Issue #236 / Jul 2020

Walmart purchased Jet.com in 2016 with the usual fanfare that comes from a $3.3 billion corporate purchase. Jet.com was an up-and-coming online company, only a year old, that was trying to get an edge on the retail market by offering an innovative discount system and improving the distribution chain.

Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop and Fedora 32

In the news: Linux Usage Is on the Rise; Lenovo Is Jumping on the Linux Laptop Bandwagon; A New Linux Laptop Is in the Making; Ubuntu 20.04 Released; and Git 2.26 Released.

This month Zack discusses adapting to COVID-19, and l33t security. 

Assigning file names based on defined criteria saves time and maximizes your chances of finding the file later.

Several leading Linux distributions are taking steps to address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Springtime is application time! Mike Schilli, who has experience with job application procedures at companies in Silicon Valley, digs up a question asked at the Google Engineering interview and explains a possible solution in Go.

ProjectLibre helps you organize and optimize a complex project with lots of moving parts.

With OpenCart, a free, open source e-commerce system, you can put a store online in a matter of minutes.

With LibreOffice Writer and Calibre, you can publish your own ebooks with better results than most online conversion tools.