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I was once asked why computers are called "computers" when they do so much more than compute numbers. A modern PC browses the internet, plays audio and video, generates beautiful graphics for video games and movies, simulates and predicts complex weather patterns and epidemiological risks, brings architectural and engineering blueprints to life, and much more. The reason computers can do all of this because all these problems can be expressed as numerical equations, and the computer's CPU—its central processing unit—is actually little more than a simple calculator. read more

Mozilla says Google's content-filter API doesn't meet developer needs, others agree. Firefox maker Mozilla on Thursday said it plans to mostly adopt Manifest v3, a controversial revision of the Chrome browser extension framework that Google undertook to address the glaring security problems in the browser.…

Git is a widely used OpenSource version control system for software development. It has been initially developed by Linus Torvalds and is e.g. used to manage the source code of the Linux kernel. In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Git on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Command line.

Teamviewer is a widely used utility for accessing and controlling a remote computer system. In this guide, we will see how to install TeamViewer on Ubuntu 20.04 system.  After the installation, we will install TeamViewer on an android device and connect to the remote desktop of our Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Arch Linux stands out in the Linux ecosystem because it is not based on any other distribution and yet it is well-known and extensively used by the community.

Faster Entity Framework, complete C++ 20 support in Visual Studio, but complications remain Build Microsoft has previewed Hot Reload for .NET development, enabling on-the-fly changes to source code that are applied to a running application. The company also set the date for the first production release of .NET 6: November 9.…

Transition interrupted by 'hostile takeover'. One of the bigger beasts of the Linux world, Ubuntu, has abruptly jumped ship to Libera Chat from the Freenode IRC network after what the Ubuntu Community Council described as a "hostile takeover" of its namespaces.…

Nice try, but package management will never work as well on Windows as it does on Linux. Microsoft has released Windows Package Manager 1.0, better known as winget, a command line tool for adding, removing and updating what is installed on the system.…

Is that a tuning Fork we hear? The saga of the Audacity takeover continued this week with the announcement of a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) by the project's new owners.…

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite that contains web-based viewers and collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations highly compatible with OOXML formats. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install ONLYOFFICE Docs on your Ubuntu machine using snap.

Elephant Robotics’ $699, 850-gram “MyCobot Pi” is a six-axis manipulation bot that runs Debian and ROS on a RPi 4B. The bot has a 250 g payload, 280mm range, and a LEGO connector for attachments including a suction pump and gripper. Elephant Robotics, which found success with its Arduino-on-ESP32 based, six-axis MyCobot M5 robot, has […]

Since its beginnings, the Fedora Project has used the freenode IRC network for our project communications. Due to a variety of recent changes to that network, the Fedora Project is moving our IRC communications to Libera.Chat. If you are a current IRC user, please go and register your nick(s) on Libera.Chat ( https://libera.chat/guides/registration#registering ) and […]

But you can pull down your dev environment from Docker. Is it solving a problem that doesn't exist, though? DockerCon Virtual DockerCon kicked off today, at which the company introduced Docker Development Environments, calling them "the foundation of Docker's new collaborative team development experience."…

Want to find out if someone's stolen your user IDs and passwords? Then you can use "Have I Been Pwned," and now the code behind it is being open sourced.

AppImage is a type of application package that can be run directly on Linux distributions without installation. Usually, users can immediately run this application by double clicking or right clicking and selecting the execute menu.

The Fedora Linux 32 operating system release has reached end of life and it is no longer supported by the Fedora Project with software or security updates.

COVID-19 accelerated changes in our behaviors that drove our lives increasingly online. Screens became our almost exclusive discovery point to the world. There were some benefits to this rapid shift. For many people, work was able to continue relatively uninterrupted at home, almost anything could be ordered online and delivered, and we were able to […]

Overwhelmed with the response we got on the previous article on how to test the bandwidth speed using command line tool speedtest-cli.py, this tutorial aims at providing you with the knowledge of setting your own speedtest mini server in 10 minutes.

Ardour 6.7 DAW application brings another point release with important new features, bug fixes. We summarise the release in this post.

Faster WebAssembly, and last stages of trial to test Trust Tokens. Google has released Chrome 91, and although there's little new on the surface, there are key changes for developers including WebAssembly SIMD, JSON modules, a Gravity Sensor API, and read-only access to files on the clipboard.…