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Cloud of Things’ compact, Arm/Linux based “DeviceTone IoT Gateway” is equipped with MikroBus, LAN, GPIO, WiFi, LTE, NB-IoT, BLE Long Range, and DECT ULE. Both the gateway and an MCU-based “Genie” edge node work with an Azure-certified DeviceTone IoT Suite. We found out about Cloud of Things’ DeviceTone IoT Gateway, DeviceTone Genie edge node, and […]

Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. It is a sandbox video game where players explore infinite worlds and build different structures from simple houses to towering skyscrapers. This tutorial explains how to make a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 20.04. We’ll use Systemd to run the Minecraft server and the mcrcon utility for connecting to the running instance. We’ll also show you how to create a cronjob that performs regular server backups.

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

A POSIX equivalence class is a group of characters that can be treated as the same character in your computer's locale. But what does "same" actually mean?

Vecow’s rugged, 10.1- to 21.5-inch “MTC-7000 Series” touch-panel systems run Linux or Win 10 on an 8th Gen Whiskey Lake CPU and offer 16:9 ratios, up to 32GB RAM, SATA, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.1 Gen2, DVI-D and DP, and 2x mini-PCIe. Vecow has announced a line of rugged, all-in-one touch-panel computers with 10.1-, 15-, […]

On this episode Michael covers Krita 4.3, FFmpeg 4.3, FreeNAS coming to Linux, postmarketOS Community Edition PinePhone from Pine64 and so much more!

Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework used to manage, store and process data for various big data applications running under clustered systems. In this tutorial, we will explain how to set up a single-node Hadoop cluster on Ubuntu 20.04.

If you have a need for speed, you need to consider the switch to SSDs.

Sometimes you need to manually assign CPU cores to programs in order to gain the best performance. Learn how you can use taskset to do that in Linux.

IEI’s rugged, Linux-ready “TANK-880-Q370” runs on 8th/9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs and offers HDMI and DP, 3x GbE, 6x USB, 3x serial, 4x SATA, 4x PCIe, 3x M.2, and a mini-PCIe slot. IEI Technology has unleashed another one of its appropriately named TANK computers, following earlier models including the Intel 4th Gen “Haswell” based TANK-860-QGW. […]

The Homebrew project began its life as an unofficial Linux-style package manager for the Mac. Its users quickly fell in love with its friendly interface and helpful prompts, and—in what may seem like a strange twist of fate—it got ported to Linux. read more

Canonical and Dell announced today that the powerful Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop is now available certified and pre-loaded with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

In this article, we will explain how to sync your Ubuntu system time with internet time servers both through the command line and the GUI.

Who’s going to defend our 4 freedoms then? The people who bribed the watchdogs? The people who decapitated our organisations?

If you've ever written code, whether it's a shell script, a Python script, C++, or even Scratch, then you know that variables are vital. Computers and coders use variables as waystations, where they surreptitiously pass information back and forth. For instance, if you need to process a user's name in a shell script, you might set up a variable, put the username into the variable, and then instruct the computer to do something to the variable (check it against a list of authorized users, for example). read more

This article explains the installation of the Opera browser on Debian Linux. We will describe both the command line and the GUI ways of installing the Opera browser in your system.

If you run a server with a public-facing SST access, you might have experienced malicious login attempts. This article shows how to use two utilities to keep the intruder out of our systems. To protect against repeated ssh login attempts, we’ll look at fail2ban. And if you don’t travel much, and perhaps stay in one […]

If you’re looking for software that acts as a central hub for internet content, you should try Fraidycat. It isn’t a feed reader. And while it does gather news headlines from websites, it has much wider coverage letting you follow interesting people via YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud streams, and more.

The hostname is set during the installation of the operating system or dynamically assigned to the virtual machine when it is created. This guide explains how to set or change the hostname on Ubuntu 20.04 without needing to restart the system.

Streamhut is a web service that allows you to instantly share your Terminal to web in real time with anyone, without installing anything in Linux.