Issue #234 / May 2020

I don't know what world you are living in as you read this, but the world that I'm living in while I write this (three to eight weeks earlier than your world, depending on where you live) is busy with reinventing itself to contend with the coronavirus pandemic. Stores and restaurants are closed, schools are canceled, and offices are shutting their doors as employees make plans to "shelter in place."

Manjaro 19.02 Gnome Edition and SystemRescueCd 6.1

In the news: Zorin OS 15.2 Now Available; Firefox to Get an Additional Sandbox Layer; Microsoft Defender ATP is Coming to Linux; South Korean Government Considers Move to Linux Desktop; OpenSSH Now Supports FIDO/U2F Security Keys; and System76 Launches New AMD Threadripper Machine.

With numerous exhibitors and workshops, SCaLE 18x covered a wide range of open source topics.

As the FreeBSD Foundation approaches its 20th anniversary, we talk to its top brass about the project's growing visibility in the open source ecosystem.

After the cloud came the Edge. We take a look at the Edge computing phenomenon and attempt to assess what all the fuss is about.

We talk with Matt Trifiro, one of the publishers of the State of the Edge report, on the nature of Edge computing and how it is changing IT.

For older computers with 32-bit processors, BunsenLabs Helium offers a lean alternative to popular Linux distributions. Our lab investigates how well the system performs on antiquated hardware.

The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of GNU/Linux distributions that meet their strict standards for free software – and your distro probably doesn't qualify. Meet the distros that pass the test.

With some simple Bash commands, you can gather, parse, and filter text data into CSV files ready for your favorite statistical application.