Unix Tutorial Digest – August 24th, 2018

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

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