[PLUG] This Month in GNU/Linux Feb 2017

[Dhanesh B. Sabane]

Aloha fellow pluggies!
Here's what happened in the month of January:

1. ZeroPhone — An Open Source, Dirt Cheap, Linux-powered Smartphone Is Here

Link: 
https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone/

* Powered by Raspberry Pi Zero
* Costs around $50 (₹3360 approx.) and is a DIY project. All components available online.
* OS is Raspbian Linux, based on Debian Jessie.
* Basic functions alarm clock, calendar, phonebook, file browser

2. Steam now works out of the box with open-source graphics drivers

3. Vulnerabilities in bash, httpd, curl, openssh, kernel, and qemu

Link:
https://lwn.net/Articles/709998/

4. Google ventures into public key encryption : Key Transperancy Porject

Links:

> https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-transparency.html
> https://keytransperancy.org

* One of the goals is to make the process simpler, unlike PGP
* Key Transparency will maintain a directory of online personae and associated public keys, * and it can work as a public key service to authenticate users.
* Applications and services can publish their users’ public keys in Key Transparency and look up other users’ keys.
* An audit mechanism keeps the service accountable.

5. Intel's hot new Linux distro - Intel Clear Linux

Link:
https://clearlinux.org

* Cloud oriented
* Performance on Intel Hardware
* It has beter benchmark scores than other popular distros
* Available to run on Microsoft Azure platform

6. Hitachi becomes a platinum member of Linux Foundation

7. Microsoft Office 2013 now works on Linux with Wine 2.0

8. KDE get's its own branded laptop - KDE Slimbook

Link:
http://kde.slimbook.es/

* Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE are your options

-- 
Dhanesh B. Sabane [dhanesh95]
dhanesh95.gitlab.io

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