Linux is an open-source operating system that Linus Benedict Torvalds created. It is a UNIX-like kernel that exists in various distributions. The most well-known ones are Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE. You can also find enterprise distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. In general, Linux is a cross-platform OS that can be run on various device types. Hence, that is a wise choice for embedded software engineering regardless of what you choose, from simple systems and personal computers to supercomputers.
You’ve probably made significant reductions in the consumption of electricity already. But given that prices are forecast to continue to rise, it’s important to evaluate all electrical appliances to see what savings can be made. This series looks at ways to reduce your electricity consumption from computers and associated devices. While the series focuses on Linux, much of the material applies to whatever operating system you are running.
The developers of the Kubuntu operating system have been selling a line of Linux laptops under the Kubuntu Focus brand for the past few years.
Now the team is branching out into desktops. The Kubuntu Focus NX is a compact computer with a 28-watt, 11th-gen Intel Core processor and support for up to 64GB of RAM. It ships with Kubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed.
Software operators are steadily revolutionising how we deploy and run complex distributed systems. They offer the promise of low-intervention, self-driving software – ideally leading to service reliability gains and better uptime. For an introduction to Kubernetes operators, check out our introductory webinar or download our guide to Kubernetes operators.
Many hundreds of ready-made operators have been published on various platforms like GitHub and charmhub.io – so many that it can sometimes be hard to choose the best operators for your deployment, right? Well fear not – in this blog post I’ll walk you through my top five points of attention, in order to give you some basic guidelines to help you decide. Let’s go!
Containers are maturing and becoming essential for organizations pursuing an application modernization strategy. With all their code consolidated into a single package, containers can be spun up quickly and seamlessly moved from one computing environment to another. They can also be spun down when their work is complete so they don’t consume resources while sitting idle.
In this video I thought I would make a vanilla FreeBSD live persistent USB, similar to NomadBSD....it was so easy, even I could do it :-)
What's up, Linux Community!!! In this video, we check out Arch Linux GUI. Many times, people have issues getting through the installation of Arch. Now there’s a straightforward GUI-based installer. Side Note: After recording this video, I discovered that the project has been discontinued. I contacted the developer, and he stated, "I will release videos soon on how people can build their own ISOs. People will still be able to use the current ISOs and/or build their own ISOs in the future" Arch Linux GUI - https://archlinuxgui.in/ Please enjoy the video and if you have any questions, leave a comment below. My goal is to expand the Linux community.
In this video, I am going to show an overview of MX Linux 21.2 and some of the applications pre-installed.
Hello and welcome to the 479th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. After the discussion in the last episode where the hosts settled on Pop!_OS as the "best" Linux distribution, they decided to take a hard look at it and figure out what's good, what's usable and what needs improvement. We hope you find this episode enjoyable and if you have some time and free hard disk space, give Pop!_OS a whirl.
1:00 Linux Innards 37:03 Vibrations from the Ether 39:56 Check This Out 41:10 Housekeeping & Announcements
In our Innards section, Bill falls down a rabbit hole called “pentesting.”
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.
Odysee is an alternative video platform and a web frontend to the LBRY protocol. Odysee keeps getting better and adding more features. And anyone that uses YouTube to consume video content will be right at home with Odysee. And video creators, who are often treated unfairly on YouTube, will find Odysee a great place to post their work.
I'm announcing the release of the 5.19.6 kernel.
All users of the 5.19 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 5.19.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.19.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...
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greg k-h
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 will have evening events on Monday September 12 from 19:30 to 22:30 and on Wednesday September 14, again from 19:30 to 22:30. Tuesday is on your own, and we anticipate that a fair number of the people registered both for LPC and OSS EU might choose to attend their evening event on that day. Looking forward to seeing you all in Dublin the week after this coming one!
Intel's new Meteor lake, released in the latter half of 2023, alters the company's design of its processors, offering a tiled approach to the company's chips. The first inclusion that the company added to Linux 6.1 ahead of the merge window is the introduction of the company's VPU or Versatile Processing Unit, which is slated for Meteor Lake to help accelerate the inference engine. The acceleration will allow the engine to apply analytic rules to the knowledge base used in artificial intelligence to extrapolate new data.
