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/

Syncthing is a cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization client/server application written in Go. Similar to BitTorrent Sync, the tool can be used to synchronize files between computers however, unlike BitTorrent Sync, Syncthing is open source

"Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet".

Read the full thing at http://www.webupd8.org/2014/06/syncthing-open-source-bittorrent-sync.html

Here is my Katas for creating BASH programs that work. Nothing is new here, but from my experience pepole like to abuse BASH, forget computer science and create a Big ball of mud from their programs.

Here I provide methods to defend your programs from braking, and keep the code tidy and clean.

Read the full thing at http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming/

Bogus copyright claims on YouTube are getting more and more prevalent, but they only get exposure when they do damage to high-profile targets. Michael Tiemann is the Chief of Open Source Affairs at Redhat Inc. and apparently he can't use Creative Commons music in his uploads without being bombarded with copyright claims.

Read the full thing at http://torrentfreak.com/open-source-chief-at-redhat-hit-with-bogus-copyright-claims-149522/