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Ubuntu MATE And Ubuntu Budgie Dropping 32-bit Hardware Support Now You Can Officially Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS KaOS KDE-focused rolling Linux distro celebrates 5th birthday with updated ISO Sophisticated Android malware tracks all your phone activities Ubuntu 18.10 Operating System Dubbed “Cosmic Cuttlefish” by Mark Shuttleworth

Kali Linux 2018.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here Major Debian Linux Kernel Patch Fixes 8-Year-Old Privilege Escalation Flaw Twitter Wants 336 Million Users To Change Passwords, Bug Exposed Them In Plain Text Linux Apps Are Coming to Chromebooks and You Can Try Them Right Now Linux Lite 4.0 OS Enters Beta with New Look and Feel, Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Pop!_OS 18.04 Released — Get System76’s Beau...

Linux Kernel 4.15 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.16 Now Linux developers: Kernel community will collapse under its own bureaucracy ONNX: the Open Neural Network Exchange Format Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Is Now Available to Download Ubuntu Linux Replaces Alpha/Beta Release Model With “Testing Weeks” Librem 5 Linux smartphone will support Ubuntu Touch, PureOS, or PureOS w...

This month Command & Conquer How-To : Python, Freeplane, and Ubuntu Touch Graphics : Inkscape Everyday Linux Researching With Linux My Opinion My Story Book Review: Cracking Codes With Python Ubuntu Games: Dwarf Fortress Plus: News, Q&A, and much more. Other languages French PDF Hungarian PDF

Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better Thousands of Android Apps Are Tracking Kids Without Parental Consent Federal administration relies on Nextcloud Microsoft Creates Its Own Version of Linux For The First Time, Launches Azure Sphere OS Suddenly the # 1: This Linux is even more popular than Ubuntu and Mint

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver “Final Beta” Released Should Ubuntu Linux Replace Alpha/Beta Release Model With “Testing Weeks”? System76 becomes GNOME Foundation Advisory Board member KDE Connect has a Nautilus Connection Update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS patches security vulnerabilities Disappearing data under ZFS on Linux sparks small, swift upgrade

“Safespaces” Is The First Open Source VR Desktop Environment For Linux Mozilla Just Announced An Open Source Virtual Reality Browser: “Firefox Reality” MIT Researchers Create ‘AlterEgo’ Headset That Interprets User’s Thoughts Valve insists there’s still life in Steam Machines and Linux gaming Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.16 Linux 4.17 Shredding 500,000 Lines Of Code, Killing Support For...

Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Will Ship in June, Pre-Installed on the Mintbox Mini 2 PCs Linus Torvalds says new Linux lands next week and he’s sticking to that … for now New Firefox Extension Builds a Wall Around Facebook The Linux Foundation launches a deep learning foundation GoScanSSH malware targets Linux systems but avoids government servers After Meltdown and Spectre, Intel CPUs Are Now...

This month Command & Conquer How-To : Encryption with Veracrypt, Freeplane, and Great Cow Basic Graphics : Inkscape Everyday Linux My Story My Opinion Review: Linux Lite Plus: News, Q&A, and much more. Other languages French PDF Hungarian PDF

Zorin OS 12.3 Linux Distro Released: Download The Perfect Windows Replacement Ubuntu 18.10 Will Boot Faster, Thanks to LZ4 Initramfs Compression Linux Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon will be faster Announcing the 0.92.3 Release of Inkscape Linux Foundation Announces ACRN —Open Source Hypervisor for IoT Devices Firefox’s Weak Master Password Encryption Can Be Cracked In Just 1 Minute Zuckerberg...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver” Beta 1 Released For Opt-In Flavors New Ubuntu Installs Could Be Speed Up by 10% with the Zstd Compression Algorithm Debian 9.4 Stretch GNU/Linux Released With 150+ Fixes SparkyLinux 5.3 Rolling Linux OS Debuts Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” Neptune 5.0 Linux OS Released with KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS, Based on Debian Stretch LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.4 K...

Purism to Bring Hardware Encryption to Its Librem 5 Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Android Phones Caught Selling with Pre-Installed Factory Malware Exton|OS Claims to Be First Distribution Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Linux 4.16 As Debian comes to Windows 10, should we worry Microsoft will ’embrace, extend, and extinguish’ Linux? Security researchers’ warning over Linux feature used i...

