Unix Tutorial Digest – March 9th, 2020
Here’s the monthly summary of Unix/Linux news and Unix Tutorial posts.
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Unix Tutorial News
Nothing particularly new, but I found my blogging stride and enjoyed a very productive month. Lots of Ansible automation progress and a rework of my home office Raspberry Pi setup were my main focus.
Unix Tutorial in Russian is now a completely separate website, I’m going to find more time to add translations to it – it’s been growing nicely.
Unix and Linux News
New Releases section will get a few additions as per releases in February 2020:
- NetBSD 9.0 released
- Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS released
- wslu package helps with WSL integration
- Linux Kernel 5.3 supported
- many other improvements backported from Ubuntu 19.10
Software News
- Firefox 73 arrived
- OpenSSH 8.2 broght FIDO/U2F support
- Go 1.14 released
- BIND 9.16.0 DNS server
- GDB 9.1 released (previous release 8.3 was in May 2019)
- Following last month’s Wine 5.0 release, Valve released Proton 5.0 for Windows gaming on Linux
Interesting and Useful
- LetsEncrpypt got a bug in CA code (CAA record)
- systemd had an important vulnerability – CVE-2020-1712
- Install Docker compose (official guide)
- dehydrated project (bash automated LetsEncrypt certs management) has new owners
Unix Tutorial articles
Full list of posts published on Unix Tutorial in February 2020, 29 posts in total:
- Log fail2ban Messages to Syslog
- Colorized ls with grc
- Removed DHCP Daemons in Raspbian
- How To: Disable Sleep on Ubuntu Server
- VPS1 Server is Online
- Install Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu
- Docker module in Ansible
- Using grc (Generic Colouriser) for RSyslog
- Sublime Text 3
- How To: Use Filesystem Labels in /etc/fstab
- How To: check and change filesystem label with e2label
- List Available Repositories in Red Hat
- Ansible: Could Not Match Supplied Host Pattern
- Systemd Unit Types
- Tower 4.0 for Mac
- Use visudo to Check SUDO Config Syntax
- SSH Reference Mindmap
- Basic Kubernetes Cluster with 2 VMs
- Debian 10.3 Released
- Systemd Startup Times with systemd-analyze
- Project: Password Protect a Website with nginx
- Host Key Verification Failed
- Resume Downloads with curl
- Run Ansible Tasks for Specific OS Release Version
- Secure Keyboard Input in bash Scripts
- Failed Login Attempts for root User
- shutdown vs halt
- Unix Tutorial Digest – February 2nd, 2020
- Show Files Installed by a Debian/Ubuntu Package
That’s it for the month of February 2020!