This monthly issue arrives a week later, but brings more news as the result: lots of OS releases in October!

Please get in touch if you want to suggest a useful link for the next digest.

Unix and Linux News

• Incredible! IBM acquires RedHat for $34B! Very smart move.
• Red Hat Linux 7.6 is here! Marking KDE “deprecated” and supporting AMD Secure Encrypted Verification. As usual, lots of key packages updated. I really want to try nftables packet filter that’s now available.
• Linux kernel 4.19 is here
• Fedora Linux 29 is also released
• Ubuntu 18.10 released – so many releases to download and try this month!
• OpenBSD 6.4 is released – wow, what a month
• Apple MacOS Mojave is released and shipped – glorious update to one of the best desktop operating systems in existence. I must have upgraded on day one of the final release!
• Chrome OS 70 released – allowing network share mounts, adding AV1 decoder to x86 and introducing per-site management of extensions

Software News

• Won’t mention software news this months as there are so many OS releases that they steal the show

Interesting and Useful

• Youtube video: Gary explains: Unix vs Linux – he’s really good at explaining things, I think you’ll enjoy the video
• Using Traefik for reverse proxying Docker containers

Unix Tutorial articles

• Recommended books are now a separate section: Unix Book reviews.
• I greatly expanded the Unix How-To section, check it out!
• ScreenFetch in CentOS
• Created Unix Software section where I’ll be sharing my preferred tools for system administration
• Using hostnamectl

Starting with this issue, Interesting Reads will become Unix Tutorial Digest. As promised, I will keep this as a monthly feature.

Please get in touch if you want to suggest a useful link for the next digest.

Unix and Linux News

• beta of Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish has just been published
• Oracle 11.4 SRU1 is released – wow, these are almost monthly updates now!
• WLinux was announced – it’s the first Linux distro built and fully optimised for running on Windows WSL subsystem
• Chrome OS 69 released – now allowing to run standard Linux apps on select models of hardware via KVM setup

Software News

• nginx 1.15.4 released
• Mir 1.0 display server is released – now aimed at IoT devices. It’s based on Wayland and not X11, just so you know.

Interesting and Useful

• How to download audio tracks of YouTube videos – great for lectures that you can then listen to on your mobile
• How to use RAR files in Ubuntu
• Test port connectivity with nc
• Linus Torvalds took some time off from Linux kernel maintenance

Unix Tutorial articles

• Enable auto-start for virtual machines in KVM
• List files in Ubuntu package with dpkg
• apt – Advanced Package Tool
• I have organised articles into separate Unix How-To section.

I’m still finding my stride with this type of post, so Interesting Reads is more of a monthly than weekly feature.

Unix News

• Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 35

• Debian Linux turns 25 years old

Software News

• Steam Play beta introduces project Proton – improved support for Windows games on Linux
• Flatpack 1.0 release – something I would really like to explore for software packaging that’s not dependent on a specific Linux distro
• QEMU 3.0 – time to upgrade my KVM deployments on a couple of dedicated servers

Interesting

• transfer.sh – Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line. Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line. Share up to 10GB, fully encrypted and automatically deleted after 14 days.
• Great tutorial on Docker commands

Unix Tutorial articles

• How To: check RAID progress with /proc/mdsat

• Learn how to use lsblk

• Use md5 checksums to compare directories

Here is some light reading for the weekend: some news about Unix, a few useful articles and some tips from the past Unix Tutorial articles.

Unix News

• openSUSE Leap 15 is released
• FreeBSD 11.2-BETA2 is now available
• GNOME Foundation completed the migration to GitLab – check out gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME to see all the projects currently developed, tracked and managed via GitLab at GNOME.
• Sometime in mid-May Solaris 11.3 SRU 32 was released – this time focusing on updating the bundled software in Solaris 11

Software News

• Google Chrome 67 is released, apparently. A tutorial on compiling Chromium is coming up here on Unix Tutorial if you’re interested.
• git v2.17.1 is released with fixes for most recent security issues. One of the issues allowed remote code execution when connecting to a malicious git repositry, so it’s highly advised that you update!
• Emacs 26.1 released – I’m a fan of Vim myself, but hey. It’s been 8 months since previous release of Emacs, so there must be some useful improvements in 26.1.
• Speaking of it, Vim 8.1 was released quite recently as well, after 2 years in development. I hear, running command terminal (and seeing output) right inside your Vim window (tmux style?) is now possible.
• Wine (Win32 API for launching Windows apps on Unix and Linux platforms) released 3.8 and shortly after Wine 3.9. Incremental updates mostly, but interesting stuff around Vulkan API (Direct 3D 12)

Unix Tutorial articles

I’ve been reviewing Unix users and groups related posts recently:

• What to Do if Numeric IDs are Shown Instead of Usernames
• Find Files Belonging to a User or a Group

Think I should include something else into my next update? Leave a comment here or even better – join my Unix Tutorial Facebook group.

Next batch of Unix-related news, this week it’s just about announcing all the new releases of various distros.

Unix news

• OpenBSD 4.5 released
• FreeBSD 7.2 released
• NetBSD 5.0 released
• Solaris 10 update 7 (5/09) released

Unix-related releases

• Wine 1.1.20 released – OLE copy/paste improvements, Direct3D code cleanup and traditional bug fixes

See also:

• Interesting Unix reads – Apr 21st, 2009 ****
• Interesting Unix reads – Feb 3rd, 2009
• Unix Glossary
• Unix commands reference

Hi all! New posts are coming, but you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Here’s a few interesting reads you might explore in the meantime:

Unix news

• Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Unix-related releases

• GCC 4.4.0 released
• HP-UX 11i v3 update 4
• Gnome 2.26.1 released

Useful Unix tips

• Ubuntu package management with dpkg (UbuntuGeek)
• Ubuntu package management with apt (UbuntuGeek)
• Unix aphorisms (via Standalone Sysadmin)

See also:

• Interesting Unix reads – Feb 3rd, 2009
• Unix Glossary
• **Unix commands reference **

Hi again, here’s some more Unix articles which you’ll probably find interesting and useful

Unix-related releases

• KDE 4.2 released
• Ubuntu 8.04 2 LTS released

Useful Unix tips

• uSbuntu Live Creator – boot your favorite OS from USB stick
• Backup del.icio.us bookmarks from Unix shell If you have any useful articles you’d like to share – just leave links in the comments area.

See also:

• Interesting Unix reads, Jan 22nd, 2009
• Interesting Unix reads, Sep 21st, 2008

Now that I’m finally back into my usual posting and reading other blogs, I think it’s a good time to restart the “Interesting Reads”. Here are the Unix articles you might like:
* Tools to delete files securely in Ubuntu
* List installed packages in Ubuntu – some more tricks in addition to my original article
* Unmounting unresponsive CD/DVD drive in Linux Enjoy these useful Linux tips! If you have any useful articles you’d like to share – just leave links in the comments area.

Here are the posts I’ve read and enjoyed this week:
* sshpass – automating SSH logins without passwordless RSA/DSA keys
* Tux Training: Get rid of command line histories with chattr command
* Tux Training: Speeding up your ext3 filesystem If you have any useful articles you’d like to share – just leave links in the comments area. Enjoy!