Issue #231 / Feb 2020

This month, we who follow such things marked the passing of Unicorn Rides, a scooter vendor that billed itself as "the magical electric scooter to get where you're going." Their slogan needed some work ("get where you're going" being both tautological and overused), but the concept had some promise.

MX Linux MX-19 (64-bit) and Zorin OS 15 Core (64-bit)

In the news: Elementary OS 5.1 Has Arrived; Linux Kernel 5.4 Released; System76 To Design And Build Laptops In-House; SUSE Adds SUSE Linux Enterprise to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure;

Zack discusses when to break the ABI and the status of vboxsf.

As the Linux Foundation approaches its 20th anniversary, we sit down with Jim Zemlin to talk about how the nonprofit has expanded its mandate since its inception.

The i3 window manager organizes applications in a flexible grid. Regolith is an Ubuntu-based Linux alternative that makes it easy to explore i3 and window tiling.

This integrated development environment for Gnome offers several features gedit lacks.

Stow helps you manage custom configuration files across multiple users and computers, as well as organize your dotfiles.

Cloud services often place little value on data encryption. With Cryptomator, you can easily and transparently encrypt your data locally before uploading to the cloud.

If you use file compression regularly, zip belongs in your Linux toolbox.