What’s your upload and download speed at home (or in your office) ?
Are you really sure that you get what do you pay for to your ISP ?

To test the speed of our internet connection There are several internet services such as SpeedTest a web service that is available both from Web browsers and mobile application.

Read the full thing at http://linuxaria.com/howto/linux-terminal-speedtest_cli-checks-your-real-bandwidth-speed

Step 1: Get Chrome. I'm using the v38 beta, but I assume it works on v37 (I use Firefox mainly, but chrome is the only browser aside from IE that has what is needed)

Read the full thing at https://plus.google.com/104912707432334684242/posts/1gnbmo63xVa

Borderlands: The Pre-sequel will be the first Borderlands IP to release on Linux, according to 2K.

Take-Two Interactive's first leaked the news with their recently released financials, which listed Linux as a platform for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. We've reached out to 2K, and they have confirmed that it will indeed be headed to Linux this fall.

Read the full thing at http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/08/06/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-coming-to-linux

The Linux Symposium (OLS) was started in 1999 to provide a highly technical environment for Linux developers to meet, get to know each other and to present technical papers. After 15 years many of us have become good friends and many have moved on to work for the biggest names in the Linux community.

Read the full thing at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ottawa-linux-symposium

From ratpoison to Unity, I must have tried just about every Linux desktop environment available. The best Linux desktop, in my view: my main computer continues to run KDE's Plasma. No other alternative can match its design philosophy, configurability, or its innovations on the classical desktop.

Nor am I alone in my preferences. At a time when the Linux desktop offers six main alternatives (Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXDE, Mate, Unity and Xfce), KDE Plasma consistently tops reader polls with an average of 35-40 percent. In such a diverse market, these figures indicate a broad appeal that other Linux desktop alternatives can't match.

Read the full thing at http://www.datamation.com/open-source/best-linux-desktop-kdes-plasma-1.html

Several months back, I was contemplating the state of Linux Gaming and the platform and judging from several indicators, I thought there were many good signs to make 2014 another promising year. We are now at the end June, and it’s time to take a fresh look at the situation again.

Read the full thing at http://pandoralive.info/?p=3790.

While most of the world is turned towards Brazil to enjoy the World Cup, Mageia has been preparing its own major worldwide event: Mageia 4.1 has been released!

If you were not expecting it, you might wonder what this unnanounced 4.1 version is. It is a maintenance release for Mageia 4 which contains all security and bugfix updates that were issued since the release in February 2014.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/06/20/pulling-mageia-4-1-out-of-the-hat/

The Freecode site has been moved to a static state effective June 18, 2014 due to low traffic levels and so that folks will focus on more useful endeavors than site upkeep.

Read more at http://freecode.com/about

Have you ever wondered a different way of getting Disk usage stats? Are you tired of using commands like “df -h”, “du -hs”, combining with several other ones in pipe?

What if I tell you that there is an easier way to find out where your free space is going?

Read the full thing at http://www.heitorlessa.com/ncdu-different-way-to-obtain-disk-usage-in-linux/

Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free speech risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill: email encryption. Once you've finished, you'll be able to send and receive emails that are coded to make sure that a surveillance agent or thief can't intercept your email and read it.

Read the full thing at https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/