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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Linus Torvalds Invites Attackers to Join the Kernel Community
He wants attackers to join the community instead of attacking the code.
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Oracle Donating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation
Oracle is recommending a new name for the Java Enterprise Edition platform.
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Reddit Closing Doors to Open Source
The peanut gallery of the Internet is closing its open source repository.
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Largest Open Source Summit to Date Around the Corner
LinuxCon is now Open Source Summit.
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Gnome is Celebrating it’s 20th Birthday
More than 33 releases since the first release of Gnome.
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SQL Server Comes to RHEL; OpenShift Comes to Azure
Microsoft and Red Hat expand their partnership.
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LibreOffice 5.4 Released
Comes with improved support for Microsoft Office file formats.
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Red Hat to Drop Support for Btrfs
The company is building their own storage solution called Stratis.
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Reinvent your network with DevOps tools and techniques:
Opportunities and Risks: Containers for DevOps
Automated Builds Using CentOS 7 and Kickstart
Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana – The ELK stack
Are you ready for DevOps? Try your luck with the beta version of Linux Professional Institute's new DevOps exam.
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Kolab Now Integrates Collabora Online
Kolab Now subscribers now have access to Collabora Online.