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Open Wide

Open Speech Initiative seeks to bring advanced speech processing to free software.
Virtuoso Layering

For the past three years, 20 developers have been working on a revamped version of the KDE libraries. The alpha release appeared in February 2014 with many new features.
Silent Guardian

Tripwire is a powerful tool that protects your systems against unwanted changes.
Fast Transport

Even without elaborate infrastructure, you can still push your data across the network with netrw.

News and Articles

Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains

Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D

New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
Ask Klaus

Knoppix

Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions.
NEWS

Community

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools
Loaded for Bear

Baloo replaces Nepomuk as the semantic search engine on the KDE desktop, but it gets off to a bumpy start.
In a Minute

Administration

Recently, sys admin Charly was faced with the task of synchronizing a directory on a server with two NFS-mounted clients. He wanted the whole thing to happen quickly and to be easily manageable, which ruled out DRBD and GlusterFS.
Many to One

With some simple tuning, SSHFS performance is comparable to NFS almost across the board. In an effort to get even more performance from SSHFS, we examine SSHFS-MUX, which allows you to combine directories from multiple servers into a single mountpoint.
File It

Every Linux computer needs a filesystem, and users often choose a filesystem by habit or by default. But, if you're seeking stability, versatility, or a small performance advantage, it pays to take a closer look.
Perl – Think Again

Perl

To tackle mathematical problems with conditional probabilities, math buffs rely on Bayes' formula or discrete distributions, generated by short Perl scripts.
Call Him Ishmael

Community

It is no secret that Ubuntu isn't the coolest, new-kid-on-the-block distro sensation anymore – actually that news is already a few years old. Still, Ubuntu has kept itself in the headlines with community dramas, desktop debates, and a crowd-funding effort to launch a mobile phone. The Ubuntu vision is so vast and enthralling that it is hard for the press – and the Ubuntu management – to let it go: a single unifying Linux popping up on phones, tablets, desktops, servers, and other devices that no one has even invented yet.