Top 5: "Kool" DE still worthy of name, Docker, and more

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This week I talk about why the K in KDE should still stand for "Kool", modern DevOps with Docker, the future of open hardware, and more.

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Top 5 articles of the week

#5. Layered compositing in Kdenlive

This month's Multimedia Makers column by Seth Kenlon introduces video editing geeks to layered compositions with the tool Kdenlive.

#4. Git and GitHub for open source documentation

Anne Gentle works in open source projects with the OpenStack project at Rackspace, where they use git extensively for documentation. In this article, Anne explains how their documentation workflows mimic thier code collaboration (think: patches, peer review, and pull requests on GitHub).

#3. The makerspace is the next open source frontier

In the third installment of Jono Bacon's Six Degrees column, he takes a look forward into the future of open hardware with a heartfelt look back at his luck of having a computer as a child and at the present where he sees the potential for the learning and growth of his own child thanks to the tenents of open source, that include a firm foundation in collaboration. Join the discussion by pondering: How do you believe we could create a world in which we can build products and inventions as openly and as engaging as open source software projects?

#2. Modern DevOps with Docker

This question on many minds these days is: Is Docker production-ready? If you ask Avi Cavale, it most certainly is. He knows because his company Shippable runs thousands of Docker containers in production per week. Rikki Endsley interviewed Avi prior to his ApacheCon talk on the subject, which he gave this week.

#1. 9 reasons to use KDE

David Both, one of our writers on all things Linux, tells us that the open source desktop environment KDE originally stood for Kool (with a K) Desktop Environment. Though more forgotten these days, David gives use 9 solid reasons why the K in KDE should still stand for Kool, in this article.

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Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

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