In today’s article, we present you with a list of reliable stores from which you can purchase your next Linux computer. These PCs have been tested for driver and network compatibility, and they come with a relatively lighter price tag compared to ones that ship with a Windows license.
Source: LXer – 14 Best Places to Buy Linux Laptops in 2021
The T2 Linux distribution, or “System Development Environment” (SDE) as it refers to itself, is up to version 21.4 and with it is now supporting fifteen different CPU architectures for this barebones Linux-based operating system…
Source: Phoronix – T2 SDE 21.4 Released With This Linux Distribution Supporting 15 CPU Architectures
Linux community to share personal stories of how Linux has impacted their lives, thirty submissions to be highlighted for anniversary. SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2021 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is recognizing World Penguin Day, May 25, by kicking off a global campaign to find out how […]
Source: LXer – The Linux Foundation Hosts Forum to Share Linux Stories for 30th Anniversary
The installer for the forthcoming Debian 11.0 “Bullseye release is now up to its release candidate phase for testing…
Source: Phoronix – Debian Installer 11 “Bullseye” RC1 Released
Young tech creators from more than 40 countries have already registered to take part in this year’s Coolest Projects online showcase! To help us celebrate this year’s wonderful group of participants, we’re lucky to have brought on board Colin Furze, Melissa Pickering, James Whelton, and Fig O’Reilly as special judges.
“Since the first Coolest Projects in 2012, I’ve been continually inspired seeing thousands of young creators sharing their projects with the world. Building websites, apps, games, and hardware around something they’re passionate about, solving problems they face or just doing something cool, year on year Coolest Projects shows the magic of technology.”
James Whelton
Colin Furze is a British YouTube personality, presenter, inventor, and five-time Guinness world record holder from Lincolnshire, England. Colin’s YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers. Colin left school at 16 to become a plumber, a trade which he pursued until joining the Sky1 TV programme Gadget Geeks. He has used his engineering experience to build many unconventional contraptions, including a homemade hoverbike, a jet-powered bicycle made with pulsejet engines, and the world’s fastest dodgem vehicle for Top Gear. Colin has completed three Star Wars–themed challenges in partnership with eBay: in 2016, he completed a giant AT-AT garden playhouse, followed in 2017 by a full-size Kylo Ren Tie Silencer. In 2019 he completed a moving Landspeeder from Star Wars: A New Hope; the vehicle was auctioned off on eBay, with all of the funds going to BBC Children in Need.
Melissa Pickering is Head of Product at LEGO Education, leading a cross-functional team to design and develop learning through play experiences for kids globally. She has worked in the field of interactive kids’ products for 15 years, from innovating theme parks as a Disney Imagineer to founding an edtech startup. In her six-year LEGO career she has built up and led design teams to innovate LEGO products through digital experiences, with a key focus of using technology to inspire hands-on play.
Fionnghuala O’Reilly is an Irish-American model, beauty pageant titleholder, and engineer. The 27-year-old recently made history as the first woman of colour to represent Ireland at the international Miss Universe pageant. Since getting her degree in Systems Engineering from the George Washington University, O’Reilly, who goes by Fig, has gone on to become a NASA Datanaut, working within the agency’s Open Innovation programme comprised of engineers and scientists who engage with NASA’s open data to create new thinking, processes and products. Fig has joined the two-time Emmy-nominated science television series Mission Unstoppable as the newest correspondent. She is also the founder and CEO of Reach Productions which is the host of NASA’s Space Apps Challenge in Washington DC. In 2020, Fig was named an Ambassador for Engineers Ireland, Ireland’s leading governing body for professional engineers. Fig is a passionate advocate for women and diversity in STEM subjects.
James Whelton is a coder, entrepreneur, and co-founder of CoderDojo. At 16, James gained worldwide recognition for discovering a hack for the iPod Nano. In response to the lack of opportunities to learn computing at school, he co-founded CoderDojo in 2011, a global community of code clubs for young people where they can learn to build websites, apps and games, and explore technology in an informal, creative, and social environment. James has developed apps and systems with over a million users around the world. He is currently developing an online platform that helps its users achieve their personal goals and build healthier, happier habits and behaviours.
These four fabulous people will choose their favourites from among all of this year’s projects — a unique honour that the young tech creator in your life could receive if they take part! We hope this will be a big boost of motivation for them to register their project for the Coolest Projects showcase before the 3 May deadline.
We’ll be announcing the special judges’ favourite projects as part of our big live-streamed Coolest Projects celebration on 8 June!
