Debian's decision to move to systemd as the default init system was a famously contentious (and rather public) debate. Once all the chaos regarding the decision itself had died down, however, it was left to project members to implement the change. At DebConf 2015 in Heidelberg, Martin Pitt and Michael Biebl gave a down-to-earth talk about how that implementation work had gone and what was still ahead.

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There is something interesting going on desktop computers -- the UI is becoming heavily influenced by mobile operating systems. From Windows to Gnome you can see heavy influence of mobile OSes. KDE's Plasma desktop, which I consider to be the most advanced desktop environment is, however, an exception.

Read the full thing at http://www.itworld.com/article/2976473/linux/kdes-plasma-54-the-most-advanced-and-beautiful-linux-desktop.html

Krita, KDE's answer to Photoshop and GIMP, comes with over 120 brushes.These brushes imitate media ranging from pens and pencils to water colors and acrylics, and textures from bristly to wet. However, if these are not enough, you can find dozens of additional brushes online, including ones designed for GIMP and some basic ones intended for PhotoShop.

Read the full thing at http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/07/23/loading-brushes-into-krita/

Since some days ago I've been playing with bifrost-build, a github repository with recipes for building static linux binaries.

Read the full thing at http://javier.io/blog/en/2015/02/27/wget-finder.html

After more than one year of development, the Mageia community is very proud to finally deliver this long-awaited release, Megia 5. This release announcement is a big sigh of relief, and "At last!" tha comes straight from the heart of the weary - tired as one can be after long days of hard but rewarding work.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2015/06/19/solid-and-strong-and-humming-along-heres-mageia-5/

systemd is a suite of system management daemons, libraries, and utilities designed as a central management and configuration platform for the Linux computer operating system. Described by its authors as a "basic building block" for an operating system, systemd primarily aims t replace the Linux init system.

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"SourceForge are (sic) abusing the trust that we and our users have put into their service in the past," according to the GIMP project. Since 2013, SourceForge has been bundling junkware along with their installers - sometimes without developer's permission.

Read the full thing at http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/

PulseAudio is an indispensable part of my Fedora Workstation. While PulseAudio may have detractors, my experience has been all good.

Read the full thing at http://paul.frields.org/2015/06/04/pulseaudio-is-still-awesome/

Leader is an awesome idea. It allows for executing actions by key sequences instead of key combinations. Because I'm using it, I rarely need to press Ctrl-something combo to make things work

Read the full thing at http://sheerun.net/2014/03/21/how-to-boost-your-vim-productivity/

About 6 years ago, I wrote an article about why I felt that installing software in GNU/Linux was broken. It pains me to say that the situation is, sadly, exactly the same:GNU/Linux never made it to personal computers, really, and at this point it looks like it never will.

Read the full thing at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/gnulinux_desktop_never_was