Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

You could spend hundreds of dollars on specialized IoT appliances and fixtures, or you could just hack a smart plug and talk to it with your Linux system.

The chrony implementation of the network time protocol provides an alternative to the familiar NTP daemon.

The at command and the related cron and anacron can help you efficiently schedule tasks, whether one-time events or jobs to be done repeatedly.

Use the eBPF in-kernel virtual machine to identify resource bottlenecks and optimize your installation.

Intranets with multiple servers and services require careful configuration. With Karoshi Linux, even complex structures can be set up in no time at all.

Columnist Charly Kühnast recently attached Mi Flora humidity sensors to his potted plants. At first, they only transmitted junk on Bluetooth, but armed with the right tools and a Rasp Pi, Charly now reaps a rich harvest of data.