Matt Asay Joins Canonical as COO
Following the withdrawal of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth from the day to day running of the company, and his replacement by Jane Silber, Matt Asay has now moved into the free post of chief operating officer.
Asay will be responsible for strategic goals and operational activities. The new man comes from the CMS provider, Alfresco, and according to Canonical's announcement, has vast experience in the world of open source. He is, for example, founder of the Open Source Conference and has worked as manager of the embedded Linux specialists, Lineo.
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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.
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Endless OS, a Distribution Without Internet
A new version of Endless OS has been released.
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GitHub Announces Open Source Friday Program
They encourage people to take time out and work on open source projects on Friday.
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System76 Announces Their Own Distro, Pop!_OS
Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu and uses the Gnome stack.
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Linus Torvalds Talks About His Motivation
He never tires of working on the Linux kernel.
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Debian 9 Stretches Its Wings
The new release of Debian has a very strong focus on security.
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Trojan Turns Raspberry Pi into a Cryptocurrency Mining Device
Two trojans in the wild are targeting Linux machines.