Access Raspberry Pi GPIO with ARM64 assembly

Reading, writing, and arithmetic with the Raspberry Pi in ARM64 assembly language.

Raspberry Pi OS now comes with PulseAudio and a graphical printer manager

The Raspberry Pi Foundation regularly adds new features to the official operating system, Raspberry Pi OS. The December 2020 update added the PulseAudio sound server and a print manager.

Write screenplays with Kit Scenarist

Creative writers take note! Kit Scenarist is a free application designed to simplify the process of writing a screenplay.

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-04-28 01:07:45

In the news: Apple M1 Hardware Support To Be Merged into Linux Kernel 5.13; KDE Launches the Qt 5 Patch Collection; Linux Creator Warns Next Kernel Could Be Delayed; System76 Updates Its Pangolin Laptop; New Debian-Based Distribution Arriveson the Mark…

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This month in Linux Voice.

Linux Magazine Full Feed 2021-04-28 01:07:40

This month Graham looks at SonoBus, NewsFlash, Kinto.sh, RetroShare, Emilia Pinball, and much more!

Working with the JSON data format

JSON data format is a standard feature of today’s Internet – and a common option for mobile and desktop apps – but many users still regard it as something of a mystery. We’ll take a close look at JSON format and some of the free tools you can use for r…

Create GUI dialogs in one line of code

The Zenity command-line utility lets you create simple dialog boxes with your own data or with the output of utilities and applications.

The Long Life of Open Source Code

As two examples of how open source code can evolve, maddog discusses the long history of text editors and of the RAND message handling system.

Quantum computers and the quest for quantum-resilient encryption

The encryption methods we use today are no match for tomorrow’s quantum computers. We’ll show you why and what’s ahead for cryptography in the post-quantum era.

Go library shows filesystem changes across platforms

Inotify lets applications subscribe to change notifications in the filesystem. Mike Schilli uses the cross-platform fsnotify library to instruct a Go program to detect what’s happening.

News Flash: COBOL Rises from Its Own Non-Ashes

Markdown-based knowledge base

Obsidian helps you think and work more effectively by giving you a tool to record, connect, and catalog your ideas and related notes.

How to Create a Sudo User in Ubuntu Linux

In this tutorial, we will see how to create a new user in Ubuntu 20.04 and how to grant sudo access to the user. 

How to Install XAMPP on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, we will see how to install XAMPP on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Run Linux on Refurbished Mini PCs Part 2: The Processor

This series recommends what to choose when buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop computer. For this article we focus on the CPU.

Distribution Release: KaOS 2021.04

KaOS is a rolling release distribution which is focused on providing one polished desktop (KDE Plasma) on one CPU architecture (x86_64). The distribution has published a new snapshot, 2021.04, which revamps the KaOS Community Packages utility (kcp). T…

GNU Linux-Libre 5.12 Kernel Released for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs

Based on the recently released Linux kernel 5.12, the GNU Linux-libre 5.12 kernel is packed with the same new features as the upstream kernel, but it cleans up many of the newly added drivers.

LFCA Part 13: Learn Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

To better understand and appreciate the concept of Cloud computing, let’s go back in time and see how the technology environment looked like before the advent of cloud technology.

Flatpak 1.12 Development Kicks Off with Steam Improvements, Better Support for TUI Programs

Flatpak promises several new features like better support for the Steam Linux Runtime mechanism, allowing Steam to launch games with its own container runtime as /usr.
Flatpak 1.12 Development Kicks Off with Steam Improvements, Better Support for TUI P…