Everyone up to age 18 can register for Coolest Projects, and we welcome all projects, all experience levels, and all kinds of projects, made with any programming language or any hardware. Through Coolest Projects, young people are able to show the world something they’ve made with tech that they love, and the projects are as diverse as the participants!
Discover all the support we offer young people to help them create something with tech that they will be proud of.
You can explore the projects of the young tech creators who’ve already registered if you visit the Coolest Projects online showcase gallery! Which one is your favourite project so far?
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It’s looking like the OpenZFS 2.1 open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems will soon be ready for release…
Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.1-rc4 Delivers Another Round Of Fixes
Rudra Saraswat announced today the release of Ubuntu Unity 21.04 as part of the Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system, featuring the good old Unity 7 desktop environment by default.
Source: LXer – Ubuntu Unity 21.04 Is Here for Unity7 Fans with New Theme, Linux Kernel 5.11
Rocket.Chat is a great self-hosted alternative to Slack. You can even use it as a live chat for your website. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install Rocket.Chat on a CentOS 8 server.
Source: LXer – How to Install and Configure Rocket.Chat on CentOS 8
Jason Perlow, Editorial Director of the Linux Foundation, chats with Jory Burson, Community Director at the OpenJS Foundation about open standardization efforts and why it is important for open source projects. JP: Jory, first of all, thanks for doing this interview. Many of us know you from your work at the OpenJS Foundation, the C2PA, […]
Source: LXer – Interview with Jory Burson, Community Director, OpenJS Foundation on Open Source Standards
Ubuntu team announced the release of the first short-term installment – Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo. And it is immediately available for download including its official flavors. Here’s what’s new.
Source: LXer – Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo Released. This is What’s New.
SiFive announced that AI chip startup Tenstorrent will license a new 64-bit SiFive Intelligence X280 CPU for its Tensix cores and that Renesas will adopt SiFive Intelligence for its automotive processors. Tomorrow at the Linley Spring Processor Conference, RISC-V IP designer SiFive will unveil the X280, the first of the SiFive Intelligence family of processors […]
Source: LXer – SiFive Intelligence platform tapped by Tenstorrent and Renesas
As part of the today’s Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) release, all the official Ubuntu flavors have been received new versions as well, and I want you to be the first to read about their new features and improvements.
Source: LXer – Ubuntu 21.04 Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New
Manual operations lead to human errors. Adding and removing Cronjobs frequently can be a very time-consuming task. In this article, we will create Shell scripts that automate the addition and deletion of Cronjobs from Ubuntu EC2 instances on AWS.
Source: LXer – How to add and remove Cronjobs from Linux EC2 instances on AWS using shell scripts
Following last week’s release of Chrome 90, Google on Thursday debuted their beta of next month’s Chrome 91 web browser…
Source: Phoronix – Chrome 91 Beta Brings Experimental WebTransport, WebAssembly SIMD By Default
SQL Server optimisations on way too, but ‘Hirsute Hippo’ not an LTS release so take-up may be tepid. Canonical’s love-in with Microsoft has continued apace with the arrival of Ubuntu 21.04, replete with Active Directory integration. Optimisations for Microsoft’s SQL Server are also inbound.…
Source: LXer – Canonical and Microsoft get cosier with Active Directory integration in Ubuntu 21.04
Let’s look at how you can get ahead of the CentOS 8 wave and migrate to CentOS Stream.
Source: Linux Today – Easily Migrate CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream
Open source database vendor previews a series of upcoming improvements as Redis users at RedisConf 2021 provide insights into how they are using the technology today.
Source: LXer – Redis Labs previews future open source database and caching features
Just ahead of the Fedora Workstation 34 release where it will be the first major Linux distribution using PipeWire as a modern alternative to PulseAudio and JACK, PipeWire 0.3.26 is now available as the newest big feature release for this audio/video stream server for the modern Linux desktop…
Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 0.3.26 Released With Better Bluetooth Support, Up To 64 Channel Devices
Speaking for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, Kees Cook has
posted a brief statement on the controversy
over patches submitted from the University of Minnesota.
The LF Technical Advisory Board is taking a look at the history of
UMN’s contributions and their associated research projects. At
present, it seems the vast majority of patches have been in good
faith, but we’re continuing to review the work. Several public
conversations have already started around our expectations of
contributors.
Stay tuned for more.
Source: LWN.net – A statement on the UMN mess
Perfetto’s tools can be very effective for profiling virtualised GPU acceleration. Here’s how.
Source: Linux Today – Profiling Virtualized GPU Acceleration with Perfetto