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New Raspbian Update, Qt Creator 4.8 Beta2 Released, Firefox Monitor Now Available in More Than 26 Languages, Chrome OS Linux Soon Will Have Access to Downloads Folder and Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 Long-Term Support 

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            <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><em>News briefs for November 16, 2018.</em></p>

<p><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-update-november-2018/">Simon Long has
released a new Raspbian update</a>. This update includes a "fully hardware-accelerated version of VLC", version
3 of the Thonny Python development environment, improved desktop configuration and more. You can
download the update from <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/">here</a>.
</p>

<p>Qt Creator 4.8 Beta2 is now available. In addition to many bug fixes, the LLVM for the Clang
code model is updated to version 7.0 and binary packages are updated to the Qt 5.12 prerelease.
You can get the open-source version <a href="https://www1.qt.io/offline-installers/#section-13">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
Firefox Monitor, the free services that tells you whether your email has been part of a security
breach, is now available in more than 26 languages: "Albanian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese,
Czech, Dutch, English (Canadian), French, Frisian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish
(Argentina, Mexico, and Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian and Welsh." Along with this, Mozilla
also announced that it has added "a notification to our Firefox Quantum browser that alerts
desktop users when they visit a site that has had a recently reported data breach". See the <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/11/14/firefox-monitor-launches-in-26-languages-and-adds-new-desktop-browser-feature/">Mozilla
blog</a> for details.
</p>

<p>Chrome OS Linux soon will be able to access your Downloads folder and Google Drive. According
to the <a href="https://9to5google.com/2018/11/15/chrome-os-linux-apps-will-soon-be-able-to-access-your-entire-downloads-folder-and-google-drive/">9to5Google
post</a>, "Making the entire Downloads folder accessible will turn Linux apps into a first-class
citizen on Chrome OS and will dramatically help with file organization and ease of use."
</p>

<p>
Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced in his keynote at OpenStack Summit in Berlin that the Ubuntu 18.04 long-term support
lifespan will be extended from five years to ten years. He also addressed IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-reveals-ubuntu-18-04-will-get-a-10-year-support-lifespan/">ZDNet
reports</a> that Shuttleworth indicated that this may lead customers to switch to Ubuntu, saying "We're
neutral on the public cloud. We work at arm's length with AWS, Azure, and Google. We provide a
common currency across different environment. But, we're not the lowest common denominator. We
want to be the best operating system on Azure for Azure, AWS for AWS, and so on."
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author: Jill Franklin
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Feral Interactive Announces Total War: WARHAMMER II to Be Released for Linux Tomorrow, Uber Joined The Linux Foundation, Security Bug Discovered in Instagram, Fedora Taking Submissions for Supplemental Wallpapers and Kernel 4.20-rc3 Is Out 

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            <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><em>News briefs for November 19, 2018.</em></p>

<p>
Feral Interactive announces that <em>Total War: WARHAMMER II</em> will be released for Linux and
macOS tomorrow, November 20, 2018. This follow-up of <em>Total War: WARHAMMER</em> "puts players in command of
one of four fantastical Races, challenging them to wage a war of conquest in order to stabilise or
disrupt the apocalyptically powerful Great Vortex." You can pre-order it from <a href="https://store.feralinteractive.com/en/mac-linux-games/warhammer2tw/">here</a> for $59.99 US,
and
view the trailer from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DEw3Q1K5k&feature=youtu.be">Feral's YouTube channel</a>.
</p>

<p>
Uber has joined The Linux Foundation. The <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/embedded-auto-iot/2018/11/uber-joins-lf/">press release</a>
quotes Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin: "Uber has been active in open source for
years, creating popular projects like Jaeger and Horovod that help businesses build technology at
scale. We are very excited to welcome Uber to the Linux Foundation community. Their expertise will
be instrumental for our projects as we continue to advance open solutions for cloud native
technologies, deep learning, data visualization and other technologies that are critical to
businesses today."
</p>

<p>
A new security vulnerability has been discovered in Instagram (owned by Facebook). <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-instagram-bug-raises-security-questions?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ2YW5zaGlrYS5tYWxob3RyYTk2QGdtYWlsLmNvbSIsImV4cCI6MTU3NDE2NjM0NiwibiI6Ikd1ZXN0Iiwic2NvcGUiOlsic2hhcmUiXX0.qw4VqvVcpFDlyjL_crOrBpH9dHDXDhrHu_jGFeBxMzU&unlock=fe13a4f6944ad16f">The
Information reports</a> that the recently introduced "Download Your Data" security feature caused
some users' passwords to be revealed. Instagram quickly fixed the bug and users were notified and
asked to change their passwords and clear their browsing history.
</p>

<p>
Submissions now open for Fedora 30 Supplemental Wallpapers until January 19, 2019. The Fedora
design team works with the community each release to select 16 additional wallpapers that users
can install. This is your chance to start contributing to Fedora. See the <a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/submissions-now-open-fedora-30-supplemental-wallpapers/">Fedora
Magazine post</a> for more information.
</p>

<p>
<a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.2/01363.html">Linux kernel 4.20-rc3 is
out</a>. Linus says the only unusual thing was his travel and that the changes "are pretty tiny".
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guid: 1340278 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
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title:
Spectre Mitigation Causing Significant Slowdown in 4.20 Kernel, Shadow of the Tomb Raider Coming to Linux in 2019, Kdenlive Bug-Squashing Day December 2, Diskio Pi Kickstarter Campaign and Phones to Receive Android Pie

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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spectre-mitigation-causing-significant-slowdown-420-kernel-shadow-tomb-raider-coming-linux

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            <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><em>News briefs for November 20, 2018.</em></p>

<p>Mitigation for Spectre variant 2 is causing significant slowdowns in the
new 4.20 kernel, and Linus Torvalds <a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.2/01328.html">posted
to the LKML</a>, "When performance goes down by
50 percent on some loads, people need to start asking themselves whether it
was worth it. It's apparently better to just disable SMT entirely, which is
what security-conscious people do anyway". See <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Torvalds-STIBP-Comment">Phoronix</a>,
which originally posted the benchmarks showing the slowdown, and this <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-after-big-linux-performance-hit-spectre-v2-patch-needs-curbs/">ZDNet
article</a>
for more info on this issue.
</p>

<p>Feral Interactive announced this morning that <em>Shadow of the
Tomb Raider</em> is coming to Linux in 2019. <em>Shadow of the Tomb
Raider</em> is the conclusion of Laura Croft's origin story; the previous
two installments are available for Linux now from Feral Interactive. You
can view the <em>Shadow of the Tomb Raider</em> trailer <a href="https://feralinteractive.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27ffb222c33986fdd91dd51b2&id=d105acb546&e=a4da434722">here</a>.
</p>

<p><a href="https://kdenlive.org/en/2018/11/bugsquashing-day/">Kdenlive is
holding a bug-squashing day on December 2, 2018</a> in preparation
for an April 2019 major release. A list of proposed bugs to solve is
available <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/40/">here</a>.
Contact Kdenlive via IRC: #kdenlive on Freenode.
</p>

<p>Guillaume Debray has launched a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diskiopi/diskio-pi-the-ultime-open-source-tablet-0?ref=czbs20">Kickstarter
campaign for a Diskio Pi</a>,
"the Ultimate Open Source Tablet". Diskio Pi is a kit tablet that you
assemble with your nano computer of choice. According to the project
description, it's an "ideal open solution" to use as an extra computer, a
learning code machine, a media center, for home automation or for your
vehicle.
</p>

<p>
Android Central reports
on which phones will receive Android Pie. Android Pie is
slated to come to the Asus ZenFone 5 series in early 2019, and in some markets, the
Motorola One and One Power already have received it. See the <a href="https://www.androidcentral.com/will-my-phone-get-android-p">post on
Android Central</a> for the full roundup.
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author: Jill Franklin
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title:
UserLAnd Now Available on F-Droid, New Darktrace Cybersecurity Company, France Is Dumping Google, KDE Bug Day Focusing on Okular November 27th and SuperTux Alpha Release

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<p>UserLAnd is <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/tech.ula/">now
available on F-Droid</a>. With UserLAnd, you can run full Linux
distributions or specific apps on top of Android, and you can install and
uninstall it like a regular app—you don't need root. This version requires Android 5.0 or newer, and
UserLAnd recommends that you <a href="https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk">install the F-Droid client</a> to build it rather
than download the APK.
</p>

<p>
A new cybersecurity company called Darktrace has developed a tool in collaboration with the
University of Cambridge that uses machine learning to detect internal security breaches. According
to <a href="https://fossbytes.com/this-ml-algorithm-can-find-hackers-who-have-broken-in-before/">FossBytes</a>,
Darktrace created an algorithm that "recognizes new instances of unusual behavior". This technique
is "based on unsupervised learning, which doesn't require humans to specify what to look for.
The system works like the human body's immune system."</p>

<p>France is dumping Google. <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-france-silicon-valley"><em>Wired</em></a> reports
that to "avoid becoming a digital colony of the US or China", the French National Assembly and the
French Army Ministry "<a href="https://www.defense.gouv.fr/salle-de-presse/communiques/communiques-de-florence-parly/cp_communique-du-ministere-des-armees">declared</a> that their digital devices would stop using Google as their
default search engines. Instead, they will use Qwant, a French and German search engine that
prides itself for not tracking its users."</p>

<p>
KDE is holding a Bug Day November 27, 2018 that will focus on Okular. You can join the event at
any time that day. See the <a href="https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging">Bug Triaging Guide</a> to
learn how to confirm and triage bugs, and join the <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net">#kde-bugs IRC channel on Freenode</a> to chat with KDE in real
time. For more information, go <a href="https://andrewcrouthamel.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/kde-bugsquad-okular-bug-day-on-november-27th-2018/">here</a>.
</p>

<p>Classic open-source game SuperTux is heading toward a new release. <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/classic-free-and-open-source-platformer-supertux-has-a-new-alpha-release-out.13010/page=1#r141175">GamingOnLinux
reports</a> that the game is on the third alpha release of the 0.6.0 update. The game features several new
highlights,
including a "complete revamp of the rendering engine"; it now "supports OpenGL 3.3
Core as well as OpenGL ES 2.0, thus allowing SuperTux to be run on the Raspberry Pi, and
potentially WebGL"; and the forest worldmap has been redesigned. You can download it from <a href="https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux">GitHub</a>.
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title:
The Linux Foundation Is Having a Cyber Monday Sale on Certification Bundles, Vulkan 1.1.94 Released, Creative Commons 2019 Global Summit Registration Now Open, Ohio Businesses Can Use Bitcoin to Pay Taxes and Linux Kernel 4.20-rc4 Is Out

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<p>The Linux Foundation is having a Cyber Monday sale on certification and
training bundles. From now through December 3, best-selling certification and prep
course bundles are $179, and the purchase of any bundle will get you a free
limited-edition T-shirt. Sale bundles include Linux Foundation Certified
SysAdmin Bundle, Certified Kubernetes Administrator Bundle and more. Go <a href="https://training.linuxfoundation.org/cyber-monday-2018/?utm_source=lf%20newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cyber%20monday%202018">here</a>
to shop.
</p>

<p>
Vulkan 1.1.94 was released today. According to <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-1.1.94-Released">Phoronix</a>,
this latest release of the graphics and
compute API includes two new extensions: VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format,
which allows the windowing system to use different formats of swap chain
images, and VK_EXT_fragment_density_map, which lets you specify areas of
the render target where the shader can be invoked few times, so you can
reduce rendering quality in areas of the screen that are less important.
For more details, see <a href="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/commit/c24b84795f6c083df107d8639286881a23894679">Vulkan-Docs</a>.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/register2019">Registration is
now open for Creative Commons 2019 Global Summit</a>, May
9–11 in Lisbon, Portugal. The <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals">deadline for proposals</a>
is December 10, 2018.
</p>

<p>
Businesses in the state of Ohio can now use bitcoin to pay taxes.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/25/ohio-becomes-the-first-state-to-accept-bitcoin-for-tax-payments">Tech
Crunch reports</a> that businesses in Ohio can begin making tax payments
today by registering at <a href="https://ohiocrypto.com">OhioCrypto.com</a>
to pay taxes for anything "from cigarette sales taxes to employee
withholding taxes".
</p>

<p><a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.3/00504.html">Linux
4.20-rc4 is out</a>. Of this week's release, Linus says "Nothing looks
particularly odd or scary, although we do have some
known stuff still pending. For example, the STIBP fixes are still
being discussed and fine-tuned and haven't been merged yet. And
there's a few mm fixes being talked about. Nothing that should keep
people from testing the 4.20 rc's, though, so go out and test."
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title:
Tor's Strength in Numbers Campaign, New ask.krita.org Site, Kodi Announces Limited-Edition Raspberry Pi Case, IPFire 2.21 Core Update 125 Released, and Chrome and Firefox Developers Plan to End Support for FTP 

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<p>
Tor announces its <a href="https://donate.torproject.org">Strength in
Numbers</a> campaign: "Stand up for the universal
human rights to privacy and freedom and help keep Tor robust and secure."
For #GivingTuesday, another donor will match first-time
donations to the project—this is in addition to the existing matching
donations from Mozilla, so if you donate, your gift will be matched twice.
Go <a href="https://donate.torproject.org">here</a> to donate.
</p>

<p>
Scott Petrovic and the KDE sysadmin team have launched
<a href="https://krita.org/en/item/ask-krita-org-the-krita-question-and-answers-site/">ask.krita.org</a>—the
"Krita Question and Answers Site". The new ask.krita.org "is
a place where it's simple to find out if your question has been asked
before, simple to ask a question, and simple to answer a question. It's
a central place where, we hope, Krita users will get together and help each
other. Like a stackoverflow site, or like <a href="https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/">ask.libreoffice.org</a>.</p>

<p>
Kodi recently released a new limited-edition <a href="https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-edition-raspberry-pi-case-version-2-may-open-source-be-you">"Kodi
Edition" Raspberry Pi case</a>. This
version 2 of the case Kodi released two years ago is newly designed,
aluminum, but it's "now gone to the dark side with a metallic, jet black
coating for that cool Vader look". In addition, "the second-generation case
features better access to the SD card, a better built-in heatsink,
precision manufacturing, and subtle details that make a great case
amazing." A percentage of every sale of this case goes to the <a href="https://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu">USC Norris
Comprehensive Cancer Center</a>. You can order one from <a href="https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-case-ke-gen2">FLIRC</a> for
$19.95.
</p>


<p>
<a href="https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-125-released">IPFire
2.21 Core Update 125</a> was released yesterday. This update has various
bug and security fixes, along with new features, such as "the IPFire Access
Point add-on now supports 802.11ac WiFi if the chipset supports it" and the
dehydrated
"lightweight client to retrieve certificates from Let's Encrypt written in
bash". You can download it from <a href="https://www.ipfire.org/download/ipfire-2.21-core125">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
Chrome and Firefox developers plan to end support for FTP. <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/chrome-and-firefox-developers-aim-to-remove-support-for-ftp/">BleepingComputer
reports</a> that "an upcoming change in how files stored on FTP servers are
rendered in the browser may be the first step in its ultimate removal", and
also that "Google developers have advocated for the removal of FTP support in
Chrome for over 4 years" due to its low usage and the additional
attack surface it creates that Chrome is unable to secure properly, compared to offering the
same files over an HTTPS connection.
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guid: 1340290 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
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title:
RHEL for ARM Now Supported on AWS, Malicious Code Discovered in JavaScript Library to Steal Cryptocurrency, Red Hat Purchases NooBaa, Users Reporting EXT4 Filesystem Corruption Issues with Linux 4.19 and Rust's 2018 Survey 

url:
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<p>
AWS announced Amazon EC2 A1 instances this week, the first AWS instances based on Arm
architecture. And, yesterday <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-arm-now-supported-aws">Red Hat announced
that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM AMIs are now available
for Amazon EC2 A1</a>: "this means that customers seeking to use a
multi-architecture approach across the hybrid cloud can use the world's
leading enterprise Linux platform to fuel their mission-critical workloads,
even on Arm instances in AWS Cloud." Red Hat plans to make Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8 Beta for ARM accessible soon as well.
</p>

<p>
Malicious code that infected the Event-stream JavaScript library to steal cryptocurrency from
digital wallets was
discovered recently. <a href="https://fossbytes.com/javascript-library-infected-by-malicious-code-to-steal-cryptocurrency">FossBytes
reports</a> that the researchers investigating the code found that the "targets are libraries linked to
Copay Bitcoin wallet app that is available for mobile as well as desktop users.
The harmful code steals the coins in the Copay wallet and then tries to connect to copayapi.host
with 111.90.151.134 IP address located in Malaysia." However, an updated version without the
malicious code was posted about two months ago.
</p>

<p>
Red Hat purchases NooBaa, a hybrid-cloud, data-storage company. According to <a href="//www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-buys-hybrid-cloud-data-storage-company-noobaa">ZDNet</a>, NooBaa
provides
"multi-cloud storage management, which enables allows you to manage, deploy, and migrate data
storage across private and major public clouds. This includes Alibaba, AWS, Azure, and Google
Cloud."
</p>

<p>Users are reporting EXT4 filesystem corruption problems with Linux 4.19. According to <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EXT4-Linux-4.19-Corruption">Phoronix</a>,
"There was initially some belief it could have been due to the multi-queue block code (BLK MQ)
code in Linux 4.19, but that appears to be ruled out. Unfortunately, EXT4 file-system maintainer
Ted Ts'o has been unable to reproduce this corruption issue on his own hardware."
</p>

<p>
The Rust Team's 2018 Survey is now available. The survey shows a steady stream
of new users to the Rust programming language (~23% started using it in the past three months) and also that 40% of
users felt productive in Rust with less than one month of use. Python ranks number one as the
language users are most familiar with. See the <a href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/27/Rust-survey-2018.html">Rust 2018 Survey</a>
for all the results.
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guid: 1340332 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
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title:
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Call for Testing, openSUSE T-Shirt and Poster Design Contest, RISC-V Foundation Joins The Linux Foundation, Location Tracking in Android Violates GDPR and FSF Announces 18 GNU Releases

url:
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<p>
<a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/call-for-testing-ubuntu-touch-ota-6-183">UBports
announces a call for testing for Ubuntu Touch OTA-6</a>. They are asking the community for
feedback and have prepared a <a href="https://github.com/orgs/ubports/projects/5">GitHub
project for OTA-6 quality assurance</a>. See the <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/call-for-testing-ubuntu-touch-ota-6-183">UBports
blog</a> for more info on how you can help with the testing and also to see what's new in the
OTA-6 release, which is scheduled for December 7th.

</p><p>
<a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2018/11/28/opensuse-to-have-poster-t-shirt-design-contest-for-osc19">openSUSE
is having a t-shirt and poster design contest</a> for the openSUSE Conference 2019, which is being held in
Nuremberg, Germany. The contest
begins December 1, 2018, and the
deadline for entry is January 15, 2019.
</p>

<p>
The RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit that works to encourage adoption of the RISC-V architecture
for chip design, has joined the Linux Foundation to help RISC-V grow its open-source ecosystem. <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2018/11/28/the-linux-foundation-teams-up-with-risc-v-to-promote-open-source-chips">FossBytes
reports</a> that to start, the two foundations are "aiming at preparing helpful guides to help
Linux and Zephyr users get started with RISC-V. The initial guides are expected to be unveiled at
the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara on Dec. 3."
</p>

<p>
Seven European consumer organizations have filed a complaint that Google location tracking in
Android "lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union". According to <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/27/eu_consumer_complaint_android_location_tracking">The
Register</a>, "At the heart of the complaint is that the user control of location tracking falls
far short of what's required by the union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—the
consent controls are both deceptive and ineffective."
</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-spotlight-with-mike-gerwitz-18-new-gnu-releases-3">Free
Software Foundation announces 18 GNU releases</a> for the month (as of November 27th). Subscribe
to the <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu">GNU mailing list</a> for new GNU
release announcements, and download GNU software from the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html">GNU mirrors</a>.
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guid: 1340334 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
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title:
KDE and Necuno Solutions Partner on the Open-Source Necuno Mobile, Fedora 27 Reaches End of Life, Artifact for Linux Now Available, Linux Goes to Mars and BlackArch Linux New Release

url:
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<p>
KDE and Necuno Solutions are partnering to offer <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org">Plasma Mobile</a> on
the Necuno Mobile, which is a device Necuno describes as "a truly
open source hardware platform". From the <a href="https://dot.kde.org/2018/11/29/necuno-mobile-open-phone-plasma-mobile">KDE
blog post</a>: "With a focus on openness, security and privacy, the
Necuno Mobile is built around an ARM Cortex-A9 NXP i.MX6 Quad
and a Vivante GPU. According to Necuno, none of the closed firmware
has access to the memory."
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-27-end-of-life">Fedora 27
has officially reached End of Life status</a>, and its
repositories will no longer receive security or bugfix updates. If
you are still running Fedora 27, you should update now to Fedora 28
or 29.
</p>

<p>
The
<em>Artifact</em> card game from Valve has officially been released
for Linux. <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/artifact-is-an-exciting-and-addicting-card-game-from-valve-out-now.13042">GamingOnLinux
reports</a> that this "exciting and addictive card game" is the "first Valve game to arrive with Linux
support at release".
</p>

<p>
The CubeSat satellites that confirmed the successful landing of the
Mars Insight lander on Mars earlier this week contained
Gumxtix's Linux-driven Overo IronStorm-Y module and Caspa VL camera.
According to <a href="http://linuxgizmos.com/cubesats-that-confirmed-mars-insight-landing-feature-embedded-linux-com">Linux
Gizmos</a>, "the Mars Cube One (MarCO) satellites are the first
CubeSats to have traveled beyond low Earth orbit. They also likely
represent the farthest distance a Linux computer has traveled into
space."
</p>

<p>
BlackArch Linux, the Penetration Testing Distribution, has just released new
ISOs and OVA images. This release adds more than 150 new tools,
includes a new version of installer and kernel 4.19.4. See the <a href="https://blackarch.org/blog.html">BlackArch Linux blog</a> for
the complete ChangeLog and download links.
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title:
NVIDIA Open-Sourcing PhysX, miniNodes Launching a Raspberry Pi 3 CoM Carrier Board, Linux Mint 19.1 Beta Now Available, Linux Kernel 4.20-rc5 Released and New F-Bomb Fixing Patch for Kernel

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<p>
NVIDIA is open-sourcing its PhysX physics simulation engine. According to <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-Source-PhysX">Phoronix</a>, NVIDIA says ""We're doing
this because physics simulation—long key to immersive games and entertainment—turns
out to be more important than we ever thought. Physics simulation dovetails with AI, robotics and
computer vision, self-driving vehicles, and high-performance computing." See also the <a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/12/03/physx-high-fidelity-open-source/">NVIDIA blog</a>
for more details.
</p>

<p>miniNodes is launching a new Raspberry Pi 3 CoM carrier board that will allow developers to
create mini ARM clusters. <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/need-cheap-raspberry-pi-arm-server-mininodes-board-takes-five-pi-modules">ZDNet
reports</a> that the board has slots for five RPi 3s in order to "bring extreme edge
compute capacity' to cramped spaces, industrial IoT applications, and remote villages". It also
can be used " on the desktop for learning about compute clustering, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or
development using Python, Arm, and Linux". The carrier board is available now for <a href="https://www.mininodes.com/product/5-node-raspberry-pi-3-com-carrier-board/#tab-description">pre-order for
$259 from miniNodes</a>.
</p>
<p>Linux Mint 19.1 beta is now available. This version features a new desktop layout and many
other improvements. You can download it from <a href="https://mirrors.layeronline.com/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso">here</a>.
Note that this is a beta version for testing and shouldn't be considered stable. (Source: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/linux-mint-19-1-beta-download">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.)
</p>

