 System76 announced its collaboration with HP, which attracted much public interest. Why not developers’ folk get excited when the two best of their industries collaborate with each other and develop the best product for the consumers?
Three months back, one of the users on Reddit posted a question on the subreddit of pop_os: “Some kind of partnership between HP and System76 on the horizon?” To be honest, we were all sure something interesting was happening between HP and System76, and today’s curtain gets lifted with a new line of products called “HP Dev One”.
The HP Dev One is a notebook designed for professional developers. The 3.24 pound notebook has a 14 inch full HD display, a backlit spill-resistant keyboard with a pointing stick in the center as well as a glass-covered clickpad below it, and an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U processor.
But the main thing that marks this as a developer-centric laptop (other than the name)? It ships with a Linux distribution called Pop!_OS rather than Windows. First announced in may, the HP Dev One is now available for $1099.
A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting.
Raspberry Pi distros look UGLY! Let's fix it with transforming the basic distro that comes with the pi400 into a desktop powerhouse!
And I even LIKED one of them. Watch my screed against the MIT license...
GNOME 42 introduces a new terminal application called Console. It's a "simple, user-friendly terminal emulator" with fewer features than the GNOME Terminal but a few good ones of its own.
 The top utility needs little introduction to seasoned Linux users. top is a small utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It allows users to monitor the processes that are running on a system.
top remains a useful utility. It helps with system administration by identifying users and processes that are hogging the system. It is also useful for non-system administrators, helping to track and kill errant processes. However, top is showing its age and there are a bunch of utilities that offer a more feature-laden and visually attractive alternative.
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a continuation of bashtop and BpyTOP. It’s free and open source software written in C++.
It is no lie to say that Python is one of the most important and widely used programming languages in the world. And to take full advantage of it, we need to have an IDE up to the highest demands. Today, you will learn how to install PyCharm in Debian 11 and thus have one.
Roblox is a widely used gaming platform where you can find tons of games of different genres. If you are new to this platform and want to change your display name with username then follow this guide as I have explained the process of changing the username as well as the display name of your Roblox account.
For social, commercial, and legal purposes, areas on the world map that share a uniform standard time complete the definition of a time zone. Therefore, the implementation of a time zone depends on the divisions and boundaries that separate different countries and regions.
This approach of identifying time zones is more convenient than strictly relying on longitudes. Enough with the geography lesson, let us get back to solving computing problems the Linux way.
Linux is smart enough to identify the time zone you are under; whether you are a Linux developer on the move or a Linux enthusiast that embraces a change in their environment from time to time.
Under the Linux operating system environment, you will never fail to come across time management utilities like date and timedatectl. It is through such time management utilities that we can be able to run various Linux command tweaks to reveal the exact current system time zone associated with our environment.
Since the onset of GIF or Graphical Interchange Format back in 1987, the internet fell in love with this technological approach of making an image exist in a state of continuous motion.
With this brief fact, Gif’s popularity on business and social platforms is becoming impossible to ignore, and for good reasons. This article guide will explore their importance and how to effortlessly create them via the FFmpeg tool.
Raspberry Pi device is a portable mini-computer where you can easily install an operating system. It includes a robust processor with a large memory storage that can go up to 8GB thus keeps your system performance well up to the mark. However, most people are unaware about running multiple operating systems on Raspberry Pi devices. This article is written to help you in running multiple operating systems on your Raspberry Pi using the dual boot process.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Wiki.js on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Wiki.js is open-source wiki software that is robust and adaptable, written in javascript, and powered by a Node.js engine. Wiki.js offers support for various databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, and MSSQL with the primary support for PostgreSQL.
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 the Wiki.js on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Want to run Windows application on your Raspberry Pi desktop? Try out Wine. It’s a multi-format reader designed specially to run Windows applications on different platforms such as Linux, Debian, Fedora and so on. It’s a lightweight compatibility layer that efficiently runs on your Raspberry Pi desktop without reducing the device performance.
This guide will show you how you can install Wine on your Raspberry Pi device and install Windows applications with ease.
Jellyfin is a free and open-source online media solution designed to manage, organize and share media files to other networked devices. It lets you run your media files directly onto your browser via its web dashboard. You can install it on any platform, such as Windows, Linux and macOS.
If you want to install Jellyfin on Raspberry Pi, you should follow the guidelines provided in the article so that you will be able to access the Jellyfin web interface.
Raspberry Pi OS is an ARM based operating system that won’t allow you to directly run Windows applications on its environment. However, with the inclusion of Box64, the users will be able to run x64 applications with ease. Box64 is an emulation platform that converts the x64 program instructions to ARM instructions, allowing users to easily run x64 applications on Raspberry Pi desktop.
This tutorial guides you in installing Box64 on Raspberry Pi.
