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Now Google reckons security isn't good enough, and Android is proprietary On the 30th anniversary of the announcement of Linux by Linus Torvalds, Red Hat has said that it worked because of the way the OS was licensed.…

Also: After over 10 years, last stable release of GNOME 3.x. The next release of the GNOME desktop, version 41, is now in beta and its features and API are frozen.…

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

Monitoring is one of the most important components of the server infrastructure in a data center. In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step how to install and configure Icinga2 with Apache2 and MariaDB on CentOS 8 server.

Terminal commands usually have options or switches, which you can use to modify how the command does what it does. Options are included in the POSIX specification for command-line interfaces. read more

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev A member of the Asahi Linux team has shown the GNOME desktop running on the Apple M1 chip, reporting that it is "not great, but usable."…

qBittorent is an open-source and freely available peer-to-peer bit torrent client. This article shows you how to install qBittorrent on an Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop.

Linus Torvalds also has fun medical advice about not whacking yourself with sharp objects. Version 5.14 of the Linux kernel seems set to debut next week, after a very calm development process.…

The iPhone and iPad aren't by any means open source, but they're popular devices. Many people who own an iOS device also happen to use a lot of open source, including Linux. Users of Windows and macOS can communicate with an iOS device by using software provided by Apple, but Apple doesn't support Linux users. Open source programmers came to the rescue back in 2007 (just a year after the iPhone's release) with Libimobiledevice (then called libiphone), a cross-platform solution for communicating with iOS.

Let's say you were writing a chess game in C. One way to track the pieces on the board is by defining a structure that defines each possible piece on the board, and its color, so every square contains an element from that structure.

Audio editor applications or digital audio workstations (DAW) were only used in the past by professionals, such as record producers, sound engineers, and musicians. But nowadays many people who are not professionals also need them. These tools are used for narration on presentations, video blogs, and even just as a hobby. This is especially true […]

Even though it's the future now and we're all supposed to be using e-ink and AR, there are still times when a printer is useful. Printer manufacturers have yet to standardize how their peripherals communicate with computers, so there's a necessary maze of printer drivers out there, regardless of what platform you're on. The IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG) and the OpenPrinting.org site are working tirelessly to make printing as easy as possible, though. Today, many printers are autodetected with no interaction from the user.

Inkscape can do much more than just generate nice graphics. This article will show how you can use Inkscape's G-Code Tools extension to convert your drawing to G-Code. You can then use the G-Code to program a plotter, engraver, or some other machine that does Computer Aided Manufacturing, Modeling, or Machining.

Uptime-Kuma is an open source monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot" written in Nodejs. It's a self-hosted monitoring tool with a fancy beautiful dashboard and supports multiple notifications methods.

UrBackup is an open-source and client/server backup system for Linux operating systems. It supports both file and image backups in a live system without interrupting current processes. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the UrBackup server and Client on Ubuntu 20.04.

Essential reading for developers in search of performance and efficiency. The forthcoming .NET 6 will be significantly faster than its predecessors, according to a monster post by Microsoft Partner Software Engineer Stephen Toub.…

This tutorial will show you how to take your first steps with Checkmk, a comprehensive IT monitoring system that identifies issues across your entire IT infrastructure. Checkmk monitors servers, applications, networks, cloud environments and many other systems.

Checking the battery status through GUI is easy. Hovering the mouse cursor over the battery indicator given in the Laptop task bar simply shows the battery level. But, did you know you can find the battery status through the Linux command line as well? Yes, there are some utilities in Linux that can be of help in this regard. This article explains 4 different methods of checking laptop battery status using the Linux command line. S

Stripped-down OS prepares to unroll the birthday bunting. Microsoft has updated its internal-use (and now public) container Linux, CBL-Mariner.…

InnoRoute has launched its “Real-Time HAT,” a HAT for Raspberry Pi 4 that enables support for TSN and other real-time protocols. The Artix-7 FPGA-based HAT supports TSN and PoE through its 3 GbE ports. InnoRoute has rolled out the Real-Time HAT, a HAT that brings Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) capability to the Raspberry Pi 4. At […]