Unix Tutorial Digest – February 2nd, 2020

For those staying up late to watch Super Bowl LIV and those just looking for a few interesting links, here's the monthly summary of Unix/Linux news and Unix Tutorial posts.

Please get in touch to arrange a technical consultation with me or suggest a useful link for the next digest here at Unix Tutorial.

Unix Tutorial News

Unix Tutorial website now has a chat feature! This means you can ping me and ask a quick question or discuss a project. My online (live chat) time is quite limited but please take a moment to leave me note and your email so that I can get back to you.

Unix Tutorial in Russian is now a completely separate website, I've been trying to keep up with translations and expect readership to grow significantly in the coming months.

Unix and Linux News

New Releases section has a few additions in January 2020:

• Kali Linux 2020.1
• Linux Kernel 5.5
• Solus 4.1 Fortitude released – really want to try it
• CentOS 8.1 released – time to upgrade my dedicated servers

Software News

• Wine 5.0 got released
• Firefox 72 shipped
• git 2.25 released

Interesting and Useful

• sudo has a security issue around pwfeedback option, Linux Mint and Elementary OS might be affected
• ProtonVPN opened source code for most of their solution

Unix Tutorial articles

Full list of posts published on Unix Tutorial in January 2020, 17 posts in total:

• How To Extract XZ Files
• Kali Linux 2020.1
• Uninstalling minikube
• Linux Kernel 5.5
• How To Ignore SSL Warnings in curl
• Non-standard Ansible Port
• Unix Input/Output Redirection
• DEBUG: cron keeps piling up in macOS
• Advanced USB discovery with usb-devices
• systemd services Status
• Use Backups When Deploying with Ansible
• Unix Tutorial – Annual Digest – 2019
• How To: Use fail2ban to Protect SSH
• Confirm Actively Listening TCP Ports with lsof
• Unix Tutorial Digest – January 4th, 2020
• Upgrading tmux in macOS
• Welcome to 2020!

That's it for the month of January 2020!

See Also

• Unix Tutorial Digest
• Unix Tutorial – Annual Digest – 2019
• Past Unix Tutorial Digests
• Linux Commands
• Unix commands
• Basic Unix commands
• Basic Linux Commands
• Advanced Unix commands