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Improved multimedia support with Pipewire in Fedora 27

Pipewire — a new project of underlying Linux infrastructure to handle multimedia better — has just been officially launched. The project’s main goal is to improve the handling of both audio and video. Additionally, Pipewire introduces a security model to... Continue Reading →

Architecting the future with abstractions and metadata

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 20, 2017 10:02 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Abstractions and metadata are the future of architecture in systems engineering, as they were before in software engineering. In many languages, there are abstractions and metadata; however, systems engineering has never adopted this view. Systems were always thought of as too unique for any standard abstractions. Now that we’ve standardized the lower-level abstractions, we’re ready to build new system-level abstractions. read more

Linux Foundation LFCE Georgi Yadkov Shares His Certification Journey

  • Linux.com - Original Content; By Jack Wallen (Posted by bob on Sep 20, 2017 3:18 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: Community, Linux
The Linux Foundation is highlighting some of those who have recently passed the certification examinations. In this article, recently certified engineer Georgi Yadkov shares his experience.

Fanless Skylake computer offers four PCI and PCIe slots

Adlink’s MVP-6010 and MVP-6020 embedded computers run Linux or Windows on Intel 6th Gen CPUs, and offer 4x PCI/PCIe slots, 6x USB ports, and 4x COM ports. If Adlink’s new MVP-6010/6020 Series looks familiar, that’s because it’s a modified version of the recent MVP-5000 and last year’s MVP-6000 industrial PCs.

Innersource: How to leverage open source in the enterprise

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 10:21 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Companies of varying sizes across many industries are implementing innersource programs to drive greater levels of development collaboration and reuse. They ultimately seek to increase innovation; reduce time to market; grow, retain, and attract talent; and of course, delight their customers. In this article, I'll introduce innersource and some of its key facets and examine some of the problems that it can help solve. I'll also discuss some components of an innersource program, including metrics. read more

Using Redir to Alter Network Traffic: Part 1

  • Linux.com; By Chris Binnie (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 9:07 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
There are times when, despite your best efforts, you have little choice but to put a quick workaround in place. Reconfiguring network-border firewalls or moving services between machines is simply not an option because the network’s topology is long established and definitely shouldn’t be messed about with.

The eye-opening power of cultural difference

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 6:38 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Inclusivity is the quality of an open organization that allows and encourages people to join the organization and feel a connection to it. Practices aimed at enhancing inclusivity are typically those that welcome new participants to the organization and create an environment that makes them want to stay. read more

Portable Android SDR player supports DRM and DAB

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 5:24 PM CST)
  • Groups: Android; Story Type: News Story
Titus SDR’s Android-based “Titus II” Software Defined Radio receiver has a 7-inch touchscreen, a WiFi hotspot, and support for FM, AM, DRM, DAB, and DAB+. Titus SDR is prepping an Android-based wideband digital RF receiver with Software Defined Radio (SDR) capabilities and a hi-fi amplifier. Built around a 7-inch Android tablet, the portable, battery-powered Titus […]

Open Source Summit: Day 1 in 5 minutes

As you can see in the video below, the first day of the Open Source Summit was quite educational. My day was filled with clouds, containers, community building, flavors of Linux, and Linus Torvalds. Here are the links that go with the video above: read more

How to Setup Automatic Security Updates on CentOS 7

  • Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 12:26 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Security updates, as most of you'd agree, are very important. On Linux, it's always advisable to keep the installed packages up to date, especially when it comes to security. In general, users should apply security updates to their Linux systems within 30 days of being released. In this tutorial, we will discuss how you can configure a CentOS 7 server for automatic security updates.

A quick tour of MySQL 8.0 roles

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 8:55 AM CST)
  • Groups: MySQL; Story Type: News Story
This year at the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference in Dublin, I'll be discussing a new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0: roles. This is a new security and administrative feature that allows database administrators to simplify user management and increases the security of multi-user environments. read more

Black screen of death after Win10 update? Microsoft blames HP

OEM factory images create 'incorrect registry keys' Microsoft is pointing the finger of blame at HP's factory image for black screens of death appearing after a Windows Update.…

How a town uses an open source tool for collaboration and managing large files

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2017 5:12 AM CST)
  • Groups: Cloud; Story Type: News Story
Like many organizations, governments and townships are confronting challenges that involve collaboration and sharing of large files. In today's age of widespread cloud adoption, public institutions may be tempted to view public cloud storage as a simple, low-cost solution to managing data; however, significant concerns persist around security, data protection liability, control, and platform/vendor lock-in. read more

APNIC-sponsored proposal could vastly improve DNS resilience against DDoS

The domain name system (DNS) is vital to the internet's operations, which makes it an obvious target. The architecture of DNS can even amplify the effect of some distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. But a new technique could help change that.

Linux friendly IoT gateway runs on 3.5-inch Bay Trail SBC

Win Enterprises’ rugged “Win IoT-380 Gateway” is built on a 3.5-inch - MB-80580 - SBC with an Atom E3826 SoC, dual GbE ports, mSATA, and optional WiFi and 3G. The Win IoT-380 Gateway is the first Internet of Things gateway we’ve seen from Win Enterprises, which says it’s built upon a 3.5-inch SBC.

Linux 4.14 'getting very core new functionality' says Linus Torvalds

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2017 11:00 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Memory management wonks, this release is for you. And also you Hyper-V admins Linus Torvalds has unsentimentally loosed release candidate one of Linux 4.14 a day before the 26th anniversary of the Linux-0.01 release, and told penguinistas to expect a few big changes this time around.…

Linux friendly IoT gateway runs on 3.5-inch Bay Trail SBC

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2017 6:03 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Win Enterprises’ rugged “Win IoT-380 Gateway” is built on a 3.5-inch “MB-80580” SBC with an Atom E3826 SoC, dual GbE ports, mSATA, and optional WiFi and 3G. The Win IoT-380 Gateway is the first Internet of Things gateway we’ve seen from Win Enterprises, which says it’s built upon a 3.5-inch SBC. The unnamed mainboard turns […]

Rugged panel PC scales up to a 19-inch touchscreen

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2017 2:20 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
WinSystems’ fanless, IP65-rated “PPC65B-1x” panel PC runs Linux or Win 10 on a quad-core Atom E3845, and offers 10.4 to 19-inch resistive touchscreens. WinSystems has begun shipping a 5-Wire resistive touch-panel PC for industrial HMI applications that features extensive ruggedization features. The PPC65B-1x provides -20 to 70°C support, as well as IEC 60068-2-64-rated vibration, IEC […]

Linux fmt command - usage and examples

  • Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2017 1:05 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where-in the requirement is to format the contents of a text file. Gladly, there exists a command that can cater to at-least some of the text formatting requirements. The tool in question is dubbed fmt. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of fmt, as well as some of main features it provides.

Running the Fedora kernel regression tests

When a new kernel is released, users often want to know if it’s usable. The kernel has a set of test cases that can be run to help validate it. These tests are run automatically on every successful build. They... Continue Reading →

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