today's howtos

• Thinkpad T490 Fedora install tips

• Top 100 Frequently Asked Data Science Interview Questions and Answers

• VI/VIM Anonymize email address in log file

• Insider 2019-12: Kibana 7 & GeoIP; PE 6 to 7 upgrade; RHEL 8; Elastic stack;

• How to use the Linux uniq command

• How to enable double-click in the file manager in elementary OS 5.1 Hera

• Decluttering process management with ps or systemd

China's Kylin forks are about to join up for new 'domestic os'

China Standard Software (CS2C) and Tianjin Kylin Information (TKC) are both tied up with the powers that be in Bejing but are, nevertheless, software titans in the land of the rising CO2 emission.

If this all sounds a bit familiar, that's because we've been down this road before - several times.

Security Leftovers

• Security updates for Thursday

  Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and nss-softokn), Fedora (samba), Oracle (nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, nss-softokn, and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), SUSE (firefox), and Ubuntu (librabbitmq and samba).

• Reproducible Builds in November 2019

  As a summary of our project, whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws almost all software is distributed to end users as pre-compiled binaries. The motivation behind the reproducible builds effort is therefore to ensure no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised.

• Hex Five Announces General Availability of MultiZone Security for Linux - Commercial Enclave for RISC-V processors

  Hex Five Security Inc., provider of policy-based hardware-enforced separation for a number of security domains, announces the general availability of MultiZone Security for Linux, designed to bring security through separation to embedded systems. MultiZone Security is available for the Microchip PolarFire system-on-chip, the hardened real-time, Linux capable, RISC-V-based microprocessor subsystem. Support for additional RISC-V processors to be announced later in 2020.