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Do you know what's in your pacemaker's source code? Your defibrillator? Your insulin pump? No one does -- except its maker. And that's worrying.

In the previous article, we introduced the subject of angle brackets (< >) and demonstrated some of their uses. Here, we'll look at the topic from a few more angles. Let's dive right in.

The awesome folks over at The Document Foundation have informed us today about the worldwide availability of their highly anticipated LibreOffice 6.2 release of the popular open-source and cross-platform office suite.

Adlink has launched a rugged, Linux-ready “DMI-1210” touch-panel PC for train drivers with an Atom x5-E3930, a 12.1-inch touchscreen, EN 50155 compilance, MVB and CAN interfaces, and wireless options including 4G and GNSS. Adlink’s DMI-1210 touch-panel computer is primarily designed as an HMI unit for train drivers but can also be used as a control […]

After announcing the release of Chrome 72 for Android, Google promoted today the Chrome 72 web browser to the stable channel for Linux, Windows, and Mac computers too.

Several commands for adding and modifying users in a mysql database.

Did you ever try to configure a printer on a GNU/Linux desktop distribution at the end of the '90s? Or even before? To make a long story short: That was fine if you worked at a large organization with an IT team to handle it and dedicated hardware or a printing server. There were many different standards and protocols to handle printers. And only a few big vendors (usually Unix vendors) provided specific support and drivers for their entire range of products. read more

2DayGeeK: UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier is used to identify a hard drives partition in Linux.

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding, and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.

In 2018, I surpassed a few personal milestones. In February, I celebrated 15 years of working at Red Hat. Then, in May, I turned the big 40—so you can imagine why I might be feeling more reflective of life in general these days. read more

Teamviewer is a popular way for remote teams to collaborate, share screens and provide tech support. Learn how to install and use Teamviewer on Linux!

This tutorial explains how to install Samba on Ubuntu 18.04 and configure it as a standalone server to provide file sharing across different operating systems over a network.

News briefs for January 28, 2019.

As part of its new LF Edge initiative for open source edge computing, the Linux Foundation announced a new Project EVE based on Zededa’s cloud-native based virtualization engine for embedded containers. The LF Edge umbrella organization for open source edge computing that was announced by the Linux Foundation last week includes two new projects: Samsung […]

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Elizabeth Renieris about digital identity, ethics, boiled frogs, and horses with lasers.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released today a new version of his DebEX Linux Debian-based computer operating system that updates various components, including the Linux kernel.

Docker is a utility which allows a special type of virtualization. Docker allows for a program to be run “virtually” on a system by using a Docker image. An image can be downloaded or created which can then be run. Once the image is loaded and executed it is now a container. A container has allocated resources set aside for the program within the container.

Last week articles from our linux.conf.au speaker series and Kevin Sonney's open source tools series were big hits with readers. 

The Firefox 65 web browser is now available for download ahead of tomorrow's launch, January 29, 2019, when Mozilla will officially unveil the latest version in the "Quantum" series and the new features and improvements they worked on since Firefox 64.

E-Con has launched a Linux-driven “e-CAM130_CUXVR” robotics vision kit with up to 4x 13MP, MIPI CSI-2 cameras with synchronized 4K support, designed to work Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Xavier kit. E-Con Systems’ e-CAM130_CUXVR is its first camera kit based on Nvidia’s latest, Linux-powered Jetson AGX Xavier module. The kit includes a V4L2 Linux driver, Gstreamer 1.0, […]