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Qt Creator is the Qt framework's default integrated development environment (IDE) and hence the glue between Qt's rich set of libraries and the user. In addition to its basic features such as intelligent code completion, debugging, and project administration, Qt Creator offers a lot of nice features that make software development easier. In this article, I will highlight some of my favorite Qt Creator features. read more

Maybe call it backseat programming for now? GitHub on Tuesday unveiled a code-completion tool called Copilot that shows promise though still has some way to go to meet its AI pair programming goal.…

Go also called Golang is an open-source programming language developed by Google. It is used to build reliable and efficient applications. In this post, I will show you how to install the Go programming language on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim. Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system? read more

Remmina is a Remote Desktop Client that supports numerous protocols allowing you to connect to many remote systems. This full featured client program allows you to set up a shared folder, select the screen size and type of connection being used. There are many more options that give you the ability to customize your connection […]

OpenOffice can be used for creating and manipulating word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics modules etc. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of installing OpenOffice 4.1.10 on Fedora 34 Workstation OS.

PostgreSQL or Postgres is a powerful, open-source, relational database management system. This tutorial will demonstrate how to install PostgreSQL and phpPgAdmin on a Fedora 34 based server.

Plus great news for all seven of you: An ARM64 build of its software suite. Amid the unveiling of Windows 11 and the backlash over the frankly pisspoor way Microsoft handled the operating system's hardware requirements, the software behemoth quietly emitted a native ARM64 build of its Office cash cow.…

Aaeon’s Boxer-8521AI runs Linux on Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S processors. The 53mm-high low-profile box PC has 64GB of DDR4, 4x USB3.2 Gen 2, 2x GbE, and a full-sized Mini Card slot. Expanding once again its growing family of Boxer edge AI embedded computers, Aaeon has announced the Boxer-6642-CML that features a low-profile form factor […]

M1 support, interesting Azure integrations and RISC-V love among notable features. Linus Torvalds has released version 5.13 of the Linux kernel after a very smooth development process that required just seven release candidates.…

Nexcom adds 8-inch and 12.1-inch products to its Panel PC family. The new Bay Trail-based units provide wider operating temperatures, AR, auto dimming and more Gbit Ethernet ports. Neousys Technology has announced that three of its embedded computer series have been certified by Baidu as compatible with Baidu’s PaddleX development tool. PaddleX is a tool […]

Linux offers a lot of commands to help users gather information about their host operating system: listing files or directories to check attributes; querying to see what packages are installed, processes are running, and services start at boot; or learning about the system's hardware. Each command uses its own output format to list this information. You need to use tools like grep, sed, and awk to filter the results to find specific information. Also, a lot of this information changes frequently, leading to changes in the system's state. read more

Keeping program configurations separate from code is important. It enables non-programmers to alter configurations without having to modify the program's code. With compiled binary executables, that would be impossible for non-programmers because it not only requires access to source files (which we do have with open source programs) but also a programmer's skill set. Few people have that, and most people don't want to learn. read more

On Linux, you may be familiar with the standard Unix archive command: tar. There's a version of tar on FreeDOS too (and a bunch of other popular archive programs), but the de facto standard archiver on DOS is Zip and Unzip. Both Zip and Unzip are installed in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 by default. read more

Shlink is an open-source and self-hosted URL shortener written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Shlink on Ubuntu 20.04.

Image Builder is a tool that allows you to create custom OS images (based on the upstream project Weldr), and it’s included in the base repos so you can build images right from the start. You can use the command line or a Cockpit plugin, and it’s a fairly simple and straightforward process which allows […]

Chatwoot is an open source customer relationship platform built with Ruby and Vue.js. It was written from scratch to allow customer-relations teams to build end-to-end platforms for ticket management and support. This article looks at Chatwoot's architecture, installation, and key features. Chatwoot's architecture Chatwoot requires the following components to function properly: read more

The Large Hadron Collider is powered by Linux. Laptops on the International Space Station run on Linux. read more

Time-wasting commits called out as effort to burnish submission metrics. Last week, Linux kernel contributor Qu Wenruo scolded another code donor, Zhen Lei, for wasting kernel maintainers' time with unnecessary patches.…

Mozilla teams up with Princeton University researchers to enable crowdsourced science for public good; collaborates with research groups at Princeton, Stanford on upcoming studies. Your data is valuable. But for too long, online services have pilfered, swapped, and exploited your data without your awareness. Privacy violations and filter bubbles are all consequences of a surveillance […]