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Timesys has launched a “TRST” security solution for embedded Linux IoT devices to reduce the attack surface of products, harden devices, and and “maintain security at IoT scale.” Timesys, which is known for its LinuxLink portal to web- and desktop-based embedded Linux development services and BSPs, has launched a new security platform called Threat Resistance Security Technology (TRST) Product Protection.

FreeDOS turns 24 years old on June 29. FreeDOS is a complete, free, DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS. read more

Last year, I missed the opportunity to write about the 10th anniversary of GPLv3, the third version of the GNU General Public License. GPLv3 was officially released by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) on June 29, 2007—better known in technology history as the date Apple launched the iPhone. Now, one year later, I feel some retrospection on GPLv3 is due. For me, much of what is interesting about GPLv3 goes back somewhat further than 11 years, to the public drafting process in which I was an active participant. read more

The /boot partition sometimes needs a bit of attention. If you enable automatic updates, it will fill up with old kernels that you'll probably never need. It also will stop you from running aptitude to install or remove anything. If you find yourself in this situation, you can use dpkg to get around it. dpkg is the higher-level package manager in Debian-based distributions, and it's very useful when aptitude has broken.

LibreOffice is the most popular free and open source office suite. It’s included by default in many Linux distributions, such as Fedora Workstation. Chances are that you use it fairly often, but how many of its features have you really explored? What hidden gems are there in LibreOffice that not so many people know about? […]

Could the world's idle computers make the $200 billion cloud computing industry obsolete?

News briefs for June 28, 2018.

If you are on a Debian or Debian-based system (like Ubuntu), there are high chances you might have encountered .deb packages. These are Debian packages, and Linux command line offers built-in commands/tools to deal with this kind of packages. One such tool is dpkg, which we will discuss here in this tutorial.

The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ won our 2018 reader survey as the most popular community-backed, Linux/Android hacker board under $200, followed by the UDOO X86 and Odroid-XU4. The results are in for our latest hacker board survey, which we ran on SurveyMonkey in partnership with Linux.com.

If there is one document you want to read to discover what KDE has been up to and where we are right now, this is the one. KDE's yearly report gives a comprehensive overview of all that has happened during 2017. It covers the progress we have made with KDE's Plasma desktop environment; Plasma Mobile (KDE's graphical environment for mobile devices); and applications the community creates to stimulate your productivity, creativity, education, and fun.

Fuel CMS is a free and open source content management system written in PHP that can be used to develop websites and blogs. It is based on CodeIgniter PHP web framework that can be used for advanced web development.

On this week's "Cooking with Linux (without a Net)" show, Marcel learns, in as much as he can learn anything, that you can try to do too many things at once—especially when those things really don't all want to happen at the same time.

Modern civil infrastructure is all around us -- in power plants, radar systems, traffic lights, dams, weather systems, and so on. Many of these infrastructure projects exist for decades, if not longer, so security and longevity are paramount. And, many of these systems are powered by Linux, which offers technology providers more control over these issues.

News briefs for June 27, 2018.

In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to add support for Brotli compression algorithm in Nginx web server. Brotli is an open source compression algorithm created by Google. Brotli provides better and lossless compression than gzip, and it's now supported by major browsers and web servers.

VIDEO: The latest and greatest, Kubernetes 1.11, will be out shortly. Kubernetes has become the cloud container orchestration program. Its developers aren't resting on their laurels. Kubernetes is continuing to develop at a rapid rate. Less than three-months, after the last significant release, Kubernetes 1.10, Kubernetes 1.11 is on its way.

The Linux Mint project has released the rugged MintBox Mini 2 mini-PC based on the Apollo Lake powered Compulab Fitlet2, with options including PoE, HDD, and CAN. The system ships with the new Linux Mint 19 “Tara” distro.

For now, let's ponder browser version 61 adding code that lets extensions close tabs. Firefox has started testing an easier way for users to check whether they're using an online service that has been hacked, through integration with Troy Hunt's HaveIBeenPwned database.…

Facebook and its partners in the artificial intelligence (AI) community are building open source tools to accelerate AI development and make the ecosystem more interoperable. Following are the latest updates on these initiatives. read more

the appeal to snap packages is that they are self-contained (that is, containerized). They are designed to auto-update and are safe to run. A snap package is bundled with its dependencies, which is what allows it to run on all other major Linux distribution without any modification...