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In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Toyota turning to Linux in its newest Camry, the Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo Foundations merging, a new open source tool to prepare for data breaches, and more. Open source news roundup for May 28-June 9, 2017 read more

In my last article, I introduced how MCollective could be used for general orchestration tasks.

Flock is the annual conference where Fedora contributors meet up in person to collaborate and plan for future Fedora development. This year, Flock is in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA from the 29th of August to the 1st of September. If... Continue Reading →

Aaeon’s rugged, Linux-ready OMNI-5000 AIO panel PCs include Celeron J1900 based 12.1- and 15-inch models and a Skylake-based, 21.5-inch system. Aaeon has launched a line of OMNI-500 All-in-One panel PCs in three models with 12.1-, 15-, and 21.5-inch capacitive touchscreens. The two smaller models offer an Intel “Bay Trail” Celeron J1900 with four up to […]

Want IT to deliver business value? Focus your team on these three things.

A new TurtleBot3 rev of the open source, Ubuntu/ROS-based robot kit is available in “Burger” and “Waffle” models with an RPi 3 or Intel Joule, respectively. The “world’s most popular open source robot for education and research” has received a major upgrade with two modular TurtleBot3 models from Open Robitics that run Linux and Robot […]

In Linux, there may be times when you might want to change the owner and group-related information for a file or directory. If you are a command line newbie, and want to know how you can make such changes through the command line, you'll be glad to know that there exists a command - dubbed chown - that lets you do this.

Squirrelmail is one of the most popular Web-based email clients written in PHP. It has built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and it is designed to render all pages in pure HTML 4.0 with no JavaScript required, for maximum compatibility across browsers

LinuxKit project is now incubating several technologies to advance Linux security including the Wireguard VPN and Landlock security efforts.

Why training is so important, and how to take a proactive approach.

?This is a set of tools designed for technical/advanced users who wish to know more about their hardware and related components for servicing. This tool comes with various commands namely lsvpd, lscfg, lsmcode, lsvio & vpdupdate. Let’s proceed below to know more about them.

GNOME, the Fedora Workstation default environment, has a well known Alt+Tab feature to switch apps. This control groups windows for a single app together. For example, multiple terminal windows appear as a single terminal app. The Alt+` (backtick or backquote) shortcut switches between those... Continue Reading →

It’s written in Python and provides statusline to applications and make all applications more beautiful.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight education, Linux-friendly hardware, and more. Top 5 articles of the week 5. 5 great KDE apps to help you study  Zsolt Szakács shares tools for people who want to learn new skills or practice existing ones. With typing, geography, music, and more, there's something in here for everyone. read more

Links are a very handy way to create a shortcut to an original directory. Links are used in many instances: Sometimes to create a convenient path to a directory buried deep within the file hierarchy; other uses for links include:

Oracle wants to be a cloud power, but instead of branding their own cloud DevOps program, they'll be working with CoreOS on Kubernetes.

The Semantic Web, a term coined by World Wide Web (WWW) inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, refers to the concept that all the information in all the websites on the internet should be able to interoperate and communicate. That vision, of a web of knowledge that supplies information to anyone who wants it, is continuing to emerge and grow. read more

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the Internet. Like English, it's a language that language snobs love to hate, and it's spoken everywhere. As Anders Hejlsberg said: "JavaScript is the only true cross-platform game in town." read more

Some genuinely exciting news piqued my interest at this year’s DockerCon, that being the new operating system (OS) LinuxKit, which was announced and is immediately on offer from the undisputed heavyweight container company, Docker. The container giant has announced a flexible, extensible operating system where system services run inside containers for portability. You might be surprised to hear that even includes the Docker runtime daemon itself.

NutsBoard.org’s upcoming 3.5-inch, i.MX6-based “Pistachio” SBC follows the recently released TI AM3352 based “Almond” COM, Walnut carrier, and mini-PC. Shortly after Taiwan-based startup NutsBoard.org shipped a TI Sitara AM3352 based, 68 x 38mm Almond computer-on-module, the company went to Computex last week to show off an upcoming Pistachio SBC built around the NXP i.MX6.