Programming News and Articles

Discovering the New Gnome

Gnome starts to reinvent itself, cautiously

The last few years have been troubled for the Gnome Project. Once a premier desktop environment for Linux, it has seen its market share diminish amid user dissatisfaction over Gnome 3 and accusations that the project was ignoring users. Yet, over the last six months, something important has been happening: Slowly and quietly, the members of Gnome have started trying to turn the situation around.

OpenSSL with Bash

Using the OpenSSL toolkit with Bash

Cryptography is an important part of IT security, and OpenSSL is a well-known cryptography toolkit for Linux. Experts depend on OpenSSL because it is free, it has huge capabilities, and it’s easy to use in Bash scripts.

The Coming KDE

An Interview with Aaron Seigo

Aaron Seigo discusses KDE’s new approach to managing change and the changes coming up in the next few years.

MediaGoblin: Saving the Internet Through Federation

A new project for sharing media files might be as important for its philosophy as its features.

Future of the Desktop

Could Mozilla’s announcement of the Boot to Gecko roadmap, along with the continued development of other web-based operating systems, make which Linux distro you’re running less important than the desktop environment?