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I created rpi-deep-pantilt as an interactive demo of object detection in the wild, and in this article, I'll show you how to reproduce the video below, which depicts a camera panning and tilting to track my movement across a room.

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WireGuard VPN protocol will ship with Linux kernel 5.6  TechRadar

WireGuard VPN protocol will ship with Linux kernel 5.6  Techradar

WireGuard VPN protocol will ship with Linux kernel 5.6  TechRadar

Every open source community wants to make it easier for community members to participate and contribute. Typically, there are discussions on cultural aspects of the community to lower barriers to entry, such as fostering a friendly and welcoming environment, onboarding processes, mentorship, code of conduct, etc. However, in my discussions with several open source communities (e.g., Freedesktop, GNOME, KDE, etc.), I found that one of the key criteria when selecting new tools for code, CI, bug tracking, etc.

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Odoo is a full-featured, extensible open-source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software built using Python and PostgresSQL database for data storage. It is a suite of open-source business applications, that consists of multiple apps under various categories...

The F2FS file-system compression functionality is the main feature addition for this flash-optimized file-system coming with the Linux 5.6 kernel. This native LZO/LZ4 compression support is geared for optimizing the lifespan of SSDs/flash memory thanks to reducing disk writes...

While not as exciting as the USB4 support and staging code lightening for these areas managed by Linux's second in command Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the char/misc updates this week with other hardware support improvements...

Char/Misc Updates For Linux 5.6 Bring New Qualcomm Drivers, Intel Code Updates  Phoronix

We've seen a lot of odd products pick up the Free Software Foundation's "Respect Your Freedom" endorsement like a USB microphone, various re-branded motherboards, and even last year certified a USB to parallel printer cable. The latest product they are endorsing -- and their first endorsement of 2020 -- is a USD 802.11 a/b/g/n PCIe half-mini card starting out at $59 USD but going up to $79 for this outdated wireless adapter...

WireGuard VPN protocol will ship with Linux kernel 5.6  Techradar

WireGuard VPN protocol will ship with Linux kernel 5.6  TechRadar

Mesa 20.0 feature development is over with the code now being branched from Git master and the first of several release candidates issued...

Among many other Valve ACO back-end improvements for Mesa 20.0, one of the notable additions is this AMDGPU LLVM alternative now working for Radeon "Southern Islands" / GCN 1.0 graphics cards. With this, these original AMD GCN graphics cards may have some extra life out of Linux gaming boxes thanks to slightly higher performance some eight years after these graphics cards first launched in the Radeon HD 7000 series.

While WireGuard was merged into Linux 5.6, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release is currently tracking Linux 5.4 and for the April release is likely to be shipping with Linux 5.5 as the 5.6 release will be cutting it too close. But Ubuntu 20.04's kernel has now back-ported WireGuard...

Understand Linux Htop Visually  Hackaday

Kali Linux 2020.1 Released, Download Now!!!  Techworm

Google today announced OpenSK as an open-source Rust-based security key implementation supporting FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards...

Compute module and eval kit run Linux on RISC-V-based PolarFire SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Compute module and eval kit run Linux on RISC-V-based PolarFire SoC  LinuxGizmos.com