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The Impersonator
Use the FOG imaging server to image and rollout several installations with a single click.
Class Reunion
Intranets with multiple servers and services require careful configuration. With Karoshi Linux, even complex structures can be set up in no time at all.
Multimeter
What cannot be measured cannot be improved. Netdata lets you measure almost anything – at least as long as it's about the performance and health of a Linux computer.
Inside Job
The kernel supports performance analysis with built-in tools via the Linux performance counters subsystem. perf is easy to use and offers a detailed view of performance data.
Data Harvest
The Scapy packet manipulation program lets you analyze and manipulate packets to create incident response reports or examine network security.
In the Design
Elementary OS is an elegant Linux with a long-term vision and a focus on good design.
Do It Yourself
The lean MiyoLinux is aimed at System V lovers who aren't afraid to customize.
Alarm Clock
Systemd can start timers that automatically perform tasks at specified times. The configuration files are known as timer units.
Programming Snapshot – Python Gambling
Can 10 heads in a row really occur in a coin toss? Or, can the lucky numbers in the lottery be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? We investigate the law of large numbers.
Programming Snapshot – Probability
At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.
Bit Trip
Bash is known for admin utilities and text manipulation tools, but the venerable command shell included with most Linux systems also has some powerful commands for manipulating binary data.
Install Firefox in a Snap on Linux
Mozilla has picked the Snap package system to deliver its application to Linux users.
Kali Linux Comes to Windows
The Kali Linux developers even managed to run full blown XFCE desktop via WSL.
Issue 228/2019
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News
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Richard Stallman Resigns from Free Software Foundation
GNU founder came under fire for comments made on an internal MIT mailing list
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Oracle Announces Autonomous Linux
A new addition to Oracle Linux would eliminate cases like Equifax where failure to patch leads to disaster.
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The New Kali Linux Is Here
2019.2 supports more Android devices.
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exFAT Is Coming to Linux
Microsoft has contributed exFAT patents to OIN and also published specifications.
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Knoppix 8.6 Released
The latest version of the classic Live Linux comes with KDE Plasma 5.
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openSUSE Board Gets a New Chairman
Richard Brown is replaced by Gerald Pfeifer.
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Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Released
The latest version of Linux Mint brings many performance improvements.
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Gnome and KDE Coming Together
The two major Linux projects will work together to create a compatible ecosystem.
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Fedora CoreOS Preview Released
The new distribution from Red Hat is targeted at containerized workloads.
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SUSE Appoints New CEO
Melissa Di Donato replaces Nils Brauckmann, who will retire and leave SUSE.