Remember the glorious Pentium 4? A $35 Raspberry Pi 3 is twice as fast.

Researchers have released "Aztarna," an open-source framework to help engineers identify vulnerable Robots and Industrial Routers connected to the Internet.

http://bit.ly/2CPJood

A quick scan revealed almost 106 open ROS systems & 9000 insecure industrial routers worldwide.

Linux File Search Tool ‘Catfish’ Just Got Even Faster http://bit.ly/2WrnfWd

Introducing Spirit Animal, an electric guitar w/a Raspberry Pi synthesizer built in. The guitar "permits screen-sharing, updates, and control via SSH, the guitar allows access to the Pi's Ethernet port and wireless functionality." http://bit.ly/2Rr3Z7x

#KodiTV 18.0 "Leia" is now available for all supported platforms. This major release features support for gaming emulators, ROMs and controls; DRM decryption support; significant improvements to the music library; live TV improvements; and much more. http://bit.ly/2RXWI4e

Important: Ubuntu 18.04 needs to be patched to fix several security bugs. #ZDNet reports that Canonical is updating #Ubuntu 18.04 to a new kernel, 4.15.0-44.47, which contains 11 security fixes. The most addresses problems with the ext4 filesystem. https://zd.net/2S6w4pN

Troubleshooting hardware problems in Linux | red.ht/2R9UCNl

Middle school students are learning how to make "broken" computers useful again with #Linux and #opensource software: https://red.ht/2N6VFbx

#ZaReason debuted its new Gamerbox 9400, "the ultimate Linux gaming PC". The Gamebox runs #Ubuntu 18.04, with a 64-bit Pentium 3.8Ghz G5500 Coffee Lake processor and 8GB of DDR4 memory.
http://bit.ly/2TvUSEu

If you’re a fan of Netflix, you should definitely be a fan of freebsd. If you didn’t know, #FreeBSD is what powers the popular streaming service. Read more about how #Netflix utilizes FreeBSD to stream its content. #OpenSource #Storage #Server
http://bit.ly/2Serq9h

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr End of Life https://bit.ly/2DTLzst #Ubuntu

Security researchers have discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in LibreOffice, #softpedianews reports. Evidently "the flaw can be exploited with just a malicious ODT document that includes code for running a macro with a mouse-hover action." http://bit.ly/2SBKQEk

Google open-sources ClusterFuzz, a tool that automates bug detection in software via distributed fuzzing infrastructure
http://bit.ly/2WQZiHZ
ClusterFuzz has found ~16,000 bugs in Chrome and ~11,000 bugs in over 160 open source projects integrated with OSS-Fuzz.

Canonical Apologizes for Boot Failure in #Ubuntu 18.10 and 18.04 LTS, Fix Available Now https://buff.ly/2WQJfde #ubuntu #Linux #opensource

Microsoft joins open-source compliance group!

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This week #IBM announced it will leverage #Kubernetes to make #AI applications based on the IBM Watson platform available on any cloud. http://bit.ly/2BDbzXr

Updated Debian 9: 9.8 released https://dlvr.it/Qz36qZ

Kali Linux 2019.1 has been released with a fresh kernel, ARM improvements and Metasploit 5.0! http://bit.ly/2BFGbb5

Open Science, Open Source and R
Free software will save psychology from the Replication Crisis.
http://bit.ly/2Eik7oy
#science #openscience #FOSS #opensource

Popular Linux distro:

Slackware/SUSE/Debian has been out for 25 years

RHEL has been out for 23 years

Gentoo has been out for 18 years

Arch has been out for 16 years

Ubuntu has been out for 14 years

OpenSUSE has been out for 13 years

Mint has been out for 12 years

Linux kernel has bee out for 27 years.

Bell LABs Unix has been out for 48 years

BSD has been out for 42 years

Sun Unix/HP-UX has been out for 37 years

AIX has been out for 33 years

Solaris has been out for 26 years

FreeBSD/NetBSD has been out for 25 years

OpenBSD has been out for 22 years

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From the 2018 Free Software Bulletin: learn about the darkside of #JavaScript, and how you can escape the JavaScript trap with #LibreJS: https://u.fsf.org/2ql