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KDE Tablet Sparks Starts Shipping In May

Slowly but steadily KDE project has positioned itself at the right spot when tablets are becoming mainstream. You can pick KDE Desktop for your main PC, KDE netbook for your netbook and now Plasma Active 2 for touch based devices such as tablets. Aaron Seigo, the lead of the KDE team, has revealed more information about the KDE powered tablet. Read the full thing at http://www.muktware.com/news/3280/kde-tablet-sparks-starts-shipping-may

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

Linux has a lot of filesystems, but two of them (ext4 and btrfs) tend to get most of the attention. In his 2012 linux.conf.au talk, XFS developer Dave Chinner served notice that he thinks more users should be considering XFS. His talk covered work that has been done to resolve the biggest scalability problems in XFS and where he thinks things will go in the future. If he has his way, we will see a lot more XFS around in the coming years. Read the full thing at http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/476263/e9eab3b5a22a1f09/

KDE Release 4.8: Features, Stability, Performance

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/25/release-48-features-stability-performance

12 reasons to love KDE

We rain positivity onto the world's most configurable desktop and pick out some of its best functions and applications... Read the full thing at http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/12-reasons-to-love-kde-1054988

3 Nice Blender Made Games for Linux

Blender is known for its 3D creation capabilities worldwide and is widely used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and games with cutting edge computer graphics. Quite a number of videos and animated movies have already been created using Blender and we have featured the very best of them before. But they are not alone, games are there too. Let's find out the best games available for Linux made using Blender. Read the full thing at http://www.techdrivein.com/2012/01/3-nice-blender-made-games-for-linux.html

Corel introduces AfterShot Pro for $99 on Linux, Mac and Windows

The crew in Ottawa is now taking square aim at Aperture, Lightroom and other similarly situated products with its new product called AfterShot Pro. Available for Linux, Macintosh and Windows, the software retails for $99 and promises to deliver a complete workflow for RAW files, including file management, batch processing and non-destructive editing capabilities. Read the full thing at http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/corel-introduces-aftershot-pro-on-linux-mac-and-windows/

Mandriva in danger of closing its doors

Signs are not good that Mandriva will be continuing much longer in its current state. That's the news coming out of France this week, as rumors and vague confirmations point to the French Linux company possibly shuttering its doors on January 16. The reason? An apparent shareholder fight that is blocking an influx of much-needed capital. Read the full thing at http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/238291/mandriva-danger-closing-its-doors

New year, new life (or KDE and GTK integration)

Or as they say in Spanish: a�o nuevo, vida nueva. Well, or not. My new year started the 1st December actually, when I got my engineering degree, but I�ll talk about the project some other day. Today I�d like to talk about my new job at Netrunner, where I started some days after my graduation. There I have been working on a KCM module to configure your GTK2/3. To do so, I took Chakra�s kcm and reworked it a little to behave like I wanted to. Now that we�re here, big thanks to the Chakra crowd, specially Manuel Tortosa and Jos� Antonio S�nchez, who let me fiddle with their project. Read the full thing at http://www.proli.net/2012/01/02/new-year-new-life/

Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements

In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and functional in many Linux distributions, are actually considered deprecated and therefore should be phased out in favor of more modern replacements. Specifically, the deprecated Linux networking commands in question are: arp, ifconfig, iptunnel, iwconfig, nameif, netstat, and route. Read the full thing at https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/

Secure Multi-User Linux Shells with Jailkit

Recently I had a personal project I wanted to implement that involved setting up a multi-user Linux server for myself and some of my friends, where the applications we wanted to run required some form of shell access. This presented an interesting predicament: since the particular people using this system were very technically knowledgeable, how could I prevent them from hacking and gaining root access to the server from their shell? Read the full thing at http://metanautics.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/secure-multi-user-linux-shells-with-jailkit/ After reading this I'm really glad the latest OpenSSH has ChrootDirectory now: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/590