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A good photo can be a powerful thing. It expresses what you saw in a very literal sense, but it also speaks to what you experienced. Little things say a lot: the angle you choose when taking the photo, how large something looms in the frame, and by contrast the absence of those conscious choices.

Almost exactly a year after we last covered it, an experimental version of LibreOffice compiled to WebAssembly (nicknamed LOWA) has appeared. Be warned, it's about 300MB, so it takes a while to load, but you can try it here in your browser.

I decided to run Kanboard, an open source project management application, in a rootless Podman pod as a small weekend project. The pod consists of three containers, an infra-container, a kanboard-container, and a postgresql-container. That deployment went well, but eventually, the image I used for the postgresql-container became deprecated, meaning it was no longer receiving updates. It was time to move to a different image, but that meant migrating a database between containers.

When you want to try a new app on your phone, you open your app store and install the app. It's simple, quick, and efficient. In this model of providing applications, phone vendors ensure that you know exactly where to go to get an app, and that developers with apps to distribute know where to put their apps so people can find them.

The GNOME Project has announced that it's retiring the Clutter library, the tool that bought OpenGL-based hardware rendering to Linux in 2006. Clutter was originally written by now-Intel subsidiary OpenedHand and in its day was a widely used library, enabling GObject-based C code to draw user interfaces using OpenGL.

OSS-Fuzz is a free service that continuously runs fuzzers for open source projects. This GitHub repository manages the service and enrolling in it is handled by pull requests. Once a project has integrated with OSS-Fuzz, the fuzzers affiliated with that project run daily—continuously and indefinitely. OSS-Fuzz emails maintainers when a bug is found and also has a dashboard with details about all issues found (stack traces, artifacts for reproducing issues, and so on).

Are you using Fedora Silverblue or Fedora Kinoite and looking for some ideas about what you can try out on your system? This article might inspire you and help get you started.

Grafana is a free and open-source data visualizing tool that is used to monitor metrics from other hosts. In this post, we will show you how to install Grafana 8 on Debian 11.

Nebulon has integrated its smartInfrastructure platform with Red Hat's Ansible software – including a set of modules that allow users to automate Nebulon infrastructure deployment and management by using Ansible Playbooks.

SSHFS (SSH File System) is an implementation of a File System in User Space (FUSE) that enables clients to mount remote filesystem over SSH connection. In this tutorial, you will learn how to mount a remote directory in a secure way using the SSHFS between two Linux machines (client and server). This guide also includes how to set up chroot on SSHFS that will prevent users from accessing other users' directories.

Today, Valve has confirmed that iFixit will be their official partner for getting replacement parts for the Steam Deck. Plus, there's a teardown video.

The Linux Foundation recently published findings on The State of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and Cybersecurity Readiness, conducted in late 2021. Jason Perlow, LF editorial director, spoke with Stephen Hendrick, vice president of Research, who led the empirical study and quantitative analysis to understand the extent to which the world was implementing cybersecurity standards and what actions need to be taken now.

DFI unveiled a Linux-friendly “EHL Series” of embedded products based on Intel’s Elkhart Lake, including the “ED700-EHL” industrial computer, “EHL9A2” Mini Type 10, and “EHL7000” Qseven module.

Finally released earlier this month was the first official 64-bit build of Raspberry Pi OS, the official Debian-based operating system of the low-cost Raspberry Pi single board computers. Following that I posted some Raspberry Pi 32-bit vs. 64-bit benchmarks. Given that generated a fair amount of interest and also some open questions, here is round two of looking at the Raspberry Pi 32-bit vs. 64-bit performance including its impact on memory usage and thermals.

Distributed SQL and cloud computing have made relational more relevant than ever, says MariaDB. Paid feature In a technology industry as complex as this one, it pays to keep things simple where you can. Databases are no exception. So why are cloud service providers offering multiple databases for different tasks when one used to be enough?

Seco Edge has launched a “Pictor” mini-PC that runs Linux on a Rockchip RK3399 via Seco’s 3.5-inch “Solon” SBC. Features include 4GB LPDDR4, optional 64GB eMMC, 2x CAN, HDMI 2.0a, and 4x USB, including a USB 3.0 Type-C with DP.

KDE is well-suited for terminal-based calendaring on Linux. The konsolekalendar command lets you view and manage an iCal calendar from the terminal.

Linux is an ever-evolving family of operating systems. Here are some of the desktop advancements you can expect to see in Linux in 2022.

The Podman team has added many cool new features to Podman that you might not be aware of. So, this is the first in a series of articles that cover some of the large and small features that make Podman great.

The OpenMandriva project last week released a new version: OpenMandriva LX 4.3 for x86-64 and ARM64 hardware. OpenMandriva is a continuation of the Mandriva Linux distro, but not the only one. The Register rounds up the siblings.