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Direct3D 10 and 11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux
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Luca Barbieri made a rather significant commit today that adds a state tracker dubbed "d3d1x", which implements the Direct3D 10/11 COM API in Gallium3D. Luca says this is just the initial version, but its already working and can run a few DirectX 10/11 texturing demos on Linux at the moment.
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15 Fantastic Inkscape Tutorials for Creating Awesome Vector Art
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15 Fantastic Inkscape Tutorials for Creating Awesome Vector Art: Inkscape is without doubt the most well-known and perhaps the best free and open-source vector graphics editor available for Linux.
Read more »7 Mozilla Labs Projects You Might Not Know About
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Mozilla Labs is what it name stands for. A place where people come together virtually to produce creative works mostly web based technologies. Mozilla Labs hosts a number of popular projects and involves active community participation.
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Collection of 18 Popular APT & DPKG Tips for Debian and Ubuntu
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This is a guide containing the most popular and useful ways of using the APT and DPKG commands, and it applies to both Ubuntu and Debian (and their derivatives). I mentioned where super user privileges are required, the ones without a mention can be executed as normal user.
Read more »What Makes Debian One of the Most Popular Distros Out There
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Debian is one of the oldest and most popular distributions among the Linux users. There are probably hundreds of distributions which are based on Debian, or others which are based on distributions which in turn are based on Debian. Although I'm not a Debian developer, I use it for over two years or so, and slowly got to love this OS.
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KDocker: Dock Any Application in the System Tray in KDE, GNOME & Xfce
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I bet at one point or another you felt you missed the system tray integration feature in some application, be it xterm, an audio player, a file manager or any other program. Well, KDocker is just the thing which comes to help: a simple, yet practical docking application built for KDE4 (older KDE3 version can be found here), but not only.
Read more »A Guide to Using Finch - Terminal-Based Chat Client
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Finch is a TUI (text user interface) IM client for Linux which uses libpurple, the same library on which the GNOME IM client Pidgin is based on. Usually, if you have Pidgin installed, you should have Finch too, unless Pidgin was compiled with the text interface option disabled.
Read more »emelFM2: Another fast file manager
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Today I’m going to take a look at another lightweight Linux file manager called emelFM2. This particular file manager will pull at the heart-strings of old school Linux and UNIX users because it is based on the old Norton Commander file manager.
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