250 – Linux For The Rest Of Us
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Help Eric Arduini and family
As some of you may know my brother was diagnosed in February of this year with a rare form of primary liver cancer that is unfortunately terminal. All funds will be donated to him and his family for medical bills and other household bills so that his family can spend the rest of his time with him and not have to stress about money as much during this difficult time.
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees due to the pandemic
Mozilla is laying off around 250 employees as part of a corporate restructure caused by the long-term impact of COVID-19. In a blog post, Mozilla chief Mitchell Baker said that the pandemic has “significantly impacted our revenue.
https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-firefox-250-employees-layoffs-151324924.html
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Google and Mozilla to extend search deal according to reports
Reports suggest that Google and Mozilla will extend the search deal that makes Google Search the default search engine of the Firefox web browser in most regions by three years. ZDnet reports that Mozilla and Google will extend the search deal for another three years.
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/14/google-and-mozilla-to-extend-search-deal-according-to-reports/
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How To Quickly Build Virtual Machine Images With Virt-builder
Virt-builder is a command line tool for building variety of virtual machine images for local or cloud use, easily as well as quickly.
https://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/how-to-quickly-build-virtual-machine-images-with-virt-builder-200731070026.html
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Almost a Year After Richard Stallman Was ‘Cancelled’, Free Software Foundation has Elected a new President
Almost a year after Richard Stallman, the founding president of Free Software Foundation, was forced to resign, FSF board has finally elected a new president. The new president is Geoffrey Knauth.
https://itsfoss.com/fsf-new-president/
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yuzu is a open source emulator for the Nintendo Switch, that is currently making about 19k on patreon
We really need to revive the flatpak repo of yuzu. PCSX2, RPCS3, Dolphin are all available comfortably from flathub.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/i1s1n1/yuzu_is_a_open_source_emulator_for_the_nintendo/
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Linux Mastery – Complete Linux Course for Beginners
JOIN THE BEST COMPLETE LINUX (SERVER/DESKTOP) OPERATING SYSTEM COURSE FOR NEWBIE LINUX USERS!! Hi. My name is Mustafa and I’m the author of the ‘Linux Mastery’ course. I started working as a network and computer systems administrator since January 2011.
https://www.real.discount/offer/linux-mastery-complete-linux-course-for-beginners/
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How to Install Itch on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
Itch is a platform for independent digital creators with main focus on indie games. It was actually started as website to host, sell and download indie video games but these days, Itch also provides books, comics, tools, board games, soundtracks and more digital content from indie creators.
https://itsfoss.com/install-itch-linux/
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New Open Source Security Foundation wants to improve open source software security
The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry collaboration that brings together leaders to improve the security of open source software (OSS) by building a broader community with targeted initiatives and best practices.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/08/03/open-source-security-foundation/
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Cloud Encryption is worthless! Click here to see why...
I have spent way too much of my life the last three years in the cloud compliance and cloud security posture monitoring space. One of the biggest issues I’ve struggled with is putting a priority on the issue of re-encrypting cloud existing resources.
https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/cloud-encryption/
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Intel's Clear Linux Still Outperforming Other Distributions For Mid-2020
Being well past the half-way point for the year, here is a look at how Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution is performing compared to its rolling state last December.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-linux-2020h1&num=1
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Google confirms in-house scheduler open-sourced into Linux
Google has confirmed that it plans to contribute some of its in-house scheduling code to the Linux kernel, but hasn’t disclosed whether it has motivations beyond a desire to share.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/10/google_scheduling_code_reaches_linux/
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The Linux Foundation, Grillo and IBM Announce New Earthquake Early-Warning Open Source Project
San Francisco, Calif., Aug.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/08/the-linux-foundation-grillo-and-ibm-announce-new-earthquake-early-warning-open-source-project/
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juzzlin/Heimer
Heimer is a desktop application for creating mind maps. It's written in Qt and targeted for Linux and Windows. Heimer's source code is licensed under GNU GPLv3. See COPYING for the complete license text.
https://github.com/juzzlin/Heimer
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Lenovo’s New ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want In A Linux Laptop
This is not a review of the new Fedora-powered ThinkPad P53 which releases later this month. Rather, it’s a story about being spoiled by hardware. It’s a tale about giving a Linux distribution another chance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/08/10/lenovo-new-thinkpad-p53-fedora-linux-laptop/
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Open Tech Will Save Us
Join the live chat now! #open-tech-meetup:matrix.org Open Tech Will Save Us is a virtual meetup, taking the form of a monthly live video stream broadcasting on the second Wednesday of every month at 5pm UTC.