Welcome to a new curl release, the result of a slightly extend release cycle this time.
The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built on syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. One of the typical use cases for SSB (and syslog-ng PE) is optimizing the logging infrastructure for SIEM / log analysis. Two recently introduced SSB destinations for log analytics are Splunk HEC (HTTP Event Collector) and Microsoft Sentinel.
The syslog-ng Store Box appliance can collect log messages from many different log sources, in many formats. These include UNIX / Linux / Windows system logs, firewall and router logs, various application logs, and now SQL sources as well. SSB can parse, rewrite, filter, and store log messages. In addition to the traditional syslog-ng features, the SSB appliance provides an interface to search log messages, and does complete log life cycle management, including archiving and backup. Finally, it can also forward events to various on-prem and cloud destinations. It allows you to optimize your SIEM installations both for resources and licensing, as you can collect log messages in a single step, store them on SSB, and only forward a reduced subset of logs to various analytics tools.
After several months of development, we are proud to announce the release of Psycopg 3.1!
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install AnyDesk on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, AnyDesk is a cross-platform remote desktop tool which allows you to connect with any device remotely. With the help of this application, you can control any device (regardless of its operating system) remotely and can conveniently share files with it. Also, AnyDesk application supports the VPN functionality.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of an AnyDesk
A .desktop file is simply a shortcut that is used to launch applications in Linux. Without the .desktop file, your application won’t show up in the Applications menu and you can’t launch it with third-party launchers such as Ulauncher and Albert.
Most applications, when installed, will create the .desktop files automatically and place themselves in the “Application” menu for quick access. However, if you compile a program from source or download an app in archive format, this may not be the case and you may have to open the terminal to execute the binary every time you want to use it. Obviously, this can become a very tedious and troublesome step. This article will describe how you can create a .desktop file for any application you use that you can launch from the “Application” menu.
Plex is a streaming media server that allows you to store and access the media content on your system from any device. Based on the client-server model, Plex turns an ordinary system into a full-fledged media server. All media files are stored in a single system with a Plex server installed. The server organizes the media from your collection and online services. You can then access the media on the server from any smartphone, smart TV, or streaming box. All you need is to have a Plex client installed on these devices. Then, you can connect to your Plex media server to access all the media content. You can install the Plex media server on Windows, Mac, Linux, and NAS OS.
This article will show you how to install and setup the Plex media server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It is recommended to use the static IP on the server machine so that it will not get changed when the client tries to access it. For installation, you will require the sudo privileges.
Open the command-line Terminal application to install Plex. Use the Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut to open the Terminal.
“Ubuntu has become a very popular operating system not only among programmers and developers but also among normal day-to-day users and gamers. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is here with many features and utility upgrades.
Doesn’t matter if you are a normal or a pro user; every time you install the new operating system there is the same question comes to everyone’s mind, what to do next and how to set up the operating system for long-term use?
So today, in this article, I’m going to show you 43 things you can do after installing Ubuntu on your system. This is not limited to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS; you can follow these on any version of Ubuntu to set it up according to your requirements.
Everyone’s requirements can vary according to their profession or daily tasks they carry out, so I’m going to cover the things which can be useful for every set of users.”
After my last post about MACCHIATObin, a few people reached out to better understand how to install Fedora on it.
The MACCHIATObin board provides many different installation options. It has an onboard eMMC (in my case, 8GB, but I’m not sure if other sizes are available), an SD card slot, 3 SATA ports, and 1 PCI x4 slot.
Dying Light 2: Stay Human is the sequel to Dying Light 1. Dying Light 2: Stay Human was released on PS4, Ps5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Windows. However, playing Dying Light 2: Stay Human on Linux is possible with some tweaking. Here’s how.
Scrap Mechanic is a sandbox game developed and published for Microsoft Windows by Axolot Games. In the game, players can build machines, vehicles, and buildings. Here’s how you can play Scrap Mechanic on Linux.
