• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver” Beta 1 Released For Opt-In Flavors

• New Ubuntu Installs Could Be Speed Up by 10% with the Zstd Compression Algorithm

• Debian 9.4 Stretch GNU/Linux Released With 150+ Fixes

• Canonical Plans to Release Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on March 1, 2018

• Unity 8 on the Desktop

• KDE Plasma Linux Desktop Is No Longer Vulnerable to USB Attacks

• Hate to ruin your day, but… Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits

• Why KDE’s Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers

• KDE Slimbook II is Cheaper and More Powerful

• Skype Released as Snap on Ubuntu, Linux Mint

• Opera 51 Released It’s 38% Faster Than Firefox Quantum 58

• Slack Snap Source

• Firefox 58 Source

• Linux 4.15 Source

• KaOS Source

• Xorg Default in Ubuntu 18.04 Source

• Ubuntu Core: A secure open source OS for IoT

• Google Moves Away from Ubuntu

• Improved Speech Recognition hopes for Ubuntu

• RubyMiner

• Transmission Bug

• Wine 3.0

• Ubuntu Unity Remix? Are We Going To Get A New Ubuntu “Unity” Flavor?

• Nvidia looks to reduce AI training material through ‘imagination’

• CrossOver 17 Lets You Install Microsoft Office 2016 on Your Linux Computer

This month

• Command & Conquer
• How-To : Ubuntu Base, Intro To FreeCAD, and Great Cow Basic [NEW!]
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Researching With Linux
• My Opinion: Plasma 5, or Plasma 4?
• KODI Room
• Review: FixMeStick
• Ubuntu Games: Humble Bundles

Plus: News, Q&A, and much more.

• UBports is keeping the Ubuntu Phone dream alive

• Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” Will Be Released On June 17

• Samba vulnerability brings WannaCry fears to Linux/Unix

• Silicon Graphics’ IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop

• Canonical starts IPO path

• World’s First Quantum Computer Made By China — 24,000 Times Faster Than International Counterparts

• NHS cyberattack is ‘biggest ransomware outbreak in history’

• Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 Released With Tons Of Updates And Fixes

• Ubuntu 17.10 To Have Wayland Display Server As Default

• Ubuntu might retire Thunderbird

• Red Hat and Fedora Teams Welcome Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland with Open Arms

• Tails 2.12 Anonymous Live OS Is Out, Drops I2P as Alternative Anonymity Network

• Ubuntu 17.04 inches closer to production

• Linux Kernels 4.10.6, 4.9.18 LTS and 4.4.57 LTS Released with Updated Drivers

• Google Launches New Open Source Website

• IXmaps: This Map Tells If Your Web Traffic Is Being Spied On By The NSA

Apologies for the lack of shows for the past two weeks. I had a heavy cold and assumed you wouldn’t want me coughing and sniffling in your ears. :)

• Canonical extends Ubuntu 12.04 support for paying customers