• BSDNow 374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

  OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old tarsnap backups, Michael W. Lucas’ book sale, and more.

• Bad Voltage 3×16: Not Fun To Watch

  Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the utilities question comes up again, we create spin-off show “Sussing Out Stocks With Stuart”, and...

 

• Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S13E32 – Sleeping northwards

  This week we’ve been escaping from Hell and using Stadia controllers over WiFi. We

  It’s Season 13 Episode 32 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

Most readers may probably remember the Antergos Linux distribution which was discontinued in 2019. It was an Arch-based Linux distribution that aimed to be beginner-friendly, easy to install and easy to use. Making the average life quite possible with Arch Linux as a base. It featured a graphical installer with multiple options to install various desktop environments in a few clicks.

After it was discontinued, a group of the older community merged efforts to create a new continuation of that distribution, named EndeavourOS.

The latest version was released around one and half months ago, and it uses Xfce as a default desktop environment, with many other options available for users.

We’ll go today in a review of EndeavourOS 2020.09.20 and what to expect of it. TL;DR: It is a good distribution for anyone who wants an easy, minimal Arch installation.

• A Go program displays song lyrics line by line

• Teaching Three Times

• Christmas fun for makers

• Kernel News

• Quick and easy with PySimpleGUI

• Simple steps for securing your Linux system

• Cloning multiple computers with Clonezilla SE

• Rsync for website backup in a shared hosting environment Back End Backup

• This month in Linux Voice.

• Essential software tools for the working scientist

• KDE neon 5.20.0 and elementary OS 5.2

• The Glitter

  This month, the Wisconsin state government declined to pay the refundable tax subsidies to Foxconn, the Taiwanese conglomerate that arrived in Wisconsin in 2017 with the promise of a plant that would make LCD TVs and monitors and employ 13,000 people. It seems this "project" never did really get off the ground. The original vision of 13,000 workers soon scaled down to 5,200; then it plummeted still further as no one seemed to have a vision for what these people were going to do. After it became clear that it wouldn't be profitable to make LCD screens (something neither the company nor the state seriously investigated before announcing the deal), Foxconn searched for other uses of the gigantic space they had already built. Casting about for an endeavor that would allow them to hang onto the subsidies, they explored alternatives such as innovation services, fish farming, and storage. Eventually, they just started adding workers to hit the minimum target of 520 employees by the end of 2019, but the government concluded these last-minute employees, many of whom didn't have a clear job assignment, were not eligible to be counted under the terms of the contract. As of now, there is still no plan for what to do with the space, but it seems very unlikely that anyone will ever use it for LCD fabrication or any other high-tech manufacturing.

  It is always easy to point fingers after this kind of train wreck. The administration of former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker certainly deserves some heat for their naivetÈ. The national administration didn't help, declaring at the ground breaking that the Foxconn plant would be the "eighth wonder of the world." And, if you're one who believes that all Asian companies are scarily efficient and well run, the recent story of the Wisconsin project at The Verge [1] will surely disabuse you of this preconception with regard to Foxconn.

• A personal wiki for the command line

• Tips for securing your SSH server

• FOSSPicks

• A user-friendly Arch Linux derivative

• News

• Managing servers with the Cockpit admin tool

• Seven general-purpose Git utilities

• Measure system runtime with tuptime Stopwatch

• Asciidoctor: AsciiDoc with new functions Performance Enhanced

• Eureka!

• Building a database front end with Jam.py

• Distros with KDE Plasma support

Stabilization of the NixOS happens a month before planned release. The goal is to have as little as possible continuous integration (Hydra) jobs failing before the release is cut. While we would like to release on time, a high quality release is more important.

Individuals who contributed to stabilizing this release: volth, Robert Scott, Tim Steinbach, WORLDofPEACE, Maximilian Bosch, Thomas Tuegel, Doron Behar, Vladimír Čunát, Jonathan Ringer, Maciej Krüger, and 190 others!