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  • GNU/Linux

    • Kernel Space

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • Make Use OfA Complete Guide to Viewing and Monitoring Error Logs in Ubuntu

        It’s extremely frustrating when your computer isn’t working properly and you don’t know why. While there aren’t easy resolutions to every issue you might encounter in Ubuntu, you can use resources like the Ubuntu error logs to troubleshoot and diagnose your PC woes.

      • Make Use OfHow to Free Up Memory and Improve RAM Performance on Linux

        Is your Linux PC struggling to handle certain resource-intensive programs? Or maybe you frequently find yourself staring at a loading icon for several minutes before your computer does something. Whatever the case, we all want our PCs to perform at their level best.

        Random Access Memory, or simply RAM, is crucial to having a performant PC, especially when running multiple programs or resource-intensive applications. Here are some ways to improve RAM performance on Linux.

      • Chris CoyierModern CSS in Real Life

        By any measure, CSS has gotten a lot better in recent years. It’s gotten more useful features, better interoperability between browsers, and become easier to learn thanks to a concerted push toward making CSS a cohesive system free of quirks and hacks.

        What matters though is the real world. Real websites. Real impact on the things we make and the people who use them.

        It’s working.

      • Computers Are Badradio on the tv

        Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I was fortunate enough to have a premium cable package in my childhood home, Comcast's early digital service based on Motorola equipment. It included a perk that fascinated me but never made that much sense: Music Choice. Music Choice was around 20 channels, somewhere in the high numbers, of still images with music. It was really ad-free, premium radio, but in the era before widespread adoption of SiriusXM that wasn't an easy product to explain. And SiriusXM, of course, has found its success selling services to moving customers. Music Choice was stuck in your home. The vast majority of Music Choice customers must have had it only as part of a cable package, and part of it that they probably barely even noticed.

      • Jim NielsenMinute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites

        There’s an interesting parallel here, I think, to claims about how fast you can scaffold a website. X framework or Y host allows you to go from zero to a beautiful, functional (probably cloned from a template) website in “three easy steps”. The idea being, however implicit, that “in as little as three easy steps” you’re 90% of the way to something unique and special.

      • Linux HandbookGet Array Length in Bash

        When you are dealing with arrays in bash, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to find the array length.

      • UbuntubuzzDownload Debian 12 LTS "Bookworm" Full Editions with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums [Ed: Where to get Debian]
      • OSTechNixHow To Dual Boot Windows And Debian

        This is a comprehensive guide explaining the step-by-step procedure to set up Dual Boot Windows and Debian 12. Our focus in this guide will be on the new Debian release version 12 code-named Bookworm. Dual-booting Debian 12 and Windows will give you the choice to switch between Windows and Debian Linux leveraging the power of both worlds.

      • How to Download Older Versions of Google Chrome

        The topic for this article might sound preposterous and make you recoil with concern. Just why would anyone want to downgrade an application that works just fine, much less a web browser?

        As we know, the current tech space is swarming with a myriad of security threats that are constantly prowling for vulnerabilities and loopholes that are, in most cases, found in older software versions.

    • WINE or Emulation

      • GamingOnLinuxWine 8.10 brings mouse cursor clipping improvements

        Another development release has landed for the compatibility layer Wine with 8.10 out now, here's a run over what's new and improved in the latest.€ Once a year a new stable release is made with the next being Wine 9.0, and Wine is just one part of what allows€ Steam Play Proton€ to play some of the biggest games around on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

    • Games

      • GamingOnLinuxYou'll be building your own dungeons in Quest Master

        Quest Master is an upcoming dungeon-designing sandbox adventure from Skydevilpalm, Julian Creutz and Apogee Entertainment.

      • GamingOnLinuxUnsettling first-person exploration game Interior Worlds gets a Linux version

        Interior Worlds is a strange and unsettling liminal spaces game that arms you with a mysterious camera. It's quite atmospheric and full of secrets to discover. They recently put up a Native Linux build which didn't initially work due to some missing bits (Unity being odd) but they've now managed to solve the issues and so it works out of the box.

      • GamingOnLinuxKlei Entertainment announced space survival game Dread Pilots

        I love pretty much everything Klei Entertainment make and Dread Pilots looks great, a space survival game where you're exploring a mysterious and hostile pocket universe called the Dread. From the creators of Don't Starve, Griftlands and Oxygen Not Included - you know it's likely to be good.

      • GamingOnLinuxNoxious Weeds: Prologue is a farming themed Vampire Survivors

        You retired and wanted to farm but evil creatures just won't leave you in peace, now you have to defend your farm with the help of some veggies. Noxious Weeds: Prologue is the latest take on the craze of Vampire Survivors. Inspired also by the likes of Brotato and Risk of Rain the developer says.

