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When NASA’s Webb Space Telescope team and artist Ashley Zelinskie wanted to bring space exploration to everyone, they chose Mozilla Hubs, our open source platform for creating 3D virtual spaces right from your browser.  Ashley told us that they “didn’t want to cut people out that didn’t have fancy VR headsets or little experience in...

Make a big FOSS for Ubuntu Touch OTA-24, Mir 2.10, and the return of Unity on Arch Linux Various parts of Ubuntu's cancelled desktop/fondleslab convergence project are all still ticking away – some officially and some thanks to user communities.…

Giving Tuesday is always a reminder to me to consider how to give back to open source projects, communities, and organizations. In 2012, GivingTuesday was created to encourage people to simply do good. "Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity."

Finding good quality, open source audio samples can be a challenge. I've been getting increasingly into composition and creating music in my spare time, using the open source tool Ardour and the creator-focused distribution Ubuntu Studio. I've been looking for samples of specific sounds or loops to include.

Phones used to act as the host for computer communication. Modems sent signals from computer to computer by utilizing the phone network. In today's world, though, computers have become the host for telephony apps. Phones aren't really phones any more, they're literal computers.

Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate. Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project's development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season.…

Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte. Obit Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.…

Earlier this month, AAEON released an IoT Gateway targeting industrial edge gateway applications, Industry 4.0 and machine learning applications. The SRG-IMX8P is equipped with two GbE ports, 2x CAN-FD, 2x RS232/422/485 and support for wireless connectivity. The product page lists the i.MX8M Plus from NXP as the RISC processor of the SRG-IMX8P IoT Gateway. NXP […]

T-Mobile recently launched their first developer kit designed to speed up the development of IoT applications that require “transmitting small amounts of data over long periods of time.” The DevEdge is powered by a Cortex-M4 processor, wireless connectivity, diverse sensors and it runs on a Zephyr-based SDK. According to the datasheet, the DevEdge Dev Kit […]

I love Christmas decorations and lights, and I'd been wanting to do an programmable LED project for a long time. Recently, I built a light array made of LED lights, ping pong balls, and a Raspberry Pi Zero. I thought it was worth sharing, because it ended up being relatively easy but also educational. It's mostly my own design, with some inspiration from YouTube videos. You can find the source code and build instructions in my Git repository.

What do you get the open source enthusiast that has everything? More open source, of course! We asked our community of contributors to share their favorite gift ideas. The end of the year is full of holiday spirit, but these gifts are perfect for any reason or season.

In this article, we will see how to create your first deployment on a Kubernetes Cluster using the kubectl command on the Linux shell.

OwnCloud is a free, open-source, and self-hosted file synchronization and sharing solution. In this post, we will show you how to install OwnCloud on Debian 11.

FileRun is a self-hosted file sync- and share web-based application. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install FileRun using Docker on your Linux server. We will also configure Elasticsearch to provide full-text search support.

Eclipse Mosquitto is a free and open-source message broker implementation of the MQTT protocol. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of installing and configuring Mosquitto MQTT Message Broker onto a Debian 11 server, setting up authentication, Securing Mosquitto via SSL/TLS certificates, and also enabling WebSockets on Mosquitto.

In this article, I’ll show you how to write an extension module. Instead of plain C, I use C++ because most compilers usually understand both. I have to mention one major drawback in advance: Python modules built this way are not portable to other interpreters. They only work in conjunction with the CPython interpreter. So if you are looking for a more portable way of interacting with C libraries, consider using the ctypes module.

In the Java programming language, an array is an ordered collection of data. You can use an array to store information in a structured way. It's useful to know the various ways you can retrieve that data when you need it. It's worth noting that in Java, an associative array (also called a dictionary in some languages) is called a hashmap. This article doesn't cover hashmaps, but you can read all about them in my Using a hashmap in Java article.

Automated testing is an important stage of development. It helps you ensure code quality, discover bugs before they ship, and guarantee that an application works the way it's intended to work. Deployment of automated tests is rapidly becoming a top priority for companies all over the world. The latest release of the Cerberus Testing platform offers a series of new features and improvements to allow you to easily set up automated tests for your software engineering team.

SolidRun recently unveiled an industrial-grade PC built around the AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor. The Bedrock PC comes with up to 4x 2.5GbE LAN ports, 2x 10GbE LAN ports, 3x M.2 2280 sockets and optional wireless connectivity. According to the product page, the Bedrock PC integrates the 6 nm Zen 3 Ryzen V3C48 processor: Ryzen […]

ownCloud is a software-suits for creating file-hosting services like Google Drive and DropBox. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure ownCloud on Ubuntu 22.04 server.