Issue #241 / Dec 2020

This month, the Wisconsin state government declined to pay the refundable tax subsidies to Foxconn, the Taiwanese conglomerate that arrived in Wisconsin in 2017 with the promise of a plant that would make LCD TVs and monitors and employ 13,000 people.

KDE neon 5.20.0 and elementary OS 5.2

In the news: New Emperor-OS Linux Distro Released; Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla Beta Available; Lenovo Offering anUbuntu 20.04 Option; Linux deepin 20 Released; and Zorin OS 15.3 Now Available.

This month in Kernel News: Shared Processes with Hyper-Threading; Cleaning Up printk(); and Rust in the Kernel.

A good reputation does not protect your Linux systems from attack. We'll show you some tips for detecting and warding off intruders.

An SSH server facing the Internet will almost certainly be under attack, but a few proactive steps will help to keep the intruders away.

KDE Plasma's philosophy of customization has led to some unusual variations that promise a desktop to meet everyone's taste.

RebornOS offers an innovative alternative to Arch Linux that will appeal to Linux newcomers.

Meet Cockpit, an easy management tool that lets you watch your Linux servers from a convenient, web-based interface.

Once you've started using Git, these seven utilities can help you get the most out of this essential version control system.