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In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight a My Open Source Story, open source LEGO projects, a story of 3D animation and movie-making, ownCloud favorites, and practical uses for LibreOffice.

Originally based on BSD RCP protocol, SCP (Secure copy) is a mechanism that allows you to transfer a file between two end points over a secure SSH connection. However, as a simple secure copy protocol, SCP does not understand range-request or partial transfer like HTTP does.

The IoT-focused “LinkIt Smart 7688” SBC from MediaTek Labs and Seeed runs OpenWrt on a WiFi-enabled, MediaTek MT7688AN SoC.

Capture screen recordings on windows with ffmpeg and record it for permanent archival with NGINX RTMP module or view it live with VLC.

I love Sonos. There probably are some audiophiles reading this who rolled their eyes at my lack of auditory prowess, but honestly, the speakers sound wonderful to my 1980s-damaged eardrums. Granted, the Wi-Fi-enabled speakers are very expensive, thus limiting my supply.

There are many small form factor personal computers, generally aimed and specific tasks. but the new GeekBox is the first one I have seen with an identity crisis.

As Al Sweigart explains in his article I am already a zygote. Is it too late for me to learn to program?, you're never too old to learn how to program. And we should think twice before being intimidated by folks who say they were programming before they started walking—that doesn't mean they were writing good code. read more

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Renesas unveiled its latest R-Car H3 automotive SoC, with four Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores, a PowerVR GX6650 GPU, and ISO 26262 safety compliance. Renesas has announced initial samples of a third generation R-Car automotive system-on-chip. Like the R-Car H2 system announced in early 2013, the R-Car H3 is an octa-core chip using ARM Big.Little […]

I hate telling the story of how I learned to program. In the third grade, a friend showed me a book he found in the school library on making small games in the BASIC programming language. I was obsessed with Nintendo and got hooked on the idea of creating my own video games. I began programming and stuck with it, majored in computer science, and afterward became a software developer and tech book author. read more

Disk vault Bitlocker snubs self-encrypting drives – when's the fix? We know Microsoft can be pretty secretive about its spyware-as-a-service Windows 10, but Redmond has now taken its furtiveness to a whole new level.…

We recently interviewed Jamie Duncan on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →

Aaeon’s “Boxer-6914” PC runs Linux on an Atom D2550, and offers 16 serial ports, six USB ports, SATA, CFast, dual GbE’s, and optional wireless. Aaeon’s Fedora Linux ready Boxer-6914 is quite similar to the Boxer-6614 it released earlier this year, but it lacks the external heatsink, and adds a lot more serial ports, as well […]

No date? No problem. In case you have nothing planned as 2015 dovetails into 2016 on the final day of this month, Ubuntu has you covered. According to an article in Softpedia, the first alpha for Ubuntu 16.04 — bestowed with the release name handed down by The Mark as “Xenial Xerus,” for those of you keeping score at home — will be released on December 31, just in time for the lighted ball to fall in Times Square before the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” waft through the air. Enjoy the holiday!

In 2014, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean decided to encourage contribution to open source software projects, so they sponsored Hacktoberfest. More than 500 participants completed the challenge by making at least 50 commits to projects. This year, DigitalOcean wanted to focus on improving projects. read more

Windows 10 IoT Core Pro lets thing-makers opt-out of security updates Microsoft's released a new flavour of Windows 10.…

The new Enlightenment E20 Desktop has just been released. The Enlightenment project consists of the Enlightenment Window manager (which was started in 1996), the EFL library that contains graphic, widget, network, and other basic desktop functions and some applications that are based on EFL like a terminal emulator, a video player, and an IDE. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the E20 Desktop on the current Ubuntu 15.10.

Just as well considering all the new OSs it's putting out there Apple has open-sourced its Swift programming language, used to write apps for its ecosystem of products.…

In the area of technical support?, it’s nothing new, but it’s the first time I can recall seeing it integrated in the control center of a Linux distribution. And the integration, like almost every aspect of what I’ve seen on Deepin 15 alpha 2, is smooth.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the serious business of stickers in open source culture. I shared the Rules of Sticker Club, criteria stickers must meet to make it onto the limited space of a laptop.