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Linux offers a number of solid offerings for music streaming, and I’ll highlight five of my favorite tools for this task. A word of warning, not all of these players are open source. But if you’re okay running a proprietary app on your open source desktop, you have some really powerful options. Let’s take a look at what’s available.

For years, modern workloads have shifted to the cloud, with AWS being the most popular. And although this shift has cut down operating costs significantly, millions, if not billions, of dollars still are wasted to maintain all those virtual instances—even when they are not in use. To help alleviate both the burden and headache of managing your cloud-hosted virtual machines, Taloflow built the Taloflow Instance Manager (Tim), which can reduce your expenditures by as much as 40%. Tim monitors your AWS resources and suggests automations that effortlessly save you money in real time.

A bit last-decade, but there are improvements – and it's free! While Microsoft was upending the scorn bucket on its own productivity tools, The Document Foundation shoved out an update of LibreOffice, replete with user interface tweaks and improved Office compatibility.…

News briefs for February 8, 2019.

Docker Registry or 'Registry' is an open source and highly scalable server-side application that can be used to store and distribute Docker images. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to install and configure a Private Docker Registry on a Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Allied Vision’s Alvium embedded cameras include 1500 (MIPI-CSI) and 1800 (CSI and USB3) models, both with On Semi sensors at up 2592 × 1944 and V4L2 drivers that support Jetson and i.MX6/8 dev boards. In November, Allied Vision Technologies GmbH announced its Linux-friendly Alvium 1500 and Alvium 1800 embedded and machine vision camera series. Now […]

How do you solve a problem like compliance? Microsoft has continued to buff its open-source halo by signing up to the OpenChain Project, which is aimed at simplifying the plethora of licences floating around the open-source community.…

Today Denelle Dixon, Mozilla COO, had the honor of testifying on behalf of Mozilla before a packed United States House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee in support of … Read more The post Mozilla Heads to Capitol Hill to Defend Net Neutrality appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo. Far from being just an arbitrary logo change, this process is being undertaken […]

Novasom has launched two Linux-powered, RPi-like SBCs — the Rockchip RK3328 based SBC-M7FT and Snapdragon 410C driven SBC-M8FT — plus an ESP32-based SBC-U1 board. Upcoming boards include Apollo Lake and RK3399 models. Bucharest, Romania based Novasom Industries has a wide range of Linux-powered SBCs, most of which were launched in 2018. Over the last month, […]

"It always seems impossible until it's done." —Nelson Mandela. read more

Microsoft: We know what we said then, listen to what we're saying now Oddly enough, for the second time this week, Microsoft has been spotted telling the world that its software is, er, not very good.…

It is 3 pm on a Friday afternoon. Why? Because it is always 3 pm on a Friday when things go down. You get a notification that a customer has found a bug in your software. After you get over your initial disbelief, you contact DevOps to find out what is happening with the logs for your app, because you remember receiving a notification that they were being moved. read more

If you want to get started or get ahead in your programming career, learning a new language is a smart idea. But the huge number of languages in active use invites the question: Which programming language is the best one to know? To answer that, let's start with a simplifying question: What sort of programming do you want to do? If you want to do web programming on the client side, then the specialized languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—in one of its seemingly infinite dialects—are de rigueur. read more

NodeBB is a Node.js based forum software built for the modern web. In this guide, we will walk you through the step-by-step NodeBB installation process on the Fedora 29 operating system by using Nginx as a reverse proxy, MongoDB as the database and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

Pine64’s 2019 line-up of Linux-driven, open-spec products will include Rock64, Pine H64, and Pinebook upgrades plus a PinePhone, PineTab, CUBE camera, and Retro-Gaming case. At FOSDEM last weekend, California-based Linux hacker board vendor Pine64 previewed an extensive lineup of open source hardware it intends to release in 2019. Surprisingly, only two of the products are […]

NextCloud is a free, open source and an alternative to another open source file hosting solution OwnCloud. NextCloud eliminates your need of using third party cloud hosting software like Dropbox for storing your documents. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure NextCloud on Debian 9 and secure it with a free Let's encrypt SSL certificate.

By joining OpenChain, Microsoft takes another big step forward in being fully open-source friendly.

Popular glue coding language sticks to everything. The Python programming language is now used more for data science than web development, according to a new survey.…

News briefs for February 7, 2019.