Issue #213 / Aug 2018

I have used this space in the past to highlight a certain tendency in our culture to overstate the power, stability, and safety of our emerging technologies. For lack of a better term, I'll refer to this trait as technical naiveté.

Fedora 28 Workstation and Manjaro XFCE 17.1.10

SUSE forks Red Hat's Spacewalk project, openSUSE Leap 15 announced, SoftMaker FreeOffice 2018 for Linux, a new CentOS, sonic and ultrasonic signals can crash your hard drive, and Microsoft acquires GitHub.

Zack discusses removing dead ports, new minimum GCC version jumping from 3.2 to 4.8, Intel considering hardware changes to mitigate security flaws, enhancing asymmetric process migration, and protecting user's system control. 

Gnome Foundation president Nuritzi Sanchez is on a quest for a new generation of users.

Create and display geospatial data with the versatile and popular QGIS.

QMapShack displays a wide variety of maps, making it easy to plan and manage your journeys.

Kubuntu 18.04, which is built on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver, is the first long-term support release that includes the Plasma 5 desktop. This article looks at the latest Kubuntu and highlights some cool configuration tricks.

If you want to use social media and microblogging platforms, you do not need to leave your data sovereignty to external corporations. This month, we look at free decentralized software alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media and examine whether they are suitable for use in the enterprise and other organizations.

With the addition of its supporting utilities, Ogg Vorbis competes with other free audio formats.