Grafana is a multi-platform open-source visualization tool with an online web-based interface allowing users to monitor their system metrics on their Raspberry Pi device. It has a built-in alert manager that keeps you updated whenever the server receives data. It also includes visualization options like charts and graphs which are generated from data source and you can view them directly onto your browser tab. With the inclusion of different built-in plugins, you can also use Grafana service on a cloud environment.
Ly is a free, open-source, minimalistic, and lightweight terminal-based display manager for Linux.
Ly is a great alternative to those who are used to staring at the terminal window all day.
Let us now discuss how to install it on Debian 11.
A review of Titan Linux which is a mix of Debian stable branch with lightweight KDE Plasma desktop and brings additional tools.
Are you looking for a clean and snappy Linux-based desktop experience? Then take a look at MX Linux, which is known for its light yet powerful package for all types of hardware specifications. This distribution is great for old PC, and low-end laptops yet offers the latest software support. Additionally, the advertisement-free user interface makes it even more appealing to many PC enthusiasts.
If you are new to Linux, then skip this all over and settle down with Ubuntu or distros like Linux Mint. This is for pre-exposed users from intermediate level to experts. There are some tips and tricks to cope with it, even if you are new and coming from a Windows environment. I hope this article on MX Linux will help you know a bit more about the overall ecosystem.
On Day two, June 3, of the openSUSE Conf 2022 the main event was the discussion of the ALP Steering Committee with the openSUSE community. ALP, the Adoptable Linux Platform, stands for the next generation of the SUSE Linux family. As intro to the event Michal Svec, SUSE Product Manager for SLES, explained what it is all about. ALP stands for a new approach, for a new thinking out of the Box when it comes to Linux, especially to the openSUSE/SUSE Linux distro.
Michal is member of the Steering Committee together with Anja Stock, Director Program Management Linux Systems, and her team: Jiri Srain, Alex Herzig, Lubos Kocman, Pavel Niahodkin, Stefan Weiberg, all SLE Release and Project Managers. They all were available on Stage to answer the community questions.
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Last week, I skipped the review as over here, Thursday was a holiday and I decided to take Friday off as well and make for a long weekend (for a $random value of ‘off’ as it turned out). In total, Tumbleweed has seen 13 snapshots since the last review, which means it was ‘almost daily’ with one gap {0519..0601, except for 0529 – and 0526 was published, but never made it to the mirrors due to a config error)
Today, we are looking back at our top 10 articles of May to give you a chance to catch up on any of the great content you might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered, and we are confident that some, if not all, will be of interest to you.
Swap your old Linux commands for new and improved alternatives that provide the same functionality, if not more.
To remain competitive, today’s businesses must use digital systems to improve efficiencies and meet customer needs. As people increasingly expect digital options in their daily lives, companies are reevaluating their workforces and ensuring that their employees and internal processes are prepared for digital transformation.
While it can be daunting to embrace changes brought on by technology amidst the pandemic, doing so will position your business to grow and flourish in the 21st century. One of the greatest benefits it brings is the ability to create a diverse workforce that is prepared for the future. Here are four examples of how digital transformation helps organizations do that.
After years of accelerated digital transformation, CIOs are now playing a central and critical role in defining the digital future - but the best IT leaders would quickly tell you that they could not have gotten here on their own. Success in this new normal takes collaboration, smart partnerships, and an unwavering focus on the people who make up a strong digital ecosystem.
For the past 15 years, in conjunction with its annual event, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has recognized excellence in IT leadership through its CIO award program. This year, we had a chance to ask each of the award finalists what they believe is required to lead in today’s digital ecosystem.
From celebrating setbacks, to building a culture of curiosity, to leading with empathy, learn how leading CIOs are driving innovation and positioning their organizations for success.
A few weeks ago I attended an MIT seminar by Esteban Moro, professor at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid and visiting professor at MIT. Moro’s talk discussed the socio-economic digital divide based on how we use the internet, focused on two key questions: how profound is the digital usage gap in our society?; and can we use mobile phone traffic to infer socioeconomic status? His seminar was based on a recently published article in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface co-authored with four collaborators, - News or social media? Socio-economic divide of mobile service consumption.
“Inequality is a central societal problem, especially within rapidly expanding urban areas,” wrote the authors. “While it is a crucial driver for economic growth, the progressive clusterization of workers, industries, companies and services in cities has a tremendous cost in terms of segregation and discrimination. This cost is not only economic: in the same city, different areas can have a 10- to 15-year imbalance in life expectancy and highly divergent education levels, with little chances of social mobility.”
Armbian community has rolled up a new version of Armbian 22.05 after three months of v(22.02). In this release, they have added support to several arm devices like DevTerm A06, Orange Pi R1+ LTS, Orangepi 3 LTS, Radxa Rock 3A, and Zero. Apart from that, they have even made improvements to the Allwinner A20, Allwinner H5, Odroid N2, and Orange Pi Zero.
The latest release of Armbian, version 22.05, is now out with hundreds of Linux kernel and user space-related bug fixes, a focus on stabilizing existing platforms, while still adding four new boards with Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS (RK3328), Radxa Zero (Amlogic S905Y2), Radxa Rock 3A (RK3568), and DevTerm A06 (RK3399).