Malcolm is a simple, easy-to-use, and powerful network traffic analysis tool. It is capable of capturing artifacts (PCAP files) and Zeek logs. Malcolm provides an interconnected framework that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. Malcolm's easy, flexible deployment and robust combination of tools fill a void in the network security space and make advanced network traffic analysis accessible to many in both the public and private sectors. In this post, we will show you how to install the Malcolm network traffic analysis tool on Ubuntu 22.04.
How to Fix Unable To Locate a Package In Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
If you are “Unable to locate the package.” while using Ubuntu then this blog post is for you. In this blog post, we will show you the reason for the error along with the solution too.
Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and more than enough performance to power your enterprise-level app or service. Recently, I wrote about deploying Redis on a single server. Although a single server will serve your project well, there’s a good chance you’re going to want to add the level of fail-over that comes along with clustering Redis. And that’s exactly what I’m going to show you.
With a Redis cluster, you gain high performance, asynchronous replication and linear scaling for up to 1,000 nodes.
Multipath is a fault-tolerance technique that generally aims to back up the connection of physical servers with storage. When there is damage to the fiber cables, it is important that the server does not lose access to the storage and maintains accessibility. That's why systems like banks and global e-commerce sites use multipath.
In this blog post, I’ll try to share my personal notes on how to setup a kubernetes cluster with kubeadm on ubuntu 22.04 LTS Virtual Machines.
I am going to use three (3) Virtual Machines in my local lab. My home lab is based on libvirt Qemu/KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and I run Terraform as the infrastructure provision tool.
Quite a few people use Steam to play games. Sometimes, some people may want to play a multi-player game with only immediate family. This article can help you create your own server to use.
By having your own server, you can use all the resources for yourself and not share them with other players (other than those in your house). The better hardware you use, the better the game can be. Also, there is no sharing of the server bandwidth by other players that aren’t in the game (playing other games).
There are two ways to manage setting up a server. Let’s look at the easier one first.
In our last blog post, you learned an easy way to change the order your accounts are displayed in Thunderbird. Today, we have a short video guide that takes your organizing one step further. You’ll learn how to manually sort all of the Thunderbird folders you have. That includes any newsgroup and RSS feed subscriptions too!
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OBS Studio on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming. It is widely used for streaming on Twitch and Youtube and is officially recommended by Youtube for live streaming on its support page. OBS is fully supported by Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of an OBS Studio on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
OpenShift is Kubernetes with batteries included and verified. That is to say, OpenShift is ready to run complex first- and third-party applications and digital workloads as soon as the installation is complete. For example, every OpenShift cluster includes a software-defined network provider, a container and source build system and registry, an internet-facing router, and even a system for maintaining and updating cluster components. Contrast this with a cluster provisioned by upstream kubeadm or even the more featureful Kubespray, where adding these and other critical features requires thoughtful and sometimes delicate integration.
It’s not every day at It’s FOSS that we talk about the “command line side” of Linux. But as some of you readers pointed out in the internal survey (exclusive for It’s FOSS newsletter subscribers), you would also like to learn some command line tricks.
So I compiled a list of essential Linux networking commands that helped me during my college days and gave me a firm overview of how you can use Linux on the networking side.
These commands will help you set-up as well as troubleshoot various networking issues you may encounter with your Linux system.
Back in the olden days, when people were far away from the greatest invention, the internet, They usually spend their cup of tea time playing offline games like chess, cards, or crosswords.
Although there is no time machine that lets us experience those days. However, you can have those games on your Linux desktop.
If you use Ubuntu on a laptop, you might have noticed that the system is suspended when you close the lid.
That’s the expected behavior. It saves the battery as well as your work. You lift the lid, the system wakes up, and you can log in and continue your work.
That all sounds good except when you work with a multi-monitor setup. A few people, like me, prefer to have the laptop closed and only use the external monitor(s).
Things are moving fast for the Steam Deck, even during August, usually a slow month. There’s been a couple of interesting announcements recently.
