[PLUG] This Month in GNU/Linux - 21st April 2018

[Dhanesh B. Sabane]

As promised in the meeting, here are the news that I curated for the
month of March.

This Month in GNU/Linux - 21st April 2018 Meeting
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## Purism integrates security firmware giving full control and digital
privacy top laptop users

-- The update lets users test if someone has tampered with the software
on their computer starting at the boot level.

>
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-integrates-heads-security-firmware-with-tpm-giving-full-control-and-digital-privacy-to-laptop-users/

## GitHub survives the biggest DDos attack

-- The service was offline for almost 10 min
-- 126.9 million packets per second were sent using a memcached-based
approach
-- Raises questions about software all over the world being hosted on
one service and the level of dependency
-- The record was broken after Arbor Networks reported that a US service
provider suffered a 1.7Tbps attack earlier this month.

> https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/

## You Can Now Install LineageOS on Your Raspberry Pi 3, Based on
Android 8.1 Oreo

-- Finnish developer published the build on 3rd March.

>
http://news.softpedia.com/news/you-can-now-install-lineageos-on-your-raspberry-pi-3-based-on-android-8-1-oreo-520046.shtml

## GitHub makes open-source project licensing easier with an open-source
program

-- GitHub open sourced "Licensed", an internal tool they've used to
automate some of GitHub's open source projects' licensing process.
-- It works in any git repository by finding, caching and checking
license metadata for dependencies and provides a licensing bill of
materials for your project.

## Purism Partners with Cryptography Pioneer Werner Koch to integrate
hardware encryption in laptops and phones

>
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-collaboration-with-cryptography-expert-werner-koch/

## Intel axes it's Linux graphics update tool

-- Thanks to “faster inclusion” of newer Intel graphics support in Linux
distribution repos.
-- Ubuntu and Fedora were the official distros the tool targetted at,
and both distros now include support for the latest Intel graphic stack
out of the box

>
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/intel-graphics-update-tool-discontinued


Regards,

Dhanesh B. Sabane
https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io

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