AOpen’s compact, Linux-friendly “Digital Engine DE5500” embedded PC for kiosk and signage has a 7th Gen CPU, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x GbE, 3x M.2, and SATA. AOpen is also prepping a Whiskey Lake based smart kiosk with OpenVINO and RealSense. Taiwanese signage vendor AOpen, which offers products such as its Android-driven, i.MX6-based MEP320 signage player, […]

Foliate is an open source eBook reader for Linux. It brings many of the powerful features you'd expect from a top tablet eReader. Install Foliate now.

In this article, I explore a new tool released by the Arduino team that can free you from the existing Java-based Arduino graphical user interface. This allows developers to use their preferred tools and workflow. And perhaps more important, it'll enable easier and deeper innovation into the Arduino toolchain itself.

Security is one of the most important considerations for running in any environment, and using open source software is a great way to handle security without going over budget in your corporate environment or for your home setup. It is easy to talk about the concepts of security, but it's another thing to understand the tools that will get you there. This tutorial explains how to set up security using Jenkins with Anchore. read more

VirtualBox 6.0.10 was released today, and while this is a maintenance release, with mostly bug fixes, it does come with an important addition: support for UEFI secure boot driver signing on Ubuntu and Debian 10+ hosts.

RcloneTray is a GUI for Rclone, the "rsync for cloud storage" command line tool, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Using this Electron tray application, you'll be able to quickly mount Rclone remotes, open the mount location using your default file manager, and perform other operations.

Cezerin is a free, open-source, React and Node.js based eCommerce platform that can be used for creating a Progressive Web Apps. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Cezerin on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Free and open source software may have won the war with proprietary software, but that doesn't mean the future will always be safe and secure. Victory brings responsibilities as well as cause for celebration.

Continuous learning refers to the ongoing, career-driven, intentional learning process people undertake to develop themselves. For people who consider themselves continuous learners, learning never stops—and these people see learning opportunities in everyday experiences. Engaging with one's colleagues in debate, reflecting on feedback, scouring the internet for a solution to a frustrating problem, trying something new, or taking a risk are all examples of the informal learning activities one can perform on the job. read more

2DayGeek: Easy way to reset/change the NagiosAdmin password in Linux

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Java (OpenJDK) on Debian 10 Linux.

We’re always amazed to find and hear what people are achieving with Ansible. Naturally, we get lots of feedback from customers, but more often we find it is the community who pushes Ansible even further. read more

News briefs for July 16, 2019.

On Windows, there are portable apps that you can run without installation. In Linux, Appimage is portable, too, but with a different architecture.

Are you familiar with post-quantum cryptography? The race is on to create new ways to protect data and communications from the threat posed by super-powerful quantum computers. Get the details in this article.

Too many CIOs do nothing with the data – or store it unsafely. Ask these critical questions about your data practices

MediaTek unveiled an “AI IoT platform i700” SoC for edge AI with 2x 2.2GHz Cortex-A75 cores and 6x 2.0GHz -A55 cores plus a PowerVR GM9446, a 970MHz ISP, and a MediaTek APU 2.0 for AI acceleration. MediaTek recently announced a powerful octa-core Arm that is intended not for smartphones but for edge AI systems. The […]

A look at using OpenAI's Generative Pretrained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) to generate text.

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. This format is a popular method of storing data in key-value arrangements so it can be parsed easily later. Don’t let the name fool you, though: You can use JSON in Python—not just JavaScript—as an easy way to store data, and this article demonstrates how to get started. First, take a look at this simple JSON snippet: read more

Windows 7 has officially entered the last six months of support, as the 2009 operating system is projected to be retired on January 14, 2020.

Hackers increasingly target individuals as weak links. As the number of breaches and their costs continue to spike, it’s time for leaders of all kinds to learn more about security

E-con has launched a Linux-driven, AI-enabled “SurveilsQUAD” camera system for the Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier or TX2 with 4x 2-megapixel cameras with HD or FHD resolution connected via MIPI-CSI-2. E-con Systems has begun shipping a SurveilsQUAD (e-CAM20_CUXVR) camera system with a V4L2 Linux driver and a sample Linux app with source. Like the robotics focused […]

I bought a laptop powered by AMD. My experience with it on Linux has been wonderful so far. This is my story, and why I think that you should go with AMD for your next PC too.

Have you ever daydreamed about what type of movie "A Day in the Life of [Your Name Here]" would be? As a sysadmin or other IT professional, your day can vary depending on what issues arise. Does your workday typically play out as planned, or does it tend to go off script? Which movie genre best describes your typical day? Superhero blockbuster: When you save the day after Thanos deletes the world's DNS records, you might feel like one of the Avengers. read more

cheat.sh provides access to community-driven cheat sheets and snippets for Linux/UNIX commands and many programming languages, using various interfaces.

In this article, we will see how to install a DHCP server in Ubuntu and configure one client to obtain IP address automatically from that DHCP server. We will use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS describing the procedure mentioned in this article.

The Linux platform has matured into an excellent way of listening to streaming music services. There are clients available for most of the popular music streaming services. But what if you want a single app that covers the very popular ones without straying away from the Linux terminal. Step forward Tizonia.

News briefs for July 15, 2019.

This brief guide explains how to enable minimize on click feature for Dock icons on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop system.

FlintCMS is a free, open source and content-focused Node.js Content Management System that can be used to develop simple websites and blogs. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install FlintCMS on Ubuntu 18.04 server.