<p>Linux kernel 4.20-rc5 is out. Linus wrote "So it all looks a bit odd, although none of it is
hugely _alarming_.
One of the reasons the arch side is a bit bigger than usual at this
stage is that we got the STIPB performance regression sorted out, for
example." In addition, he addressed the timing of the final 4.20 release: "So my current
suggestion is that we plan on a Christmas release,
everybody gets their pull requests for the next merge window done
*before* the holidays, and then we see what happens. I think we all
want to have a calm holiday season without either the stress of a
merge window _or_ the stress of prepping for one." (See the <a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.0/00502.html">LKML</a> for the full message.)
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-patch-replaces-f-words-with-hugs-in-kernel-comments-but-some-cry-censorship">ZDNet
reports</a> that Jarkko Sakkinen, a kernel contributor from Intel, "has released a set of patches that conceal some
of the f-bombs that Linux kernel developers have added to kernel code comments over the years."
The patch set "addresses 15 components where 'fuck' or 'fucking' appeared in code comments, which
have now been swapped out for a 'hugload of hugs'."
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author: Joey Sneddon
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<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/happy-birthday-ubuntu-graphic-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="happy birthday ubuntu graphic" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/happy-birthday-ubuntu-graphic-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/happy-birthday-ubuntu-graphic-350x200.jpg 350w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Bust out the bunting and start cooking a cake because it&#8217;s Ubuntu&#8217;s birthday! Yes, fourteen feature-filled years have flown by since Mark Shuttleworth sat down to share news of the very first Ubuntu release. Ubuntu 4.10 &#8216;Warty Warthog&#8217; was thrust into the world on Wednesday October 20, 2004. Explaining the USP of the (then newest) Linux distribution, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/ubuntu-14th-birthday">Happy 14th Birthday, Ubuntu!</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136116
title: Linux Kernel 4.19 Released, Plus Updates to Google Chrome, LightWorks + More
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/OCk9lGLYizE/linux-4-19-release-roundup
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/linux-kernel-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Linux 4.19 kernel release" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/linux-kernel-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/linux-kernel-350x200.jpg 350w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />This week's Linux Release Roundup includes a look at the new features in the Linux 4.19 kernel release, Chrome 70, a Lightworks update, and more.</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/linux-4-19-release-roundup">Linux Kernel 4.19 Released, Plus Updates to Google Chrome, LightWorks + More</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136109
title: Simplenote Adds a Distraction-Free Focus Mode
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/P3qsLDkKB7E/simplenote-focus-mode
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/simplenote-tile-1-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="simplenote on linux" />A distraction-free focus mode has been added to the nifty note taking app Simplenote. The feature is one of several improvements the desktop client picks up in its latest update, and is freely available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users. Mobile apps for iOS and Android are also available. Famed for its markdown support in particular, Simplenote [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/simplenote-focus-mode">Simplenote Adds a Distraction-Free Focus Mode</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136184
title: You Can Now Buy an Official Ubuntu 18.10 T-Shirt
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/QjidfXlmsq0/ubuntu-18-10-mascot-t-shirt
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ubuntu-tshirt-1810-cosmic-cuttlefish-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Ubuntu 18.10 cosmic cuttlefish mascot tee" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ubuntu-tshirt-1810-cosmic-cuttlefish-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ubuntu-tshirt-1810-cosmic-cuttlefish-350x200.jpg 350w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />A t-shirt bearing the Ubuntu 18.10 mascot design has gone on sale. Canonical&#8217;s online shop has added a dark blue shirt overlaid with an orange cuttlefish design, the same one used on the official Ubuntu 18.10 wallpaper. The reverse of each 100% cotton tee bears the Ubuntu brand mark and text that reads &#8220;Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10&#8221;. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/ubuntu-18-10-mascot-t-shirt">You Can Now Buy an Official Ubuntu 18.10 T-Shirt</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136212
title: Firefox 63 Released with Tab Switcher Changes, More Robust Web Extensions
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/7ic2ABRYFBc/firefox-63-released
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/firefox-ctrl-tab-previews-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Firefox 63.0 tab switching" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/firefox-ctrl-tab-previews-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/firefox-ctrl-tab-previews-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/firefox-ctrl-tab-previews-840x480.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />A new version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is now available to download. Firefox 63.0 serves as the latest update and comes packed with a compelling crop of new features and other improvements. Out of process extensions Firefox 63 is the first version of the web browser to run web extensions (previously known as add-ons) [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/firefox-63-released">Firefox 63 Released with Tab Switcher Changes, More Robust Web Extensions</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136288
title: IBM Inks $34 Billion Deal to Buy Red Hat
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/5c8MjH-qOxY/ibm-just-bought-red-hat-for-34-billion
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="IBM buys Red Hat" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-768x439.jpg 768w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM-750x429.jpg 750w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IBM.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />IBM is to buy open source software company Red Hat in a $34 billion deal — the biggest in Linux and open-source history. Red Hat is best known as a Linux company, offering both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora, but it also makes (a lot of) money selling support, virtualization solutions, training, and cloud [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/ibm-just-bought-red-hat-for-34-billion">IBM Inks $34 Billion Deal to Buy Red Hat</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136152
title: Ubuntu 19.04 is Named ‘Disco Dingo’
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/aig0slYrkEg/ubuntu-19-04-name-revealed
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ubuntu-disco-dingo-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="ubuntu 19.04 is named the disco dingo" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ubuntu-disco-dingo-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ubuntu-disco-dingo-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ubuntu-disco-dingo-840x480.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />The name of Ubuntu 19.04 has been revealed — and it&#8217;s definitely a distinctive decision! As listed on Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, the Ubuntu 19.04 name is logged as &#8220;Disco Dingo&#8221;. Ubuntu 19.04 will be the next stable Ubuntu release and come backed by 9 months of updates. It&#8217;s due for release in April [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/ubuntu-19-04-name-revealed">Ubuntu 19.04 is Named &#8216;Disco Dingo&#8217;</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136338
title: Linux Mint 19.1 Will Feature a ‘Modern’ Desktop Layout
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/V82K1Kj2bPY/linux-mint-19-1-new-panel-layout
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/linux-mint-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="linux mint thumbnail" />We&#8217;re expecting the release of Linux Mint 19.1 to arrive just before the Christmas holidays and, like your nearest and dearest, it&#8217;ll be bringing a few surprises with it. The Linux 19.1 release will include the Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment by default and this, Mint&#8217;s devs say, will &#8220;look more modern&#8221; than it does now. How? By [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/linux-mint-19-1-new-panel-layout">Linux Mint 19.1 Will Feature a &#8216;Modern&#8217; Desktop Layout</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136347
title: Mark Shuttleworth Thinks IBM Buying Red Hat is Good News for Ubuntu
author: Joey Sneddon
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
url:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/0WjlSuGaRmw/mark-shuttleworth-thinks-ibm-buying-red-hat-is-good-news-for-ubuntu

content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-IBM-redhat-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-IBM-redhat-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-IBM-redhat-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-IBM-redhat-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-IBM-redhat.jpg 700w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Wondering what Mark Shuttleworth thinks about IBM buying Red Hat? Well, wonder no more. The Ubuntu founder has shared his thoughts on IBM&#8217;s game-changing purchase in a short but pointed blog post. And, few of you will be surprised to learn, the space-faring free-software fan thinks the deal marks a &#8220;significant moment in the progression of open [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-thinks-ibm-buying-red-hat-is-good-news-for-ubuntu">Mark Shuttleworth Thinks IBM Buying Red Hat is Good News for Ubuntu</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136374
title: Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/NeYpSytASMc/ubuntu-19-04-release-features
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-768x439.jpg 768w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational-750x429.jpg 750w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plain-ubuntu-19.04-informational.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />With the Ubuntu 19.04 release date set for April 18, 2019, we take a look at some of new features Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo might include – and there's lots!</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/ubuntu-19-04-release-features">Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date &#038; Planned Features</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136510
title: Don’t Panic, You Can Boot Linux on Apple’s New Devices
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/ZtLaziR4LFs/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-linux
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/apple-macbook-air-t2-linux-406x232.png" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="the new apple macbook doesn&#039;t let linux boot" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/apple-macbook-air-t2-linux-406x232.png 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/apple-macbook-air-t2-linux-350x200.png 350w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Does Apple stop Linux from booting on its newly refreshed Mac Mini PC or MacBookAir laptops?  That&#8217;s the claim currently circling the web&#8216;s collective drain. The posit is that the new T2 &#8216;secure enclave&#8217; chip Apple has baked in to its new models prevents Linux from booting. But is this actually true? Kinda. The answer is both &#8220;yes, technically&#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-linux">Don&#8217;t Panic, You Can Boot Linux on Apple&#8217;s New Devices</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136546
title: Microsoft Adds More Features to Windows Subsystem for Linux
author: Joey Sneddon
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
url:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/saQfqTV-Y40/microsoft-adds-more-features-to-windows-subsystem-for-linux

content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Linux-Shell-in-WSL-file-explorer-406x232.png" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Linux Shell option in WSL file explorer" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Linux-Shell-in-WSL-file-explorer-406x232.png 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Linux-Shell-in-WSL-file-explorer-350x200.png 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Linux-Shell-in-WSL-file-explorer-840x480.png 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />A slate of improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature in the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.  Microsoft has shared details on a number of key bug fixes and useful new features that WSL users who run the latest version of Windows 10 will benefit from. Such as? Windows 10 October Update WSL Improvements [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/microsoft-adds-more-features-to-windows-subsystem-for-linux">Microsoft Adds More Features to Windows Subsystem for Linux</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136574
title: Samsung ‘Linux on DeX’ Enters Beta, Here’s How to Take Part
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/ZMxsG4PTgUk/linux-on-dex-ubuntu
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/samsung-dex-linux-galaxy-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="samsung dex linux galaxy" />Do you dream of being able to use an Android phone as a Linux PC when connected to a big screen and full-size keyboard? If so, you&#8217;re gonna love Samsung. The South Korean tech giant has launched its &#8220;Linux on DeX&#8221; app in beta, and is inviting early adopters to register to help test it [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/linux-on-dex-ubuntu">Samsung &#8216;Linux on DeX&#8217; Enters Beta, Here&#8217;s How to Take Part</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136144
title: Ubuntu 19.04 Daily Builds Available to Download
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/dGXJLA3GeJU/download-ubuntu-19-04-daily-build
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="ubuntu 19.04 daily builds are available to download" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-768x439.jpg 768w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download-750x429.jpg 750w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/daily-builds-of-ubuntu-1904-are-available-to-download.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Prep a partition because Ubuntu 19.04 daily builds are now available to download. A new &#8220;Disco Dingo&#8221; daily build will be produced each and every day from now until the Ubuntu 19.04 release date in April 2019. For dedicated Ubuntu developers, testers, and community enthusiasts the arrival of daily builds is the horn blare that declares [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/download-ubuntu-19-04-daily-build">Ubuntu 19.04 Daily Builds Available to Download</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136646
title: Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/DgZyFpTKK5k/linux-deepin-15-8-release-improvements
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/linux-deepin-15.6-launcher-406x232.jpeg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="linux deepin 15.6 simple launcher" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/linux-deepin-15.6-launcher-406x232.jpeg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/linux-deepin-15.6-launcher-350x200.jpeg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/linux-deepin-15.6-launcher-840x480.jpeg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Deepin 15.8, the latest version of the Deepin Linux distribution, is now available to download. Building on its previous (well received) release, Deepin 15.8 adds some polish and refinement, boasts a smaller download size, and makes a number of design tweaks to improve the form and function of the distro. “[Deepin 15.8 offers] an attractive and efficient, excellent [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/linux-deepin-15-8-release-improvements">Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136740
title: Deepin 15.8 Promo Video Proves Distro Deserves ‘Blingiest Desktop’ Crown
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/tagp37AXAoQ/deepin-15-8-promo-video
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deepin-15.8-video-406x232.png" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="deepin 15.8 video" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deepin-15.8-video-406x232.png 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deepin-15.8-video-350x200.png 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deepin-15.8-video-840x480.png 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />The recent Deepin 15.8 release impressed many on its arrival — now a new promo video published by the team behind demonstrates precisely why. The five-minute clip, which we&#8217;ve embedded above, showcases the distro&#8217;s recent crop of UI changes and UX tweaks, including a new boot menu, disk encryption feature, and optional &#8216;dark mode&#8217;. And call me sucker [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/deepin-15-8-promo-video">Deepin 15.8 Promo Video Proves Distro Deserves &#8216;Blingiest Desktop&#8217; Crown</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=129678
title: How to Connect Your Android Phone to Ubuntu Wirelessly
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/Kj6xDUQOfDw/connect-android-ubuntu-gsconnect
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/connect-android-to-ubuntu-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="connect android to ubuntu using GSConnect" />Learn how to connect your Android phone to Ubuntu using GSConnect to transfer files, see notifications, or use your phone touchscreen as a mouse.</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/connect-android-ubuntu-gsconnect">How to Connect Your Android Phone to Ubuntu Wirelessly</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136833
title: Linux Mint 19.1 Beta Is Now Available to Download
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/ICQrHzgsGwc/linux-mint-19-1-beta-download
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/linux-mint-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="linux mint thumbnail" />The Linux Mint 19.1 beta downloads are up, ready for testing. Linux Mint 19.1 features a number of changes, including a new panel layout and updated apps.</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/linux-mint-19-1-beta-download">Linux Mint 19.1 Beta Is Now Available to Download</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: 7aed3643-a974-4bb6-82c0-be7e269e7869
title: Linux in Windows 10 October update: This is how we've improved WSL, says Microsoft
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
content: Microsoft makes Notepad friendlier for developers working with Linux and Unix line endings.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-in-windows-10-october-update-this-is-how-weve-improved-wsl-says-microsoft/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Tiny Android, Linux laptop: Cosmo Communicator is also dual-screen phone
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
content: The Cosmo Communicator aims to correct the drawbacks of the Psion-inspired Gemini PDA.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/tiny-android-linux-laptop-cosmo-communicator-is-also-dual-screen-phone/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Raspberry Pi clone Rock Pi 4 starts at just $39 but with powerful RK3399 chip
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
url:
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content:
A new Raspberry Pi competitor is due out soon with a more powerful processor made for a tight budget.


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title: Linux cryptocurrency miners are installing rootkits to hide themselves
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-cryptocurrency-miners-are-installing-rootkits-to-hide-themselves/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

content:
Rootkit component hides the crypto-mining process that causes high CPU usage from local, built-in Linux process monitoring utilities.


guid: 47c626b5-7e3d-4cd8-affc-1bb1dbde9194
title: IoT security and Linux: Why IncludeOS thinks it has the edge
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-security-and-linux-why-includeos-thinks-it-has-the-edge/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

content:
By giving the Internet of Things a more suitable operating system, Norwegian software outfit IncludeOS aims to secure the billions of IoT devices coming online.


guid: 095587b7-3593-47b0-a45c-82b07df57e5f
title: ​Ceph open-source storage takes an organizational step forward
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ceph-open-source-storage-takes-an-organizational-step-forward/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

content:
Under the guidance of The Linux Foundation, the Ceph open-source project will now be directed by the Ceph Foundation.


guid: 16a26da6-b389-4142-9455-85e7351b6618
title: ​Red Hat blends Kubernetes into Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
content: OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud meets Kubernetes cloud container orchestration.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-blends-kubernetes-into-red-hat-openstack-platform-14/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu -- yet
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content:
Mark Shuttleworth might consider selling Canonical and its Ubuntu Linux operating system, if he were still in charge of it afterwards.


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title: Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ out now: $25 for cut-down Pi 3 B+ with quad-core CPU
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content: Raspberry Pi Foundation updates its budget single-board computer with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-3-model-a-out-now-25-for-cut-down-pi-3-b-with-quad-core-cpu/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: ​Mark Shuttleworth reveals Ubuntu 18.04 will get a 10-year support lifespan
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content:
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu, OpenStack, competition with Red Hat, and Canonical's forthcoming IPO.


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title: Linus Torvalds: After big Linux performance hit, Spectre v2 patch needs curbs
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content: Patch is causing as much as a 50 percent drop in performance in some Linux workloads.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-after-big-linux-performance-hit-spectre-v2-patch-needs-curbs/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


guid: c35f09b4-8cd7-491d-a932-19a38a796baf
title: ​Dell XPS 13: The best Linux laptop of 2018
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feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
content:
Do you want the best of the best Linux laptop this holiday season and price is no object? If that's you, then you want the Ubuntu Linux-powered Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop.


guid: 866e7c0d-2148-4c5b-bb4a-032d59251bb1
title: New Linux crypto-miner steals your root password and disables your antivirus
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content: Trojan also installs a rootkit and another strain of malware that can execute DDoS attacks.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-linux-crypto-miner-steals-your-root-password-and-disables-your-antivirus/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


guid: f7516621-19c5-4ff2-8040-f9cbc900fd29
title: ​Acer Chromebook 13: The pro's Chromebook
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feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
content:
While it's no Google Pixelbook, at half the price, the latest Acer Chromebook 13 gives more bang for the buck.


guid: 5c90f1af-8de8-453f-8596-a9689d4c3a53
title: First truly open-source smartphone? Necuno unveils its KDE on Linux handset
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url:
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content:
Necuno hopes its forthcoming Linux smartphone will offer users an escape from the walled gardens created by Google and Apple.


guid: 16167365-539a-4541-84fb-76a68381d6b7
title: Linux patch replaces f-words with 'hugs' in kernel comments, but some cry censorship
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content: Linux developers clean up code comments to align with the new contributor code of conduct.
url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-patch-replaces-f-words-with-hugs-in-kernel-comments-but-some-cry-censorship/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


guid: 6d373609-b3e8-40d4-a222-6b88f9be3732
title: Need cheap Raspberry Pi Arm server? MiniNodes' board takes five Pi modules
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url:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/need-cheap-raspberry-pi-arm-server-mininodes-board-takes-five-pi-modules/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

content:
MiniNodes offers an almost cable-free way of creating an Arm-based cluster consisting of five Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3s.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtualBox-6.0-Beta-3
title: VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 3 Released: Enables VMSVGA Device By Default, OCI Improvements
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtualBox-6.0-Beta-3
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Oracle's VirtualBox 6.0 multi-platform virtualization software continues inching closer to release...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.13-Release-Schedule
title: Qt 5.13 Gets Scheduled For A May Debut
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.13-Release-Schedule
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
While Qt 5.12 isn't even out until next week, The Qt Company has already begun formulating their early plans around Qt 5.13...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-240-Features-So-Far
title: Systemd 240 Continues Picking Up New Features Ahead Of The Holidays
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content:
It's been over five months already since the release of systemd 239 and a lot of feature work has been amassing for what will end up releasing as systemd 240...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Linux-4.21-FreeSync-ABM
title: AMDGPU Linux 4.21 Changes Queued With FreeSync, DC ABM, KFD Compute For Vega12/Polaris12
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Linux-4.21-FreeSync-ABM
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
On Friday AMD's Alex Deucher sent in the latest batch of feature to work DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 4.21 cycle. This mostly included AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver updates but also a lone Radeon DRM driver fix to avoid a possible 32-bit overflow and also DRM scheduler and TTM memory management fixes...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RenderDoc-1.2-Released
title: RenderDoc 1.2 Released For This Powerful Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RenderDoc-1.2-Released
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content:
RenderDoc 1.2 is now available as the latest feature update to this leading graphics debugging tool for Vulkan, OpenGL, and Direct3D across all major platforms...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-2018-December
title: Bcachefs Working Towards Online Fsck, Faster Mount Times
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-2018-December
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
In the works now for over three years has been BCachefs that doesn't receive nearly as much attention as Btrfs, Stratis, ZFS On Linux, or other next-gen Linux storage options, but it does continue making progress and still possesses a lot of potential...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fixed-STIBP-Lands-In-Linux-4.20
title: Reworked STIBP Code Lands In Linux 4.20 To Fix The Performance
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fixed-STIBP-Lands-In-Linux-4.20
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
The big Linux 4.20 performance slowdown is now corrected by tonight's Linux 4.20 Git code while still providing reasonable security for cross-hyperthread Spectre V2 mitigation...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Linux-November-2018
title: Steam Linux Usage Hit 0.80% During November
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Linux-November-2018
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Valve has published their latest monthly Steam survey data, which shows an increase in the Linux gaming population...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Kicks-Off-December-2018
title: KDE Plasma Now Allows Configuring IP Tunnel Settings Plus A Ton Of Other Improvements
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Kicks-Off-December-2018
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
The KDE developers haven't slowed down at all due to the winter holidays approaching but rather there is a ton of great improvements and new features with their next round of software releases...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-Released
title: FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 Released With NFS Vulnerabilities Addressed, Memory Leak Fixes
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-Released
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content:
FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 is out as likely the last test release before the official FreeBSD 12.0 debut in the next week...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-2019-Upstream-Maybe
title: Bcachefs File-System Might Be In Shape For Upstreaming In The Linux Kernel In 2019
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs-2019-Upstream-Maybe
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet provided an update to the kernel developers on his file-system over the weekend, following his Patreon post that updated followers on the latest for this "next-gen" Linux file-system born out of the block cache code...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SQLite-3.26-Released
title: SQLite 3.26 Adds Defensive Option & Optimizations
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SQLite-3.26-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
SQLite developers started off December by releasing a new feature update to their widely-used, embed-friendly SQL database library...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.21-Early-Look
title: Linux 4.21 Is Sure To Be Another Exciting Kernel Upgrade: FreeSync, Adiantum & More
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.21-Early-Look
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
There is still four weeks or so until the Linux 4.20 kernel will be officially christened, but there are already some changes we are excited for that should be on the table with Linux 4.21...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xubuntu-No-More-32-bit
title: Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xubuntu-No-More-32-bit
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Ubuntu 17.10 stopped producing 32-bit x86 ISOs and many other *buntu derivatives followed suit earlier this year. One of them still producing i386 images was Xubuntu, but now they have decided to abandon them as well...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27179
title: The Radeon RX Vega Performance With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.21 vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27179
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Given the AMDGPU changes building up for DRM-Next to premiere in Linux 4.21 that is on top of the AMDGPU performance boost with Linux 4.20, here are some benchmarks of Linux 4.19 vs. 4.20 Git vs. DRM-Next (Linux 4.21 material) with the Radeon RX Vega 64 compared to the relevant NVIDIA GeForce competition.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LPC2018-Video-Open-CUDA
title: David Airlie's LPC2018 Presentation On An "Open-Source CUDA"
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LPC2018-Video-Open-CUDA
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Last month at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC 2018) was a presentation by Red Hat's open-source graphics driver developer David Airlie on creating a vendor-neutral compute stack that theoretically could take on NVIDIA's CUDA dominance...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS-0.3.4-Released
title: OpenBLAS 0.3.4 Released With Intel AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Performance Tuning
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS-0.3.4-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
For those utilizing OpenBLAS as the linear algebra library for your application(s), OpenBLAS 0.3.4 was released on Sunday with the latest features and CPU optimizations for multiple architectures...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Energy-Aware-Sched-ARM-10
title: Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Energy-Aware-Sched-ARM-10
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies, namely SoCs like those with ARM big.LITTLE cores...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-1.1.95-Released
title: Vulkan 1.1.95 Released With New Floating Point Extensions
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-1.1.95-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
The Khronos Group's Vulkan working group is kicking off the start of a new week with a new specification update. The Vulkan 1.1.95 release brings with it two new floating point extensions...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-GGKBDD-Daemon
title: Linux Input Expert Peter Hutterer Shows Off "GGKBDD" As Linux Gaming Keyboard Daemon
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-GGKBDD-Daemon
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
While the long-term prospects of the project have yet to be determined, longtime Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat has hacked together "GGKBDD" as the generic gaming keyboard daemon for Linux systems...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-TITAN-RTX-Announced
title: NVIDIA Unveils $2,499 USD TITAN RTX
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-TITAN-RTX-Announced
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
After teasing the TITAN RTX over the weekend on social media, NVIDIA this morning officially announced this new $2,499 USD graphics card...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-Source-PhysX
title: NVIDIA Makes PhysX Open-Source
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-Source-PhysX
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
As a very big surprise bundled alongside the announcement today of the $2,499 USD TITAN RTX graphics card is word that NVIDIA's PhysX software is going open-source!..


