Issue #212 / Jul 2018

Is blockchain finally getting interesting? I guess it always has attracted some attention – if not as an investment at least as a generator of headlines.

Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" LTS and Kubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" LTS

Ubuntu 18.04 released, Richard Stallman calls Azure Sphere OS a positive step, RHEL 7.5 released, Microsoft releases a Linux-based OS, and Red Hat and Microsoft join forces for Hybrid Cloud. 

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the NOVA filesystem, making system calls userspace only, and extending module support to plain executables. 

Swapnil sorts through the complex relationships of CentOS, Fedora, and RHEL with Red Hat's Jim Perrin.

The smart home market includes a number of different vendor environments. You'll need a capable broker to fit them under one roof.

Eclipse IoT is a collection of 26 open source projects with the common goal of building an open development environment for the Internet of Things.

The GPS tracking service isn't precise enough to provide positioning information within a home. Home automation expert Gunnar Beutner decided to harness the invisible spirits of Bluetooth for a home-grown indoor positioning system.

Corporations and organizations don't need to buy new computers every two or three years because the old ones are no longer serviceable. We look at which tasks these hardware seniors can handle.

With a little extra effort, on-the-fly adjustment of your graphics tablet on Linux is possible with this command-line tool.