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.

• Matthew Garrett: What usage restrictions can we place in a free software license?
  

  Growing awareness of the wider social and political impact of software development has led to efforts to write licenses that prevent software being used to engage in acts that ... read more
  Fedora PlanetFebruary 19, 2020 7:45 pm
  7 hours ago
• College Student Gets Thrown On The Ground And A Gun Pointed At His Head For Committing The Crime Of ‘Taking A Selfie While Black’
  The latest crime to result in civil litigation is "taking a selfie while black." Doing so in Illinois gets your face pushed in the snow, a knee in your ... read more
  TechdirtFebruary 19, 2020 6:51 pm
  7 hours ago
• Pgrep Command in Linux
  

  Linuxize: The pgrep command is used to find out the PIDs of a running program based on different criteria. ... read more
  Linux TodayFebruary 19, 2020 6:00 pm
  8 hours ago
• alciregi-it: Contribuite al Gnome 3.36 Test Day
  

  Il 20 Febbraio si terrà un nuovo Test Day per Fedora. Questa volta alla ricerca di bug sulla versione di GNOME che troveremo su #Fedora 32.Sicuramente un bel po' ... read more
  Fedora PlanetFebruary 19, 2020 5:18 pm
  9 hours ago
• GNOME 3.36 Desktop Gets Second Beta Release Ahead of March 11 Launch
  

  9to5Linux: Only three weeks left until the final release on March 11th, 2020 of the GNOME 3.36 desktop ... read more
  Linux TodayFebruary 19, 2020 5:00 pm
  9 hours ago
• Hey Tom Wheeler: Stick To Net Neutrality, Because Your Understanding Of Section 230 Is… Not Right
  Remember back when former FCC chair Tom Wheeler surprised us all and turned out not to be a dingo. That was cool. But now that he's out of government ... read more
  TechdirtFebruary 19, 2020 4:31 pm
  10 hours ago
• 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing a Microservices Architecture
  

  The developer community has spent much more time discussing the why of microservices architecture than it has the how. ... read more
  ITPro TodayFebruary 19, 2020 4:22 pm
  10 hours ago
• Stable kernel updates
  Stable kernels 5.5.5, 5.4.21, and 4.19.105 have been released, with the usual set of important fixes. ... read more
  Linux World NewsFebruary 19, 2020 4:07 pm
  10 hours ago
• 4 Ways to Kill Unresponsive Applications in Debian 10
  

  This tutorial shows 4 different ways to kill an unresponsive application ... read more
  Linux TodayFebruary 19, 2020 4:00 pm
  10 hours ago
• MAAS doc example: MGH
  Rather than assume that every reader of our MAAS documentation is a network expert looking for a quick fix, we’re planning to expand the available material somewhat. In the past, ... read more
  Ubuntu InsightsFebruary 19, 2020 3:20 pm
  11 hours ago