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-2.6-RC0-Released
title: Darktable 2.6 Release Cycle Kicks Off With New Modules, PPC64LE Support
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-2.6-RC0-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Developers are beginning to firm up the Darktable 2.6 release as the next feature update to this amazing, cross-platform open-source RAW photography software...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-5.4-Released
title: DragonFlyBSD 5.4 Released With NUMA Improvements, GCC 8 Compiler & HAMMER2 Updates
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-5.4-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Days ahead of the FreeBSD 12.0 release, the long-ago-forked DragonFlyBSD is out with its very exciting 5.4 six-month feature update...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-415.18.04-Linux-Driver
title: NVIDIA 415.18.04 Vulkan Linux Beta Brings New Extensions, Unity Game Engine Fix
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-415.18.04-Linux-Driver
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Adding to NVIDIA's busy Monday morning of announcing the TITAN RTX and open-sourcing PhysX, they also shipped their latest Vulkan beta driver support for Windows and Linux...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-RX-590-Linux-Working
title: A Few Kernel Patches & New Firmware Have The Radeon RX 590 Working On Linux
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-RX-590-Linux-Working
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Last month when the AMD Radeon RX 590 launched, it wasn't working on Linux to much surprise considering it's another Polaris refresh. Today there are new AMDGPU DRM kernel patches and firmware/microcode files that do allow the RX 590 now to work properly under Linux...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27187
title: EC2 Cloud Linux Benchmarks: Amazon, Clear, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27187
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Complementing our many recent bare-metal Linux distribution comparison benchmarks, here is a fresh look at how the various high profile Linux distributions are running on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). For this round of testing on their current-generation M5 instance type, Amazon Linux 2, Clear Linux 26600, Debian 9.6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS were benchmarked.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-HMS-Prototype
title: Heterogeneous Memory System (HMS) Prototype Published For The Linux Kernel
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-HMS-Prototype
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
The past several years Red Hat developer Jerome Glisse has been working on Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) for the Linux kernel to handle the mirroring of process address spaces, system memory that can be transparently used by any device process, and similar functionality around today's GPU computing needs and other devices. Jerome today published the next step as part of his low-level memory device management work and that is the Heterogeneous Memory System for exposing complex memory topologies of today's systems...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-PCIe-Link-Snafu
title: A Patch Is Still Pending For Fixing Up Newer Radeon GPUs In Older Motherboards
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-PCIe-Link-Snafu
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Besides the mysterious EXT4 issue on Linux 4.19 that is still being sorted out, another known issue but with a fix pending that is hopefully not far out pertains to running newer Radeon graphics cards with older motherboards...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=V3D-Fix-The-Perf-CPU-Wait
title: V3D Driver Fixes Glaring Performance Bug, VC4 Working Towards Proper GPU Reset
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=V3D-Fix-The-Perf-CPU-Wait
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Eric Anholt of Broadcom's graphics driver team has provided another status update about their open-source Linux driver work in recent weeks on the VC4 driver stack mostly known for being the open-source 3D driver for the Raspberry Pi as well as the V3D driver for next-gen Broadcom VideoCore hardware...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-8.0-Early-March-2019
title: LLVM / Clang 8.0 Likely To Be Released Around Early March
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-8.0-Early-March-2019
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Ongoing LLVM release manager Hans Wennborg has laid out plans for releasing LLVM 8.0 and related sub-projects like Clang 8.0 in early March...


guid: 902839 at https://www.linux.com
title: Compromised npm Package: event-stream
author: Medium
url: https://www.linux.com/news/compromised-npm-package-event-stream
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">Ownership of a popular npm package, <code class="markup--code markup--p-code"><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream">event-stream</a></code>, was transferred by the original author to a malicious user, <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://github.com/right9ctrl">right9ctrl</a>. This package receives over <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/event-stream">1.5mm</a> weekly downloads and is depended on by nearly 1,600 other packages.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 902837 at https://www.linux.com
title: The Beginner’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape
author: CloudOps
url: https://www.linux.com/news/beginners-guide-cncf-landscape
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant and expansive community. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (<a href="https://www.cncf.io/">CNCF</a>) has a <a href="https://landscape.cncf.io/">landscape map</a> that shows the full extent of cloud native solutions, many of which are under their umbrella.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 903453 at https://www.linux.com
title: Linux Fu: Controlling the Terminal
author: Hackaday
url: https://www.linux.com/news/linux-fu-controlling-terminal
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The most fundamental question you have to ask is what kind of terminal are you talking to. The answer is in the <code>$TERM</code> environment variable and if you ask your shell to print that variable, you’ll see what it thinks you are using: <code>echo $TERM</code>.<br /></p></div></div></div>


guid: 903541 at https://www.linux.com
title: Mass Router Hack Exposes Millions of Devices to Potent NSA Exploit
author: ArsTechnica
url: https://www.linux.com/news/mass-router-hack-exposes-millions-devices-potent-nsa-exploit
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>More than 45,000 Internet routers have been compromised by a newly discovered campaign that’s designed to open networks to attacks by EternalBlue, the potent exploit that was developed by, and then stolen from, the National Security Agency and leaked to the Internet at large, researchers said Wednesday.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 903497 at https://www.linux.com
title: Bio-Linux: A Stable, Portable Scientific Research Linux Distribution
author: OpenSource.com
url: https://www.linux.com/news/bio-linux-stable-portable-scientific-research-linux-distribution-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0706-801">Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006</a>. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. As the creators and authors point out, the analysis demands of high-throughput “-omic” (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) science has necessitated the development of integrated computing solutions to analyze the resultant mountains of experimental data.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 903433 at https://www.linux.com
title: Nithya Ruff on Open Source Contributions Beyond Code
author: lfadmin
url: https://www.linux.com/news/nithya-ruff-open-source-contributions-beyond-code
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sometimes when we think about open source, we focus on the code and forget that there are other equally important ways to contribute. Nithya Ruff, Senior Director, Open Source Practice at Comcast, knows that contributions can come in many forms. “Contribution can come in the form of code or in the form of a financial support for projects. It also comes in the form of evangelizing open source; It comes in form of sharing good practices with others,” she said.</p></div></div></div>


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title: Linux For Beginners: Understanding The Many Versions Of Ubuntu
author: Forbes
url: https://www.linux.com/news/linux-beginners-understanding-many-versions-ubuntu
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>But did you know there are <em>seven </em>different "flavors" of Ubuntu?* </p>
<p>I'll briefly explain the kind of user each Ubuntu version is designed for, what differentiates them and what you can expect from each distribution's <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/09/17/linux-for-beginners-whats-a-desktop-environment/">desktop environment</a> (basically its look and feel). It's not an exhaustive deep dive on each one; hopefully just enough to get you pointed adventurously in the right direction.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 904969 at https://www.linux.com
title: The State of Docker Container Documentation
author: Medium
url: https://www.linux.com/news/state-docker-container-documentation
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3 graf--subtitle">We need to confront container documentation as the crucial, non-trivial problem that it is.</div>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>TL;DR</strong> — As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way of providing documentation for specific containers that we could fairly call canonical, “best practice,” or even all that widely used. This blog post suggests some currently available (but sadly not-great) workarounds but also points to what I think could be a fundamentally better path.</em></p></blockquote></div></div></div>


guid: 904971 at https://www.linux.com
title: Add It Up: Serverless vs. Kubernetes vs. Containers
author: The New Stack
url: https://www.linux.com/news/add-it-serverless-vs-kubernetes-vs-containers-0
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Has “serverless” surpassed containers? Will Kubernetes be the center of the universe for developers? Regardless of the technical benefits, your personal investment in the technologies impact your point of view.</p></div></div></div>


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title: What's New in Bash Parameter Expansion
author: Linux Journal
url: https://www.linux.com/news/whats-new-bash-parameter-expansion-1
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The bash man page is close to 40K words. It's not quite <cite>War and Peace</cite>, but it could hold its own in a rack of cheap novels. Given the size of bash's documentation, missing a useful feature is easy to do when looking through the man page. For that reason, as well as to look for new features, revisiting the man page occasionally can be a useful thing to do.</p>
<p>The sub-section of interest today is <cite>Parameter Expansion</cite>—that is, $var in its many forms. Don't be confused by the name though, it's really about parameter <cite>and</cite> variable expansion.</p></div></div></div>


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title: GNOME Settings Daemon 3.31.1
author: Softpedia Linux
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A free, simple and open source daemon that runs in the background and stores GNOME's session settings


guid: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/Internet/HTTP-WWW-/Mozilla-Firefox-Stable-20864.shtml
title: Mozilla Firefox 64.0.2 / 65.0 Beta 9
author: Softpedia Linux
url: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/Internet/HTTP-WWW-/Mozilla-Firefox-Stable-20864.shtml
feedurl: https://linux.softpedia.com/backend.xml
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The Linux version of one of the most popular and powerful web browser products on the entire Internet, Firefox


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title: Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 415.25
author: Softpedia Linux
url: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/nVidia-Solaris-Display-Driver-x86-46513.shtml
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The OpenGL 3D native graphics driver installer developed by Nvidia for Solaris operating systems running on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures


guid: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/nVidia-FreeBSD-Display-Driver-x86-x64-11291.shtml
title: Nvidia FreeBSD Display Driver 415.25
author: Softpedia Linux
url: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/nVidia-FreeBSD-Display-Driver-x86-x64-11291.shtml
feedurl: https://linux.softpedia.com/backend.xml
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The OpenGL 3D native graphics driver installer developed by Nvidia for FreeBSD operating systems running on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures


guid: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/nVidia-Linux-Display-Driver-AMD64-EM64T-11290.shtml
title: Nvidia Linux Display Driver 64-bit 415.25
author: Softpedia Linux
url: https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/nVidia-Linux-Display-Driver-AMD64-EM64T-11290.shtml
feedurl: https://linux.softpedia.com/backend.xml
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The OpenGL 3D native graphics driver installer developed by Nvidia for GNU/Linux operating systems running on 64-bit architectures


title: Linux Mint 19.1
author: Softpedia Linux
feedurl: https://linux.softpedia.com/backend.xml
content: An elegant, up to date and comfortable Linux desktop distribution for common daily tasks
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title: Using the Linux ss command to examine network and socket connections
author: Sandra Henry-Stocker
feedurl: https://www.networkworld.com/category/linux/index.rss
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https://www.networkworld.com/article/3327557/linux/using-the-linux-ss-command-to-examine-network-and-socket-connections.html#tk.rss_linuxMon, 10 Dec 2018 14:35:00 -0800

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<p>The <strong>ss</strong> (socket statistics) command provides a lot of information by displaying details on socket activity. One way to get started, although this may be a bit overwhelming, is to use the <strong>ss -h</strong> (help) command to get a listing of the command's numerous options. Another is to try some of the more useful commands and get an idea what each of them can tell you.</p><p>One very useful command is the <strong>ss -s</strong> command. This command will show you some overall stats by transport type. In this output, we see stats for RAW, UDP, TCP, INET and FRAG sockets.</p><pre>$ ss -s
Total: 524
TCP:   8 (estab 1, closed 0, orphaned 0, timewait 0)

Transport Total     IP        IPv6
RAW       2         1         1
UDP       7         5         2
TCP       8         6         2
INET      17        12        5
FRAG      0         0         0
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<ul>
<li>Raw sockets allow direct sending and receiving of IP packets without protocol-specific transport layer formatting and are used for security appliications such as <strong>nmap.</strong></li>
<li>TCP provides transmission control protocol and is the primary connection protocol.</li>
<li>UDP (user datagram protocol) is similar to TCP but without the error checking.</li>
<li>INET includes both of the above. (INET4 and INET6 can be viewed separately with some ss commands.)</li>
<li>FRAG — fragmented</li>
</ul>
<p>Clearly the by-protocol lines above aren't displaying the totality of the socket activity. The figure in the <strong>Total</strong> line at the top of the output indicates that there is a lot more going on than the by-type lines suggest. Still, these breakdowns can be very useful.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3327557/linux/using-the-linux-ss-command-to-examine-network-and-socket-connections.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: How Java has stood the test of time
author: Sandra Henry-Stocker
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https://www.networkworld.com/article/3325334/linux/how-java-has-stood-the-test-of-time.html#tk.rss_linuxTue, 11 Dec 2018 13:12:00 -0800

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<p>Java has survived for more than two decades and continues to be one of the top programming languages in use today. What accounts for the language's success, and how has it changed to accommodate more modern technology?</p><h2>Java's rise to power</h2>
<p>Java initially appeared in 1995, evolving from a 1991 innovation called "Oak." It was apparently the right time for engineers looking to grow distributed systems. Some of the more popular languages back then — C, C++, and even Cobol for some efforts — involved steep learning curves. Java's multi-threading, allowing the concurrent execution of two or more parts of a program, ended the struggle to get multi-tasking working.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3325334/linux/how-java-has-stood-the-test-of-time.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Working with tarballs on Linux
author: Sandra Henry-Stocker
url: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3328840/linux/working-with-tarballs-on-linux.html#tk.rss_linux
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<p>The word “tarball” is often used to describe the type of file used to back up a select group of files and join them into a single file. The name comes from the <strong>.tar</strong> file extension and the <strong>tar</strong> command that is used to group together the files into a single file that is then sometimes compressed to make it smaller for its move to another system.</p><p>Tarballs are often used to back up personal or system files in place to create an archive, especially prior to making changes that might have to be reversed. Linux sysadmins, for example, will often create a tarball containing a series of configuration files before making changes to an application just in case they have to reverse those changes. Extracting the files from a tarball that’s sitting in place will generally be faster than having to retrieve the files from backups.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328840/linux/working-with-tarballs-on-linux.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Open-source containers move toward high-performance computing
author: Sandra Henry-Stocker
feedurl: https://www.networkworld.com/category/linux/index.rss
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https://www.networkworld.com/article/3328818/linux/open-source-containers-move-toward-high-performance-computing.html#tk.rss_linuxTue, 18 Dec 2018 06:28:00 -0800

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<p>Open-source containers are moving in a direction that many of us never anticipated.</p><p>Long recognized as providing an effective way to package applications with all of their required components, some are also tackling one of the most challenging areas in the compute world today — high-performance computing (HPC). And while containers can bring a new level of efficiency to the world of HPC, they're also presenting new ways of working for enterprise IT organizations that are running HPC-like jobs.</p><h2>How containers work</h2>
<p>Containers offer many advantages to organizations seeking to distribute applications. By incorporating an application's many dependencies (libraries, etc.) into self-sustainable images, they avoid a lot of installation problems. The differences in OS distributions have no impact, so separate versions of applications don't have to be prepared and maintained, thus making developers' work considerably easier.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328818/linux/open-source-containers-move-toward-high-performance-computing.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: How to protect Windows 10 PCs from ransomware
author: Preston Gralla
feedurl: https://www.computerworld.com/index.rss
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3245585/microsoft-windows/how-to-protect-windows-10-from-ransomware.html#tk.rss_allFri, 14 Dec 2018 13:53:00 -0800

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<p>CryptoLocker. WannaCry. Petya. Bad Rabbit. The <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3236183/ransomware/what-is-ransomware-how-it-works-and-how-to-remove-it.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ransomware threat</a> isn’t going away anytime soon; the news brings constant reports of new waves of this pernicious type of malware washing across the world. It’s popular in large part because of the immediate financial payoff for attackers: It works by encrypting the files on your hard disk, then demands that you pay a ransom, frequently in Bitcoins, to decrypt them.<p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3245585/microsoft-windows/how-to-protect-windows-10-from-ransomware.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>(Insider Story)


title: Ambient computing is in the air
author: Mike Elgan
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328545/mobile-wireless/ambient-computing-is-in-the-air.html#tk.rss_allSat, 15 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800

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<p>Everybody’s talking about ambient computing. And there is so much to talk about.</p><p>But with all this chatter comes confusion. People disagree on what ambient computing is, how it works and what it’s for.</p><p>So let’s bring clarity to this muddled and confused concept.</p><h2><strong>Ambient computing: Both hype and happening</strong></h2>
<p>First and foremost, ambient computing is not a technology.</p><p>When you talk about, say, “internet computing” or “wireless computing,” you’re talking about a very specific set of technologies, protocols, standards and devices.</p><p>Ambient computing isn’t like that. It’s not specific. But it does point to a profound shift in how business operates, how we get things done and, ultimately, human culture.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328545/mobile-wireless/ambient-computing-is-in-the-air.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Hey, you bring YOUR tools, I'll bring mine!
author: Sharky
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328478/it-careers/hey-you-bring-your-tools-ill-bring-mine.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800

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<p>Business analyst visits this company's corporate office for a week of meetings, and it turns out she and an IT infrastructure pilot fish have something in common.</p><p>"Chatting with her, I found out that she made the 50-lb. bag weight limit on her flight by less than 1 lb.," says fish.</p><p>"I chuckled because, when I travel for work, I also sometimes push up against this limit. However, the weight comes from the drill, saw, hammer, staple gun, cable tester, toner, wire, hardware and various other tools and networking supplies I need when setting up infrastructure at a site.</p><p>"And I usually pack an extra pair of jeans and enough underwear, socks and T-shirts to at least have a somewhat fresh appearance each day.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328478/it-careers/hey-you-bring-your-tools-ill-bring-mine.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Atlassian adds postmortem feature to JiraOps
author: Matthew Finnegan
feedurl: https://www.computerworld.com/index.rss
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328479/software-productivity/atlassian-adds-postmortem-feature-to-jiraops.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 04:32:00 -0800

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<p>Atlassian wants to make it easier for IT teams to review of how they responded to major software outages with the addition of a postmortem feature for its Jira Ops incident management tool.</p><p>JiraOps was <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3303597/software-productivity/atlassian-launches-jira-ops-acquires-opsgenie-for-295m.html">unveiled at the vendor’s user conference in Barcelona in September</a>; it’s essentially a version of the Jira issue tracking tool tailored for use by IT operations teams. Atlassian describes Jira Ops as a “single place to respond to incidents, connect incident point solutions, and execute a consistent process for every incident.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328479/software-productivity/atlassian-adds-postmortem-feature-to-jiraops.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Brave browser goes 'full-Chromium' by adopting Google UI
author: Gregg Keizer
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/web-browsers/brave-browser-goes-full-chromium-by-adopting-google-ui.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 04:42:00 -0800

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<p>Brave Software earlier this month completed a months-long alignment of its Brave browser with Google's Chromium open-source project, ending a stretch when Brave crafted its own user interface (UI) even as it ran Google's rendering engine.</p><p>"Starting today, Brave users who are currently browsing with our Muon-based desktop version (0.25.2) will receive a notification to upgrade to our redesigned Chromium-based release (version 0.57)," stated a Dec. 7 unsigned <a href="https://brave.com/brave-upgrades/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">post to the company's blog</a>.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Further reading: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261009/web-browsers/googles-chromium-browser-explained.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Google's Chromium browser explained</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>Although Brave adopted Chromium - the open-source effort that generates code for Google's Chrome - at its inception, including both the Blink rendering engine and the V8 JavaScript engine, Brave started with "Muon," an HTML-JavaScript front-end its developers had built. Muon, in turn, was a fork from "Electron," a framework for creating cross-platform GUI (graphical user interface) applications. Electron, a creation of GitHub - which was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year for $7.5 billion - was chosen by Brave for its security prowess.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328781/web-browsers/brave-browser-goes-full-chromium-by-adopting-google-ui.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


author: Rob Enderle
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328549/microsoft-windows/arm-openpower-x86-were-just-joined-by-tx2-anticipating-a-revolutionary-virtual-desktop-future.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 07:24:00 -0800

title:
IDG Contributor Network: ARM, OpenPower, X86 were just joined by TX2:  Anticipating a revolutionary virtual desktop future

url:
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<p>Right now, there are three primary processing platforms in the smartphone, tablet, PC, and server space.  ARM is mostly smartphones, tablets and moving to Always Connected PCs (ACPC). X86 is tablets, PCs, and servers. OpenPower is servers.  But I was at an NVIDIA launch event recently, and one vendor, Gameface, showcased Windows running on the cloud with low latency running on the NVIDIA TX2-based system which would also run Android apps.</p><p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/virtual-desktop/" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Virtual Desktop</a> is a game changer when tied to 5G. With the extremely low latency of 5G coupled with the massive bump in bandwidth, the result will be performance that will potentially exceed anything you’d be willing to put in a home, office or particularly your pocket – anywhere there’s a 5G connection. I have no doubt this will result in new and unique hardware because the focus will largely shift from processor and graphics performance to network performance.  But nothing is absolute and to optimize bandwidth and graphics performance some balance would eventually have to be reached. The NVIDIA Jetson may be closer to that balance than either ARM or X86 can achieve.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328549/microsoft-windows/arm-openpower-x86-were-just-joined-by-tx2-anticipating-a-revolutionary-virtual-desktop-future.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Apple has some big media challenges to solve
author: Jonny Evans
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328821/mobile-wireless/apple-has-some-big-media-challenges-to-solve.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 07:51:00 -0800

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<p>Apple’s plotted navigation into the consumer <a href="http://www.applemust.com/apples-tim-cook-wants-to-make-the-news/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">services market</a> should generate a lot of cash for the company, but enterprises in the media space will be asking for a little more than the company customarily gives.</p><h2><strong>The percentages game</strong></h2>
<p>Apple is <a href="http://www.applemust.com/heres-what-eddy-cue-just-told-us-about-apples-media-plans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">expected to introduce its Texture-based news and magazine service next year.</a></p><p>This will probably cost $9.99 for all-you-can-eat access to most things, potentially with certain charging models for some titles and special supplements.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328821/mobile-wireless/apple-has-some-big-media-challenges-to-solve.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: IDG Contributor Network: What 5G wireless will look like in 2019
author: Jeff Kagan
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328820/mobile-wireless/what-5g-wireless-will-look-like-in-2019.html#tk.rss_allMon, 17 Dec 2018 08:44:00 -0800

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<p>Wireless as an industry has been growing and changing, year after year for decades. However, wireless is going to take a major leap forward in 2019 on several different fronts. Let’s take a closer look at what we can expect not only from the mobile industry, but from other industries which will all use wireless to transform themselves all thanks to 5G.</p><p>5G is the next generation wireless service. In that sense it is similar to the jump from 2G to 3G to 4G. It’s not about voice. It’s about wireless data services. 5G is a much faster wireless data service.</p><p>This will empower the next generation of wireless network products and services for your smartphones, tablets and more. This is what we have experienced time and time again over the last several decades as network speeds and capacity increase.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328820/mobile-wireless/what-5g-wireless-will-look-like-in-2019.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: You get what you pay for
author: Sharky
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328854/application-development/you-get-what-you-pay-for.html#tk.rss_allTue, 18 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800

