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Linus Torvalds: Anyway, it's early in the rc series yet, but things look fairly normal.

Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), Peppermint 9 is using the Linux 4.15 kernel and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures.

opensource.com: Portable Apps is like having your own computer, when you don't have your own computer.

itsFOSS: Here is a tiny script that automatically changes wallpaper at regular intervals in your Linux desktop.

PureOS is a modern user-friendly Debian-based distro that uses exclusively free and open source software

HowToForge: Learn how to install and configure the Nginx web server with Let's encrypt certificate and how to obtain an A+ rating from SSL Labs for the SSL setup.

One of the first solutions to achieve faster load times of your WordPress CMS is to decrease the size of your page.

eWEEK: Popular Linux desktop distribution set to provide users with integrated snapshotting capabilities.

GamingOnLinux: Directly helping to bring games to Linux can be super complicated - I'm talking low-level, real-time, writing-a-GUI-in-Visual-Basic-to-hack-the-Gibson complicated.

MakeTechEasier: If you need to process text based on certain conditions, awk will almost always get the job done quickly.

tecmint: Netdata is a free open source, scalable, adaptive, customizable, extensible, and powerful real-time performance and health monitoring tool for Linux system

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Linux Networking Efforts Advances with New DPDK and OpenSwitch Releases.

eWEEK: Red Hat adds dynamic case management features to its business process management suite.

ITWIRE: Germany-based SUSE Linux has released SUSE CaaS Platform 3, the third iteration of its container as a service platform.

softpedia: Highlights of PulseAudio 12.0 include better latency reporting with the A2DP Bluetooth profile

Linuxize: Pip is a package management system that simplifies installation and management of software packages written in Python such as those found in the Python Package Index (PyPI).

Coming almost a month after GNOME 3.29.2, the GNOME 3.29.3 development milestone appears to be the first where all components are buildable.

softpedia: As biometric authentication mechanisms like fingerprint scanning and face unlocking are becoming more and more popular among Android users, Google has to make them more secure and improve them to offer users better privacy.

Big data is coming to human resources. What can your open organization expect?

Remmina's minimal UI makes it easy to remotely access Linux PCs and Windows 10.

opensource.com: The source of a problem is often where you least expect to find it.

2DayGeek: Zstandard is a lossless and super faster data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

XAMPP is a development tool for web developers specially targeted towards back-end web development i.e., server-side scripting, managing databases, etc.

 MakeTechEasier: Some prior facts about Chromebook and Chrome OS are no longer true today.

 opensource.com: What does a good pull request look like?

Here are the tools you need to overcome performance challenges when implementing React Native animations.

LinuxConfig: With the use of modern Gnu/Linux distributions package managers, package dependencies are no more a problem

Linuxize: Learn how to install and secure MySQL on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

Learn how to set up Nginx with HTTP/2 Support on Debian 9.

CentOS Atomic Host 7.5 (7.1805) is built from standard CentOS Linux 7 RPMs and the upstream packages included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.5 operating system.

LinuxUprising: Random Wallpaper is an extension for Gnome Shell that can automatically fetch wallpapers from a multitude of online sources and set it as your desktop background.

HowToForge: If you are new to Linux command line, and are interested in learning networking stuff, there are many command line utilities that you should be aware of.

tecmint: Docker is an open-source, powerful, secure, reliable and efficient container platform that enables realistic independence between applications and infrastructure.

 ostechnix: This guide describes how to record everything you do in Terminal using the 'script' command.

itsFOSS: Google just launched a VR180 Creator tool to let people edit VR content and convert it to a standardized format which can be later edited using Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro or using Linux video editors.

elementary OS is an open source Ubuntu-based distro and one of the most awesome GNU/Linux distros ever.