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Love building up a city and watching it all come to life? Good news for you then, as The Colonists has now been released for Linux.

Asus is prepping a “Tinker Edge R” SBC with an RK3399Pro, along with “Tinker Edge T” and “CR1S-CM-A” variants of Google’s i.MX8M and Edge TPU equipped Coral Dev Board. There’s also a 8th Gen Core based “PN60T” mini-PC with an Edge TPU. At Computex this week, Asus showed off two new open-spec Tinker boards, including […]

CouchDB is an open-source fault-tolerant and schema-free NoSQL database maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. CouchDB server stores its data in named databases which contains documents with JSON structure. Each document consists of a number of fields and attachments. Fields can include text, numbers, lists, booleans, more. It is accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API that allows you to read, create, edit and delete database documents. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the latest version of CouchDB on Debian 9.

Chrome extension creators and Drive app makers face pending API and policy limitations. Google on Thursday announced plans to tighten its requirements for developers of Chrome extensions and apps that utilize the Drive API as part of a previously announced re-evaluation of third-party access to Google user data.…

After releasing Unity 2019.1 back in April, it was mentioned that the Unity Editor for Linux was moving on from experimental status and now it's very much official.

The openSUSE Project announced that the openSUSE Leap 42.3 operating system will reach end of life next month on June 30th, 2019, urging users to prepare to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.1.

Install WordPress with Nginx Reverse Proxy to Apache with Ubuntu 18.04 on Google Cloud Platform with PHP 7.3, Nginx, Apache, Let’s Encrypt SSL, Remote MySQL 5.7

Shuttle will soon launch a compact, Linux-friendly “EN01” mini-PC series starting with an EN01J model with an Apollo Lake SoC, up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 64GB eMMC, GbE with optional PoE, and M.2 expansion. A future model will tap the Jetson TX2. Although Linux-ready mini-PCs have been around for well over a decade, the market […]

Linux PCs are growing in popularity for professional programmers and Dell continues to back them.

FriendlyElec’s $75, RK3399-based “SOM-RK3399” COM/SBC hybrid can stand alone or expand with a $120 “SOM-RK3399 Dev Kit” with -20 to 70? support and M.2 and mini-PCIe expansion. Last year, FriendlyElec released two open-spec SBCs that ran Linux and Android on the hexa-core Rockchip RK3399: the $65 and up NanoPi M4 and the smaller, $50 NanoPi […]

ffsend is the command line client of Firefox Send. This article will show how Firefox Send and ffsend work. It’ll also detail how it can be installed and used in Fedora. What are Firefox Send and ffsend ? Firefox Send is a file sharing tool from Mozilla that allows sending encrypted files to other users. […]

In this article, we will walk through the steps that will help you to verify any download in Ubuntu operating system using SHA256 checksums and GPG Keys.

Two of Red Hat's more popular offerings received updates.

Shopware is the next generation of open source e-commerce software. This tutorial will walk you through the Shopware Community Edition (CE) installation on CentOS 7 system by using NGINX as a web server.

Prior to 2006, I had used only Windows. Around that time, there was a lot of anxiety about its upcoming successor to Windows XP, which at the time was code-named Project Longhorn. My colleagues and I all were dreading it. So, rather than go through all that trouble, I switched to Linux.

Before we get into the latest scary-virtual private network (VPN) news, lets do as Naked Security's Paul Ducklin advises and repeat after him:

Sometimes when debugging an issue or updating the kernel you may need to reboot your Linux system. If you have a headless server you need to know how to restart the system from the command line.

This tutorial explains how to lock the keyboard and mouse, but not the screen in Linux using “xtrlock” utility.

I've been using and teaching Python for a long time now, but I'm always interested in increasing my knowledge about this practical and useful programming language. That's why I've been trying to expand my Python personal learning network (PLN), a concept that describes informal and mutually beneficial networks for sharing information. read more

News briefs for May 31, 2019.