Unix Tutorial Digest – July 28th, 2019
Well, the end of July is almost here and I missed a digest in June because I had a wonderful summer holiday in Turkey. So this today shows intersting events from Linux, Unix and open source world for almost two months.
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.
Unix and Linux News
- FreeBSD 11.3 is available, continuing the 11/stable branch
- Linux Kernel is now 5.2
- DragonFly 5.6 got released and 5.6.1 is already available
- Whonix 15 is released – must try it soon
- Debian Buster 10 – another release from the most stable Linux distro
- macOS Catalina is in the 3rd public beta now, but iCloud sync issues mean I won't be trying it yet. Must really get a second macOS system – laptop or desktop – for these experiments!
Software News
- GRUB 2.04 released – bringing secure UEFI boot and many other things to grub bootloader.
- Firefox 68 is live (expecting Firefox 69 in early September)
- Speaking of Firefox, Lockwise password manager got launched
- Ubuntu announced they will drop 32-bit support soon, and then reverted that decision thanks to powerful feedback from the community. 32-bit support lives on!
Interesting and Useful
- Raspberry Pi 4 released – this is super cool news! I am excited 🙂
- Microsoft lanched QDK – Quantum Development Kit, opensourced
- 17 ways to undo mistakes in git – I'm using Tower client on macOS but creators of this app make very useful videos and how-to guides that show how things are done using command-line git
Unix Tutorial articles
There’s been a few slow days but still quite a few topics covered in June and July 2019:
- Great Things You Can Confirm with dmidecode
- Show Servers Across All OpenStack Projects
- Most Useful Basic Unix Commands
- Create swap from File on BTRFS Filesystem
- Free Up Reserved Space in Filesystems
- Ordered Raspberry Pi 4!
- 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 Model is Out of Stock
- How To: Check AppArmor Status
- Debian 10 – Buster
- How To: Install Docker in Ubuntu Using Snap
- How To: Upgrade Packages That Were Kept Back
- Card Reader Issues in Ubuntu 19.04 on Dell XPS 13 9380
- How To: Find SSH key using Fingerprint
- Trying NTP from Cloudflare
- Why I'm Excited about Raspberry Pi 4 Release
- Raspberry Pi 4: Faster CPU and 4GB RAM
- HAProxy 2.0.0
- Cloudflare: Crypto Week 2019
- sudo chown
- Show All TCP Connections with lsof
- yum – List Installed Packages
- Unix Tutorial Projects: Install Ubuntu 19.04 on Dell XPS 13 9380
- SSH: Too Many Authentication Failures
- Upgrading Raspbian from Jessie to Stretch
- Use OfflineIMAP For Receiving Email
- Install Oh My ZSH!
- Install ZSH with Homebrew
- Unix Fun: cowsay command
- How To: Change Graphics Mode for GRUB Bootloader
- Alacritty – GPU-accelerated Terminal App
- macOS Catalina will have zsh as default shell
- ifconfig command not found
- MacOS: Alfred 4 is Out
- Great WWDC 2019 Keynote!
- Advanced Hardware Information for Raspberry Pi
- Using Chrony for time keeping
- Time/Date Operations with timedatectl
- Hardware Lab
- Install Docker in Linux Mint 19.1
- Projects: Automatic Keyboard Backlight for Dell XPS in Linux
- Controlling Dell Laptop Keyboard Backlight from Command Line
- How To: Show Colour Numbers in Unix Terminal
- Test SSHd config on a different SSH port
- Getting Started with Ansible
- How To Use lsof Command
- Check For Available Updates with apt
- WSL and WSL 2: Run Linux on Windows
That’s it for the months of June 2019 and July 2019!
