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Linux for the Industry 4.0 era: New distro for factory automation

  • Network World; By Sandra Henry-Stocker (Posted by MLD67 on Nov 29, 2017 6:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Helping to usher in the Industry 4.0 era, NXP Semiconductors announced OpenIL, a Linux distribution meant for smart factory automation.

NXP's open source OpenIL Linux distro has Xenomai and OpenTSN support

NXP unveiled an “Open Industrial Linux” (OpenIL) distribution with real-time Xenomai extensions, crypto security, and support for OpenTSN networking. NXP announced a Buildroot-based, Xenomai-hardened “Open Industrial Linux” (OpenIL) distribution designed for industrial, networking, and secure connectivity applications that require real-time, determinist performance. OpenIL is billed as being open source, community backed, and hardware agnostic. One […]

KDE Plasma 5.11.4 Desktop Environment Released with 45 Improvements and Bugfixes

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 29, 2017 4:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
The KDE Project announced a few moments ago the general availability of the forth maintenance update to the latest stable KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

4 ways to engage your organizations various stakeholders

I've spent most of my professional life helping organizations be more open to their stakeholders. I'm a partner in a consulting company in Chile, whose typical customer is a for-profit organization wishing to develop some kind of public works project (for example, an electricity generation station, a transmission line, a mine, a road, an airport, or something similar). Projects like these typically aim to fill a social need—but they're often intended for locations where development and operation can have negative impacts (or, in economic terms, "externalities").

Facebook, Google, IBM, Red Hat Strengthen Open Source License Protection

Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat today announced they're going to provide greater legal protection for some of the open source code they license. The companies committed to extend more rights to cure open source license compliance errors.

Java Microservices, Resiliency, and Istio

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers all Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects under one roof to further the advancement of cloud native computing. At the upcoming event in Austin, Animesh Singh and Tommy Li of IBM will discuss how to build, deploy, and connect Java microservices with Istio service mesh. In this article, Singh offers a preview of their presentation..

You Can Now Run a Custom Linux 4.14.2 Kernel on Your Slackware PC, Here's How

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new custom kernel based on the latest Linux 4.14.2 upstream kernel release for Slackware and Slackware-based GNU/Linux distributions.

How to rename user in Linux (also rename group & home directory)

We might have come across a situation where we might want to rename user in Linux system, for whatever reasons. We can easily rename user in Linux & also we can rename the home...

Latest SparkyLinux for Raspberry Pi OS Brings Lighter Apps, Improved Networking

The second development image of the SparkyLinux for ARMhf operating system has been released today for Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

Fedora Classroom Session: Ansible 101

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Nov 28, 2017 7:19 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Fedora Classroom sessions continue this week with an Ansible session. The general schedule for sessions appears on the wiki. You can also find resources and recordings from previous sessions there. Here are details about this week’s session on Thursday, 30th November at 1600 UTC.... Continue Reading →

Tiny IoT gateway built on Raspberry Pi Compute Module wears HATs

CompuLab’s IOT-GATE-RPi mini-PC/gateway builds on the RPi CM3 with 2x GbE, RPi HAT expansion, and optional WiFi, BT, 3G, LTE, and -40 to 80°C support. CompuLab has added another Linux-friendly member of its IOT-GATE family of ultra-compact mini-PCs, following the IOT-GATE-iMX7, which is built around its NXP i.MX7 based CL-SOM-iMX7 computer-on-module. For the new IOT-GATE-RPi, […]

Linux Mint 18.2 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia," Here's How

The upgrade path from the Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" operating system is now officially open and users can upgrade their installations to the latest Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" release.

The politics of the Linux desktop

At some point in 1997 or 1998—history does not record exactly when—I made the leap from Windows to the Linux desktop. I went through quite a few distributions, from Red Hat to SUSE to Slackware, then Debian, Debian Experimental, and (for a long time thereafter) Ubuntu. When I accepted a role at Red Hat, I moved to Fedora, and migrated both my kids (then 9 and 11) to Fedora as well. read more

Android 8.1 Oreo Slated for Release in December, Supports Pixel 2’s Hidden Chip

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 28, 2017 2:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android
Google released the final preview of its upcoming Android 8.1 Oreo software update, teasing users with a December release for supported Pixel and Nexus devices.

What's that fresh, zesty fragrance? Oh, Linux Mint 18.3 has landed

System reports, snapshots, improved app store, backups Linux Mint 18.3 – aka "Sylvia" – is here to remind users that, hey, sometimes Linux can work a little bit more like Apple, Google and Microsoft software. (Just kidding, don't kill us.)…

tmate – Instantly Share Your Terminal Session To Anyone In Seconds

tmate is a terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing.

Redirect http to https: Apache Server

SSL secured webstites or HTTPS has now become a must to have on website, especially those handling sensitive client information. Having a HTTPS enabled website means that a intruder can’t intrude to communication between...

Why Python and Pygame are a great pair for beginning programmers

Last month, Scott Nesbitt wrote about Mozilla awarding $500K to support open source projects. Phaser, a HTML/JavaScript game platform, was awarded $50,000. I’ve been teaching Phaser to my pre-teen daughter for a year, and it's one of the best and easiest HTML game development platforms to learn. read more

Long-term Linux support future clarified

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by bob on Nov 28, 2017 8:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Long-term support Linux version 4.4 will get six years of life, but that doesn't mean other LTS editions will last so long.

Getting started with reinforcement learning

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Nov 28, 2017 6:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Most people deeply interested in the topic of machine learning think it is synonymous with neural networks. In their current incarnation, neural networks seem to be versatile tools. By selecting the right type of neural network, the same tool, with small variations, might be able to solve most problems. This does not mean, though, that neural networks are the best (or even the right) tool to use for a given problem. read more

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