Between 2022-08-24 and 2022-08-31 there were 25 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 258 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 9.7 % of total released titles.
The big news this month is the release of Xfdashboard 1.0 as the first mature milestone of this utility that provides a GNOME shell dashboard-like interface for the Xfce desktop environment. The 1.0 release comes more than 10 years since the project was created!
So, as you can imagine, Xfdashboard 1.0 brings lots of goodies. These include its own settings for storing settings permanently (including for plugins), a new color class with support for solid colors (single colors), linear gradients, and path gradients, along with support for specifying colors in CSS, as well as a new “autopin-windows” plugin that automatically pins each window moved to any non-primary monitor.
Some see the emergence of libadwaita as an intentional roadblock designed to get in the way of end-user customisation — but a new app added to Flathub this week proves otherwise.
Gradience is a nimble desktop app written in Python, GTK4, and libadwaita. Using it you can tweak each and every colour shown in the libadwaita theme (as well as colours of the adw-gtk3 theme, should you have it installed).
We’re talking background app colour, button colour, toggles, switches, radio boxes, and sliders; menus; dialogs; pop-overs; drop-down lists, text… You can even adjust the opacity if you really like seeing your desktop wallpaper.
There are plenty of Arch-based distros that try to offer something unique.
Whether it is about making the user experience better, or something that gives you the ease of the customization, there is a distro for that.
There are so many Debian derivatives out there that a few months ago, we did a roundup that compared some of the leading ones. We mentioned antiX and MX Linux, saying that we planned to come back and give MX a fuller review. The project just put out its second point-release of 2022, which seemed like a good time to do so.
From its ancestry, MX Linux sounds like a bit of a mongrel. It's the combined result of the communities behind two different distros (both Debian spin-offs, one of which – Mepis – was discontinued a decade ago) working together. To this vulture, that didn't sound like a particularly compelling proposition. True, it has consistently ranked very highly on Distrowatch for several years now, but that isn't a major selling point either. Your correspondent did try Mepis back in the day, and antiX more recently because of its claimed lightweight nature. Neither especially impressed me.
So I must admit that I never tried MX Linux until very recently, partly prompted by several reader requests. Well, I'm here to say that I was wrong. I tried MX soon after version 21.1 came out, was impressed, and have been waiting for a new version to appear in order to give it its own article. MX Linux is now a firm favorite at Vulture Towers Central Europe, and is in the process of replacing Devuan as our preferred systemd-free distro.
MX Linux 21.2, aka “Wildflower,” is now officially available and is the second refresh of the MX-21 release.
The developers of the most popular distribution on Distrowatch, MX Linux, have unleashed the second point release for the distribution. Although there isn’t anything groundbreaking with the latest iteration, it does include plenty of bug fixes and various improvements to help improve an already outstanding distribution.
Wildflower, based on Debian Bullseye (11.4), comes with two different options for the kernel. The regular release uses the 5.10 LTS kernel, whereas the Advanced Hardware Support variant makes use of the 5.18 kernel.
Today we are looking at MX Linux 21.2. It comes with XFCE 4.16, based on Debian 11, Linux kernel 5.10, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling.
In this video, we are looking at MX Linux 21.2.
gnome-info-collect is a new tool that collects anonymous data about how GNOME systems are configured. It sends that information back to GNOME servers where it can be analyzed. The goal of this tool is to help improve GNOME, by providing data that can inform design decisions, influence where resources are invested, and generally help GNOME understand its users better.
The more people who provide data, the better! So, if you would like to help us improve GNOME, please consider installing and running gnome-info-collect on your system. It only takes a second.
As of last week, gnome-info-collect is ready to be used, and we are asking all GNOME users to install and run it!
In the newest episode of Technically Speaking, Chris Wright — Red Hat's Chief Technology Officer and SVP Global Engineering — chats with Kavitha Prasad —Intel's VP and GM Datacenter, AI and Cloud Execution and Strategy — about DevOps and MLOps, machine learning model drift and how machine learning is moving to the edge.
