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The Gumstix “Poblano 43C SBC” features a TI AM4378 SoC with WiFi, Bluetooth, GbE, and optional cameras, touchscreens, and Geppetto-based design customization.
Skylake Pico-ITX SBC has optional I/O boards
Axiomtek’s 6th Gen Core “PICO500” Pico-ITX SBC offers extended temperature support, a mini-PCIe slot, and expansion ports with optional I/O cards.
Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack cloud come to IBM servers
IBM partners with Canonical to bring not only Linux, but the OpenStack cloud and Juju-assembled programs as well, to big-iron servers.
How to maintain a "clean" Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux distribution, as it has been the easiest to use for many years now, making it an obvious choice for every newcomer. As most new users don't know if and how they are supposed to maintain they distribution, and since Ubuntu doesn't offer any tools for this job by default, I will provide an overview on the matter through this quick guide.
Measurement Lab explores the current state of the Internet
When most people think about science, they see beakers, test tubes, eye droppers, and microscopes. If you're a member of the recent wave of citizen science—which is crowdsourcing data collection by amateur scientists—you might also think about sensors or smartphone-based data collection as part of your toolkit. But the basic scientific process is pretty straightforward: develop a hypothesis, select your methodology, measure and/or observe the thing in question, and analyze and interpret the results. Repeat steps 2-4 as needed.
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CoreOS shows OpenStack can be run as a container with Kubernetes
OpenStack is a complicated and enormous open-source cloud program, but CoreOS showed that it too can be run inside a container.
OpenELEC fork LibreELEC 7.0.0 arrives with Kodi 16.1
The new LibreELEC fork of the media player focused OpenELEC Linux distribution is available in a final version 7.0.0 built around the new Kodi 16.1 release. The fork of the Kodi-centric OpenELEC Linux mini-distribution has been building in recent months, and culminated in the Mar. 20 announcement of a new LibreELEC project. Since then the […]
Ultra-modular automation controller runs Linux on Sitara
Tibbo’s first Linux-based modular “Tibbo Project System” is based on a 1GHz TI Sitara SoC and features optional “Tibbit” I/O and sensor add-on modules. Taiwan-based Tibbo Technology has been developing embedded devices since 2008, including a highly modular Tibbo Project System (TPS) platform that runs its lightweight Tibbo OS (TiOS) operating system. The company’s “Size […]
Open sourcing planet discovery with PANOPTES
One of the presentations I'm most looking forward at this year's OSCON is Jennifer Tong and Wilfred Gee's session, PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery.
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Recording a quick screencast on Fedora Workstation
Learn how to make a screencast on Fedora Workstation using the built-in feature to capture high-quality, short videos of your screen.
Update to Firefox Released Today
The latest version of Firefox was released today. It features an improved look and feel for Linux users, a minor security improvement and additional updates for all Firefox users.
BlackBerry wakes up, dunks Priv in Marshmallow
Hub, keyboard and email also updated. BlackBerry has released the Android Marshmallow 6.0 platform update for its Priv flagship, alongside big improvements to the Hub, the phone’s hallmark message aggregator.
CoreOS shows OpenStack can be run as a container with Kubernetes
OpenStack is a complicated and enormous open-source cloud program, but CoreOS showed that it too can be run inside a container.
Create a desktop/online office on Ubuntu with ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
This tutorial explains how to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and connect them to your web-office account to get a desktop/online office suite on your Ubuntu machine. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors comprise viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations that allow to work with your documents offline and easily switch to the online to co-edit, review, comment or discuss them with others.
ACI Worldwide's UP Retail Payments
As customers of global-payments solution provider ACI Worldwide retire aging
platforms, they are clamoring for Linux-based options.
How to speed up apache with mod_pagespeed and Memcached on Ubuntu 15.10
This tutorial shows how to improve the page load times of your website by using the Google mod_pagespeed module for Apache in conjunction with the fast in-memory cache Memcached. Pagespeed is an Apache 2 module that optimizes and caches the content of a website before it gets delivered to the browser, the result is that the page loads faster, the system load on your server gets lower and the server will be able to deliver more pages per second.
Which field of research would you like to see more collaboration in?
If scientific research, procedures, and data are all publicly available, researchers can work together to verify findings, test hypotheses, and increase the pace of discovery and innovation. That's the dream of the open science movement.
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Experimenting with the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
The Opensource.com team has been fascinated by the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT, a low-cost addon for the Raspberry Pi that enables astronauts and citizen scientists alike to easily collect measurements from a variety of sensors to conduct science experiments or just have fun.
So we decided to try one out ourselves. We grabbed a side room at our offices in Red Hat Tower and spent an hour or two learning what it can do.
First step, attaching the device. Easy enough!
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Tiny ARM9 COM and SBC support dual Ethernet and CAN
Boardcon’s 40 x 40mm “MINI287” COM runs Linux on an NXP i.MX287 SoC, offers dual Ethernet and CAN ports, and is also available as a sandwich-style SBC. Thanks to the cost and power consumption sensitivities of the IoT market, old-time ARM9 system-on-chips continue to arrive in new embedded boards. Boardcon’s tiny (40 x 40mm) MINI287 […]
Roundup of community backed x86 hacker SBCs
The first community supported x86 hacker SBCs not backed by Intel or AMD are pricier than most ARM SBCs, but offer faster CPUs and competitive power drain. The first x86-based community supported hacker SBCs not backed by Intel or AMD have reached market, offering higher prices than most ARM SBCs, but featuring faster processors and […]
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