Imago’s 5MP “VisionAI” camera runs Linux on a quad -A53 SoC accompanied by a Google Edge TPU for TensorFlow Lite and AutoML Vision Edge. Other features include 2GB DDR4, microSD, GbE, and DIO.

Imago Technologies GmbH announced a “freely programmable,” 5-megapixel edge AI camera designed for AI/ML and deep learning enabled image processing applications including pattern recognition, classification, anomaly or defect detection, and code reading. The VisionAI embedded camera runs Debian Linux on an unnamed quad-core, Cortex-A53 SoC clocked to 1.8GHz. Our guess is the i.MX8M Mini, but the same profile applies to a few other SoCs such as the Actions S900.

The SoC is paired with Google’s Coral Edge TPU AI accelerator. It is unclear if Imago is deploying the Edge TPU via the solderable, LGA form-factor Coral Accelerator Module or one of the M.2 or mini-PCIe modules. The Edge TPU offers 4-TOPS AI processing power using 0.5 watts for each TOPS (2 TOPS per watt).

Aaeon announced that its Jetson based Boxer-8200 series of embedded PCs will now pre-install Canonical’s Nvidia Ubuntu stack complete with Jetpack 4.5. New Secureboot customization services are also available.

Aaeon’s Boxer line of compact embedded computers dates back over a decade or more with models such as the Intel Celeron based Boxer AEC-6905. Recently, most of the new entries have come from its Nvidia Jetson powered Boxer-8200 series. Aaeon announced today that the Boxer-2000 models will now ship as a default with Canonical’s Nvidia Ubuntu stack with the Jetpack 4.5 drivers and SDK for AI development.

The Nvidia Ubuntu stack from Canonical and Nvidia, also known as Linux4Tegra, is Nvidia’s default OS for its Jetson modules and development kits. The Linux 4.9 based Nvidia Ubuntu provides the latest drivers for Nvidia processors and comes in a stack that integrates JetPack 4.5.

If you're a Linux admin, you probably remember the old runlevels, which defined a state of initialization the operating system is running in. For example, runlevel 0 was a system halt, runlevel 1 was single-user mode, runlevel 2 was multi-user mode with no network file system, run level 3 was multi-user mode with a text-only interface, run level 4 was user-definable, runlevel 5 was multi-user mode with a GUI and runlevel 6 was reboot.

That was with sysvinit. Now that most Linux distributions have migrated to systemd, you might be curious as to the equivalent run levels. There isn't a per-level equivalent, because opts to go with target levels, instead of run levels. Because there are only five targets, it doesn't quite map out perfectly.

Pine64’s PinePhone has a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. But when early versions of the phone began shipping, there wasn’t any software that would actually let you snap photos.

So developer Martijn Braam created Megapixels, which wasn’t the first camera app for the PinePhone, but which has certainly become the most fully-functional. It’s also been ported to work with Purism’s Librem 5 smartphone.

Now the camera app is even better. Megapixels 1.0 is now available and, among other things, it adds support for hardware-accelerated graphics, allowing the phone’s viewfinder to provide a nearly real-time preview as you line up your shot.

The process of copying files from one computer to another can be surprisingly difficult, especially without using flash drives or other external storage. That’s why the developers behind the Linux Mint desktop operating system developed Warpinator, an application for copying files over a local network. However, the tool only worked on Linux-based systems, until now.

Warpinator was released by the Linux Mint project in September of last year, and it can be installed on many other Linux distributions (including the Linux container on Chrome OS) through the Flatpak version. Czechia-based developer Slowscript has now created an Android application using the same protocol (via OMG Ubuntu). The app can be used for copying files to/from a Linux PC with the original Warpinator app, or copying data from other Android devices. In the latter case, it’s an alternative to Google’s own Nearby Share, which only works on devices with Google Mobile Services.

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Linux kernel 5.12 was just released last week, bringing numerous new features and improved hardware support. Among the biggest changes, there’s LTO support in Clang, a new dynamic thermal power management mechanism, initial support for zoned block devices for the Btrfs file system, kernel thread-based NAPI polling, eMMC inline encryption support, and support for the Lenovo IdeaPad platform profile.

Collabora’s contributions to Linux kernel 5.12 targeted the closing of the gap between hardware support on vendor trees and the mainline kernel tree. For that, they’ve contributed to the ChromeOS EC platform support, power/supply and reset/shutdown subsystems, Mediatek SoC support, and improved the V4L2 (Video4Linux) Async notifier API to be consistent and easier to use.

