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Intrinsyc announced a reference design for wearable law enforcement and security cameras, featuring a Snapdragon 410 SoC running Android and a 13-MP camera. The wave of reports of police shooting unarmed minorities over the past few years appears to be partly due to the greater number of smartphone cameras in circulation. Many observers agree that […]

Buffer overflow found in glibc. A huge amount of software can be hijacked by hackers on the other side of the internet, thanks to a serious security vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). The library is used by the vast majority of Linux distributions, meaning the vulnerability is widespread.

I recently had a problem trying to install the NVIDIA driver for my machine. It seemed the latest driver had stopped supporting my graphics card, and after updating my kernel, I was out of a driver. The question, obviously, was "which card did I have?" But, I didn't remember.

Laravel 5 is an elegant and complete web programming framework for PHP. This tutorial will show you how to install the Laravel PHP framework on a Nginx server installation.

Today, the Internet is one of our most important global public resources. It’s open, free and essential to our daily lives. It’s where we chat, play, bank and shop. It’s also where we create, learn and organize. All of this … Continue reading

In my last article, Configuring Linux for music recording and production, I covered the basics of configuring your Linux system for music making. This is an extention of that—five tools for getting started making music on Linux. read more

If you've never been to a technical conference, you might be tempted to think it's the time out of the office and the free lunches that get people excited. Not that I'm opposed to a free lunch, but that's not even remotely why technical conferences are amazing. In fact, sometimes the lunch food is the worst part. But the conversation over lunch? Well, it could easily turn out to be the most important conversation you've had all year. A chance to learn new tricks The first and foremost reason to go to technical conferences is to learn new technical tricks. read more

Don’t leave your Raspberry Pi behind – incorporate it into mobile projects by powering it with AA batteries

In the past five years, I've contributed more than 300 clip art graphics to Openclipart.org. There were some works I liked more than others, of course, but I believe sticking with it is important. All of the clip art on the site is public domain, so there are no rights reserved. And, you can use the images however you want—even for commercial purposes—with no need to acknowledge the original creator (though I always appreciate it when someone does that for me). read more

From small footprint distros to one built by U.S Department of Defence, Linux moves forward.

Here's a novel use for February 29th: ending security updates for Debian “squeeze” 2016 is a leap year so we're all blessed with an extra day to use. And the folks behind Debian Linux are using it to end support for the sixth version of the distro.…

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

Hardkernel’s Odroid-C0 is a stripped-down, IoT focused version of the $35 Odroid C1+ hacker SBC, with a quad-core Cortex-A5 SoC and a battery circuit. The Odroid-C0 fills the same lightweight niche in the community-backed Odroid SBC product line that was briefly filled by the Odroid-W, according to a blog announcement from Hardkernel’s Odroid project. The […]

The development of Fedora continues, nearly each 6 months a new release. With a new release of Fedora just on the horizon, it also means it’s time to start submitting and voting on new supplemental wallpapers for Fedora 24. What... Continue Reading →

Ruby on Rails, popularly called ROR, is a Ruby framework for web programming. Ruby is a general purpose language like C, Java. Ruby has been invented by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto about a decade ago and has gained recognition with its Rails software library framework which provides a web development framework for the Ruby programming language.

Listed below are easy to follow steps to install ROR successfully on the Ubuntu versions 14.04 LTS to 15.10 using Ruby Version Manager (RVM). RVM offers an easy way to install and manage multiple Ruby versions.

After starting his own farm in Missouri, Marcin Jakubowski quickly discovered it's an expensive business. The tools he needed to start and maintain a sustainable farm didn't exist, so he set out to design them himself. read more

At the BuzzFeed Open Lab, we've been thinking a lot about automated journalism. In particular, we'd like to build open source tools that can be used by newsrooms big and small to empower journalists instead of replace them. read more

Dial into your own network from anywhere to access your files and browse the Internet freely

Secret Lab, or more specifically, Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning, introduced themselves at Linux.conf.au 2016 during their talk Open Data + Video Games = Win: "We write books and have made games for iconic Australia brands." [Watch a video of the talk] Which is accurate. They also sometimes do things like make Pokemon-style games based on the Energy Star data for washing machines.  But let's back up for a minute and talk about why they'd do such a thing. read more

Evidence suggests that current models of work, in particular a 9-to-5 work week, are not only deleterious to workers' physical and mental health, but are also sub-optimally productive. read more