Showing headlines posted by bob

Any experienced technology educator knows engagement and motivation are key to a student's learning. Of the many techniques for stimulating engagement and motivation among learners, storytelling and game creation have good track records of success, and writing interactive fiction is a great way to combine both of those techniques. read more

Akeneo is a free, open source and enterprise Product Information Management platform based on the Symfony2 framework. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Akeneo PIM on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

Whether for research or recreation, installing a new GPU can bolster your computer’s performance and enable new functionality across the board. This installation guide uses Fedora 28’s brand-new third-party repositories to install NVIDIA drivers. It walks you through the installation of both software and hardware, and covers everything you need ..........

Year of the Linux Desktop imminent for a quarter century. Though it may not have managed to bring Linux to the desktop in any meaningful sense, 4 July marks 25 years since the first stable release of not-a-Windows-emulator, Wine.…

VIDEO: Are you a Windows power-user? You can get and install Linux Mint running on your PC -- either to try it out or as a replacement for Windows.

How excited to be? Cautiously, unless you need to get cracking with testing for P's big changes Google’s emitted a new beta of Android P, but it’s not obvious how excited to get about it.…

Airsonic is free and open source media server. It's a self-hosted web-based media streamer that provides ubiquitous access to your music, makes it easy to share your music with friends or listen to your music while at work. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install Airsonic on Ubuntu 18.04.

Arduino has launched the Arduino Yun Rev 2, an upgrade of the original OpenWrt-driven Arduino board with enhanced LAN, USB, security, and power supply features. Just when we thought we had seen the last of the Linux-driven Arduino boards, Arduino updated the original, WiFi-enabled Arduino Yun (or Arduino Yún), which launched back in 2013.

As usual there's been a flurry of activity in the cloud and DevOps security space recently. In case you missed it, a particularly painful flaw was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux's DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) service not long ago.

News briefs for July 3, 2018.

When working with Linux, you easily can download any of the most common distributions to install and configure—be it Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE or something entirely different. And although you should give several distributions a spin, building your own custom, minimal Linux distribution is also a beneficial and wonderful learning exercise. Follow along with this step-by-step guide to build your own distribution from source and learn how it installs, loads and runs.

You might think the only synergy one can find in Game of Thrones is that between Jaime Lannister and his sister, Cersei. Characters in the show's rotating cast don't see many long term relationships, as they're killed off, betrayed, and otherwise trading loyalty in an effort to stay alive. Even the Stark children, siblings suffering from the deaths of their parents, don't really get along most of the time. read more

There exists a command - dubbed dmesg - that you can use if you want to access messages printed by kernel. In this tutorial, we will understand how the dmesg tool works using some easy to understand examples.

I started my journey as a software engineer at Northern Telecom, where I developed proprietary software for carrier-grade telephone switches. Although I learned Pascal while in college, at Northern Telecom I was trained in a proprietary programming language based on C. I also used a proprietary operating system and a proprietary version-control software.

Digital art students, professionals, and educators need Linux too. So, I created a new distro, which is derived from Bodhi Linux, a lightweight, Ubuntu-based distro that includes only a browser, a terminal emulator, and a few other system tools.

The latest Linux Mint desktop is still the best desktop around. You can keep your Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra. For me, Linux Mint 19 is not only the best Linux desktop, it's the best desktop. Period. End of statement. Why? Because its traditional windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP) interface is a true pleasure to use.

Apache Cordova (Formerly known as PhoneGap) is a free and an open source mobile development framework that can be used to build applications for mobile devices using CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Cordova on Ubuntu 18.04.

To be a good graphic designer, you must be adept at using the profession's tools, which for most designers today are the ones in the proprietary Adobe Creative Suite.

read more

For better or worse, git has become one of the Open Source community's more ubiquitous tools. It lets you manage code effectively. It helps engineers who are far apart collaborate with each other. At its heart, it's very simple, which is why the diagram in so many blog posts inevitably looks something like the one shown in Figure 1.....

Wekan is an open source Trello-like kanban board based on the Meteor Javascript framework. It's a web-based management tool that allows you to create a board for your project collaboration. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure Wekan Trello-like Kanban on a CentOS 7 server.