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• Free Game Tuesday - get 100% off on Nubarron, an adventure of an unlucky gnome

  Here's your quick tip of the day! Until May 9, you can grab a free permanent copy of Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome on Steam. The developer, Nastycloud, originally tried crowdfunding it on Kickstarter and it wasn't successful. That was back in 2014 and then surprise - it launched anyway back in early 2020 which we completely missed. Now it's free for a while!

  "Guide Gnome across the dangers of this twisted fairytale world. Can you break the make the annoying cloud go away? And recover his stolen Lucky Hat? Trust your friends? Find out in this, a casual platformer set in a beautiful painted world full of weird creatures you'll have to deal with."

• GOG are having a big Polish games sale with a discount on the Razer store

  Maybe time for a new game and some extra fancy hardware? DRM-free store GOG.com are offering you 15% off in the Razer store, if you buy from them during the Polish Games Festival. The celebration is going on due to Constitution Day which was on May 3.

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  Polish studio Shockwork Games are working to bring us Nadir, an roguelike deckbuilder with artwork burning of infernal fire aimed at an adult audience due to the themes.

  They actually say it's a "JRPG" mixed with a deckbuilder, although they're not situated in Japan, they're taking some elements from the popular genre. Taking inspiration from the likes of Dante's Divine Comedy and many more "extraordinary" works. In the game you "control powerful, yet extremely blemished teams of characters, each representing one of the deadly sins".

• Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a minority investment in Discord | GamingOnLinux

  What does all this mean for the PC/Linux version? Thankfully, nothing. No changes are planned other than some new integration on PlayStation platforms.

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is free on Stadia Pro, Head of Product at Stadia leaves

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  A pretty massive game to be giving away, although it wouldn't be the first since over time Stadia has given away a number of big titles with Stadia Pro.

• Battle of wits: Antiguans revel in ancient board game

  In addition to its cultural significance, there is another reason Mr Simon is one of Warri's staunchest advocates. Co-founder of the country's Warri Academy, he has seen the dividends it reaps in children's mathematical ability.

  "When you teach kids to play, you don't just teach them the game but also our history and how it can help them mathematically," he tells the BBC. "We write a maths problem out for them and show them how Warri can solve it."

• Steam Play Proton 6.3-3 is out now with Origin Overlay working, vkd3d-proton v2.3.1

  Ready for another fun week testing out more games? Valve have you covered with the latest update to Proton.

  If you're not clear on what Proton and Steam Play are, be sure to check out our constantly updated dedicated page. It's a special compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps from Steam on Linux.

The KDE Plasma 5.21.5 point release is here to improve Wayland support by fixing a crash the occurred in the Plasma Wayland session when dragging a file over the panel and to position maximized GTK app windows to no longer be too high. Not Wayland related, comboboxes in GTK apps now use the correct drop-down arrow icon.

The new Plasma System Monitor app has been improved again in this point release to no longer crash when selecting a new display style for any of the sensors, as well as to no longer lose the names of processes after modifying columns.

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Astronomy is a branch of science that deals with the study of celestial objects (including stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, meteor showers, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and other phenomena.

We were introduced to the world of astronomy by the venerable Sir Patrick Moore. For anyone who does not know, Sir Patrick was an amateur astronomer who presented The Sky at Night, the longest-running television programme, for over 54 years, and made an outstanding contribution to astronomy.

Astronomy is particularly well suited to the layperson. It’s a wonderful hobby which has almost no age limits, it is open to individuals of all financial means, and there is always the potential for an amateur to discover something that has eluded professional astronomers, or to help monitor stars and track asteroids. Even with the unaided eye, there is much to study in the night sky including constellations, shooting stars, planets, and of course the moon, the Earth’s only natural satellite.

Giving friends and neighbors a bootable USB drive containing your favorite Linux distribution is a great way to introduce neophyte Linux users to the experience we all enjoy. There are still a large number of folks who have never heard of Linux, and putting your favorite distribution on a bootable USB drive is a great way to break the ice.

A few years ago, I was teaching an introductory computer class to a group of middle schoolers. We used old laptops, and I introduced the students to Fedora, Ubuntu, and Pop!_OS. When the class was over, I gave each student a copy of their favorite distribution to take home and install on a computer of their choice. They were eager to try their new skills at home.

A quick guide for you to help you customizing the GNOME 40 desktop to look like macOS.

Hi all,

I am glad to announce that Taiwins 0.3 is released today. It has been
a year since Taiwins 0.1 release, we have migrated from libweston and
wlroots. This version, Taiwins has implemented enough compositor
features. The biggest change in the version is the libtaiwins library
is finally ready for daily use.

- Multiple backends for hardware abstraction(DRM, X11, wayland).
- Rendering context with exposed interface for custom rendering.
- Abstracting xdg-surface , wl_shell_surface and xwayland_surface for
unified desktop interface.
- session handling.
- All essential and many useful wayland protocols.
- Xwayland support.

