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Most Linux users know how to set scheduled automatic shutdowns using cron. Did you know you can also set automatic wakeups? Most motherboards built after 2000 support real-time clock (RTC) wakeups, so you can have your computer turn itself on and off on a schedule.

Dot Categories: SprintsAfter the successful developer sprint in Berlin in 2010, the Kate and KDevelop teams met for the second time from the 23rd to the 29th of October. This time, the developer sprint was held in the beautiful city of Vienna. In total, 13 contributors discussed and collaborated on the future of Kate and KDevelop for a whole week.

New Enlightenment E17 Alpha releases are coming out at a record pace considering that it's taken a decade to get to the first alpha stage. E17 Alpha 4 came just three days ago and there's already a fifth alpha now available...

Released as open source in August, OpenVDB, a C++ library for volumetric processing, has now reached version 0.99 with Houdini integration plugging the code into a powerful commercial 3D animation system

Linux 3.7 can use signatures to verify the integrity of kernel modules, while the new integrity appraisal extension helps to detect malicious software from a third party. The new kernel loads firmware files without udev and includes important container improvements.

From the forthcoming GNOME 3.8, a fixed set of GNOME Shell extensions will allow users to add traditional desktop elements. The development team is also working on presenting documents, music, photos and videos within GNOME Shell

In a recent post, I introduced an initiative, along with Dima Kassab, for teaching open source NoSQL databases. We collaborated to prepare course materials for three NoSQL databases to 22 students at the Informatics Department of SUNY Albany, and we made all those material available under a Creative Commons by Attribution License.

Red Hat has announced that they've initiated a new project to bootstrap Fedora on the ARMv8 64-bit low-power architecture...

It was just a few days ago that Enlightenment E17 Alpha 2 was released but there's already a third alpha of this window manager expected to finally debut next month after more than one decade of development...

Unauthorised access has been detected on two of the FreeBSD project's servers. Whether manipulated software was distributed remains unclear

Valve is adding more individuals to its select group of beta participants on a regular basis. So far things are going well for the Valve Linux beta...

Two servers part of the FreeBSD.org cluster were intruded upon last week...

An interesting post appeared today in the Planet KDE news feeds. Introducing Homerun almost gave me a mild coronary until I realized it was an add-on. Homerun gives KDE that GNOME 3-like application launcher.

The volatile ranges feature provides applications that cache large amounts of data that they can (relatively easily) re-create—for example, browsers caching web content—with a mechanism to assist the kernel in making decisions about which pages can be discarded from memory when the system is under memory pressure. An application that wants to assist the kernel in this way does so by informing the kernel that a range of pages in its address space can be discarded at any time, if the kernel needs to reclaim memory.

The biggest change in JW6, at least on the surface, is the player UI itself. The player hadn’t changed dramatically since being launched in 2005, and it kind of looked that way. The new version follows the trend toward modern, chrome-less video players, with bigger controls to make it easier for users to navigate the video or turn on and off features.

Two newer filesystems of importance to Linux are exFAT and Btrfs. exFAT is the controversial Microsoft filesystem for Flash memory devices, and Btrfs is for "big data". Once upon a time there was much sound and fury around these, but lately it's been quiet, so let's see what's been happening.

A (well, now former) coworker let me know about a problem he was having with a Lenovo Thinkcentre M92p. It booted Fedora UEFI install media fine, but after an apparently successful installation refused to boot. UEFI installs on Windows worked perfectly. Secure Boot was quickly ruled out, but this could still have been a number of things. The most interesting observation was that the Fedora boot option didn't appear in the firmware boot menu at all, but Windows did.

The release of a first alpha of PHP 5.5 marks the official beginning of the 5.5.0 release cycle for the scripting language's next major version. PHP 5.5 also marks the end of support for Windows XP and Windows 2003.

Learning how to wrap GTK+ C modules for use in Python will enable you to use a C-coded GObject in Python whenever you like, whether or not you're especially proficient in C.

Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet program that is fast and feature complete. Much like its chief open source competitors OpenOffice and LibreOffice, its graphical user interface is nothing fancy. What it lacks in colorful design or exciting visual menu displays, however, it surpasses with its format flexibility and easy operation.