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Copperhill has launched a $71.95 “PiCAN FD Zero” HAT for the Raspberry Pi Zero with CAN FD and a 1A SMPS. There is also a new “CANPico” carrier board that integrates an RPi Pico. Copperhill Technologies has introduced two new CAN FD add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The $71.95 PiCAN FD Zero supports the […]

Gather 'round, kids, and I'll tell you stories of rotary dial phones, modems, and http://FTP. Mozilla has finally expunged File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from the Firefox browser – an action already taken by other major browsers like Chrome and Edge, making Firefox 89.0 the last bastion of the protocol.…

Radxa unveiled a “Rock 3 Model B” SBC with the same RK3568 as the Rock 3A but with the addition of WiFi/BT, a second GbE port, native SATA, and M.2 B-key and SIM slots for 4G/5G instead of E-key. A few days after announcing a developer-only launch of its Raspberry Pi style, Rockchip RK3568 based […]

Learn how to configure a Fedora CoreOS host to run your GitHub Actions. This tutorial introduces you to Fedora CoreOS and Github Actions.

Minecraft is a game that has taken the world by storm. In this tutorial we will show you how to set up your own Minecraft server on Debian 10, using open-source tools available from their official website.

Fedora CoreOS is an automatically updating, minimal rpm-ostree-based operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. Podman "is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management." read more

Conda is an open-source package management system and environment management system for installing multiple versions of software packages and their dependencies. In this post, we will show you how to create Rust virtual environments using Conda in Linux.

The SQLite database is a wildly successful and ubiquitous software package that is mostly unknown to the larger IT community... There are a few eccentricities that may trip up users from other RDBMS environments...

Red Hat offers inexpensive deals for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to school and research groups.

Torvalds: 'At some point somebody just needs to actually submit it' The latest release candidate of the 5.14 Linux kernel is a hefty beast, Linus Torvald remarked yesterday, seemingly impatient over how long it is taking Paragon to send in its long-awaited and much-reviewed NTFS driver.…

If you use Python, you probably install a lot of Python applications. Some are tools you just want to try out. Others are tried and true applications you use every day, so you install them on every computer you use. In either situation, it can be useful to run your Python applications in virtual environments to keep them and their dependencies separate from one another to avoid versioning conflicts and to keep them from the rest of your system to improve security. This is where pipx comes into the picture. read more

There are many ways to get applications onto a Linux system. Some, like Flatpak and containers, are new. Others, like DEB and RPM, are classic formats that have withstood the test of time. read more

Today, almost every family has a desktop computer or laptop. That’s because the computer has become a very important requirement. Moreover, many people have to create documents and presentations in digital format for work or study. Therefore, the office suites are must-have application on almost all computers. This article will introduce some of the open […]

Adlink has launched two rugged DAQ systems that run Linux on a Cortex-A9 SoC and provide 16- (MCM-216) or 8-channel (MCM-218) analog inputs plus 2x analog outputs, 2x GbE, 2x USB, and DIO. Adlink has announced two standalone, Ethernet digital acquisition computers designed for 24-hour sensor measurement and condition monitoring applications. The rugged, 126.5 x […]

Syncthing is an open-source tool used for synchronizing files between two or more computers on a network using a peer-to-peer architecture. In this guide, we will show you how to install and set up Syncthing server on Ubuntu 20.04.

As the world turns and some folks begin returning to the office, I feel it's a good time to ask our community of open source techies: What's your work-from-home (WFH) uniform? Do you dress like you would if you were going into the office? Or are you more comfortable in workout clothes or even your PJs? Do you have a template you stick to most days? read more

Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more. A survey of nearly 32,000 developers has confirmed the dominance of JavaScript, showing a remarkable 91 per cent using GitHub, and growth in use of AWS despite the efforts of Microsoft and Google.…

The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better.

In his 1988 book, Object-Oriented Software Construction, professor Bertrand Meyer defined the Open-Closed Principle as: read more

One of the important apps for daily needs is a web browser. That’s because surfing the internet is an activity most people do in front of the computer. This article will introduce some of the open source web browsers that you can use on Fedora Linux. You need to install the software mentioned. All the […]