FOSS Force News Wire

The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.

• The 10 Best Free Linux Games
  

  There are plenty of excellent games on Linux, and a fair amount of them are completely free. Some are open source, and others are fairly big names available through Steam. ... read more
  LXerDecember 11, 2018 3:14 am
  24 mins ago
• Companies behind on digital transformation get ahead with open leaders
  

  (Editor's note: The newest volume in the Open Organization book series, The Open Organization Leaders Manual, Second Edition, debuts today at Opensource.com. This is the book's introduction.) read more ... read more
  Opensource.comDecember 11, 2018 3:00 am
  39 mins ago
• How AWS Lambda Serverless Works (with a whole bunch of Amazon Linux servers…)
  

  At the top of the logical view of a worker host is customer code, which is what Lambda runs for its customers. Mesrobian commented that Lambda supports a number of ... read more
  LXerDecember 11, 2018 2:44 am
  54 mins ago
• LFCS – Input Output Redirection
  

  When running commands in a Terminal there are many ways information can be redirected. There are a few redirection conventions usable within a Terminal to make things easier. ... read more
  LXerDecember 11, 2018 1:14 am
  2 hours ago
• Optimizing Kubernetes resource allocation in production
  

  My first day with Kubernetes involved dockerizing an application and deploying it to a production cluster. I was migrating one of Buffer's highest throughput (and low-risk) endpoints out of a ... read more
  LXerDecember 11, 2018 12:44 am
  3 hours ago
• Linux Mint, MX Linux, Mageia, Steam Link, WordPress, CS:GO Battle Royale | This Week in Linux 46
  

  also TWinL46: Ubuntu Touch, Xubuntu Axes 32-bit ISOs, NVIDIA Open-Sources PhysX, Microsoft's Edge to be Chromium Based, Critical Kubernetes Flaw, Australia Wants Encryption Destroyed, Humble Bundle ... read more
  LXerDecember 11, 2018 12:14 am
  3 hours ago
• Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
  

  Timeshift is a GTK3-based, open source, system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to ... read more
  LXerDecember 10, 2018 11:44 pm
  4 hours ago
• Tails Linux encrypted persistence is not as safe as you might think
  

  If I lend my USB key containing Tails Linux to an evil Penguin, am I sure to use it again afterwards? Is my LUKS key safe? There is no need ... read more
  LXerDecember 10, 2018 11:14 pm
  4 hours ago
• A Month After Microsoft Claimed Patent ‘Truce’ Its Patent Trolls Keep Attacking Microsoft’s Rivals
  

  Microsoft's legal department relies on its vultures (to whom it passes money and patents) to sue its rivals; but other than that, Microsoft is a wonderful company! ... read more
  LXerDecember 10, 2018 10:14 pm
  5 hours ago
• Denuvo-Protected Just Cause 4 Cracked In A Day, Suffering From Shitty Reviews
  

  Two common topics here at Techdirt are about to converge in what will likely serve as a lovely example of how piracy is often a scapegoat rather than a ... read more
  TechdirtDecember 10, 2018 10:03 pm
  6 hours ago