Some how Linux howtos, guides and news from the Open Source world for you:
- Google ditches Ubuntu for Debian for internal engineering environment – Switches commercial model for contribution to open source.
- LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 11, 2018 – Some good info on Linux and open source.
- Red Hat reverts microcode update to mitigate Spectre, refers to hardware vendors for fix – RHEL 6.x/7.x and CentOS users beware. You must now wait for Intel to release microcode update. See also how to patch Spectre on Linux and how to patch Meltdown on Linux.
- The story behind our open source efforts – How to master the art of open source while working with your client. Good read.
- PHP-PM Is a Process Manager, Supercharger, and Load Balancer for PHP Applications – PHP-PM is an open-source process manager, supercharger, and load balancer for PHP applications. It uses ReactPHP to achieve event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.
- The Linux commands you should NEVER use – Avoid typing these commands if you like your data.
- How to setup SYSLOG-NG AND ELASTICSEARCH 6 on RHEL/CentOS – This is a quick how-to guide to get you started with syslog-ng (the current version is 3.13) and Elasticsearch 6 on RHEL/CentOS 7.
- Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices – Learn how to secure your OpenSSH server running on a Linux or Unix server in cloud.
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years of AWS – For the last 10 years, I have had the chance to work in companies that embraced the cloud, and in particular AWS. This two-part blog post is an attempt to share that experience with you. Hope you enjoy! Please do not hesitate to give feedback, share your own stories or simply like 🙂
- Teaching an Almost 40-year Old UNIX about Backspace – Interesting article about older UNIX operating system.
- Librem 5 Phone Progress Report – Librem 5, the Linux phone that focuses on security by design and privacy.
- Wine 3.0 Released – This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements such as:
- Direct3D 10 and 11 support.
- The Direct3D command stream.
- The Android graphics driver.
- Improved DirectWrite and Direct2D support.