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Everyone has a favorite tool for any given job. For programmers, the building process is often a relatively brief job in their workflow, but it's the one that really matters. After all, without compiled code, there's nothing to distribute to users. And different compilers have different features and—whether or not there's a bug about it—quirks. Compilers matter.
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New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream
Want a peek at what's coming in Red Hat? Step this way. CentOS has told devs that they can now get stuck into Stream, a new Linux distro it built with code planned for the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).…
How to install and configure OpenVPN Server on Debian 10
OpenVPN is open-source software that can be used to access the internet securely when connected to an untrusted network. In this tutorial, we will explain how to setup OpenVPN server on Debian 10 server.
$60 Raspberry Pi mimic showcases i.MX8M
Embest’s $60 “MaaxBoard” SBC runs Yocto Linux or Android 9.0 on a quad -A53 i.MX8M with 2GB to 4GB DDR4, 4K playback, and a Raspberry Pi-like layout and 40-pin header. There’s also an upcoming i.MX8M Mini based model. Embest, a Chinese manufacturer that flipped over to Avnet when it acquired Premier Farnell, has begun selling […]
What does an open source AI future look like?
The recent announcement about Neuralink, Elon Musk's latest startup, added to the buzz already in the air about where tech is taking us in the not-so-distant future. Judging by its ambitious plans, which involve pairing computers wirelessly with the human brain, Neuralink demonstrates that the future is now.
10 counterintuitive takeaways from 10 years of DevOpsDays
Ten years ago, we started an accidental journey. We brought together some of our good friends in Ghent, Belgium, to discuss our agile, open source, and early cloud experiences.
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How to contribute to Fedora
One of the great things about open source software projects is that users can make meaningful contributions. With a large project like Fedora, there’s somewhere for almost everyone to contribute. The hard part is finding the thing that appeals to you. This article covers a few of the ways people participate in the Fedora community […]
The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available
Linux pioneer Gaël Duval's /e/ OS is still in beta but it's available for your smartphone or on refurbished Samsung smartphones.
5 tips for GNU Debugger
The GNU Debugger (gdb) is an invaluable tool for inspecting running processes and fixing problems while you're developing programs.
You can set breakpoints at specific locations (by function name, line number, and so on), enable and disable those breakpoints, display and alter variable values, and do all the standard things you would expect any debugger to do. But it has many other features you might not have experimented with. Here are five for you to try.
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Firefox and Tactical Tech Bring The Glass Room to San Francisco
After welcoming more than 30,000 visitors in Berlin, New York, and London, The Glass Room is coming to San Francisco on October 16, 2019. From the tech boom to techlash, …
Tiny USB stick SBC features dual crypto chips
F-Secure’s security-focused, open-spec “USB armory Mk II” USB stick SBC runs Linux on an NXP i.MX6 ULZ with dual crypto chips, 16GB eMMC, dual USB Type-C ports, and Bluetooth 5.0. Since Inverse Path launched its security-oriented USB Armory USB-stick back in 2014, we have not seen anything quite like it until this week when a […]
3 open source social platforms to consider
It is no mystery why modern social media platforms were designed to be addictive: the more we consult them, the more data they have to fuel them—which enables them to grow smarter and bigger and more powerful.
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Leave GNOME alone: This patent troll is asking for trouble
Sure, anyone can sue anyone, but winning this intellectual property lawsuit against the GNOME Foundation, a leading open-source and Linux non-profit group, will be a heck of a challenge.
How to Install Vanilla Forum with Nginx and Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD 12
Vanilla is a free, open-source discussion forum written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Vanilla Forum on FreeBSD 12 by using Nginx as the web server, MariaDB as the database server, and optionally you can secure the transport layer by using acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support.
Mutation testing by example: Evolving from fragile TDD
The third article in this series demonstrated how to use failure and unit testing to develop better code.
While it seemed that the journey was over with a successful sample Internet of Things (IoT) application to control a cat door, experienced programmers know that solutions need mutation.
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Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar and begin new project to work in Unison
It's not a joke, it's a programming language tuned for distributed systems
At the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis, Missouri, earlier this month, Paul Chiusano, founder of Unison Computing, gave the audience a tour of Unison, an emerging programming language designed for building distributed systems.…
Raspberry Pi health monitoring HAT adds ESP32 and battery for wearables mode
ProtoCentral’s open source “Healthy Pi v4” HAT for vital sign monitoring advances from the v3 model with an ESP32 SoC with WiFi AP and BT-BLE and a battery for portable use including a wearable mode without a Raspberry Pi. In 2017, Bangalore, India-based ProtoCentral launched its HealthyPi v3 HAT for the Raspberry Pi for low-cost […]
Red Hats what you get with it
The new "free" major Linux server operating system is here.
Fairytale for 2019: GNOME to battle a patent troll in court
Linux darling faces the lawyers over Shotwell shenanigans. The GNOME Foundation, maker of the eponymous Linux desktop, has been hit with a sueball over how its Shotwell photo manager, er, manages photos.…
The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future
Systemd-managed home folders are secure, portable, extensible... albeit with broken SSH login
All Systems Go Systemd inventor Lennart Poettering told the crowds at the All Systems Go Linux user-space event in Berlin he intends to reinvent home directories to fix issues with the current model that are otherwise insoluble.…
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