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(Circuit Cellar article) From preventive maintenance for appliances to voice-controlled lighting, the subsystems that comprise a modern Smart Home continue to evolve. Providing the building blocks for these implementations, IC vendors are keeping pace with specialized MCUs, sensors platforms and embedded software to meet diverse requirements.

In 1972, Dennis Ritchie was at Bell Labs, where a few years earlier, he and his fellow team members invented Unix. After creating an enduring OS (still in use today), he needed a good way to program those Unix computers so that they could perform new tasks. It seems strange now, but at the time, there were relatively few programming languages; Fortran, Lisp, Algol, and B were popular but insufficient for what the Bell Labs researchers wanted to do. read more

In this interview Swapnil Bhartiya, creator of TFiR, sat down with Shuli Goodman, Executive Director of LF Energy to discuss the role open source and the foundation is playing in helping the energy sector to embark on its own digital transformation and cloud-native journey. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe. Google's Chromium Project has acknowledged its growing interest in adding more Rust code to the mostly C++ Chromium codebase.…

Advantech’s AIMB-233 is a thin Mini-ITX SBC that runs Linux on 8th Gen Whiskey Lake CPUs. The board serves up 32GB DDR4 DRAM, triple HDMI displays support, 2x GbE, 8x USB, 3x SATA III and -20 to 70°C operation temp. Advantech has released its AIMB-233, a low-profile industrial-grade thin Mini-ITX SBC. The AIMB-233 is powered […]

Metabase is a free and open-source business intelligence tool that can be used to search data sets and display information. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Metabase on Ubuntu 20.04 with Nginx and Let's Encrypt SSL.

Audio components for your computer don’t always produce the quality of sound you want. For instance your laptop speakers may be a bit “tinny” sounding, or a set of speakers for your desktop may be too boomy for your room. Or if you use a desk or headset microphone, you may find that recordings you […]

Apache Cassandra's upcoming 4.0 release includes new features to help organizations monitor user activity in the database. These features provide a robust set of enterprise-class audit capabilities that can help companies meet their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), and other regulatory and security requirements.

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OnLogic’s new pair of Apollo Lake thin client systems come pre-integrated with the IGEL Linux OS. The ISL200 is an ultra-compact 82 x 34 x 115mm system, while the larger ISL200 has a rugged design with -25 to 70°C temp. range. OnLogic has released its first two systems as part of the new IGEL Ready […]

ABC is a human readable ascii representation of music notation.  John Chambers posted a brief history of ABC notation and there is a newer history by Chris Walshaw. Unlike MusicXML, which is designed for exchanging music between score editing and performance applications, ABC is designed to be directly edited by humans. I can type a […]

Already a big mover in Foundation projects like Presto, GraphQL, Osquery and ONNX, so why not go all-in? Facebook has upgraded its Linux Foundation membership and by doing so will assume a seat on the organisation's board.…

Software development can be a very complex process. As the code you write increases in size and complexity, it is important to keep it readable and easy to understand. In open source software development, many people collaborate on code with several interconnected and, quite often, frequently moving parts. This can make it hard for potential contributors to understand the codebases. read more

Red Hat agrees that edge computing is the future and it's getting ready for this next stage in cloud computing with its latest OpenShift release.

When the Linux 5.8 Release Candidate opened for testing recently, the big news wasn’t so much what was in it, but its size. As Linus Torvalds himself noted, “despite not really having any single thing that stands out … 5.8 looks to be one of our biggest releases of all time.” True enough, RC 5.8 […] The post Why Linux’s biggest ever kernel release is really no big deal appeared first on Linux.com.

In the past few years, developers have used RESTful web services over HTTP(s) to expose business functions using an API. The REST API uses server-driven fixed data responses, which means a developer (client) can't determine the result of a response. Instead, the server sends all the data back to the client, which is called over-fetching. The developer (client) needs to invoke multiple REST APIs after the first call until the client gets the required data, which results in under-fetching.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client will live.

Cannot infer an appropriate lifetime, indeed. Following Mozilla's announcement last week that it would restructure and cut 250 jobs, the Rust Project, which oversees the Rust programming language, on Tuesday said it plans to work with Mozilla to create a Rust foundation by the end of the year.…

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are two upcoming test days in […]

Angular is an open-source web application framework for building mobile and desktop web applications. It is written in TypeScript/JavaScript. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Angular on Ubuntu 20.04.