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Star Labs has recently launched the StarBook Mk VI which can accommodate the Ryzen 7 58000U and supports several Linux distributions. Additionally, the Starbook can integrate Intel 12th gen processors (i.e. i3-1220P, i7-1260P). The StarBook Mk VI can be configured to integrate one of the three following processors: i3-1220P — 2P+8E/10T, P-Cores: up to 4.40GHz, […]

New on the GNOME desktop is their terminal emulator application simply named Console. It seems aimed at providing a no-nonsense, stable command-line environment for Linux users...

The Morefine S600-Apex Engineer is a Mini PC built around the latest Intel’s i9-12900H/HK processor. The product comes in an aluminum-magnesium case offering features such as up to 64GB 3200 MHz of RAM, triple 4K displays, flexible storage expansion and a Wi-Fi 6/Bluetooth 5.2. According to the product page of Morefine S600, the processor supported […]

Long list of open standards contributions part of journey to REST-based GIS stack, companies say. Database vendor MariaDB has forked out an undisclosed sum for CubeWerx, a geospatial data specialist, in the hope of making make these features easier to build into data-hungry applications.…

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and while that's not always the case with terminal commands and code, it still holds true for the graphical desktop. Screenshots capture precisely what's on your screen. I love taking them to have a record of who attends meetings, so I don't have to write it down at the moment. Or to capture a bug when doing UI testing. We all take them for different reasons, though, and there are more ways to take a screenshot than you might at first think.

Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot. Oracle's Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.…

We look at the official flavors, but there are more out there. Alongside the official flavors, some of Ubuntu's other remixes have new 22.04.1 versions out: Unity, Cinnamon, and Kylin.…

If you absolutely must keep using those proprietary formats, walk this way Just over six months on from version 7.3, LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.…

My journey with Kubernetes began in 2016, as a software engineer for Red Hat OpenShift. There, I had the opportunity to work with (and learn from) some of the smartest folks in the open source community. I learned first-hand some of the best practices for Kubernetes development as they were applied...

Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures Red Hat has delivered a tech preview of its OpenShift containerization platform that can drive clusters spanning both x86 and Arm silicon.…

Notes are part of any writer's life. Most of my articles begin in a note-taking application and that’s usually Joplin for me. There are a large number of note-taking apps for Linux and you may use something other than my favorite. A recent blog article reminded me of a half dozen of them, so I assembled a list of my favorites.

At this year's DrupalCon North America, EPAM Solution Architect John Picozzi presented a talk about the importance of non-code contribution. He talked about how everyone can get involved and why he believes this is an important topic. This article is a text adaptation of John's talk; find a link below to a video recording of the complete presentation at DrupalCon.

The E500RM9 by Winmate, is a handheld rugged computer featuring a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 (up to 2.0GHz). The device also includes dual cameras, capacitive touchscreen, dual SIM slots, a 20Hr battery and many other optional upgrades. The E500RM9 comes with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage and Micro SD […]

Which flavors are the lightest and the heaviest disk and memory-wise? The Reg FOSS desk has lined up the official Ubuntu remixes to see which ones hog the most or least of your computer's resources.…

A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers.

Canonical is incorporating Microsoft's ASP.NET and .NET SDK into its latest Long Term Support version of Ubuntu.

While working on the open source ZenTao project, I get constant feedback that getting Agile up and running is a big task in many organizations. As with any new process, you will run into issues, and many of them will feel unique to your organization. While context is important, there's a certain amount of abstraction possible after you've coached enough teams. This article covers the four most common issues I've encountered.

The Wall Street Canyon by SimplyNUC integrates Intel’s 12th Gen i3/i5/i7 processors and it supports Iris Xe Graphics . The base models come with 4GB DDR4 RAM and 256GB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD. Information about the i3 processor and its vPro version is not available yet. Simply NUC has listed the specs for the processors […]

Desktop environment celebrates milestone birthday with a beta. The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.…

Linux distro announces the availability of Microsoft tooling on Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.…