today's howtos

• How to install Jenkins on Ubuntu Server 18.04

• How to create Linux Mint bootable USB drive using ISO image

• Using Red Hat OpenShift image streams with Kubernetes deployments

• How to improve gaming performance on Linux with Feral GameMode

• How to check CPU temperature on Linux

• Pushd and Popd Commands in Linux

KDE: New Features, Kate, Windows and KItinerary

• This week in KDE: a metric avalanche of amazing things

  Get ready for a massive load of improvement! And it’s all pretty darn shiny too because in addition to a ton of work on apps, we polished up Plasma to be as smooth as a marble for the 5.17 beta version (numbered 5.16.90), which is now available. The final product is due to be released in about a month, and as you’ll see, KDE contributors have been hard at work making it as awesome as humanly possible! A few things have slipped until the Plasma 5.18 LTS release, but that’s okay because it means 3 more months to polish them up. Oh, one more thing before we begin: like Kate, Okular is now also available on the Microsoft store! This work is so important because Windows users who become accustomed to using free open source software on Windows are more easily able to switch to a fully FOSS platform, like a Linux distro running KDE Plasma.

• [Kate] External Tools Plugin is Back

  Back in 2011, we decided to remove the External Tools plugin in Kate for the KDE 4.8 release, since it was unmaintained and we got more and more bugs that were not fixed. However, over the years, we got many requests (and complaints) to bring this plugin back to life, since it was very useful to start little helper scripts with just a shortcut, via the command line, or the menu. The good news is that for the KDE Applications 19.12 release, the External Tools plugin will be back! And it is much improved compared to the previous version.

• KDE applications on Windows

  One of the new goals of KDE is to spread the use of the applications created by the KDE community. This doesn’t only include the use of them on Linux & other Unix-like operating systems, but Windows, too.

• KItinerary Command Line Extractor

  The KItinerary data extraction engine recently got a command line interface, which can be pointed at any file KItinerary can consume (HTML, PDF, plain text, iCal, Apple Wallet passes, etc) and which then outputs JSON-LD according to the schema.org data model with the information that could be found in there. Adding this has been motivated by two separate goals: Increasing extractor robustness, and easing integration into 3rd party applications.

Stable kernels 5.3.1, 5.2.17, 4.19.75, 4.14.146, 4.9.194, and 4.4.194

• Linux 5.3.1

  I'm announcing the release of the 5.3.1 kernel. All users of the 5.3 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.3.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.3.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...

• Linux 5.2.17

• Linux 4.19.75

• Linux 4.14.146

• Linux 4.9.194

• Linux 4.4.194