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RTMP also called "real-time messaging protocol" is a data transmission technology that supports live online video streaming. It is used to transmit video files from an encoder to an online video hosting platform. This tutorial will show you how to set up a video streaming server using Nginx-RTMP on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Aries Embedded launched this week two embedded platforms based on Microchip’s PolarFire FPGA architecture. According to the company, “the M100PFS SoM integrates a hardened real-time, Linux capable, RISC-V-based MPU subsystem on the mid-range PolarFire SoCFPGA family.” The standard M100FPS SoM integrates the MPFS025T FPGA, although it can be configured with the other two variants with […]

When you want to learn a new programming language, it's good to focus on the things programming languages have in common: Variables, Expressions, Statements. These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand them, you can start figuring out the rest.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world. This tutorial will teach you how to install WordPress using Docker/Docker Compose. Using Docker, the process of installing the preferred stack becomes a lot easier. You can use the same configuration to install WordPress quickly on multiple servers. We will also install the phpMyAdmin tool for managing databases along with the Nginx proxy server to serve the site via SSL.

Teleport is an open-source that can be used as an access plane for your global infrastructure. It provides zero-trust access to a variety of services such as servers, Kubernetes clusters, database servers, DevOps applications like AWS Management Console, CI/CD, version control, and desktops.

This article describes recent work done at NERSC in collaboration with Red Hat to modify Podman (the pod manager tool) to run at a large scale, a key requirement for high-performance computing (HPC). Podman is an open source tool for developing, managing, and running containers on Linux systems.

This may show a future direction for Linux desktops/ Endless Computers is preparing a new version of its Endless OS distro, an easy-to-use OS for computing novices of all ages. It's a unique distro which shows how desktop OSes may evolve.…

Getting started as a contributor to an open source project shouldn't feel like getting bad customer service: "Please hold while we connect you with the first available representative," followed by mind-numbing elevator music on an infinite loop. So what should starting in open source feel like?

In the summer of 2022, the UK government and NHS England published its Open Source Policy, stating that open source technology is: Particularly suitable for use within the healthcare industry... Yes, open source is now powering everything from medical wearables to healthcare human resource management.

By Phil Odence Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) is a standard format for describing a software bill of materials that supports a range of use cases, not least SBOMs to manage security vulnerabilities.  SPDX has been an open project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation for over a decade, all the time with the […]

A method in Java (called a "function" in many other programming languages) is a portion of code that's been grouped together and labeled for reuse. Methods are useful because they allow you to perform the same action or series of actions without rewriting the same code, which not only means less work for you, it means less code to maintain and debug when something goes wrong.

PostgreSQL is a free and open-source database management system focusing on extensibility and SQL compliance. This tutorial will guide you through installing the latest PostgreSQL 15 on a Rocky Linux 9 server. This also guides you through the basic usage of PostgreSQL for creating users/roles, managing databases, creating tables, insert and retrieving data.

This tutorial will cover how to block certain packages from being installed or upgraded and how to block specific versions of packages or kernels from being installed. We will discuss two methods here. The first method will block all installs and upgrades for a certain package. The second method offers more granular control, allowing you to block specific package versions.

New Budgie and Sway spins, Xfce 4.18, and initial support for Unified Kernel Images. A Fedora Project meeting this week is starting to set the shape of the next release, Fedora 38, due in April.…

Maintainers are an important topic of discussion. I’ve read a few perspectives, but I’d like to share mine as one of the lesser-known maintainers in the open source world. Who am I, and what do I do? I have many job titles and, in many ways, wear many hats. I’m the “architect” […]

The biggest barrier to growth and innovation is a stagnant data platform. Legacy proprietary systems aren't technically viable for most enterprises anymore. The enhanced capabilities of adopting a cloud-centric, open source approach to database management systems are critical to thriving in today's business landscape.

osTicket is a free and open-source support ticket system used to scale and streamline your customer service and improve your customer experience. This tutorial will show you how to install osTicket on Debian 11.

Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime Haiku is an open source OS with a few differences. The big one is that it's not a Unix. The next is that it's pretty close to being a realistic, usable alternative OS for ordinary, everyday use.…

Dolibarr is an open-source ERP and CRM system written in PHP. It is designed for small and medium businesses to manage customers, invoices, orders, products, inventories, etc.

Varnish Cache is an open-source, powerful, and one of the most popular HTTP accelerators used by over 3.4 million websites. This post will show you how to install the Varnish Cache with Apache on Debian 11.