Almost all developers have some sort of experience working with Secure Shell or SSH. It allows you to connect to a remote location and communicate securely. In this article, I'll share a couple of tips that will make working with SSH easier.

Read the full thing at http://botleg.com/stories/tricks-with-ssh/

Do you think music software is only the domain of expensive proprietary software? Think again. There are literally hundreds of applications out there designed by, and for, those with a musical bent. Music projects, including many projects specifically for the Linux operating system, flourish in the open source community as musicians take to coding to produce tools to make their lives easier.

Read the full thing at https://opensource.com/life/15/12/open-source-projects-musicians

The openSUSE project has been talking for a while now about their new edition, called openSUSE Leap. The new edition of openSUSE is intended to provide a more stable core while still offering users cutting edge desktop software. The project's release announcement for openSUSE 42.1 explains:

Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. Bonding community development and enterprise reliability provides more cohesion for the project and its contributor's maintenance updates. openSUSE Leap will benefit from the enterprise maintenance effort and will have some of the same packages and updates as SLE, which is different from previous openSUSE versions that created separate maintenance streams. Community developers provide an equal level of contribution to Leap and upstream projects to the release, which bridges a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE's other distribution, Tumbleweed.

Read the full thing at http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20151116#opensuse

Last year, I wrote how the number of Linux distributions listed on Distrowatch seemed to be declining. Specifically, the number had dropped from 323 in 2011 to 285 in December 2014.

Eleven months later, the decline seems to be continuing at about the same rate, with the number of active distributions down to 276, and the decline is starting to seem an actual trend.

Read the full thing at http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-decline-of-linux-diversity.html

KDE - one of most functional desktop environment ever. Itss open source and free for use. 19 years ago, 14 october 1991 german programmer Matthias Ettrich has started a development of this beautiful environment. KDE provides the shell and many applications for everyday using. Today KDE uses the hundred thousand peoples over the world on Unix and Windows operating system. 19 years - serious age for software projects. Time to return and see how it begin.

Read the full thing at https://tlhp.cf/kde-history/

SANE is not the most often updated pack of drivers and associated software around, but when they release, they do deliver.

Newly released SANE backends v1.0.25 features support for over 300 new scanners and multifunction units, quite of few which have been introduced in the past two years since the last release of SANE.

Read the full thing at http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/sane-update-brings-support-for-over-300-scanners

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.

Read the full thing at http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/657345/a0ca846bdcbf6bf2/

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