Interesting Links - February 2014
Yet another month passed by, and many interesting events took place during this period. Here are a few of the highlights of the previous month.
World of FOSS:
A new project named Cockpit (under heavy development) will help you administer your servers via a web browser.
The primary developer of musl provides an insight into the flaws of systemd.
OpenRC now runs on Debian GNU/Hurd.
Red Flag Linux, one of the older Linux distributions and with a focus on chinese users, meets its end.
Wikimedia votes against MP4 support.
tmux 1.9 was released, immediately followed by version 1.9a, which fixed a few unnoticed bugs.
Security/Privacy:
Kickstarter got hacked.
In this blog post, IgnorantGuru hints about his background, talks about the importance of cryptography and also talks about the influence of Red Hat over the GNU/Linux ecosystem.
Cool Stuff:
neovim is a project that aims to modernize Vim. It aims to bring better GUIs and improved plugin support as compared to Vim. Here's a link to its fundraiser.
xkcd Now is a super awesome clock. You have to see it to understand it.