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Linux PC company Tuxedo Computers is taking orders for a new gaming laptop called the Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Gen 3. It’s a 4.9 pound notebook with up to a 2560 x 1440 pixel display featuring a high refresh rate, support for up to a 150-watt NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.
It’s also available with three different processor options: Intel Core i7-11700H, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, or AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX.
Those are all 45-watt, 8-core, 16-thread processors designed for laptops. When paired with a high-performance GPU, the Tuxedo Stellaris 15 will likely be rather power hungry when running at full blast, and it does have a 230 watt power supply. But it also has a 92 Wh battery that Tuxedo says should allow you get up to 8 hours of battery life for less-demanding tasks.
Here we are again, TUXEDO continuing to roll out new models to try and capture Linux users attention and the latest with the TUXEDO Stellaris 15 sounds pretty great. Part of what makes the TUXEDO Stellaris 15 interesting is the split options between AMD and Intel CPUs, giving you more control and choice on what you can buy.
Before getting too excited, keep in mind it’s yet another high-end gamer and high performance workstation model. We have something of a lack of low-mid end devices since these high-end options seem to be what gets people talking, even though we would love to see more low end stuff too.
Chromebooks are incredible tools for school and home use, and although they’re often thought of as simple machines, they can do a variety of tasks beyond surfing the web. When Google launched Linux support for Chrome OS in 2018, it unlocked access to thousands of desktop applications. While modern Chromebooks have had access to Linux apps for years, capable Skylake-powered systems like the Samsung Chromebook Pro got left in the dust. It seems the wait may finally be over thanks to recent updates — but it may be too late to matter.
Google broke its silence via the Chromium bug tracker last Friday, confirming that the work to run Linux apps on Skylake Chromebooks is complete. This should finally close the curtains on this issue, with support arriving in subsequent updates without flipping on the “Enable VMs on Experimental kernels” Chrome flag. It’s unclear how much longer users with a Skylake device will have to wait, but it could appear in the next major Chrome OS update (M92).
OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations quickly create new cloud-native applications without having to abandon their existing environments and IT investments.
One new feature is IPv6/IPv4 dual stack and IPv6 single stack support, which provides applications with interoperability and communications for environments that use IPv6 and IPv4 such as in Cloud-Native Network Functions.
Also, OpenShift Pipelines now allow users to declaratively define, version and track changes to their applications next to their source code in Git repositories. Users also get an enhanced developer experience within the OpenShift console, an OpenShift Serverless functions capability, and OpenShift sandboxed containers.
Having the right mindset is important in growing as a Linux user, and it also important for growing as a person. Generally, you can break down people into being in one of two camps depending on their mindset. And it tells you a lot about the person, including how they handle challenges in life, how well they navigate obstacles, etc.
Another Linux Kernel release is out now with Linux 5.13 bringing with it, amongst plenty of other things, initial and early support for the new Apple M1 chip.
In the announcement Linus Torvalds mentioned that while they had a “calm week” since the seventh release candidate, the Linux Kernel 5.13 is “actually fairly large” and “one of the bigger 5.x releases” with over sixteen thousand commits from over two thousand developers so it’s a “big all over” sort of thing with new features , fixes and improvements everywhere.
It took a few months, but Linux has now received support for M1 Macs with Linux Kernel 5.13. This comes after several months of testing, including its Release Candidate version first being announced more than a month ago.
The new 5.13 Kernel adds support for several chips based on the ARM architecture — including the Apple M1. This means that users will be able to run Linux natively on the new M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and 24-inch iMac.
It was already possible to run Linux on M1 Macs via virtual machines and even with a port from Corellium, but none of these alternatives run natively — which means they don’t take advantage of the maximum performance of the M1 chip. However, some developers had been working to include native support for M1 in the Linux Kernel, and now this has become a reality.
As spotted by Phoronix, Linux 5.13 brings “initial but early support for the Apple M1 with basic support but not yet accelerated graphics and a lot more to iron out moving ahead.”
A year after Apple announced its transition to Apple silicon, Linux now officially supports the only chip to have been released since that date — the Apple M1. As of the newly released Linux 5.1.3, early support for the chip has been added. But there is still some work to be done.
First reported by Phoronix, the new Linux update adds initial support for Apple’s M1 chip, but that doesn’t mean that everything will work to its full potential. Accelerated graphics aren’t yet enabled, for example.
Following yesterday’s release of the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu as their downstream that strips out support for loading binary-only firmware/microcode, blocks the ability to load binary-only kernel modules, and other sanitization work in the name of software freedom.
The Hantro media driver within the Linux kernel for supporting the Hantro IP-based VPU found in Rockchip and NXP i.MX8M SoCs is seeing improvements with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel.
