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According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories. The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring together edge and cloud technologies will soon dominate the…
Kubernetes provides many critical attributes that can contribute to a robust robotics platform: isolated workloads, automated deployments, self-configuring work processes, and an infrastructure that is both declarative and immutable. However, robots designed with ROS 2 face challenges in setting up individual components on Kubernetes so that all parts smoothly work together. In this blog series,…
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a new product — the Raspberry Pi 400. The flagship Raspberry Pi 4 was released in June 2019. Since, they added an 8GB model, brought out the Compute Module 4, we certified all Raspberry Pis since Raspberry Pi 2 and we worked together to make the full Ubuntu Desktop ‘just…
When you start using Linux and follow Linux-based websites and forums, you’ll often come across terms like GUI, CLI and sometimes TUI. This chapter of Linux Jargon Buster briefly explains these terms so that you as a (new) Linux user can understand the context better when these acronyms are used. To be honest, the terms…
Sensing the tech trend, Ubuntu tried its hands on creating a Linux-based mobile operating system. The first announcement came a decade back and six years down the line, Ubuntu closed the curtains on the project. What went wrong? How it started? Is Ubuntu Touch still alive? Let’s take a look at the history of Ubuntu…
The small form factor of the Raspberry Pi Zero W enables a new range of projects. In fact, a lot of people use the Pi Zero in the final version of the project after prototyping on a different full-sized Pi board. And, that’s because it consumes much less power compared to the flagship Pi boards…
With apt-cache command, you can search for package details in the local APT cache. Learn to use apt-cache command in this tutorial. What is apt-cache command used for? The apt package manager works on a local cache of package metadata. The metadata usually consists information like package name, version, description, dependencies, its repository and developers….
Development for Linux Kernel 5.10 is in progress. It’s been confirmed to be a long term support release and it will be bringing newer hardware support among other promised features. Linux Kernel 5.10 will be Long Term Support Release Greg Kroah-Hartman, the key stable kernel maintainer, addressed an “Ask the Expert” session at Linux Foundation’s…
This is quick guide / tour howto install Fedora 33 Workstation / Desktop on real PC. First create your bootable USB flash drive using Fedora Media Writer, dd or similar tool. Just testing stable Fedora 33 release and everything works very smooth, even btrfs file system, which replaces ext4 as a default file system. Watch…
When you are working in the terminal, often you’ll find that your terminal screen is filled up with too many commands and their outputs. You may want to clear the terminal to declutter the screen and focus on the next task you are going to perform. Clearing the Linux terminal screen helps a lot, trust…
Brief: AntiMicroX is a GUI tool to map your gamepad with your keyboard, mouse, or custom macros/scripts in Linux. Let’s take a closer look at it. Gaming peripherals on Linux do not have a great reputation, but we do have some interesting open source tools that can make things easier for you. For instance, I’ve…
The open source project youtube-dl is one of the best tools to download videos from YouTube and many other video hosting websites. But the existence of this project is under threat right now. Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) sent a notice to GitHub against youtube-dl and its forked repositories on 23 Oct 2020….
This is quick guide howto install Fedora 32 Desktop on real pc. First create your bootable USB flash drive using Fedora Media Writer, dd or similar tool. Watch More Videos and Subscribe to if-not-true-then-false.com Youtube Channel
When you find two Linux distributions based on Ubuntu and powered up by KDE, which one do you choose? Kubuntu is the official KDE flavor from Ubuntu. KDE Neon is the Ubuntu-based distribution by KDE itself. I know it is often confusing especially if you have never used either of them but got them as…
Ubuntu 20.10 releases today. An Ubuntu fan may get excited about the new features it brings. Ubuntu 20.10 codenamed Groovy Gorilla is a non-LTS release with nine months of life cycle. You cannot expect drastic changes between subsequent releases. It doesn’t mean you won’t find new things in Ubuntu 20.10. There are some performance improvements,…
A lot of people love Gnome. It hasn’t clicked with me so far, but probably I did not give it a proper chance. It’s time to do that. In the past few months, I have become a fan of KDE. I have slowly built a workflow around it, learnt how to configure it. I can…
I’m guessing that you are probably using Firefox or a Chrome-based browser like Brave to read this article. Or, maybe, Google Chrome or Chromium. In other words, you are utilizing a GUI-based approach to browse the web. However, back in the days, people used the terminal to fetch resources and browse the web because everything…
This is quick guide howto create Windows 10 install media / bootable USB flash drive on Linux. I use here Fedora Linux, but same method works on Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo or any other Linux too. Reason why this guide exist is that the latest Windows 10 image Win10_2004_English_x64.iso (May 2020 update) install.wim file is too…
Open source software highlight of this week is Timekpr-nExt. It is a GUI application to limit the computer usage for certain accounts on a Linux system. This is a handy utility for parents who do not want children to spend excessive time on the computer. Use Timekpr-nExt to limit computer usage on Linux If you…
While reading the installation instructions of an application, you’ll often come across terms like “Flatpak”, “Snap”, and “AppImage”. You might have already used some of them on Linux — but might not really know they are. Flatpak, Snap and AppImage they are ‘universal packaging systems’. In an earlier article in the Linux Jargon Buster, you…