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<p>This pilot fish actually <i>looks</i> at some of his spam, and for once his willingness to shovel through endless pitches for mail-order brides and offshore business deals is rewarded.</p><p>"It was in a message hawking a high-blood-pressure cure," fish says. "Sandwiched between the usual if-you-have-trouble-seeing-this-view-it-in-a-browser link and a few more links at the bottom there was a comment I'm pretty sure wasn't supposed to be visible."</p><p>It reads:</p><p><i>commenter can delete this message to hide from others. note: don't forget to add the time options after the command. nice video! :) i had to look up the arrow functions and using if/else without {} but other than that i think i got everything. edit: oh, another thing i had to look up was when to use let vs var vs const - still not 100% sure but from what i got it's always "use const/let and never use var". the super basic way i think of it is just always use let, unless i want to make sure something stays the same. if that's the case, then i'll use const. i think there are still reasons to use var, and i've had programmers way smarter than me explain why, but i can't remember and just decided not to worry lol.</i></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328854/application-development/you-get-what-you-pay-for.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: For Apple, 2018 meant a new enterprise tack
author: Ryan Faas
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<p>If I had to sum up Apple's relationship with the enterprise (and education) in one sentence, it would be: 2018 was the year things changed - and changed in a big way.</p><p>Apple has made shifts in its server and Mac/iOS/Apple TV management focus that are dramatic and some of them weren't really weren't anticipated. I didn't see what many of this year's adjustments meant until after Apple's iPad Pro announcement in Brooklyn in October. That event, which followed JAMF's user conference, prompted me to reevaluate the market Apple is pursuing in business and the moves it's been making. What might look like tactical decisions along the way, when viewed as a whole, show Apple has embarked on a new enterprise approach from the top down.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328823/apple-mac/for-apple-2018-meant-a-new-enterprise-tack.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: It’s official: Win10 ‘seekers’ will get the ill-fated version 1809. You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
author: Woody Leonhard
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve seen reports of people getting pushed onto the latest version of Win10 since last Tuesday, but yesterday Microsoft </span><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">made it official</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p><blockquote>
<p><strong>Rollout Status as of December 17, 2018</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Windows 10, version 1809, is now fully available for advanced users who manually select “Check for updates” via Windows Update. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course the “advanced users” part is unadulterated horse pucky. Here’s the real announcement:</span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328827/microsoft-windows/it-s-official-win10-seekers-will-get-the-ill-fated-version-1809-youre-a-mean-one-mr-grinch.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Apple Watch and the transformation of enterprise learning
author: Jonny Evans
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<p>Driven by technology, learning is changing from being a process-based experience to becoming an experience-driven process.</p><h2><strong>Traducing tradition</strong></h2>
<p>Traditionally, learning took place in factory-like rooms in which rows of children sat at desks working with paper, pencils, a teacher, a blackboard and an array of facts.</p><p>What mattered at that time was to instil discipline and to learn basic numeracy, literacy and a selection of facts.</p><p>Technology means we need to comprehend context more than we must retain facts. Today’s children learn at their own personalized pace, thanks to use of iPads and other technologies. The blackboard is as likely (possibly more likely) to be inside your phone as it is on the wall.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328784/apple-ios/apple-watch-and-the-transformation-of-enterprise-learning.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: How to Make Your Organization Even More Productive
author: Brand Post
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<p>Productivity isn’t just a buzzword, but a bottom line signal. <a href="https://hbr.org/2017/03/great-companies-obsess-over-productivity-not-efficiency" rel="nofollow">A Bain &amp; Company study</a> found that the fastest growing and best performing companies are at least 40% more productive than their competitors. Even more significantly, they have better profits: The operating margins are up to 50% higher than others. </p><p>There are some clear-cut initiatives you can take to make your organization part of these high-powered productivity businesses.</p><p>First, focus on the productivity of your organization as a whole, and less on each worker, as the latest research says even the most productive individual will not prosper in an unsupportive environment. <a href="https://hbr.org/2017/03/great-companies-obsess-over-productivity-not-efficiency" rel="nofollow">The Bain &amp; Company study</a> found that a company loses more than 20% of its productivity to “organizational drag.” This means “the structures and processes that consume valuable time and prevent people from getting things done.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328484/it-industry/how-to-make-your-organization-even-more-productive.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: 18 Android tips you shouldn't miss from 2018
author: JR Raphael
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<p>Ah, the holidays. No matter what style of winter celebration you prefer (I'm a Festivus man myself), late December is a fine time for kicking back and regrouping for the coming year.</p><p>That means it's also a fine time for contemplating that crazy little computer in your pocket and what steps you can take to make it even more powerful — because guess what? A few minutes of tuning up now will make your life infinitely easier throughout all of 2019. Think of it as a gift to yourself — one that keeps on giving and, best of all, doesn't cost you a single dime.</p><p>In case you missed any of 'em the first go-round or maybe just didn't have time to try everything out, here are some of my favorite productivity-boosting Android tips from 2018. Pour yourself some cocoa, polish up the ol' Festivus pole, and give yourself the gift of finely tuned technology.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328644/android/android-tips-2018.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: 65 Chromebook tips for maximum productivity
author: JR Raphael
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<p>Chromebooks may be all about simplicity, but don't be fooled: Beneath their intuitive outer layer lies a web of advanced options. And you don't have to be a power user to embrace it.</p><p>Make your way through this massive collection of next-level tips, and you'll be zipping around Chrome OS like a pro in no time.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280924/chrome-os/chrome-os-tips-tools-chromebook-intelligence.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Chrome OS: Tips, tools, and other Chromebook intelligence</a> ]</strong></aside>
<h2 class="toc">Getting around Chrome OS</h2>
<p>1. The Chrome OS launcher — the drawer-like interface that appears when you tap the Search key or hit the circle icon in the lower-left corner of the screen — is actually a powerful universal search tool. Just start typing as soon as it appears, and you can find and open apps, pull up websites, and even get answers to specific questions right then and there — no clicking or digging required.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3237230/chrome-os/chromebook-tips-for-maximum-productivity.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: C'mon, what could possibly go wrong?
author: Sharky
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<p>It's the late 1980s, and this IT pilot fish has just started work at a record label, supporting the ordering and manufacturing process.</p><p>"I worked directly with the clerk in charge of promotions," says fish. "She handled the biweekly offering letter to customers, and she had issues with the process."</p><p>The process is pretty simple: The clerk fills out a two-column tabular sheet that specifies records by catalog number, and the associated number of records to be manufactured. This sheet is keypunched at the data center. Punch cards are sent back to her for review. Then the cards are sent to the plant for processing.</p><p>But the clerk complains to fish that the data-center punch cards don't have a human-readable version of the data on them. She has to go to Applications and duplicate the cards so she can read them. And that eats up too much time on her short deadlines.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3329476/it-industry/cmon-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: 5 Productivity Tips for Supporting End Users
author: Brand Post
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<p>Maximizing productivity may be the number-one reason why organizations adopt new technologies. Even the best system, though, can be improved by smart implementation by the users, and tech leaders can take a proactive role in helping these end users become their most productive selves.</p><p>Here are five smart, high-level ways to make sure the end user feels supported by the technology and empowered to boost their productivity.</p><p><strong>First</strong>, focus on empowering your employees to make impactful decisions. <a href="https://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/redefine-your-workforce-enablement-through-productivity.pdf" rel="nofollow">A recent Forrester Research study found</a> that only one in three workers felt empowered to solve their own problems a challenges at work based on the available devices. Smart, thoughtful deployment of hardware and keeping software optimized can help unlock your workforce’s productivity. In fact, more than four out of five workers believed tailoring devices and technology to the employees would increase efficiency as well as productivity.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328682/it-industry/5-productivity-tips-for-supporting-end-users.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: Can You Become a Completely Virtual Company?
author: Brand Post
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<p>Companies are advancing digital and IT transformation strategies by virtualizing infrastructure and operations. Why not go all the way and figure out how to make the workforce a virtualized asset?</p><p>In the United States, about 170 companies already operate 100% virtually, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/virtual-companies-answer-demand-for-better-quality-of-life.html" rel="nofollow">CNBC report</a>, based on data from <u><a href="https://www.flexjobs.com/" rel="nofollow">FlexJobs</a></u>, an online platform specializing in remote and flexible employment. True, that’s a relatively small number compared to the approximately 6 million businesses in the United States that are not considered to be small businesses. But it’s a start and an increase from 26 in 2014.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328649/it-industry/can-you-become-a-completely-virtual-company.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: Thinking Beyond Provisioning: Unified Endpoint Management
author: Brand Post
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<p>There’s no “one-size-fits-all” approach to provisioning and deploying devices to meet the needs and demands of today’s workforce. Today’s endpoints are as diverse as the workforce they serve and include desktops, mobile phones and tablets, rugged devices, and even the Internet of Things (IoT).</p><p>IT organizations have had to navigate a fast-changing mobile environment. In a series of <a href="https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/campaigns/dell-emc/modernize-infrastructure/it-transformation-workshop.htm#overlay=/collateral/analyst-reports/CIOs-Reveal-Their-Priorities-and-Successes-in-IT-Transformation.pdf" rel="nofollow">IT Transformation Workshops</a> conducted from 2010 to 2017 by Dell EMC and VMware, IT leaders were asked about their ability to provision desktop/end-user computing services within the environment. Most reported they needed up to a week to provision workspaces, but their goal is instant, on-demand provisioning.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328831/windows-pcs/thinking-beyond-provisioning-unified-endpoint-management.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: Lowering Costs on PC Management?
author: Brand Post
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<p>For many organizations a key to success is to strategically automate and streamline daily, routine tasks to focus on bigger, visionary goals. Technology is advancing faster by the day, which means every decision must be weighed in the long term. The challenge, though, is figuring out where to invest capital that’s freed up from those efficiencies, to build the best strategy for tomorrow.</p><p>Some of the smartest growth areas include cloud development, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented and virtual reality. <a href="https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/workforce-solutions/index.htm#scroll=off&amp;overlay=/collateral/infographic/unlock-innovation-infographic.pdf" rel="nofollow">In fact, 67% of workers want to use augmented reality/virtual reality tools at work</a>, according to a study by Forrester Consulting sponsored by Dell EMC. The area truly depends on where your organization is and, more importantly, where you, as an IT leader, want the organization to go.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328832/windows-pcs/lowering-costs-on-pc-management.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: Accelerating Workforce Transformation Through improved PC Management
author: Brand Post
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<p>Business moves at an ever-more rapid pace and organizations are counting on their workers to be able to respond to new opportunities, better serve customers, and increase productivity. But just as business needs are changing, so are those of workers. Transforming the workforce is an essential element of competing in the digital age and every organization should evaluate if they are doing enough to accelerate this.</p><p>Currently, only 18% of C-suite respondents believe their organizations are change-agile, according to the <a href="https://www.mercer.com/our-thinking/career/global-talent-hr-trends.html" rel="nofollow">2018 Global Talent Trends Study</a> from Mercer, the benefits and talent consulting company. “Two in five executives have transformation metrics on their performance scorecard, and they realize that putting people at the heart of change is the only way to drive sustainable growth,” the report asserts.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328651/windows-pcs/accelerating-workforce-transformation-through-improved-pc-management.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: The best 100+ Mac tips from 2018
author: Jonny Evans
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<p>I don’t just write about <a href="https://computerworld.com/article/3318252/how-to-use-your-ipad-pro-as-a-laptop-replacement.html" rel="nofollow">how iPads can replace computers</a>. I also spend a lot of time trying to figure out useful tips, and I thought it might be useful to pull together some of the best Mac tips I published during the past year.</p><h2><strong>Mojave essentials</strong></h2>
<p>Apple introduced an all-new operating system in 2018. Just like all its regularly updated platforms, Mojave introduced a range of improvements on what we had before. I took an <a href="https://computerworld.com/article/3284513/apple-mac/macos-mojave-beta-first-look-stable-powerful-and-about-you.html?nsdr=true" rel="nofollow">overall look at the new operating system here</a>.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3329556/apple-mac/the-best-100-mac-tips-from-2018.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Microsoft offers up Windows 10 1809 to nervy seekers
author: Gregg Keizer
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<p>Microsoft this week nudged open the delivery throttle for Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the problem-plagued feature upgrade that the company yanked for more than five weeks this fall before restarting testing with volunteers.</p><p>"Windows 10, version 1809, is now fully available for advanced users who manually select 'Check for updates' via Windows Update," read a revised <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">support document</a>.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3210805/microsoft-windows/windows-10-october-2018-update-key-enterprise-features.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Windows 10 October 2018 Update: Key enterprise features</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>The October 2018 Update is also known as <i>1809</i> in Microsoft's numeric <i>yymm</i> identifying format.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328868/microsoft-windows/microsoft-offers-up-windows-10-1809-to-nervy-seekers.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Office 365: A guide to the updates
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>Office 365 subscribers always have the latest version of Microsoft Office — currently Office 2016. They also get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office 2016 without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing this for you, so you don’t have to.</p><p>Following are key updates to Office 365 for Windows since Office 2016 was released in September 2015 — all the 2017 updates and the most important ones from 2016 and late 2015, with the latest releases shown first. We’ll add info about new updates as they’re rolled out.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3205187/enterprise-applications/office-365-a-guide-to-the-updates.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10: A guide to the updates
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>The launch of a big Windows 10 update like the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3307851/review-windows-10-october-2018-update-delivers-modest-but-useful-tweaks.html">October 2018 Update</a> isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as a major update is released, Microsoft quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features.</p><p>Here we’ve summarized what you need to know about every Windows 10 update being released to the public. First come updates to the currently shipping version of Windows 10 — version 1809, known as the October 2018 Update — with the most recent updates on top. (Note that the October 2018 Update is on a phased rollout, so you may not have received it yet.) Below that are updates to version 1803, known as the April 2018 Update; 1709, known as the Fall Creators Update; and finally updates to version 1703, known as the Creators Update. For each build, we’ve included the date of its initial release and a link to Microsoft’s announcement about it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3199077/microsoft-windows/windows-10-a-guide-to-the-updates.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10 Redstone: A guide to the Insider Preview builds
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3307851/review-windows-10-october-2018-update-delivers-modest-but-useful-tweaks.html">Windows 10 October 2018 Update</a> (version 1809) started to roll out, the company began work on the next major update to Windows 10, due to be released next spring. As it did with the October 2018 Update, Microsoft has been releasing a series of public preview builds to members of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3014600/microsoft-windows/how-to-handle-windows-10-updates.html?page=2#toc-4">Microsoft's Windows Insider Program</a>.</p><p>After years of using "Redstone" in its code names, Microsoft is changing it up with the next release, which is code-named "19H1" (for 2019, first half) rather than "Redstone 6." What follows is a list of every preview build of Windows 10 19H1 that has been rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring, starting with the most recent. For each build, we've included the date of its release, a summary of what’s in the build and a link to Microsoft's announcement about it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3118132/microsoft-windows/windows-10-redstone-a-guide-to-the-insider-preview-builds.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Microsoft delivers emergency patch for under-attack IE
author: Gregg Keizer
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<p>Microsoft rarely mentions Internet Explorer (IE) anymore, but when it does, it usually means bad news.</p><p>So it was Wednesday, when Microsoft issued a rare emergency security update to plug a critical vulnerability in the still-supported IE9, IE10 and IE11. The flaw was reported to Microsoft by Google security engineer Clement Lecigne.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3267893/security/microsoft-windows-10-vs-apple-macos-18-security-features-compared.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Microsoft Windows 10 vs. Apple macOS: 18 security features compared</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>According to Microsoft, attackers are already exploiting the vulnerability, making it a classic "zero-day" bug. Because of that, the company released a fix before the next round of security updates scheduled for Jan. 8.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3329717/microsoft-windows/microsoft-delivers-emergency-patch-for-under-attack-ie.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Throwback Thursday: You've just gotta wait for it
author: Sharky
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<p>At the company where this IT pilot fish works, support techs have to supply a price quote and get it approved before replacing any computer hardware.</p><p>"After having five quotes for new equipment previously rejected as too expensive, I realized this would be the same in this case," fish says. "So I decided to get a quote for secondhand equipment to save time.</p><p>"My manager went out for a meeting and came back in a rage."</p><p><i>Never</i> quote for secondhand equipment again, manager tells fish. Do you think we are paupers? If we want new equipment, we'll buy it.</p><p>He also instructs fish to delete all his secondhand equipment quotes -- and then gives him a verbal warning.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3329738/it-industry/throwback-thursday-youve-just-gotta-wait-for-it.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Blockchain in 2019 and beyond: 5 predictions
author: Lucas Mearian
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<p>In 2018, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3191077/security/what-is-blockchain-the-most-disruptive-tech-in-decades.html">blockchain</a> made headlines again and again – mostly through the tumultuous cryptocurrency marketplace, where bitcoin and other digital tokens lost as much as <a href="https://99bitcoins.com/price-chart-history/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">80% of their value</a>. The crash wasn't pretty, and threatened to undermine the distributed ledger technology (DLT) underpinning bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.<p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328646/blockchain/blockchain-in-2019-and-beyond-5-predictions.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>(Insider Story)


title: 2018's most important Chrome OS advice and analysis
author: JR Raphael
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<p>Goodness gracious, 2018 has been one heck of a year for <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280924/chrome-os/chrome-os-tips-tools-chromebook-intelligence.html">Chrome OS</a>.</p><p>Over the course of the past 12 months, Google's oft-overlooked "other" platform has evolved and expanded to the point where it's almost unrecognizable from its 2017 form. Chromebooks today boast a totally reimagined user interface, with <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3300872/chrome-os/androidification-of-chrome-os.html">more Android-like elements</a> than ever and a strong focus on touch-friendly gestures and design. The software's current incarnation has a true tablet home screen, a phone-like floating virtual keyboard, and system-level integration of Google Assistant (in the midst of rolling out broadly right now).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3328830/chrome-os/chrome-os-advice-and-analysis-2018.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


guid: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-figlet
title: Use your Linux terminal to celebrate a banner year
author: Jason Baker
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/linux-toy-figlet.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Linux toy: figlet" title="Linux toy: figlet" /><p>Hello again for another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal.</p>

<p>Some of you will have seen various selections from our calendar before, but we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone.</p>

<p>Today's toy if <strong>figlet</strong>, a utility for printing text in banner form across your Linux terminal.</p>
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title: Why NASA open sourced the Rover
author: Jen Wike Huger
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/mars_rover_curiosity_robot_space_nasa.jpg" width="520" height="292" alt="Artist&#039;s conception of the Curiosity rover vaporizing rock on Mars" title="Artist&#039;s conception of the Curiosity rover vaporizing rock on Mars" /><p>The host of the Command Line Heroes podcast, Saron Yitbarek, kicks off each episode with a sound-studded description of an event that sets the stage for the topic of the episode. Sometimes it's <a href="https://opensource.com/article/18/11/data-scalable-open">a speech from Al Gore</a>, and sometimes its the Mars Curiosity Rover landing.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes">You should go have a listen</a>.</p>

<p>In the final episode recap, Yitbarek walks us through "how open source fuels some of humankind's grandest projects."</p>
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title: 10 books for your DevOps reading wishlist
author: Dominika
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/book-read-paper-write.png" width="520" height="292" alt="open book pages" title="open book pages" /><p>Looking for good DevOps books to read? Don't know where to start? Follow this reading wishlist to find the best books on DevOps for practical thinkers. You'll learn from authors who have addressed real-life problems and contributed to the innovation process.</p>
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title: How to open source your Python library
author: moshez
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/button_push_open_keyboard_file_organize.png" width="520" height="292" alt="open source button on keyboard" title="open source button on keyboard" /><p>You wrote a Python library. I'm sure it's amazing! Wouldn't it be neat if it was easy for people to use it? Here is a checklist of things to think about and concrete steps to take when open sourcing your Python library.</p>

<h2 id="source">1. Source</h2>

<p>Put the code up on <a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a>, where most open source projects happen and where it is easiest for people to submit pull requests.</p>
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title: An introduction to Python and containers: 6 conference talks you may have missed
author: laceynwilliams
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/python-programming-code-keyboard.png" width="520" height="292" /><p>While there are a ton of tutorials, blog posts, documentation, and other content available to learn about Python and containers, there's something special about learning a new skill from a conference talk. Speakers usually give a more personal perspective and use interesting or quirky metaphors to make their points memorable.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-nudoku
title: Solve a puzzle at the Linux command line with nudoku
author: Jason Baker
url: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-nudoku
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/linux-toy-nudoku.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Linux toy: Nudoku" title="Linux toy: Nudoku" /><p>Welcome back to another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal.</p>

<p>Some of you will have seen various selections from our calendar before, but we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/cicd-tools-sysadmins
title: 7 CI/CD tools for sysadmins
author: barkerd427
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/cicd_continuous_delivery_deployment_gears.png" width="520" height="292" alt="CICD with gears" title="CICD with gears" /><p>Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) have all existed in the developer community for many years. Some organizations have involved their operations counterparts, but many haven't. For most organizations, it's imperative for their operations teams to become just as familiar with CI/CD tools and practices as their development compatriots are.</p>
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title: 13 Linux must-reads in 2018
author: dboth
url: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/top-linux-articles
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/linux-penguin-penguins.png" width="520" height="292" alt="penguins" title="penguins" /><p>I have been writing for <a href="http://Opensource.com">Opensource.com</a> for about four years and reading it since at least 2011. I am always amazed by the number and quality of the articles on the site. I have learned a great deal about many aspects of open source in general—and about Linux in particular.</p>

<p>The articles we publish about Linux are always very popular and generate a lot of interest. Of the many Linux-related articles published on Opensource.com in 2018, these 13 garnered the most views.</p>

<h2>Top 13 Linux stories of 2018</h2>

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title: Getting started with Prometheus
author: mzamot
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/tools_sysadmin_cloud.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Tools for the sysadmin" title="Tools for the sysadmin" /><p><a href="https://prometheus.io/" target="_blank">Prometheus</a> is an open source monitoring and alerting system that directly scrapes metrics from agents running on the target hosts and stores the collected samples centrally on its server. Metrics can also be pushed using plugins like <strong>collectd_exporter</strong>—although this is not Promethius' default behavior, it may be useful in some environments where hosts are behind a firewall or prohibited from opening ports by security policy.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-espeak
title: Let your Linux terminal speak its mind
author: Jason Baker
url: https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-espeak
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/linux-toy-cava.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Linux toy: cava" title="Linux toy: cava" /><p>Greetings from another day in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal.</p>

<p>We hope that even if you've seen some of these before, there will be something new for everybody in our series.</p>

<p>Some of you may be too young to remember, but before there was Alexa, Siri, or the Google Assistant, computers still had voices.</p>
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guid: http://distrowatch.com/10402
title: Distribution Release: SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4
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 Raj Meel has announced the availability of the fourth service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, the current legacy branch of the company's commercial, enterprise-class distribution with long-term support of over 10 years: "SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 4 is now generally available. Service Pack 4 marks....


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title: Distribution Release: GParted Live 0.33.0-1
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 Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.33.0-1, the latest stable version of the project's specialist live CD with a collection of disk partitioning and data rescue tools: "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted....


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title: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 794
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 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Rolling in the VoidNews: Getting an overview of open windows in GNOME, improvements to HAMMER2, Linux to drop x32 support, Quirky discontinuedOpinion: Avoiding the effects of software bloatReleased last week: Tails 3.11, FreeBSD 12.0, Univention Corporate Server 4.3-3Torrent corner: ArcoLinux, Clonezilla, EndlessOS,....


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title: Distribution Release: NethServer 7.6
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 NethServer is a CentOS-based Linux distribution for servers. The product's main feature is a modular design which makes it simple to assign the server various roles. The project's latest release is NethServer 7.6 which introduces multiple backup storage options, Rspamd is included for blocking unwanted e-mail messages and....


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title: Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 5.6
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 SparkyLinux is a lightweight distribution based on Debian. The project's latest release is SparkyLinux 5.6 which is based on Debian's Testing 'Buster' branch. The new version includes several package updates and includes PAE support in the 32-bit kernel. Users who need non-PAE kernels are advised to switch to....


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title: BSD Release: HardenedBSD 12-1200058
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 HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. the project has released a new stable branch, 12-STABLE, and 12-1200058 is the first version of the new series. The new branch includes the ability to run bhyve inside a jail and introduces Non-Cross-DSO Control-Flow Integrity (CFI). "Non-Cross-DSO CFI is an....


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title: Development Release: MX Linux 18 RC1
author: distro@distrowatch.com
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 The first release candidate of the upcoming MX Linux 18 is now ready for testing. MX Linux is an increasingly popular Debian-based desktop Linux distribution (with Xfce) built in a cooperative venture between the antiX and former MEPIS Linux communities. This release fixes several bugs present in the....


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title: Distribution Release: ArchLabs Linux 2018.12.17
author: distro@distrowatch.com
url: http://distrowatch.com/10409
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 Matthew Dobson has announced the release of ArchLabs Linux 2018.12.17. Originally a minimalist, Arch-based live distribution with Openbox, the latest release of ArchLabs Linux is a radical departure from the original concept as the distribution is now designed for users who like to customise their system during installation.....


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title: Distribution Release: Linux Mint 19.1
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 The Linux Mint team have published an update to the distribution's 19.x series. The new release, Linux Mint 19.1, is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and is available in three flavours: Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. Apart from some visual and performance improvements to Cinnamon, Linux Mint also makes....


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title: Distribution Release: MX Linux 18
author: distro@distrowatch.com
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 The MX Linux team have announced the release of version 18 of their distribution. The new release is based on Debian 9.6 "Stretch" and features both core system updates and new versions of desktop applications. "We are pleased to offer MX-18 Continuum. MX-18 offers the following features: Updated....