Red Hat Satellite is part of the Red Hat Smart Management subscription that makes it easier for enterprises to manage patching, provisioning, and subscription management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure.
The erratum for this release includes...
Are you a CTO, CISO, CDO or thought leader responsible for open source strategy for your company? If so, don’t miss out on Red Hat NEXT!
This is Red Hat’s annual event for deep dives on all things Emerging Technologies, coming up on Thursday, September 15th. This year’s conference is a hybrid event, happening in person in Dallas, Texas and virtually anywhere that you can get online!
Join us at Red Hat's annual Summit: Connect on September 15, 2022. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and hosted by Red Hat employees and leaders. This year, we're offering several sessions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 discussions. Learn how to create your apps the cloud-native way with Red Hat OpenShift developer tools, and how to use Red Hat's cloud services to rapidly deliver cloud-native applications—all for free!
The conference is for those who are interested in open source technologies, as well as people interested in learning more about what Red Hat does every day. You can attend the speaking sessions and see demos of some of Red Hat's latest tools and technologies.
From the morning through the evening, you can expect to hear from Red Hat experts on topics ranging from deploying OpenShift on bare metal servers or in virtualized environments to using Ansible playbooks to manage containers. If you want in-depth details about Red Hat's plans for the future, join us for keynote speakers or labs.
Edge computing is in many ways a natural extension of other distributed architectures, especially hybrid cloud environments.
There are immense potential benefits – which explains rising interest and adoption – that can be further enhanced when cloud and edge get paired together.
As director of analytics at WorkReduce, I wanted to share a glimpse at what a 'day in the life' looks like in my role. I hope you'll find some valuable tips along the way.
At the VMware Explore conference this week, VMware announced it is adding a range of capabilities to its Tanzu for Kubernetes portfolio, including the ability to deploy the Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) on top of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Armbian 22.08 is here three months after the Armbian 22.05 release to introduce a few exciting changes, starting with the enablement of the Wayland session by default for the KDE Plasma desktop environment. This means that new KDE Plasma installations will default to Wayland when using the Armbian 22.08 images. In addition, the KDE Plasma install gets fixed against a broken/invisible fonts issue reported by users from previous releases.
Debian for the longest time has had a pretty hard stance against non free firmware by default but soon that is going to change with a vote on whether to include it in the ISO
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
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Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work.
In July, we put aside 2389 EUR to fund Debian projects.
We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.
Missing Unity? Your wait might get over with Ubuntu Unity 22.10 as the team submitted a proposal to be accepted as the next official Ubuntu flavour.
Unity desktop was initially designed for Netbook computers; hence its user interface was different from traditional desktops. It introduced the Hud search, Global Menu, Fixed dock and many other features.
It’s been many years since Canonical – the original creator of the Unity desktop environment, abandoned it. Canonical officially replaced Unity with GNOME on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release onwards.
However, a group of open-source folks continued its development over the years, and an unofficial Ubuntu Unity Remix featuring the Unity desktop was introduced in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on April 2020.
Unleash your photography skills and get a chance to feature in the Ubuntu 22.10 installer images.
Since we are a couple of weeks to the final release, the Ubuntu team announced the Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu official wallpaper competition.
Since Ubuntu is the most used Linux distro today, you can imagine the impact of your creativity on millions of Ubuntu installations worldwide.
As a strategic partner of NVIDIA, Canonical is proud to be one of the leading sponsors of the NVIDIA GTC again! Join us virtually at NVIDIA GTC on September 19-22 to explore the latest technology and business trends and learn from experts on how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting industries and society as a whole.
EasySensors “6Gang30AmpsLatchRelayEspHomeReady” (now that’s a product name!) is a DIN Rail mountable, ESP32-S2-based automation device featuring six 32A latch relays and supporting ESPHome open-source framework.
SmartLabs has already helped O2 Czech Republic migrate over 400,000 devices to the Android TV Operator Tier platform.
According to SmartLabs, the telco launched its bespoke interactive TV service back in 2018 and it worked side by side with the O2 team to specify, develop and deliver the project.