The Hantro VPU driver with Linux 5.14 brings support for the second VPU found with the NXP i.MX8MQ SoC. To date only the first VPU (G1) has been supported by this driver while now support for the G2 is also wired up. With the G2 VPU support there is now basic HEVC/H.265 decoding support in place.
The User ID or UID in Linux is a unique entity through which a user is identified on a system. Every user on a Linux system has a dedicated UID. There are several ways of finding the UID of a Linux user and we are going to share with you all those ways for an Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.
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By picking out any method of your choice from this tutorial, you will be able to find the UID of any user you want while using Ubuntu 20.04. All the commands and utilities that we have used for this tutorial are built-in. Therefore, you will not have to waste your precious time in installing anything while following this tutorial.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SonarQube on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, SonarQube is an open-source web-based tool to manage code quality and code analysis. SonarQube includes features like bug and vulnerability detection and code tracking. SonarQube can integrate into GitHub, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Docker. If you happen to have an on-premise Linux server, or a cloud account with the likes of AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, handy, you can deploy the community edition of SonarQube for free.
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 SonarQube on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
When configuring remote servers with Ansible, you may encounter instances where you need to get files from a Git repository. This could be a software package from public repositories or configuration files on a private repository.
To clone a git repo remotely using Ansible, you may add entries like this to your Playbook.
Shlink is an open-source and self-hosted URL shortener written in PHP. It is used to generate and manage short URLs from the command line. It allows you to track all visits of your short URLs including, location, browser or referrer. It can be integrated with third-party tools using the Shlink API. It provides a command-line interface to shorten URLs.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Shlink on Ubuntu 20.04.
Any file on a Linux system that isn’t a text file is considered a binary file–from system commands and libraries to image files and compiled programs. But these files being binary doesn’t mean that you can’t look into them. In fact, there are quite a few commands that you can use to extract data from binary files or display their content. In this post, we’ll explore quite a few of them.
KenShape is a tool to create 3D models from 2D pixel art which is really clever, while Asset Forge allows you to create 3D models from various parts. Both aimed at game developers not normal users but still fun to play around with, created by Kenney who is well known for producing tons of high-quality public domain art assets.
Recently Asset Forge had a version 2.2 release which added colour map (UV mapping) export option, along with 33 new blocks to use for the standard version and a further 21 if you have the Deluxe edition along with a number of bug fixes.
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I tried to make a Floppy Disk icon in it, if that wasn’t clear…really interesting software though, even for someone who is not an artist or particularly good at making models, it can be a wonderful stopgap. In fact, both the applications mentioned are great for prototyping.
Not that long ago, SimCity 4 was resurrected. It became alive on Steam, a game you could buy and download and play and enjoy. I recently tried it – but not as you think. I actually installed it in Linux, using the Proton compatibility layer, and things were swell. Which brought about some sweet memories.
I had spent months of my time creating a beautiful mega-region, with 4.5 million people in some 60+ cities. This endeavor took a lot of work, I was using half a dozen mods to make SimCity 4 do some extra wonders for me, and once I was done, I copied my game save into a special backup folder. I didn’t want to lose such a precious achievement. That was 2008-ish or so. Now, I had the game on Steam, but how does one go about loading those old region saves?
“In SUSE Linux Enterprise, we found the right platform to help us make this pivotal transition and transformation. The cutting-edge features, expertise and support during every step of this process contributed to the ROI immediately; well-positioning us to capitalize on new business opportunities.” Ilaventhan Vijaya, head of finance, BABA’s Group of Companies.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 brings a set of new features that make it easier to manage image updates for edge systems. RHEL for Edge uses Image Builder as the engine to create rpm-ostree images. This model provides advantages around the long life cycle and package flexibility of RHEL combined with A/B transactional updates, rollbacks controlled by application health-checks, and network efficient updates over the wire. In this post, we will walk through how to set up a simple yet powerful staging environment for edge image updates.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides the operating system cornerstone for the top three supercomputers in the world according to the June 2021 TOP500 ranking.
The biannual list showcases the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world to provide a better understanding of the high-performance computing market, and encourage collaboration and the exchange of data and software throughout the tech industry, academia and research organizations.
The past year has truly stressed the importance of connectivity to modern life, as the COVID-19 pandemic delivered layers of isolation that were simply unthinkable a few months before its onslaught. Connected devices, from mobile phones and tablets to computers and smart TVs served as a window to the world and a link to the “old normal,” helping us retain our human connections while also keeping the world moving during the height of the pandemic.
This same connectivity provided a linkage between the machines and services driving crucial industries and organizations. From the factory floors that fueled the global supply chain to the emergency rooms that adapted to surging demand, being connected wasn’t about “digital transformation;” it was about survival.