https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
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How to Use the Hugo Static Site Generator on Linux
Static websites are easy to create and blazingly fast to use. If you learn to use Hugo, you can generate theme-based static websites on Linux. Creating websites is fun again! A static site is one that doesn’t create or modify web pages on the fly.
https://www.howtogeek.com/683199/how-to-use-the-hugo-static-site-generator-on-linux/
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Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods
It feels like forever since I wrote my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta intro to Podman. In fact, it's been quite a while, and a lot has happened since then.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/compose-podman-pods
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Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins – Part 1
What are some of the Linux commands used by Sysadmins on a daily basis? In this article, I’ve listed 10 such commands, frequently used. Suggestions and feedback welcome. Some people consider Linux as a being a complicated operating system, geared toward expert users only.
https://haydenjames.io/linux-commands-frequently-used-by-linux-sysadmins-part-1/
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Open. Collaborative. Flexible.
Microsoft products and services embrace open source to bring choice, technology and community to our customers.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=IokOf8qagZo&ranSiteID=IokOf8qagZo-Ke3NoM6AEmaG3eKCVCSfRQ&epi=IokOf8qagZo-Ke3NoM6AEmaG3eKCVCSfRQ&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2000142_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=%28ir__hcj1cath9gkfthbskk0sohznxn2xindx6f9dj3qp00%29%287593%29%281243925%29%28IokOf8qagZo-Ke3NoM6AEmaG3eKCVCSfRQ%29%28%29&irclickid=_hcj1cath9gkfthbskk0sohznxn2xindx6f9dj3qp00
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Code editor awesomeness ...in your browser :: ICEcoder
ICEcoder is completely free for you to download and use as you'd like. Please enter your email address and hit the button to download. We'll send a welcome email and then only email occasionally about big ICEcoder news.
http://icecoder.net/
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Projects Using Ace
Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript. It matches the features and performance of native editors such as Sublime, Vim and TextMate. It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application.
ddg, http://ace.c9.io/
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CAELinux 2020 Released: A Linux Distro For Computer-Aided Engineering
After almost half and year, Joël Cugnoni has announced the new 2020 version of CAELinux. The latest CAELinux 2020 is based on the long-term Xubuntu 18.04 release, and comes with several new tools and updated CAELinux core packages.
https://fossbytes.com/caelinux-2020-released-a-linux-distro-for-computer-aided-engineering/
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August update: getting into a rhythm and not slowing down
Open. Friendly. Community Driven. A recent series of events led me to rethink our formal rules of community engagement.
https://www.pine64.org/2020/08/15/august-update-getting-into-a-rhythm-and-not-slowing-down/
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An endangered internet species: Firefox
I've been using Mozilla's Firefox browser since it was still in beta. In 2004, for a while, it was my favorite web browser. Not because it was open-source, but because it was so much better and more secure than Internet Explorer. That was then. This is now. Firefox is in real danger of dying off.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/an-endangered-internet-species-firefox/
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NSA discloses new Russian-made Drovorub malware targeting Linux
The National Security Agency is warning about espionage operations from the Russian Intelligence Directorate (GRU) using a previously undisclosed Linux malware toolset called Drovorub.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-discloses-new-russian-made-drovorub-malware-targeting-linux/
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PyIDM is an open source download manager that can download videos and playlists
IDM is the undisputed king of download managers. Many programs try to come close to it, but at the end of the day, they really can't beat it. But for the price of free, you are getting a pretty good download manager such as PyIDM.
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/13/pyidm-is-an-open-source-download-manager-that-can-download-videos-and-playlists/
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PhotoFlare – Simple but powerful Cross Platform Image Editor
This is an effort to bring quick, simple but powerful image editing to the masses. PhotoFlare is inspired by the image editor currently only available on Microsoft Windows – PhotoFiltre. However, it will not be a straight clone.
http://photoflare.io/
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Open source tool Infection Monkey allows security pros to test their network like never before
Guardicore unveiled new capabilities for Infection Monkey, its free, open source breach and attack simulation (BAS) tool that maps to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base and tests network adherence to the Forrester Zero Trust framework.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/08/07/open-source-tool-infection-monkey/
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Have I Been Pwned code base is going open source
Since 2013, developer Troy Hunt has been offering an invaluable online security tool called Have I Been Pwned. Enter your email address, and the site will let you know if it’s been found in any known security breaches… giving you a pretty good idea of whether it’s time to change your password.
https://liliputing.com/2020/08/have-i-been-pwned-code-base-is-going-open-source.html
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