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Advantech has launched a “VEGA-8300E 8K Broadcast Video Encoder” and streaming appliance for 8Kp60, 10-bit 4:2:2 HEVC real-time encoding. The system runs Ubuntu on a 7th Gen Kaby Lake CPU and offers 2x hot-swappable SATA bays. We realize that most of you are not in the market for an 8K video encoder, but we occasionally […]

Many of us, admittedly, only use computers because they're fun. But some people use computers to get stuff done, and their theory is computers are supposed to make things faster, better, and more organized. In practice, though, computers don't necessarily improve our lives without a little manual reconfiguration to match our individual work styles.

Canonical has released a fix to address a Linux kernel regression introduced in the Linux 5.4 and 5.3 packages of its Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS systems.

Creating a great user experience (UX) for your applications is a tough job, especially if you are developing embedded applications. Today, there are two types of graphical user interface (GUI) tools generally available for developing embedded software: either they involve complex technologies, or they are extremely expensive.

In the previous tutorial, we discussed how to install LAMP stack in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server. LEMP is the acronym of Linux, Engine-x, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python. This step by step tutorial describes how to install Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP stack) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server edition with screenshots.

Spawn of ALGOL turns middle-aged. Pascal, a descendant of ALGOL 60 and darling of computer science courses for decades, turns 50 this year.…

In this series of articles, I'm looking at the characteristics of different Python plotting libraries by making the same multi-bar plot in each one. This time I'm focusing on Bokeh (pronounced "BOE-kay").

LAMP stack is a popular, open source web development platform that can be used to run and deploy dynamic websites and web-based applications. This step by step tutorial describes how to install Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server edition with screenshots.

OpenCV stands for "Open Source Computer Vision Library" is an open-source cross-platform computer vision algorithm library that can be used in all kinds of visual processing areas, such as facial recognition, gesture recognition and motion tracking.

Network File System or short NFS is a distributed file system protocol that allows you to mount remote directories on your server. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up an NFS Server and how to mount NFS Shares on a client using Ubuntu 20.04.

Python offers a rich set of options for visualizing data. I'll show you the basics of plotting in Matplotlib by creating a bar chart with grouped bars. It shows election results for the UK between 1966 and 2020: read more

Open source projects bring many additional capabilities to Kubernetes, such as performance monitoring, developer tools, serverless capabilities, and CI/CD workflows. Check out these five widely used options

Unethical developers fake user counts to gain trust. Efforts to manipulate installation counts in Chrome Web Store extension listings appear to be alive and well, despite a developer's personal crusade to call attention to the problem.…

About a decade ago, the JavaScript developer community began to witness fierce battles emerging among JavaScript frameworks. In this article, I will introduce some of the most well-known of these frameworks. And it's important to note that these are all open source JavaScript projects, meaning that you can freely utilize them under an open source license and even contribute to the source code and communities.

Docker Compose is used to run multi-container Docker applications. This means that each container will run a standalone application which can also communicate with the other containers present in the same host. Docker Compose uses YAML files to configure all of your Docker containers and configurations. This makes Docker excellent for deploying and testing quickly and easily. In this tutorial, we will cover the steps needed for installing Docker Compose on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading. The sound-tinkerers among you will be pleased to learn that Ardour 6.0 is out, representing a major upgrade of the open-source digital audio workstation for Linux, macOS and Windows.…

Ardour 6.0 open-source, free and cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) is here and it’s a major update bringing huge engineering changes.

In this article you will learn what is Kernel live patching and 5 kernel live patching tools that will help to run Linux servers without reboots.

Trendy systems programming lingo tops poll fifth year on the trot. Rust for the fifth year in a row has held its position as the most-loved programming language in Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, even if it's not the primary language for most programmers and not many jobs require it.…

You may not have heard of Strapi, but you will. Its headless content management system has always proven popular with thousands of companies.