Colin Guthrie has added support for PulseAudio to KMix. No need to keep pavucontrol open to control audio streams anymore.

Read the full thing at http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/01/mix-it-up/

It goes without saying that anybody who has ever done open source development has heard of phpMyAdmin – a tool that lets you manipulate MySQL databases through a web interface.

What may be less known is that phpMyAdmin comes with a variety of features that aren’t enabled by default.

Read the full thing at http://blog.ht4.ca/2009/12/29/hidden-phpmyadmin-features/

KDE has released a second beta version of the 4.4 series, which will debut with a stable release in February 2010. While the first beta of 4.4 has been quite a bumpy ride, most of the grave problems have been fixed. KDE-PIM should be fully operational again, and for many users, compositing in KDE's Window Manager is back again.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/21/2nd-beta-kde-sc-44-available

A first shot at creating a port of the Qt toolkit to Google's Native Client (NaCL) environment allows Qt applications to run as applets within a browser. The port is not yet complete, but it already offers mouse and keyboard support, rudimentary support for the QtGUI and QtCore libraries and several more complex widgets.

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Qt-applications-in-your-browser-891117.html

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Read the full thing at http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-mandriva-2010.0-lamp

Since I discovered just how great KDE 4 is a couple of months ago, I've been using it full-time and am loving it. In all that time, I've discovered a few tips and tricks that I couldn't live without, and all of them are listed here. Some of these include an inline CLI, split folders, setting up a media keyboard and using advanced wallpapers.

Read the full thing at http://techgage.com/article/ten_kde_4_tricks_worth_knowing_about/

You have probably heard of Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology we've been shipping for a while as part of the KDE Platform. However, so far, you may not have noticed it really doing very much useful for you. So what is this thing called Nepomuk, what can it do for us now and what will it bring us in the future? We asked two of the driving forces behind Nepomuk, Stéphane Laurière and Sebastian Trüg of Mandriva, to tell us about the real Nepomuk features that are already available in KDE software and those that have been introduced with Mandriva Linux 2010.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/10/exploring-new-nepomuk-features-mandriva-linux-2010

Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere is a happy time. Lots of fresh Linux distribution releases coming out, all ready for plucking and testing. Mandriva 2010 is one of those. Debuting two weeks ago, it has drawn many, mainly positive reviews, sparking intrigue and a desire to take it for a spin. The previous version, Mandriva 2009 was a decent distro, with some small issues here and there; overall it behaved nicely and gave the average desktop user a solid, unique package. So the big question for me is, what does Mandriva 2010 bring to the table?

Read the full thing at http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mandriva-2010.html

KDE has changed over the past 13 years. The application framework has grown, matured and gone cross-platform, as have the applications. Strong growth in our community has created an increasingly diverse and large set of high-quality applications.

In the process, KDE's identity has shifted from being simply a desktop environment to representing a global community that creates a remarkably rich body of free software targeted for use by people everywhere.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand

The Cross-Site Scripting patch has been posted to http://www.cacti.net

This patch addresses cross-site scripting issues reported by Moritz Naumann