If writing is part of your job or your everyday routine, you might find the Nextcloud open source file sync and share application a very useful tool. First, it provides you with free, secure, and easily accessible cloud file storage.

Second, it's fully customizable, which means you can choose different writing tools, such as the four useful editorial apps described below, depending on the task you're trying to accomplish. You can find these and other useful add-ons on the Nextcloud app store.

• Samba 4.7.0 (Samba AD for the Enterprise)

  Enterprise distributions like Red Hat or SUSE are required to ship with MIT Kerberos. The reason is that several institutions or governments have a hard requirement for a special Kerberos implementation. It is the reason why the distributions by these vendors (Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, SLES) only package Samba FS and not the AD component.

  To get Samba AD into RHEL some day it was clear, that we need to port it to MIT Kerberos.

  In 2013 we started to think about this. The question which arise first was: How do we run the tests if we port to MIT Kerberos? We want to start the krb5kdc daemon. This was more or less the birth of the cwrap project! Think of cwrap like it is “The Matrix” where reality is simulated and everything is a lie. It allows us to create an artificial environment emulating a complete network to test Samba. It took nearly a year till we were able to integrate the first part of cwrap, socket_wrapper, into Samba.

• Cockpit 151

  The User menu’s Authentication dialog now supports entering arbitrary paths to SSH keys for adding to the SSH authentication agent. Previously this only offered keys present in the standard ~/.ssh home directory.

• Termius A Reliable SSH Client for Ubuntu/Linux Mint

  Termius is a client terminal which has built-in Telnet and SSH, it was formerly known as Serverauditor, and it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, it offers full Terminal emulation on all your devices. You can run multiple concurrent terminal sessions with SSH, Telnet and Mosh. It has a robust emulation environment with full Emacs, Vim and MC support. Special characters, colors and command line tools work exactly how you’d expect them to.

  You don't have to worry about infrastructure and credentials, since they are organized very well and logically. It comes with powerful organization features. Combine a collection of hosts into a group with shared settings, easily configured at the top level. Effortlessly find what you’re looking for with tagging, search and rich previews.

• Remmina Remote Desktop Application for Linux

  Remmina is a free and open-source remote desktop application, it is written in C and GTK+, released under GNU GPL license, and only available for Unix/Linux based systems. Basically it aims to be useful for system administrators and for those who need to access remote computers. It supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent UI, at the moment RDP, VNC, NX, SPICE, XDMCP and SSH protocols are supported. You can install Remmina plugins: RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP, SSH, Telepathy

• Krita 3.3.0 – first release candidate

  Less than a month after Krita 3.2.1, we’re getting ready to release Krita 3.3.0. We’re bumping the version because there are some important changes for Windows users in this version!

• Sublime Text 3.0 is Here! See, How to Install it on Linux

  The major changes to be seen in Sublime Text 3.0 are the Goto Definition, the new UI, syntax highlighting engine and an expanded API. Spell-check and word wrapping work better now.

• Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

  Emacs enthusiast Artur Malabarba has put the text editor to work taming Slack.

  Malabarba likes Slack and feels it's a fine tool for intra-office chat, but also feels that “it’s also a powerful source of distractions.”

  But he can't turn it off all day, so decided to “keep the spam in check.”

  Doing so proved quite simple. There's already a Slack client for Emacs here on GitHub and Malabarba put it to work alongside “Alerts”, a “Growl-like alerts notifier for Emacs.”

• 3 Easy Ways To Check DNS (Domain Name Server) Records In Linux Terminal

  The utilities are below.

  Host Command
  Dig Command
  NSLookup Command

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Products for Linux

  However, Adobe Creative Suite is a proprietary software costing you a good amount of your money and if you are a Linux user, even if you are willing to spend that money, it’s not available for your OS.

  In this article, we are going to cover some of the best Adobe products alternative for Linux.

• Impress Your Friends with This Fake Hollywood Hacker Terminal

  In Hollywood movies, hacking always seems interesting, especially because the whole action is spiced up with fancy desktop environments/backgrounds, rapidly uncontrolled typing (with loud typing noise/keystrokes) and rapid scrolling of command output on colorful terminals.

• Protect Linux Web Servers from Zero Day Attacks; RoboCyberWall Unveils Award-Winning Precision Firewall [Ed: Proprietary]

  Patent-pending software-based firewall blocks all known exploits as well as "Zero Day" attacks from penetrating HTTP and SSL/HTTPS ports on Linux web servers; SecureWorks tested with 6,593 probes and manual hack attempts on the RoboCyberWall protected server without a single breach

• VirtualBox 5.2 to Let Users Enable or Disable Audio Input and Output On-the-Fly

  Oracle announced new updates for its popular, cross-platform and open-source virtualization software, the third Beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 5.2 major release and VirtualBox 5.1.28 stable maintenance update.

  We'll start with the stable update, VirtualBox 5.1.28, as it's more important for our readers using Oracle VM VirtualBox for all of their virtualization needs. The VirtualBox 5.1 maintenance release 28 is here to improve audio support by fixing various issues with both the ALSA and OSS backends, as well as an accidental crash with AC'97.

• SPARC M8 Processors Launched

  While Oracle recently let go of some of their SPARC team, today marks the launch of the SPARC M8.

  The initial SPARC M8 line-up includes the T8-1, T8-2, T8-4. M8-8, and SuperCluster M8-8 servers.