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How do you get firmware updates in Linux? Where do you get the drivers for your hardware? The answer lies in LVFS. Learn what LVFS is and how to use it.

The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 7.0.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite series for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Python provides a lot of libraries to create cross-platform GUIs such as Tkinter, Pymsgbox, Pyqt, and much more. In this series of articles, we will study the Tkinter package.

Remember when the Raspberry Pi was just a really tiny hobbyist Linux computer? Well, to the surprise of no one, the Pi's power and scope has escalated quickly. Have you got a new Raspberry Pi or an old one lying around needing something to do? If so, we have plenty of new project ideas, ranging from home automation to cross-platform coding, and even some new hardware to check out.

The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of KDE Frameworks 5.80 as a monthly update for March 2021 to their open-source and free software suite.

Podcast Guru is truly a sublime podcast player offering a good range of features and a standout interface.

Even if you haven't heard of a theremin, you're probably familiar with the eerie electronic sound it makes from watching TV shows and movies like the 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. Theremins have also appeared in popular music, although often in the form of a theremin variant.

OpenVPN is a free and open-source VPN protocol that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point in routed configurations. It is cross-platform and compatible with all major operating systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and setup the OpenVPN on Debian 10 server.

Linux distro hoppers rejoice, there’s a new Debian-based distribution in town called TeLOS, which wants to offer you a different, modern approach on the Linux desktop on top of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

Dictionaries are the Python programming language's way of implementing data structures. A Python dictionary consists of several key-value pairs; each pair maps the key to its associated value. For example, say you're a teacher who wants to match students' names to their grades. You could use a Python dictionary to map the keys (names) to their associated values (grades). If you need to find a specific student's grade on an exam, you can access it from your dictionary. This lookup shortcut should save you time over parsing an entire list to find the student's grade. read more

Three examples of using while loops to manage conditions that do not have a known limit

General tips, pointers, and a lot more advice on how to be more productive on Linux

I have lived in 100-plus-year-old brick houses for most of my life. They look nice, they are comfortable, and usually, they are not too expensive. However, humidity is high in the winter in my climate, and mold is a recurring problem. A desktop thermometer that displays relative humidity is useful for measuring it, but it does not provide continuous monitoring. In comes the Raspberry Pi: It is small, inexpensive, and has many sensor options, including temperature and relative humidity. It can collect data around the clock, do some alerting, and forward data for analysis. read more

Elapsed time is the amount of wall-clock time that has passed between the beginning and the end of a particular event. This tutorial describes how to measure elapsed time with various resolutions (e.g., in seconds, in milliseconds, in microseconds) in bash.

In this guide, we will see how to copy files and create target directories at the same time, with a single command, in Linux.

Automation is not just for technology organizations anymore. You can use it anywhere, even at home.

THine has launched a $59 “Cable Extension Kit for Raspberry Pi Camera” that extends the RPi cameras’ range from 15-20cm to up to 20 meters by using serializer-deserializer technology. Official Raspberry Pi cameras have improved over the years, starting with the 5-megapixel RPi camera v1 from 2013 and advancing to the 8MP RPi Camera v2 […]

There are a few ways to get Telegram installed on your Linux desktop. Here we'll go through all the different ways to install the Telegram Desktop app in Linux.

The Raspberry Pi is a small, single-board computer that, despite being the size of a credit card, is capable of doing a lot of things. In reality, this little computer can be almost anything you want to be. You just need to open up your imagination. Raspberry Pi enthusiasts have made many different projects, from simple programs to complex automation projects and solutions like weather stations or even smart-home devices. This article will show how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a router with LTE mobile connectivity using the OpenWRT project. read more

Boffin who invented ANS encoding and made it public domain worries Microsoft will come rent-seeking Analysis In June, 2019, Microsoft applied for a US patent covering enhancements to a data encoding method known as rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System (ANS) family that form the foundation of data compression schemes used by Apple, Facebook, Google, various other companies, and open source projects.…