[sf-lug] Linux Pro Magazine May 2020 issue #234

[Bobbie Sellers]

Linux Pro issue #234 May 2020

Now this is the Digital issue which I bought and was sent to me via
the 'net.  Good old Fog City News has not gotten any later
issues than 233.

Front page lists
Disks of the month (two side) Manjaro Kyria Gnome 19.0
SystemRescueCD 6.1  Later versions are already out.

NAVI Interactive Cheat sheet for the shell commands.

Edge Computing - Get ready for the low-latency cloud.

Bash Scraping - Gather, parse. and filter web data with Bash Commands

Free as in Freedom - which Linux distros meet the strict FSF definition 
of "free?"

Pi Tricks - Turn your Pi Zero into a USB stick

chromedp - Extract data from dynamic web pages

Helium - Lean Linux distro for 32-but systems

LINUXVOICE

• FreeDOS: Is this FOSS version of MS-DOS the ultimate retro project?
• Maddog: Courage and imagination
• FlightGear Flight Simulator: Slip the surly bonds of earth

FOSSPicks
• OpenShot 2.5
• vokoscreenNG
• OpenSnitch

Tutorials
• Printing in the Shell
• LÖVE Animation

And much more inside.

www.linuxpromagazine.com

 From the editorial;
[1]    New Zoom Security Warning: Your Video Calls at Risk from
Hackers – Here’s What You Do:
https://​­www.​­forbes.​­com/​­sites/​­zakdoffman/​­2020/​­01/​­28/​­new‐​
­zoom‐​­roulette‐​­security‐​­warning‐​­your‐​­video‐​­calls‐at‐​­risk‐​­from‐​
­hackers‐​­heres‐what‐you‐do/​­#​­6017dfb27343

A report on SCALE - Interview with the FreeBSD Foundation

Edge computing is the exact opposite of the centralized cloud paradigm.
The goal of Edge computing is to provide similar cloud-like services, but
to move computing resources to the farthest edge of the environment – 
geographically close to where the data is gathered and accessed.
Containerized Data Centers are important to this idea.

Helium uses Openbox and is available for the 64-bit
as well as 32-bit with and without PAE. 1 GB ram
and 10 GB on the fixed disk.

The sys admin’s daily grind: darkstat
Spry Methuselah
Thanks to its minimal footprint, 20-year-old darkstat hardly generates
any noticeable load even on low-powered systems, making it the perfect 
monitoring tool for Charly’s home utility room. By Charly Kühnast

  MakerSpace
CircuitPython for Raspberry Pi and MCUs
One for All

Pi Zero as a universal USB stick - Multitool

Video converter - MystiQ

Unofficial Spotify client - Spotifyd

Music platform - norns
While norns is a Raspberry Pi-based hardware platform, it also
runs on Linux.

  LÖVE is an extension of the Lua language, designed to make developing 
games
easy. In this tutorial, we’ll explore this framework by creating some 
animated
sprites. BY PAUL BROWN

And still yet more!