SmartLabs has also created a bespoke next-generation UHD hybrid set-top-box for O2. It was based on the high-grade Amlogic 905D3 chipset and initially employed Linux as its operating system.
Following its development strategy, O2 decided at a certain point to create an aggregated Android TV Operator Tier platform. It reached the world’s first agreement with Google allowing the migration of existing Linux STBs, that were deployed with O2 customers, to the platform.
To be an effective leader in an open source community, you need a lot of information. How do I know who the most active members in my community are? Which companies are making the most contributions? Which contributors are drifting away and becoming inactive? Who in the community is knowledgeable about a specific topic?
These were just a few of the questions I had when I started leading the Mautic community at Acquia. But the problem was not a shortage of information. On the contrary, there were so many places our community interacted and so many things to track that I was drowning in data. I could access plenty of data sources, but they were not helping me manage the community effectively or answering my questions.
The vision of a Genode-based smart phone is certainly our most ambitious undertaking since we created Sculpt OS for the PC. Over the past two years, we relentlessly pursued this vision while targeting the PinePhone hardware. The scope of work reaches from custom firmware for the system-control processor, over kernel development, a staggering variety of device drivers, to the user-interface and application level. With Genode 22.08, those efforts culminate in a first complete system - a phone variant of Sculpt OS. The release documentation tells the story behind this line of work in great detail.
Beside phone-related topics, the new release features new tooling for gathering and analyzing system traces that allow for holistic performance studies covering the interplay between components. One particular success story of the new trace recorder is a profoundly improved network performance. Further highlights are the support for USB smart cards via PKCS#11, VirtIO drivers for RISC-V, and the update of Qt5 to version 5.15.2.
And then I proceeded talking about extension pages as if this security mechanism were always in place. But that isn’t the case of course, and extensions will quite often disable it at least partially.
The impact of extension pages being exposed to the web is severe and warrants a thorough discussion in a separate article. So here it comes.
Right on schedule, the next milestone update to the Chrome browser has started rolling out to Windows, macOS, and Linux users. This update is relatively light in the features department but delivers a healthy batch of security updates and patches. Let’s take a look at what’s new in Chrome 105 for Desktop.
Google wants to improve the security of its open source projects and those projects’ third-party dependencies by offering rewards for bugs found in them.
“Depending on the severity of the vulnerability and the project’s importance, rewards will range from $100 to $31,337. The larger amounts will also go to unusual or particularly interesting vulnerabilities, so creativity is encouraged,” Googlers Francis Perron and Krzysztof Kotowicz explained.
A few days ago we have seen with great pleasure that the bar of more than 333 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice€® was exceeded. The count is from 2011 until today and it includes all 4.1.x releases.
Please note that there are much more ways to get OpenOffice than just via our partner SourceForge.net or alternative servers hosted by Apache itself. You need to consider also copies on CDs, DVDs and download portals of online magazines. So, actually the real number is much higher.
The following are a few statistics to show some more details.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
The new Calc Guide 7.4 bring updated information for users on the latest LibreOffice 7.4 release.
Skip Masonsmith and Kees Kriek of the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4.
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The guide is for beginner to advanced users of Calc, the spreadsheet component of LibreOffice. The book introduces the features and functions of LibreOffice Calc. It is not a tutorial on using spreadsheets. Some chapters assume familiarity with basic spreadsheet usage when describing how to use Calc.
“It has been fantastic to join the LibreOffice documentation community of technical writing experts. As I worked on the Calc Guide 7.4 updates, I was well supported by the team to ensure the best outcome for everyone. It was a great experience and I look forward to working on more guides with the team.” said Skip Masonsmith, Calc Guide 7.4 coordinator.
o Support IPv6 Lan configuration in ipmi-config. IPv6 configuration is supported in the new Lan6_Conf section. o Fix static compilation issues by renaming a number of internal functions. o Misc documentation corrections.