With those features supported, libtaiwins now becomes a real
alternative outsides wlroots and libweston. Besides, I’d like to point
out some design goals were kept in mind when crafting taiwins since
day 1.

- split GBM buffer management from DRM mode setting, make it possible
to implement other buffer management backends.

- builtin support for multi-GPUs from day one.
- udev events monitoring for runtime GPU events handling.
- separate rendering logic from backends, make it possible to work
with different renderers.

It is a magical thing to be able to use your own created compositor,
it is certainly not easy, but I think right now the most difficult
time is behind us. The next version of taiwins will focus on the
rendering. Features hopefully will land includes:

- xdg-decoration support
- plane assignment in drm backend
- video recording feature
- taiwins shell functionalities

For people who are interested, https://taiwins.org hosts many useful
documentations and a tutorial on how to use libtaiwins.

https://github.com/taiwins/taiwins/releases/download/v0.3/taiwins-0.3.tar.gz

Cheers,
Xichen

Also: Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release

The first major change you’ll notice when running elementary OS 6 is the brand-new installer, which also acts as a first-time setup wizard by letting you choose the default system language, time zone, and keyboard layout. Then, you are prompted by a redesigned screen to select the live mode or to perform a clean or custom install.

At the first glance, elementary OS 6 will look pretty much identical to the previous release, elementary OS 5. The light theme is enable by default and comes with various enhancements to be more pleasant to the eye, but elementary OS 6 also features a dark theme that looks really gorgeous.

GParted 1.3 comes more than three months after GParted 1.2, which was the first release to introduce support for the exFAT file system. This new release improves exFAT support by adding the ability to read file system usage, as well as to set or update the UUID of exFAT partitions.

On top of that, GParted 1.3 adds support for resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings with passphrase, restores the detection of encrypted file systems, improves support for the Reiser4 file system, and addresses various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances to make your disk partitioning tasks easier.

If you’ve been waiting for a CentOS Linux 8 replacement, the wait is almost over, as Rocky Linux now has a Release Candidate you can download and try on your machines to see what the fuss is all about for this free, community-supported and open-source Red Hat Enterprise Linux alternative.

After AlmaLinux, now Rocky Linux steps up to conquer your server, promising a strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x base, 100% compatibility with CentOS Linux, as well as with numerous new features and improvements. In fact, Rocky Linux is created by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer.

• How to safely remove PPA repositories in Ubuntu – Linux Hint

  Ubuntu is the most common Linux system that assists users in installing the application by using PPA. PPA is abbreviated as “Personal Package Achieve”. Repositories are servers that have a set of packages. PPA is a collection of packages that are hosted on the Launchpad server. Adding PPA means adding a new repository to our system. We can install the application from that repository. PPA repositories are unofficial repositories that are used to connect third-party software to the Ubuntu operating system.

  Ubuntu searches for the application in a package archive that contains most of the applications required by Ubuntu users. Still, newer versions of the same apps that are not as common are not always available in the official repository. A PPA repository can help with this.

  Our system can have numerous repositories installed. The crowded archive of repositories can make the updating process very slow. Therefore, try to keep the required repositories on your system and delete the unwanted or damaged repositories.

• How to install an FTP server on Ubuntu 20.04 – Linux Hint

  FTP is a protocol that allows us to transfer files between two different servers across a network. It happens between a “server” and a “client” computer. It occurs via ports 20 and 21. Port 21 is used to establish a link between two computers, and port 20 is used to transfer data. At the same time, FTP servers may not be as prominent as they have ever been. They can still be quite helpful, particularly when they are used on the intranet.Companies with an intranet for everyday work have an FTP server that is open to installed files for everyone, and this is simple to do in Ubuntu 20.04.

  This post is covering what the FTP server is and how to install it on Ubuntu 20.04.

• How to get a hostname/domain name from an IP address in Linux – Linux Hint

  One of the questions that many Linux users ask is how they can retrieve a system’s hostname using its IP address. It may seem an uphill task, but in the real sense, it’s quite easy. Essentially, this is known as the reverse DNS lookup. Reverse DNS lookup queries an IP address to retrieve the hostname or domain of the server. The exact opposite is the Forward DNS lookup which maps the domain name to the IP address.

  In this short guide, we have explored a few ways to performs Reverse DNS lookup and get a domain name from an IP address. For demonstration purposes, I have used Ubuntu 20.04.

