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eWEEK: Docker releases a new major update of its flagship Enterprise Edition, for the first time providing full commercial Kubernetes support.

Linus Torvalds: The most special thing that happened is purely numerology: we've passed the six million git objects mark, and that is reason enough to call the next kernel 5.0.

eSecurityPlanet: There are hundreds of ways to spend your time at the 2018 RSA Conference, but here are the 10 sessions that people will be talking about.

TechRepublic: If you're looking to take your container management to the next level, the Rancher Docker Container Manager might be just what you need.

ZDnet: Google and Netflix have released Kayenta, an open-source automated canary analysis tool, which promises to make the final step of deploying by using CI/CD more reliable.

Phoronix: The kernel's idle loop has been reworked to prevent processors from spending too much time in shallow idle states.

eWEEK: The W3C web standards organization is now working with the FIDO Alliance to enable a new era of strong authentication with the WebAuthn effort.

eWEEK: More than a year after first emerging from stealth, container security startup Capsule8 launches the 1.0 version of its zero-day threat detection platform.

ServerWatch: Red Hat announced the general availability of its flagship platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (RHEL) on April 10, providing multiple new features for server administrators.

LinuxInsider: Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that features up-to-date packages, an impressive range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation, and a live desktop DVD. The live session capability is one of Bluestar's more enticing qualities.

MakeUseOf: Looking for a way to get the most out of your Raspberry Pi?

OMGubuntu: It just got a whole heap easier to find and install Flatpak apps on Linux distros like Ubuntu.

Linux Journal: The obvious parts of that Matrix are maintained by Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Amazon and so on.

Restic is a fast, efficient, free and open source backup application that secures your data with AES-256 encryption.

Jack Wallen says this distro can make anyone feel right at home on Linux. Image courtesy: MX Linux.

Phoronix: We are now through the first week of the two week long Linux 4.17 kernel merge window process for introducing the new features/functionality to this next big kernel release.

eWEEK: Aqua Security brings enhanced policy and compliance capabilities to its container security platform.

Currently, Fedora uses several ways to ensure that packages from the Fedora repositories are delivered to you securely.

ZDnet: Overclock has a plan on how to turn your datacenter into a profit center.

Kernel.org: The Linux Foundation IT team has been working to improve the code integrity of git repositories hosted at kernel.org by promoting the use of PGP-signed git tags and commits.

Linux.com: Container players say the future belongs to containerized OS, but others may disagree.

The New Stack: Take your adoption project seriously, and treat it like a product.

Linux Foundation: Linux kernel developer Steven Rostedt maintains the Real Time Stable releases of the Linux kernel.

eWEEK: Red Hat's community Linux distribution is out with a beta of Fedora 28, providing a preview of new capabilities.

LightReading: ONAP and Kubernetes, two of the fastest growing and in demand open source projects, are coming together

LinuxJournal: When working with AWS, it's common to have a number of separate accounts run by different teams for different projects.

The New Stack: Etcd, a key-value store and a core component of Kubernetes clusters, is used to store highly sensitive configuration data but is also easily left unprotected, as a developer recently found.

IPFire was designed for users new to firewalling, so it places a premium on user-friendliness.

ars: If an off-the-shelf Linux distribution doesn’t float your boat, why not build your own?

ServerWatch: April 1 is usually a day for April Fool's jokes, but Linux creator Linus Torvalds' Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) message that day was anything but a joke.

Linus Torvalds:  4.16 is out, and the merge window for 4.17 is open and I'll start doing pull requests tomorrow.

eWEEK: In a surprise announcement, Solomon Hykes reveals he is leaving Docker Inc. The company he created and the movement he started are both very different in 2018 than when he started the company ten years ago.

ServerWatch: For the last 25 years, Linux has been the cornerstone of Red Hat's business, but that changed In the fourth quarter of Red Hat's fiscal 2018.

eWEEK: The Linux Foundation brings technology vendors together to form new effort that aims to make it easier for different industry vertical to benefit from Artificial Intelligence.

eWEEK: A decade after the last SSL/TLS web encryption standard was released, the IETF has finally settled on the 28th draft of the TLS 1.3 standard to be the next major protocol for internet security.

ServerWatch: The Open Compute Project (OCP) is not just a hobby project for Facebook and hyperscale operators, it had broad impact of over $1 billion in 2017 alone, according to IHS Markit.

eWEEK: Barely six months after Java 9 become generally available, Java 10 is now out as the first release in Java's new rapid release cadence.

ServerWatch: At the OpenPower Summit,  execs reveal that initial enthusiasm by vendors to build their own silicon has been replaced by efforts to built accelerators.

Betanews: Is Linux Mint slow?

Phoronix: This latest batch of "x86/pti" updates for "melted spectrum updates" is relatively modest