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Zram was originally called "compcache," which stands for "compressed cache." It turns out that zram is a tool for creating an in-RAM compressed cache, specifically for use as swap space. But Why?

The market-leading content delivery network has big plans for Linode's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud.

Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff. Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've got what it takes.…

The Arduino Opta is an embedded platform featuring STM32 STM32H747XI dual-core Cortex M7+M4 MCU for real time industrial applications. The device is offered in three variants which combine ethernet, RS485 support and wireless connectivity in addition to relays and 12-24V DC inputs. There are three Arduino Opta variants available, the Opta Wi-Fi, the Opta RS485 […]

The LOMP Stack is a popular software suite to deliver web applications. LOMP stands for Linux as the operating system, OpenLiteSpeed as the web server, MySQL/MariaDB as the database server, and PHP for the backend of applications.

If you're looking for a good, general-purpose, open source code editor with Python integration, then you might give Codium a try. Here's how I got Codium set up for Python on my Linux system.

Joy Cho is the founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand and design company Oh Joy! For two years in a row, she was named one of Time’s 30 Most Influential People on the Internet and has the most followed account on Pinterest with over 15 million followers. You can also follow her on […]

Hardkernel just launched a new Odroid board based on the S922X hexa-core SoC. The Odroid-N2L doesn’t include ethernet support, but it comes with up to 4GB of LPDDR4, one 4K@60Hz HDMI, 40 I/O pins via expansion header and an eMMC connector. Unlike the RK3568B2 based ODROID-M1 also released this year, the N2L features the 12nm […]

LibreNMS is a monitoring tool that supports auto-discovery with multiple protocols, including SNMP, ARP, OSPF, and BGP. In this guide, you will learn how to install the LibreNMS monitoring tool on the Rocky Linux server. This guide includes the installation of the LEMP Stack (Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM) and the basic configuration of the SNMP service.

Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects Ubuntu Summit Canonical remains committed to its Snap format as the coverage at its first public gathering in a few years shows.…

When you're a systems administrator, you tend to spend a lot of time in a terminal window. It's a direct and efficient interface to your local machine, to remote machines, the network, the Internet, and everything else, so it's usually the easiest and most sensible way to do a lot of things to a lot of computers at once. And when you spend all day in a terminal, you understandably start to question whether you actually need a desktop at all.

Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is an open-source and powerful business management software. Odoo works as a central application that allows you to manage business-related tasks from one single web application dashboard. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Odoo 14 on the Debian 11 Bullseye.

Having just switched work laptops last December, I realized how much I love applying stickers to my work machines. Sometimes the stickers are souvenirs from past events, others are from projects that I am passionate about, and some are just for fun! Curious to know what others had on their laptops, I asked!

Relational databases don't work well with time-series data. This tutorial shows you how to use InfluxDB to analyze data that is gathered over time.

Build your own SaaS on Linux with Vely. Vely combines high performance and the low footprint of C with the ease of use and improved safety of languages like PHP. It's free and open source software, licensed under GPLv3 and LGPL 3 for libraries, so you can even build commercial software with it.

So you want (or need) to figure out what "open source" really means. I'll cover the basics of open source, whether you're interested in contributing to a project or want to be in the loop at a new job where the term keeps getting thrown around.

Last week T-Head semiconductors announced their XuanTie C908 which implements a 9-stage pipeline along with an AI acceleration engine for AR/VR apps. Similarly, SiFive also shared details about their new P670/P470 RISC-V processors for wearables and smart consumer devices. T-Head Semiconductor mentioned that the XuanTie C908 is offered in two architectures: RV32GCB[V] (32-bit) and RV64GCB[V] […]

GlassFish is a free and open-source implementation of the Java EE Platform developed by Eclipse. In this tutorial, we will install the GlassFish Java Application Server with Nginx reverse proxy on Rocky Linux.

Future Intel CPUs and some existing processors via a microcode update will support a new feature called the Asynchronous EXit (AEX) notification mechanism to help with Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enclave security. Patches for the Linux kernel are pending for implementing this Intel AEX Notify support with capable processors.

Synology launched this week a Wi-Fi 6 router with transmission rates up to 600Mbps (2.4 GHz) and up to 2400Mbps (5 GHz). The WRX560 router features one 2.5GbE WAN/LAN port, one Gigabit WAN and up to three Gigabit LAN ports. The WRX560’s datasheet mentions that this product features a Quad-core processor (Up to 1.4GHz) along […]