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Mozilla has ceased development and sales of its open source, Linux-based Firefox OS mobile distribution, although the code may infuse future IoT projects.

Do you think music software is only the domain of expensive proprietary software? Think again. There are literally hundreds of applications out there designed by, and for, those with a musical bent. Music projects, including many projects specifically for the Linux operating system, flourish in the open source community as musicians take to coding to produce tools to make their lives easier. read more

Buying a media device that needs a special driver and/or connectivity suite to navigate and update its contents is a common case nowadays, and has been ever since manufacturers decided that it would be a good idea to just limit the access that users can have on the products that they bought. This may not be a huge problem to Windows and Mac OS users who can simply download the manufacturer's suite and use it to connect to their device, but Linux is often (if not always) left unsupported in that part. The first time I encountered this problem was with the first generation of iPods and Creative Zen players that refused to show any contents on the File Manager when connected via the USB port, and then came the newest generations of Android devices which do the same. In this quick guide, we will see how we can overcome this problem, and connect our media device on our Linux system.

Best couples complement each other, and each member of the couple contributes unique and irreplaceable parts to the whole. But some couples are very odd. Such is the case with our best couple this year: the tar and ssh commands. read more

Now that encryption has been elevated to a default technology on mobile devices, the government has heightened its “Going Dark” rhetoric, again on Wednesday insisting during a Senate Judicial Committee hearing that Silicon Valley figure out how to deliver plain-text communication between criminal and terror suspects to law enforcement.

It may be a relatively niche market, but not all video editing is done in post production. There are use cases for live, on-the-fly video editing and basic compositing. You've seen it done yourself, whether you realize it or not—news broadcasts, live webcasts, and live TV events usually use multiple-camera setups controlled by one central software suite. read more

We recently interviewed Dan Mossor on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done.

Aimed at variety of embedded, data storage, medical and industrial applications, the CSB502SSD follows Bud Griffin’s successful Kickstarter launch this summer of the PiDrive SSD expansion card. Like the PiDrive, which was offered to backers for $29, or $79 with a 128GB mSATA solid state drive, the CSB502SSD plugs directly into one of the Raspberry Pi’s USB ports.

Welcome back to our continuing series on systemd features. As you've seen in our previous articles, systemd brings more power and flexibility to service startup and management. Some features in systemd we've covered are for compatibility with the old SysVinit.

Drupal, one of the largest open source projects in the world, is a content management system and application framework that powers millions of websites, web services, and mobile applications. Individuals and organizations in every sector use Drupal for everything from simple blogs and micro-sites, to complex intranets and private internal applications, to some of the largest sites on the web, including several top 100 properties.

Like many LJ readers these days, I've been leading a bit of a techno-nomadic lifestyle as of the past few years - jumping from network to network, access point to access point, as I bounce around the real world while maintaining my connection to the Internet and other networks I use on a daily basis.

For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming.

Everything is connected around us. This revolution has already started and it will be bigger than previous technology revolutions, including the mobile smartphone revolution. Internet of Things, as many call it today, will fundamentally affect all of us.

Adlink’s “Matrix MXE-1400” is a compact, rugged industrial PC built around a quad-core Atom, with three GbE ports, SATA and CFast, and optional wireless. The Matrix MXE-1400 is the first of a new series of industrial computers that continues Adlink Matrix E series features such as fanless operation, cable-free construction, and ruggedization. The MXE-1400 is […]

A few of weeks ago I got a email from a friend who was attending an education technology conference. In the note he referenced PyGaze, an open source project I might be interested in. read more

Portwell’s industrial-focused “WADE-8017” Mini-ITX board taps Intel’s 6th Gen “Skylake” Core CPUs, and offers SATA, M.2, PCIe, and miniPCIe expansion. Like the Advantech AIMB-275 and Arbor ITX-i89H0, Portwell’s WADE-8017 SBC targets industrial applications rather than home use, and weds the 170 x 170mm Mini-ITX form-factor with Intel’s 14nm fabricated 6th Gen Core (Skylake) processors. The […]

Operating system shifting to IoT uses Mozilla announced at the Mozlando developer conference in Florida that it has officially abandoned attempts to get a foothold in the smartphone market with its Firefox OS system.…

Today we are launching Focus by Firefox, a free content blocker for Safari users on iOS 9. The app allows users to control their data flow by blocking categories of trackers such as those used for ads, analytics and social media and allows increased performance on mobile devices by blocking Web fonts.

But there is something to Apple's ill-thought out claim.

Data encryption is one very solid security measure/precaution that everyone who owns data with significant personal or objective value should perform. What data encryption does is securing your data when they fall into the wrong hands. There are many tutorials on howtoforge.com that show one way or another to decrypt your data. This one will show the most easy-to-use tools that can do the job for us. For this purpose, I will showcase the decryption of a removable media drive.