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Phones used to act as the host for computer communication. Modems sent signals from computer to computer by utilizing the phone network. In today's world, though, computers have become the host for telephony apps. Phones aren't really phones any more, they're literal computers.

Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate. Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project's development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season.…

Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte. Obit Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.…

Earlier this month, AAEON released an IoT Gateway targeting industrial edge gateway applications, Industry 4.0 and machine learning applications. The SRG-IMX8P is equipped with two GbE ports, 2x CAN-FD, 2x RS232/422/485 and support for wireless connectivity. The product page lists the i.MX8M Plus from NXP as the RISC processor of the SRG-IMX8P IoT Gateway. NXP […]

T-Mobile recently launched their first developer kit designed to speed up the development of IoT applications that require “transmitting small amounts of data over long periods of time.” The DevEdge is powered by a Cortex-M4 processor, wireless connectivity, diverse sensors and it runs on a Zephyr-based SDK. According to the datasheet, the DevEdge Dev Kit […]

I love Christmas decorations and lights, and I'd been wanting to do an programmable LED project for a long time. Recently, I built a light array made of LED lights, ping pong balls, and a Raspberry Pi Zero. I thought it was worth sharing, because it ended up being relatively easy but also educational. It's mostly my own design, with some inspiration from YouTube videos. You can find the source code and build instructions in my Git repository.

What do you get the open source enthusiast that has everything? More open source, of course! We asked our community of contributors to share their favorite gift ideas. The end of the year is full of holiday spirit, but these gifts are perfect for any reason or season.

In this article, we will see how to create your first deployment on a Kubernetes Cluster using the kubectl command on the Linux shell.

OwnCloud is a free, open-source, and self-hosted file synchronization and sharing solution. In this post, we will show you how to install OwnCloud on Debian 11.

FileRun is a self-hosted file sync- and share web-based application. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install FileRun using Docker on your Linux server. We will also configure Elasticsearch to provide full-text search support.

Eclipse Mosquitto is a free and open-source message broker implementation of the MQTT protocol. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of installing and configuring Mosquitto MQTT Message Broker onto a Debian 11 server, setting up authentication, Securing Mosquitto via SSL/TLS certificates, and also enabling WebSockets on Mosquitto.

In this article, I’ll show you how to write an extension module. Instead of plain C, I use C++ because most compilers usually understand both. I have to mention one major drawback in advance: Python modules built this way are not portable to other interpreters. They only work in conjunction with the CPython interpreter. So if you are looking for a more portable way of interacting with C libraries, consider using the ctypes module.

In the Java programming language, an array is an ordered collection of data. You can use an array to store information in a structured way. It's useful to know the various ways you can retrieve that data when you need it. It's worth noting that in Java, an associative array (also called a dictionary in some languages) is called a hashmap. This article doesn't cover hashmaps, but you can read all about them in my Using a hashmap in Java article.

Automated testing is an important stage of development. It helps you ensure code quality, discover bugs before they ship, and guarantee that an application works the way it's intended to work. Deployment of automated tests is rapidly becoming a top priority for companies all over the world. The latest release of the Cerberus Testing platform offers a series of new features and improvements to allow you to easily set up automated tests for your software engineering team.

SolidRun recently unveiled an industrial-grade PC built around the AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor. The Bedrock PC comes with up to 4x 2.5GbE LAN ports, 2x 10GbE LAN ports, 3x M.2 2280 sockets and optional wireless connectivity. According to the product page, the Bedrock PC integrates the 6 nm Zen 3 Ryzen V3C48 processor: Ryzen […]

ownCloud is a software-suits for creating file-hosting services like Google Drive and DropBox. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure ownCloud on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

PowerDNS is a free and open-source DNS Server software. In this guide, we will show you how to install PowerDNS and the PowerDNS-Admin on a Rocky Linux system. We will run the PowerDNS with the MySQL/MariaDB database backend and set up the PowerDNS-Admin that will be used as the web-based management tool for the PowerDNS server.

For several years, I worked in the TV online and video-on-demand (VOD) industry. While working on a scheduler web application, I realized that there were no good solutions for electronic program guides (EPG) and scheduling. Admittedly, this is a niche feature for most web developers, but it's a common requirement for TV applications. I've seen and analyzed a number of websites that have implemented their own EPG or timeline, and I often wondered why everyone seemed to be inventing their own solutions instead of working on a shared solution everyone could use. And that's when I started developing Planby.

Mastodon is a free, decentralized, and open-source social network. It was created as an alternative to Twitter. Just like Twitter people can follow each other, and post messages, images, and videos. This tutorial will teach you how to set up your instance of Mastodon on a server with Rocky Linux 9 using Docker.

Earlier this month, Digi International launched the compact Digi XBee RR embedded platform which supports Zigbee 3.0, 802.15.4, DigiMesh and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The company is also offering the Digi IX15 IoT gateway/router to simplify IoT management.  There are two variants of this new IoT module, they are the Digi XBee RR and the […]