As Thomas does not blog and this is quite impressive, I had just to do a video and provide it here. Without further ado I present smooth window resizing with KDE Plasma 4.8:

Watch the full thing at http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/08/smooth-window-resizing/

Reviews of Linux distributions: I've read a lot of them, and I've write some too, I've been thinking about how a good review should be, what it should include, and what it should aim to.

In the comments section of the blog of my friend's blog, started a nice discussion. In the review the writer stated that he has only installed the distribution under test in a virtual machine. One commenter said: "... To write a good review, you need to really install the distribution in you computer, and use it for some fair amount of time, not just install it in a virtual environment"

Read the full thing at http://garron.me/linux/how-to-write-linux-distribution-review.html

SSH has many features which are helpful when working regularly with files on remote servers; together they can give a vast increase in productivity over the bare use of SSH. If you regularly use SSH, it’s worth spending a little time learning about these and configuring your environment to make your life easier.


Read the full thing at http://blogs.perl.org/users/smylers/2011/08/ssh-productivity-tips.html

Bash history is very powerful. Understanding how to effectively use the bash history expansions will make you extremely productive on the Linux command line.

This article explains 15 examples that uses bash history expansion features: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/08/bash-history-expansion/

Ever heard of WebKit2 and wondering what it means from a Qt perspective? Here’s an attempt to explain QtWebKit and QtWebKit2 in simple terms. I make no attempt to be completely technically correct, it’s meant to be able to explain terminology to the WebKit uninitiated.

Read the full thing at http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/08/on-webkit-and-webkit2.html

This weekend at the Desktop Summit in Berlin, plans were presented by Martin Gräßlin, the maintainer of the KWin compositing window manager, for supporting the Wayland Display Server as an alternative to KDE being limited to X11. For early adopters and those using Plasma Active, KDE on Wayland should become a reality in the 2012 calendar year.

Read the full thing at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wayland_kde_2012&num=1

Good news for all users that don’t use Linux but still want to run Krita. In the last week lots of progress has been made towards getting Krita to run on Windows and Mac OS X. The Windows work was work was done by stuartmd who is working for KO GmbH. The screenshot below shows current git master running on Windows. The native windows look is a bit ugly, but can of course be changed to Oxygen.

Read the full thing at http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/krita-windows-and-mac-os-progress/

So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.<bignum> days, and 3.0 is out.

This obviously also opens the merge window for the next kernel, whichwill be 3.1. The stable team will take the third digit, so 3.0.1 will be the first stable release based on 3.0.

Read the full thing at http://lwn.net/Articles/452531/

So, here's a bit of an opinion piece on the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/default directories that exist on the various distributions in one form or another, and why I believe their use should be faded out. Like everything I say on this blog what follows is just my personal opinion, and not the gospel and has nothing to do with the position of the Fedora project or my employer. The topic of /etc/sysconfig has been coming up in discussions over and over again. I hope with this blog story I can explain a bit what we as systemd upstream think about these files.

Read the full thing at http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html

Greetings PHP geeks,

Don't panic! This is not a proposal to add errors or remove this popular extension. Not yet anyway, because it's too popular to do that now.

The documentation team is discussing the database security situation, and educating users to move away from the commonly used ext/mysql extension is part of this.

This proposal only deals with education, and requests permission to officially convince people to stop using this old extension.

Read the full thing at http://news.php.net/php.internals/53799