Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022

Date:
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:38:47 GMT

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Listen now (30 min) | Happy birthday, Free Software! + A hard drive noise maker & Ubuntu Pro

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What follows is the most important news for the week! Linux-y news! Retro computer news! Alternative OS news! You know the stuff that matters!

The Free Software Foundation is 37 years old!

On October4th, 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation.

Weird thought: On October 3rd, 1985, the Free Software Foundation didnt
exist.

After all these years, its almost hard to imagine a world where the FSF wasnt around.

A physical, retro-Hard-Drive sound simulator: HDD Clicker

This mad genius got tired of the silence of his flash based hard drives. He longed for the days when his bit, magnetic hard drives made all of those awesome hard drive noises.

So he did something about it: He build a small device that made that noise when his flash drives are accessed ..

Check out the video demos he gives . Turn the sound up. Just lovely.

I want four.

Canonical launches Ubuntu Pro as free service for individuals

Canonical is now offering an Ubuntu Pro service for individuals for free.

Anyone can use Ubuntu Pro for free on up to 5 machines

And then, naturally, companies and big organizations will need to purchase a subscription plan for the Ubuntu Pro service. Makes sense. And, really, is
a model I quite like: Businesses and Enterprise customers are helping fund
the development and support which directly benefits the individuals. Nice.

The primary purpose of Ubuntu Pro looks to be ten years of security updates for the core OS plus 23,000 other packages :

Ubuntu Pro (currently in public beta) expands our famous ten-year security coverage to an additional 23,000 packages beyond the main operating system.

Including Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python 2, Redis, Rust, WordPress, and many more...

Honestly, this seems like the way to go for folks using Ubuntu. Better support, longer lifespan of updates in the repository if I were running Ubuntu, Id probably jump on that. Especially considering the fact that its free.

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Link to news story: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-alternative-os-and-retro-computing-226


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