[sf-lug] Linux Pro magazine issue 243 precis

Fri Jan 1 15:26:43 PST 2021

Hi LUGers,

     Well I meant to have this out on New Years Eve but the day before left
me flat on my back for most of yesterday so Happy New Year!

     Maybe in September we can meet in person again.
Otherwise I will be at the Virtual Meeting tomorrow as previously indicated
by Rick Moen and myself.

         LINUX MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 Issue #243
WHAT'S INSIDE
With Linux, more innovation is always on the way. This month we
take a look at the iNet wireless daemon, a new wireless client that is
poised to replace the venerable WPA Supplicant. Also in this issue:

Approximate dates of release of issue # 244
UK / Europe     Feb 06
USA / Canada   Mar 05
Australia         Apr 05

In San Francisco the Linux Pro Magazine is once again being carried
by Fog City News (favorite Chocolate Shop of the stars) so this is now
advance notice of the topics.  I get the Digital issue.

•     ExifTool and jExifToolGUI – read and manage image metadata from
the command line (page 32).

•     Optimizing Vector Graphics – small but expressive vector graphics
files are great for websites, but if you’re looking to optimize, get
ready for some tweaking (page 50).

Check out MakerSpace for an exotic escape room puzzle built on Arduino,
and visit LinuxVoice for a tutorial on Ventoy, an innovative app that lets
you build multi-boot USB sticks.

NEWS - CO08News
• Patreon Project Looks to Bring Linux to Apple Silicon

• A New Chrome OS-Like Ubuntu Remix Is Now Available

• System76 Refreshes the Galago Pro Laptop

• Linux Kernel 5.10 Is Almost Ready for Release

• Canonical Launches Curated Container Images

• AWS Container Image Library in the Works

11Kernel News

• Debugging Production Systems

• Patch Submission Guidelines

• New Filesystem for SSD and Flash Drives

• Unlocking Memory Access

14 REVIEWS

20 Distro Walk – Trends Bruce takes a look at DistroWatch
data for a glimpse into the current state of Linux distributions.

  COVER STORIES
14  iNet Wireless Daemon Intel’s iNet Wireless Daemon offers
virtually all of the features found in the obsolete WPA Supplicant,
and it is smaller by a factor of 10.

24 Sunflower Following in the footsteps of Norton Commander
and its clones, the Sunflower twin-panel file manager takes
a giant leap forward with a switch to Python 3 and GTK3.

IN-DEPTH - 28 Command Line – Git Branches
To manage your Git branches successfully, you need to learn the
ins and outs of git branch and git merge.

32 ExifTool and jExifToolGUI - ExifTool lets you modify and analyze
metadata in multimedia files from the command line, but its comprehensive
feature set results in a lengthy learning curve. Luckily, jExifToolGUI 
offers an
intuitive interface.

38     Charly – Shell History - For admins like Charly, who try to avoid
typing at all costs, the shell offers an excellent opportunity to avoid
wear on your fingertips in the form of built-in history.

40  Firefox VA-API Integration - Today’s graphics cards not only
specialize in quickly drawing graphics on the screen, but they can also 
speed
up video playback, reducing the CPU’s load. Firefox supports this
optimization, but you must manually enable hardware acceleration.

46    Programming Snapshot – Shell Stats
In the history log, the Bash shell records all commands typed by the
user. Mike Schilli extracts this data with Go for a statistical analysis of
his typing behavior.

50  Optimizing Vector Graphics - Inkscape creates W3C-compliant SVG
files, but they are usually larger than they need to be for the web. We’ll
how you how to optimize SVG files.

54Tiny Core Linux Tiny Core Linux does not boast a big repository. Sooner
or later, you’ll need to create your own extensions.

MAKERSPACE - 60 VS Code for Rasp Pi -Set up a Linux system to serve as a
Visual Studio Code development environment for remote coding of a 
Raspberry Pi.

66 Escape Room Puzzle A digital puzzle presents a challenge for
young people in an escape room.

LINUX Voice
73 Welcome - This month in Linux Voice.

75 Doghouse – Weather Forecast - A recent rocket launch has maddog
thinking about high performance computing and accurate weather
forecasts.

76 Variety - With the Variety wallpaper manager, you can easily set up a
rotating selection of background images and other customized
options.

84 80 bpytop - Linux users have many options for
monitoring system resources, but bpytop, a new Python port of
bashtop, stands out from the crowd.

84 FOSSPicks - This month Graham looks at Kushview Element, Artisan,
  NetSurf, SimulIDE, Oh My Zsh, and more!

90 Tutorial – Ventoy - Ventoy lets you put multiple
bootable ISO images on a single USB drive.

DVD of the Month
Both 64 bit Distributions of Mint 20 and Kali 20.4
Info
[1]    Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com/
[2]    Linux Mint Installation Guide: https://
linuxmint‐installation‐guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[3]    Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org/
[4]    Kali Documentation: https://www.kali.org/docs/

Events
FOSDEM 2021  February 6-7  Virtual Event https://fosdem.org/2021/

CloudFest 2021  March 23-25  Virtual Event https://www.cloudfest.com/

Kubernetes Community Days  April 8-9  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  https://sessionize.com/kcdams2021/

DevOpsCon London Hybrid Edition  April 20-23  London, UK and Online
  https://devopscon.io/london/

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon  May 5-7  Virtual Event 
https://bit.ly/kube-cloudnativecon

Linux Storage Filesystem &  May 12-14  Palm Springs, California
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmm/

MM Summit LISA21  June 1-3  Anaheim, California
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21

SYSTOR 2021 Hybrid  June 14-18  Haifa, Israel
  https://www.systor.org/2021/venue.html

stackconf online 2021  June 15-16  Virtual Event
  https://stackconf.eu/

ISC High Performance 2021 Digital  June 24-July 2  Virtual Event
  https://www.isc-hpc.com/

Cloud Expo Europe  July 7-8  London, United Kingdom
  https://www.cloudexpoeurope.com/

USENIX ATC '21  July 14-16  Santa Clara, California
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc21

  KVM Forum  August 2-4  Vancouver, British Columbia
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

  Embedded Linux Conference North America  August 4-6  Vancouver, 
British Columbia
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

  Embedded Linux Conference Europe  September 29-Oct 1 Dublin, Ireland
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

  Open Source Summit Europe   September 29-Oct 1 Dublin, Ireland
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

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             Happy New Year in 2021!

             Bobbie Sellers