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Variscite’s “VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS” and smaller “DART-MX8M-PLUS” modules run Linux or Android on NXP’s AI-enabled i.MX8M Plus with up to 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and optional dev kits. Variscite has launched some of the first embedded boards to support NXP’s i.MX8M Plus, an up to quad-core, Cortex-A53 SoC running at 1.8GHz and equipped with a 2.3-TOPs […]

The GNOME Project announced today that they've adopted a new versioning scheme for the next versions of GNOME desktop environment, starting with the next major release, which will be GNOME 40.

The popular GNOME 3.38 desktop environment is here. In this post, we take a look at the top 10 new features of the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment, and updates that are going to change your desktop experience in the coming days.

Part of the system administrator's job is to analyze the performance of systems and to find and resolve problems that cause poor performance and long startup times. Sysadmins also need to check other aspects of systemd configuration and usage. read more

Server hardware for Linux is just as important now as it was before the days of cloud.

The Raspberry Pi is a small, versatile device that makes interfacing with the real world a breeze for mere mortals. The Raspberry Pi Foundation's idea was to sell the devices at such a low cost that breaking one would be sad—but not a disaster. This is one reason it has been a massive success as an educational tool. But their usefulness has not escaped the business world, where they are becoming a valuable tool for automating the physical world. read more

For this week’s blog, Luke checks out how Snes9x performs on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. Snes9x is an emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System 16-bit home video game console.

Apache Spark is an open-source framework and a general-purpose cluster computing system. Spark provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R that supports general execution graphs.

Some things about the Ruby community have always impressed me. Two examples are the commitment to testing and the emphasis on making it easy to get started. The best example of both is Ruby Koans, where you learn Ruby by fixing tests. read more

Java is perhaps the most widely used programming language nowdays. It's robustness and platform-independent nature enables Java based applications to run on mostly anything. As is the case with any application, we need to store our data in some sort of reliable way - this need called databases to life.

It is easy to manage the startup applications in Ubuntu and clean out those apps/process that you don't need during boot up. Here's how to do it.

Python has incredibly scalable options for exploring data. With Pandas or Dask, you can scale Jupyter up to big data. But what about small data? Personal data? Private data? JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook provide a great environment to scrutinize my laptop-based life. read more

This article explains how to set up a static IP address on Ubuntu 20.04.

Avnet’s $72.50 “MaaxBoard Mini” SBC offers Linux and Android images to run on an i.MX8M Mini with 2GB DDR4, GbE, 4x USB 2.0, MIPI DSI- and -CSI, WiFi/BT, and 40-pin GPIO. A year ago, Avnet’s Embest unit launched a $60 MaaXBoard SBC featuring NXP’s i.MX8M. We missed the company’s July announcement of the promised, i.MX8M […]

There’s a new project out there providing a multi-boot/multi-distro image that lets you run no less than 13 different Linux distributions on the PinePhone Linux phone from PINE64.

Ever wanted to record whatever you played on your speakers directly to an MP3 file? Here is how you can record system sound in Linux.

Reduce the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.8 DVD ISO size for optimized delivery.

One of the most important things to do well in a modern enterprise is to collect company knowledge. Organizations need shared workspaces where individuals and teams can collaborate and share their experience and knowledge. This makes knowledge-management systems essential in today's agile environments.

Puppet is a free and open-source administration automation engine for Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Puppet server and agent on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Saidar is a simple, curses-based tool used to view system statistics and resource usage in real-time in Linux and Unix operating systems. It is part of libstatgrab library that can be used to access key system statistics including CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information.