Just weeks after @scottalanmiller pays a visit to the lovely country of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian government embraces open source software. Coincidence? Probably. But still, great to see yet another government moving to open source. The government was reported to have made the decision based on a desire for improved security and better competition.

This is what we like to see, first time ever hitting 100%.

Microsoft Publisher is one of the harder pieces of the MS Office suite to replace for most people who use it. If you are looking for an open source or free alternative to MS Publisher, OpenSouce.com takes a look at Markup, LibreOffice and Scribus and how they may fit your needs.

HowToForge has a new article on how to install OpenOffice 8.9.0 on a Docker container.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-1-28-lts-is-a-massive-update-with-xfs-mips-and-arm-improvements-506302.shtml

Big updates for "ARM, PowerPC (PPC), MIPS, SPARC, s390, ARC, and x86 hardware architectures, better support for the XFS, Btrfs, CIFS, NFS, NILFS2, and EXT4 filesystems"

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NextCloud 10 Beta has some cool new features, and the big one is two factor authentication, according to ZDNet. Also in NextCloud security, they have a login throttling by subnet feature to reduce coordinated login attacks attempting to breach the system.

For two factor authentication, Google Authenticator and self hosted SMS are already available.

Behind the scenes, external storage now has faster and more reliable Dropbox and Google Drive support. It can also handle Server Message Block (SMB) change notifications more efficiently.

It looks like NextCloud 10 should be pretty exciting.

Another "ethical hacking" Linux toolset gets released with ArchStrike built off of Arch Linux. The ISO is a 4GB download:

https://archstrike.org/downloads

The Korora project looks to do for Fedora Linux what Linux Mint did for Ubuntu: take a solid base product and turn it into a stunning and easy to use desktop experience. Like Mint, Korora uses the Cinnamon desktop environment to work much of its magic. Check out DarkDuck's review of the latest Korora release.

A new vulnerability in the Linux networking stack has come to light, one that is pretty widespread and to which users are highly vulnerable. The flaw was introduced in 2012 in the Linux 3.6 kernel and is now very common in nearly all Linux distributions, including Android. ZDNet looks at how the flaw works and what you can do about it and what is being done to patch it. The flaw stems from a new TCP security mechanism, ironically, and does not impact BSD, Mac OSX or most Windows systems as they had not yet implemented the new security mechanism.

On the Ubuntu Linux family, for instance, you can fix it with the following steps:

• Open /etc/sysctl.conf, with an editor, such as vim.
• Enter the line: net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999
• Save the file.
• Use the shell command "sysctl -p" to update the configuration.

RockMongo is a GUI for the MongoDB NoSQL system. RockMongo is PHP 5 based and does not work with PHP 7, currently, a bit of a shortcoming. RockMongo is akin to phpMyAdmin for those used to the common MySQL/MariaDB web management tool. Maybe RockMongo would be helpful for ML!

I actually saw this in OK this week.