      • GamingOnLinuxValheim gets upgraded to improve performance and fix major bugs

        Iron Gate have now released the latest update to Valheim, their co-op open world survival game and it should be good for all players. This is not a content upgrade but rather a tech upgrade, aimed at just improving the overall experience.

      • GamingOnLinuxGOG Summer Sale 2023 is live with giveaways and game deals

        Another chance for you to score some goodies, and check out some good discounts with the GOG Summer Sale 2023 now live.

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • 9to5LinuxFirst Look at risiOS: Fedora Linux Remix with a Few Tricks Under Its Sleeve

      risiOS promotes itself as a Fedora Linux-based distribution designed to make it easier to set up and modernize the Fedora Workstation experience, which features the GNOME desktop environment.

      For that, risiOS comes with a collection of tools and a customized GNOME Shell interface that should make Fedora Linux more appealing to newcomers who want a modern Linux desktop experience.

    • University of TorontoThere are two levels of isolation when building Linux packages

      Neither RPM nor Debian packages provide hermetic builds out of the box. For RPMs, mock provides an all-in-one solution that's generally very easy to use. Debian has the sbuild collection of tools (also, sbuild(1)) that, based on my reading, provide the tools you need to do this (I only recently found out about sbuild and haven't tried to use it). If there is a convenient mock-like front end to sbuild and its other tools, I haven't spotted it in Internet searches so far. Ubuntu does have a Setting up sbuild document that makes it look fairly straightforward.

    • dahliaOS: The Responsive and Secure Operating System You Need

      Having been a Linux user for what feels like an eternity, there have always been instances where I felt why do we have just Linux dominating. Granted it’s open-source which is great and of course, there’s the Unix family but we cannot exactly claim Unix to be fully open-source – considering the Open Group relationship.

      Even though we have the BSD family of truly free and open-source Unix operating systems including OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc there is a need to be skeptical about these systems and their interoperability with the future of IoT devices that will continue to define the landscape of technology going into the future.

    • BSD

      • KenmaI did it, I switched to FreeBSD

        For about these past 3 months or so (perhaps even more?) I've become increasingly umconfortable with using Linux as my main operating system - from the oversized package counts and Python-unfriendliness (when it comes to desktop usage anyway) of the Debian family to the obligation to run the absolute latest versions of every base element of your system and update every week if you don't want to spend entire days trying to fix your installation in Arch and everything in between, I have been increasingly wanting to move to a more coherent system, an operating system that would be structured properly as opposed to a bunch of basic tools that have been patched on top of each other and an OS that would allow me to customize my workflow with as little extra fluff as possible while simultaneously keeping a base system that won't change until the next major release.

        ...and from there, enter FreeBSD.

      • MWLTomorrow night: mug.org talk on OpenBSD Filesystems

        I’ll be doing my talk about OpenBSD filesystems tomorrow night, for mug.org‘s online meeting.

    • Debian Family

      • IT WireDebian releases version 12 after 21 months of development

        "The Debian Astro Blend continues to provide a one-stop solution for professional astronomers, enthusiasts, and hobbyists with updates to almost all versions of the software packages in the blend. astap and planetary-system-stacker help with image stacking and astrometry resolution. openvlbi, the open source correlator, is now included.

        "Support for Secure Boot on ARM64 has been reintroduced: users of UEFI-capable ARM64 hardware can boot with Secure Boot mode enabled to take full advantage of the security feature."

        Debian has three streams of development. The stable version adds security updates during its lifetime; however, one is stuck with quite old software until a new version lands.

        There is a second stream called testing, in which the software is much more recent and things are not overly prone to breakage.

        A third stream, unstable, is meant for highly experienced users, people who can keep fixing their systems if they break.

        Debian can be installed from a Blu-ray Disc, DVD, CD, USB stick, or via a network connection and images are available from the project website. Users can update by using the apt package management tool.

      • 9to5LinuxTails 5.14 Brings Automatic LUKS2 Migration, Captive Portal Detection

        Last month, the Tails 5.13 release enabled LUKS2 encryption by default for all new Persistent Storage and encrypted volumes with the promise that future releases will also support migration for existing Persistent Storage and encrypted volumes from LUKS1 to LUKS2.

        Tails 5.14 is now here with automatic migration to LUKS2 and Argon2id for users of Tails 5.12 or previous versions. Even if LUKS2 offers stronger encryption, the devs recommend users to also change the passphrase of their Persistent Storage and other LUKS-encrypted volumes.

    • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

      • Ubuntu FridgeThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 791

        Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 791 for the week of June 4 – 10, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.

      • Ubuntu NewsUbuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 791
      • TecAdminSetting Up Ubuntu Docker Container with SSH Access

        Docker is an open-source platform that allows developers to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of applications. It does so by creating lightweight, self-sufficient containers, that can run virtually anywhere.

