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2018 was a great year for Raspberry Pi . 2018 was a great year for Raspberry Pi . The community celebrated our sixth birthday by coordinating 150+ community-led Raspberry Jam events around the world (coming up again for our seventh birthday), and launched some new products, including the Pi 3 Model B+ and Model A+, as well as a TV HAT and PoE HAT.

Nextcloud is a free and open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform based on PHP. It is a great alternative to some of the popular services of this type, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OwnCloud, etc… With Nextcloud you can easily store the data on your Ubuntu 18.04 VPS, create and manage your contacts, calendars, todo lists, and much more. In this tutorial we will install Nextcloud version 15 on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS, which is a major release and it comes with a lot of new features and improvements.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the fifth and final point release to the KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment series, Plasma 5.14.5.

ClearCube has launched a “C3xPi Thin Client” follow-on to its original Raspberry Pi based thin client with a faster RPi 3 B+ with GbE and dual-band WiFi-ac, plus a second HDMI port for dual displays and Citrix HDX support. ClearCube’s new reboot of its C3Pi Thin Client, which shipped with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model […]

Chromium was updated in Fedora with a patch that enables VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support. When VAAPI is used, the video playback should be smoother, while also using less CPU and improving the power usage. This article explains how to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding on Fedora with Intel graphics, as well as enabling it for h264 videos, for both Intel and AMD graphics, and forcing YouTube to use h264 instead of VP8/VP9.

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PyCharm is an intelligent and fully featured IDE for Python developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS etc. You can also extend PyCharm features by using plugins.

An article inspired by a KubeCon North America 2018 conference talk was our biggest hit last week. Read on to see our round up of top 10 articles.

A new major Firefox version is expected to land at the end of January 2019 with some interesting changes and new features as Mozilla continues to improve the security and reliability of its open-source web browser.

Apache Friends has developed XAMPP which stands for Cross-Platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. By using this software you can test your web applications on your local system.

News briefs for January 8, 2019.

As the annual Defcon conference kicked off in Las Vegas this year, I followed its social media accounts full of reminders that if someone wants to find data that you've shared online, that data is findable. Those pictures on your "private" Instagram and those snaps that "disappear" aren't digital secrets. Keeping the parts of our lives that we want to remain private offline is something we must consciously consider. read more

Learn the fundamentals of sorting and de-duplicating text on the command line.

This article explains five simple ways that you can use through your keyboard, mouse control. or both, in order to open the Ubuntu Terminal application.

Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting Microsoft has announced that it is formalising the arrangement whereby Windows 10 inexplicably swipes a chunk of disk space for its own purposes in the form of Reserved Storage.…

Mathematics instruction has a bad reputation, especially with people (like me) who've had trouble with the traditional approach, which emphasizes rote memorization and theory that seems far removed from students' real world. While teaching a student who was baffled by his math lessons, Peter Farrell, a Python developer and mathematics teacher, decided to try using Python to teach the boy the math concepts he was having trouble learning. read more

Craft is an open source CMS written in PHP which allows you to easily create and manage great-looking content, and to design and build exactly what you need.

On this episode, we discuss the latest Linux kernel release, application news for Darktable, LibreELEC, and Polo File Manager. Then we talk about some Linux trends and Linux Gaming news.

ASLR is a memory exploitation mitigation technique used on both Linux and Windows systems. Learn how to tell if it's running, enable/disable it, and get a view of how it works.

Live video streaming is incredibly popular—and it's still growing. Platforms like Amazon's Twitch and Google's YouTube boast millions of users that stream and consume countless hours of live and recorded media. These services are often free to use but require you to have an account and generally hold your content behind advertisements. Some people don't need their videos to be available to the masses or just want more control over their content. Thankfully, with the power of open source software, anyone can set up a live streaming server. read more