Issue #244 / Mar 2021

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has spent the past few years working on a vision for a new and better Internet. He showed up at the Reuters Next conference recently and gave an update.

FreeBSD 12.2 and GhostBSD

In the news: Mozilla VPN Now Available for Linux; KDE Wayland Support and Kickoff Redesign; Deepin 20.1 Released; CloudLinux Commits over One Million Dollars to CentOS Replacement; Linux Mint 20.1 Beta Released; and Manjaro Linux 20.2 Unleashed.

This month in Kernel News: Spanking Linus; Controlling Boot Parameters via Sysfs; Finessing GCC; and Dealing with Loose Build Dependencies.

Batch processing strategies won't help if you need to process large volumes of incoming data in real time. Stream processing is a promising alternative to conventional batch techniques.

You don't need to be a stream processing expert to create useful custom solutions with Apache StreamPipes. We'll use StreamPipes to build a simple app that calculates when the International Space Station will fly overhead.

Arch Linux, one of the more popular Linux distros, goes its own way, putting you in control.

Among other noteworthy trends in 2020, producing free and secure videoconferencing software has become a higher priority in the past year.

Protect your system from unwanted visitors with two-factor authentication.

There is only one thing Charly appreciates even less than security holes in the kernel: downtime of his machines. That's why he patches his Ubuntu systems with Canonical's Livepatch on the fly.