      • UbuntuUbuntu Blog: Canonical at HPE Discover 2023

        Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover this year again and have a presence at the Expo. Join us in Las Vegas on June, 20–22 to learn how Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can help you securely advance your business with comprehensive open source solutions that span from infrastructure to MLOps platforms.



        [...]

        Canonical MicroCloud provides an edge over IoT by performing computing tasks, thereby facilitating unattended, autonomous, and clustering features that resolve typical edge computing challenges. It trades the exponential scalability of public clouds for the security, privacy, governance, and low latency of decentralized environments.

        Discover how MicroCloud and HPE ProLiant Servers deliver next-generation compute solutions to power hybrid environments wherever it lives — from the edge to the cloud.

        Anbox Cloud is a Canonical offering which lets you stream mobile apps securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your apps. It is tailor made for delivering mobile app content independent of the end user’s device capabilities by offloading the compute, storage, and energy intensive applications from end device to HPE Infrastructure.

        There is a need for communications service providers (CSPs) to look beyond mere connectivity to become digital service providers by optimizing their current legacy hardware to improve service and costs and create value from newer, innovative operating models and service offers. To achieve this, the CSPs require programmable infrastructure, operations automation, and the capacity to deliver on-demand services.

        These validated designs with Canonical Kubernetes and OpenStack are developed in close technical collaboration with Canonical and include container technology to allow multiple and isolated applications to run on a single OS and shared kernel. It also provides an integrated cloud-native platform that deploys an OpenStack cluster on dedicated physical servers.

      • UbuntuUbuntu Blog: Minimising latency in your edge cloud with real-time kernel

        From applications in telecommunications to edge cloud and industrial digital twins, experimenting with real-time capabilities in cloud technologies is a trend in the industry. Applications for the edge often have an additional requirement as they interact with real-time systems: they need to run deterministically. It means that time constraints their execution and interaction within the system.

    • Devices/Embedded

      • SlashGearYou Can Install Linux On Your Old Nintendo Wii (But You Probably Shouldn't)

        A PC's operating system, when you drill right down to the nuts and bolts, is just a way of getting the user access to their desired functions. Whether it runs macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, or something else, a given device will use whichever system the creator happened to pick for it. It will, generally speaking, go through a wide range of iterations throughout its life, in the name of usability, security, future-proofing, and so on.

        More advanced users have the knowledge to migrate an OS to another hard drive, or to replace a given one with a relatively obscure one such as Linux's Ubuntu, if it's their preference. Tinkerers find that a lot of systems are surprisingly forgiving when it comes to such experimentation, a line of thought that has actually led to the installation of Linux on the Nintendo Wii.

      • Linux Gizmos2.5” Pico-ITX SBC is equipped with MediaTek Genio 1200 and supports ROS2

        The board supports multiple operating systems, including Ubuntu, Yocto Linux, and Android, providing flexibility for different application requirements. Moreover, the company states the following: “As for robotics development, the RSB-3810 is designed to facilitate seamless integration with the ROS2 Suite. This comprehensive software package, built on Advantech’s AIM-Linux embedded software, is specifically tailored to support Robot Operating System (ROS) environments.”

      • CNX SoftwareCompuLab UCM-iMX93 – A miniature NXP i.MX 93 module with WiFi 5 & Bluetooth 5.3

        Compulab provides support for mainline Linux, the Yocto Project, and an RTOS via full Board Support Packages (BSPs) and ready-to-run images. Its feature set, low cost, and small size make the UCM-iMX93 suitable for building and industrial control, medical devices, IoT gateways, and measurement equipment.

        The company also offers a development kit based on the SB-UCMIMX93 carrier board with Gigabit Ethernet, USB ports, MIPI CSI and LVDS display interfaces. a MIPI CSI camera interface, a mini PCIe socket for optional 4G LTE connectivity, RS485 and RS232 serial interfaces, CAN Bus, and more.

      • Linux Gizmos2.5” Pico-ITX SBC is equipped with MediaTek Genio 1200 and supports ROS2

        A few weeks ago, Advantech released a compact single board computer built on the MediaTek Genio 1200 Octa-core processor with a 4.8 TOPs AI processing unit (APU). The SBC also supports Wi-Fi 6 and 5G connectivity for demanding IoT applications.

    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • PurismPureOS 10.3 Power Optimization

        With PureOS 10.3, power saving and new goodies is the name of the game.

        Most companies abandon hardware soon after launch, but we have a different approach with the Librem 5. With every upgrade to PureOS we push on the Librem 5, the more the device can do and the more efficient it gets.

        One key method for a better battery life is Suspending while tucked away. Suspend, Wake up.

        The L5 suspend resume is now very quick, incoming calls or texts arrive nearly as rapidly as before, imperceptible to the user in speed. Without suspend, the Librem 5 can idle for around 10 hours; with suspend running, you can get upwards of 20 hours.