The upcoming Qt Safe Renderer 2.0 release contains many new groundbreaking features. This blog post illustrates internationalization and localization support.
Now you can conveniently design, implement, and verify safety-critical user interfaces for many languages. This feature brings the QSR on par with the typical Qt applications in ease of use. The localization has been possible with the already released QSR version, but now it is straightforward. Managing the data assets for language variants is easy with minimal effort.
You can use the example provided with the QSR to see how easy it is to use. The example includes ten different language variants. You can choose any number of variants you like for your application. You can switch the languages in your application on the fly. There is no reason to restart the application and the switch is instant.
I published my last blog post about implementing a member addition form for Faces of GNOME. In this blog, I’m going to talk about my short presentation at GUADEC, as well as implementation of that feature and what things are left to do.
Data-related skills are among the most in-demand by employers, Dice says, noting that “SQL, Python (used frequently in data analytics), and AWS enjoyed some of the biggest growth in job postings between January and June.”
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Design Studio 3.6.
I am new to Nim, and only started looking for a GUI toolkit a few days ago.
So, I made a game. It’s called Farmbound. It’s a puzzle; you get a sequence of farm things — seeds, crops, knives, water — and they combine to make better items and to give you points. Knives next to crops and fields continually harvest them for points; seeds combine to make crops which combine to make fields; water and manure grow a seed into a crop and a crop into a field. Think of it like a cross between a match-3 game and Little Alchemy. The wrinkle is that the sequence of items you get is the same for the whole day: if you play again, you’ll get the same things in the same order, so you can learn and refine your strategy. It’s rather fun: give it a try.
In this series, I'm developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In the last article I wrote and tested a Groovy script to clean up the motley assembly of tag fields. In this article, I'll separate the framework I've been using into a separate class and then write a test program to exercise it.
Recently I was asked if is it possible to run more than one Laravel instance on the same server.
Perhaps it was inevitable that the man behind the Trapper Keeper would die, just as it is inevitable that we will all die, our mortal coil will leave us, with our innovations left behind, carrying us forward. But I wanted to dive into something I realized as I first learned about the news of E. Bryant Crutchfield’s passing last week—the fact that Mead appears to have brought the iconic Trapper Keeper back, at least for a moment, however short and insubstantial it may be. When I talked to it manufacturer ACCO Brands in 2018, it seemed like they had left the product for dead. Discontinuing things has been a hot topic of late, thanks to HBO Max removing things from its service seemingly without care or compassion for what has been left behind. Things go out of print all the time—if we just continued printing things forever, there wouldn’t be room for anything else. But I guess I wonder—should something like the Trapper Keeper always be there, on demand, just because I want it?
I recently built a Bluetooth speaker for my workshop. It works quite well and I’ve been happy with the sound quality so far, but then Arylic reached out and asked if I’d be interested in trying one of their DIY amplifier boards, or more specifically the Up2Stream Amp V4.
Arylic sell a range of wired and wireless amps and speakers which are ready to use. They also sell the electronics separately in the form of DIY boards that allow you to build your own enclosures and speaker sets, or add streaming support to your existing setups.
Amazon and Alphabet unit Google criticised Microsoft’s cloud computing changes on Tuesday, saying they limit competition and discourage customers from switching to rival cloud service providers.
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Microsoft's move came after smaller European Union competitors took their grievances about its cloud service practices to EU antitrust regulators, which subsequently quizzed market players on the issue and what impact they have experienced.
Amazon, the leading cloud service provider trailed by Microsoft and Google, was scathing in its critiques.
"Microsoft is now doubling-down on the same harmful practices by implementing even more restrictions in an unfair attempt to limit the competition it faces – rather than listening to its customers and restoring fair software licensing in the cloud for everyone," a spokesperson for its cloud service unit AWS said in an email.
Google's vice president for government affairs and policy Google Cloud Marcus Jadotte was equally critical.
"The promise of the cloud is flexible, elastic computing without contractual lock-ins," he said in a tweet.
In terms of code visibility sources, CodeSee provides direct integration with GitHub code repositories and has an extension for Microsoft’s VS code.
