I really like the command line interface (CLI) in Linux. It bestows great power upon its users, and I spend a good deal of time availing myself of those powers. And yet without the GUI desktop I would still be limited. It is through the combination of the GUI and the command line that I find the power of Linux to be more fully realized

As with many things in Linux, there are several choices available for desktops. A short list includes Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, GNOME, KDE, and for the kids, Sugar. I have tried all of these at various times over the years, and I always install all of them on my main workstation so that I can try out the latest versions of each. But despite the fact that all of these desktops have many good features, I always return to KDE.

Read the full thing at http://opensource.com/life/15/4/9-reasons-to-use-kde

DNS is a distributed database that is capable of storing different types of data, not only IP addresses, in which the domain owner can publish various domain specific data. Yet, plain DNS does not offer any type of security measures. This means that DNS data in the response can be spoofed by anybody at any time.

Read the full thing at http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/04/14/writing-an-application-that-supports-dnssec-in-rhel-and-fedora/

There are so many awesome tools you can use to find out what's going on with your computer. Here are some that exist on LInux. They might exist on your OS too!

Read the full thing at http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/04/06/a-few-spy-tools-for-your-operating-system-other-than-strace/

I still see a lot of people using tail -f to monitor files that are changing, mostly log files. If you are one of them, let me show you a better alternative: less +F

Read the full thing at http://www.brianstorti.com/stop-using-tail/

Managing one's finances is an unavoidable chore in life. You will need to employ it sooner or later, the sooner you try it, the better. Luckily, there is a great open source tool available for all your budgeting needs, GNUCash. It is available in Fedora's repositories. You can install it using Gnome Software or through the command line.

Read the full thing at http://fedoramagazine.org/managing-finances-gnucash/

Virtualization software maker VMware is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has been violating the GPLv2 free software license for years with its use of Linux and other source code in ESXi.

Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig filed the suit in the district court of Hamburg, Germany with funding from the nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy, which works to "promote, improve, develop, and defend" free and open source software.

Read the full thing at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/vmware-alleged-to-have-violated-linuxs-open-source-license-for-years/

Wireshark has been recently updated to version 1.12.4, a release that introduces a large number of improvements, addresses lots of bugs, and brings updated protocol support, as well as new and updated capture file support.

Read the full thing at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireshark-World-s-Most-Popular-Network-Analyzer-Receives-Numerous-Improvements-in-Recent-Update-475131.shtml

I am always tweaking and tricking my bash environment. I hit the same issues again and again and I always have to look up the solution, time after time. This happens until I get annoyed enough to sit down - okay, generally I am already sitting down but you get the point - and create a custom function, put it in my .bashrc and deploy it to any machine I log on to.

Read the full thing at https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/02/ten-tips-for-wonderful-bash-productivity/

Last year I wrote an article called "Analysis Of The Top 10 Linux Operating Systems".

The premise behind that article was to look at the top 10 distributions of 2013, as listed on Distrowatch, in order to define their suitability for the average computer user.

There was a little bit of confusion with that article because in the comments some people thought it was just a list of my favourite distributions:

Read the full thing at http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/01/analysis-of-top-10-linux-distributions.html

After several delays the beta 2 version of Mageia 5 is finally out! You can find more information here.

But, it seems that yet again we need to postpone the Mageia 5 release.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2015/01/16/mageia5-beta2-is-out-a-story-of-badluck/