Today in Techrights

• You Know Gemini Space is Getting a Lot Bigger When You Need to Implement DDOS Protection
• The Fall of The Register
• IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 27, 2021
• Links 27/2/2021: IPFS 0.8, OnionShare 2.3.1, and New Stuff in KDE
• The Internet After Social Control Media (and Maybe After the World Wide Web Too)
• SCO's Darl McBride is Finished (Bankruptcy)
• IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 26, 2021
• Links 26/2/2021: Wine 6.3, Genode OS Framework 21.02
• Links 26/2/2021: GNU Poke 1.0 is Out and Rocky Linux Leaves Microsoft GitHub
• Microsoft's Status in Web Servers is So Bad That It Has Fallen Off Charts, is Now Partly Delisted

And Now For Something Completely Different

elementary. I've been a fan of the project since the early days, when it was just an icon and GTK theme. While designing my own applications, I've borrowed from their design language. And with each successive update, I'm always blown away by every small detail they get right. [...] First and foremost, there's a Xubuntu release in progress! Xubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" will be released on April 22, and there's plenty of work left to do. The biggest of these is the transition of our new documentation to Docbook so it can be translated and packaged. Outside of documentation, there's a never-ending backlog of issues (focal+) on Launchpad that needs to be reviewed and addressed. Then, it's elementary time! elementary OS 6 "Odin" is expected sometime this year. I've installed it on my laptop for testing and development, and so far it's looking pretty great. Some areas where I want to start contributing and improving include Light Locker, Glade, Indicators, feature ports, and new apps. Once I have a better grasp of what I'm working on, I'll post some updates here. If you'd like to follow me on this journey, follow my Twitter handle @bluesabredavis. For regular updates from Xfce, Xubuntu, and related developers, you can subscribe to Planet Bluesabre (Twitter). If you'd like to sponsor me (or need a handy link to unsponsor me, I get it), check out the Donate page on this site.

Linux Mint Monthly News – February 2021

An announcement was made last week to explain why security updates are important and to remind people to update their computer. If you haven’t read it yet please visit https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4030. We started working on improvements for the Update Manager. In the next release the manager won’t just look for available updates, it will also keep track of particular metrics and be able to detect cases where updates are overlooked. Some of these metrics are when was the last time updates were applied, when was the last time packages were upgraded on the system, for how many days has a particular update been shown… In some cases the Update Manager will be able to remind you to apply updates. In a few of them it might even insist. We don’t want it to be dumb and get in your way though. It’s here to help. If you are handling things your way, it will detect smart patterns and usages. It will also be configurable and let you change the way it’s set up. We have key principles at Linux Mint. One of them is that this is your computer, not ours. We also have many use cases in mind and don’t want to make Linux Mint harder to use for any of them. We’re still forming strategies and deciding when and how the manager should make itself more visible so it’s too soon to speak about these aspects and get into the details which probably interest you the most here. So far we worked on making the manager smarter and giving it more information and more metrics to look at.