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Besides firing most of Twitter's technical staff, new owner and CEO Elon Musk has dropped support for Twitter's open-source efforts.

I joined Mozilla in 2017 as an accessibility engineer and soon became the tech lead for accessibility. But for years prior, I was already deeply involved with the company. I co-created NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) in 2006, a screen reader for blind and vision impaired people like me. We wanted to make Firefox and NVDA […]

Mastodon permits its users to self-verify. The easiest method to do this is through a verification link. For advanced verification, though, you can use the power of shared encrypted keys, which Mastodon can link to thanks to the open source project Keyoxide.

Progress with the SPDX Python tools Discussions regarding the development and direction of the SPDX Python tools often happen in the weekly meetings or smaller rounds and are not always visible to interested parties. This blog post intends to fill this gap, providing a condensed version of what was done and what is to come. […]

Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 Linus Torvalds has announced an eighth release candidate for version 6.1 of the Linux kernel.…

Last week, iBASE released a fanless Mini-PC based on the quad-core i.MX 8M Plus processor from NXP. The ISR215 also includes one HDMI 2.0 port,  M.2 Key-B (3052) for 5G connectivity and it can be configured with up to 4GB LPDDR4/128GB eMMC.  The i.MX 8M Plus quad-processor was recently seen in a similar rugged PC […]

The X File Explorer (Xfe) file manager ... doesn't feature fancy animations or effects, and it has few dependencies beyond some basic libraries, most of which are probably already on your Linux system.

The Sipeed M1s is a compact module integrating the Bouffalo Lab BL808 RISC-V SoC module along with a NPU. The device also provides WiFi/BL, 802.15.4 Zigbee connectivity and support for interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, etc. The Bouffalo Lab BL808 SoC was also seen on the Ox64 embedded platform that was also released not […]

Minisforum recently launched a mini-PC powered by the 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H processor. The NAD09 is offered as barebone or it can be configured with up to 64GB DDR4 and 2TB SSD. Additionally, the NAD9 Mini-PC includes 1x GbE LAN port, 4x displays supporting 4K@60Hz, 2x 2.5” SATA slots, etc.  Similar to the Morefine […]

Computers are fancy filing cabinets, full of virtual folders and files waiting to be referenced, cross-referenced, edited, updated, saved, copied, moved, renamed, and organized. In this article, I'll take a look at a file manager for your Linux system.

Banishing memory safety bugs cuts critical vulnerabilities Google has been integrating code written in the Rust programming language into its Android operating system since 2019 and its efforts have paid off in the form of fewer vulnerabilities.…

Those of us who support open source project communities are often asked about usage metrics — a lot. The good news is that there are approximations and alternative metrics that can satisfy your thirst for knowledge about the software's usage, at least partially. This article explores these alternatives including their benefits and shortcomings.

Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for processing and storing big data. In this tutorial, we will install the latest version of Apache Hadoop on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. Hadoop gets installed on a single node server and we create a Pseudo-Distributed Mode of Hadoop deployment.

The ARMedOne is a carrier board in E-ATX form-factor that can handle popular SO-DIMM computer modules like the Raspberry Pi CM3/CM4, Jetson Nano/Xavier/TX2 NX, NXP iMX8, etc. The product is expected to be released around mid-December 2022 on Kickstarter. The ARMedOne is a PC/Server mainboard capable of housing up to 28 computer modules from Raspberry […]

Computers are fancy filing cabinets, full of virtual folders and files waiting to be referenced, cross-referenced, edited, updated, saved, copied, moved, renamed, and organized. In this article, we're taking a look at a file manager for your Linux system.

Flask is a microframework written in Python for developing modern web applications and API (Application Programming Interface). In this tutorial, we will show how to install and configure the Flask Python Web Framework with Gunicorn and Nginx on the Rocky Linux server. You will also learn how to set up Supervisord as a process manager for managing the Python Flask application.

This article is part of a series of articles that takes a closer look at Btrfs, the default filesystem for Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue since Fedora Linux 33.

The Archer AXE300 from TP-LINK is a Quad-band Wi-Fi6/6E router supporting up to 15.6Gbps, OFDMA and MU-MIMO technology to provide fast connectivity to several devices at the same time. The device is also equipped with 4x GbE LAN ports, 1x 2.5Gbps WAN/LAN port and 2x 10Gbps WAN/LAN ports. The product page specifies that the Archer […]

With JavaScript’s 27th anniversary approaching in just a few days, we at Opensource.com are reflecting on how it has evolved into one of the most commonly-used programming language in the world. Why is it so popular? JavaScript is a universal language beloved by developers of all levels from beginners to advanced users. It can run anywhere from your phone to your server. And of course, there are the frameworks.

Nessus is an open-source network vulnerability scanner for vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and ethical hacking. It uses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) architecture and is one of the most comprehensive vulnerability scanners on the market. This guide describes how to install Nessus Security Scanner on the Rocky Linux server. Also, this will helps you to set up the Nessus CLI that allows you to manage Nessus via the terminal command line. And lastly, this also describes how to scan the server with Nessus.