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As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

Elektrobit released v6.10 of its EB Guide automotive HMI software for Android and Windows plus a free EB Guide GTF runtime SDK for the Raspberry Pi. EB Guide 6.10 enhances namespaces, tag filtering, editing, and more. Elektrobit (EB), which was once a general-purpose developer of embedded software and hardware, such as its EB Specialized Device […]

Earthquakes or the shaking doesn’t kill people, buildings do. If we can get people out of buildings in time, we can save lives. Grillo has founded OpenEEW in partnership with IBM and the Linux Foundation to allow anyone to build their own earthquake early-warning system. Swapnil Bhartiya, the founder of TFiR, talked to the founder […]

In some of the data tables I audit, the primary and foreign keys have been built manually, often in Excel spreadsheets. Checking for the resulting stuff-ups can be done on the command line.

Part two in a series that covers how to set up secure access to your Linux environment with session recording and containerized servers.

Static Pods are managed directly by the kubelet and the API server does not have any control over these pods. The kubelet is responsible to watch each static Pod and restart it if it crashes.

usermod is a command-line utility that allows you to modify a user’s login information.

VIA’s “Pixetto” is a 130° FoV HD camera board for teaching AI to students and makers. The board runs Linux on a Cortex-A7 with WiFi, HDMI, micro-USB, microSD, and a Grove interface for links to Arduino, micro:bit, and Raspberry Pi boards. VIA Technologies recently launched an $85 HD vision sensor board aimed at teaching AI […]

The eternal goal of every good sysadmin is to be replaced by a script.

Flutter is a popular project among mobile developers around the world. The framework has a massive, friendly community of enthusiasts, which continues to grow as Flutter helps programmers take their projects into the mobile space. This tutorial is meant to help you start doing mobile development with Flutter. After reading it, you'll know how to quickly install and set up the framework to start coding for smartphones, tablets, and other platforms. read more

Here’s a list of 7 privacy-preserving extensions to have if you are still going to use Chrome/Chromium browsers anyway. Or maybe you can even use them with the Ungoogled-Chromium browser, which is a better choice.

The KDE Project released today the KDE Plasma 5.19.5 maintenance update as the last in the Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series.

Laravel classes can easily be imported anywhere in the application. If you are thinking to create your own classes and functions in Laravel, it is equally easy to do.

If you are allowed to choose which programming language to use for an application, you usually pick one you know and that offers the shortest path to your goal. If you require a high runtime speed, programming languages that compile directly to machine code—?like C++—are your best option. read more

Linux terminals can be fun too. Learn how to play chess in Linux terminal that too with a formidable opponent Stockfish chess engine.

Users looking for extreme performance in a Desktop Environment can look no further than LXQt. This LXQt review will discuss who should use LXQt and why.

The Blender 2.90 free and open-source 3D creation software is now available for download and it’s a major update that digital artists and designers have been expecting for so long.

The August release of Istio 1.7 indicates that the continuing controversy around the open source service mesh project's governance hasn't affected ongoing development.

How the Linux graphics stack is used within ChromeOS, and the work done to improve software rendering (while simultaneously improving the GPU rendering by reducing the boilerplate needed in applications).

Michael Tremer from the IPFire Project, an open source Linux-based hardened firewall distribution, announced today the availability of a new release, the first to ship with the new IPFire Location database.