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SDG Systems launched a Linux version of Trimble’s 7-inch Yuma 2 tablet, featuring an Atom N2600, sunlight readability, and MIL-STD-810G and IP65 protection.

Like Axiomtek’s Atom E3800-based PICO822 single board computer, the new PICO121 SBC uses the 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX form-factor and features optional I/O. This time, however, you can choose between two I/O expansion board options. For further customization, you can call upon a PCI Express (PCIe) slot, and both full- and half-sized mini-PCIe slots, with the full-size slot supporting mSATA.

The official containerisation solution for security on Samsung phones and tablets has passed muster with GCHQ. It’s now deemed safe enough for UK government employees to get a Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S3 S4 or Galaxy S5 all of which run the Korean firm's KNOX software.

Entangle is an application that uses the PTP protocol to allow the user to control digital cameras from within Fedora. You simply connect your compatible digital camera to fedora, fire up entangle, and start taking photos. The Entangle user interface also allows you to tweak the settings of the shot (e.g. aperture and shutter speed) right from Fedora, without having to play with these settings on the camera itself.

Here’s the latest from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the battle to keep DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) out of the Web. This is case of the forces of good being less powerful than the forces of evil. And knowing how this things go, I don’t see how this can be reversed.

Calibre 1.37, an eBook reader, editor, and library management software that is compatible with a wide array of devices, has been released and the new version encompasses a large number of new features.

BattleBlock Theater as promised is now out for Linux on Steam bringing with it some co-op platforming mayhem and it looks awesome.

Mint 17 is on its way. If you are a Windows user you might want to consider trying Linux Mint out in a virtual machine prior to the release date to get used to the look and feel. This guide shows you how to set up Linux Mint in VirtualBox.

Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, the Chinese Linux distribution developed in collaboration with Canonical, has been received very well in China and the first OEM partner for this particular Ubuntu flavor has been announced.

This is the continuation of part four of a series based on talks at February at DevConf in the Czech Republic. I was going to cover all of the reports from each of the Working Group liaisons in one post, but that turned out to be quite a wall of text, so I’m going to do them one by one, with Stephen Gallagher from the Fedora Server Working Group this week.

A Raspberry Pi accessory with an odd name, it’s essential for making some amazing projects.

Canonical has introduced a new OpenStack cloud hosting service and Ubuntu OpenStack training, while also achieving milestones in the OpenStack cloud computing world.

Linux Lite 2.0 beta is now available for download and testing. This build is the work of four months of constant development and the implementation of the best ideas from the team and the wider community. This also marks the beginning of our own repositories for our custom software so that changes and improvements to the operating system can be offered regularly. Now Lite User Manager, Lite Manual, Lite Software and Lite Fix can evolve more easily to meet the needs of the user. In this release we wanted to combine the newest versions of well-established and supported software like LibreOffice, WINE and GIMP so that people have access to the latest features in those programs.

For most video-watching aficionados, VLC is an essential piece of software. The open-source app is well known for being a fantastic movie and music player, but there are a few clever tricks that can help you get a lot more out of the media player. We gathered seven fun and useful VLC features, that will help you get the most out of the media player.

One of the ironic twists in this story is that Red Hat held its OpenStack Summit party on May 14 at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. To be sure, it was a lavish event with plenty of food and drink, but at the heart of the World of Coca-Cola building there lies a secret.

This week, we look at IBM's attempt to pivot to the cloud, Microsoft's monumentally bad timing around its cloud music service announcement and Alibaba getting into the cloud infrastructure game.

Sometimes we, as a normal user or a system admin, need to know how well our system is running. Many questions related to system status can be answered by checking log files generated by active services. However, inspecting every bit of log files is not easy even for seasoned system admins. That is why they […]Continue reading... The post How to set up a web-based lightweight system monitor on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to set up a lightweight web server on Raspberry Pi How to monitor a Linux server and desktop remotely from web browser How to set up web-based network traffic monitoring system on Linux How to monitor common services with Nagios How to monitor Linux servers with SNMP and Cacti

This time last year, Carrie Anne Philbin was a teacher. And not just any teacher. In becoming Google Certified and a Key Stage 3 ICT subject leader at a school in East London, she had grown into something else: an evangelist for the power of a small, credit card-sized computer that we all know as the Raspberry Pi.

The best software prioritizes the needs of its users. Listening to the user and more closely involving them in all aspects of design, development, and documentation has been a key focus of this year's OpenStack Summit, which is wrapping up here in Atlanta todayThe user is an important aspect of any open source project, but for a big project with lots of different overlapping use cases, understanding the user is even more important.

The Mozilla Foundation appears to be capable of blowing hot and cold when it suits them. On Wednesday, it announced that it would be including digital restrictions (or rights, if you prefer) management in Firefox via code from Adobe.