As promised in the meeting, here are the news that I curated for the month of March.
This Month in GNU/Linux - 21st April 2018 Meeting ================================================== ## Purism integrates security firmware giving full control and digital privacy top laptop users -- The update lets users test if someone has tampered with the software on their computer starting at the boot level. > https://puri.sm/posts/purism-integrates-heads-security-firmware-with-tpm-giving-full-control-and-digital-privacy-to-laptop-users/ ## GitHub survives the biggest DDos attack -- The service was offline for almost 10 min -- 126.9 million packets per second were sent using a memcached-based approach -- Raises questions about software all over the world being hosted on one service and the level of dependency -- The record was broken after Arbor Networks reported that a US service provider suffered a 1.7Tbps attack earlier this month. > https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/ ## You Can Now Install LineageOS on Your Raspberry Pi 3, Based on Android 8.1 Oreo -- Finnish developer published the build on 3rd March. > http://news.softpedia.com/news/you-can-now-install-lineageos-on-your-raspberry-pi-3-based-on-android-8-1-oreo-520046.shtml ## GitHub makes open-source project licensing easier with an open-source program -- GitHub open sourced "Licensed", an internal tool they've used to automate some of GitHub's open source projects' licensing process. -- It works in any git repository by finding, caching and checking license metadata for dependencies and provides a licensing bill of materials for your project. ## Purism Partners with Cryptography Pioneer Werner Koch to integrate hardware encryption in laptops and phones > https://puri.sm/posts/purism-collaboration-with-cryptography-expert-werner-koch/ ## Intel axes it's Linux graphics update tool -- Thanks to “faster inclusion” of newer Intel graphics support in Linux distribution repos. -- Ubuntu and Fedora were the official distros the tool targetted at, and both distros now include support for the latest Intel graphic stack out of the box > https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/intel-graphics-update-tool-discontinued Regards, Dhanesh B. Sabane https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io
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