Red Hat has announced changes to their free-of-charge Red Hat Developers subscription to kind-of appease users of CentOS Linux. For Linux administrators who currently use CentOS in production, plans are still in the works. Will the new plans take Red Hat from a $1 billion company to a $10 billion company? I'll share my thoughts in this BeginLinux Guru video. Article referenced in video: https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-for-small-production-workloads-development-teams/ Purchase links for my book, "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening, Second Edition": Directly from Packet Publishing-- https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening-second-edition/9781838981778 From Amazon-- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1838981772?pf_rd_r=PAXG7Y3FDTKB6QCZ2VJF&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRn8fXZhDK0

Linux malware isn't as widespread as malware for Windows, but it is getting more sophisticated. Here's an article about a new Linux trojan malware that can make your computer do Monero mining, steal passwords, replicate itself via Secure Shell, and install a Linux rootkit. But, is it as serious as the tech press makes it sound? What if you practice good Linux security and hardening? Link to article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-linux-crypto-miner-steals-your-root-password-and-disables-your-antivirus/ Purchase link for my "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening" book: https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening Purchase link for my "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening" video course: https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening-video ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJQzQpnRGs

On Linux, Unix, and BSD systems, it's important to control what your systems administrators can and can't do. The best way you can do this is by using the sudo utility. This can greatly enhance IT security on your enterprise network. Knowing about basic Linux security or Unix security can help you out in a big way. A linux administrator tutorial from beginlinux guru, the linux tutorial specialist. Also, be sure to check out the book, "Sudo Mastery", which is an excellent full-length reference book about sudo. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GA2W47O/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00GA2W47O&linkCode=as2&tag=civicsandpolitic&linkId=2381d9fc14cd95e5b815cd8215e81ca9 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5qMY1elbyE

This time, we'll look at upgrading OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Rolling Release. As it turns out, upgrading OpenSUSE Linux to a rolling release model is quite easy. Other than a couple of minor glitches, it works well. In fact, the upgrade worked better than it does on certain other Linux distros. Procedure: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-upgrade-opensuse-leap-to-opensuse-tumbleweed/ Installing nVidia Drivers: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way Installing Packman repository: https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZDMHCZ08k