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I found Codium, a community project built around VS Code. Now I want to share the VS Codium experience with my students and open their understanding of Python beyond the Turtle module. This zest for learning has me looking for training resources that are open source and freely available on the internet.

A few years ago, I was working on a project, and I couldn't use Perl due to these limitations. I needed a new language. That's when I found Go.

A few days ago, Orange Pi announced their new Single Board Computer based on the Octa-core Rockchip RK3588S SoC. Starting at $60, the new Orange Pi 5 includes up to 32GB RAM, 8K@ 60fps display support, one M.2 module for NVMe SSD. The new Orange Pi 5 implements the 8nm Rockchip RK3588S seen in other […]

Like many people, I find social media somewhat exciting and also...a bit much. Sometimes you get deep-fried in algorithms, tracking data, and ads catered especially for you. You lack administrative control over what you want to see, especially on the old platforms many of us are used to. As usual, you must look to open source to fix the problem. And that's exactly what Mastodon, an open source microblogging community, does.

Nessus is an open-source network vulnerability scanner for vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. In this guide, you will install Nessus on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. You will also learn how to set up the Nessus command line 'nessuscli' which allows you to manage Nessus from the command-line terminal.

If RHEL is at the heart of your business, then this latest upgrade might be just what you need.

Zram was originally called "compcache," which stands for "compressed cache." It turns out that zram is a tool for creating an in-RAM compressed cache, specifically for use as swap space. But Why?

The market-leading content delivery network has big plans for Linode's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud.

Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff. Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've got what it takes.…

The Arduino Opta is an embedded platform featuring STM32 STM32H747XI dual-core Cortex M7+M4 MCU for real time industrial applications. The device is offered in three variants which combine ethernet, RS485 support and wireless connectivity in addition to relays and 12-24V DC inputs. There are three Arduino Opta variants available, the Opta Wi-Fi, the Opta RS485 […]

The LOMP Stack is a popular software suite to deliver web applications. LOMP stands for Linux as the operating system, OpenLiteSpeed as the web server, MySQL/MariaDB as the database server, and PHP for the backend of applications.

If you're looking for a good, general-purpose, open source code editor with Python integration, then you might give Codium a try. Here's how I got Codium set up for Python on my Linux system.

Joy Cho is the founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand and design company Oh Joy! For two years in a row, she was named one of Time’s 30 Most Influential People on the Internet and has the most followed account on Pinterest with over 15 million followers. You can also follow her on […]

Hardkernel just launched a new Odroid board based on the S922X hexa-core SoC. The Odroid-N2L doesn’t include ethernet support, but it comes with up to 4GB of LPDDR4, one 4K@60Hz HDMI, 40 I/O pins via expansion header and an eMMC connector. Unlike the RK3568B2 based ODROID-M1 also released this year, the N2L features the 12nm […]

LibreNMS is a monitoring tool that supports auto-discovery with multiple protocols, including SNMP, ARP, OSPF, and BGP. In this guide, you will learn how to install the LibreNMS monitoring tool on the Rocky Linux server. This guide includes the installation of the LEMP Stack (Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM) and the basic configuration of the SNMP service.

Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects Ubuntu Summit Canonical remains committed to its Snap format as the coverage at its first public gathering in a few years shows.…

When you're a systems administrator, you tend to spend a lot of time in a terminal window. It's a direct and efficient interface to your local machine, to remote machines, the network, the Internet, and everything else, so it's usually the easiest and most sensible way to do a lot of things to a lot of computers at once. And when you spend all day in a terminal, you understandably start to question whether you actually need a desktop at all.

Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is an open-source and powerful business management software. Odoo works as a central application that allows you to manage business-related tasks from one single web application dashboard. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Odoo 14 on the Debian 11 Bullseye.

Having just switched work laptops last December, I realized how much I love applying stickers to my work machines. Sometimes the stickers are souvenirs from past events, others are from projects that I am passionate about, and some are just for fun! Curious to know what others had on their laptops, I asked!

Relational databases don't work well with time-series data. This tutorial shows you how to use InfluxDB to analyze data that is gathered over time.