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Imagine you are a creator deity, designing a body for a creature. In your benevolence, you wish for the creature to evolve over time: first, because it must respond to changes in its environment, and second, because your wisdom grows and you think of better designs for the beast. It shouldn't remain in the same body forever!

Halo is a weather app written in the Python programming language and uses Pycairo, a Python module providing bindings for the Cairo graphics library. Halo also uses matplotlib, an excellent plotting library.

SuiteCRM is one of the most popular open source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software available. With its unique-priced managed CRM hosting service, SuiteCRM is aiming to challenge enterprise CRMs like Salesforce.

Good spelling is a skill. A skill that takes time to learn and to master. That said, there are people who never quite pick that skill up—I know a couple or three outstanding writers who can't spell to save their lives. Even if you spell well, the occasional typo creeps in. That's especially true if you're quickly banging on your keyboard to meet a deadline. Regardless of your spelling chops, it's always a good idea to run what you've written through a spelling checker.

If you want to transfer, rename, geotag, and organize photos and RAW files in one fell swoop, Otto is your friend. This shell script can transfer photos and RAW files from a storage card, neatly organize them, and even add a copyright notice to each photo.

Chrony NTP client helps you to in-sync with an accurate time with NTP server. Chrony is a replacement of NTP client. It can synchronize the system clock faster with better time accuracy and it can be particularly useful for the systems which are not online all the time. chronyd is smaller, it uses less memory and it wakes up the CPU only when necessary, which is better for power saving. It can perform well even when the network is congested for longer periods of time.

Most of the hardware in your PC can be easily replaced. Your hard disk drive, however, is an exception. Use mdadm to keep a secondary copy of all your data.

Here are several ways to count the number of files in a directory in Linux command line.

This article is about how to add a user to a group. The instructions will work well on most Linux distros, including Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, etc.

DNS cache is a temporary database that stores information about previous DNS lookups. In other words, whenever you visit a website your OS and web browser will keep a record for the domain and the corresponding IP address. This eliminates the need for repetitive queries to the remote DNS servers and allows your OS or browser to quickly resolve the website’s URL.

Toradex’s “Torizon” embedded Linux distro is built on Foundries.io’s Linux microPlatforms and aimed at Windows migrants and other Linux newcomers. It features Visual Studio integration, security features, OTA updates, and an optional Docker runtime. Traditionally, embedded Linux distros launched by embedded board developers are hardened stacks designed for real-time Linux. Lately, however, we’ve seen some […]

Purism has just launched an online service it has dubbed "Librem One", which is, as Purism calls it, a "suite of apps and services designed to provide users with convenient alternatives to Big Tech products". There are two components of Librem One that are offered free of cost (or, at least, choose your own price): Chat and Social Media.

Diversity in tech was front and center at DockerCon's second day, as CEO Steve Singh announced the Docker Foundation to promote workplace diversity.

I've spent several hours now, enjoying the sometimes frustrating new game, Guard Duty, from Sick Chicken Studios. Did I say "frustrating"? Because I meant it, but in a good way. The Sick Chicken people have spent way too many hours watching Monty Python and reading Terry Pratchett novels, and it shows. They also have a thing for golden-age point-and-click games, classic 320x240 resolution pixel art, all combined with comedic and sometimes touching storytelling.

I like a good challenge. The Open Source Stories team came to me with a great one: Create a hardware project where students could create their own thing that would be put together as a larger thing. The students would be middle school girls. My job was to figure out the hardware and make this thing make sense. read more

To make any configuration changes, you have to open and edit the file. In this article, I will describe how to edit config files in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Using Gedit, Nano, Vim, Gvim, and Emacs Editor.

Video: If we're to ever have 5G in the real world, it's going to be running on Kubernetes.

?VidCutter is available for all major operating systems including Linux. On Linux, Vidcutter flatpak and snap both are available. Source code is available at github.

Icecast is a free, open source and most popular media streaming server that supports Ogg, Opus, WebM, MP3, and many more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Icecast media streaming server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.