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As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

'Extra time for you to test,' you lucky, lucky developers. Google has applied the brakes to Android 11, pushing things out by a month as it grapples with a world that is much changed since planning for the release began.…

Gumstix has launched a $145 “Verdin EdgeAI” carrier for Toradex’s Linux-driven, $138 Verdin i.MX8M Mini module. The board has an M.2 slot designed for an Google card equipped with its Edge TPU, and supports customization within the Geppetto service. Gumstix has opened $145 pre-orders for its Verdin EdgeAI carrier board for Toradex’s Verdin iMX8M Mini […]

Kubernetes is the dominant technology for infrastructure today, and that means sysadmins need to be familiar with administering it. I have been managing Kubernetes clusters every day for years now, and I picked up a few tricks that I highly recommend for others looking to simplify their admin experience. read more

PHP Codeigniter is an open source framework providing business applications with the easy-to-use PHP programming language and powerful tools for coding. It also provides business intelligence, server monitoring, development, and application integration facilities. It's a relatively quiet project that you don't hear much about, but it's got a lot going for it that many developers new to it find surprising and refreshing. read more

This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server with PHP 7.4 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + Nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).

Previously I wrote about the use of mobile apps for COVID contact tracing. This idea has gotten a lot of attention in the tech press — probably because there are …

Do you want a phone you can repair yourself and comes with a privacy-first Android operating system? Then you want the Fairphone 3 with /e/OS.

If you are into open source development, you have probably worked with Git to manage source code. You might have come across projects with numerous dependencies and/or sub-projects. How do you manage them? For an open source organization, it can be tricky to achieve single-source documentation and dependency management for the community and the product. The documentation and project often end up fragmented and redundant, which makes them difficult to maintain. read more

PHP Codeignitor is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) providing business applications with the easy-to-use PHP programming language and powerful tools for coding. It also provides business intelligence, server monitoring, development, and application integration facilities. It's a relatively quiet project that you don't hear much about, but it's got a lot going for it that many developers new to it find surprising and refreshing. read more

Usually, my articles about Kubernetes administration are full of kubectl commands for administration for your clusters. Recently, however, someone pointed me to the k9s project for a fast way to review and resolve day-to-day issues in Kubernetes. It's been a huge improvement to my workflow and I'll show you how to get started in this tutorial.  read more

Jitsi Meet is a free and open-source video-conferencing application that can be used as a standalone application or embed in your web application. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jitsi Meet Video Conferencing application on Debian 10.

Happy 1.0 to the fruits of volunteer labour Open-source, cross-platform vector drawing package Inkscape has reached its version 1.0 milestone after many years of development.…

FieldComm’s “HART-IP Developer Kit” combines a RPi 3B+, a WaveShare High-Precision AD/DA Board, a DLSRKIT PoE HAT, and open source software for exploring the HART-IP field instrumentation comm protocol. The FieldComm Group has announced a HART-IP Developer Kit built around the Raspberry Pi for evaluation, demonstrating, and prototyping devices that use HART-IP, the company’s IP-enabled […]

Video games are a big business. That's great for the industry's longevity—not to mention for all the people working in programming and graphics. But it can take a lot of work, time, and money to keep up with all the latest gaming crazes. If you feel like playing a few quick rounds of a video game without investing in a new console or game franchise, then you'll be happy to know that there are plenty of open source combat games you can download, play, share, and even modify (if you're inclined to programming) for free. read more

Way back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article that proclaimed "data scientist" to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Interest in data science has exploded since then. Many great open source projects, such as Python and the R language for statistical computing, have facilitated the rapid developments in how we analyze data. read more

This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Debian 10 servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, the big difference is that it tracks/synchronizes changes in both directions, i.e., files changed on Server 1 will be replicated to Server 2 and vice versa.

In this article, we will see how to set up a cluster of Apache Tomcat servers. We will be using 3 Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 Instances or VMs, here I have used EC2 instances. We will also see the steps to install Java since Apache Tomcat requires Java.

CompuLab is launching a line of fanless “Tensor-PC” systems starting with an Intel 9th Gen “I20A” model with a choice of multiple sizes and enclosures plus a variety of optional open source “Tensor Element” modules for storage, power, I/O, and networking. Compulab is re-inventing its fanless, embedded PC product line with a highly modular Tensor-PC […]

Lsyncd is a simple and lightweight tool that allows you to mirror your local directory to another directory on the remote server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use Lsyncd to synchronize local directories and remote directories.