More competition in desktop Linux, Debian 9, Tails 3, Firefox 54, FreeNAS 11 & OpenMediaVault 3 all get released.
We discuss the important bits of it all, follow up on questions last week & take an open source unicorn for a spin.
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Ikey going full time with Solus --- In 4 weeks from today I will be moving to Solus as a full time developer.Debian 9 Stretch Released --- After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name Stretch), which will be supported for the next 5 yearsTails 3.0 is out --- Tails 3.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch).Firefox 54 finally goes multiprocess --- Firefox has finally been outfitted with simultaneous multiple content processes, a UI process, and a GPU acceleration processDisabled by default in Ubuntu --- Firefox disables its' new nifty memory saving magic if any enabled add-on doesn't support it --- and the 'Ubuntu Modifications' add-on that comes pre-installed in Firefox for Ubuntu doesn't.Ubuntu live patch update from Dustin Kirkland --- Now, if you purposefully boot into an older kernel -- or -- you reboot sometime in that 3 week period before we release an updated kernelwith those flattened fixes -- then yes, absolutely, all of the live patches that apply to your kernel will be applied about 60 secondsafter reboot.
UBports release first stable OTA --- The UBports project is proud to announce Stable OTA-1 for all of our officially supported devices, minus the Nexus 5FreeNAS releases version 11 --- What's emerged is a new version of the product, based on FreeBSD 11-STABLE and packing the bhyve hypervisor so that FreeNAS boxen can host virtual machines. FreeNAS 11.0 S3-compatible object storage services --- It also gives users S3-compatible object storage services, which turns your FreeNAS box into an S3-compatible server, letting you avoid reliance on the cloud.The FreeNAS S3 service uses Minio --- The FreeNAS S3 service uses Minio to provide S3 storage hosted on the FreeNAS(r) system itself. Minio also provides features beyond the limits of the basic Amazon S3 specifications.openmediavault 3 released --- Complete refactored backend
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