Uber, the company that connects car drivers with passengers through a mobile application has become Gold member of the Linux Foundation. This company has also joined TODO Group, an open group of companies that collaborate in the development of tools and good practices for Open Source projects.
The developers of Deepin have announced the availability of a new version of this operating system based on the Debian Linux distro. They have taken into account the feedback from the user community and they have improved the performance of the system, for example reducing the ISO to 200MB.
The Israeli company CompLab has developed in collaboration with the developers of the Linux Mint distro the Mini PC MintBox Mini, a small computer that allows to install different versions of both Linux and Windows, even start both OS at the same time.
The first version of the Linux Kernel whose development has not been led from start to end by Linus Torvalds is now available. Greg Kroah-Hartman has been in charge of finishing the 4.19 with extended support version, in which the new Linux code of conduct has been included. In addition, it has been announced that Torvalds returns to take control of the project.
The IPv6 Internet Protocol is integrated in many Linux distributions, but if it is not going to be used, it is convenient to disable it in order to avoid issues derived from inadequate configurations. In case of Linux, it can be disabled from the GRUB bootloader.
