Today May 1, has been released a new installation image of Arch Linux, our favorite Linux distribution!
Arch Linux 2015.05.01 includes the updates released during April 2015 and the Linux kernel 4.0.1.
As said in the previous post, today, the Kde team released Plasma 5.3 which come with a lot of interesting features.
Plasma 5 is the desktop environment of the Kde project and we can certainly say that its development is a source of interest for a big chunk of Linux users since, at the moment, it is found to be at the center of very important changes.
Qt Creator 3.4.0, one of my preferred development tools, has been released. This version is focused on increasing the support for C++ including some new refactoring features. Has been added a new refactoring action that moves all function definitions out of a class declaration and auto-completion for signals and slots in Qt 5 style connects.
A couple of days ago I spoke about the new release of the Kde Applications 15.04 which represents a great and important step towards the completion of the passage from the old Kde 4 to the new Plasma 5 environment.
Qt provides a simple but powerfull class to generate cryptographic hashes.
QCryptographicHash can be used to generate cryptographic hashes of binary or text data and supports MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
One of the most unpleasant situations in life is when, after installing Windows (not that it's a good situation to be in), we have to restore the Grub bootloader in order to be able to boot our Arch Linux again.
Who would think that there would be a timer app that was actually useful? I wouldn't.
Yet, after trying TimeBoss for a few days, I started to love it. It is easy to use and has some of the best thought out features of any timers out there. Let me tell you why I use this one daily.
Great news for Kde fanatics since this is a month full of great releases. In fact, after the stable release of KDE Frameworks 5.9 and the up-and-coming beta of Plasma 5.3 there's another important step for the Kde development: KDE Applications 15.04.
In the last two post I've talked about the new Kde Plasma 5. In particular I've posted some pictures about Plasma 5 on my Arch Linux workstation and, after a not too long testing period, I've also wrote a review about its current status.
Since some readers have asked to me how to install it on their Arch Linux workstations I'll going to write a small tutorial to explain how to do this.
A few weeks ago, during a little break from studies, I've finally found some time for installing Plasma 5 on my Arch Linux workstation. Before a not too deep period of usage I'd like to share with you my impressions on the current state of Plasma.