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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Acquia buying Mautic, using open source at the Veteran's Administration, simulating the sounds of stars, and more!

The Raspberry Pi is the most popular single-board computer of all times. It can be used for various purposes such as desktop PC, home media center, smart WiFi router, automation system, and game server. The use cases are endless.

On Kickstarter: InvIoT is launching a $24 and up “TextToSpeech” .WAV player add-on board for the Raspberry Pi or Arduino that converts English, French or German text to speech via a 3W amp. Canton, Ohio based InvIoT is closing in on its Kickstarter goal for a multi-lingual text-to-speech add-on that connects to either a Raspberry […]

Pomodoro technique is a famous productivity method used by a lot of people to manage their time and divide it between work and breaks. Pomotroid is an open source app that works on Linux/Windows/macOS to help you apply that technique.

The trick to successful operations with whole lines in data tables is the correct use of line addresses. You need to be sure not only that the operation is done where you want it, but also that it isn't done where you don't want it.

PDF Arranger, a PDF-Shuffler fork, was updated to version 1.2.0, and it includes enhancements like shortcut keys, export metadata of first imported PDF, and more.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you various ways to quickly create a new file in Linux using the command line.

When people think about open source hardware, they often think about the general category of electronics that can be soldered and needs batteries. While there are many fantastic open source pieces of electronics, the overall category of open source hardware is much broader. This month we take a look at open source hardware that you can take out into the world, no power outlet or batteries required. read more

Deja Dup backup tool officially supports Google Drive and Nextcloud as cloud backup storage locations. Unofficially though, Deja Dup also supports Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Openstack Swift, and Rackspace Cloud Files services. This article explains how to set up Deja Dup backup tool to take Linux desktop backups to Amazon S3.

… with a few important omissions. Google’s tool meets four of experts’ five minimum standards ? Last month, Mozilla released an analysis of Facebook’s ad archive API, a tool that … Read more The post Google’s Ad API is Better Than Facebook’s, But… appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

With Red Hat Universal Base Image, you can build and share containerized RHEL applications with your friends and customers.

Gateworks announced two mini-PCIe modems for its Linux-based SBCs aimed at IoT duty: a “GW16126” with Cat-M1 and BLE 5.0 and a “GW16130” satellite modem with an Iridium 9603N transceiver. Gateworks announced a pair of mini-PCIe modems that have been tested — and offer tech support — only on the company’s Linux-based SBCs.

Use the dd command to test the performance of your hard drive or RAID array.

Crow Translate is an application (Qt5 GUI and command line interface available) that allows translating and speaking text using Google Translate, Yandex Translate and Bing Translator.

Brainboxes’ $539 “BB-400 NeuronEdge Controller” is based on a Raspberry Pi CM3 B+ with 32GB eMMC, and offers 8x Arduino-controlled DIO, 2x LAN, WiFi/BT, a serial port, a mini-UPS and -25 to 80°C support. Brainboxes announced its BB-400 NeuronEdge Controller last July equipped with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3), and has now begun […]

PowerDNS (pdns) is an open source DNS server written in C++ and released under GPL License. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure a PowerDNS Authoritative server with MariaDB database server as a Backend and using Poweradmin for easy DNS management.

by Mitch Frazier   You've seen it a million times—the hash-bang (#!) line at the top of a script—whether it be Bash, Python, Perl or some other scripting language. And, I'm sure you know what its purpose is: it specifies the script interpreter that's used to execute the script. But, do you know how it actually works? Your initial thought might be that your shell (bash) reads that line and then executes the specified interpreter, but that's not at all how it works. How it actually works is the main focus of this post, but I also want to introduce how you can create your own version of "hash-bang" if you're so inclined.

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It's all about the enterprise, dummy The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 was one of the bigger surprises of Microsoft's developer love-in, Build. The Register had a chat with the team behind Pengwin to find out what the changes mean for devs on the platform.…

Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. It’s set in infinitely-generated worlds of wide open terrain – icy mountains, swampy bayous, vast pastures and much more – filled with secrets, wonders and peril! In this article, we will explain how to install Minecraft through the official .deb package available at the Mojang website.

News briefs for May 10, 2019.