Devices: Radiant Software, ASRock and Microsoft

• Radiant 1.1 Lattice FPGA Design Tools Release Accelerates Design Reuse

  In addition to supporting Windows, Radiant Software 1.1 adds support for the popular Ubuntu LTS 16.4 distribution of Linux. Radiant Software 1.1 is now available for download from Lattices website and currently can be used with a free license.

• ASRock spins Whiskey Lake-U in thin Mini-ITX, 3.5-inch, and NUC formats

  ASRock announced four products based on Intel’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-U: a thin Mini-ITX “IMB-1216” board, a 3.5-inch “SBC-350,” and a NUC 4×4 form-factor “iBox-8365U” mini-PC and NUC-8365U mainboard. ASRock Industrial has been busy lately tapping the latest embedded-oriented x86 chips in products such as the Intel 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-U based iBox-8265U mini-PC, as well as the iBox-R1000 industrial PC and NUC-R1000 mainboard built around the AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000. Now it has announced four more Whiskey Lake-U products aimed at the embedded market.

• Making Sense of Microsoft’s Acquisition of Express Logic [Ed: Windows is worthless, so Microsoft is buying the competition. Microsoft also bought Danger, Sidekick etc. and it never ended well. Anything Microsoft touches turns to dust. When it bought Skype it was (back then) near-monopoly, but not anymore. Microsoft sometimes announces financial losses.]

  Even the Linux Foundation, home of the Linux kernel, hosts a project called Zephyr, which is an RTOS designed for use-cases, beyond the reach of Linux.

Events: Richard Stallman in Zurich (Switzerland), OpenStack Summit, Linux Fest Northwest

• Richard Stallman - "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Zurich, Switzerland)

• SUSE CaaS Platform at Open Infrastructure Summit

  If you’re attending Open Infrastructure Summit this year and have in previous years as well, you might be noticing something a bit different; this year it’s not called OpenStack Summit. While we expect much of the talk will still be about OpenStack, we thought it might be a good idea to include other related technologies as well, like SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Cloud Application Platform – the two offerings that combine to form SUSE’s Application Delivery solution – and SUSE Enterprise Storage

• Gearing Up for Linux Fest Northwest 2019!

  This next weekend (April 26-28th, 2019) I will be in Bellingham at Bellingham Technical College for Linux Fest Northwest to help at the Ubuntu table! I will be demonstrating Ubuntu Studio and my au…

• Ubuntu Studio at Linux Fest Northwest 2019

  Council Chair Erich Eickmeyer will be in Bellingham, WA, USA this weekend for Linux Fest Northwest 2019, and will be bringing his audio setup to demonstrate Ubuntu Studio at the Ubuntu table. Check out the post on his personal blog!

today's howtos

• How to Pin Application Shortcut Icons to Desktop in Ubuntu 19.04

• How to Install Shopware CE on Debian 9

• How to Install Android Studio in Linux

• How to set up auto night mode in KDE

• How to use the Manjaro Linux driver installer

• Tutorial: Deploying a Web Application on Google Cloud Run

• Four Methods To Check The Default Gateway Or Router IP Address In Linux?

• Linux Head Command

• How to disable autoplay in Firefox

• save your current environment as a bunch of defaults

• Building a Raspberry PI Cluster - Part II: Operating system installation

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