The Monthly GNU Column
BRAVE GNU WORLD
This column investigates projects and current affairs in the world of free software from the perspective of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation. In this issue, I’ll focus on Mbox-Cleaner and report on the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre.
Welcome to another issue of Brave GNU World, written in sunny São Paulo this time, shortly after my trip to the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Last month we discussed spam and ways of fighting it. I identified some tools that can help control the flood of unsolicited messages.
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News
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Red Hat Announces OpenShift.io
Red Hat takes its IDE online.
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Microsoft Bakes Linux into Windows Server
Microsoft is slowly becoming a Linux vendor.
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Fearless Coyote, Linux Kernel 4.11 is Out
The new kernel makes swap implementation more scalable, which will help cloud providers.
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Docker Appoints Steve Singh CEO
The new CEO comes from a very strong SaaS background.
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Docker Announces Linux Kit and Moby Project
Both projects help organizations build their own containerized systems.
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Ubuntu Returns to Gnome as Its Mobile Plans Shatter
Mark Shuttleworth has resumed the position of CEO of Canonical.
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Microsoft is Shutting Down CodePlex
Microsoft's open source code hosting platform CodePlex will come to an end after a more than 10-year stint.
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Fedora 26 Alpha Released
Comes with Gnome 3.24
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Old Linux Kernel Bug Discovered
The bug was introduced back in 2009 and has been lurking around all this time.
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OpenSSH 7.5 Released
The new release deprecates the sshd_config UsePrivilegeSeparation option.