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The first thing we usually do after waking up in the morning is to check our cellphone to see if there are important messages from our colleagues and friends. Whether or not it's a good idea, this behavior has become part of our daily lifestyle. "Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe."– Anatole France read more

WireGuard VPN, more Snap, and hints about a GUI for Windows Subsystem for Linux Canonical has unleashed Ubuntu 20.04, the first LTS (Long term support) release since 18.04, Bionic Beaver, two years ago, and its CEO and Ubuntu desktop chief have spoken a bit about what's under the lid.…

Git is the standard source code repository manager for open source projects and many closed source projects. This article shows new Git users how to do something slightly advanced but fundamental to its purpose: resolving a git-merge conflict.

Oslo outfit also unveils first stable release for Android. Chromium-based browser maker Vivaldi might have stirred a hornets' nest thanks to inbuilt ad blocking for both its desktop and mobile incarnations of version 3.0.…

Will things like digital contact tracing leave a legacy of better privacy norms, or worse ones? The conversation about privacy and the pandemic — and about the idea of digital …

Buttons hewn from battleship-grey stone the way they should be, right? From the department of Just Because You Could Doesn't Mean You Should comes the arrival of a CSS library to transport your HTML pages back to the world of Windows 98.…

The “Roqos Core RC20” router runs on an open source Debian 10 stack with VPN, DPI, IPS firewall, cellular redundancy, and other continually updated security services. The Atom E3845-based router is equipped with 802.11ac, 4G, and 4x GbE ports. Roqos has gone to Kickstarter to launch its latest Roqos Core router for the SOHO market, […]

NetApp is introducing an enterprise-class data service for stateful, cloud-native applications, which can work with any Kubernetes distribution.

EFCO’s “EGL8650” and “EGL8600” gaming computers run Linux or Win 10 on a Ryzen Embedded R1000 and offer triple 4K displays, gaming security, and in the case of the EGL8650, a JAMMA connector. There is also a V1000-based EGL8550 model. All around the world casinos are largely shuttered due to the coronavirus, but the slots […]

Mailtrain is a free, open-source and self-hosted newsletter application built from Node.js which supports MySQL/MariaDB database backends. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mailtrain newsletter application with Docker on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Sipeed’s $24.90 “Sipeed MaixCube” dev kit runs FreeRTOS or Linux on a Kendryte K210 RISC-V with 1TOPS NPU via Sipeed’s M1n module. The kit has a display, camera, mic, and battery plus Grove and Sipeed’s SP-MOD interfaces. Sipeed has gone to Seeed to open $24.90 pre-orders for a Sipeed MaixCube development kit based on its […]

Red Hat introduces its latest RHEL version that helps users to get the most from the hybrid cloud.

Websites are an excellent resource for open source software projects. A website provides an ideal opportunity for users to learn more about your project. Project websites can share additional information, screenshots, sample code, videos, and other resources that developers and users will find useful. If you are interested in starting your own website, this article is for you. read more

Gradle is a free and open-source build tool primarily used for Java projects. It helps you to automate, build and deliver software efficiently. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the Gradle Build Tool on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Aaeon is prepping a compact, Jetson Xavier NX-based “Boxer-8251AI” embedded PC based on a recent Jetson Nano-based “Boxer-8221AI.” Also in the works is a larger “Boxer-8240AI” system based on the AGX Xavier with 4x PoE ports. Aaeon has posted preliminary product pages for Boxer-8251AI and Boxer-8240AI embedded computers, which run Linux on Nvidia’s new Jetson […]

Using Python and some graphing libraries, you can project the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, and also display the total number of deaths for a country (this article uses India as an example) on a given date. Humans sometimes need help interpreting and processing the meaning of data, so this article also demonstrates how to create an animated horizontal bar graph for five countries, showing the variation of cases by date. Projecting confirmed cases and deaths for India This is done in three steps. read more

Survey shows preference for Linux, some aversion to Microsoft Azure The Go team's latest developer survey shows that most "Gophers" like the language but highlight poor debugging tools and lack of generic support as top issues for improvement.…

The spread of disease is a real concern for a world in which global travel is commonplace. A few organizations track significant epidemics (and any pandemic), and fortunately, they publish their work as open data. The raw data can be difficult for humans to process, though, and that's why data science is so vital. For instance, it could be useful to visualize the worldwide spread of COVID-19 with Python and Pandas. read more

IEI’s “IDS-310-AL” mini-PC for rugged signage applications runs Linux or Win 10 on an Apollo Lake SoC with triple HDMI displays, 2x GbE, 3x USB 3.0, SATA, mini-PCIe, and M.2. IEI has produced several compact embedded PCs based on Intel’s Apollo Lake SoCs, including the ITG-100AI with optional Myriad X VPU cards and the CANBus […]

Elastic Beanstalk is one of the "computer" services in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It allows us to easily manage and deploy applications. We don't have to understand or learn the services required to run our application. With Elastic Beanstalk, we only need to upload our application and Elastic Beanstalk takes care of the rest. Elastic Beanstalk supports applications developed in Java, .NET, Go, PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby.