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News briefs for March 27, 2019.

From time to time, I get nostalgic about the video games I played during my childhood in the late '80s and the '90s. Although most of my old computers and game consoles are long gone, my Raspberry Pi can fulfill my retro-gaming fix. I enjoy the simple games included in Raspbian, and the open source RetroPie project helped me turn my Raspberry Pi into an advanced retro-gaming machine. read more

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to install and configure the AWX on Ubuntu server 18.04. We're going to install the AWX with Nginx as a reverse proxy and built on the HTTPS secure connection.

VeraCrypt is a free and open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt. VeraCrypt adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption. It also resolves many vulnerabilities and security issues inherent in TrueCrypt together with a ton of modifications.

Adding options to the kernel command line is a common task when debugging or experimenting with the kernel. The upcoming Fedora 30 release made a change to use Bootloader Spec (BLS). Depending on how you are used to modifying kernel command line options, your workflow may now change. Read on for more information. To determine […]

Linux Foundation (LF) objectives/missions do not resemble what the Open Source Development Labs, Inc. (OSDL) was founded to accomplish; this puts at grave threat the very raison d'être of both GNU and Linux

Kubernetes 1.14 introduces new features and a new process for the open-source container orchestration platform to determine which enhancements will land in upcoming releases.

MSC’s rugged “MSC SM2S-ZUSP” SMARC module features a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with 4x Cortex-A53, 2x Cortex-R5, GPU, and FPGA plus up to 8GB DDR4 and 64GB eMMC and optional WiFi/BT and carrier. MSC Technologies — a brand of Avnet Integrated Solutions — has launched the world’s first SMARC 2.0 form-factor module with Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ […]

Google has promoted today the Chrome OS 73 operating system to the stable channel for Chromebook devices, a release that adds several new features, improvements, bug fixes, and security updates.

Kubespray, a community project that provides Ansible playbooks for the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters, recently added support for the bare-metal cloud Packet. This allows Kubernetes clusters to be deployed across next-generation edge locations, including cell-tower based micro datacenters.

VestaCP is an open source hosting control panel. VestaCP provides a set of features to manage Domains, DNS, Mail, Databases, Cron Jobs, Backups and many more.

Mailnag, an email notification daemon that integrates with Gnome Shell through an extension, has seen a new release over the week-end. Mailnag is an email notification daemon for POP3 and IMAP servers. It comes with predefined settings for Gmail, GMX, Web.de, and Yahoo email services, and it offers features ranging from triggering popup or sound notifications on new email arrival, a spam filter, or running an user defined script when receiving new emails.

A confession: before I heard Bradley Kuhn's talk at Freenode.live last November, I didn't know that HDMI was a proprietary interface. I just assumed that HDMI was like VGA, USB and dozens of other standardized ways to connect the jacks on two devices through a cable with plugs at both ends. I did assume a cabal of companies was behind HDMI, but I didn't know that only "adopters" could make HDMI stuff, and that being an adopter required paying serious money to something called HDMI Licensing LLC.

OES’ $175 “Prime Series 1” dev board has a compute module with a quad-core Allwinner H5, a crypto chip, 512MB RAM, 8GB eMMC, and WiFi/BT. The dev board adds 3x MIPI-CSI, Ethernet, GSM/LTE, GPS, and more. On Mar. 29, Springfield, Virginia based startup Optimus Embedded Systems (OES) will launch the first of several Prime series […]

How many of your peers already use AI? What are they spending? How’s the talent market? Let’s explore the data

It's fairly easy to extract a zip archive in Linux. Even so, there are more advanced ways you can open zip files and deal with their contents.

This detailed article tells you about various repositories like universe, multiverse in Ubuntu and how to enable or disable them.

NTP or Network Time Protocol is a protocol that is used to synchronize all system clocks in a network to use the same time. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step procedure on how to install and configure NTP server and client on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

After taking a look at how curly braces ({}) work on the command line, now it’s time to tackle brackets ([]) and see how they are used in different contexts.

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