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Arduino will soon launch a $239 “Portenta X8” module that combines a quad -A53 i.MX8M Mini with an STM32 Cortex-M7 and -M4 SoC and runs Linux in a Foundries.io container stack. A $335 “Portenta Max Carrier” will add GbE, USB, COM, CAN, and mini-PCIe. Arduino Pro, the recently launched professional business unit of Arduino, announced […]

For all those worried about the Firefox maker, now you can chip in five or ten bucks a month. The Mozilla Developer Network, which hosts free, open access to web standard documentation, tools, samples and other good stuff, is going pay-for-play with a premium subscription plan that adds new personalization features. …

Over the last two decades, the web has woven itself into the fabric of our lives. What began as a research project has become the world’s most important communication platform and an essential tool for billions of people.  But despite its success — and sometimes because of it — the web has real problems.

No one should be using long-dead protocol so it's gotta go. The Samba project just released version 4.16, and with it parts of the veteran SMB 1 file-sharing protocol are being permanently removed.…

Adminer is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Adminer on Alma Linux 8.

Banana Pi has posted specs for a “BPI-R3” router board that runs Linux on a quad -A53 Mediatek MT7986 and offers dual 4×4 WiFi 6 radios plus 2x 2.5GbE SFP, 4x GbE, WAN, USB 3.0, mini-PCIe, and M.2 M-key. Banana Pi has been ramping up its router board product line over the last year and […]

Firefox is about to let you in on a little known industry secret…did you know some of the leading visual effects studios including Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), utilize Firefox to help make movie magic?  Color calibration — the process of adjusting colors in order to display images consistently in color and brightness across monitors […]

Bigger changes are afoot in the next release, too. A significant rewrite of the Linux kernel's random-number generator is underway, making Linux-based cryptography more secure – especially when running in VMs.…

A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus.

Mosquitto is an open-source message broker that uses the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Protocol. The protocol is designed to provide lightweight communication to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this tutorial, you will install Mosquitto and set up the broker to use SSL to protect communications.

Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama Linus Torvalds has released version 5.17 of the Linux kernel.…

Mixtile’s “Core 3568” module runs the hybrid Android/Linux Mixtile OS on a quad -A55 RK3568. The module powers a 3.5-inch “Edge 2” SBC with M.2, mini-PCIe, and PCie 2.0 plus an optional enclosure (Edge 2 Kit). Earlier this month while covering the cluster-oriented, octa-core RK3588 based Mixtile Blade 3 Pico-ITX SBC, we saw that Mixtile […]

Participants of the Phaidracon 2021 roundtable on open source and academia recently discussed how open source delivers new or additional value to the academic space and its specific role regarding the long-term preservation of scholarly data.

@zverok asks dev world for support as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues Interview Victor Shepelev, known as @zverok on Twitter and GitHub, is a Ruby developer and software architect who lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since Russia invaded his country on February 24, 2022, he's had more pressing concerns than writing code, such as keeping his family safe and helping his fellow citizens survive.…

Forlinx has launched a “FET3568-C” module that runs Linux on a quad -A55 RK3568 with up to 8GB DDR4 and 16GB eMMC. The module powers an “OK3568-C” SBC with triple displays, 2x GbE, 4x USB, M.2 B-key, PCIe Gen2/SATA, and PCIe Gen3 x4. Although Rockchip’s octa-core RK3588 has held center stage in recent weeks in […]

IBM's Linux distro giant fails to wrestle domain name from owner. IBM's Red Hat cannot prevent Daniel Pocock and his Software Freedom Institute SA from using the domain name WeMakeFedora.org, according to a ruling on Monday.…

A new, all-FOSS, direct-to-binary compiler for the 63-year-old programming language. The newly announced gcobol compiler is a fresh front end for GCC, and builds native binary executables.…

OnLogic has opened preorders for a $333-and-up “Factor 201” industrial gateway based on the Raspberry Pi CM4 with 2x M.2 B-key, 4x USB, HDMI, COM, and 2x GbE with optional PoE-PD. An upcoming “Factor 202” will add analog and digital I/O.

I've used the sudo command for years, and one of my favorite features is how it saves a record of everything happening in a terminal while running a command. This feature has been available for over a decade. However, sudo 1.9 introduced central session recording collection, allowing you to check all administrative access to your hosts on your network at a single location and play back sessions like a movie.

Huge step towards the project's goal of being a drop-in replacement for older Microsoft operating systems. ReactOS, the open-source project for creating a binary-compatible drop-in replacement for Windows, has crossed a crucial milestone with a first look at symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support.…