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A long time ago, when I was but a budding computer programmer, we used to work in large batches. We were each assigned a programming task, and then we'd go away and hide in our cubicles and bang on the keyboard. I remember my team members spending hours upon hours in isolation, each of us in our own cubicle, wrestling with challenges to create defect-free apps. The theory was, the larger the batch, the better the evidence that we're awesome problem solvers. read more

Touche is a new desktop application to configure Touchegg, a multi-touch gesture recognizer for Linux.

Join Fedora 6-7 February at the virtual FOSDEM 2021, the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting.

ScreenCloud is a screenshot tool that’s designed for network services such as Dropbox and Imgur. It’s open source software that uses Qt.

QR codes are an excellent way to provide information to people without the trouble and expense of printing it. Most people have smartphones that support QR code scanning, regardless of the operating system. read more

Filmulator is an open source raw photo editing application with library management focusing on simplicity, ease of use and streamlined workflow.

Itanic sinks further beneath the waves The Linux kernel will no longer support Intel Itanium processors following a decision by Linus Torvalds to merge a patch marking the architecture as orphaned.…

The Debian Electronics Team announced today that the popular Arduino IDE for programming AVR microcontrollers is now again maintained in the software repositories of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

Pantheon is the default desktop environment for the elementary OS. This quick guide explains the steps to install the Pantheon desktop environment in Arch Linux.

Set the hostname on your Linux systems by using the hostnamectl command.

Jelly is a free and open-source multimedia application to manage and stream your movies and songs over the internet. If you love watching movies like me and always traveling with a smartphone having low storage space limits you with the number of movies you can watch. Join me to setup Jellyfin on my system.

XaLogic’s $38, open-spec “K210 AI Accelerator” HAT for the Raspberry Pi provides a Kendryte K210 SoC with 0.5-TOPS NPU for edge AI camera applications. The HAT also supplies a Trust-M security chip. Singapore-based XaLogic has gone to Crowd Supply to fund a pHAT sized, Kendryte K210 based HAT for low-power machine vision on the Raspberry […]

2DayGeek: This quick article show you how to edit pdf files in Linux using LibreOffice Draw.

Ubuntu Desktop Director and Ubuntu MATE maintainer Martin Wimpress announced earlier on Twitter that the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will get a brand-new installer.

IEI’s Linux-ready “IDS-310AI” mini-PC for AI-enabled digital signage combines an Apollo Lake SoC with dual Myriad X VPUs and offers a 128GB SATADOM, 3x HDMI, 3x USB, 2x GbE, COM, and M.2. Last week we reported on Nexcom’s compact NISE 52 IoT gateway, which features 3x HDMI ports with 3x GbE ports. Now, as announced […]

The Elasticsearch and Kibana license change may have less to do with alleged abuse by AWS than Elastic's public statements would have you believe.

Existing open-source PDF readers such as Evince or Okular come with limited editing capabilities such as PDF annotations, but do not allow you to add your signature to a PDF document. This tutorial demonstrates how to add a signature to a PDF document using an open-source Linux tool called Xournal.

Python can be used to generate from simple to very complex graphs. In this segment, we’ll learn how to graph using python.

Pop!_OS and Ubuntu are both popular Linux distributions, each of which has their pros and cons, differences, and similarities to the other. In this guide, we'll be comparing the two distributions across a few key areas and giving a brief review of both distros. Read on to learn more about Pop!_OS and Ubuntu, and how they compare. By the end of this article, you'll be armed with enough information to choose the best distro for your needs.

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to the final day of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021. Here we are, at the end of another series. So let's talk about the things I want to see more of in 2021.