Ubuntu 18.10 aka Cosmic Cuttlefish is currently in Beta and looking for testers. More details on how to get involved in this can be found here
Looks like it has a some interesting new features, including kernel 5.0 which is another milestone.
Anyway the above page has a link to the usual image archive, so get downloading and testing 🙂
The 2nd Paignton code club is this Saturday 29th September 2018. Paignton Library at the usual time. Please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information.
There is now a initiative with the Debian Developer community to salvage old packages. More details can be found here. The community are looking for people who are really committed to not only taking this on, so it is a long term commitment.
Reminder for dates for September meetings
Saturday 20th October – Holsworthy
Sat 27th October – Plymouth
Please see meetings page for times / venue details
Reminder for dates for September meetings
Saturday 15th September – Holsworthy
Sat 22nd September – Plymouth
Please see meetings page for times / venue details
Ubuntu for containers
Last week the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) in the UK issued their latest publication which gives advice on how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in accordance with their security best practices.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)is the UK government department responsible for providing guidance on Information Security to the UK public and private sectors as well as responding to online security incidents and securing networks.
As per messages to the lug list, Hush coffee in Plymouth has sadly closed, this means that a new venue for LUG meetings is being looked for.
For the July meeting it has been suggested that people meet at :
Venue : Moments Cafe,
Address : New George St.
Map : https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5789779896
Date : Sat 28th July 2018
Time : From 12 Noon
For information about this and future meetings, best to join the
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Linux Mint 19 was recently released. ( https://linuxmint.com/ ) This has a host of new features, and is a long term support release.
As far as meetings are concerned, the Holsworthy meeting will take place as usual at the white hart on the 3rd Saturday in August (Sat 18th). The July Plymouth Meeting (4th Saturday) has a new venue and the website will be updated shortly. The August meeting will take place on Saturday 25th August.
The Holsworthy CoderDojo is now up and running. Volunteers are still needed for other Dojos planned for other parts of Devon. The Paignton Code club is taking a break and will be returning in September as a CoderDojo,
Google researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in modern web browsers
Just thought I would share this, another good reason to keep your system updated.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/browser-cross-origin-vulnerability.html
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