With the birth of Free Software Movement started by Richard Stallman & his supporter’s, & an important decision taken by Linus Torvalds by licensing Linux kernel under GPL has revolutionized the computing world to an extent without which the computing world hadn’t taken it’s glorious form what we see today.
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Aaron Seigo talks about KDE SC 5.0 and more
After years of focusing on further improving KDE4 two weeks ago the developers of the free desktop announced the next big step for their project: KDE Frameworks 5.0. But as long-time developer — and Plasma team leader — Aaron Seigo points out the source-incompatible changes shall be held to a minimum.
Read more »How to Manage Notification Settings in KDE 4
One of the many things the KDE developers did right in 4.x (currently 4.7) is the notification system. By far, this system is the cleanest and most flexible of nearly every desktop I have used. But most users don’t realize just how flexible this system is simply because they never bother to look into the configuration options available. It’s time that oversight is corrected.
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Why have you switched to GNU/Linux?
There are many great reasons to switch to GNU/Linux. We would love to hear your story as to why you made the switch.
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HTTPS Everywhere - no substitute for common sense
I personally applaud the initiative on a technical level, and if I was a Firefox user, I would install the extension in a heart beat. But, on a fundamental level, the extension will fail to make any real improvement in the security of the web for one simple reason – users are the biggest weakness in any security system, and there is no patch for users.
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Announcing my first e-book "AWK One-Liners Explained"
I just wrote my first e-book ever about AWK one-liners. AWK one-liners are programs that fit on one line and do one thing, such as, numbering lines, printing certain lines, finding sums, etc. The book is 50 pages long and contains 70 well explained one-liners.
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KDE releases version 4.7 of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
KDE 4.7 releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance. Lots of visual polishing took place with an update to the Oxygen icons, and improved consistency between panel items such as clock and notification areas. The window manager KWin brings a new shadow system and can now run on OpenGL ES supporting hardware, making it better suited for mobile devices.
Read more »4 Tools To Get Hardware Information In Linux
lshw-gtk is a graphical user interface for lshw. It can display very detailed information for your computer's hardware configuration: processor, memory, graphics cards, devices connected to USB ports and so on.
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Moving away from Ubuntu
After the upgrate to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, the author expains his decision to abandon Ubuntu and search for a rolling release distribution...
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How To Completely Customize Your KDE Wallpaper
KDE for Linux comes with plenty of customization options that exist on all distributions, adding to the uniform beauty of KDE. All of the great customization options can be found in the System/Desktop Settings area, where you can quite literally tweak everything without needing to install a separate program to do the job, as is often necessary with the GNOME desktop.
Read more »Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)-A Linux distro from the US Department of Defense
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), created by USA's Department of Defence, is a small Linux live CD focusing on privacy and security, for this reason, it boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a web browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. LPS-Public turns an untrusted system into a trusted network client.
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TLWIR 7: Patent Trolls, Superheroes and More
This week, the fundamental threads that runs through all of the stories are freedom, protecting GNU/Linux from attack, and providing viable alternatives to proprietary software.
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Sabayon 6 KDE review
Sabayon is a Gentoo-based, Linux distribution with support for binary package installation. Installation images for the major desktop environments are regularly published and updated. The KDE and GNOME 2 editions of the latest, Sabayon 6, were released just last week. June 23, 2011, to be precise. This article presents a comprehensive review of the KDE edition.
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