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Jitsi is a free and open-source chat, telephony, and video conferencing tool. It is a very good alternative to other tools like Skype, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. In this post, we will show you how to install Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

The STEPFPGA MXO2Core is a compact platform based on the Lattice MX02-4000 FPGA. The low cost device is loaded with several I/O peripherals and it’s targeted towards FPGA beginners. The STEPFGA costs around $46 through a Kickstarter campaign that already surpassed its funding goal.

For over three decades, Linux has been written in the C programming language. Indeed, Linux is C's most outstanding accomplishment. But the last few years have seen a growing momentum to make the Rust programming language Linux's second Linux language. At the recent Open Source Summit in Austin, Texas, Linux creator Linus Torvald said he could see Rust making it into the Linux kernel as soon as the next major release.

DNF (Dandified YUM) is a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions, including RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux. This article is a complete guide on using the DNF command in Linux to manage and maintain the software package base.

SRE is a valuable component in an efficient organization for software engineering, systems engineering, implementing DevSecOps, and more.

A look into the new Open Programmable Infrastrucutre project., DPUs/IPUs and similar technologies, and how they will improve cloud systems.

An in-depth review of the lightweight distribution Linux Lite 6 which is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and brings several important changes.

You might underestimate your Chromebook's capability to provide quality apps. The main reason for this is its lower hardware specs. However, it offers many features and supports productivity, communication, graphic design, social, and many other applications.

There's a lot of flexibility in how you install an application on Linux. It's partly up to the software's developer to decide how to deliver it to you. In many cases, there's more than one "right" way to install something.

A blog post calling for a boycott of the well-known 7-Zip compression app is attracting some discussion on Reddit. However, it seems criticism for Igor Pavlov and his FOSS compression app 7-Zip is somewhat overblown and may reflect the anti-Russian sentiment of the times.

Representative Jacobs’ office said that one of the bill’s intents is to protect women seeking abortions from the prying eyes of law enforcement in states where abortion is illegal.

Converseen, the image converter and resizer for Linux, is now available on Flathub as a Flatpak package in order to be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Let's see how to install it!

You are about to learn what a MAC address is, where they are stored, how they are assigned, the relationship between MAC addresses and IP addresses, and finally, how to get the MAC address of a network interface card.

The IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS is an IoT gateway made by Compulab that is based on the NXP i.MX.8M Plus System on Chip (SoC) for commercial or industrial applications. The device features dual GbE ports, Wi-Fi6/BLE 5.3 support, LTE 4G, GPS and many optional peripherals.

This nifty tool is all you need to install 3rd-party applications on Ubuntu using one command.

The mktemp command on Fedora-based systems and tempfile on Debian-based systems are specially designed to alleviate that burden by making it easy to create, use, and remove unique files.

Extension Manager is a small utility that lets you browse and install GNOME extensions without using a web browser. The utility auto-detects all installed GNOME extensions, including ‘system extensions’ that are already installed.

ulimit command is used by the administrator to limit hardware resources in a pool share and is mainly used by shared hosting providers to curb unwanted hardware resource usage by other tenants.

There are two types of limits that you can set on your Linux machine.

Hard Limit and Soft Limit

So, let’s see how you can enforce limitations on physical hardware for other users and what types of limitations you can implement on them.

Here learn about parted command in Linux with examples. Shows how to use it to create, delete, and resize partitions from storage disks on the system.

The first concerted effort to support accessibility under Linux was undertaken by Sun Microsystems when they decided to use GNOME for Solaris. Sun put together a team focused on building the pieces to make GNOME 2 fully accessible and worked with hardware makers to make sure things like Braille devices worked well. I even heard claims that GNOME and Linux had the best accessibility of any operating system for a while due to this effort. As Sun started struggling and got acquired by Oracle this accessibility effort eventually trailed off with the community trying to pick up the slack afterwards. Especially engineers from Igalia were quite active for a while trying to keep the accessibility support working well.