— Michael Robertson, the software developer best known for his creation of MP3.com, in a blog post discussing his work on “Click-N-Run,” an early attempt at creating a digital download store along the lines of the App Store in the early 2000s. Click-N-Run (CNR), which was an aspect of the commercial Windows-like Linux distribution Linspire that Robertson helped build, was a commercial GUI-style interface for Debian’s apt package manager. It was eventually made available to other distros to much interest, though the results were reportedly a mixed bag. While no longer made, Linspire’s work on CNR (one of a few stabs at the GUI-based software distribution interface in Linux) likely inspired the graphical package managers now commonly offered with many Linux distributions, which largely work the same way.
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The year StarCode Software, a developer of software for the BeOS operating system, was formed. The company built PackageBuilder and SoftwareValet, which combined together to become one of the first graphical package managers purpose-built for an operating system—and one Be acquired in 1998 and integrated into the operating system.
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Mobile phones have been built with this expectation that the whole experience is seamless and managed by the hardware developer—and at one point, the mobile provider even played a significant role. In some cases, it still does.
But one wonders how strong Apple’s case against sideloading will actually be, given that, y’know, it also sells desktop computers that allow sideloading … or as we call it over that way, downloading and installing apps from the Web.
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But prior art is prior art, and one hopes that the technology industry takes a step back to learn the lessons from both the Apple App Store’s strengths and weaknesses going forward. After all, so many others got there first.
Moreover, in 2019, Chris Lamb appointed Jaminy as an administrator in Debian’s GSoC program, alongside his ex-girlfriend Molly de Blanc and Pranav Jain. We looked at Pranav’s lack of contributions to Debian in a previous blog. Jaminy has contributed even less, in fact, the contributors report doesn’t even include her name.
Below we copied the comments from the Google documentation about the role of an Administrator in GSoC. Is it possible for an intern who failed and made no other technical contributions to the organization to provide this level of leadership?
Jaminy first met Chris Lamb and other Debian Developers at FOSSASIA in early 2016. Jaminy didn’t subsequently meet her mentors at any other events. Why did Lamb appoint Jaminy as an administrator? Why did Debian continue to fund her travel for so long?
Both MIPI CSI and DSI connectors are gone, and so is the AV jack. Two of the USB 2.0 ports have made place for a micro USB port and some headers. Looking at the bottom of the board, the MicroSD card slot is gone, because there’s a 16GB Kingston eMMC flash for storage in that location.
At first, I was quite confused, first because the Raspberry Pi logo is nowhere to found, then it’s the first “Raspberry Pi” SBC I see with an eMMC flash soldered on the board, the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not allow third parties to use Raspberry Pi images on custom boards, and it’s close to impossible to source Broadcom BCM283x SoC made for the Raspberry Pi.
In any case, we started to discuss about the board, and a person mentioned it was for a washing machine gateway. Yes, right… That’s surely a joke! But then the original poster uploaded another photo of a ZIGBEE WIFI Hat…
The Purism Librem 5 is designed with security in mind and has privacy protection by default. It uses PureOS, a free, ethical, and open-source operating system (OS) that is not based on Android or iOS. The phone doesn’t lock you into using this OS either — users can opt to install their own compatible GNU/Linux OS as an alternative. PureOS is based on the Debian OS.
It also has three hardware-based kill switches that disable the camera and microphone, switch off power from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters, and stop all network connectivity, including GPS.
It sports a 3,500mAh removable battery, a 13MP primary camera, and 32GB of onboard storage. Users can expand the storage to 2TB via microSD
There are thousands of bird species in the world, with numerous different and unique ones living in various areas. Developers Errol Joshua, Mahesh Nayak, Ajith K J, and Supriya Nickam wanted to build a simple device that would allow them to automatically recognize the feathered friends near them and do some simple tracking, such as knowing how often a particular bird makes its call. Their project uses a Nano 33 BLE Sense, along with its onboard microphone, to pick up sounds and make inferences about what they are in real-time.
The team decided to train their tinyML model to detect four different species that are native to their area and then downloaded a sample dataset containing many sound files. After a bit of editing, they transferred the audio clips into Edge Impulse’s Studio and subsequently labeled each one. The Impulse consisted of a Mel-filter-bank energy (MFE) block that took the sounds and produced a spectrogram for each one. With these processed features, the model was able to achieve an impressive 95.9% accuracy.
GnuCash is a personal and small business finance application, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It’s designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible. GnuCash allows you to track your income and expenses, reconcile bank accounts, monitor stock portfolios and manage your small business finances. It is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
The first article in this series introduced the challenges of modernizing a monolithic, legacy Java application, and we deployed our example Java EE 8 application on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP). This article guides you through the first of three steps to carry out the modernization to a cloud-ready Java application.
The Linux Foundation has announced the Open Voice Network, “a neutral, non-profit industry association dedicated to the development of the standards and ethical use guidelines that will make voice worthy of user trust.”
