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The Asus Tinker Board S is an ARM-based, single-board computer (SBC) with a quad-core CPU, 2GB RAM and support for 4K video and HD audio. It’s billed as a marvellous computer for DIY enthusiasts and makers.

News briefs for March 12, 2018.

Storj Labs has announced Ben Golub, Docker's co-founder and former CEO, is now Storj Labs' executive chairman and interim CEO. Top executives who get open source are rare and far between. So it is that Storj Labs, the leader in decentralized cloud storage, must be pleased as punch to announce that Ben Golub, former CEO and co-founder of Docker, is now Storj's executive chairman and interim CEO.

It's well known that there's a shortage of qualified candidates to fill IT jobs. Employers are urgently looking for people to fill DevOps, development, sysadmin, and other IT roles...To meet future demand for IT skills, we need to bring open source into the PK-12 classroom today. These schools are leading the way.

The developers of the Debian-based SparkyLinux GNU/Linux operating system announced over the weekend the release of the SparkyLinux 5.3 "Nibiru" Rolling ISO snapshot.

What's the favorite LJ reader laptop? The top three winners are: Lenovo: 32% Dell: 25% System76: 11%

This is a user-active survey to determine which desktop environments are most favoured by Linux users.

Former Docker CEO Ben Golub wants to help enable Storj Labs to become the Airbnb of the storage industry.

Distributed denial of service attacks, in which hackers use a targeted hose of junk traffic to overwhelm a service or take a server offline, have been a digital menace for decades. But in just the last 18 months, the public picture of DDoS defense has evolved rapidly.

Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort reports today the availability of a brand-new, Android-like power menu on Google's Chrome OS operating system for Chromebooks with a touch screen.

Last week Python, Raspberry Pi, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes dominated our list of reader favorites.

CURL is a command line utility to make HTTP requests and get data from web servers. CURL is also used to test REST APIs, as it is very lightweight and can easily be found on any Linux distribution. In this article, I will show you how to install and use CURL on Ubuntu 18.04 for useful tasks.

A “Leguino” educational hacker kit launching on Kickstarter lets you extend Lego projects with Lego form-factor gears, motors, displays, sensors, and breadboards, controlled by a “Visuino” GUI dev environment running on an Arduino or RPi Zero W.

If you are a Linux user who is also into system level software development, you may find yourself in situations where-in you need information related to symbols in an object file. You'll be glad to know there exists a command line utility - dubbed nm - that you can use in these situations.

For AMD card owners, the utilities that you need to overclock your card are included in the drivers you already have installed. Here’s how you can easily overclock the AMD GPU to get the best performance possible.

Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of running tests for every change made to a project, integrated as if this were the new deliverable. If done consistently, it means that software is always ready to be released. CI is a very... Continue Reading →

Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode reports today that Canonical plans to implement Facebook's zstd compression algorithm by default in future releases of their Ubuntu Linux operating system.

The inexpensive Kodak Brownie was the first camera to bring photography to the masses. The simplicity of its design meant anyone could figure out how to use it with little difficulty. Because it has essentially no controls to learn—there's just a shutter button, viewfinder, and film winder—it's even easy to use in comparison to today's cameras. read more

There has been much hype around the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that emerged in January, a huge impact in the world of software vulnerabilities. While some of this is justified by the fact that those vulnerabilities affected a majority of all processors in the market, the reality is that this was just another vulnerability on top of all the others in the market, which security professionals need to assess and manage every day.

VIDEO: on this episode of TWinL, we cover the latest Linux news from Bleachbit, KDE Falkon, Albert, Caprine, Museeks, Tizonia, WINE, the Librem 5, KDE Plasma 5.13, Ubuntu 18.04, Solus 4, and many more.