Showing all newswire headlines

When you first connect a freshly installed desktop machine to the Internet, there are several important things to bear in mind. Two obvious considerations of securing a desktop machine include frequently running package updates and configuring a few firewall rules to help keep the bad guys out. With just two simple steps it's genuinely possible to make a difference to your desktop security.

Pine64 has opened $100 preorders for its open-spec, 10.1-inch PineTab tablet with optional $20 keyboard. The tablet runs Ubuntu Touch on an Allwinner A64 with 2GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, mini-HDMI, 2x USB, dual cams, and an M.2 slot. The PineTab tablet that Pine64 announced in Feb. 2019 as part of an ambitious roadmap of open […]

Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives you instant access to millions of songs, from old classics to the latest hits. This guide shows two ways of installing Spotify on Ubuntu 20.04. Spotify can be installed as a snap package via the Snapcraft store or as a deb package from the Spotify repositories. Installing Spotify on Ubuntu Linux is a relatively straightforward process and will only take a few minutes.

After 25 years of availability, Java shows no signs of decline as a widely used developer language that is now accelerating with a faster release cycle.

Linux provides many commands for examining the contents of files including cat, more, head and tail, but that's just a start. Here's how to use the cat, more, head, and tail commands to look at the content of Linux files, not just text files.

Ubuntu explains its position about the Chromium Snap. Canonical would welcome the chance to talk with Linux Mint about their issues with Snap.

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to build bibliographies in ONLYOFFICE document editor using Mendeley, Zotero and EasyBib plugins. ONLYOFFICE is an open-source office suite that comprises online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations along with productivity tools such as document and project management, mail, CRM, calendar and chat.

Portwell’s rugged “Lynx-6000 Series” industrial mini-PCs run Linux or Win 10 on Apollo Lake and offers varying levels of USB, serial, and expansion slots. American Portwell Technology has launched a fanless Lynx-6000 Series of compact, rugged industrial computers. The progressively more advanced Lynx-6110, Lynx-612E, and Lynx-612G follow Portwell’s very similar Kuber-2000 Series. The new systems […]

The Fedora-based Network Security Toolkit (NST) live GNU/Linux distribution has been updated over the weekend to version 32, a major release that introduces new features and improvements.

When you're programming, you're literally defining a procedure, or a routine, you want the computer to perform. A simple analogy compares computer programming to baking bread: you list ingredients once to set up the work environment, then you list the steps you must take to end up with a loaf of bread.

The plotting libraries available in Python offer multiple ways to present data according to your preferences, whether you prize flexibility, design, ease-of-use, or a particular style.

Standards come in many forms. Some are created to enable interoperability between programs, and others to enable equality between individuals. Sadly, we seem to be better at universally adopting the former than the latter.

FSCK is a very important Linux/Unix utility, it is used to check & repair the errors in the file system. It is similar to ‘chkdsk’ utility in Windows operating systems. It is available for Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD operating systems.

When the cloud was still in its formative years, developers discovered that it was convenient to write applications in small, atomic, minimal Linux images that shared resources with the server they ran on. Technically based on kernel namespaces, these small environment definitions came to be called containers. As containers proliferated, sysadmins quickly realized it was becoming essential to develop a tool that could help them manage not only containers but also the virtualized infrastructure underneath.

Oracle released VirtualBox 6.1.10 as a minor maintenance update to its open-source and cross-platform virtualization software to add support for the latest Linux kernel series and fixes some minor bugs.

The dirname command in Linux extracts the directory path from a file path. Learn some practical examples of using dirname command in bash scripts.

Gitea is a free, open-source, and lightweight version control system written in Golang. It is a self-hosted git service and an alternative solution to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. Its main aim is to provide the easiest way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gitea on Debian 9. We’ll also show you how to deploy the Gitea git service on a Debian 9 VPS.

Adlink announced a “ROScube Pico Development Kit” SBC with 40-pin GPIO and a Myriad X VPU that runs Ubuntu and ROS 2 on an Apollo Lake or Rockchip PX30. There is also a Lidar-equipped, 6th Gen Skylake based NeuronBot robot. Earlier today, we looked at Adlink’s ROScube-I robot controller and ROScube-I Starter Kit SBC based […]

Canonical released today a security patch for the recent Intel SRBDS vulnerabilities found in som Intel CPUs, affecting all supported Ubuntu releases.

Python is full of libraries that can visualize data. One of the more interactive options comes from Pygal, which I consider the library for people who like things to look good. It generates beautiful SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files that users can interact with. SVG is a standard format for interactive graphics, and it can lead to rich user experiences with only a few lines of Python. read more