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Free computer advice comes with a price
If you're like most people who are knowledgeable about free and open source software (FOSS), you're probably also interested in encouraging more people to use it. The good news is there are many ways you can help people who are not as technically minded as you learn about and use FOSS.
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Linux-driven Zynq SBC launches at $89 with WiFi, BT, and Arduino
Avnet’s $89 MiniZed SBC is its lowest cost Zynq-based board yet. It offers 8GB eMMC, WiFi, BT, USB host, 2x micro-USB, and an Arduino interface. The MiniZed SBC breaks new ground in pricing among Avnet’s Xilinx Zynq-7000 based computer-on-modules and SBCs, selling for $89 compared to $199 for the MicroZed SBC. The MiniZed supports “industrial […]
Microsoft Joins Hot Open Source PaaS Project Cloud Foundry
Microsoft joins the organization as a second-tier gold member, which will cost it $100,000 a year. For its money, it gets to nominate a candidate to possibly fill one of two seats on the foundation’s board of directors and will have a seat on the technology advisory board. This will give Redmond input into the directions future development takes and help assure that its needs for the use of Cloud Foundry with Azure are taken into consideration.
5 totally incorrect ways to exit Vim
Vim can be a challenge to learn. But for many first-time users, just exiting the program can be a problem.
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Docker Getting Certified and Set to Grow in China
Docker Inc has been busy the first two weeks of June with a series of initiatives that aim to help grow the company's business opportunities.
Supreme Court will weigh in on troll-killing patent-review process
Boiled down, an IPR petition is a request for the US Patent and Trademark Office to reconsider whether it should have granted a certain patent in the first place. If the USPTO takes up an IPR petition, the result is a kind of "litigation-light," with briefing by lawyers and a short trial-like procedure at the USPTO. The IPR process was created by the 2011 America Invents Act, and the reviews got underway in 2012.
IPRs follow a process that is substantially faster, and a whole lot cheaper, than trying to invalidate a patent in district court.
IPRs follow a process that is substantially faster, and a whole lot cheaper, than trying to invalidate a patent in district court.
Top 5 Ubuntu Themes Of The Month
Every month we select the top themes for Ubuntu. Many themes stay same and many change. Themes are one of the best ways to make our desktop beautiful and who doesn’t want to make his desktop beautiful? The themes mentioned below are paid and free too. Select as per your liking and install it right now.
Mozilla Launches Firefox 54, First Release to Use Multiple Content Processes
Mozilla promoted today the Firefox 54.0 web browser to the stable channel for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
4 habits of revenue-generating CIOs: New Harvard Business Review research
The CIO is essential to technology-enabled revenue generation. Here’s how to get there.
Artificial Intelligence: Open Source and Standards Bodies Drive Opportunities
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) skillsets are now becoming a crucial way for technology-focused workers to differentiate themselves from the pack.
Parted Magic Disk Partitioning Live CD Updated with Linux 4.11.4, ZFS on Linux
Parted Magic creator Patrick Verner announced today the release and immediate availability of the Parted Magic 2017_06_12 updated ISO image of the commercial GNU/Linux distribution designed for disk partitioning and maintenance tasks.
Faster Firefox: It's Better Now
With E10S, our new version of Firefox nails the “just right” balance between memory and speed On the Firefox team, one thing we always hear from our users is that ...
The top 7 Linux IoT projects
It’s a Linux world, and the rest of computing is just living in it – often literally, thanks to containerization. IoT, in all of its manifold forms, is no exception, and the Linux Foundation lists these seven projects as the key players in the march of connected open-source systems.
Samba 4 with Active Directory on CentOS 7 rpm based installation with share support
This tutorial shows how to install Samba 4 with Active Directory support on CentOS 7 with precompiled packages from Wing repository and SELinux enabled.
Announcing the Release of Fedora 26 Beta
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26 Beta, the next big step on our journey to the exciting Fedora 26 release in July. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: Get Fedora 26... Continue Reading →
What is IT culture? Today's leaders need to know
"Culture" is a pretty ambiguous word. Sure, reams of social science research explore exactly what exactly "culture" is, but to the average Joe and Josephine the word really means something different than it does to academics. In most scenarios, "culture" seems to map more closely to something like "the set of social norms and expectations in a group of people." By extension, then, an "IT culture" is simply "the set of social norms and expectations pertinent to a group of people working in an IT organization."
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Is the Moon Waxing or Waning?
In my last
article, I talked about the complications of
calculating the phase of the moon and decided simply to scrape the same website that Google uses.
 
5 Must-Have Security Tools for Your Linux PC
Security is important, even on Linux desktops. These 5 security tools for Linux can help protect your desktop against a wide variety of security threats.
An introduction to parameter expansion in Bash
In Bash, entities that store values are known as parameters. Their values can be strings or arrays with regular syntax, or they can be integers or associative arrays when special attributes are set with the declare built-in. There are three types of parameters: positional parameters, special parameters, and variables.
For the sake of brevity, this article will focus on a few classes of expansion methods available for string variables, though these methods apply equally to other types of parameters.
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Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Beta Is Now Available
Launched just some days ago, Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” is another LTS variant in the series of 18 and 18.1. However, the distro is still in beta, the team has promised that it will be possible to upgrade to the stable version through beta or 18.1 or 18 through native updates. The updates will be started after the launch of the stable version.
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