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Feral Interactive Bringing DiRT 4 to Linux in 2019, Chrome 71 Blocks Ads on Abusive Sites, New Linux Malware Families Discovered, The Linux Foundation Launches the Automated Compliance Tooling Project, and GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.16.0 Released 

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<p>Feral Interactive announced this morning that <em>DiRT 4</em> is coming to Linux
and macOS in 2019. The all-terrain motorsport game was originally developed
by Codemaster and boasts a fleet of more than 50 rally cars, buggies,
trucks and crosskarts. And, for the first time in the history of the
franchise, players can create their own rally routes. You can view the trailer <a href="https://feralinteractive.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27ffb222c33986fdd91dd51b2&id=63cad8c96a&e=a4da434722">here</a>.
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<p>
Newly released <a href="https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html">Chrome
71</a> "now blocks ads on 'abusive' sites that consistently trick users with fake
system warnings, non-functional 'close' buttons and other bogus content
that steers you to ads and landing pages. The sites themselves won't lose
access the moment Google marks them abusive, but they'll have 30 days to
clean up their acts." According to
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/05/chrome-71-blocks-ads-on-deceptive-websites/?yptr=yahoo">Engadget</a>,
Chrome 71 has other additional safeguards, and it's available now for Linux, Mac and
Windows. It'll be rolling out to Android and iOS users in the coming weeks.
</p>

<p>
Cyber-security company ESET has discovered 21 "new" Linux malware families,
and all of them "operate in the same manner, as trojanized versions of the
OpenSSH client". <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-malware-families">ZDNet
reports</a> that "They are developed as second-stage tools to be deployed in
more complex 'botnet' schemes. Attackers would compromise a Linux system,
usually a server, and then replace the legitimate OpenSSH installation with
one of the trojanized versions.
ESET said that '18 out of the 21 families featured a credential-stealing
feature, making it possible to steal passwords and/or keys' and '17 out of
the 21 families featured a backdoor mode, allowing the attacker a stealthy
and persistent way to connect back to the compromised machine.'"
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.linux.com/blog/2018/12/open-source-compliance-projects-unite-under-new-act-group">The
Linux Foundation has launched the Automated Compliance Tooling</a> (ACT)
project in order to help companies comply with open-source licensing
requirements. Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs at The
Linux Foundation,
says, "There are numerous open source compliance tooling projects but the
majority are unfunded and have limited scope to build out robust usability
or advanced features. We have also heard from many organizations that the
tools that do exist do not meet their current needs. Forming a neutral body
under The Linux Foundation to work on these issues will allow us to
increase funding and support for the compliance tooling development
community."
</p>

<p>GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.16.0 were released yesterday.
This release represents 4,515 commits by 95 people
over five months, and it's hopefully the last release before version 1.0.
See the <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-12/msg00003.html">release
announcement</a> for more details and download links.
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title:
Cumulus Networks Partners with Lenovo, Unvanquished Game Announces First Alpha in Almost Three Years, KDE Frameworks 5.53.0 Released, Git v2.20.0 Is Now Available and Major Milestone WordPress Update

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<p>
Cumulus Networks is partnering with Lenovo to deliver open data-center
networking switches. According to the <a href="https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/12/10/1664440/0/en/Cumulus-Networks-Partners-with-Lenovo-to-Deliver-Networking-Switches-for-the-Open-Modern-Data-Center.html">press
release</a>, through this
partnership, "Lenovo will offer ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support
for Cumulus Linux. Lenovo customers can now use Cumulus' popular
network operating system (OS), Cumulus Linux, and Cumulus' operational
management tool, NetQ, while taking advantage of unprecedented third-party
options including network automation and monitoring to drive greater
operational efficiency."
</p>

<p>
Developers of the open-source game <em>Unvanquished</em> announce a new
alpha release, <em>Unvanquished Alpha 51</em> today, marking their first
release in almost three years. According to <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unvanquished-Alpha-51-Released">Phoronix</a>,
the beta should drop soon as well. See the game's <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unvanquished-Alpha-51-Released">website</a>
for details.
</p>

<p>KDE yesterday <a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.53.0.php">announced
the release of KDE Frameworks 5.53.0</a>. KDE Frameworks is made up of 70
add-on libraries to Qt, and this release is part of a series of planned
monthly releases. See the <a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.53.0.php">announcement</a>
for the list of what's new in this version.
</p>

<p>
The latest feature release of Git, v2.20.0, is now available. According to
the <a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.1/00293.html">release
announcement</a> this version is composed of "962 non-merge commits since
v2.19.0
(this is by far the largest release in v2.x.x series), contributed
by 83 people, 26 of which are new faces". You can get the tarballs <a href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git">here</a>.
</p>

<p>WordPress recently announced a new major milestone update, WordPress
5.0, which is code-named "Bebo" in honor of Cuban jazz musician Bebo
Valdés. The biggest user-facing change is the new Project Gutenberg
editor, "the primary interface to how WordPress site administrators create
content and define how it is displayed". See the <a href="http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/wordpress-5.0-delivers-block-based-editing-approach">WordPress
blog</a> for more information on the new block-based editor.
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title:
Vote for Linux Support on Adobe, Nextcloud 15 Now Available, LF Deep Learning Foundation Introduces Interactive Deep Learning Landscape, Canonical Announces Full Enterprise Support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu and Icinga Director 1.6 Released

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<p>Adobe customer care says there hasn't been enough demand for Linux, <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Adobe-Care-Linux-Demand-Vote">Phoronix
reports</a>. But, if you're interested in Linux support on Adobe Premiere CC,
you can "upvote that feature request" via the <a href="https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/34146058-linux-support">Adobe
User Survey</a>
</p>

<p><a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-15-goes-social-enforces-2fa-and-gives-you-a-new-generation-real-time-document-editing">Nextcloud 
15 is out</a>. This major release is "big step forward for communication and
collaboration with others in a secure way". It introduces several new features, including
Nextcloud Social, new security abilities and deep Collabora Online 
integration. Download Nextcloud 15 from <a href="https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server">here</a>.
</p>

<p>The Linux Foundation's Deep Learning Foundation has created the <a href="https://landscape.lfdl.io">Interactive Deep Learning Landscape</a>,
which is "intended as a map to explore open source AI, ML, DL projects".
According to the <a href="https://lfdl.io/blog/2018/12/10/introducing-the-interactive-deep-learning-landscape">LF 
Deep Learning blog post</a>, the
tool "allows viewers to filter, obtain detailed information on a 
specific project or technology, and easily share via stateful URLs. It is
intended to help developers, end users and others navigate the complex AI, DL
and ML landscape." All
data is also available in a <a href="https://github.com/LFDLFoundation/landscape">GitHub repo</a>.
</p>


<p>Canonical announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu,
including support for kubeadm and updates to MicroK8s. The <a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/12/11/canonical-support-kubernetes-1-13-ubuntu">Ubuntu
blog</a> notes that "Canonical's certified, Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes
(CDK) is built from pure upstream binaries, and offers simplified deployment,
scaling, management, and upgrades of Kubernetes, regardless of the underlying
hardware or machine virtualisation. Supported deployment targets include AWS,
GCE, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, LXD, and bare metal."
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://icinga.com/blog">Icinga Director 1.6 was released</a> yesterday.
This version of Icinga Director—a tool to configure the Icinga open-source
monitoring software—now includes multi-instance support,
configuration baskets and improved health checks. You can checkout or
download the new release <a href="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/releases/tag/v1.6.0">here</a>.
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title:
Firefox 64 Now Available, SoftMaker Office Announces "Load and Help" Fundraising Campaign, the Joint Development Foundation Has Joined The Linux Foundation, Google+ to End in April 2019 and Valve Releases Proton 3.16 (Beta) 

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<p><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released">Firefox 64
was released yesterday</a>. New features include multiple tab selection,
Developer Tools improvements, standardizing proprietary styling features,
updated privacy features and much more. See the full <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes">release 
notes</a> for more details, and download Firefox <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/download/thanks">here</a>.
</p>

<p><a href="https://www.softmaker.com/en/press-center">SoftMaker Office
announces its "Load and Help 2018" fundraiser campaign</a>: "From now until
Christmas, the company will donate 10 cents to charitable organizations for
each free download of FlexiPDF Basic or SoftMaker FreeOffice 2018." Also, for
the first time ever, SoftMaker's free FreeOffice package is now available for
macOS, in addition to Linux and Windows.
</p>

<p>
The Joint Development Foundation has joined The Linux Foundation family to 
"make it easier to collaborate through both open source and standards
development". The <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2018/12/jdf-joins-lf-family">press  
release</a> quotes Executive Director of The Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin:
"Leveraging the capabilities of the Joint Development Foundation will
enable us to provide open source projects with another path to
standardization, driving greater industry adoption of standards and
specifications to speed adoption."
</p>

<p>Google+ will be killed off in April 2019, rather than August 2019 as 
initially planned, due to a bug in the Google+ API that exposed the data of
52.5 million users. See the <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/10/google-plus-closure-accelerated">betanews
post</a> for details.
</p>

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1072584385877151744">Valve
announces a new beta release of Proton 3.16</a>. With this release, 29
additional games are now supported, and the build also contains a rework of
the audio. See the <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog">Changelog</a>
for more information.
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title:
Opera Launches Built-in Cryptocurrency Wallet for Android, ManagedKube Partners with Google Cloud to Provide a Monitoring App for Kubernetes Cluster Costs, QEMU 3.1 Released, IoT DevCon Call for Presentations and GNOME 3.31.3 Is Out

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<p>Opera announced today the launch of a built-in cryptocurrency wallet
for Android. According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/13/18138427/opera-cryptocurrency-wallet-android-app">The
Verge</a>, "The wallet will first support ethereum, with support for other
coins likely to come later. Ether investors using Opera would potentially be
able to more easily access their tokens using the feature." You can get Opera
for Android <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser&referrer=af_tranid%3DrTRRq4p2sp0OCcTVAe-r7Q%26pid%3Dpr%26c%3DOFA_crypto_PR%26utm_source%3Dpr%26utm_campaign%3DOFA_crypto_PR">here</a>.
</p>

<p>ManagedKube, a Kubernetes software development tool company, announced
yesterday it is collaborating with Google Cloud to "launch a monitoring
application that provides companies with visibility into their Kubernetes
cluster costs". The <a href="https://managedkube.com/press-release-ManagedKube-GCP">press
release</a> notes that "ManagedKube provides an
easy-to-read dashboard that gives insights on how much is being spent on each
pod, node, and persistent volume across multiple time dimensions. This
visibility allows companies to forecast budgets, understand product margins,
and quickly identify optimization opportunities for reducing Kubernetes cloud
costs."
</p>

<p>QEMU 3.1 has been released. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-3.1-Officially-Released">Phoronix
reports</a> that this update of the QEMU emulator adds "multi-threaded Tiny
Code Generator support, display improvements, adds the Cortex-A72 model and
other ARM improvements, and various other enhancements". For more details,
see the <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/3.1">QEMU ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<p>IoT DevCon call for presentations is now open. Deadline for <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/cuvw-vrg18-hnajhr-5z9y1qa0">proposals is
February 28, 2019</a>. The conference is being held June 5–6 in Santa
Clara, California.
</p>


<p>
GNOME 3.31.3 is out, and this will be the last snapshot of 2018. Note that
this is development code meant for testing and hacking purposes. For a list
of changes, go <a href="https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.3/NEWS">here</a>, and the
source packages are <a href="https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.3/sources">here</a>.
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title:
Epic Games' Free Cross-Platform Service Coming in 2019, Harness Announces New 24-7 Service Guard, Vivaldi Version 2.2 Released, KDE Applications 18.2 Are Out and Valve's Steam Link App for RPi Officially Available

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<p><a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-2019-cross-platform-online-services-roadmap">Epic
Games recently announced it's working on a free cross-platform
service for 2019</a>: "Throughout 2019, we'll be
launching a large set of cross-platform game services originally built for
Fortnite, and battle-tested with 200,000,000 players across 7 platforms.
These services will be free for all developers, and will
be open to all engines, all platforms, and all stores. As a developer,
you're free to choose mix-and-match solutions from Epic and others as you
wish." Epic also noted that "all services will be operated in
a privacy-friendly, GDPR-compliant manner".
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://harness.io">Harness</a> yesterday announced the release of <a href="https://harness.io/2018/12/harness-24-7-service-guard-empowers-developers-wit
h-total-operational-control">24x7
Service Guard</a>, a new "Machine Learning-based
capability that empowers and protects developers who practice Continuous
Delivery". According to the press release, "With 24x7 Service Guard,
engineering teams now have the equivalent of a dedicated bodyguard to watch
all production services and observe the end user experience across all APM,
monitoring, and log tools. When a service is impacted, 24x7 Service Guard can
proactively roll back code changes automatically—the equivalent of a
'safety net' for production applications."
</p>

<p>
Vivaldi, the ultra-customizable browser with a do-not-track policy, released a
new version yesterday. Version 2.2 "improves accessibility, navigation and
media". The <a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-update-focus-on-details">Vivaldi blog
post</a> notes that "the update introduces more unique ways to manage tabs,
makes Access Keys easier to use, integrates Pop Out video, and makes the
browser's toolbars more configurable." You can download Vivaldi from <a href="https://vivaldi.com/download/#pk_campaign=blog&pk_kwd=2.2">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://dot.kde.org/2018/12/13/kde-applications-1812-are-waiting-for-you">KDE
Applications 18.12 are out</a>. This release resolves more than 140 issues and
features several improvements including practical file management with
Dolphin, Okular enhancements, full support for emojis in Konsole, usability
improvements for everyone and more. See the full list of changes <a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications-aether.php?version=18.12.0">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
Valve's Steam link app for Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ is now officially available.
<a>Phoronix
reports that</a> "This app provides similar functionality to the low-cost Steam Link
dedicated device that's been available the past few years for allowing in-home
streaming of games on Steam from your personal PC(s) to living room / HTPC
type setups using Steam Link." You can get the app <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about">here</a>.
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title:
Linux 4.20 rc7 Is Out, the Skrooge Team Announces the 2.17.0 Release of Its Personal Finance Manager, Confluent Has a New Confluent Community License, Pixel Wheels Racing Game has a New Release and Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 Is Now Available

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<p>
<a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.2/00226.html">Linux
4.20 rc7 was released</a> yesterday. Linus Torvalds writes "This is a *tiny*
rc7, just how I like it. Maybe it's because everybody
is too busy prepping for the holidays, and maybe it's because we
simply are doing well. Regardless, it's been a quiet week, and I hope
the trend continues." And, he says he still plans to release 4.20
right before Christmas.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://skrooge.org/node/234">The Skrooge Team announced the 2.17.0 release</a> of its personal finance manager,
which is based on KDE Frameworks. This release fixes several bugs and includes
a few new features, such as a progress bar in the taskbar, and it supports
only Qt >= 5.7.0. You can get it from your distro's package management system,
or download it from <a href="http://skrooge.org/download">here</a>.
</p>

<p>Confluent, founded by the creators of the open-source Kafka project, has
announced a new license called the Confluent Community License, "which would
limit the ability of vendors to take its open source software and sell it, in
the same way that Amazon did with the core Kafka". According to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/confluent-community-license-created-after-amazon-web-services-starts-selling-kafka-2018-12?r=US&IR=T">Business
Insider story</a>, "AWS took Kafka and repackaged it as a paid cloud
service—something completely legal, as open source software is free for anyone
to use as they wish." Business Insider also notes that the new license applies
only to specialized add-ons to Kafka that are developed in-house.
</p>

<p>
There's a <a href="http://agateau.com/2018/pixelwheels-0-11-0">new release of
the <em>Pixel Wheels</em> racing game</a>. It now
"remembers the best lap and best total time for each track and shows
you a congratulation message when you reach the top 3 in either categories",
countdown now has sound and has several other new features. The game is
available for Linux, Android, Windows and Mac, and you can get it from <a href="http://agateau.com/projects/pixelwheels">here</a>.
</p>

<p><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/12/msg00001.html">Debian
Installer Buster Alpha 4</a> was released over the weekend. This release has
many improvements and hardware support changes, and it now supports 76
languages. Go <a href="https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer">here</a>
to install.
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guid: 1340375 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
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title:
Purism Introduces "It's a Secure Life" Bundle Sale, Wave Computing Open-Sourcing MIPS, Red Hat Announces Long-Term Commercial Support for OpenJDK on Microsoft Windows, ArchLabs 2018.12 Now Available and RawTherapee 5.5 Released

url:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-introduces-its-secure-life-bundle-sale-wave-computing-open-sourcing-mips-red-hat

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<p>
<a href="https://puri.sm/posts/2018-holiday-season-bundle-sale">Purism is
introducing "It's a Secure Life" bundles</a> from now until January 6.
The bundles are 15%–18& off, and they can be made up of different combinations of the
Librem 5 smartphone (preorder), the Librem 15 laptop and the Librem Key.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://wavecomp.ai/wave-computing-launches-the-mips-open-initiative">Wave
Computing announced yesterday it plans to open-source its MIPS instruction set
architecture</a> to "accelerate the ability for semiconductor companies,
developers and universities to adopt and innovate using MIPS for
next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) designs". According to the announcement,
"Under the MIPS Open program, participants will have full access to the most
recent versions of the 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS ISA free of charge—with no
licensing or royalty fees.  Additionally, participants in the MIPS Open
program will be licensed under MIPS' hundreds of existing worldwide
patents."
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-commercial-support-openjdk-microsoft-windows">Red Hat this morning announced long-term commercial support for OpenJDK on
Microsoft Windows</a>. In addition to supporting OpenJDK builds on RHEL, this
support will further enable "organizations to standardize the development
and deployment of Java applications throughout the enterprise with a flexible,
powerful and open alternative to proprietary Java platforms".
</p>

<p>The <a href="https://medium.com/@mattdobson2001/archlabs-2018-12-ca0d86f423a1">ArchLabs
2018.12 release is now available</a>. It's been six months since
the last release, and this version has done away with the live
environment, so when you start the USB install, you are thrown straight into
the installer. According to the announcement, "Instructions on how to start
the installer are right there. No need for passwords with this live USB
either." Other changes include Aurman has been replaced with a new homegrown
AUR helper called Baph, the package repo has been updated and installing
ArchLabs should be easier than ever. You can download it from <a href="https://archlabslinux.com/get-archlabs-2">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://rawtherapee.com/blog/rawtherapee-5.5-released">RawTherapee
5.5 has been released.</a> This new version of the open-source RAW photo
editor has several new features, including a new Shadows/Highlights tool,
improved support for Canon mRaw format variants, unbounded processing, new
color toning methods and more. You can get the new version via your package
manager or <a href="https://rawtherapee.com/downloads">visit the download
page</a>.
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guid: 1340376 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
feedurl: https://www.linuxjournal.com/news/feed
base: https://www.linuxjournal.com/news/feed
title:
Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" Cinnamon Now Available, VirtualBox 6.0 Officially Released, Facebook's Data-Sharing Deals, Purism's Librem 5 Dev Kits Shipping and Open Compute Project's Future Technologies Symposium Call for Poster Submissions

url:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-mint-191-tessa-cinnamon-now-available-virtualbox-60-officially-released-facebooks

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            <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><em>News briefs for December 19, 2018.</em></p>

<p><a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3669">Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa"
Cinnamon was released</a> today. This is a long-term
support release, which will be supported until 2023. New features include a
brand-new panel layout, the Nemo file manager is three times faster than
before, a "huge number of upstream changes were ported from the GNOME
project" and much more. Read about all the new features <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tessa_cinnamon_whatsnew.php">here</a> and download <a href="https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=254">here</a>.
</p>

<p><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org">VirtualBox 6.0</a> has been
officially released. This is a major update with tons of new features
including support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, a major rework of the user interface, a new file manager,
major update of 3D graphics support for Windows guests and much more.
See the <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v0">Changelog</a> for the
full list of new features and fixes, and visit the <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">Downloads page</a> for links
to VirtualBox binaries and source code.
</p>

<p>Facebook provided other companies—such as Microsoft, Amazon and
Spotify—far greater access to its users' private data than it
previously has disclosed. The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html"><em>New
York Times</em> obtained hundreds of pages of records</a> showing the
extent of the data-sharing practices. <em>NYT</em> reports that "Facebook allowed Microsoft's Bing
search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users'
friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify
the ability to read Facebook users' private messages." The <em>Times</em>
article also notes that the deals benefited more than 150 companies, and
that the applications "sought the data of hundreds of millions of people
a month, the records show. The deals, the oldest of which date to 2010,
were all active in 2017. Some were still in effect this year."
</p>

<p>Purism's Librem 5 dev kits are shipping, and backers should receive their
dev kits before the end of the year. The <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping">Purism blog post</a> notes that "Our
backers who are receiving the dev kits will also have access to a Matrix
channel for dev kit owners. This channel will be staffed by our engineering
team who will be on hand to answer questions, work with the community on merge
requests, and be available for those who are using the dev kits. But by no
means is this an exclusive channel and all of you are welcome to join in as
well! Please reach out to info@puri.sm if you are interested in being added to
the group." In addition, the Librem 5's early-bird price of $599 ends January
7th, and the preorder price will increase to $699 to help fund further
engineering of the phone and upstream projects.
</p>

<p>
The Open Compute Project announces Future Technologies Symposium to be held at
the 2019 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California and invites students and
researchers from around the world to submit posters. Draft submissions are due
January 31, 2019. The theme for this year is "Open Together" and the
announcement says "We welcome submissions in computer storage, networking, or
any of the OCP project tracks; as well as those which are multi-disciplinary
and cover leading technology solutions, such as edge computing." See the <a href="https://www.opencompute.org/summit/global-summit/ocp-symposium">OCP
Symposium website</a> for more information.
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guid: 1340377 at https://www.linuxjournal.com
author: Jill Franklin
feedurl: https://www.linuxjournal.com/news/feed
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title:
Qt Announces Qt for Python, All US Publications from 1923 to Enter the Public Domain in 2019, Red Hat Chooses Team Rubicon for Its 2018 Corporate Donation, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 Released and Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Project Mu"

url:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/qt-announces-qt-python-all-us-publications-1923-enter-public-domain-2019-red-hat-chooses

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<p>Qt introduces <a href="https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python">Qt for Python</a>. This new offering allows "Python developers
to streamline and enhance their user interfaces while utilizing Qt's
world-class professional support services". According to the press release,
"With Qt for Python, developers can quickly and easily visualize the massive
amounts of data tied to their Python development projects, in addition to
gaining access to Qt's world-class professional support services and
large global community." To download Qt for Python, go <a href="https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python">here</a>.
</p>

<p>As of January 1, 2019, all works published in the US in 1923 will enter
the public domain. The <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016"><em>Smithsonian</em>
reports</a> that it's been "21 years since the last mass expiration of
copyright in the U.S." The article continues:
"The release is unprecedented, and its
impact on culture and creativity could be huge. We have never seen such a
mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one—in
1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond—predated Google. 'We have
shortchanged a generation,' said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet
Archive. 'The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.'"
</p>

<p><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-selects-team-rubicon-2018-us-corporate-holiday-donation">Red
Hat chooses Team Rubicon for its 2018 US corporate holiday donation</a>.
The $75,000 donation will "will contribute to the organization's efforts to
provide emergency response support to areas devastated by natural disasters."
From Red Hat's announcement: "By pairing the skills and experiences of
military veterans with first responders, medical professionals and technology
solutions, Team Rubicon aims to provide the greatest service and impact
possible. Since its inception following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Team
Rubicon has launched more than 310 disaster response operations in the U.S.
and across the world—including 86 in 2018 alone."
</p>


<p><a href="https://www.suse.com/c/suse-linux-enterprise-15-service-pack-1-beta-1">SUSE
Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 1 Beta 1 is now available</a>. Some of the
changes include Java 11 is now the default JRE, libqt was updated to 5.9.7,
LLVM was updated to version 7, and much more. According to the announcement,
"roughly 640 packages have been touched specifically for SP1, in addition to packages
updated with Maintenance Updates since SLE 15." See the <a href="https://www.suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#releasenotes">release
notes</a> for more information.
</p>

