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JavaScript (also known as JS) is the lingua franca of the web, as it is supported by all the major web browsers—the other languages that run in browsers are transpiled (or translated) to JavaScript. read more

PostgreSQL database users including IKEA and Konica Minolta Healthcare detail how and why they chose to use the open source database, at the Postgres Vision 2020 virtual conference.

Fresh out of 1997 and sporting a handy semi-GUI interface, Mp3blaster provides an easy-to-use music player that runs in your terminal.

As more workloads are migrated to containerized environments, it becomes challenging to manage those larger numbers of containers and the connections between them and other systems. As the scale and complexity of a containerized environment increase past a human's ability to manage, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes become increasingly important.

Yes, you read that headline correctly, Microsoft has just released a security program for Linux.

Flatpak maintainer Alexander Larsson announced today the general availability of Flatpak 1.8 as the newest stable branch of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework.

A Virtual Host is an Apache configuration directive that allows you to run more than one website on a single server. With Virtual Hosts, you can specify the site document root (the directory containing the website files), create a separate security policy for each site, use different SSL certificates, and much more. This article describes how to set up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 20.04.

As the global pandemic continues, the number of open source COVID-19 software and hardware projects – developed by diverse open source communities – continues to grow.

Even the most advanced clouds can still use a little shell command goodness.

Win Enterprises has unveiled a pair of Linux-ready thin Mini-ITX boards with 2x GbE and 4x USB 3.1 Gen2 ports: the Gen Coffee lake “MB-50050” with 4x serial I/Os and the Whiskey Lake powered “MB-50040” with up to 64GB RAM and optional 9-36V power. Win Enterprises has announced two new thin Mini-ITX boards aimed at […]

In our previous post we discussed about how Rust can be a great language for embedded programming. In this article, we'll explain an easy way to setup to cross build Rust code depending on system libraries, a common requirement when working on embedded systems.

For the first time, an ARM-powered supercomputer took first place in the TOP500 supercomputer competition.

Don’t like the launcher on the left side of the screen in Ubuntu? Learn how to easily disable the dock in Ubuntu 20.04.

If you have a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (previously known as Raspbian) operating system, you know it's an awesome little computer with a great operating system for beginners that includes just about everything you could possibly want. However, once you become familiar with the Pi and want to start using it for other things, you might want an operating system (OS) that doesn't include everything in the default build. read more

This tutorial explains, how to install docker on Ubuntu. Docker

Docker is a platform that combines applications and its dependencies in the form of packages called a container. We can run multiple containers on a single Operating System. Containers are not Virtual Machines. Virtual Machines requires Operating System to run applications, but containers do not. As containers don’t need an Operating System, it takes very little time to start and hence it is very faster than Virtual Machines.

$ sudo dnf install -y ghc $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.6.5 main = putStrLn ("Hello, World!") $ runhaskell main.hs Hello, World! $ ghc main.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( main.hs, main.o ) Linking main ... $ ./main Hello, World! $ ghci Prelude> :load main.hs [1 of 1] Compiling […]

When working in commandline, we often run some commands multiple times. In this guide, we will see how to avoid duplicate entries in Bash history in Linux.

For this week’s blog, I decided to survey terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4. A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal within some other display architecture.

MediaWiki is many IT professionals' first exposure to wikis. By virtue of being the platform behind Wikipedia, MediaWiki's familiarity makes it a compelling open source alternative to proprietary technology like Atlassian Confluence, which is common with developers, and SharePoint, the default corporate collaboration platform. read more

The KDE Project released today Plasma 5.19.2 as the second point release in the latest KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series.