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Garz & Fricke unveiled a compact “Nallino Core” SBC that runs Linux on an i.MX6 ULL SoC and offers LAN, USB, CAN, and serial I/O. G&F is also prepping a i.MX6 Solo based “SANTVEND Battery Core” SBC with a 4G modem. Braunschweig, Germany based embedded vendor Garz & Fricke has posted specs for a “coming […]

Transparency is key in an open organization. This isn't a controversial statement. But is too much transparency in an organization possible? read more

pytest turns out to be easy to use, easy to work with and easy to integrate into my work. Part of the reason for this is that pytest abandons the Python idea of "there's only one way to do it", giving developers a great degree of flexibility and freedom in choosing how to write tests.

If you are a Linux system admin, or your work involves managing users, there are many tools that you should be aware of. Once such command line utility is finger, basics of which we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.

Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. As the creators and authors point out, the analysis demands of high-throughput “-omic” (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) science has necessitated the development of integrated computing solutions to analyze the resultant mountains of experimental data. read more

The side effect of Debian's stability is that you are not running the latest version of any software. Learn how to install newer software in Debian.

FFmpeg is a free and open source command line tool for transcoding multimedia files. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. With FFmpeg you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates and resize videos.

The non-profit technology consortium XBMC/Kodi Foundation proudly announced the limited availability of the second-generation "Kodi Edition" Raspberry Pi case.

Kontron’s “SMARC-sAL28” module runs Linux on a dual-core, Cortex-A72 LS1028 SoC with -40 to 85°C support and up to 5x GbE ports with Time Sensitive Networking. Kontron invented the ULP-COM standard that formed the basis of the SMARC form factor, and it has delivered numerous SMARC modules over the years, including Arm products such as […]

IPFire project's Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.21 Core Update 125, an incremental update to the hardened open-source Linux firewall distribution targeted at routers and hardware firewalls.

There are unlimited videos available on the Internet on numerous video hosting websites but sometimes we need to download some videos for offline use. In this article, we are providing you with three tools that you can use to download videos not only from YouTube but numerous other supported websites.

The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web application and a web-based mail server admin console in a single application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration features and an ajax webmail client. In this tutorial, we will see how to upgrade an installation of Zimbra 8.7.11 to Zimbra 8.8.10 (latest version available).

On Opensource.com, we have a lot of reasons to be thankful. Over the past 12 months, we've had the pleasure of working with writers from a range of open source communities, organizations, and projects. We've had ongoing relationships and friendships with many of them, plus we've enjoyed welcoming dozens of new contributors to the site and new moderators to our community moderator program.

We have already written about snaps and its advantages against other packaging application system. If we compare RPM and DEB packages to snaps we can see on snaps automatic background updates allowing up-to-date applications, with bugs fixes more frequently.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton has made a new distro for the tiny Raspberry Pi single-board computers, this time based on the popular openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system and the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

The service command lets you run a System V init script. In this tutorial, we will briefly discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.

As the global technology evangelist director of Red Hat’s portfolio product marketing group, I have a secondary focus on portfolio architectures. I research customer successes in solution implementation using our open source technologies, then produce generic higher-level architectural content so that others may benefit from these real-life experiences. read more

nnn is a very fast terminal file manager whose main goal is seamless desktop environment integration. The Ncurses based keyboard-driven terminal application features basic, details (default) and disk usage analyzer modes, with navigate as you type, vidir integration, terminal locker, and much more.

Fun with retro-coding a Roman numeral converter—I head back to my college years and solve me homework anew!

One great thing about programming languages is that there is such diversity that you can choose the best one to solve any given problem. But sometimes the worst thing can be when projects take advantage of this and build applications or systems of applications that require domain knowledge of many different languages. When this happens, it can be difficult for everyone, or even anyone, to fully understand the scope of the project. read more