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German Linux computer manufacturer TUXEDO Computers have unveiled today the TUXEDO Pulse 15 Linux laptop with as their latest AMD-only ultrabook with powerful components.

OnLogic’s fanless, $768-and-up “Helix 500” and larger, PCIe x16 enabled, $859-and-up “Helix 600” run Ubuntu or Windows on Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S with triple display support, 2x M.2, 2x GbE, and 6x USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports. OnLogic has opened pre-orders for its first two Helix Series embedded computers, with shipments starting Aug. 4. […]

With the release of Thunderbird 78, Mozilla implemented support for OpenPGP, the most widely used email encryption standard, but the functionality is disabled by default so with this tutorial I will show you how to enable OpenPGP support.

Grep is perhaps one of the most used commands in Linux. Learn why it was created and how it s used in this explainer article.

As part of the 8.0 pre-release announcement, the OpenSSH project stated that they consider the scp protocol outdated, inflexible, and not readily fixed. They then go on to recommend the use of sftp or rsync for file transfer instead. Many users grew up on the scp command, however, and so are not familiar with rsync. […]

Canonical published new Ubuntu kernels for all supported Ubuntu releases to address Secure Book bypass flaws and other security vulnerabilities.

Learn how Pluggable Authentication Modules are used to help applications make proper use of user accounts in Linux.

Adlink’s semi-rugged “NEON-2000-JT2” C-mount camera for machine vision runs Ubuntu on a Jetson TX2 or Xavier NX and offers GbE, USB Type-C with DP, and support for multiple sensors up to 5MP (2592 x 1944). Adlink has launched an all-in-one, Nvidia Jetson based NEON-2000-JT2 camera designed for AI-based factory automation, including faster, more accurate product […]

Thunderbird is among the must-have applications on any operating system. It is developed by the same company that develops Firefox, Mozilla Foundation. Recently, Thunderbird 78.0 was released with a couple of interesting features and improvements.

(Circuit Cellar article) Based on the small-sized versions of the ITX motherboard form factor, Mini-ITX and Pico-ITX keep growing in popularity and in embedded market share. This Datasheet section updates readers on this technology trend and provides a product album of representative Mini-ITX and Pico-ITX SBCs.

This article is co-written by Cam Citrowske, a member of the Penguin Corps. read more

Mattermost is a messaging platform built in Go and React for DevOps teams. You can discuss topics in channels, private groups, or one-to-one with rich Markdown formatting and easily share code snippets with syntax highlighting in more than 50 programming languages. You can self-host or deploy on a private cloud to connect in-house systems with plugins, Slack-compatible integrations, and extensive API support. read more

The KDE Project and Slimbook unveiled today the third generation of the KDE Slimbook Linux laptop featuring the newest AMD Ryzen 4000 series CPUs and a refreshed design.

The Omarine 7.0 Linux-based operating system for servers arrives today with enhanced security and up-to-date components for those who fancy using the RPM package management software.

A look into the Vulnerability service on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to assess and monitor the status of security vulnerabilities.

The GUADEC 2020 (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event kicks off today until July 28th as GNOME’s first online conference in the coronavirus era.

For this week, I’m going to look at an area very close to my heart. Multimedia. It’s a large topic to tackle. So I’ll confine this week to video and audio playback.

Back in 2017, I wrote about why the D programming language is a great choice for development. But there is one outstanding feature in D I didn't expand enough on: the Universal Function Call Syntax (UFCS). UFCS is a syntactic sugar in D that enables chaining any regular function on a type (string, number, boolean, etc.) like its member function of that type. read more

In this guide you are going to learn how to configure or setup your own timezone on Ubuntu server.

A co-worker gave me some data for checking. The client had sent it in a RAR file. Inside the RAR was a Microsoft Access database. Inside the Access database was a single Access table, and inside the Access table was the data. I don't know why the client did that matryoshka-style data packing, but I know that many people don't understand that software isn't data. In this case, the raw data was just plain text (letters and numbers, punctuation, spaces, tabs and newlines), but the data was imprisoned in Microsoft Access, which is mostly secret gobbledygook.