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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.
Ubuntu derivative BackBox Linux for security analysis
Specializing in security and forensics, BackBox Linux is not only good for a vulnerability assessment, but thanks to its lean substructure, it is also suitable as a desktop distribution.
New Hat
Fedora Linux is a favorite of developers, sys admins, and other tech-savvy users. The new release sports a new Gnome and other useful enhancements.
Modular Kit
Calamares helps you create simplified routines for installing a distribution, but there are some pitfalls, as we explain.
Digital Incubator
Apache incubates hundreds of major software projects and brings together thousands of developers – all without ensuing chaos. How do they manage it?
Assembly Line
"maddog" looks at some of Linaro's efforts to improve GNU/Linux performance on ARM architectures.
Debian Meets Mate
Mate isn't just for Mint users. The DMDc project is Mate on top of Debian Testing.
On the DVD
The new Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon Edition long-term support release offers five years of upgrades, tweaks, improvements, and stability through 2019. Mint 17 has spiffed up its appearance and made changes so apps launch faster and use fewer resources.
Issue 217/2018
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News
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OpenStack Foundation Changes Name of the OpenStack Summit
New event will be known as the Open Infrastructure Summit
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System76 Announces a Line of US-Made PCs
Thelio series is available for pre-order and will ship in early December.
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IBM Acquires Red Hat
IBM is acquiring Red Hat, the most successful open source company.
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Fedora 29 and Ubuntu 18.10 Released
New releases focus on boot time, new hardware, and modular design.
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Redis Labs Modules Forked
New Commons Clause license rider causes Debian and Fedora developers to fork Redis Labs modules.
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Microsoft Offers its Patent Portfolio
The company ends its long war; vows to protect Linux.
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Red Hat Reports $823 Million in Revenue for Second Quarter 2019
Strong performance for cloud and container products leads to a 14% increase over last year.
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Debian, Ubuntu, and Other Distros are Leaving Users Vulnerable
A security researcher says Linux vendors wait too long to patch the kernel.
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NextCloud 14 Arrives
The new version adds two new security features for users.
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Linus Torvalds Takes a Break, Apologizes
The creator of Linux is admitting his abusive behavior on LKML and plans to change.