The community also added two new maintainers for ESPRESSObin and Radxa Rock Pi 4 (Model A) SBCs which should mean the images for those boards will be tested more regularly and potential issues fixed more quickly. You may want to read the more detailed changelog to see if any changes may impact the board(s) you are using. The new Armbian 22.05 release succeeds Armbian 22.02 outed on February 28, 2022.
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu plans to introduce IWD by replacing the WPA for wireless connectivity and management.
Is Windows 11 a good desktop operating system. Absolutely. Is it the best desktop operating system? Well, that is harder to answer. Ultimately, if you are 100 percent dependent on Windows software, then yes, Windows 11 is the best operating system... for you. If you can get by without using software designed for Microsoft's OS, however, a Linux-based operating system might be the better option -- especially if you have an older computer.
You see, Windows 11 is very polarizing. The operating system features radical changes to the user interface (such as a centered task bar) which some users do like, but many others do not. Not to mention, the system requirements will leave many still-capable computers unable to upgrade without using unofficial hacks. Even worse, computers deemed incompatible could eventually stop getting updates! Linux doesn't have these problems.
But if you want to switch to Linux after only using Windows your entire life, what distribution should you choose? While there are many good options, I often recommend Linux Lite. Why? Because that distro (which uses the Xfce desktop environment), is one of the best Linux distributions for Windows-switchers; it is lightweight, modern, and very familiar. Seriously, folks, Linux Lite is a dream.
 Reimu NotMoe has designed the “Notkia” PCB based on Ingenic X1000E MIPS processor with 64MB built-in RAM and following the exact same dimensions as the PCB found in Nokia 168x phones (1680, 1681, 1682), and allowing the phone to run mainline Linux.
The board also comes with 32MB NOR flash, a 4GB SLC NAND flash, and supports LoRa, 2.4 GHz WiFi, Bluetooth, and GNSS connectivity, but no cellular modem. The initial design was Combining Nokia 168x phone with Notkia PCBA creates a phone with the following specifications...
Spotify is a leading music streaming platform with several open-source projects.
While most of the projects/tools are built for niche users, they have finally introduced something that seems enticing to all the modern musicians involved with digital music production.
‘Basic Pitch’ is a new free and open-source tool by Spotify that lets you convert any audio file to its MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) version.
In GNU’s parse-datetime.y, or as it used to be called, getdate.y, the second ordinal is commented out. I guess for English ambiguity reasons.
I wanted to play around with the Spartan protocol. To that end, I bodged together a simple server written in Go.
I think that’s one reason why Gemini is succeeding. (It’s already as much of a success as it needs to be. Smol. Anything else that happens is gravy.) With fewer line types and a narrower grammar for semantics, it’s less easy to mess it up and there’s less data to scrape and exploit.
I’ve ranted before on how many Markdown sites will have you render <em> for italic things that aren’t emphasis at all, like titles and foreign names.
I'm starting to notice that more and more subscription services are opting to use a 28-day monthly renewal period. At first, I thought it was just a lazy way to make sure the business gets the best end of the deal each month, but the result means they can charge an extra monthly fee per year.
The news of yet another school shooting shook much of the U.S. and confused the rest of the world. Ideas to remedy the situation range from arming teachers to limiting access to guns. The CEO of Axon, the company behind Taser stun guns, has another idea. He wants to stop the shootings with armed drones.
Sweden’s chief prosecutor Per-Erik Rinsell calls the racist inciter’s deportation rants and book burning a “constitutionally protected right”, and calls protests against it unacceptable violence.
If only the book-burning inciter would’ve put his complaints in a Washington Post op-ed instead. Then he would’ve become the Internet’s most hated woman, and sentenced to pay his ex-husband $10000000. That’s one dollar per second in four months.
On June 2nd, 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (‘MeitY’) proposed amendments to IT Rules, 2021 to ‘address the gaps identified’ and invited comments on the proposal. Instead of addressing the gaps, the proposals perpetuated the already existing illegalities in the IT Rules, and sought to impose impractical obligations on social media platforms and subjected them to direct government oversight. As soon as the proposed amendments were published, we summarised our concerns on Twitter. Later in the day, it was reported that MeitY had decided to withdraw the proposal and that the proposal may be released again next week.
If AI art ever becomes good, that’s fine too because even though all human endeavor and expression will become meaningless, at least we’ll have some pretty darn neat art to look at while we’re screaming through the cosmos.
Yeah, that’s the bar I’ve set for AI art to beconsidered good or worthwhile. I’m not worried it’ll get there any time soon. AI-assisted art, sure, but humans have used tools for art since Lasceaux.
The camera did strike a pretty huge blow against art; for example, Millais’ Ophelia is unmatched by the works in its shadow.
But the camera has also created art, like Star Wars, or The Bride Wore Black.