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MediaTek’s $20 “LinkIt 7687 HDK” module runs FreeRTOS on its WiFi-enabled, Cortex-M4F based MT7687F SoC, and offers Arduino shield expansion. LinkIt Smart 7688 Readers of LinuxGizmos are likely familiar with the MediaTek Labs LinkIt family of IoT-focused, open spec hacker boards from its only Linux-friendly board, the $13, OpenWrt-based LinkIt Smart 7688. Now that we’ve […]

Nick Hamilton is a sys admin by day, but is secretly (or maybe not so secretly; it's on the Internet) also an artist. He has worked with several high-end graphics applications, and like many artists with demanding tastes in their toolset, ended up in awe over the myriad features and full-on flexibility of Krita. read more

STEMM Role Models is a website that helps connect event organizers with presenters from underrepresented groups. Diversity is important to me, so the project caught my eye. read more

Even as accepted standards on how to do it "right" remain elusive, DevOps is a crucial element of modern IT. Corey Quinn, director of DevOps at FutureAdvisor, has immense experience in operations and DevOps. read more

Google could feel heat stateside after Europe laid down the law Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is calling on the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to follow the European Union's lead and bring antitrust charges against Google Android.…

Red Hat is releasing Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 while Dell announces its full support for Red Hat's new OpenStack cloud stack.

VIA’s Linux-friendly legacy replacement ETX computer-on-module features a vintage VIA Eden X1 CPU, native PCI/ISA support, and an optional Mini-ITX carrier. VIA Technologies has gone to the way-back machine with the VIA ETX-8X90-10GR, a computer-on-module that complies with the ETX 3.0 standard introduced by Kontron back in 2006. Like Adlink’s ETX-BT module from 2014, the […]

They say you never forget your first. In my case it was 2008 and Lucidworks had just raised our Series A round and hired our first salesperson. I was asked to jump on a call with a prospective client looking for help troubleshooting Apache Solr.

Amongst all the jargon, forks must thrive. The EU's competition authority thinks it has a smoking gun against Google. Consumers suffered because Google’s contracts with phone OEMs prevented the market from creating a better Android, the EU Commission alleged today.

Reputation versus the Amazonian hordes. Cloud killing on-premises kit for enterprise IT providers? Yes if you’re IBM, no if your name’s Red Hat. At least, according to Red Hat.

It's fair to say that the interests of governments and the FOSS community are not always aligned.

The latest version of the popular OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service cloud is here and ready to get you up and running.

Only 71 per cent of devices run security-supported versions of Alphabet's OS There's still too many unpatched Android devices, Google reckons: to wit, 29 per cent of mobes and tablets running The Chocolate Factory's operating system are running out-of-date code.…

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Centos 7 server with PHP support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

SODAQ’s “LoRaONE” is a tiny Arduino-compatible SBC based on an Atmel SAM21 MCU, plus a LoRa radio and a GPS, sensors, micro-USB, and optional Grove add-on. Dutch embedded firm SODAQ (SOlar powered Data AcQuisition) has almost doubled its $22,740 Kickstarter funding goal for its Arduino compatible LoRaONE SBC, aimed at low-power LoRa wireless applications. The […]

If you're looking to teach, tutor, or mentor beginning programmers, you've got your work cut out for you. Different learning styles, varying levels of knowledge, and a subject area that's a moving target all conspire to see you run ragged as an instructor. Luckily, there is help available—lots of help. It comes in the form of open source textbooks, tools, and even games—all created to make being a teacher (and a learner) easier than ever before. read more

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing.

Replicating databases creates redundancy which can protect against data loss, and permit optimized performance for applications. This tutorial will cover the basics of replicating an existing MariaDB 10.0 master database to one or more slaves. In the following examples, the host operating system is Debian 8.

Kai Uwe Broulik reports from open source conference Augsburger Linux-Tag which happened in Bavaria last weekend. On Saturday, 16 April I had the honor of representing KDE at the 15. Augsburger Linux-Tag, one of the oldest and largest Linux gatherings in southern Germany.

At OpenStack Summit Austin, Scott McCarty is giving a talk titled OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering applications together. read more