Unix Tutorial Digest – March 31st, 2019

Unix Tutorial Digest: monthly digest of Unix/Linux topics

Hi again everyone, it's this time of the month (the last day of a month, if I manage to publish on time).

March 2019 brought lots of interesting releases and Unix/Linux news.

As always, please get in touch to arrange a technical consultation with me or want to suggest a useful link for the next Unix Tutorial digest. I also created a special page for Unix Tutorial digests.

Unix and Linux News

Software News

Swift 5 released by Apple
BIND 9.14.0 released – now only working with BIND servers properly supporting EDNS
Samba 4.10.0 released – I'm still using Samba for small tasks in a few projects
Java SE 12 released

Interesting and Useful

Seeking the Productive Life – amazingly insightful and useful article from Stephen Wolfram
Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its Macbook Keyboard Problem – this is the reason I had a week of downtime and bought a Dell XPS 13 laptop just a few weeks ago. To be fair, new laptop was not necessary – I got my trusty Retina MacBook Pro 15 2017 in 4 working days, with brand new keyboard.
Hetzner Cloud CLI – sounds cool, should help with managing dedicated and VPS servers in Hetzner
Secrets leaked on GitHub – very interesting report about what gets leaked and how quickly developers fix this and remove secrets from public GitHub repos