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Crowd Supply recently featured an open-source V853 Development board accommodating the high-performing V853 System-on-Chip (SoC). This device provides a 7” MIPI LCD, dual camera modules and many other peripherals to target AI-Vision applications. The V853 Dev board comes in a 4-layer PCB featuring a Cortex-A7 core (up to 1GHz), a RISC-V E906 core (up to […]

Databases are tools to store information in an organized but flexible way. A spreadsheet is essentially a database, but the constraints of a graphical application render most spreadsheet applications useless to programmers. With Edge and IoT devices becoming significant target platforms, developers need powerful but lightweight solutions for storing, processing, One of my favourite combinations is the PostgreSQL database and Lua bindings, but the possibilities are endless.

Neos is an enterprise content management built-in with custom content modeling that provides an effective way to edit and manage content, SEO optimization such as automatic redirects and SEO metadata, and powerful roles and user management.

Nexus is one of the most popular repository managers in the DevOps world. It allows you to store and retrieve build artifacts and also provides features to push and pull artifacts via CI and IDE integration tools such as Visual Studio and Jenkins.

Distributed databases are common for many reasons. They increase reliability, redundancy, and performance. Apache ShardingSphere is an open source framework that enables you to transform any database into a distributed database...

Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world's famous web app security scanner, OWASP ZAP, has joined the Jit code security company. Both will be the better for it.

I was looking for information about the health of my laptop battery when I stumbled upon inxi. It's a command line system information tool that provides a wealth of information about your Linux computer, whether it's a laptop, desktop, or server...

When you write an application, it's common to require data storage. Sometimes you're storing assets your application needs to function, and other times you're storing user data, including preferences and save data. One way to store data is in a database, and in order to communicate between your code and a database, you need a database binding or connector for your language. For Java, a common database connector is JDBC (Java database connectivity.)

Love it or loathe it? Plus: KDE 5.26 here soon, and both desktops still working on mobile support. The third release of GNOME since the big shift of GNOME 40 is coming together – but KDE isn't getting left behind.…

Setting up Git on Linux is simple, but here are the five things I do to get the perfect configuration: Create global configuration; Set default name; Set default email address; Set default branch name; Set default editor. I manage my code, shell scripts, and documentation versioning using Git.

Chainguard takes a new approach to building a container Linux with all the security you'd need already baked in.

Podman is a container runtime that provides features similar to Docker. It's part of the libpod library and can be used to manage pods, containers, container images, and container volumes.

Podman also called "Pod Manager" is an open-source tool used for creating and managing containers. It is part of the libpod library that doesn’t rely on the Docker daemon and is compatible with Docker. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Podman on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

PrestaShop is a free, open-source, efficient, and innovative e-commerce solution that helps you to sell your products online. It is a powerful and adaptable e-commerce CMS that provides all features needed to create an online store.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using VNC client software. In this tutorial, you will set up the VNC Server with TigerVNC on a Rocky Linux server. You will also learn how to connect securely to the VNC Server via SSH tunneling.

With the rise of containers and virtual machines, some system administrators check their system logs less frequently. However, this is a mistake. Even if an application is containerized, it is still important to keep and analyze logs.

Set up a virtual machine to test your applications, binaries, and container images on different architectures...

The problem is, the word "secure" can actually refer to any number of things, and the tech industry often uses it as such a general term that it becomes meaningless...

You may want to set up a file server like FileRun for any number of reasons. The main reason, I would think, would be so you can have your own Google Drive alternative that is under your control instead of Google's. FileRun claims to be "Probably the best File Manager in the world with desktop Sync and File Sharing," but I think you'll have to be the judge of that for yourself.

If you love having thousands of tabs open, this might be one for you The Mozilla Foundation has let Firefox 105 out of the gate, and if you use a Chrome-based browser, it's a good time to take another look.…