Normally, CSS injection vulnerabilities are fairly boring. With some luck, you can use them to assist a clickjacking attack. That is, unless the vulnerable party is a browser extension, and it lets you inject CSS code into high profile properties such as Google’s. I’ve now had some fun playing with this scenario, courtesy of G App Launcher browser extension.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bluez, intel-microcode, tiff, and xmlbeans), Fedora (openssh and php-phpmailer6), openSUSE (freeradius-server, java-1_8_0-openjdk, live555, openexr, roundcubemail, tor, and tpm2.0-tools), SUSE (bouncycastle and zziplib), and Ubuntu (linux-kvm and thunderbird).
Popescu lived in several countries including United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Egypt. He sold SatoshiDice, a Bitcoin gaming site in July 2013 for a fee of over 125,000 BTC. In January 2014, the Bitcoin pioneer offered to sponsor the operating system ‘OpenBSD’, which was about to close down due to a lack of funds. Wired Magazine described Popescu’s decision and the whole process that time as a “Bitcoin Baron Keeping a Secretive Open Source OS Alive.” Popescu later revealed that he paid all the bills of the OpenBSD operating system to pay homage to its developers for their “clamped down security approach.”
For nearly a quarter of a century, Britain’s Labour Party could count on the support of blue-collar workers in this northern English town once famed for its textile industry.
Today, the party is fighting to win a crucial local election here following the resignation of a Labour parliamentarian who represented the district. A victory could help shore up support among working-class voters who have defected in much of the country to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party.
But if—as opinion polls predict—the district of Batley and Spen does flip to the Conservatives in Thursday’s vote, it would be the latest brick in Labour’s once-formidable postindustrial voting base to crumble, further highlighting what has become a historic slump for the party.
A group of Iranian lawmakers are working on a draft bill that could further restrict access to the internet, a reformist newspaper said Sunday.
The bill calls for “organizing social media” and the banning of virtual private network (VPN) software used widely by Iranians to bypass internet restrictions and blocks imposed on several social media websites, according to Etemad.
Over the past few days, internet users in Iran have expressed concern over the draft bill proposed by some conservative lawmakers, who hold the majority in parliament since 2020, according to AFP.
Today, the President of the Munich Regional Court, Andrea Schmidt, announced a new civil chamber will begin work on 16 August 2021. Half of cases heard by this 44th chamber will be patent infringement suits, thus relieving the established 7th and 21st patent litigation chambers.
Georg Werner will chair the new civil chamber. He brings with him a great deal of experience in technically complex patent disputes. For example, he sat on the bench in the proceedings between British American Tobacco and Philip Morris concerning e-cigarettes and the proceedings between Wago and Molex concerning LED technology.
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The regional court was recently in the spotlight because of the anti-suit injunction (ASI) battle between Interdigital and Xiaomi and IP Bridge and Huawei. The chairman of the new civil chamber, Georg Werner, also played a role in this decision.
Up to now, only Düsseldorf Regional Court has three patent chambers with the civil chambers 4a, 4b and 4c. Mannheim Regional Court has two patent chambers.
The Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) just announced that its president (chief judge) Dr. Andrea Schmidt decided today to create a third Patentstreitkammer (patent litigation division). To be precise, this one is–for the time being–not a full-time division, but has one-half of the regular capacity.
The court already has two patent litigation divisions: the Seventh Civil Chamber under Presiding Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann, who is widely expected to take over the patent-specialized division of the Munich appeals court next year, and the Twenty-First Civil Chamber under Presiding Judge Tobias Pichlmaier. Presiding Judge Dr. Georg Werner will chair the third patent-specialized division, which will commence its operations on August 16, 2021. His side judges have not been announced yet.
Less than two weeks ago, when I noticed that Judge Dr. Werner had been promoted to Presiding Judge, I wrote that the Munich court would now be able to set up a third patent litigation division anytime. I had no inside track. I just know that ever more patent holders consider Munich their first choice for bringing infringement complaints. And indeed, the court’s press release attributes this decision to “weiter ansteigenden Eingangszahlen in Patentstreitsachen” (continually increasing numbers of new filings in patent infringement matters).
On 22 June 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued decision G 4/19 (Double patenting), in which it held that a European patent application can be refused if it claims the same subject-matter as a European patent (i.e., not just a co-pending EP application) which has been granted to the same applicant and has the same effective date. The application can be refused, irrespective of whether it (a) was filed on the same date as, or (b) is a parent application or a divisional application of, or (c) claims the same priority as the European patent already granted.
In other words: if an applicant already achieved grant of an EP patent on a certain subject-matter, the Examining Division will deny grant to claims on the “same” subject-matter in later examination proceedings pertaining to an application having the same “effective date” as the granted patent.
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