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In this tutorial, we will learn about Vagrant, vagrant boxes, vagrantfile, provisioning tools, how to install vagrant on Linux operating systems and finally learn a few basic vagrant commands to create and manage virtual machines.

Just bought the latest and greatest - and especially fastest - SDD? Or upgraded your phone's microSD memory card? Before you start using your shiny new hardware, you may want to run a performance check against the drive. Is the write and read speed up to manufacturer's specifications? How does your performance compare with that of others? Is that 1TB flash drive you bought on an auction site from China really as fast as the listing said it was? Let us find out!

This week’s blog looks at video recording on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. OBS Studio relies heavily on a PC's GPU. But the AWOW AK41 doesn’t have a dedicated graphics card. This Mini PC uses the Intel UHD Graphics 605, an integrated processor graphics unit from the Gemini Lake generation.

The Fedora Project is changing the default file system for desktop variants, including Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE, and more, for the first time since Fedora 11. Btrfs will replace ext4 as the default filesystem in Fedora 33. The Change is code complete, and has been testable in Rawhide as the default file system since early […]

Code-server is a Visual Studio Code (VS) that can be run remotely on the server and which is accessible through a web browser. It allows you to create and have a consistent development environment that can be accessed anytime and everywhere.

The KDE Project announced today a major update to the Plasma Mobile UI for Linux phones with a bunch of new applications and various other enhancements.

Avnet’s $73 “Monarch Go Pi HAT” integrates a Sequans Monarch Go LTE-M and NB-IoT modem and provides a interface for Click modules and the option to operate standalone via a micro-USB port. Avnet, which recently launched a Renesas ZMOD4410 Indoor Air Quality HAT, has followed up with another Raspberry Pi HAT, this time providing LTE […]

When working with lists in Python, you may sometimes need to reverse the elements of a list. Reversing a list means that the first element of the list becomes the last, the second become second-to-last, the last element becomes the first, and so on. To reverse a Python list in place use the reverse() method. If you only need to create a reversed iterator use the reversed() function.

When my wife added a tab-delimited text table as a layer in her GIS program, nine of her points got rejected. This was odd because the XY values in those records (UTM eastings and northings) were no different in format from all the other XY pairs in the table, and were well within the numerical range of the others as well. So why the nine rejections? I tried some tinkering on the command line to find out.

All things considered, OnionShare is an amazing open-source tool that lets you share files using the Tor Onion service. It should be an amazing alternative to all the cloud file sharing services. OnionShare is a free and open-source tool that utilizes the Tor network to share files securely and anonymously. Learn how to use this privacy tool in Linux.

Virtualization Tools, better known as Virt Tools, is a collection of six open source virtualization tools created by various contributors to make the virtualization world a better place. read more

Trenz has launched an open-spec, 99 Euro “ZynqBerryZero” pseudo-clone of the RPi Zero SBC with a Zynq-7010 Arm/FPGA SoC, a microSD slot, dual micro-USB, mini-HDMI, CSI-2, and 40-pin GPIO. Back in 2017, we missed the ZynqBerry SBC from Trenz Electronic, which combines a Xilinx Zynq-7010 FPGA SoC with a Raspberry Pi. Now Trenz has followed […]

Every few weeks, another security story appears saying how insecure Linux is. There's only one problem with most of them: They're fake news. The real problem is incompetent system administrators.

Documenting your work is about more than simply making your infrastructure reproducible.

Annie is an open source video downloader. It supports sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other sites (mostly Chinese) I’ve never used.

When Nathaniel McCallum and I embarked on the project that is now called Enarx, we made one decision right at the beginning: the code for Enarx would be open source, a stance fully supported by our employer, Red Hat (see the standard disclaimer on my blog). All of it, and forever. read more

A new version of the official Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) distribution for Raspberry Pi computers is now available to download, the first to switch to the Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series.

Manjaro is an up and coming Linux distribution that has recently overtaken some of the most popular and battle scarred distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, and others (at least according to DistroWatch). Once you've decided to download Manjaro and see what all the rage is about, we've got you covered in this beginner's guide, which will provide you with an introduction to the operating system and show you the first things to do once you've booted into Manjaro. If you're just looking to give Manjaro a test run, you can always install Manjaro in a virtual machine or create a dual boot system.

As more and more activities move online during the global pandemic, an increasing number of folks are looking for affordable and stable solutions to connect to their doctor, therapist, bank, college, and more. Many of the folks I've been working with are on limited incomes, and they're eager for any technical help they can get. read more

While the Firefox 80 web browser is making its way into the stable software repositories of some of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions out there, Mozilla already pushed the Firefox 81 release to the beta channel.