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No matter how you end up spending the holiday season this year, there’s comfort to be found in the Linux App Summit of 2019. This summit, which combined the strengths of everyone involved in developing applications for Linux, focused on a few major topics.

It looks like DXVK, the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 11 and 10, is entering maintenance mode. That's not because it's considered feature complete and bug-free, like it's usually the case when software enters maintenance mode, but because the main developer considers that DXVK has become a "fragile, unreliable and frustrating maintenance nightmare".

The Debian Project released a new intel-microcode security update for Intel CPU microarchitectures to address a regression affecting HEDT and Xeon processors, and add mitigations for Coffe Lake CPUs.

A properly configured firewall is one of the most important tasks of any Linux system administrator. Firewalld is a complete firewall solution and an alternative to the iptables service that can be used for dynamically managing a system's firewall. This tutorial is about firewall-cmd and its usage on Centos.

Waveshare’s $38 “Compute Module PoE Board” extends the Raspberry Pi CM3 with a PoE-enabled 10/100 LAN port, 4x USB, HDMI, MIPI-DSI and -CSI, 40-pin GPIO, and an optional case. We’ve seen a variety of embedded systems based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, including IoT gateways such as CompuLab’s IOT-GATE-RPi and automation controllers like […]

"From now onwards we have to think from a user’s rights perspective and mobilise users of Free software. They should know what rights they ought to get."

Odoo is the most popular all-in-one business software in the world. It offers a range of business applications, including CRM, website, e-Commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, inventory, and much more, all seamlessly integrated.

Jetty is free and open source, Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container similar to Tomcat, GlassFish and WildFly. It provides support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS, and many other integrations. It is often used for machine to machine communications within larger software frameworks. Let’s get started with the installation.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: When GNOME 3 was first released, many GNOME users were not ready to give up GNOME 2. The Mate (named after the yerba mate plant) project began as an effort to continue the GNOME 2 desktop, at first using GTK 2 (the toolkit GNOME 2 was based upon) and later incorporating GTK 3.

Do you stockpile cables and other spare parts like they're going out of style, or do you just hang on to a few and order more when you need them?

Deepwave Digital’s v0.2 release of the Ubuntu-based AirStack software for its Nvidia TX2 and Artix-7 equipped AIR-T SDR dev board adds variable sample rate, phase locking for MIMO, easier updates, and support for Jetpack 4.2.2, Docker, and the Jetson TX2i. Philadelphia-based Deepwave Digital has released version 0.2.0 of the Ubuntu-driven stack that drives its Jetson […]

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) that provides free SSL certificates. In this tutorial, we'll provide a step by step instructions about how to install a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on CentOS 8 running Nginx as a web server. We’ll also show how to configure Nginx to use the SSL certificate and enable HTTP/2

Formatting your hard drive doesn't wipe the data within. Here's how you can completely wipe your hard drive in Linux, making data retrieval difficult

The Eclipse Foundation announced an “Edge Native Working Group” to develop open source software for edge computing, starting with its Eclipse ioFog and Eclipse fog05 projects. Members include Adlink, Bosch, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Huawei, Intel, Kynetics, and Siemens. The Edge Native Working Group is a “vendor-neutral and code-first industry collaboration that will drive the evolution and […]

Open source took over the world because of community, and community expert Jono Bacon explains how this concept can revolutionize your business in his new book People Powered.

Today, Mozilla continues the fight to preserve net neutrality protection as a fundamental digital right. Alongside other petitioners in our FCC challenge, Mozilla, Etsy, INCOMPAS, Vimeo and the Ad Hoc …

OpenVPN is an open-source application that allows you to create a secure private network over the public internet. In this tutorial, we will show you how to step-by-step install and configure OpenVPN on CentOS 8. And we will implement the certificate-based OpenVPN authentication.

In this article, we will explain how to execute/run the file with .run and .bin extensions on Debian Linux. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

Making a comparison between Linux and Kubernetes is often one of apples to oranges. There are, however, some similarities and there is an effort within the Kubernetes community to make Kubernetes more like a Linux distribution.

You may have used the Openbox desktop without knowing it: While Openbox is a great window manager on its own, it also serves as the window manager "engine" for desktop environments like LXDE and LXQT, and it can even manage KDE and GNOME. Aside from being the foundation for several desktops, Openbox is arguably one of the easiest window managers to configure for anyone who doesn't want to learn all the options to put into a config file. read more