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.

• MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database
  Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases ... read more
  LXerJanuary 21, 2020 1:14 am
  17 mins ago
• Games: Chromebooks, Lucky Lanterns in Rocket League, Crumble
  Thanks to Linux, Google and Valve are Bringing Steam to Chromebooks In yet another win for desktop Linux, Google and Steam are about to up the chromebook ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 21, 2020 1:06 am
  26 mins ago
• Screencasts/Audiocasts/Shows: MX Linux, Linux Headlines, Going Linux, File Systems and Linux Action News
  VIDEO: MX Linux 19 Features and Desktop Tour MX Linux is a Linux distribution based on Debian stable and using core antiX components. The distributions MX Tools is ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 21, 2020 12:49 am
  42 mins ago
• Comparison: Snap vs Flatpack vs AppImage
  

  New packaging formats like Snap, Flatpak and AppImage are providing distribution agnostic packages that work on most Linux distributions. This solves packaging problems faced by app developers who want ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 21, 2020 12:43 am
  49 mins ago
• today’s howtos
  How to Install Plex Media Server on CentOS 8 How to convert MP3 music files to open-source formats on Linux How to move /tmp ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 21, 2020 12:34 am
  57 mins ago
• Bash if..else Statement
  Condition making statement is one of the most fundamental concepts of any computer programming. Bash if statement, if else statement, if elif else statement and nested if statement used to ... read more
  LXerJanuary 21, 2020 12:14 am
  1 hour ago
• Firefox 73 Enters Development with New Default Zoom Settings, Improved Audio
  With the Firefox 72 release hitting the stable update channel last week, Mozilla kicked off the development of the next version of its popular, open-source and cross-platform web browser, Firefox ... read more
  LXerJanuary 20, 2020 11:44 pm
  2 hours ago
• How To Limit User’s Access To The Linux System
  Using Restricted Shell, we can easily limit user's access to the Linux system. Once you put the users in restricted shell mode, they are allowed to execute only limited set ... read more
  LXerJanuary 20, 2020 11:44 pm
  2 hours ago
• Cloud-based test farm lets you check out edge AI software on Linux dev boards
  FØCAL is a profiling and automated test farm platform based on Docker and LTTng for testing Linux edge AI software on the BeagleBone, Raspberry Pi, Jetson, Up Squared, and Google ... read more
  LXerJanuary 20, 2020 11:15 pm
  2 hours ago
• wc Command – Count Output by Lines, Words or Characters
  The Linux wc command it one of the many text utilities that come packaged with the GNU Core Utilities. It allows you to print a count of words, lines, characters, ... read more
  LXerJanuary 20, 2020 11:15 pm
  2 hours ago