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In this week's Top 5, we highlight time management tools; thoughts on FOSS cryptography; tips and resources for MySQL beginners; Python file-management tricks for digital artists; and 12 open source games for Android. Top 5 articles of the week 5. 12 open source games for Android read more

Protecting the security of the Internet requires everyone. We talked about this theme in a recent post, and in this post we’ll expand on the role Mozilla plays, and how our work supports and relies on the work of the … Continue reading

In this tutorial, I will guide you to create your own Mattermost server that uses PostgreSQL as the database system and Nginx as the reverse proxy for Mattermost. I will use ubuntu 16.04 as the operating system. Mattermost is an open source messaging system written in the programming languages Golang and React. It's a slack alternative, we can build our own messaging service like slack or hipchat with it.

In 2007 I took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developing the Avogadro application. As we were developing Avogadro, we founded The Open Chemistry project as an umbrella project to develop related tools for chemistry and materials science. read more

FriendlyElec’s $45, 75 x 40mm “NanoPi S2” SBC runs Debian or Android on a quad-core A9 SoC, and offers RPi expansion, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 8GB eMMC. FriendlyARM, which is now selling its hacker boards under the name FriendlyElec, is one of the most prolific of hacker board makers. The Chinese firm spins numerous variations on […]

Wired magazine likes the Vivaldi web browser, calling it a tool for power users just like "500-pound squats are to power lifters". Led by a founder of the Opera browser, Vivaldi Technologies' browser eschews the pared-down base browser plus extensions model for one in which personalization rules.

Groovy is an almost perfect complement to Java, providing a compact, highly expressive and compatible scripting environment for my use. Of course, Groovy isn't totally perfect; as with any programming language, its design is based on a series of trade-offs that need to be understood in order to produce quality results. But for me, Groovy's advantages far outweigh its disadvantages, making it an indispensable part of my data analysis toolkit. In a series of articles, I'll explain how and why. read more

Previous posts in this IoT series have examined frameworks, development hardware, privacy/security issues, and smart hubs. But it all starts with the OS. ? ? An Open Source Perspective on the Internet of Things Part 5: Open Source Operating Systems for IoT ? Over the past decade, the majority of new open source OS projects […]

One of the great strengths of the Perl community is CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. If you've written a module for Perl that might be useful to others, the community encourages you to release it on CPAN. Given that the Perl community also encourages experimentation and play, part of the CPAN namespace is reserved for modules that could be considered frivolous or trivial, the Acme:: hierarchy. read more

VersaLogic’s rugged, sandwich-style “Raven” SBC offers a “Bay Trail” Atom, wide-range power, dual GbE ports, and multiple USB, serial, and mini-PCIe links. Like Versalogic’s BayCat, Bengal, Hawk, and Osprey SBCs, the Raven runs Linux on a “Bay Trail” Atom E3800. It also similarly supports -40 to 85°C temperatures, offers shock and vibration resistance per MIL-STD-202G, […]

In our previous Inkscape article, we covered the absolute basics of getting started with Inkscape — installing, and how to create basic shapes and manipulate them. We also covered changing the colour of inkscape objects using the Palette. While the... Continue Reading →

Smartphones put a wealth of games at user's fingertips, but many of the proprietary games are loaded with advertisements, in-app purchases, and other features that create less-than-stellar play experiences. While the open source world is not exactly known for the quality of its games, there are a wide variety of open source games available in the F-Droid repository that are polished and very playable.

Theobroma’s µQseven form factor “A64-µQ7” module runs Linux 4.x on a quad-core -A53 Allwinner A64, and adds a security module. Austria-based Theobroma has released its second Allwinner-based computer-on-module using the half-size, 70 x 40mm µQseven form-factor.

Now we're going to tackle CentOS/Fedora/andtherest. It's the same Apache; the differences are package names, configuration files, and that never-ending source of fun times, SELinux.

Let’s Encrypt was awarded a grant from The Ford Foundation as part of its efforts to financially support its growing operations. This is the first grant that has been awarded to the young nonprofit, a Linux Foundation project which provides free, automated and open SSL certificates to more than 13 million fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs).

Seco unveiled a “Q7-B03” Qseven COM with Intel’s new Atom E3900 “Apollo Lake” SoC and optional onboard SATA flash and -40 to 85°C support. Seco’s Q7-B03 is the second Qseven module we’ve seen based on Intel’s 14nm-fabricated Atom E3900 “Apollo Lake” line of SoCs........

Fujitsu’s 96Boards CE compatible “F-Cue” SBC runs Linux on a quad-core Cortex-A15/A7 Socionext MB86S71 SoC, and offers a PCIe/GbE expansion board. The Fujitsu Electronics F-Cue is the latest Linux-driven 96Boards CE form factor SBC, following others like the uCRobotics Bubblegum-96 and Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c. The open-spec board uses the same 85 x 54mm CE spec, […]

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Yakkety Yak) and how to install and configure the prerequisite Java 8 on the Ubuntu server. Apache Tomcat is an open source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation.

If you read my articles on when I originally set up BirdCam a few years ago, you'll remember I did it with compatibility in mind. At the time of this writing, BirdCam is simply an HTML page with the JavaScript language to refresh the images constantly, in order to create a low-fps video stream of sorts.

This month on The Queue, hydrurga from LinuxQuestions.org asks: How can I phrase my technical question well in order to increase the chances of having it answered? The answer Another great question that I frequently see asked. Keep filling The Queue with quality submissions. read more