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Cross compiling can be very useful when you want to save time when working with GStreamer, or when you want to be able to work on both the host and target with the same base code. Here's a look at cross-compiling with gst-build, one of the main build systems used by the community to develop the GStreamer platform.

Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation. The Rust programming language celebrated its fifth birthday on Friday and says the future looks bright.…

Artila’s compact “Wireless Gateway Matrix-702” for wireless remote monitoring runs Linux on a SAMA5D35 and offers GbE and Fast Ethernet ports and a mini-PCIe slot with micro-SIM. Artila has announced a “simple, cost-effective remote monitoring solution” for “device-to-cloud service.” The DIN-rail mountable, 109.6 x 89 x 30mm Wireless Gateway Matrix-702 has a similar form factor […]

Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) has admitted that the Windows giant was "on the wrong side of history" when it came open to open source.…

Linux Mint has more than one flavor, including a lighter Xfce version. Check out our Linux Mint Xfce review to see how it fares against its big brother.

Python follows the EAFP (Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission) rather than the LBYL (Look Before You Leap) philosophy. The Python philosophy of EAFP is somewhat linked to its "duck typing" style of coding. read more

Back to the time when tape was king 2020 marks 60 years since ALGOL 60 laid the groundwork for a multitude of computer languages.…

We'll take a look at automating your environment with webhooks and then integrating your automation processes by using GitOps

Zoom is an easy to use communication platform that unifies cloud video conferencing, real-time messaging, and content sharing. With Zoom, you can host webinars, organize online meetings, and create conference rooms.

The Raspberry Pi is a powerful and versatile single-board computer that you can use for IoT. Here we'll show you how to build a Raspberry Pi motion sensor.

Here we’ll show you how to turn a Raspberry Pi into your own personal web server so you can create, host and maintain a website directly on your Pi.

If you've ever visited a project on GitHub (for instance) with the intention of understanding how it fits into a larger system, you'll recognise the sigh of relief you experience when you find a diagram or two on (or easily reached from) the initial landing page. This is an article about the importance of architecture and specifically about the importance of diagrams. read more

Fedora Silverblue provides a useful workstation build on an immutable operating system. In “What is Silverblue?“, you learned about the benefits that an immutable OS provides. But what pieces go into making it? This article examines some of the technology that powers Silverblue. The filesystem Fedora Workstation users may find the idea of an immutable […]

Apache CouchDB is a free, open-source and document-oriented NoSQL database that uses JSON to store the data. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Apache CouchDB on CentOS 8.

In this article we recommend three open source programs that help to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury.

The leading private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud has just released its 21st version.

How to lock down your Linux system from unwanted access locally and across the network.

And you thought this was purely a NoSQL release this week? MariaDB, which counts Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq and telecoms giant Verizon among its users, has launched a DBaaS rendition of its relational database, adding options to configure and customise it.…

The KDE Project announced today the beta release of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series, which will arrive this summer for GNU/Linux distributions.