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Open source drives businesses and organizations around the world. This year, Opensource.com authors published several outstanding articles about open source at work. Topics ranged from contributing to open source, to mentoring, and productivity. Here are five of my favorite articles about how open source can help your career and organization.

In this tutorial, you'll install Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging platform on a Debian 11 server. With this guide, you'll set up Mastodon with PostgreSQL as the database server and Nginx as a reverse proxy.

Not everyone uses the internet or digital assets in the same way. When some people think about accessibility, they only think of people with physical disabilities, which accounts for a portion of disabilities worldwide. According to the National Cancer Institute, 15-20% of people live with neurodivergence.

osTicket is an open-source and one of the most widely used ticketing systems by small and medium-sized businesses. It is a simple and easy-to-use web-based customer support portal that helps you to manage and track all tickets.

Introduction GitHub enables distributed and collaborative code development. To ensure software works correctly, many projects use continuous integration to build and test each new contribution before including it. The continuous integration service on GitHub is GitHub actions. Background GitHub offers testing on Ubuntu, macOS and Windows operating systems. However, there is a wide variety of […]

As the internet opens the planet into a world stage, inclusion should be at the forefront of how we design, build, and implement our ideas. With 15% of people self-identifying as disabled worldwide, that is far too many people to leave behind due to lack of accessibility. This includes permanent, temporary, episodic, and situational disabilities.

Lately, I have been paying closer attention to the changelogs I get from products and services when updates are needed.

The EdgeBox-ESP-100 is a rugged controller equipped with the ESP32-S3 SoC. This new product from SeeedStudio offers support for fieldbus solutions as 1x CAN Bus, 1x RS485. Ethernet LAN port, and other isolated peripherals. Unlike other SeeedStudio products from the Edge Series (i.e. EdgeBox-RPi-200/1000), the EdgeBox-ESP-100 integrates the following ESP32 SoC.  ESP32-S3 – Xtensa 32-bit […]

Rust is consistently voted one of the languages people most want to learn. In 2022, Opensource.com had a few articles to help you get started. Rust is a fairly new language, but it's grown quickly.

The scientific community builds upon open access and open information. Recalling the famous quote in a 1675 letter by Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The scientific community has built our collective knowledge of the world around us on the information shared by those who came before us, and that is still the case today.

Sipeed recently unveiled their latest embedded platform based on a RISC-V processor. The Lichee Pi 4A System-on-Module is compatible with a carrier board providing access to dual GbE LAN ports, display support, one microSD card, etc. According to the product announcement, the Lichee Pi 4A features the TH1520 System-on-Chip which consists of a Quad-core C910 […]

One of my favorite things about Python is that it's an actual language that's also useful as a teaching language.

This week, Lenovo released details about their upcoming consumer products including their newest IdeaCentre Mini PC. The Lenovo’s 01IRH8 will integrate Intel’s latest 13th Gen Processors, support for Gen4 SSD storage, Wi-Fi6 and other peripherals. Lenovo’s press release mentioned that this Mini-PC will support “up to next-gen Intel Core i7 processors.” To be more specific, […]

'Tis the season for holiday pies and tasty treats, so why not talk about every open source enthusiast's favorite hardware delight: the Raspberry Pi. This year, Opensource.com contributors put in work on how to use the Pi for all sorts of cool projects and use cases. (Did you see the one about creating your own holiday light display with ping pong balls?) From business solutions to just-for-fun projects, these articles will show you a brand new way to use the Raspberry Pi in your life.

When Twitter announced new ownership earlier this year, many people sought out alternatives to the proprietary social media platform. Mastodon, a decentralized open source platform, stepped into the spotlight of the mainstream. If you're looking to switch from Twitter to Mastodon, read Jessica Cherry's tutorial and check out my article about the key differences. For veteran Mastodon users, learn how to get the green checkmark with Seth Kenlon's guide using encrypted keys.

The PoESP32 is a compact module from M5Stack that is equipped with a RJ45 port with PoE (Power-over-Ethernet) support. The device can be used in applications that involve HTTP, MQTT and similar communication protocols.  The PoESP32 is offered with the following ESP32 SoC: ESP32-WROOM-32U — dual core (up to 240 MHz); 600 DMIPS, 520 KB […]

The Arducam Mega is a low-power camera compatible with any microcontroller that supports SPI protocol. This embedded camera is offered in 3MP/5MP variants and it supports a fully open-source SDK for software development.  According to the product page, the Arducam Mega should be compatible with any 3.3V and 5V microcontroller that supports SPI interface. The […]

The Zero Day Initiative originally rated this Linux 5.15 in-kernel SMB server, ksmbd, bug a perfectly awful 10.

A terminal is an application that provides access to the user shell of an operating system (OS). Traditionally, the shell is the place where the user and the OS could interface directly with one another. And historically, a terminal was a physical access point, consisting of a keyboard and a readout (a printer, long ago, and later a cathode ray tube), that provided convenient access to a mainframe. Don't be fooled by this "ancient" history. The terminal is as relevant today as it was half a century ago, and in this article, I provide five common file management tasks you can do with nothing but the shell.

The WaveShare RP2040 is an open-source embedded platform based on the Raspberry Pi 2040 microcontroller. This board is equipped with one 1.28” IPS LCD, one 6-axis IMU, various GPIOs and one connector for a 3.7V Lithium battery. As its name implies, the Waveshare RP2040 is equipped with the RP2040 microcontroller: Raspberry Pi RP2040 –  dual […]