GNOME Desktop: Flatpak and Random Wallpaper Gnome Extension

• Flatpak in detail, part 2

  The first post in this series looked at runtimes and extensions. Here, we’ll look at how flatpak keeps the applications and runtimes on your system organized, with installations, repositories, branches, commits and deployments.

• Flatpak – a history

  I’ve been working on Flatpak for almost 4 years now, and 1.0 is getting closer. I think it might be interesting at this point to take a retrospective look at the history of Flatpak.

• Random Wallpaper Gnome Extension Changes Your Desktop Background With Images From Various Online Sources

  Random Wallpaper is an extension for Gnome Shell that can automatically fetch wallpapers from a multitude of online sources and set it as your desktop background. The automatic wallpaper changer comes with built-in support for downloading wallpapers from unsplash.com, desktopper.co, wallhaven.cc, as well as support for basic JSON APIs or files. The JSON support is in fact my favorite feature in Random Wallpaper. That's because thanks to it and the examples available on the Random Wallpaper GitHub Wiki, one can easily add Chromecast Images, NASA Picture of the day, Bing Picture of the day, and Google Earth View (Google Earth photos from a selection of around 1500 curated locations) as image sources.

today's howtos

• How to add encrypted ZFS pool on FreeBSD server

• How to Install Apache CouchDB on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• How To Install Cinnamon Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

• How to Setup a Simple Apache Web Server in a Docker Container

• Linux File Server Guide

• What Is A File Extension?

• Upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly boots slowly? Read this.

• Clazy and LibClang for the Rescue

• Linux netstat Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

KDE: QtPad, Celebrating 10 Years with KDE, GSoC 2018

• QtPad - Modern Customizable Sticky Note App for Linux

  In this article, we'll focus on how to install and use QtPad on Ubuntu 18.04. Qtpad is a unique and highly customizable sticky note application written in Qt5 and Python3 tailored for Unix systems.

• Celebrating 10 Years with KDE

  Of course I am using KDE software much longer. My first Linux distribution, SuSE 6.2 (the precursor to openSUSE), came with KDE 1.1.1 and was already released 19 years ago. But this post is not celebrating the years I am using KDE software. Exactly ten years ago, dear Albert committed my first contribution to KDE. A simple patch for a problem that looked obvious to fix, but waiting for someone to actually do the work. Not really understanding the consequences, it marks the start of my journey within the amazing KDE community.

• GSoC 2018 – Coding Period (May 28th to June 18th): First Evaluation and Progress with LVM VG

  I got some problems during the last weeks of Google Summer of Code which made me deal with some challenges. One of these challenges was caused by a HD physical problem. I haven’t made a backup of some work and had to rework again in some parts of my code. As I already knew how to proceed, it was faster than the first time. I had to understand how the device loading process is made in Calamares to load a preview of the new LVM VG during its creation in Partition Page. I need to list it as a new storage device in this page and deal with the revert process. I’ve implemented some basic fixes and tried to improve it.

Open Hardware: Good for Your Brand, Good for Your Bottom Line

Chip makers are starting to catch on to the advantages of open, however. SiFive has released an entirely open RISC-V development board. Its campaign on the Crowd Supply crowd-funding website very quickly raised more than $140,000 USD. The board itself is hailed as a game-changer in the world of hardware. Developments like these will ensure that it won't be long before the hardware equivalent of LEGO's bricks will soon be as open as the designs built using them.