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SolidRun has launched an open-spec, $170 and up “HummingBoard Ripple” Pico-ITX SBC, a stripped-down version of the HummingBoard Pulse that runs Linux on an i.MX8M Mini module with optional Lightspeeur SPR2803 neural accelerator. As we reported in our January catalog of 136 community-backed SBCs, SolidRun has been working on a more affordable, feature-reduced-feature HummingBoard Ripple […]

In this tutorial we will learn the basics of the dialog utility, in order to use ncurses widget in our shell scripts. We will see how to install dialog in the most used Linux distributions, some of the common options we can use to alter the behavior of dialog, how to use some widgets; among the others: inputbox, checklist, radiolist and yesno. Finally, we will see how to use the data obtained by the widget processing.

We have a laser printer at home. This Hewlett Packard LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer is an older model, but it has been a great workhorse that prints reliably and in color. I put it on our home network a few years ago using our Raspberry Pi as a print server. read more

Python is one of the most popular programming languages today. It has a simple syntax that is easy for beginners to understand. In this article, you will learn how to install Python 2 and Python 3 on CentOS 8.

Node.js is a free and open-source JavaScript platform that can be used to serve dynamic and responsive server-side content. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Node.js to handle backend requests and configure Nginx to handle front-end requests on Debian 10.

Global replacement of A with B might be a mistake unless you're 100% sure that you really, truly want to replace every instance of A with B in the data file. It's much safer to do replacements targeted at particular instances of A, and this post reviews a few strategies for using sed and AWK for targeted string replacements.

KDE's screenshot tool insists on including a shadow when capturing the screen. This shows how to take screenshots without the shadow in KDE.

LaTeX is a powerful system, especially for writing scientific and technical documents. But writing documents in LaTeX can be confusing because you need to know a lot of commands, and your text is littered with backslashes, curly braces, and other syntax distractions. But being productive as a writer requires that you focus on the text's content instead of how it looks. Fortunately, the GNU Emacs Org mode extension makes it easy to write plain-text documents and seamlessly export them to LaTeX and PDF. read more

Flatseal is a simple graphical GTK application that allows the users to review and modify flatpak apps basic permissions in Linux.

Loved by sysadmins and hated by intruders. Get the inside scoop on Tripwire to enhance your system's security.

This month's Linux distro review isn't of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we're taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Skype on Debian 10. Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world.

Use Chrome/Firefox headless mode to create snapshots of URLs from the Linux command line.

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and its rapid development, we are all being called to take protective and preventative measures, including avoiding social contact as much as possible. Events are canceled, trips are postponed, and companies are asking their employees to work from home. It's an exceptional situation for everyone, as remote work cultures with distributed teams are being introduced overnight. Many companies are being challenged to quickly organize a team that works completely remotely. read more

This guide explains how to copy or move files/directories from one location to another and cd into the destination directory instantly in Linux.

Keeping your filesystems respectably clean is an ongoing task and there are pitfalls to avoid along the way.

VNC stands for "Virtual Network Computing" is a GUI desktop sharing application that can be used to access and control other computers over a network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VNC server on CentOS 8.

The open-source effort hits a major milestone, as the Eclipse Foundation takes aim at providing a stable competitive alternative to Visual Studio Code.

WinSystems’ fanless, Linux-ready “SYS-ITX-N-3900” computer has an Apollo Lake SoC, -20 to 60°C support, wide-range power, M.2 and mini-PCIe expansion, and a compact 150 x 150 x 50mm footprint. A year and a half after the first Intel Gemini Lake based embedded computers arrived, we have seen only a few models based on this latest […]

Another reason to hate auto-play videos: they drain your power. Brave has updated its Android web browser and claims a 5 per cent battery saving versus the previous release.…