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Users report disappearing docs. What will day four bring? Folk keen as mustard to get their hands on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update have reported files being mysteriously deleted by the upgrade.…

Genius is a calculator program that has both a command-line version and a GNOME GUI version. It should available in your distribution's package management system... the syntax is almost C-like.

While the internet has thoroughly transformed the availability of educational content for much of the world, many people still live in places where online access is poor or even nonexistent. Kolibri is a great solution for these communities. It's an app that creates an offline server to deliver high-quality educational resources to learners. read more

News briefs for October 5, 2018.

Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system which utilizes the publicly available spam list/ blacklists of malicious and suspicious trails. This tutorial shows the installation of Maltrail on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Fedora Classroom sessions continue next week with a session on Fedora Modularity. The general schedule for sessions appears on the wiki. You can also find resources and recordings from previous sessions there. Here are details about this week’s session on Tuesday, October 09 at 1400 UTC. That link allows you to convert the time to your timezone. Topic: Fedora […]

Contributing to open source projects such as OpenStack traditionally involves individuals and companies providing code contributions that add new features and fix bugs. For nearly two years, I’ve been running one-off OpenStack clouds for demonstrations and labs at user group meetings across the US, using hardware donated from bare-metal service provider Packet. read more

Autonomous cars and smart clothes look like a dud, though Huawei last year denied reports that it's developing its own mobile OS to lessen its dependence on US giants like Google.…

Enea has launched a real-time “Accelerated Linux” version of its Enea Linux distro that targets the Zynq UltraScale+. The dual-OS hypervisor solution combines Enea Linux with an SMP micro-kernel executive. In 2012, Swedish telecom-focused enterprise software vendor Enea, which is known for its Enea OSEck RTOS, launched a carrier-grade Enea Linux distribution, which combined its […]

Last month, the GNOME project announced the release of GNOME 3.30. The good news is that this new version of GNOME is default in the forthcoming release of Fedora 29 Workstation. GNOME 3.30 includes a range of new features and enhancements, including improvements to Files (nautilus), and the new Podcasts application. The great news is […]

It's odd that printk() would pose so many problems for kernel development, given that it's essentially just a replacement for printf() that doesn't require linking the standard C library into the kernel.

Driver snafu thrashes CPUs and guzzles batteries Barely a day into release and Microsoft has admitted there is a problem with its shiny new OS and chips from Intel.…

I know you are thinking, "Not another Agile 101 article!" We were, too. There are many resources that describe what agile is, talk about the history of the concept, and go into depth about why it is important. read more

The Linux command line offers many tools that are helpful for software developers. One among them is strace. The strace command in Linux lets you trace system calls and signals.

The physical ports on your computer allow communicate with peripheral devices such as your keyboard and mouse and to connect with internet devices via Ethernet cables. read more

In this two-part series, I will discuss how to import ideas from the functional programming methodology into Python in order to have the best of both worlds. This first post will explore how immutable data structures can help. The second part will explore higher-level functional programming concepts in Python using the toolz library. Why functional programming? Because mutation is hard to reason about. If you are already convinced that mutation is problematic, great. If you're not convinced, you will be by the end of this post. read more

AT&T will deploy 60,000 5G routers compliant with a newly released white box spec hosted by the Open Compute Project. The routers will run Vyatta NOS Linux which will morph into an open source DANOS platform. This week AT&T will release detailed specs to the Open Compute Project for building white box cell site gateway […]

Although there are a vast number of considerations (some common to traditional human-computer interfaces and some unique to spatial environments) that should be taken into account when designing for virtual reality (VR), there's one aspect of user interaction that particularly interests me as a developer: How should VR designers enable users to move within a virtual environment? VR is a spatial computer interface, and interacting with a spatial world means moving within it, which brings unique design challenges and opportunities. read more

Keep track of your system's uptime and downtime with the tuptime tool. tuptime reports the historical and statistical running and stopped time of your system, keeping track between restarts.

News briefs for October 3, 2018.