• How to remove blank lines in a file in Linux – Linux Hint

  One of the questions that many Linux users ask is how they can retrieve a system’s hostname using its IP address. It may seem an uphill task, but in the real sense, it’s quite easy. Essentially, this is known as the reverse DNS lookup. Reverse DNS lookup queries an IP address to retrieve the hostname or domain of the server. The exact opposite is the Forward DNS lookup which maps the domain name to the IP address.

  In this short guide, we have explored a few ways to performs Reverse DNS lookup and get a domain name from an IP address. For demonstration purposes, I have used Ubuntu 20.04.

• How to Copy Remote Files Recursively in Linux – Linux Hint

  When you need to copy remote files in Linux, two popular command-line tools can get the job done for you — i.e., scp and rsync. This tutorial will describe how to use the scp and rsync tools to copy remote files recursively in Linux.

• How to change ban time fail2ban, even ban forever if desired – Linux Hint

  Fail2ban is an open-source intrusion prevention service that bans IP addresses, making too many logins attempt with the wrong password. By default, the ban period is 10 minutes or 600 seconds. It automatically unbans the IP after 10 minutes to avoid locking out any legitimate system that may have been mistakenly entered the wrong password. If you want, you can easily change (increase or decrease) the default ban time.

  In this post, we will describe how to change ban time in fail2ban. We will also describe how to permanently ban an IP address if you ever need to do so.

• How can I set the timezone for Crontabs? – Linux Hint

  Crontab, a shortened form of Cron table, is both a command and a text file in UNIX/Linux systems used to determine the scheduling of Cron jobs. What is a Cron job? A Cron job, also widely referred to simply as Cron, is a time-based scheduler that executes tasks in Linux systems at specified times. It runs with the help of the crond daemon Cron jobs are extremely helpful in automating Shell scripts and other commands that need to be executed at regular intervals, which would otherwise be tedious when manually done.

  Usually, Cron jobs run using the local time defined in the system. However, you may prefer to run the Cron job in a different timezone without necessarily changing your server’s time and date.

• How to Install Steam on CentOS 8? – Linux Hint

  Steam is a very popular and widely used online gaming library among the gaming community. It provides thousands of games to play and lets you communicate with online players. It is available on many platforms and can be used in Linux as well.

  In this post, we will walk through a profound guide on how to install Steam on CentOS 8.

  Let’s start!

• How to Install TensorFlow on CentOS 8? – Linux Hint

  TensorFlow is a very popular open-source software library built by Google Inc. for machine learning. It is used for implementing machine learning techniques and training deep neural networks, as well as visualizing graphs and data flow charts of complex mathematical equations.

  In this post, we will demonstrate a step-by-step guide on how to install TensorFlow on CentOS 8 in a python-oriented virtual environment.

• How to Install Go on Linux Mint 20? – Linux Hint

  Go is an open-source and modern programming language that is used to build efficient and reliable software. Since it is a compiled language, therefore, we can easily compile it on any platform and create an executable file.

  Go can be installed on Linux Mint 20 from the base repository and the Go tarball.

• How to Exclude Directory Rsync? – Linux Hint

  Rsync (stands for remote sync) is a very powerful command-line utility for local and remote file and directories synchronization. It comes preinstalled on most Linux distributions. It is one of the best utilities for backup and keeping files and directories on multiple locations in sync. The best part about rsync is that it minimizes the amount of data that is copied to the remote location by only copying the data that has been changed. There is another great feature of rsync that we are going to discuss today; it is excluding files or directories from sync. This is extremely useful during backups when you don’t want to copy one or more files or directories.

  We will show you how you can exclude a file or directory in rsync using different examples. The examples presented here have been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, however, these are also valid for other Linux distributions having rsync installed.

• How to Enable SSH on CentOS 8? – Linux Hint

  Secure Shell, also known as SSH, is a popular tool used for connecting with the server through the client. SSH ensures secure remote connectivity and communication between a server and its client and also provides the file transfer over the remote network connection.

  In this post, we will go through a step-by-step guide on how to enable SSH on CentOS 8 and access its server from a CentOS 8 client machine while remotely using the SSH. Let’s start with the configuration of the CentOS 8 server for remote connection via SSH.

• How to Delete a Partition in Linux? – Linux Hint

  Your hard drive is usually partitioned into logical volumes called partitions. Partitions help you organize your data and hence allow you to easily retrieve your saved files and folders. You can easily create partitions to make space for data storage as well as delete them.

• How to Parse and Scrape HTML Using Pyquery – Linux Hint

  “Pyquery” is a third-party Python module that allows you to parse and extract data from “xml” and “html” documents. It is inspired by jQuery JavaScript library and features a near identical syntax, allowing you to use many helper functions and shorthand code to parse and manipulate the document tree. This article will cover a simple guide on Pyquery that will help you get started with the module.

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