Issue #252 / Nov 2021

There is this abiding faith within the Linux world that walled gardens and single-vendor control over global markets will eventually collapse under the weight of inefficiency. If you look at the history of the last 20 years, however, you would see a very different story.

Debian 11 and Redcore Linux 2101

In the news: System76 Updates the 15" Pangolin with Ryzen; KDE Plasma 5.23 Promises Plenty of Subtle Improvements; Gnome 41 Now in Beta; Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released; and AlmaLinux Makes CentOS SIG Repositories Available.

Zack Brown reports on bug hunting and process appreciation, and refusing "useful" patches.

The Sudo privilege management tool is big and complicated, with many advanced options that only an expert would need. Doas is far simpler – which might just make it safer for desktop users.

Improve communication security with GnuPG and the OpenPGP smartcard.

The Nitrokey Pro 2 is a small device that covers a wide range of cryptographic functions.

SiriKali encrypts files and directories with just a few mouse clicks, without the inefficiency of fixed-size containers.

With its point-and-click installation, Redcore aims "to be to Gentoo what Manjaro is to Arch Linux."

Build a simple web page in Markdown; then convert it to HTML at the command line.