      • Tom's HardwareRaspberry Pi Helps Submarine Simulator Explore for Wildlife

        You can find tons of simulation games on the market today, ranging from tractors to goats, but there’s an entirely different side of simulators that is far more immersive. Today we’re sharing with you an extraordinary creation put together by a team known as The Explorandia Association. This team has developed a wonderful submarine simulator that takes you through an actual pond in real time with a bit of help from a Raspberry Pi 3B.

      • Raspberry PiFactory tour with Jeff Geerling

        We had a visitor at Pi Towers last month. YouTuber Jeff Geerling, who we’re all a little starstruck by, came to the UK for a whistlestop tour. He took in our offices in Cambridge and (most interesting of all for you, dear readers) the factory in Pencoed, South Wales, where Raspberry Pis are built.

      • Raspberry PiIntroducing the [Raspberry Pi] Hello World newsletter

        Sign up to get news and insights about computing education from Hello World and the Foundation in your inbox every month.

      • Doug BrownUpgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 5: graphics

        I started out with U-Boot. As a very basic overview of the LCD controller in the PXA168, basically you just set aside some of your RAM for a framebuffer, copy image data into it, tell the controller the format and address of the framebuffer, set up the clocking and timing, and turn it on. Then it just handles everything in the background for you.

        The steps I listed above are overly simplified — there is more stuff going on with the PXA168’s display controller. But it’s enough to get a splash screen working in U-Boot. I booted into the old kernel and dumped the LCD registers using devmem. Here’s an example of this process. The LCD_SPU_DMA_CTRL0 register contains a bunch of format configuration bits for the framebuffer, such as which bits are red/green/blue. It’s at offset 0x190 in the LCD controller, and the LCD controller is located at an offset of 0xD420B000, so I could dump the 32-bit register value with this command: [...]

      • SparkFun Electronics2023-06-09 [Older] Photoacoustic Revolution with SCD4x
    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • APNICRegister now for APNIC 56 in Kyoto

      Registration is now open for APNIC 56 in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 14 September 2023 at the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto). APNIC 56 is proudly hosted by the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC).

      The APNIC 56 technical workshops will be held from 7 to 10 September and will provide participants with hands-on training to build and manage Internet infrastructure.

    • MozillaAn online creative on tackling our ‘mixed feelings’ on the internet

      Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In My Corner Of The Internet, we talk with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, what we should save in Pocket to read later, and what sites and forums shaped them.

    • Programming/Development

      • Kev QuirkThe Blank Box

        I do enjoy the process of writing. I fire up my text editor of choice, Typora and away I go. Most of the time I have a topic in my grey matter that I want to write about, and if I don’t, something usually comes to me pretty quickly. Which topics to cover aren’t something I usually dwell on.

        Today I feel like writing, but I have nothing to write about. I’ve been staring at Typora’s abyssal blank screen for a little while now, but my grey matter remains as abyssal as the screen I’m staring at.

      • Arduinomail2code lets you program via email

        The aptly named “mail2code” project is based around an Arduino Uno Rev3 board, which has been connected to a wide variety of peripherals to help students and hobbyists alike learn different hardware. The setup includes a DC motor attached to a central gear and a faster gear for exploring motors and interrupts, an array of eight LEDs that can act as a binary counter, a die face to explore random numbers, and a stepper motor with an accompanying Hall effect sensor that is used to learn analog signals in response to rotation.

      • Fernando BorrettiSecond-Class References

        This post is about the idea of doing away with lifetimes in Rust, what that would bring to the table and how much it would cost.

      • ArduinoUse Excel to load Commodore 64 software [Ed: No Microsoft, please? Use ODF and Free software.]

        Loading software on a vintage computer, such as a Commodore 64, is a pain. Early eight-bit computers almost never contained any onboard persistent storage, so users had to load software from external media like cassette tapes.

      • Perl / Raku

        • ChrisLatent Semantic Analysis in Perl

          I’m currently a little into quantitative text analysis. Not big time, but a little. A nice end goal, that I have no intention of reaching, would be a script that can suggest if a cluster of articles on this site seem similar but don’t share a tag, or if there’s a tag that might as well not exist because it’s applied to a very broad range of articles. This would help me maintain the tags that are currently assigned completely manually and, as the observant reader has noticed, rather arbitrarily.

  • Leftovers

    • HackadayHigh Voltage Ion Engines Take Trip On The High Seas

      Over the last several months, we’ve been enjoying a front-row seat as [Jay Bowles] of Plasma Channel has been developing and perfecting his design for a high voltage multi-stage ionic thruster. With each installment, the unit has become smaller, lighter, and more powerful. Which is important, as the ultimate goal is to power an RC aircraft with them.

    • The NationLate Call

* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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