We worked several months on Kaidan’s upcoming end-to-end encryption and trust management. Once Kaidan 0.9 is released, it will provide the latest OMEMO Encryption. But it will also make trust decisions in the background for you if it’s possible. Some trust decisions have to be made manually but there are many others Kaidan automates without decreasing your security. That is done by automatically sharing trust decisions via already secured channels.
The feature Kaidan uses is called Automatic Trust Management (ATM). Your device receives the encryption data to secure the conversation between you and your contact via the internet. That encryption data can be the data of an attacker. While you think that you communicate with your contact securely, the attacker can read, modify or drop everything you exchange.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dpdk, net-snmp, php-horde-mime-viewer, php-horde-turba, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (rsync), Oracle (openssl and systemd), Red Hat (booth, kernel, kernel-rt, and openssl), Slackware (vim), SUSE (bluez, java-1_8_0-ibm, postgresql10, and zlib), and Ubuntu (kernel, linux, linux-raspi, linux-aws, and linux-oem-5.14).
As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers.
This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools.
Microsoft on Tuesday reported that for a number of Azure customers running Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machines (VMs), a bug in this version will lead to DNS resolution errors.
In the last #PrivacyofthePeople post, we looked at the scope of Section 91 notices, how they may impact your right to privacy, and what remedies you have under law. In this post, we examine the ongoing use of facial recognition technology by private actors such as commercial stores, private college campuses among others.
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Have you ever had tea at Chaayos? Or enrolled yourself for a fitness program at CultFit? A lot of us may have, but a lot of us don’t know that both these places claim to use FRT on their customers for reasons such as creating 'Loyaltea' programmes and “minimizing attendance fraud”. FRT is also being used increasingly by private universities such as Amity University, Noida to “enhance the security system” on campus.
Just two months until Halloween, the best day of the year. Seasonal Halloween costume shops have opened, and all of the stores that are going to be selling Halloween decorations have started doing so. One month until it won't be too weird to put Halloween decorations up. I need to decide which classic Gothic novel I'll read this month... considering The Monk or The Castle of Otranto.
Thinking out loud about a possible homemade small TRPG.
Players, make characters and describe your actions in diegetic terms. That’s your interface to the game. Just talking and making notes.
GMs, prep a full blorb with maps, NPCs, event tables etc. Also prepare and shuffle two decks, the injury deck and the event deck. Keep them face down but shuffled in full view. You also need one note, label, or marker for each character’s injury pile.
Jacques Ellul is most known for his technology criticism, but his writings on modern art is well worth the acquaintance. L'emipre du non-sens (1980) is a scathing critique of modernism in all the arts. Although Ellul often comes across as a reactionary who simply finds modern art ugly, ridiculous, or pointless, it's not quite that simple. Two of the main premises of his argument are that technique is a dominating force in society, stronger than any political tendency, and that modern society is one where meaning has ceased to exist. An art that tries to be relevant and critical of modern society, then, might try to show the absence of meaning, by itself becoming absurd or nonsensical.
All my life I have been more of a consumer of stuff than a creator of it. I prefer reading to writing, for example. I read more about technical topics (programming languages, frameworks, programs, databases, whatever) than I actually go and use them. I read more code than I write. It also happens with photography; I read about it and look at way more photos than I actually take.
There is a youtube curator called AHOY, whom tends to make documentary level content about older games and real life weapon history. I came across AHOYs documentary on the original DOOM games a little while ago, and since then I have been slightly obsessed with OG doom. The history of games and computing in general is a facinating subject which I enjoy learning about. The Documentary a great watch if you want to understand more about the context of original doom, or just get hyped to play it again.
For years, I've been using misc version control software to backup, transfer and manage my dot files: RCS, SVN, git, even mercurial. The main issue with thos was the "backup" part: exporting those offsite added some security issues which were often tackled by copying local-only repos to encrypted archives or adding strong auth to a backup server, sometimes even setting up a VPN (for SVN). No solution was perfect, but it did the trick.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.