Unix Tutorial Digest – November 3rd, 2018

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

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

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

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