<p>
Microsoft yesterday announced "Project Mu" as an open-source UEFI alternative
to TianoCore. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Project-Mu-UEFI">Phoronix
reports</a> that "Project Mu is Microsoft's attempt at 'Firmware as a
Service' delivered as open-source. Microsoft developed Project Mu under the
belief that the open-source TianoCore UEFI reference implementation is 'not
optimized for rapid servicing across multiple product lines.'"
See also the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%E2%80%AFintroducing-project-mu/amp">Microsoft
blog</a> for details.
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136866
title: Raven: An Open Source Desktop RSS Reader
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/6UuQO7MT95I/raven-reader-rss-reader-for-linux
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<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/raven-reader-rss-reader-standard-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="raven reader rss reader layout" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/raven-reader-rss-reader-standard-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/raven-reader-rss-reader-standard-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/raven-reader-rss-reader-standard-840x480.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Raven is a relatively new open source RSS reader app for Windows, macOS and Linux (hurrah) that I&#8217;ve been eager to try out. This week I finally found some time to dig into this deliciously well designed desktop RSS feed reader, and in this post I&#8217;ll provide you with an overview of what it does, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/raven-reader-rss-reader-for-linux">Raven: An Open Source Desktop RSS Reader</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136898
title: With Its Switch to Chromium, Will Microsoft Edge Come to Linux?
author: Joey Sneddon
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feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
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<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft edge chromium and linux" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-768x439.jpg 768w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux-750x429.jpg 750w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-linux.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />The Microsoft Edge web browser is to be rebuilt on top of Chromium, Microsoft has said. The browser will retains its UI and support more platforms.</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/microsoft-edge-for-linux-possible">With Its Switch to Chromium, Will Microsoft Edge Come to Linux?</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136914
title: DiRT4 Power Slides onto Linux in 2019
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/tMIdX3hYXv0/dirt4-linux-mac-release-2019
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content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dirt4-delta-rally-car-406x232.png" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dirt4-delta-rally-car-406x232.png 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dirt4-delta-rally-car-350x200.png 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dirt4-delta-rally-car-840x480.png 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Buckle up tight, as acclaimed rally racing game DiRT4 is revving up for a Linux release early next year. DiRT 4 is the latest instalment of the popular franchise to drift on to free software platforms (as well as a non-free software platform in macOS). It follows on from the successful Linux release of DiRT Rally last spring. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/dirt4-linux-mac-release-2019">DiRT4 Power Slides onto Linux in 2019</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136968
title: SuperTuxKart Spruces Up Its In-Game Visuals
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/LDBiHfRMmUQ/supertuxkart-spruces-up-its-in-game-visuals
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/supertuxkart-improved-visuals-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="SuperTuxkart screenshot" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/supertuxkart-improved-visuals-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/supertuxkart-improved-visuals-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/supertuxkart-improved-visuals-840x480.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Gaming fans are geared up for the DiRT 4 Linux release next year, but there&#8217;s another popular racing game pushing things forward, too. SuperTuxKart, the famous free software kart racer, is picking up some improved visuals within the in-game user interface and racing screens. Detailing their plans on the game&#8217;s official dev blog, the team behind the iconic [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/supertuxkart-spruces-up-its-in-game-visuals">SuperTuxKart Spruces Up Its In-Game Visuals</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=136962
title: GNOME Devs Experiment with a Refreshed GTK & Icon Theme
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/1FubZSLjJLA/adwaita-refresh-sneak-peek
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-gnome-icons-1-406x232.jpeg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="GNOME&#039;s new Folder Icons" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-gnome-icons-1-406x232.jpeg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-gnome-icons-1-350x200.jpeg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-gnome-icons-1-840x480.jpeg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />GNOME developers are testing some bold improvements to the Adwaita GTK theme and the default GNOME icon set. And in this post we take a sneak peek at their progress so far. Now, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this site then may recall our post on a new GNOME icon theme back in July. At [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/adwaita-refresh-sneak-peek">GNOME Devs Experiment with a Refreshed GTK &#038; Icon Theme</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=137047
title: Latest Vivaldi Update Adds Pop Out Video, Tab Sessions + More
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/hTNCOQOcCtU/vivaldi-2-2-improved-tab-features
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vivaldi-pop-out-video-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Vivaldi with picture in picture feature" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vivaldi-pop-out-video-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vivaldi-pop-out-video-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vivaldi-pop-out-video-840x480.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />A new version of the Vivaldi web browser has been released — and it&#8217;s even more customisable than before! The Vivaldi 2.2 update adds a &#8220;pop out&#8221; video player feature (just like the picture-in-picture feature available in Chrome), introduces new ways to manage tabs, and — at long last! — gives you control over which buttons appear in [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/vivaldi-2-2-improved-tab-features">Latest Vivaldi Update Adds Pop Out Video, Tab Sessions + More</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119463
title: Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Finally Released: Download Torrent And ISO Files Here
author: Adarsh Verma
url: https://fossbytes.com/linux-mint-19-1-tessa-released-download/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>The developers of Linux Mint, one of the most user-friendly open source distros out there, have shipped the freshly-baked Linux Mint 19.1. Codenamed Tessa, this operating system will remain supported until 2023. For those who don&#8217;t know, Linux Mint is a popular Ubuntu-based Linux distro that aims to make the transition from a closed world of [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/linux-mint-19-1-tessa-released-download/">Linux Mint 19.1 &#8220;Tessa&#8221; Finally Released: Download Torrent And ISO Files Here</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119462
title: Most People Are Ready To Quit Facebook For $1,000, Study Finds
author: Anmol Sachdeva
url: https://fossbytes.com/most-people-are-ready-to-quit-facebook-for-1000/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>2018 had been one of the worst years for Facebook with incessant data breaches and internal conflicts. Despite the risk of privacy risks involved in using the social media platform, many people are still willing to take the risk and not ready to quit Facebook. A study published in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/most-people-are-ready-to-quit-facebook-for-1000/">Most People Are Ready To Quit Facebook For $1,000, Study Finds</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119488
title: How Nostalgia Struck Us With The New Google ‘Home Alone’ Ad
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/how-nostalgia-struck-us-with-the-new-google-home-alone-ad/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
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<p>It was always a delight for me to watch how little Kevin McCallister was able to defy the notorious goons all by himself when he was mistakenly left home alone. Now, reviving the same spirit, Google has introduced a new advertisement telling us how it would be if Kevin was not really alone and had [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/how-nostalgia-struck-us-with-the-new-google-home-alone-ad/">How Nostalgia Struck Us With The New Google ‘Home Alone’ Ad</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119466
title: Apple Files Patent For A Device With 360-Degree Display
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/apple-files-patent-for-a-device-with-360-degree-display/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Cupertino tech major Apple has been the patent hoarder ever since. Now, adding to its long list of patent applications, the recent one gives us an inkling of a new display design 2019 (or the near future) might see. According to a report by MySmartPrice, the new patent granted to Apple hints at a display [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/apple-files-patent-for-a-device-with-360-degree-display/">Apple Files Patent For A Device With 360-Degree Display</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119513
title: Xiaomi’s Mi Pay Payment Service Arrives In India; Beta Version Available
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/xiaomis-mi-pay-payment-service-arrives-in-india-beta-version-available/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>To compete against Google Pay and WhatsApp payments solution, Chinese company Xiaomi has now launched the Mi Pay payments platform in India.  For starters, Mi Pay payments service allows users to transact using UPI, debit cards, credit cards, and Internet Banking. Currently, Xiaomi’s Mi Pay supports banks such as ICICI bank and PayU digital payment option [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/xiaomis-mi-pay-payment-service-arrives-in-india-beta-version-available/">Xiaomi&#8217;s Mi Pay Payment Service Arrives In India; Beta Version Available</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=117578
title: What Is Group Policy Editor? How To Install It In Windows 10 Home?
author: Charanjeet Singh
url: https://fossbytes.com/group-policy-editor-install-windows-10-home/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>The Group Policy Editor is one of the many important features of the Windows 10 Pro version that Home users never get to see. Although Windows 10 Home consists of the Registry Editor as a replacement, it is nowhere near the Group Policy Editor. Most Windows Settings tweaks can be accomplished by forcing values on the Windows Registry. However, at times there [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/group-policy-editor-install-windows-10-home/">What Is Group Policy Editor? How To Install It In Windows 10 Home?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=106546
title: 10 Best iPhone Web Browser Apps: Top Safari Alternatives For 2019
author: Anmol Sachdeva
url: https://fossbytes.com/best-iphone-web-browser-apps-safari-alternatives/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Safari is one of the fastest web browsers out there but it is far from perfect. It lacks visual appeal and there are many features which would be present in any web browser app but are not found in Apple Safari. For a more personalized experience, you have the option of downloading third-party apps. App [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/best-iphone-web-browser-apps-safari-alternatives/">10 Best iPhone Web Browser Apps: Top Safari Alternatives For 2019</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119531
title: PUBG Mobile Gets Vikendi Snow Map: Check Out New Features Here
author: Manisha Priyadarshini
url: https://fossbytes.com/pubg-mobile-vikendi-snow-map/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>After teasing for quite some time, PUBG Mobile has finally introduced the much awaited Vikendi Snow Map in the Season 4 Royale Pass. The latest version 0.10.0 is available for download on both Android and iOS. The download size is 2.1GB on iOS and 1.6GB on Android. But hold your horses, because you can&#8217;t play in the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/pubg-mobile-vikendi-snow-map/">PUBG Mobile Gets Vikendi Snow Map: Check Out New Features Here</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119533
title: Flipkart Launching Its Own Video Streaming Service In India
author: Anmol Sachdeva
url: https://fossbytes.com/flipkart-video-streaming-service/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Get ready to shell out money for another subscription as Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant will launch a video streaming service soon. With the popularity of video streaming service on the rise in the country, Walmart-owned Flipkart is trying to enter the market with its own streaming service. Speaking to the BloombergQuint in an interview, Flipkart [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/flipkart-video-streaming-service/">Flipkart Launching Its Own Video Streaming Service In India</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=119577
title: Apple To Stop Selling Older iPhones In Germany After Qualcomm’s Win
author: Adarsh Verma
url: https://fossbytes.com/apple-stop-selling-iphones-germany/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>The District Court of Munich has ruled that some iPhone models are infringing Qualcomm&#8217;s patents. As a result, the company has been instructed to stop the sales of older iPhone models in German stores. As an official blog post on Qualcomm&#8217;s website notes, the injunction granted by the court is permanent. It further adds that Apple [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/apple-stop-selling-iphones-germany/">Apple To Stop Selling Older iPhones In Germany After Qualcomm&#8217;s Win</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=30662
title: How to Use RAR files in Ubuntu Linux [Quick Tip]
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/use-rar-ubuntu-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
You don't need WinRAR in Ubuntu. This quick tutorial shows you how to add rar support so that you can extract RAR files in Ubuntu Linux. It also show you how to create RAR archive files.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31664
title: How to Install Popcorn Time on Ubuntu 18.04 and Other Linux Distributions
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/popcorn-time-ubuntu-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Learn how to install Popcorn Time on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions easily. Also learn some handy Popcorn Time tips to use Popcorn Time like a pro.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31733
title: Cozy is a Cozy Little Audiobook Player for Linux
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/cozy-audiobook-player/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Cozy is a nifty little audiobook player for Linux. While there are not many audiobook players for Linux, Cozy tries to fill the void to some extent.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=30910
title: Innovating Nanotechnology with Open Science and AI
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/nanotechnology-open-science-ai/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
We explore how Open Source techniques are driving innovation in Nanotechnology by looking into several aspects through Open Science and AI.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31790
title: Creator of the World Wide Web is Creating a New Decentralized Web
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/solid-decentralized-web/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his plans to create a new decentralized web where the data will be controlled by the users.﻿


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31807
title: How to Install Pip on Ubuntu
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/install-pip-ubuntu/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Pip is a command line tool that allows you to install software packages written in Python. Learn how to install Pip on Ubuntu and how to use it for installing Python applications.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31767
title: Facebook’s Open Source AI Framework PyTorch is Looking Solid
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/pytorch-open-source-ai-framework/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Take a look at the new features of Facebook's recently updated Python-based Open Source AI framework PyTorch, its installation on Linux and also some ongoing research projects.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31451
title: Google’s Open Source AI Diagnoses Lung Cancer Types with Extreme Accuracy!
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ai-diagnoses-lung-cancer/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Google's Open Source AI has been applied by NYU Scientists to diagnose certain forms of Lung Cancer with Extreme Accuracy!


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32086
title: Fix ‘add-apt-repository command not found’ Error on Ubuntu and Debian
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/add-apt-repository-command-not-found/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
This quick tutorial shows you how to quickly fix the "add-apt-repository command not found" error on Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32114
title: Convert Screenshots of Equations into LaTeX Instantly With This Nifty Tool
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/mathpix/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
enclosure_url: https://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mathpix.mp4
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content:
Mathpix is a nifty little tool that allows you to take screenshots of complex mathematical equations and instantly converts it into LaTeX editable text.﻿


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32141
title: After 16 Years of Development, The First Beta of Haiku is Finally Here
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/haiku-os-release/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Haiku is an open source project that is creating a replica of the discontinued BeOS from scratch. It has taken 16 years of development to reach the milestone of the first beta release.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32155
title: Microsoft Open Sources Over 60,000 Patents to Protect Linux
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-open-source-patents/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Microsoft has joined Open Invention Network with over 60,000 patents to protect Linux and associated open-source projects from patent lawsuits.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32018
title: Microsoft Open Sources Infer.NET AI Framework [For Humanity]
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-ai-open-source-infer-net/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Microsoft has open sourced another AI framework. Know why Microsoft's newly Open Sourced Infer.NET is a Positive Step towards Humanity.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31642
title: Nuclear Reactor Startup Transatomic Power going Open Source after Closure
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/transatomic-open-source/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
A fine example of how a noble idea of a Startup can still live on with Open Source even after its Closure!


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32283
title: Turn Your Old PC into a Retrogaming Console with Lakka Linux
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/lakka-retrogaming-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
enclosure_url: https://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/lakka-linux-gaming-console.webm
enclosure_type: video/webm
content:
If you have an old computer gathering dust, you can turn it into a PlayStation like retrogaming console with Lakka Linux distribution. 


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31206
title: Open Source 3D Printing: Exploring Scientific and Medical Solutions
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-3d-printing/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
In our open science series, read how Open Source 3D Printing can benefit Science and Healthcare industry.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32333
title: Great News! Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/torvalds-is-back/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux Kernel development. It remains to be seen whether he has improved his behavior and become a gentler person or not.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32330
title: Linux Kernel 4.19 LTS Release is Here!
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-4-19-lts-release/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Linux Kernel 4.19 has been released. It's a long-term support release. The release announcement also brings the news of Linus Torvalds' return and tries to clarify the recent controversy over the Linux code of conduct.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32398
title: Breaking News: IBM is Buying Red Hat for $34 Billion
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/ibm-red-hat-acquisition/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
IBM and Red Hat have inked the deal. IBM is acquiring Red Hat for approximately $34 billion in order to become the number one hybrid cloud provider in the world.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32407
title: Finally! The Venerable RISC OS is Now Open Source
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/risc-os-is-now-open-source/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
The specifically made-for-ARM operating system RISC OS is finally open source after 30 years of development. Read about why RISC OS is an important and integral part of computing history.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32422
title: Ubuntu 19.04 Has Been Codenamed Disco Dingo
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-19-04-release-features/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
A continually updated article about Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo release date, new features and everything important associated with it.﻿


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32433
title: How to Type Indian Rupee Symbol in Ubuntu 18.04
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/type-rupee-symbol-ubuntu/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
enclosure_url: https://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Type-Indian-Rupee-Ubuntu.webm
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content:
This step by step tutorial shows you how to type Indian Rupee Symbol on Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME desktop. The procedure should also be applicable to other desktop environments and Linux distributions as well. ﻿


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32374
title: CPod: An Open Source, Cross-platform Podcast App
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/cpod-podcast-app/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
CPod is an open source podcast application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. A clean UI and essential features make it a good choice for listening to podcasts.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32370
title: Firefox: The Internet’s Knight in Shining Armor
author: Aquil Roshan
url: https://itsfoss.com/why-firefox/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Read why Mozilla Firefox should be your choice in the effort to protect your privacy and in keeping the internet healthy and an open place.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32528
title: Solus Linux is Under New Management
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/ikey-leaves-solus/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Ikey Doherty, the founder and lead dev of Solus Linux has left the project. Read to know why he left Solus and what is going to happen with Solus Linux in future.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=31978
title: Sourcegraph: An Open-Source Source Code Search Engine
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/sourcegraph/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Read about the features of a new Open Source Code Navigation and Search Tool and also how to make it useful, especially if you are a regular programmer.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32554
title: 11 Things To Do After Installing elementary OS 5 Juno
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-elementary-os-5-juno/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Here's our list of recommended things to do after installing elementary OS 5.0 Juno for a better and smoother experience.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32576
title: Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get 10-Year Support (Instead of the Usual 5 Years)
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-18-04-ten-year-support/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
The long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu used to get support for five years. This is changing now. Ubuntu 18.04 will now be supported for ten years. Other LTS releases might also get an extended support.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=25697
title: Best Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for Linux Users
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/black-friday-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that should be of interest to many Linux users. The deals are on Linux gadgets, courses, books, magazines, merchandises, and servers.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32588
title: Best ASCII Games for Linux That are Insanely Good
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/best-ascii-games/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Relive the golden era! Here are some of the best ascii games that you can play in the Linux terminal.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32748
title: OpenSnitch – an Application Firewall for Linux [Review]
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/opensnitch-firewall-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
We review OpenSnitch, an open source alternative to Little Snitch of macOS. It lets you control internet access per application basis.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32779
title: Enable Media Player Controls in System Tray in Ubuntu 18.04 GNOME [Quick Tip]
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/media-player-controls-system-tray/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
GNOME desktop doesn't include the media player controls in the system tray menu. Here's how to get it back in Ubuntu 18.04 and other distributions using the GNOME desktop environment.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32469
title: systemd to Allow Automatic Fallback to an Older Kernel in Case of Boot Failure
author: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
url: https://itsfoss.com/systemd-features/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
systemd is introducing a new boot assessment feature where the system will automatically fallback to an older Linux kernel in case of boot failures.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32774
title: SMPlayer: Media Player++
author: Aquil Roshan
url: https://itsfoss.com/smplayer/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Check out the versatile SMPlayer and its awesome features. Also learn how to install SMPlayer in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32825
title: ANGRYsearch – Quick Search GUI Tool for Linux
author: John Paul
url: https://itsfoss.com/angrysearch/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Do an extensive file search in Linux with a GUI tool called ANGRYsearch. Learn how to install and use it.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32862
title: Necuno is a New Open Source Smartphone Running KDE
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/necunos-linux-smartphone/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Finland-based open source company Necuno has announced a Linux smartphone running KDE Plasma Mobile.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32816
title: Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter in Linux
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/sound-converter-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
If you are looking for converting audio file formats to wav, mp3, ogg or any other format, SoundConverter is the tool you need in Linux.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32893
title: New Patch Replaces F-Words in Linux Kernel Code with “Hug”
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/swear-words-linux-kernel/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
To comply with the new code of conduct, a developer from Intel proposes to replace F-words in the Linux kernel code with "hug".


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32968
title: How to Update Ubuntu Linux [Beginner’s Tip]
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/update-ubuntu/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
This tutorial shows you how to update Ubuntu for both server and desktop versions. It also explains the difference between update and upgrade along with a few other things you should know about updates in Ubuntu Linux.﻿


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=33001
title: How to Install Putty on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/putty-linux/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Free and Open Source SSH client Putty is also available for Linux users. Learn how to install Putty on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions in this tutorial.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=26595
title: Using PPA in Ubuntu Linux [Complete Guide]
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
An in-depth article that covers almost all the questions around using PPA in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=32590
title: Insync: The Hassleless Way of Using Google Drive on Linux
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/insync-linux-review/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Using Google Drive on Linux is a pain. Insync makes your life easier by providing a native Google Drive client on Linux. Read the complete review.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=33451
title: Fragmentation is Why Linux Hasn’t Succeeded on Desktop: Linus Torvalds
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
Linus Torvalds has finally spoken his mind over why Linux that rules the servers and the clouds has not succeeded on the desktop front.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=33745
title: Oracle Releases VirtualBox 6.0 With Major Improvements
author: Derick Sullivan M. Lobga
url: https://itsfoss.com/oracle-virtualbox-release/
feedurl: https://itsfoss.com/feed/
content:
The latest release of Oracle's virtualization software VirtualBox 6.0 has some major improvements over its predecessors. Check it out.


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410622
title: Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running applications in isolation
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/windows-sandbox/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Microsoft has announced an upcoming security feature which it hopes will take the fear and risk out of running unknown software. Windows Sandbox is an isolated desktop environment which functions much like a virtual machine; any software installed to it is completely sandboxed from the host operating system. Aimed at businesses, enterprises and security-conscious home users, Windows Sandbox will be part of Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise. It is not clear exactly when the feature will debut, but it could make an appearance in Windows 10 19H1 next year. See also: Microsoft may have sent you an email&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/windows-sandbox/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410635
title: AI security solutions are popular with executives -- but are they really working?
author: Ian Barker
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/ai-security-solutions/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
According to a new study released by ProtectWise, AI has already established a strong foothold in the security space, with 73 percent of respondents reporting that they have implemented security solutions that incorporate at least some aspect of AI. Most organizations cite AI's ability to improve the efficiency of security staff members and make investigation of alerts faster as top priorities. But it's executives, not the people who manage security, who are the biggest advocates for AI. 55 percent of respondents say that the strongest advocates for AI-based security products in their organization are IT executives, while 38 percent say&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/ai-security-solutions/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410627
title: Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 19.1 'Tessa' finally available with Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/ubuntu-linux-mint-191-tessa/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
The mainstreaming of Linux is accelerating every day. Many servers use Linux distributions, while Android remains the undisputed king of mobile. True, adoption of operating systems based on the open source kernel are still virtually nonexistent on the desktop, but as Windows 10 gets worse and worse, more and more home users may turn to Ubuntu, Google Chrome OS, and others. Just yesterday, Dell updated two of its mobile workstations to the latest Ubuntu LTS version. If you are tired of the Windows 10 nonsense, and want to try an alternative operating system, Linux Mint is a great starting point.&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/ubuntu-linux-mint-191-tessa/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410651
title: One in three networks has exposed passwords
author: Ian Barker
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/exposed-network-passwords/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Passwords are exposed in Group Policy Preferences in 32.2 percent of networks, according to new research, leaving them open to the risk of hackers traveling laterally through the network. The study from identity and access specialist Preempt also shows organizations lack visibility and control when it comes to their passwords and privileged users. Almost 97 percent of inspected enterprises revealed at least one security issue between Active Directory issues and password policies, while 72.2 percent had 'stealthy admins' -- users with excessive administrative privileges that could be used or manipulated by malicious actors. "While cybersecurity spending is at all time&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/exposed-network-passwords/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410655
title: IoT malware up over 200 percent in 2018
author: Ian Barker
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/internet-of-things-malware/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
New malware targeting IoT devices grew 72 percent, with total malware growing 203 percent in the last four quarters according to McAfee's third quarter threat report. This growth has been partly due to devices being harnessed for cryptomining. IoT devices such as cameras or video recorders have not typically been used for this because they lack the CPU power of desktop and laptop computers. However, cybercriminals have taken notice of the growing volume and lax security of many IoT devices and have begun to focus on them, harnessing thousands of devices to create a mining super-computer. New coin-mining malware grew&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/internet-of-things-malware/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410658
title: Microsoft has made a free Office app for Windows 10
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/office-app-for-windows-10/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Although there are plenty of office suites available, including lots of free choices, Microsoft Office remains the one that most people use. Today, Microsoft rolls out a new app for Windows 10 called, simply, Office, which is designed to replace the existing My Office app. The app itself is free and can be used with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office Online -- the free web-based version of Office for consumers. It’s not available for all users at the moment. You’ll need to be a Windows Insider if you want to get your hands on it&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/office-app-for-windows-10/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410661
title: Facebook gave dozens of companies access to user data such as friends lists and private messages
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/facebook-user-data-sharing-without-consent/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Details have come to light about the deals Facebook struck with the likes of Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, Apple and Amazon. A report by the New York Times revealed that the social network had given numerous companies access to a plethora of private user data, ranging from the names of friends, to private messages. Facebook has responded by saying that no access was granted to third parties without user permission, but questions remain about whether users were fully aware of the level of access companies had to their data, or whether they knew they were agreeing to sharing private data. See&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/facebook-user-data-sharing-without-consent/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410666
title: NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' program helps gamers choose networking gear
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/nvidia-geforce-now-recommended-routers/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
When you are an online gamer, your network connection matters -- the lower the latency the better. Nothing is more heartbreaking than losing a match due to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. True, gamers should try to use a hardwired connection when they can, but for many, this simply isn't possible. Renters, for instance, may not be able to run cable through walls. Instead, these gamers must choose their Wi-Fi gear wisely to get the most of their connection. Unfortunately, choosing a gaming router can be quite the daunting task. There are so many of them on the market these days&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/nvidia-geforce-now-recommended-routers/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410678
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/windows-10-19h1-build-18305-christmas-delight/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
title:
Latest Windows 10 preview build is an early Christmas present for Insiders, with Windows Sandbox and other treats

