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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield
Lennart Poettering and the Cause of Civility Just what free software needed: another discussion of civility in the community in which half-truth counters half-truth, and nothing gets resolved.
LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and Rumors of Unification According to Charles H. Schulz of The Document Foundation, the unification of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice is not currently on anyone's agenda. However, rumors persist that a change is about to happen.
The Thankless Jobs of Community Managers When Aaron Seigo criticized the role of community manager last week, I assume he meant that he prefers not to lead that way.
Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov
Transfer Files from the Command Line with transfer.sh Need to share a file without leaving the convenience of the terminal? The transfer.sh service got you covered.
Prettify Wikipedia with WikiWand The WikiWand service provides an alternative Wikipedia interface which is both polished and streamlined.
Paw Prints * Jon "maddog" Hall
I Will Never Again Talk about the Benefits of Free Software I have been talking about using "Free Software" for the past 20 years, and many times I have had people ask me, "Why do you use Free Software?"
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How the Spanning Tree Protocol Organizes an Ethernet Network * Hannes Kasparick
For your network network to run smoothly, you might need to make important decisions about the Spanning Tree protocol.
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Port Knocking * Chris Binnie
To ensure proper accessibility of data on your computers, I look at combining TCP Wrappers and port knocking.
Save and Restore Linux Processes with CRIU * Tim Schürmann
With CRIU, you can freeze and save the current state of a process, then bring it back to life and continue on your way.
Nagios Passive Checks * Alessio Ciregia
Why spam yourself with useless notifications every time a script completes successfully? You can use Nagios to screen the notices and just send the ones that need action.
Live Kernel Update Tools * Martin Loschwitz
Two projects by Red Hat and SUSE – Kpatch and kGraft – attempt to patch the kernel with security updates on the fly. We look at features in these two tools and their suitability for production use.
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