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A few years ago there was a project designed to boot generic laptops so they functioned as Chromebooks. It was a cool project, but unfortunately, the compatibility wasn't great, and it wasn't reliable to use on a daily basis. Although Chromebooks are old news these days, it still would be quite useful to transform aging laptop computers into Chromebooks.

LetsEncrypt recently entered into a public beta. Thanks to the work of the LetsEncrypt team and Fedora packagers, the official LetsEncrypt client is now available in both Fedora 23 and Rawhide. To learn how LetsEncrypt works or what it is, you can read... Continue Reading →

In a world where PC sales continue to slump quarter after quarter, Chromebooks are one of the few bright spots

Linux audio control is as messed up as the Linux audio system structure. The default and only option of setting the volume level may be enough for the majority of users out there, but it certainly isn't the best when you want to set specific audio levels, or define individual settings for different audio sources, etc. Here is a post on a selection of utilities that could help you get the sound you want on your Linux system.

Linus Torvalds says almost no-one 'actually ever hit the problem', or will code at Xmas Linux Lord Linus Torvalds says the fourth release candidate of Linux 4.4 contained “a fairly bad core bug” that's since been squashed, but may not have rung many alarm bells anyway.…

Sys admins, no matter what platforms they work on, are awash in great open source software tools. In this article, we highlight well-known—and not-so-well-known—tools that have released new versions in 2015. read more

A 16-year-old boy recently asked the r/Linux community for advice. When his parents discovered that he'd reloaded his laptop with Linux, they were horrified—after all, this "free" software must certainly be riddled with viruses and/or hackers. It didn't help matters any that he'd "ruined" an expensive gift, and was no longer using some of the expensive software that had been purchased with it. He tried to talk to them about it, but it was tough—he was the teenager; they were the adults. read more

An autonomous, Linux powered, indoor-friendly “Fleye” drone is available on Kickstarter for $742, featuring a protective hull, an HD camera, and 15km/h speed. Belgian startup Fleye, newborn from The Faktory tech incubator, is close to its $185,837 Kickstarter goal for the programmable, autonomous Fleye, billed as the world’s safest drone. Videos show people gently shoving […]

Sorry for shipping products we knew were rubbish, but you're just going to have to keep waiting for the problems to be fixed.

Here's some cash. Please come and use our beta Google has unveiled the next gen of its Cloud SQL service, a hosted version of the MySQL database.…

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, Mozilla announces new content blocker and ends Firefox OS, the Edge browser's JavaScript engine source released, and more. Open source news for your reading pleasure. December 6 - 11, 2015 read more

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the new release of Unity 5.3, high performance gaming mahcine PINE64, new games for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 5 - 11, 2015 read more

Learn how to customize your Linux shell environment and write simple bash functions. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight open source tools for music makers, GPLv3 in court in Germany, Raspberry Pi projects for students, a review of PC-BSD, and a visually impaired man's story as a Linux user.

Echobox has launched a high-end, portable “Explorer X1” Android music player, with a 3.5-inch screen, quad-core RK3188, TI DAC and amp, and earphones.

Janam’s Android-based “XM70” rugged mobile handheld has a 3.5-inch screen, 1GHz Cortex-A8 SoC, WiFi, BT, and a Zebra SE4500 1D and 2D barcode scanner. Last year, Woodbury, NY based Janam Technologies LLC added Yocto Project-based Linux support to its Windows Mobile-ready XG Series barcode scanners. Now, it’s expanding beyond Windows Mobile to Android with its […]

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how to use the Raspberry Pi to create a music light show using an open source project called LightShowPi. My little Christmas tree light show was popular enough that I was invited to demo it for a group of middle school kids in North Carolina. read more

As a system admin who maintains production Linux servers, there are circumstances where you need to block traffic based on geography. For example, you are experiencing denial-of-service attacks mostly originating from IP addresses registered with a particular country. You want to block SSH logins from unknown foreign countries for security reasons. Your company has a […]Continue reading...

Patch to Container Engine needed just one more item of Shift key action Google has admitted that incorrectly typing the name of a case-sensitive variable cooked its cloud.…

The holiday break and start of the new year are just around the corner, and this week's "Hour of Code" can be a great time to get your kids involved in a creative new world of problem-solving. I'm talking about coding—computer programming—and, your kids are probably not too young to start learning. I began coding with my sons when they were ages 2 and 4 (they're now 5 and 7, and I collected the apps we built into a fun book, Teach Your Kids to Code, 2015, from No Starch Press). read more