Issue #235 / Jun 2020

Some dramatic stuff is going down right now for a few of the powerful organizations that run the Internet.

Knoppix 8.6.1 and OpenMandriva Lx Plasma 4.1

In the news: Nextcloud Partners with IONOS; Linux to Get High Resolution Wheel Scrolling; KDE Developers Are Working on a TV Interface; System76 is Developing a New Keyboard; Embedded Linux Joins the Fight Against COVID-19; and AWS Launches a New Linux Distribution.

This month in Kernel News: Kernel Gatherings Canceled Due to COVID-19; Kernel Meta-Organizations Changing Due to COVID-19; and Minimum Version Numbers for Build Tools.

Lars Kurth of the Xen Project talks about trends, markets, and the project's various threads of development.

Systemd has already changed almost everything about the Linux startup process. Now an experimental new feature takes on the challenge of user home directories.

With Vagrant, you can automate the creation and management of consistent virtual machines that work across platforms.

Admins and power users like to watch the load on their computers. Glances lets you see immediately if something is wrong.

The Rootkit Hunter script efficiently checks for malware, with the potential to detect over 240 rootkits.

With PlantUML, you can quickly create all kinds of diagrams using human-readable text and reuse them anywhere.