The weekly message that Linus Torvalds sends to the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) has come with an unexpected surprise: Torvalds announces he’s going to get temporarily out from the project. The creator of Linux explains in the statement that he will take a break “to change some of my behavior” and includes those that seem sincere apologies for his inappropriate behavior in the public and private discussions he has held with certain developers.
If you’re facing the challenge of building a GNU/Linux system from scratch, there is a distribution that can make things easier for you. Linux From Scratch (LFS) guides you step by step to create a Linux OS from the source code of the packages. This distro receives regular updates as they are implemented in the Linux kernel and in its basic GNU tools.
The development team of the Linux independent distro KaOS has announced the availability of a new ISO. KaOS 2018.08 includes new features for KDE applications: the Dolphin context menu has been updated and the Settings have been revamped. In addition, Gwenview has been redesigned and Spectacle now has new options that improve its usability.
Earlier this year Red Hat announced the purchase of CoreOS, a developer company, among other technologies, of Container Linux. This acquisition has laid the foundations for a new project: Fedora CoreOS.
If you are a user of Debian 8 Jessie and wish to continue receiving security updates, you must update to the latest version, Debian 9 Stretch as soon as possible. The previous release of this Linux distro, which was released in 2015 has stopped to have support and, therefore, will no longer receive regular security updates.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy of the United States has presented what they claim is the most powerful and intelligent scientific supercomputer in the world. It is called Summit and is able to perform no less than 200,000 trillion calculations per second.
