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ACENET Basics Series 2 and 3: Introduction to Linux and Shell Scripting  Gazette

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday  Krebs on Security

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Yesterday, I talked about how I use OfflineIMAP to sync my mail to my local machine. Today, I'll talk about how I preprocess all that mail before I read it.

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Creative Commons (CC) copyright is a series of copyright licenses that make it easy for creators to share their work and adapt the work of others. Just because something is online doesn’t mean you are free to use it however you like.

How do I know if a work has a CC license?

If you don’t see a Creative Commons license on the work or the creator doesn’t tell you their work is free to use, you cannot use it.

There are three ways to know if a work has a Creative Commons license: 

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Donated by Google to the Opensource community, Kubernetes has now become the container management tool of choice. It can manage and orchestrate not just docker runtimes but also Containers and Rkt runtimes. A typical...

Java is still the pervasive development language among enterprise developers, even though it is not developers' preferred cloud-native runtime and is falling behind other languages, according to GitHub's Octoverse.

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As I discussed in the first part of this series, community is a fundamental principle in open organizations. In open organizations, people often define their roles, responsibilities, and affiliations through shared interests and passions—not title, role, or position on an organizational chart.

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With no sign of X.Org Server 1.21 on the horizon, the X.Org Server 1.20 point releases continue rolling on...

While Canonical no longer develops their Unity 8 stack for Ubuntu, the UBports crew continues advancing Ubuntu Touch mobile as a community project and as part of that they do work on Unity 8 for their devices and desktop support. But if you're hoping to see Unity 8 running nicely on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, that could be a while...

Red Hat is pleased to see IBM—the number one U.S. patent recipient and Red Hat’s parent company—announce today it is joining the LOT Network (LOT), a non-profit company we helped found. Since 2014, Red Hat and other top companies around the world have joined LOT to provide an innovative response to the threat patent assertion entities (PAEs) pose.

While Wayland's Weston reference compositor has been using the Meson build system for about the past year, only this week did Wayland itself see Meson support introduced...

Several months ago we learned of the Xfce 4.16 plans to drop GTK2 support and explore client-side decoration goals among other changes for this lightweight desktop environment release expected in late 2020...

Sent out shortly before the holidays was an Intel Uncore Frequency driver for Linux servers. That driver has now been revised with the latest fixes and is looking like it could soon land in mainline for helping latency-sensitive servers...

Intel Uncore Frequency Driver On Linux Is Closer To Mainline With Latest Patches  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, warned developers not to use an Oracle-owned file system because of the company's 'litigious nature'  Business Insider

Back in December was the proposal to finally enable FSTRIM by default for Fedora 32 in benefiting solid-state storage. Today the formal approval was given by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee to go ahead with this long overdue change...

Git 2.25 is out today with over 500 commits making up this latest feature release...

How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux  TechRepublic

Looking At The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations  Phoronix

1. Why Should You Use Linux?  Tech Times
2. How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux  TechRepublic
3. Windows 7 is dead — switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.8 NOW!  BetaNews
4. Linux Lite 4.8 Arrives as a Windows 7 Alternative, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News
5. Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday — Krebs on Security  Krebs on Security
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