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You wouldn't want to 'upend ... the computer software industry'. Google last night strode into the last-chance saloon of the US Supreme Court, warning judges (PDF) that if they did not overturn a Federal Circuit ruling in Oracle's favour over its use of Java code in the Android mobile operating system, this could "upend ... the computer software industry."…

The next-generation of Dell's high-end Linux laptops will come with up to 32GB of RAM.

Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

Subaru will use Automotive Grade Linux in its 2020 Subaru Outback and Legacy cars. Meanwhile, Wind River revealed a partnership with Baidu to develop an AUTOSAR solution based on Wind River Linux and VxWorks for Baidu’s Apollo autonomous car platform. At the CES show in Las Vegas today, the Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) […]

Canonical released today the first Linux kernel security update for all of its supported Ubuntu Linux releases to address more than 30 security vulnerabilities.

While using Linux, there might arise a need to know about the system you are on or the hardware specifications you are using. Linux command line comes with multiple built-in commands for you to get familiar with the software and hardware platform you are working on. This tutorial provides you with the usage of all these commands.

Vendors show off the first generation of Open Connectivity Foundation-compatible Internet of Things devices.

Pollen Robotics is launching a modular, open source “Reachy” robot that runs Raspbian and Luos on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Google’s Coral AI Accelerator. The torso-like bot has one or two articulated, 7-DoF arms with pincers and a ball-joint head with dual cams. French robotics firm Pollen Robotics has opened limited pre-orders for an […]

A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my Bash scripts, and I’d like to share some of them in hopes they can help others. Here is a collection of small scripts created to illustrate these simple examples.

Windows 7 is down to its last days. If you don't care for Windows 10, it's time to consider running Linux Mint instead.

Sending email from the command line is required when you need to create emails from a shell script. These commands allow the user to send a mail from the Linux terminal.

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer. The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.…

Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

Happy Birthday, Unix! On Jan. 1, Unix turned 50 – or 1577836800 in epoch time. Sandra Henry-Stocker explores what this means for the operating system and its users.

Packages such as systemd (“packages” would be an understatement — that’s like calling Linux a “package”) present a new kind of threat, which some in the community have dubbed “Open Source Proprietary Software” (or “OSPS” for short); we need prominent groups and projects to highlight the nature of this threat, which serves to promote monopolies (open gateway into complexity, aided by silence and complicity)

Dell kicked off 2020 by announcing the 10th generation XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux preloaded, fingerprint-reader support, up to 32GB of RAM, and 10th Gen Intel Core CPUs.

Are you bored with the default ubuntu image viewer?. In the Linux distribution there are many applications for viewing images. Each linux distro has an image viewer application that is different from other distributions. One example is Xubuntu which uses the default, Ristretto Image Viewer application.

Vim is one of the popular text editors among the software developers & system administrators. The macOS as well as on different Linux Distros Vim comes preinstalled. We can edit code in Vim easily. But the syntax is not highlighted by default in Vim. In this tutorial, you are going to learn How to Turn On Syntax Highlighting in Vim/Vi Editor.

Learn how to securely mount a remote file system from another server locally on your machine with SSHFS.

Initially scheduled for launch on January 7th, Mozilla's latest Firefox 72 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available to download for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.