Soon You’ll Be Able To Run Linux Apps In VM On Chrome OS Ubuntu Adds New “Minimal Installation” Option For Fewer Preinstalled Packages Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Calamares 3.2 Linux Installer Will Integrate a Module for the KDE Plasma Desktop Purism Now Sells the Most Secure Linux Laptops with Heads Integrated TPM Chips LibreOffice 6.0 Open-Source Office Suite Passes 1 Million Downloads Mark M...

Canonical Plans to Release Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on March 1, 2018 Unity 8 on the Desktop KDE Plasma Linux Desktop Is No Longer Vulnerable to USB Attacks Hate to ruin your day, but… Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits

This month Command & Conquer How-To : Sphinx, Freeplane [ NEW! ], and Great Cow Basic Graphics : Inkscape Everyday Linux [ NEW! ] Researching With Linux My Opinion Review: Able2Extract 12 Plus: News, Q&A, and much more. Other languages French PDF Hungarian PDF

Why KDE’s Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers KDE Slimbook II is Cheaper and More Powerful Skype Released as Snap on Ubuntu, Linux Mint Opera 51 Released It’s 38% Faster Than Firefox Quantum 58 Ubuntu Touch Jade Diamond is a Safe-for-Kids web browser Meltdown/Spectre Status for Red Hat and Oracle CloudLinux’s KernelCare Promises to Fix Meltdown & Spect...

Firefox Addon Injects Monero Miner Source LibreOffice 6.0 Released With New Features Source Red Hat buys CoreOS Source Intel Disclosed Meltdown Bugs to Chinese Compaines before the US Govrenment Source Good and Bad News about Linux 4.15 Source Meltdown Attack Monitoring Tool Source

Slack Snap Source Firefox 58 Source Linux 4.15 Source KaOS Source Xorg Default in Ubuntu 18.04 Source

Ubuntu Core: A secure open source OS for IoT Google Moves Away from Ubuntu Improved Speech Recognition hopes for Ubuntu RubyMiner Transmission Bug Wine 3.0

This month Command & Conquer How-To : PyMOL, Intro To FreeCAD, and Great Cow Basic [ NEW! ] Graphics : Inkscape Everyday Linux [ NEW! ] Researching With Linux My Opinion & My Story Review: Online Apps & Services Plus: News, Q&A, and much more. Other languages French PDF Hungarian PDF

PyCryptoMiner Attacks Linux Machines And Turns Them Into Monero-mining Bots Linux vs Meltdown Tails 3.4 Ubuntu Boot Issue Ubuntu 17.10 ISO Respins City Of Barcelona Chooses Linux And Free Software After Ditching Microsoft No Internet? No Problem — “ARON” Is A Futuristic And Free Wi-Fi Alternative That Uses IR

Some changes to the Full Circle Weekly News . We have Wayne and Joe taking over as hosts of the FCWN. Big thanks to them for taking over as I (Ronnie) was finding it difficult to record a show each week. Manjaro Linux 17.1.0 Released With Latest Packages ‘Kernel memory leaking’ Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign Black Lab Software Releases Freespire 3.0 & Li...

Canonical temporarily disables Ubuntu 17.10 download Android Apps Will Soon Run On Ubuntu Touch With “Anbox” Spotify now available as a Snap for Linux Ubuntu Devs Work on Demoting Python 2 to “Universe” Repo for Ubuntu 18.04 “Zealot” Campaign Uses NSA Exploits to Mine Monero on Windows and Linux Servers Scientists use artificial intelligence to eavesdrop on dolphins With At...

Everyone at Full Circle would like to wish all our readers a very happy new year, and all the best for 2018. This month Command & Conquer How-To : tmux, Intro To FreeCAD, and Great Cow Basic [ NEW! ] Graphics : Inkscape Researching With Linux My Opinion & My Story Review: Emmabuntus 2 Ubuntu Games: Diluvion Plus: News, Q&A, and much more. Other languages French PDF Hungarian PDF

Ubuntu Unity Remix? Are We Going To Get A New Ubuntu “Unity” Flavor? Nvidia looks to reduce AI training material through ‘imagination’ CrossOver 17 Lets You Install Microsoft Office 2016 on Your Linux Computer Computer vendors start disabling Intel Management Engine Hackers Turn On “GOD MODE” To Hack Intel ME Chip Like A Boss Lightweight Distro Puppy Linux 7.5 “Xenialpup” Released CRED...