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Mathematics instruction has a bad reputation, especially with people (like me) who've had trouble with the traditional approach, which emphasizes rote memorization and theory that seems far removed from students' real world.
While teaching a student who was baffled by his math lessons, Peter Farrell, a Python developer and mathematics teacher, decided to try using Python to teach the boy the math concepts he was having trouble learning.
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How to Install Craft CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Craft is an open source CMS written in PHP which allows you to easily create and manage great-looking content, and to design and build exactly what you need.
Create your own video streaming server with Linux
Live video streaming is incredibly popular—and it's still growing. Platforms like Amazon's Twitch and Google's YouTube boast millions of users that stream and consume countless hours of live and recorded media. These services are often free to use but require you to have an account and generally hold your content behind advertisements. Some people don't need their videos to be available to the masses or just want more control over their content. Thankfully, with the power of open source software, anyone can set up a live streaming server.
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Chromium on Fedora finally gets VAAPI support!
Do you like playing videos in your web browser? Well, good news, the Chromium web browser available in Fedora gets a Video Acceleration API support. That makes video playback much smoother while using significantly less resources. A little bit of history Chromium with a VAAPI patch was already available on other distributions. But this was […]
Linux-driven i.MX ULL board drives $99 touch-panel kit
MYIR’s new “MYD-Y6ULX-HMI” dev board, built on a previous iMX6 ULL module, also drives a new $99 “MYD-Y6ULX-CHMI” 7-inch touch-panel display kit with a pre-installed Linux HMI stack and optional wireless add-on. MYIR has launched a $59 and up development board built around its MYC-Y6ULX computer-on-module, which runs Linux on NXP’s power-sipping i.MX6 ULL SoC. […]
Linux 5 is on the way
But even Linus Torvalds says it's not that big of a deal.
Aliases: To Protect and Serve
Here in the new year, we’re continuing our series on aliases. By now, you’ve probably read our first article on aliases, and it should be quite clear how they are the easiest way to save yourself a lot of trouble.
This is the last straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far
Redmond hits back: You (won't) pay for this. GitHub, the code storage and developer data gold mine acquired by Microsoft last year, has lowered the price it charges for private repositories from $7 per month to zero.…
Linux 5.0-rc1 Released, Scratch 3 and Raspberry Pi, Phoronix Test Suite 8.6-Spydeberg Milestone 1 Is Now Available, Elteria Adventures Coming to Linux and Chromium Now Supports VAAPI in Fedora
News briefs for January 7, 2019.
December top 10: Linux command-line tricks, CI/CD tools, Ansible how-tos, Kubeflow, and more
Opensource.com brought in 943,071 unique visitors who made 1,505,694 page views in December, a 40% year-over-year increase from December 2017. We published 93 articles last month, and welcomed 16 new authors.
IBM Began Buying Red Hat 20 Years Ago
Many interesting analyses have been and will be written about why
IBM bought Red Hat, and what it means for open source, Red Hat,
Ubuntu, cloud computing, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon, amongst other
things. But one aspect of the deal people may have missed is
that in an important sense, IBM actually began buying Red Hat 20
years ago...
Getting started with Pelican: A Python-based static site generator
If you want to create a custom website or blog, you have a lot of options. Many providers will host your website and do much of the work for you. (WordPress is an extremely popular option.) But you lose some flexibility by using a hosted solution. As a software developer, I prefer to manage my own server and keep more freedom in how my website operates.
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How to manage your media with Kodi
If you, like me, like to own your own data, chances are you also like to purchase movies and TV shows on Blu-Ray or DVD discs. And you may also like to make ISOs of the videos to keep exact digital copies, as I do.
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Linux reaches the big five (point) oh
Torvalds has run out of fingers and toes, so version 5.0 RC1 is here
Penguinistas, take heed. The kernel of your beloved OS has rung in the new year with a brand spanking new version number because... Linus felt like it.…
9 cheat sheets for Linux and open source
There are a ton of tasks you do every single day. Make it a little easier on yourself by downloading our cheat sheets.
See this list of all of them. Nine of our favorites are listed below.
Find the ones that speak to you and get started. Or, maybe you need to send a few virtual gifts to friends this year? Our cheat sheets make nice ones.
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How to Compile Brotli from Source on CentOS 7
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm. This tutorial shows how to compile Brotli compression library from source on CentOS 7 system.
2019 and the Strength of Open Source
Now that the various challenges and successes of 2018 are behind us, let’s look back at some of the year’s highlights and see what’s in store for 2019 here on Linux.com.
Open source space academy opens in Nairobi
Nairobi's Tunapanda Institute has been using open source tools to provide technology, design, and business training in East Africa since its inception in 2013. Next year the school will launch a "space academy" to inspire young people to think about some of the most critical challenges facing humanity on this planet and beyond.
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Open Source Summit Japan
Open Source Summit Japan is the leading conference in Japan connecting the open source ecosystem under one roof, providing a forum for technologists and open source industry leaders to collaborate and share information, learn about the latest in open source technologies and find out how to gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions.
Open-spec, i.MX6 UL based SBC features DAQ and wireless features
Technologic’s industrial temp “TS-7180” SBC runs Linux on an i.MX6 UL and provides extensive DAQ and communications features, with the latter including WiFi/BT, XBee, cellular, optional GPS and Ethernet with optional PoE. Technologic Systems has announced an engineering sampling program for a wireless- and digital acquisition focused SBC with open specifications that runs Debian Linux […]
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