Showing headlines posted by bob

A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my Bash scripts, and I’d like to share some of them in hopes they can help others. Here is a collection of small scripts created to illustrate these simple examples.

Windows 7 is down to its last days. If you don't care for Windows 10, it's time to consider running Linux Mint instead.

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer. The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.…

Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

We run through updates to popular lightweight open-source distro. Hands on Linux Mint 19.3 was completed late last year and is a long-term support release with support until 2023, so we decided to put it through its paces.…

Aaeon’s “COM-WHUC6” Compact Type 6 module features Intel’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake UE with up to 8GB DDR4, up to 64GB eMMC, 3x SATA III, up to 5x PCIe, and 12x USB, including 4x USB 3.2 Gen2. Aaeon announced a 95 x 95mm COM Express Compact Type 6 module based on an Intel 8th Gen […]

Python is a high-level, object-oriented programming language known for its simple syntax. It is consistently among the top-rated programming languages for building RESTful APIs. read more

Some topics are very popular, no matter when they’re first mentioned. And Fedora Magazine has a few articles that have proven to be popular for a long time. You’re reading the last article from the “best of 2019” series. But this time, it’s about articles written before 2019, but being very popular in 2019.

Like almost everyone on the planet, I have a few social media accounts. I mostly stick to Facebook to stay up to date with friends and family and Twitter to follow a few other people. Have you ever wanted to make a post that includes italics or some other fancy formatting? You can easily change the text to italics or bold when you're writing an email, but most social media platforms don't provide many formatting options.

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight high-performance HTTP server that comes with a Web Gui administration interface. In this tutorial, I will guide you through the installation and configuration of OpenLiteSpeed and PHP 7.4 on CentOS 8.

At GitHub, Brian Douglas' official title is developer advocate, but the one he prefers to use is "Beyoncé advocate." This is partly because he views the 40 million GitHub users and the Beyhive, Beyoncé's enormous and passionate fan base, similarly. He says his role at GitHub is to "go to bat for the hive"—helping people answer questions and find resources to help them develop on GitHub better.

Not a day goes by that I don't see a tweet or hear somebody talking about burnout. Burnout is becoming a pervasive part of our lives, especially in tech and open source communities. Instead of treating burnout once it kicks in, we need to do more to prevent it in the first place. Here is a reminder of the cause and a look at solutions.

Our 2020 New Year’s edition SBC catalog shows a snapshot in time of hacker-friendly, open-spec SBCs under $200 that run Linux or Android. Below you’ll find updated descriptions, specs, pricing, and links for 136 SBCs. A lot has been going on in the world of community-backed SBCs over the seven months since our June 3 […]

Getting one software process to talk to another software process is a delicate balancing act. It can be a vital function for an application, though, so it's a problem any programmer embarking on a complex project has to solve. read more

This is part 10 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are: read more

Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says Special report Last year, lawyer Van Lindberg drafted a software license called the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) on behalf of distributed development platform Holo – and submitted it to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an Open Source Definition-compliant (OSD) license.…

Rust has drawn plenty of attention from programmers on sites like Hacker News for a while. While many have long loved using the language for hobby projects, it didn't start catching on in industry until 2019, when this really started to change.

Gitea is a code hosting web application written in Go. As its name suggests, it is designed to be used with the popular source control program Git, similarly to Gitlab and Github. This guide will explain the installation of Gitea on CentOS 8 with an Nginx HTTPS reverse proxy.

Historically and theoretically speaking, a decade, a century, or a millennium starts when the clock turns midnight on January 1 of the year one of its decimal order. For example, the 20th century started on January 1, 1901, not on January 1, 1900. The reason for this is simple: there is no year 0 in our modern calendar, so these periods of time start on year 1 (using the Gregorian calendar). But that's not how we refer to time periods colloquially and culturally; for example, when we mention '80s music or movies, we're talking about the period from 1980 to 1989. read more

I'm not quite dead, mutters 2.7 as rigor mortis sets in With the arrival of 2020, the Python Clock has stopped ticking, marking the end of development for the Python 2 programming language.…