Server: Silicon Sky, IBM and Red Hat

• Silicon Sky enhances its managed Linux service

  Silicon Sky, an IT infrastructure provider, has enhanced its managed Linux service for customers who require Linux management and administration skills. The Linux managed services will benefit customers that have limited Linux skills. Silicon Sky provides the necessary skill set to manage Linux workloads on-premises or in a hosted environment. This service is a remote managed service, operated out of Silicon Sky's Network Operation Centre.

• Three Things IBM Must Do To Keep Red Hat Acquisition From Sinking The Company

today's howtos

• Free Ebook Kubernetes Essentials - A Tutorial for Beginners

• Twitter Alerts: A Trick for the Twitter-averse

• Tuning your Intel Graphics Card in Ubuntu 18.04

  In the computing world things move at a brisk pace. To appeal to business users and conservative types like me Ubuntu releases the Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu the latest of which is Ubuntu 18.04 which came out early this year. Ubuntu 16.04 for which I wrote the guide, is the LTS version prior to 18.04. It’s a little bit late to say this now but Ubuntu 18.04 came with a lot of changes including the infamous switchback to GNOME and the subsequent death of Unity. Another not so famous change was the fact that Intel drivers now ship with the kernel. This is not an Ubuntu specific change per se which explains why it was more of a footnote and not a headline in the Ubuntu world.

• 4 Best open source & free YouTube Downloader for Ubuntu Linux

  Downloading YouTube Videos on Ubuntu Linux is not that much difficult as it appears. Lots of newbies think that Windows is the only platform to download online Youtube videos due to the availability of tons of free YouTube downloader software for it. However, after going through this article their opinion would be changed forever because not only normal videos but 4K videos can be downloaded on the Linux platforms as easy as on Windows.

• Beginner's Guide: How To Install Ubuntu Linux 18.10

Interview With Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth delivered an unashamed plug for Ubuntu while cheerfully throwing a little shade on the competition at the OpenStack Berlin 2018 summit last week. If Nick Barcet of Red Hat had elicited gasps by suggesting the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) might consider releasing updates a bit more frequently, Shuttleworth sent eyebrows skywards by announcing that the latest Long Term Support (LTS) edition of Ubuntu, 18.04, would get 10 years of support.

Security: Facebook/Instagram Breach and More FUD From Microsoft's Friends at WhiteSource

• New Instagram Bug Raises Security Questions

• Instagram’s Data Download Tool Accidentally Leaked Users’ Passwords

  As reported by The Information, the photo-sharing app had a security flaw which unknowingly led to the revelation of some users’ passwords. The new bug seems to have affected a recently-introduced security tool by Instagram- ‘Download Your Data’ which allows users to download his or her data from the app.

• Open Source Vulnerabilities Are on the Rise: Here’s What You Need to Know [Ed: WhiteSource -- with connections to Microsoft -- tries to sell proprietary things by bashing FOSS as usual. Co-Founder of the firm speaks of his company like a third person.]