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Shopware is the next generation of open source e-commerce software. This tutorial will walk you through the Shopware Community Edition (CE) installation on CentOS 7 system by using NGINX as a web server.

Prior to 2006, I had used only Windows. Around that time, there was a lot of anxiety about its upcoming successor to Windows XP, which at the time was code-named Project Longhorn. My colleagues and I all were dreading it. So, rather than go through all that trouble, I switched to Linux.

Before we get into the latest scary-virtual private network (VPN) news, lets do as Naked Security's Paul Ducklin advises and repeat after him:

I've been using and teaching Python for a long time now, but I'm always interested in increasing my knowledge about this practical and useful programming language. That's why I've been trying to expand my Python personal learning network (PLN), a concept that describes informal and mutually beneficial networks for sharing information. read more

News briefs for May 31, 2019.

KUnit has been seeing a lot of use and development recently. It's the kernel's new unit test system, introduced late last year by Brendan Higgins. Its goal is to enable maintainers and other developers to test discrete portions of kernel code in a reliable and reproducible way. This is distinct from various forms of testing that rely on the behavior of the system as a whole and, thus, do not necessarily always produce identical results.

Intel previewed a “NUC Compute Element” with Y- or U-series Core chips, RAM, and storage that can be embedded in laptops and other devices via a proprietary connector. It also showed off several new technologies including a Honeycomb Glacier laptop with a secondary screen on the keyboard. Intel, which went to the Computex show in […]

News briefs for May 30, 2019.

When we think about gates, we think about having something to protect. Gates are most often used to provide a physical boundary for the sake of security. They are made of metal, or wood, or plastic, and even sometimes they are made of software. They save us from uninvited risks of damaging something important to us. read more

Imago’s “VisionBox Daytona” machine vision computer runs Linux on a Jetson TX2 and offers 4G LTE plus dual GbE camera ports with PoE and triggers. Other recent, Linux-based Imago systems include an octa-core VisionBox Le Mans and an EdgeBox cloud server. Imago Technologies has released a variety of Linux-ready VisionBox machine vision systems in recent […]

In the first three articles in this series, we explored the general requirements of a Source-to-Image (S2I) system and prepared and tested an environment specifically for a Go (Golang) application. read more

Looking to do something meaningful this summer? How about helping a few young people take their first steps in an IT career? Such an opportunity fell into my lap a few years ago, and I don't see why it can't be reproduced on a much larger scale. read more

In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so cheap they weren't even called "programmers" and were in fact usually mathematicians or electrical engineers. Early computers were used to solve complex mathematical problems quickly, so mathematicians were a natural fit for the job of "programming." read more

Alan Davidson, Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security testified today on behalf of Mozilla before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy. The International Grand

News briefs for May 29, 2019.

Nvidia’s “Nvidia EGX” solution for AI edge computing combines its Nvidia Edge Stack and Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift platform running on Linux-driven Jetson modules and Tesla boards. Adlink unveiled four edge servers based on EGX using the Nano, TX2, Xavier, and Tesla. Announced at this week’s Computex show in Taiwan, Nvidia EGX is billed as […]

I'd like to introduce one of the more popular tools used for visualizing data within several scientific disciplines: ParaView. ParaView started as a joint project between Kitware, Inc., and Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 2000. The first public release was version 0.6, which came out in 2002. Since then, ParaView has become one of the most popular visualization packages for visualizing large data sets.

With the recent release of Fedora 30, Fedora 28 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status effective May 28, 2019. This impacts any systems still on Fedora 28. If you’re not sure what that means to you, read more below. At this point, packages in the Fedora 28 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. […]

Phorum is a PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the Phorum installation process on the CentOS 7 operating system using Nginx as the web server, MariaDB as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

This tutorial focuses on the installation and configuration of the powerful utilities sar and ksar on CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and shows how to automatically create PDF reports by using a simple shell script for easy daily monitoring of server resource usage.