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Logging is an essential debugging feature for any programming and scripting language, which goes beyond simple print statements. For example, logging allows you to track in which module/function/linenumber logging messages are generated. You can also differentiate logging based on severity, and can direct logging messages to stdout/stderr, a file, a network socket, etc.

For Intel’s desire to break into the maker market dominated by ARM and microcontrollers, is the third time the charm?

Marvell’s dual-core Cortex-A7 “IAP220” SoC for low-power IoT and wearables runs Linux, Android, or Brillo, and offers an integrated sensor hub. The latest in Marvell’s IoT Application Processor (IAP) family of processors, the IAP220 is the little sister to Marvell’s IAP140 SoC. The newly shipping IAP140, which runs Brillo on Marvell’s Andromeda Box Edge hacker […]

Lives could have been put at risk by pushy upgrade When you're stuck in the middle of the Central African Republic (CAR) trying to protect the wildlife from armed poachers and the Lord's Resistance Army, then life's pretty tough. And now Microsoft has made it tougher with Windows 10 upgrades.…

OpenSwitch has joined the Linux Foundation's stable of networking projects. This is a significant step. It means the network operating system's development will be driven by community needs, instead of the needs of few private companies.

A round up of the major news stories in the Linux world.

Whether you’re using the Evolution groupware client for work or personal email, you very well might need to add a layer of security to your communications.

Softpedia has been informed today, June 3, 2016, by an anonymous reader that there's a new build of the PCLinuxOS 64 MATE Edition operating system available for download, version 2016.06.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight an open source 3D printed violin; a poll asking which of these two prominent boards, Raspberry Pi or Arduino, is best for beginners; one grandpa's Raspberry Pi project day with his grandkids; 6 open source architecture projects to check out; and a poll in honor of GIMP's 18 years since the release of version 1.0.

Network switches are common these days. You can even find quite a few designed for home use. But you can also build a virtual switch using a network bridge in Fedora. Maybe you have a complex home network requirement. You might want to firewall some systems.

How to create a desktop launcher in GNU/Linux

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Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

This page of SBC descriptions and spec summaries accompanies our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey, which polls the popularity of 81 Linux friendly, open-spec SBCs. Summaries of each of the 81 single board computers in our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey appear below, in alphabetical order. In addition, a convenient table comparing summary specs of all 81 […]

What do you do if you have an open source idea you think might get some traction from a Kickstarter campaign but you’re not sure it’s ready?

Humanitarian and development aid is about helping people suffering from both short-term and long-term problems. These problems can be natural (e.g., droughts, floods, and earthquakes) as well as man-made (e.g., poverty, war, and oppression). A recent example of a humanitarian crisis is the refugee situation in Europe, and the disorder in Syria and its surrounding region. read more

This doesn't mean the nagware is working: selling PCs running anything is now a slog Microsoft's sometimes hard-ball tactics to get people running Windows 10 look like they're working.…

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A fundamental design feature of Unix-like Operating Systems is that many of a system’s resources are accessible via the filesystem, as a file. For example the “procfs” pseudo-filesystem offers us access to all kinds of valuable treasures.

The company blames co-founder Frank Karlitschek starting a new competing company, Nextcloud, for the move. OwnCloud's parent German division remains open.