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New Release and Farewell to Planet Debian
So first I want to say, that I appreciate all the interest in our project from the folks who read our posts at Planet Debian. This will be our last post there for now, I hope you enjoyed the posts about my Google Summer of Code project and other info about Elektra we posted there. To stay informed about Elektra’s releases, please subscribe to this RSS feed. Today I want to thank you all and tell you about the latest exciting Elektra news, our newest release 0.8.10!
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First of all, there is now a new gui for KDB! A big thanks goes out to Raffael Pancheri for developing this GUI! Once included in your Elektra build, this gui can be run using the command kdb qt-gui. It is very important to note that the gui is in version 0.0.2, meaning it is an alpha project and shouldn’t be considered stable yet! This GUI is a convenient tool that lets you mount, unmount, search, import and export configurations. We are very excited about this tool and we hope it makes Elektra more accessible to all users. Check out the screenshot below to see this new GUI in action:
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Natural Selection 2 FPS Has A Major Update, Fixes Major Linux Crash Bug
Natural Selection 2 is a great FPS game when it works, and thankfully a major Linux crash bug has finally been fixed.
The major issue preventing a lot of Linux gamers playing was that when a shotgun is fired, the game crashed.
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How To Install Google Earth 7 On Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 And Derivative Systems
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How to change notification sounds on your Android device
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2 Ways To Fix The UEFI Bootloader When Dual Booting Windows And Ubuntu
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Install VLC Multimedia player on Ubuntu 14.10
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Running Oracle XE 11gR2 in Nova-Docker container on OpenStack RDO Juno (CentOS 7)
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 21 (LAMP)
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The Fascinating World of Linux System Calls
Let’s talk about system calls. Simply put, system calls are the primary way that programs interface with the operating system. I would go as far as to say that a basic understanding of system calls is a requirement for any serious Linux user.
The system call interface includes a number of functions that the operating system exports to the applications running on top of it. These functions allow actions like opening files, creating network connections, reading and writing from files, and so on. In practice, most of the things that happen on any machine involve going through a system call. As a consequence, observing system calls can offer great insight into what a program is doing, and can be invaluable for troubleshooting, monitoring, and bottleneck identification.
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Improving on bug reports
There's nothing like the comments to justify an article. After I wrote about the average user's difficulty with filing bugs, the responses came rapidly. Many agreed with me, or were willing to consider my comments plausible, but two with long histories of involvement with free software seemed only intermittently aware that any problem existed, and were more interested in faulting me for not suggesting more solutions.
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