content:
It’s nearly Christmas, and Microsoft has rolled out a brand new build of Windows 10 19H1, the last of 2018, with plenty of exciting treats for users to try out. Build 18305 for Fast ring insiders, introduces a number of improvements and new features, including a simplified Start layout and Windows Sandbox. SEE ALSO: Microsoft has made a free Office app for Windows 10 Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running applications in isolation Microsoft says Windows 10 October 2018 Update now fully available for 'advanced users' Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes to Windows 10 in the form&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/19/windows-10-19h1-build-18305-christmas-delight/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410697
title: Microsoft issues emergency patch to fix serious Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/internet-explorer-zero-day-patch/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Microsoft has issued an emergency, out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day that was being actively exploited in targeted attacks. The company says that it learned about the vulnerability through a report from Google. CVE-2018-8653 affects a range of versions of Internet Explorer from 9 to 11, across Windows 7 to 10 and Windows Server. See also: Latest Windows 10 preview build is an early Christmas present for Insiders, with Windows Sandbox and other treats Microsoft has made a free Office app for Windows 10 Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running applications in isolation The vulnerability amounts&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/internet-explorer-zero-day-patch/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410700
title: Your iPad Pro may be bent -- and Apple says it's not a defect
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/bent-ipad-pro/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
iPhone and iPad have long been subjected to bend tests to see how they hold up to abuse. But what about if your iPad Pro arrived with a bend in the casing? You'd send it back and ask for a replacement or a refund, right? But Apple does not believe that an iPad Pro that arrives bent is defective. The company has confirmed that a number of 2018 iPad Pro tablets have a "slight bend" in their aluminum casing, blaming the defect on the manufacturing process. Only it's not a defect, remember? See also: Apple releases iOS 12.1.2 with eSIM&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/bent-ipad-pro/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410705
title: Apple now lets you gift in-app purchases
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/apple-in-app-purchase-gifting/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
While it has been possible for some time to give iOS apps to others as a gift, you have not been able to do the same with in-app purchases. Now, however, if you want to buy in-app content as a Christmas present for friends or family (what greater sign of affection, eh?!) you can do so. Apple has changed its App Store Review Guidelines giving developers the option to enable the gifting of in-app purchases. See also: Your iPad Pro may be bent -- and Apple says it's not a defect Apple releases iOS 12.1.2 with eSIM fixes -- but&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/apple-in-app-purchase-gifting/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410709
title: Facebook addresses controversy over third-party access to private messages
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/facebook-partners-message-access/
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Facebook has been the source of much privacy-related controversy over the years, particularly over the last year or so. The past few days have been no different, with the social networking giant facing questions over the level of access it granted partners to private user data. Of particular concern to users is the suggestion that Facebook gave the likes of Spotify and Netflix access to users' private messages. Having already gone on the defensive about some of the allegations leveled at it, Facebook is now trying to defend itself about the messaging allegations -- or, as the company puts it&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/facebook-partners-message-access/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410714
title: Microsoft announces Project Mu, an open-source release of the UEFI core
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/microsoft-project-mu/
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Microsoft has a new open source project -- Project Mu. This is the company's open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core which is currently used by Surface devices and Hyper-V. With the project, Microsoft hopes to make it easier to build scalable and serviceable firmware, and it embraces the idea of Firmware as a Service (FaaS). This allows for fast and efficient updating of firmware after release, with both security patches and performance-enhancing updates. See also: Microsoft issues emergency patch to fix serious Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability Microsoft has made a free Office app for Windows 10&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/microsoft-project-mu/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410718
title: VirtualBox 6.0 adds new file manager, revamps user interface
author: Nick Peers
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/virtualbox-6-0-adds-new-file-manager-revamps-user-interface/
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Oracle has released VirtualBox 6.0, a major new release of its free virtualization tool for Windows, Mac and Linux. Version 6.0 unveils major improvements to -- and a redesign of -- the user interface, plus beefs up 3D support (including first-time support on Linux and Solaris guests). Hyper-V emulation is now also supported on Windows as a fall-back execution core helping fix problems running 64-bit guests when Windows Security’s sandboxing feature was enabled. The user interface is the chief beneficiary in VirtualBox 6.0. It opens with greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support, along with the promise of better detection and&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/virtualbox-6-0-adds-new-file-manager-revamps-user-interface/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410723
title: Facebook, Instagram, Google, Spotify, WhatsApp and more reimagined as tech products from the 1980s
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/modern-brands-1980s-tech/
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It’s a fair bet that we’d never have heard of Facebook, Instagram, Google and WhatsApp if the internet hadn’t been invented, but London-based graphic designer Thomas Ollivier has put his skills into re-imagining how some of today’s top tech brands might have looked in the pre-internet days of the 1980s. The collection of images, which he’s titled Re:Birth, provides a fun glimpse into how technology has changed in the past 30 years. And boy has it changed. SEE ALSO: Forget buggy Windows 10, Windows 11 is the operating system we want As spotted by Metro, the collection of images includes&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/modern-brands-1980s-tech/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410732
title: Faster innovation, increased competition and repatriation -- cloud predictions for 2019
author: Ian Barker
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/2019-cloud-predictions/
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Use of the cloud is now well established in many businesses. But that's not to say that it isn’t still a fast moving sector of the industry. With greater competition than ever and the pace of innovation showing little sign of slowing down, we’ve put together some expert views on what might be in store for cloud users in 2019 Competition between major public cloud providers is expected to increase according to Sanjay Beri, CEO of Netskope. "As the pace of digital innovation and demands pertaining to new cloud features, costs, geographic coverage, and support increases, the cloud wars between&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/2019-cloud-predictions/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410736
title: Infrastructure is the missing piece to an autonomous future
author: Scott McLaren
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/infrastructure-is-the-missing-piece-to-an-autonomous-future/
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Though you may have not noticed their arrival, autonomous vehicles are already here. While we currently experience automation’s convenience on a smaller scale -- like self-parking and lane-keeping capabilities -- fully-autonomous vehicles are projected to offer so much more. For example, fully-autonomous vehicles offer a potential for a 90 percent decrease in traffic fatalities. When you consider a stat like that, it’s no wonder many vehicle manufacturers and government officials are pushing for fully-driverless capabilities. But a fully-autonomous future won’t become a reality on the efforts of vehicle development and manufacturing alone. Infrastructure updates, particularly in major U.S. cities, will&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/infrastructure-is-the-missing-piece-to-an-autonomous-future/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410739
title: 8 key factors for an effective Internet of Things (IoT) network
author: Mark M Ingerman
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/8-key-factors-for-an-effective-internet-of-things-iot-network/
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Connected devices, or the Internet of Things (IoT), are exploding on the market. Securing their access has become one of the major concerns in recent years. But security is only part of the equation. What good is a secure network if you cannot access it?  As more and more devices connect together, the availability to connect becomes paramount. If your business is going to depend on an IoT infrastructure, it must be available, accessible, and safe from attack. If you cannot count on your infrastructure, you cannot depend on it. When selecting an IoT platform, these are the sort of&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/8-key-factors-for-an-effective-internet-of-things-iot-network/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410743
title: Rethinking browsers
author: Rajesh Ranganathan
url: https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/rethinking-browsers/
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With browsers often in the middle of many corporate activities, it’s no wonder that they are now subject to many of the same challenges encountered on desktops, smartphones and other hardware-based endpoints. Many IT pros wouldn’t consider browsers to be a critical network endpoint, but those pros would surely place importance on mobile devices, laptops, desktops and servers. Given the valuable role browsers play in accessing enterprise applications and information, it’s time to rethink how we classify them and, more importantly, how we manage and secure them. Mobility and cloud computing are taking over today’s workforce, and the browser’s significance&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2018/12/20/rethinking-browsers/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


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title: ESET discovers 21 new Linux malware families
url: https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-malware-families/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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All malware strains are trojanized versions of the OpenSSH server or client apps that include keylogger and backdoor capabilities.


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title: ​Canonical makes Kubernetes moves
url: https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-makes-kubernetes-moves/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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content:
Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.


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title: Windows 10 tip: Run Ubuntu Linux in an enhanced Hyper-V session
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-run-ubuntu-linux-in-an-enhanced-hyper-v-session/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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Microsoft now makes Ubuntu Linux available as a preconfigured Hyper-V virtual machine. Here's how to set up your VM and avoid a few gotchas.


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title: ​MS-Linux? Lindows? Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux?
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content: Yes, yes they could. And I would no longer bet they won't. Here's why.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: ​Major China company, Alibaba, joins Open Invention Network patent protection group
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/major-china-company-alibaba-joins-open-invention-network-patent-protection-group/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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Alibaba and Ant Financial are trying to cool things off in the Sino-US intellectual property wars by joining the pro-Linux Open Invention Network patent protection organization.


guid: afa161ba-065b-4d43-8d45-6165e93f7aba
title: IBM protects your cloud container data running under Kubernetes with encryption
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content: Protecting your live data on the cloud is a real worry. IBM suggests, "Why not encrypt it?"
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-protects-your-cloud-container-data-running-under-kubernetes-with-encryption/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Red Hat sales softer than expected ahead of IBM purchase
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-sales-softer-than-expected-ahead-of-ibm-purchase/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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Red Hat's bottom line beat Wall Street targets, but sales fell short of expectations. Red Hat's growth will be closely watched as IBM aims to close its acquisition.


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title: IRS Linux move delayed by lingering Oracle Solaris systems
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/irs-linux-move-delayed-by-lingering-oracle-solaris-systems/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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A recent Treasury audit report revealed an IRS IT move from Solaris to Linux was delayed due to gross incompetence.


guid: ca2b827c-cefa-498d-b234-d51afaf9ddde
title: Linux Mint 19.1: The better-than-ever Linux desktop
url: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-19-1-the-better-than-ever-linux-desktop/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
feedurl: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/linux/rss.xml
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The new Linux Mint is another step forward in what's already an outstanding Linux desktop distribution.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vega-10-Firmware-Revert
title: Having Vega 10 Linux GPU Hangs? Try Rolling Back The Firmware
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vega-10-Firmware-Revert
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If you recently installed the Radeon Software 18.50 Linux driver package or recently updated your system's firmware from the linux-firmware.git tree and experiencing GPU hangs with Radeon "Vega 10" graphics hardware, the firmware may be to blame...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-UEK5-Update-1
title: Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 1 Released - Improves AArch64, DTrace
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In addition to releasing VirtualBox 6.0, Oracle on Tuesday also released an updated version of their Linux kernel downstream geared for their RHEL-cloned Oracle Linux... Now available is Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5 Update 1...


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title: HandBrake 1.2 Released: Switches Over To FFmpeg, Early Support For GTK4
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HandBrake-1.2-Released
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HandBrake 1.2.0 is now available as the latest update to this popular cross-platform, open-source video transcoder software...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HardenedBSD-12.0-Released
title: HardenedBSD 12 Released With Jailed Bhyve, Disables SMT By Default
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HardenedBSD-12.0-Released
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While FreeBSD tends to be pretty good about security by default, the HardenedBSD downstream derivative is out with their latest release based upon FreeBSD 12...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-72-Beta-Released
title: Chrome 72 Beta Deprecates TLS 1.0/1.1, Steps Towards Deprecating FTP
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-72-Beta-Released
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Google has rolled out the public beta of the Chrome 72 web browser across all supported platforms. This is a sizable feature release that also packs its share of deprecations...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Mint-19.1-Released
title: Linux Mint 19.1 Released Ahead Of The Holidays
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Mint-19.1-Released
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Linux Mint 19.1 is now officially available as the first update to the Linux Mint 19 stack that debuted back in July and powered by Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-ZFS-On-Linux
title: FreeBSD ZFS File-System Code To Be Re-Based Over ZFS On Linux
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-ZFS-On-Linux
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With ZFS On Linux (ZOL) being more actively developed than the ZFS file-system code within the OpenSolaris-derived Illumos kernel, FreeBSD will be transitioning their ZFS file-system kernel driver to be based on ZOL...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27274
title: Core i9 7980XE vs. Threadripper 2990WX - The Pre/Post 2018 Linux Kernel Performance
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27274
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Earlier this week I posted some benchmarks looking at the Linux kernel performance from the start to end of 2018 using an Intel Core i9 7980XE system. Here is the second part of that testing in looking at the same Linux 4.14 vs. 4.20 kernel benchmarking while putting the i9-7980XE performance side-by-side against the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX for seeing how its performance was impacted under the same kernel tests.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Flatpak-1.2-CLI-Experience
title: Flatpak 1.2 Will Bring A Better Command-Line Experience
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Flatpak-1.2-CLI-Experience
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With the upcoming Flatpak 1.2 release for app sandboxing, the command-line experience will be much better for those that prefer the CLI to the graphical utilities around Flatpaks...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27277
title: VirtualBox 6.0 3D/OpenGL Performance With VMSVGA Adapter
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With yesterday's release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0, one of the most pressing changes for Linux guests is the use of the new VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation by default. VMSVGA is the SVGA II graphics adapter from virtualization competitor VMware, but allows for the mature SVGA Linux graphics driver stack to be used. Here are some benchmarks looking at the OpenGL performance on VirtualBox 6.0.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=I3C-Pull-Request-Linux-4.21
title: The I3C Subsystem Seeks To Be Included In Linux 4.21
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=I3C-Pull-Request-Linux-4.21
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The I3C subsystem had sought to be included in Linux 4.20, but ultimately it was rejected for being too late in the cycle for introducing a brand new subsystem. But now it's requested to be pulled into the upcoming Linux 4.21 merge window...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.21-Btrfs-Changes
title: Btrfs Changes For Linux 4.21 Prepped With Swapfile Support, Logging Improvements
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.21-Btrfs-Changes
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Due to the Linux 4.21 merge window expected to open up next week just prior to Christmas, some kernel subsystem maintainers who won't be around in the days ahead have been sending in their pull requests early. Among those with early feature pulls is David Sterba continuing to oversee the Btrfs file-system development...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Deepin-Proposal
title: Fedora 30 Might Offer The Deepin Desktop Environment
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Deepin-Proposal
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The latest Linux desktop environment sought for inclusion in the Fedora package repository is for the Deepin Desktop Environment...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-2.0-Nearly-Released
title: AMD's ROCm 2.0 Radeon Compute Stack Being Prepared For Release
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-2.0-Nearly-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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Last month AMD commented they would be releasing ROCm 2.0 prior to the end of 2018 and it looks like they will make good on their word. ROCm 2.0 is being prepared for release - source code is available albeit the reference Ubuntu/RHEL binaries are not yet out...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Project-Mu-UEFI
title: Microsoft Announces "Project Mu" For Open-Source UEFI Alternative To TianoCore
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Project-Mu-UEFI
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Microsoft is getting into the open-source UEFI game with today's announcement of Project Mu, which powers their Surface hardware as well as Hyper-V platform...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuard-December-Release
title: WireGuard Issues New Snapshot, But Doesn't Look Like It Will Make It Into Linux 4.21
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuard-December-Release
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WireGuard 0.0.20181218 is now available as another test release of this secure network VPN tunnel, but sadly it doesn't look like it will be landing in the upcoming Linux 4.21 cycle...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-AH-Archive-Removal
title: Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-AH-Archive-Removal
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The latest notes from the Debian anti-harassment team on Wednesday caught my attention when reading, "We were requested to advice on the appropriateness of a certain package in the Debian archive. Our decision resulted in the package pending removal from the archive." Curiosity got the best of me... What package was deemed too inappropriate for the Debian archive?..


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Freedreno-A2xx-NIR
title: Freedreno Gets Patches For A2xx NIR Backend
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Freedreno-A2xx-NIR
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Should you still be utilizing Qualcomm Adreno 200 series graphics hardware, the open-source graphics driver support is getting better for this hardware that was Adreno's first offering a programmable pipeline and clock speeds up to 133MHz...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Storage-Image-MS-Patches
title: RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Storage-Image-MS-Patches
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has posted a set of patches implementing support for shaderStorageImageMultisample. These patches are based upon work started months earlier by David Airlie and important for DXVK and for other Vulkan use-cases...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-2.0-Arrives
title: Radeon ROCm 2.0 Officially Out With OpenCL 2.0 Support, TensorFlow 1.12, Vega 48-bit VA
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-2.0-Arrives
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Just in time for Christmas, the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" 2.0 Linux stack is now available for AMD GPU computing needs with OpenCL 2.0, TensorFlow 1.12, and more...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SUSE-Linux-15-SP1-Beta
title: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 Beta Bringing Java 11, LLVM 7, BCache Installer Support
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SUSE-Linux-15-SP1-Beta
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
content:
Released this past summer was SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 while being worked on for its official debut next summer is the first service pack release...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Binderfs-Queued-Linux-4.21
title: Binderfs Queued Ahead Of The Linux 4.21 Kernel
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Binderfs-Queued-Linux-4.21
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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Greg Kroah-Hartman merged the Binderfs code to his char-misc-next branch on Wednesday, making it the latest feature set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 4.21 kernel...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27287
title: The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance Over 2018
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27287
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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As the latest from our year-end Linux benchmarks, here are tests when seeing how Mesa's RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver performance has evolved for Linux gaming. With a Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card, the performance was looked at from Mesa 17.3 through Mesa 19.0-devel for showing the driver's evolution.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Driver-New-VegaM-GPU
title: Radeon Linux Driver Picks Up Support For Another Vega M GPU
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Driver-New-VegaM-GPU
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It looks like Intel might soon be launching a new CPU with the onboard Radeon "Vega M" graphics as another PCI ID was just added to the open-source Linux graphics driver...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-4.9-Released
title: Coreboot 4.9 Released With 2,600+ Changes, Ports To 56 New Motherboards
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-4.9-Released
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The Coreboot folks are ending out 2018 with the release of version 4.9 that has 2,610 changes since their previous release just over a half-year ago...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Open-Source-PhysX-4.0-Released
title: The Open-Source NVIDIA PhysX 4.0 Code Is Now Available
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Open-Source-PhysX-4.0-Released
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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Earlier this month NVIDIA announced their latest plans for an open-source PhysX and at the time put out the PhysX 3.4 SDK under a three-clause BSD license. Now the PhysX 4.0 release is available...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27283
title: PGI 18.10 Compiler Benchmarks Against GCC 8.2, LLVM Clang 7.0
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27283
feedurl: https://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
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Given the recently release of the PGI 18.10 Community Edition compiler by NVIDIA, I was curious to see how the performance on the CPU is looking for this proprietary compiler on Linux. For those curious as well, here are some benchmarks of the PGI 18.10 C/C++ compiler against the GCC 8.2.0 and LLVM Clang 7.0 open-source compilers.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.20-Biggest-Features
title: The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.20-Biggest-Features
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As it's been two months since the Linux 4.20 cycle got underway with the feature-packed merge window and with this kernel expected out just in time for Christmas, here is a look back at some of the biggest and most notable features to this imminent kernel release...


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title: Lubuntu Will Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases - Starting With 19.04
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The Lubuntu developers have announced today that their LXDE/LXQt downstream of Ubuntu Linux will no longer be offering 32-bit x86 releases moving forward while Lubuntu 18.04 LTS will continue to be supported...


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title: A Lot Of Media Driver Work For Linux 4.21 - Includes Intel IPU3, ASpeed Video Engine
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The media subsystem is seeing a lot of work going into the upcoming Linux 4.21 kernel cycle. Two pull requests of media feature work have already been sent in for this imminent merge window...


guid: 909087 at https://www.linux.com
title: Phippy + Cloud Native Friends Make CNCF Their Home
author: Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In 2016, <a href="http://deis.io/">Deis</a> (now part of Microsoft) platform architect Matt Butcher was looking for a way to explain Kubernetes to technical and non-technical people alike. Inspired by his daughter’s prolific stuffed animal collection, he came up with the idea of “<a href="https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kubernetes/">The Children’s Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes</a>.” Thus Phippy, the yellow giraffe and PHP application, along with her friends, were born.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 909627 at https://www.linux.com
title: Kubernetes etcd Data Project Joins CNCF
author: ZDNet
url: https://www.linux.com/news/kubernetes-etcd-data-project-joins-cncf-1
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>How do you store data across a <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a> container cluster? With <a href="https://coreos.com/etcd/">etcd</a>. This essential part of Kubernetes has been managed by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">CoreOS/Red Hat</a>. No longer. Now, the open-source etcd project has been moved from Red Hat to the <a href="https://www.cncf.io/">Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).</a></p></div></div></div>


guid: 909631 at https://www.linux.com
title: Add It Up: Enterprise Adoption of Kubernetes Is Growing
author: The New Stack
url: https://www.linux.com/news/add-it-enterprise-adoption-kubernetes-growing-1
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A recently <a class="ext-link" href="https://www.datadoghq.com/container-orchestration/">updated user survey</a> from monitoring software provider <a class="ext-link" href="https://www.datadoghq.com/">Datadog</a> confirms an increase in Kubernetes adoption. We believe this is the result of three factors: 1) more organizations using containers in production; 2) Kubernetes has emerged as the leading orchestration platform; 3) organizations are choosing to adopt Kubernetes earlier in cloud native voyage.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 909811 at https://www.linux.com
title: New Ebook Offers Comprehensive Guide to Open Source Compliance
author: aankerholz
url: https://www.linux.com/news/2018/12/new-ebook-offers-comprehensive-guide-open-source-compliance
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Linux Foundation has released the second edition of <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/compliance-and-security/2018/12/open-source-compliance-in-the-enterprise/">Open Source Compliance in the Enterprise</a> by Ibrahim Haddad, which offers organizations a practical guide to using open source code and participating in open source communities while complying with both the spirit and the letter of open source licensing.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 910189 at https://www.linux.com
title: How Facebook Made a Universal Open Source Language for the Web
author: Wired
url: https://www.linux.com/news/how-facebook-made-universal-open-source-language-web
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="paywall">A more flexible alternative called Graph Query Language, developed by Facebook, is spreading fast and has won over companies ranging from GitHub to Audi.</p>
<p class="paywall">GraphQL is heavily inspired by another language called Facebook Query Language, which in turn was based on Structured Query Language, the well-established lingua franca of database software supported by Oracle, Microsoft, and other database makers. That makes the structure and syntax of GraphQL familiar to many developers.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 910833 at https://www.linux.com
title: The State of Enterprise Open Source in 2018
author: The New Stack
url: https://www.linux.com/news/state-enterprise-open-source-2018-0
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The state of open source in 2018, and especially, the IBM’s Red Hat purchase, were discussed in this podcast with <a class="ext-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelstephens/">Rachel Stephens</a>, an analyst with of <a class="ext-link" href="https://redmonk.com/">RedMonk</a>, and <a class="ext-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcote">Michael Coté</a>, director, marketing, at <a class="ext-link" href="https://pivotal.io/">Pivotal Software</a>, hosted by Libby Clark, editorial director, and Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, of The New Stack.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 910799 at https://www.linux.com
title: Seven Remarkable Takeaways From Massive Kubernetes Conference
author: Forbes
url: https://www.linux.com/news/seven-remarkable-takeaways-massive-kubernetes-conference
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="speakable-paragraph">The 8,000 attendees attending the <a href="https://www.cncf.io/">Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s</a>(CNCF) <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/">KubeCon + CloudNativeCon</a> Kubernetes conference this week in Seattle demonstrated the exponential growth in interest in this complex, technical combination of open source technologies.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 910863 at https://www.linux.com
title: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Videos Now Online
author: lfadmin
url: https://www.linux.com/news/2018/12/kubecon-cloudnativecon-videos-now-online
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This week's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle was the biggest ever! This sold-out event featured four days of information on Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, and rkt, along with many other exciting projects and topics.</p>
<p>More than 100 lightning talks, keynotes, and technical sessions from the event have already been posted. </p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2PZf9eA7bhWnIh_mK1vyOfU">You can check out the videos on YouTube</a>.</strong></p></div></div></div>


guid: 910727 at https://www.linux.com
title: ONAP Myths Debunked
author: akapadia
url: https://www.linux.com/news/onap-myths-debunked
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform (<a href="http://onap.org/">ONAP</a>) is well into its third 6-month release (Casablanca came out in Dec ’18), and while the project has evolved since its first release, there is still some confusion about what it is and how it’s architected. This blogs takes a closer look at ONAP, under-the-hood, to clarify how it works.  </p></div></div></div>


guid: 911919 at https://www.linux.com
title: DPDK — One API to Rule Them All?
author: SDx Central
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) Summit 2018 was held at the Club Auto Sport in San Jose, California, last week, a unique and appropriate location given that DPDK is the engine that powers many <a class="a-l" href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/" title="NFV">NFV</a> platforms today, including auto-focused platforms. As presenters shared the latest research and developments with DPDK in an automobile-themed environment, it was clear that the DPDK initiative’s scope is expanding beyond its original Intel roots.</p></div></div></div>


guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1318753
title: Everyone complaining about Microsoft buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Microsoft is buying GitHub for <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/microsoft-snaps-up-github-for-7-5-billion/">$7.5 billion dollars</a>, and predictably, <a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/06/04/0935200/microsofts-interest-in-buying-github-draws-backlash-from-developers">there's a developer backlash</a>.</p>
<p>GitHub, though notionally a for-profit company, has become an essential, integral part of the open-source community. GitHub offers free hosting for open-source projects and has risen to become the premiere service for collaborative, open-source development: the authoritative source repository for many of these projects, with GitHub's own particular pull-request-based workflow becoming a <em>de facto</em> standard approach for taking code contributions.</p>
<p>The fear is that Microsoft is hostile to open source and will do something to GitHub (though exactly what isn't clear) to undermine the open-source projects that depend on it. Comments <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/microsoft-snaps-up-github-for-7-5-billion/?comments=1">here at Ars</a>, as well as on <a href="https://slashdot.org/poll/3088">Slashdot</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ob3cl/microsoft_is_said_to_have_agreed_to_acquire/">Reddit</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527">Hacker News</a>, suggest not any specific concerns but a widespread lack of trust, at least among certain developers, of Microsoft's behavior, motives, and future plans for the service.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1323113
title: Microsoft’s plan for GitHub: “Make GitHub better at being GitHub”
author: Peter Bright
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wanstrath-nadella-friedman-800x944.jpg" alt="Men in artificially casual Silicon Valley garb pose for a picture."><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wanstrath-nadella-friedman.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="1200" data-width="1017">Enlarge</a> <span class="sep">/</span> From left to right: current GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and former Xamarin CEO, soon-to-be GitHub CEO Nat Friedman (credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/">Microsoft</a>)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>As part of Microsoft's <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/microsoft-snaps-up-github-for-7-5-billion/">$7.5 billion purchase</a> of cloud source code repository GitHub, the company is installing a new CEO. Once the deal closes (which is expected to happen later this year), out will go GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath and in will come Nat Friedman. Friedman is the former CEO of Xamarin, the cross-platform .NET implementation that Microsoft <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/microsoft-at-last-buys-net-for-ios-android-vendor-xamarin/">bought in 2016</a>.</p>
<p>Friedman brings solid open-source bona fides: core parts of the Xamarin stack were open source, and Friedman's previous company, Ximian, was created to develop the open-source GNOME project. His appointment should quell many of the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/">fears that open-source developers have</a> about the takeover. To engage with the community further, Friedman today did a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/">Reddit AMA</a> to answer questions about the acquisition.</p>
<p>The main thrust of his replies? Microsoft doesn't really intend to change much at GitHub. When asked if GitHub users should expect any big alterations, Friedman <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a2ddx/">answered</a> that Microsoft is "buying GitHub because [it] likes GitHub" and intends to "make GitHub better at being GitHub." Although there will be "full integration" between <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a26fk/">GitHub and Visual Studio Team Services</a>, there won't be any radical changes in trajectory or service offerings.</p>
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guid: http://arstechnica.com/?p=339141
title: Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
author: Ron Amadeo
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/android-lockup1.jpg" alt="Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary"><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em">(credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="http://arstechnica.com/author/aurich-lawson/">Aurich Lawson</a>)</p>  </figure><p><em><p>In light of the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/eu-google-illegally-used-android-to-dominate-search-must-pay-5b-fine/">$5 billion EU antitrust ruling against Google this week</a>, we started noticing a certain classic Ars story circulating around social media. Google's methods of controlling the open source Android code and discouraging Android forks is exactly the kind of behavior the EU has a problem with, and many of the techniques outlined in this 2013 article are still in use today.</p>The idea of a sequel to this piece has come up a few times, but Google's Android strategy of an open source base paired with key proprietary apps and services hasn't really changed in the last five or so years. There have been updates to Google's proprietary apps so that they look different from the screenshots in this article, but the base strategy outlined here is still very relevant. So in light of the latest EU development, we're resurfacing this story for the weekend. It first ran on October 20, 2013 and appears largely unchanged—but we did toss in a few "In 2018" updates anywhere they felt particularly relevant.</em></p>
    

