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If you are looking for something that works in Linux as good as Winamp works in Windows, Qmmp is a great choice. Qmmp is a feature-rich audio player with support for many formats.

Apache Bench is a tool used to measure the performance of a web server. Despite having “Apache” in its name, it can actually be used to test any type of web server. In this tutorial, we’ll go over the steps to use Apache Bench and how to interpret its report about a web server’s performance.

Any love for Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, WebAssembly? Bueller? Bueller? Microsoft's roadmap for developing Windows applications is opposed by some programmers who want to see a cross-platform solution, rather than just being Windows-only.…

HPLIP, the HP Linux Imaging and Printing driver for Linux-based operating systems, has a new version that adds supports for several new HP printers and scanners, as well as the latest Linux Mint release.

In the "always-on" future with billions of connected devices, storing raw data for analysis later will not be an option because users want accurate responses in real time. Prediction of failures and other context-sensitive conditions require data to be processed in real time—certainly before it hits a database. read more

In this article, we will first describe how to install the Qt Creator through the command line. Then, we will explain how to write a simple Qt Hello World program and run it through the Command-line and the Qt Compiler GUI. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

Firefox Send is a free and open source online file-sharing service that allows you to easily and securely share files up to 2.5 GB over Internet.

A new “Wind River Labs” developer site hosts projects including TensorFlow for Wind River Linux, the first free VxWorks SDK, and VxWorks BSPs for the Raspberry Pi and UP Squared. One would think that when Wind River decided to launch a public-facing developer site, it would showcase the Yocto Project based Wind River Linux, which […]

Do you have a system laying around rocking a Mali GPU (perhaps in a Chromebook)? The good news is Mesa just got experimental support for OpenGL ES (GLES) 3.0 to give them more advanced graphics support.

A sensible firewall is your computer's first line of defense against network intrusion. When you're at home, you're probably behind a firewall built into the router supplied by your internet service provider. When you're away from home, though, the only firewall you have is the one running on your computer, so it's important to configure and control the firewall on your Linux computer. If you run a Linux server, it's just as important to know how to manage your firewall so that you can protect it from unwanted traffic both locally and remotely. read more

The ‘cancel culture’ seems to be canceling people who speak about software freedom, under the guise of the real motivation being manners (when one lashes out at those who attack Free software and free speech)

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm developed by Google. This tutorial will show you how to add Brotli support to the Nginx web server on CentOS 8 server.

Octavo will soon ship its 18 x 18mm “OSD32MP15x” SiP module, which runs Linux on an 800MHz, dual -A7 STM32MP1. There’s also a “OSD32MP1-BRK” breakout board and a more comprehensive, RPi-ready “OSD32MP1-RED” dev kit on the way. Octavo Systems announced that full production will begin by the end of March on its Linux-driven OSD32MP15x System-in-Package […]

Microweber is a drag and drop website builder and a powerful next-generation CMS. This tutorial will show you how to install Microweber on a fresh FreeBSD 12 system with Nginx as a web server and MariaDB as a database engine.

UBports announced today that a major milestone in the development of their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, changing the name of Unity8 to Lomiri.

Mirantis started out as a pure-play OpenStack company, but as the market dynamics changed, the company adjusted its own positioning and bet on CD platforms like Spinnaker and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes. So, what are they focusing on today? The post Mirantis: Balancing Open Source with Guardrails appeared first on Linux.com.

Whenever you're learning a new programming language, it's easy to criticize all the boilerplate text you need to memorize. Before you can get comfortable starting a project, you have to remember the preambles that, in theory, ought to be easy to remember since they're usually relatively short and repetitive. In practice, though, boilerplate text is too obscure in meaning to become an easy habit, but it's essential for a program to run. BlueJ provides a clean and simple IDE to help beginners get started with Java.

Need AI smarts on the edge? SolidRun and Gyrfalcon have a Linux-powered ARM-based AI server for you: The Janux GS31.

Where do you go when you have a question? Since humans began walking the earth, we've asked the people around us—our family, friends, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, or other people we know well. Much later came libraries and bookstores offering knowledge and resources, as well as access for anyone to come in and search for the answers. When the home computer became common, these knowledge bases extended to electronic encyclopedias shipped on floppy disks or CD-ROMs.

Interested in using containers to isolate processes? Then explore the world of chroot jails: the original containers.