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Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Germany's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom.…

The TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana) Stack is an acronym for a platform of open-source tools to make the collection, storage, graphing, and alerting of system metrics easier. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure the TIG Stack on a single Debian 12 server.

DFRobot has announced the launch of the updated FireBeetle 2, now incorporating the latest ESP32-C6 System-on-Chip from Espressif Systems. This enhanced development board integrates standard I/Os, includes comprehensive battery support, and offers advanced connectivity options with Zigbee 3.0 and Thread 1.3. Unlike the FireBeetle 2 (ESP32-S3) launched in 2022, this new variant is equipped with […]

Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements The latest stable Linux kernel, 6.7, is out and finally includes the new next-gen copy-on-write (COW) bcachefs file system.…

Crash course on using Textual Python on Linux has nice GUI (Graphic User Interface) development libraries like TkInter, but what if you cannot run graphical applications? Text terminals, are available on not just Linux but BSD and other great Unix-like operating systems. If you write code in Python, you should be using Textual to help you write […]

FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way. Opinion Bruce Perens is unhappy. He sees the spirit and potency of FOSS decaying into obsolescence as the big guns learn to game the system and users don't see the point.…

Cockpit is a web-based Linux administration tool that allows you to manage multiple Linux servers from a single dashboard. This guide will show you how to install Cockpit on a Debian 12 server

Acer today announced the launch of two innovative gaming routers: the Predator Connect X7 5G CPE and the Predator Connect T7 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Router. These routers are powered by the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platform and feature tri-band Wi-Fi 7, designed for gaming and streaming experience with their robust, high-speed connectivity. The Predator Connect X7 […]

You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? Predictive and generative AI systems remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks and anyone who says otherwise isn't being entirely honest, according to Apostol Vassilev, a computer scientist with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade. Microsoft has begun ditching WordPad from Windows and removed the editor from the first Canary Channel build of 2024.…

86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it. An intrepid code archaeologist has found and uploaded an early ancestor of what became MS-DOS, which later sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.…

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89. Obit Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year's Day, roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday.…

Safety and security are immutable Linux's calling cards.

Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) is a Free and Open Source text editor, available for Linux, Windows and macOS. For documentation writers, the integrated Git features of Kate can help simplify the writing process. You do not need to remember Git commands and type them in the terminal every time you make changes to files […]

Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity. Open source PostgreSQL was today named database management system of the year by popular ranking site DB-Engines.…

iSCSI stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface is a Storage Area Network protocol that can be used to share block devices such as HDD/SSD partitions, or LVM partitions, or block files on the network. In this tutorial, we will explain how to setup iSCSI targets and iSCSI initiator on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

The most successful compile-it-yourself Linux distro now has compiled, packaged executables Gentoo now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.…

Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt. Valve rang in the New Year by dropping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support on its Steam gaming platform, giving your gaming grandparets yet another reason to upgrade.…

Waveshare has released a new camera module, named the 360° Omnidirectional High-Torque 2-Axis Expandable Pan-Tilt Camera Module. This module represents an advancement in camera technology, featuring a range of rotational capabilities and a high-torque mechanism. It is designed to cater to applications in robotics and DIY projects, and is compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B and […]

Gentoo Linux, known for its source-based distribution, has now added support for binary packages, aiming to enhance user convenience and accelerate installations, particularly on slower hardware. While most architectures initially offer binary packages for the core system and weekly updates, amd64 and arm64 users benefit from an extensive library of over 20 GB of packages, […]