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United Patents, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and Open Invention Network are beating back open-source patent trolls.

Departure follows GitHub CEO exit. Just months after Nat Friedman quit as CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, his Xamarin co-founder has also ejected from the Windows giant.…

The Linux Foundation and Harvard's Lab for Innovation Science list the most important open-source application libraries.

Renesas announced a headless, 1GHz “RZ/Five” IoT SoC that runs Linux on Andes’ AX45MP RISC-V core with support for up to 4GB DDR4-1600, 1x or 2x GbE ports, 2x CAN, and 2x USB. A SMARC module is in the works. Renesas has begun sampling the first commercial system-on-chip based on Andes Technology’s 64-bit RISC-V cores. […]

There are two upcoming test weeks in the coming weeks. The first is Monday 28 February through Monday 07 March. It is to test GNOME 42. The second is Monday 07 March through Sunday 13 March. It focuses on testing internationalization. Come and test with us to make the upcoming Fedora 36 even better. Read […]

Etherpad is a collaborative and real-time text editor for your team. In this tutorial, you will install and configure the Etherpad Real-time Collaborative Editor on the Debian 11 Bullseye.

If you spent your high school years gazing at TI-80 series calculators but lost track of the device somewhere along the way, then you might sometimes yearn to relive those thrilling years of algebra and calculus. Somebody on the Linux KDE project must have felt that way, too, because one of the KDE Framework libraries, Analitza, provides syntax and widgets to enable you to perform advanced math functions with K apps like the graphing calculator KAlgebra.

Kristech announced a “Pigeon RB700” DIN-rail automation controller that runs Linux on the Raspberry Pi CM4 with GbE and 10/100 LAN, 3x or more serial, 8x DI, CAN, 1-wire, and optional HDMI, ADC, UPS, and dual M.2.

Kontron unveiled a 30 x 30mm “OSM-S i.MX8M Mini” OSM module with up to 4GB LPDDR4, which is available with a baseboard and a Linux BSP as the “BL i.MX8M Mini OSM” SBC. Iesy is prepping its own i.MX8M Mini and Rockchip PX30 based OSM modules.

Deci unveiled AutoNAC generated “DeciNets” models for Intel Cascade Lake CPUs claimed to be much faster and more accurate than other image classification models for CPUs. Meanwhile, Aaeon announced that the Hailo-8 NPU is available on its UP boards. Last July, Deci announced its DeciNets family of pre-trained image classification models, which are generated from […]

Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

ONLYOFFICE desktop app is an open-source office suite pack that comprises editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Zorin OS, an Ubuntu-based distro.

When I finish with a project, I often like to take all the files I've created for the project and put them into an archive. It not only saves space, but it gets those files out of my way, and prevents them from turning up as results when I use find and grep to search through files I consider current. read more

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform built using the Ruby language. It is designed to work as a forum, chat software or mailing list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Discourse Forum with the Nginx server on a Debian 11 based server.

A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they're seen as easy apps to create is because the frameworks provide so much of the code that's hardest to write. I think that's also the reason that most operating systems provide a simple desktop text editor. read more

Sharing a computer in a household is usually a pretty casual affair. When you need the computer, you pick it up and start using it. It's simple in theory, and mostly works. That is, until you accidentally grab the common computer and accidentally post screenshots of your server's uptime to your partner's cooking blog. Then it's time for separate user accounts. read more

Varnish cache is a free and open-source cache accelerator used to speed up your website by caching the content in memory. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Varnish 7 for Nginx on Rocky Linux 8.

Managers of open source communities have to be aware of the 5 levels of transparency that they can provide. These 5 levels of transparency are important for building a thriving open source community. This article describes each level, its goals, and why they are important.

Seco unveiled a Linux-ready “Icarus” Pico-ITX SBC and “Atlas” Qseven module built on Elkhart Lake with up to 16GB soldered LPDDR4-3200 IBECC and triple display support. Seco recently launched an Elkhart Lake-based “Halley” SMARC module. Seco Edge, the embedded unit of Italian hardware manufacturer Seco, has announced two products that run Yocto-flavored Linux or Win […]

Linux servers are everywhere. There's a good chance a number of your favorite websites are running on infrastructure that's powered by Linux, not to mention streaming services, social media platforms, gaming networks, the list goes on. The only thing more staggering than the number of Linux servers there are in the wild, is how many distributions you have to choose from.