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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.
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.
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.
Home Away from Home
The Cygwin environment lets you run Linux applications on a Windows system.
Issue 213/2018
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News
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Honey I Shrunk Ubuntu
Canonical has released a new version of Ubuntu that’s 50% smaller than the standard Ubuntu Server.
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Linux Mint 19 Released
New version comes with Timeshifting capabilities.
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Red Hat Adds GPLv3 Cure Clause to its Code-Base
New provision will provide violators with a grace period to achieve license compliance.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Released
It’s a modular OS.
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GitLabs Drops Pricing after Microsoft, GitHub Acquisition
GitLabs is creating more incentives for users to switch from GitHub.
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KDE Plasma 5.13 Is Here
The desktop environment is designed to be more resource efficient.
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SUSE Forks Red Hat’s Spacewalk Project
SUSE relies heavily on the project for its own SUSE Manager.
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openSUSE Leap 15 Announced
The release was announced at the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
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SoftMaker FreeOffice 2018 for Linux
SoftMaker Software GmbH has announced FreeOffice 2018, a free of cost office suite for Linux.
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A New CentOS
Latest version of the community Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5