Issue #264 / Nov 2022

It is easy to write columns on the scary and annoying stuff, which seems to happen every day, but it is perhaps more important to point out the positive things when they happen, and the Ethereum Merge looks like a very positive thing.

Debian 11.5 and Rocky Linux 9.0

In the news: Fedora 37 Beta Available; Salix 15.0 Available for Installation with Lots of Updates and a More Modern Look; Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Release Now Available; MX Linux 21.2 Offers Improvements and Bug Fixes; Gnome Project Releases New Telemetry Data Collection Tool; Kubuntu Focus Announces New Desktop Model; and A New Release of Lightweight Linux Distribution SparkyLinux Now Available.

Zack discusses mysterious alignments in the kernel; and discovery and invention.

"I won't make this mistake again," you promise yourself. In other words, you'll learn from experience. If you translate experience into data, computers can do that, too. We'll introduce you to the fundamental forms of machine learning.

Whether through voice assistants, chatbots, or the automatic analysis of documents, rapid developments in AI are helping speech technologies make inroads. But how does AI manage to understand the subtleties of human language?

The most tedious part of supervised machine learning is providing sufficient supervision. However, if the samples come from a restricted sample space, unsupervised learning might be fine for the task.

Rocky Linux steps into the breach left by CentOS with a community-based alternative to RHEL.

Linux Android Backup offers an open source solution to backing up the most important content from your Android devices in just a few steps.

If you are looking for modern display options or more speed at the command line, these alternatives to traditional Unix commands may be just what you need.