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  • Best new Android and iPhone games (December 8th - December 14th)
  • With Misfit, Fossil Could be a Threat to Android Wear

    Last month, the company acquired wearable and fitness tracker specialist Misfit for $260 million. Fossil intends to integrate Misfit's technology into many of its products over time, which could make them stronger alternatives to the growing number of smartwatches.

  • Blackphone2 review

    This blog is normally in danish, but since there are very few actual reviews of the Blackphone2 to be found, I decided to write this review in english.

    The Blackphone2 is a product from the swiss company "Silent Circle".

    Silent Circle makes a lot of hoopla about security but all the reviews and tests I could find were just treating this as another phone with a cloud-security-thingie.

    My goal is to have a computer in my pocket I can actually trust, at least to some degree, so in the end I shelled out £500 from the point of view that it is probably not any less secure than other phones in the market.

  • Scores Dip in Latest Android Antivirus Report

    The security wizards at the AV-Test Institute have been sharing a lot of good news over the past few months. Microsoft's infamous antivirus has seen a meteoric rise in quality, and the last round of Android antivirus testing yielded 17 perfect scores out of 25 candidates. After impressive achievements like those, we're sad to report that the final Android antivirus app test results for the year from AV-Test show a downward trend. But it's far from a total disaster.

  • Android’s Now on Tap goes multilingual with 6 new languages, now shows flight status & parcel tracking

    Google has announced that Android Marshmallow’s Now on Tap feature now supports six new languages and surfaces additional contextual information, including flight status and package tracking updates.

  • Official Reddit Android app beta signups start, enter for your chance to test
  • Samsung's Galaxy S7 will have a pressure-sensing screen: WSJ

    Samsung's Galaxy S7 is coming in March and will feature a pressure-sensitive screen similar to the 3D Touch display Apple introduced with the iPhone 6S, The Wall Street Journal reports. Like Samsung's current flagship, the Galaxy S6, the S7 will also reportedly have an "Edge" variant with a curved screen; one source says the regular, non-Edge version is likely to have expandable storage, unlike both S6 models.

More in Tux Machines

digiKam 7.7.0 is released

After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. Read more

Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand

Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech

The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. Read more

today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. 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 MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

  • An introduction (and how-to) to Plugin Loader for the Steam Deck. - Invidious
  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.