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<p>Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was announced. The original <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/who-needs-an-app-store-five-years-of-iphone/">iPhone</a> came out just a few months earlier, capturing people's imaginations and ushering in the modern smartphone era. While Google was an app partner for the original iPhone, it could see what a future of unchecked iPhone competition would be like. Vic Gundotra, recalling Andy Rubin's initial pitch for Android, stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>He argued that if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice.</p></blockquote>
<p>Google was terrified that Apple would end up ruling the mobile space. So, to help in the fight against the iPhone at a time when Google had no mobile foothold whatsoever, Android was launched as an open source project.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1348021
title: Today’s the day that Chrome brands plain old HTTP “not secure”
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Since February, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/from-july-on-chrome-will-brand-plain-old-http-as-not-secure/">Google has planned to brand non-HTTPS sites as "Not Secure,"</a> and today, with Chrome 68, that change is being rolled out to a wide audience.</p>
<p>With the change, every site now gets a label in its address bar: "Secure" if the site is loaded over HTTPS, "Not Secure" otherwise. In September, Google will make another change and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/as-the-web-moves-toward-https-by-default-chrome-will-remove-secure-indicator/">remove the "Secure" label</a>, marking the transition to a world where secure HTTP is the default rather than the exception.</p>
<p>Most major online sites and services do now support and default to HTTPS. Correctly configured, servers should redirect any attempt to access a page over insecure HTTP to secure HTTPS, ensuring that a site cannot be intercepted or tampered with. However, Troy Hunt—creator of the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/new-tool-safely-checks-your-passwords-against-a-half-billion-pwned-passwords/">Have I Been Pwned</a> service—has found that a number of popular sites can <a href="https://whynohttps.com/">still serve content insecurely</a>.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1351403
title: Ars on your lunch break: Tim O‘Reilly discusses the birth of “open source”
author: Ars Staff
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pdev-800x444.jpg" alt="When release rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pdev.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="1344" data-width="2420">Enlarge</a> <span class="sep">/</span> When release rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death. (credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="https://imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5">@ThePracticalDev</a>)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>Below, you’ll find the second installment of the <a href="https://after-on.com/">After On</a> interview with legendary tech publisher and prognosticator Tim O’Reilly. Please check out <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/ars-on-your-lunch-break-sitting-down-with-legendary-publisher-tim-oreilly/">part one</a> if you missed it. Otherwise, press play on the embedded player, or pull up the transcript—both of which are below.</p>

<p>O’Reilly and I start off today talking about <em>The Whole Internet User’s Guide &amp; Catalog</em>, which he published in 1992. And yup—that’s a two at the end of that number. As in, a full year before the first release of the Mosaic browser. Of course, there was a World Wide Web before Mosaic—and all 200 of its sites are listed in this book (along with various non-WWW Internet stuff that was around back then).</p>
<p>Jumping forward many years, O’Reilly tells us about convening a small summit of tech honchos, which quite literally named open source software. The nameless-ish phenomenon was already a big deal by then and was destined to become a huge one. But names do matter (and their lack even more so). The summit’s real purpose was to stridently promote this new approach to code to the both industry and the press in hopes of terminating the suffocating reign of Microsoft and others.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1352157
title: Ars on your lunch break: Tim O’Reilly on why the future doesn’t have to suck
author: Ars Staff
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<p>Below you’ll find the third installment of the <a href="https://after-on.com/">After On</a> interview with legendary tech publisher and prognosticator Tim O’Reilly. Please check out parts <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/ars-on-your-lunch-break-sitting-down-with-legendary-publisher-tim-oreilly/">one</a> and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/ars-on-your-lunch-break-tim-oreilly-discusses-the-birth-of-open-source/">two</a> if you missed them. Otherwise, press play on the embedded player, or pull up the transcript—both of which are below.</p>
<p>In today’s installment, Tim rejects the fashionable forecast that automation will eradicate all human jobs next week. Being closer than most of us to Jeff Bezos, he knows a thing or three about operations at Amazon, which presents a fascinating case in point.</p>
<p>The company began a hugely successful two-year robot buying spree in 2014. The robots automated countless repetitive and dangerous human tasks. And during that time, the company hired more than 100,000 new people in its warehouses. It turns out, these robots amplify the productivity of the folks who work with them. And when bosses get more bang for their buck from a category of worker, they tend to hire more of them.</p>
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title: Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Valve announced today a beta of <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410#announcements/detail/1696055855739350561">Steam Play</a>, a new compatibility layer for Linux, to provide compatibility with a wide range of Windows-only games.</p>
<p>We've been tracking Valve's efforts to boost Linux gaming for a number of years. As of a few months ago, things seemed to have gone very quiet, with Valve <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/poorly-selling-steam-machines-finally-removed-from-steam-store-front-page/">removing SteamOS systems</a> from its store. Last week, however, it <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valve-seems-to-be-working-on-tools-to-get-windows-games-running-on-linux/">became clear</a> that something was afoot for Linux gaming.</p>
<p>The announcement today spells out in full what the company has developed. At its heart is a customized, modified version of the WINE Windows-on-Linux compatibility layer named Proton. Compatibility with Direct3D graphics is provided by vkd3d, an implementation of Direct3D 12 that uses Vulkan for high performance, and DXVK, a Vulkan implementation of Direct3D 11.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1366425
title: Data vandal changes name of New York City to “Jewtropolis” across multiple apps [Updated]
author: Sean Gallagher
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<p>Late yesterday, users of Snapchat and a number of other applications began to report that the label on in-application maps for New York City had been changed to "Jewtropolis." That change in data from the mapping developer kit company MapBox had been pulled in from OpenStreetMap—a community-driven mapping project also used by Wikimedia.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as "Jewtropolis" this morning. <a href="https://t.co/nsVe8goLyo">pic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo</a></p>
<p>— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/MicahGrimes/status/1035137461419225090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2018</a></p>
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<p>The same map data made its way to the real estate application Zillow:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Couldn't find a way to report directly to <a href="https://twitter.com/streeteasy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@streeteasy</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/zillow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zillow</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/openstreetmap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@openstreetmap</a> so here's a screen shot of a condo located in "Jewtropolis". Assuming they've been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antisemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antisemitic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL_National?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ADL_National</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z36GdrzLo9">pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9</a></p>
<p>— Brian P. Klein (@brianpklein) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianpklein/status/1035141530569383936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2018</a></p>
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<p>OpenStreetMap has frequently had to deal with <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism">data vandalism</a>, rolling back malicious changes to map data by trolls. In <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:West_Harrisburg.jpg">one case in 2010</a>, someone created a fictional town of "West Harrisburg" and imported GPS traces for nonexistent streets over what was actually forest and farmland. One vandal with the username MedwedianPresident was recently blocked after <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MedwedianPresident/history#map=1/70/0">committing a series of changes to roadway names and other map details in New York</a>, including changing the name of the Manhattan Bridge to "Ku Klux Klan Highway," changing the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive to "Zionist Cannibal Drive," and renaming the Hugh Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) to "Adolph Hitler Memorial Tunnel," among other things.</p>
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title: Microsoft splits VSTS five ways to build new Azure DevOps platform
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Microsoft's application lifecycle management system, is to undergo a major shake-up and rebranding. Instead of a single Visual Studio-branded service, it's being split into five separate Azure-branded services, under the banner Azure DevOps.</p>
<p>The five components:</p>
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<li>Azure Pipelines, a continuous integration, testing, and deployment system that can connect to any Git repository</li>
<li>Azure Boards, a work tracking system with Kanban boards, dashboards, reporting</li>
<li>Azure Artifacts, a hosting facility for Maven, npm, and NuGet packages</li>
<li>Azure Repos, a cloud-hosted private Git repository service</li>
<li>Azure Test Plans, for managing tests and capturing data about defects.</li>
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<p>VSTS has been broken up in this way to further Microsoft's ambition of making its developer tooling useful to any development process and workflow, regardless of language or platform. The division into individual components should make it easier for developers to adopt portions of the Azure DevOps platform, without requiring them to go "all in" on VSTS. The reduced scope of each component means that it's cheaper than the VSTS pricing, making incremental adoption more palatable. For example, a Pipelines process could build and test a Node.js service from a GitHub repository and then deploy to a container on Amazon's AWS cloud, without requiring use of any of the other Azure DevOps components.</p>
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title: Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of being a jerk, takes time off to learn empathy
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<p>Linux creator Linus Torvalds has apologized for years of rants, swearing, and general hostility directed at other Linux developers, saying he's going to take a temporary break from his role as maintainer of the open source kernel to learn how to behave better.</p>
<p>For many years, Torvalds has been infamous for his <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/">expletive-filled, aggressive outbursts</a> on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), chewing out developers who submit patches that he believes aren't up to the standards necessary for the kernel. He's <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/linus-torvalds-on-why-he-isnt-nice-i-dont-care-about-you/">defended this behavior</a> in the face of pushback from other developers, insisting that people being nice to one another was an American ideology.</p>
<p>But that may be coming to an end. In a lengthy email <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167">posted to the LKML on Sunday night</a>, Torvalds expressed a change of heart. Taken to task over attacks that he recognizes were "unprofessional and uncalled for," he says he now recognizes that his behavior was "not OK" and he is "truly sorry." He's going to step back from kernel development for a while—something he's done before while developing the Git source control system—so that he can "get help on how to behave differently."</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1377899
title: Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Microsoft and Canonical have been working for some time to make Ubuntu and Windows play nice with each other. Ubuntu was the first distribution supported in the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/ubuntus-bash-and-linux-command-line-coming-to-windows-10/">Windows Subsystem for Linux</a>, and now an Ubuntu image is available through <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/09/17/run-ubuntu-virtual-machines-made-even-easier-with-hyper-v-quick-create/">Hyper-V Quick Create</a>, which offers three-click creation of Virtual Machines.</p>
<p>The system image has <a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/09/17/optimised-ubuntu-desktop-images-available-in-microsoft-hyper-v-gallery">Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS configured and ready to go</a>, and this showcases some of the other Linux integration work that Microsoft has been doing. The Hyper-V virtual machine client, Virtual Machine Connection, has two ways of working. The normal way is to display the output of the virtual video card that the virtual machine uses and, similarly, to emulate PS/2 mouse and keyboard input, as if the client were the physical hardware. This works with any operating system (the virtual video card supports rudimentary modes like VGA and the text mode used by DOS; it can also support high-resolution graphics modes when used with a suitable display driver). But it is relatively slow and inflexible.</p>
<p>The other way, used automatically with modern Windows VMs, is "Enhanced Session Mode." In an Enhanced Session, the virtual machine transmits a variation of RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol, Microsoft's protocol for Windows' Remote Desktop features) directly to the hypervisor, which then delivers it to the Hyper-V client. Enhanced Sessions have a number of advantages: you can resize the client window, and the VM is notified of the change of resolution; you can copy and paste between the virtual machine and the host; there's automatic sharing of folders between guest and host; and the mouse doesn't get trapped inside the client window.</p>
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title: Bing starts serving AMP pages as Google prepares to reduce its control
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<p>Microsoft's Bing search engine has <a href="https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introducing-Bing-AMP-viewer-and-Bing-AMP-cache">started showing AMP pages</a> to mobile searchers in the US. Pages using the proprietary tech will now be prominently displayed in search listings on the mobile website. Previously, Microsoft made limited use of AMP in some of its mobile apps but didn't use it on the Web.</p>
<p>AMP ("Accelerated Mobile Pages") is a project <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/googles-new-amp-html-spec-wants-to-make-mobile-websites-load-instantly/">spearheaded by Google</a> to improve the performance and embeddability of mobile content. It imposes tight restrictions on the scripting that pages can use, and it performs special handling of embedded images and media. To do this, Google uses a number of proprietary extensions to HTML, and AMP content all gets cached. Google serves AMP pages from its own servers, Bing uses Microsoft's servers, and Cloudflare also has an AMP caching service.</p>
<p>Though there is widespread acknowledgement that AMP is addressing real problems—the abundance of trackers, advertisements, and client-side scripts makes many webpages bandwidth-heavy and slow to load—<a href="http://ampletter.org/">many within the industry</a> are unhappy at the proprietary, Google-controlled extensions, regarding them as anathema to the open Web.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1391869
title: Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents
author: Peter Bright
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<p>Microsoft has made billions from its extensive library of software patents. A number of Android vendors, including Samsung, pay the company a royalty on each phone they ship to license patents such as the ones covering the exFAT file system. But that situation may be coming to an end with the announcement today that Microsoft is joining the <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/">Open Invention Network</a> (OIN).</p>
<p>The Open Invention Network is a group of about 2,400 companies around the world that have agreed to cross-license their patents on a royalty-free basis for use by the "Linux System," a collection of projects including the Linux kernel, many tools and utilities built on top of Linux, and large parts of Android. Member companies also promise not to assert their patents against the Linux Community.</p>
<p>This move should put an end to the lingering threat of patent lawsuits from Microsoft that many Linux and Android companies have faced. With that threat gone, it should also put an end to the royalties that the company was collecting from Android vendors.</p>
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title: Firefox 63 blocks tracking cookies, offers a VPN when you need one
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<p>Firefox 63, out today, includes the first iteration of what Mozilla is calling <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/23/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection/">Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP)</a>, a feature to improve privacy and stop your activity across the Web from being tracked.</p>
<p>Tracking cookies store some kind of unique identifier that represents your browser. The cookie is tied to a third-party domain—the domain of the tracking company, rather than the site you're visiting. Each site you visit that embeds the tracking cookie will allow the tracking company to see the sites you visit and, using that unique identifier, cross-reference different visits to different sites to build a picture of your online behavior.</p>
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<p>Firefox has long had the ability to block all third-party cookies, but this is a crude solution, and many sites will break if all third-party cookies are prohibited. The new EPT option works as a more selective block on tracking cookies; third-party cookies still work <em>in general</em>, but those that are known to belong to tracking companies are blocked. For the most part, sites will retain their full functionality, just without undermining privacy at the same time.</p>
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title: GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft
author: Peter Bright
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<pre>satyan@redmond:~/src$ git checkout -b microsoft-acquisitions
Switched to a new branch 'microsoft-acquisitions'

satyan@redmond:~/src$ scp satyan@github.com:/github .

satyan@redmond:~/src$ git add github

satyan@redmond:~/src$ git commit -m "Microsoft <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/microsoft-snaps-up-github-for-7-5-billion/">announced in June</a> that it
&gt; was buying the Git repository and collaboration platform GitHub for 
&gt; $7.5 billion in stock. That acquisition has received all the necessary 
&gt; regulatory approvals and has now completed. Nat Friedman, formerly of
&gt; Xamarin, will take the role as GitHub CEO on Monday.
&gt;
&gt; The news of the acquisition sent ripples through the open source world,
&gt; as GitHub has become the home for a significant number of open source
&gt; projects. We argued at the time that the sale was likely one of
&gt; necessity and that of all the possible suitors, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/">Microsoft was the best</a>
&gt; <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/">one</a> due to common goals and shared interests. Friedman at the time
&gt; sought to reassure concerned open source developers that the intent was
&gt; to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/microsofts-plan-for-github-make-github-better-at-being-github/">make GitHub even better at being GitHub</a> and that he would work to
&gt; earn the trust of the GitHub community. Those views were <a href="https://blog.github.com/2018-10-26-github-and-microsoft/">reiterated</a>
&gt; <a href="https://blog.github.com/2018-10-26-github-and-microsoft/">today</a>.
&gt;
&gt; Since then, Microsoft has <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-promises-to-defend-not-attack-linux-with-its-60000-patents/">joined the Open Invention Network</a>, a patent
&gt; cross-licensing group that promises royalty free licenses for any patents
&gt; that apply to the Linux kernel or other essential open source packages.
&gt; This was a bold move that largely precludes Redmond from asserting its
&gt; patents against Android and should mean that the company will no longer
&gt; receive royalties from smartphone manufacturers.
&gt;
&gt; Sources close to the matter tell us that Microsoft's decision to join
&gt; OIN was driven in no small part by the GitHub acquisition. GitHub is
&gt; already a member of OIN, which left Microsoft with only a few options:
&gt; withdraw GitHub from OIN, a move that would inevitably upset the open
&gt; source world; acquire GitHub as some kind of arm's length subsidiary
&gt; such that GitHub's OIN obligations could not possibly apply to
&gt; Microsoft; or join OIN too, as the most straightforward approach that
&gt; also bolstered the company's open source reputation. Microsoft took
&gt; the third option."
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satyan@redmond:~/src$ git merge microsoft-acquisitions
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1401793
title: This is fine: IBM acquires Red Hat
author: Sean Gallagher
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/totalworlddomination-800x433.jpg" alt="This will be... interesting."><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/totalworlddomination.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="461" data-width="852">Enlarge</a> <span class="sep">/</span> This will be... interesting. (credit: IBM)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>This is no trick, and whether it's a treat remains to be seen: IBM and Red Hat executives <a href="https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider">announced Monday</a> that IBM is acquiring the open source software and cloud services company in a $34 billion cash deal.</p>
<p>Red Hat will remain a standalone business unit within IBM, and an IBM spokesperson said that IBM "will remain committed to Red Hat’s open source ethos, its developer community and its open source community relationships." Red Hat will maintain its current leadership team and remain in its current headquarters and facilities. The culture will remain as well—though it's possible IBM and Red Hat may cross-pollinate a bit more than they have in the past.</p>
<p>In a webcast, IBM Senior Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Arvind Krishna and Red Hat Executive Vice President and President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier echoed the spokesperson's statement, stating that all of Red Hat's existing partnerships with other cloud providers and all of Red Hat's open source development projects—including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the OpenShift implementation of Kubernetes-based containers, and the OpenStack cloud computing platform—would continue as before. Likewise, Krishna said that IBM would continue its partnerships with other Linux distributions.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1410285
title: The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP
author: Peter Bright
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AndyMaguire_Flickr_BigNumber3_Squished-800x462.jpg" alt="The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP"><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AndyMaguire_Flickr_BigNumber3_Squished.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="720" data-width="1248">Enlarge</a> (credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/andymag/26565220686/in/photolist-GttGAj-fcXXN5-j6X9EC-oDPZpk-223zAJE-5i8ZvA-bL3n1V-fwmdL6-pv6UPr-omLRts-4Cx8Rv-fwyGzY-fS52x4-9EYfRo-fw2a9W-g1fi2U-dP1pQd-aCfybx-hPo2Ve-5DSn2j-nB5FXu-gg3NLf-aR5SWX-fNrYTs-fQAQtN-hLdgE4-8k6Zw3-u8FwYT-cYxuNA-ia4xbV-aapteD-czKFAh-hSWh9y-dRA1qN-e44Rmc-hXf549-ikDpCv-8R8MC4-9FMsc2-bFs5zT-ahBRkZ-fQxQQq-6LdvCT-5i8Z4o-dUhibw-pjdYjc-ptE8wv-dTZMW7-p845Lf-or4dfa">Andy Maguire / Flickr</a>)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today.</p>
<p>Today's HTTP (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2) are all layered on top of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). TCP, defined as part of the core set of IP (Internet Protocol) layers, provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of data over an IP network. "Reliable" means that if some data goes missing during transfer (due to a hardware failure, congestion, or a timeout), the receiving end can detect this and demand that the sending end re-send the missing data; "ordered" means that data is received in the order that it was transmitted in; "error-checked" means that any corruption during transmission can be detected.</p>
<p>These are all desirable properties and necessary for a protocol such as HTTP, but TCP is designed as a kind of one-size-fits-all solution, suitable for <em>any</em> application that needs this kind of reliability. It isn't particularly tuned for the kinds of scenarios that HTTP is used for. TCP requires a number of round trips between client and server to establish a connection, for example; using SSL over TCP requires subsequent round trips to establish the <em>encrypted</em> connection. A protocol purpose-built for HTTP could combine these negotiations and reduce the number of round trips, thereby improving network latency.</p>
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title: Report: Microsoft is scrapping Edge, switching to just another Chrome clone
author: Peter Bright
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/chromium-dumping-edge-800x450.jpg" alt="Report: Microsoft is scrapping Edge, switching to just another Chrome clone"><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/chromium-dumping-edge.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="563" data-width="1000">Enlarge</a> (credit: Getty / Aurich)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>Windows Central <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10">reports</a> that Microsoft is planning to replace its Edge browser, which uses Microsoft's own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine, with a new browser built on Chromium, the open source counterpart to Google's Chrome. The new browser has the codename Anaheim.</p>
<p>The report is short on details. The easiest thing for Microsoft to do would be to use Chromium's code wholesale—the Blink rendering engine, the V8 JavaScript engine, and the Chrome user interface with the Google Account parts omitted—to produce something that looks, works, and feels almost identical to Chrome. Alternatively, Redmond could use Blink and V8 but wrap them in Edge's user interface (or some derivative thereof), to retain its own appearance. It might even be possible to do something weird, such as use Blink with the Chakra JavaScript engine. We'll have to wait and see.</p>
<p>Since its launch with Windows 10, Edge has failed to gain much market share. The first iterations of Edge were extremely barebones, offering little more than a basic tabbed browser—no extensions, little control over behavior. Early releases of Edge were also not as stable as one might have liked, making the browser hard to recommend. Three years later on and Edge is greatly—but unevenly—improved. The browser engine's stability seems to be much better than it was, and performance and compatibility remain solid (though with the exception of a few corner cases, these were never a real concern).</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1424201
title: Edge dies a death of a thousand cuts as Microsoft switches to Chromium
author: Peter Bright
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium-800x800.jpg" alt="Edge dies a death of a thousand cuts as Microsoft switches to Chromium"><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em"><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/edge-chromium.jpg" class="enlarge-link" data-height="1459" data-width="1459">Enlarge</a> (credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="https://twitter.com/AndreTelevise/status/1070015243718406145">@AndreTelevise</a>)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>As <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/report-microsoft-is-scrapping-edge-switching-to-just-another-chrome-clone/">reported earlier this week</a>, Microsoft is going to use Google's Blink rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine in its Edge browser, largely ending development of its own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine. This means that Microsoft will be using code from—and making contributions to—the Chromium open source project.</p>
<p>The company's browser will still be named Edge and should retain the current look and feel. The decision to switch was motivated primarily by compatibility problems: Web developers increasingly test their pages exclusively in Chrome, which has put Edge at a significant disadvantage. Microsoft's engineers have found that problematic pages could often be made Edge compatible with only very minor alterations, but because Web devs aren't using Edge at all, they don't even know that they need to change anything.</p>
<p>The story is, however, a little more complex. The initial version of Edge that shipped with the first version of Windows 10 was rudimentary, to say the least. It was the bare bones of a browser, but with extremely limited capabilities around things like tab management and password management, no extension model, and generally lacking in the creature comforts that represent the difference between a bare rendering engine and an actual usable browser. It also had stability issues; crashes and hangs were not uncommon.</p>
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guid: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1425127
title: Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
author: Peter Bright
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<p>With Microsoft's decision to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/post-mortem-tying-edge-to-windows-10-was-a-fatal-error/">end development of its own Web rendering engine</a> and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google. That's a worrying turn of events, given the company's past behavior.</p>
<p>Chrome itself has about 72 percent of the desktop-browser market share. Edge has about 4 percent. Opera, based on Chromium, has another 2 percent. The abandoned, no-longer-updated Internet Explorer has 5 percent, and Safari—only available on macOS—about 5 percent. When Microsoft's transition is complete, we're looking at a world where Chrome and Chrome-derivatives take about 80 percent of the market, with only Firefox, at 9 percent, actively maintained and available cross-platform.</p>
<p>The mobile story has stronger representation from Safari, thanks to the iPhone, but overall tells a similar story. Chrome has 53 percent directly, plus another 6 percent from Samsung Internet, another 5 percent from Opera, and another 2 percent from Android browser. Safari has about 22 percent, with the Chinese UC Browser sitting at about 9 percent. That's two-thirds of the mobile market going to Chrome and Chrome derivatives.</p>
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