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Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups.

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• Shoreline Firewall — Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.
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• eta: Generic tool for monitoring ETA and progress of an arbitrary process. — A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process.
• netdata, the open-source real-time performance and health monitoring, released v1.12 ! : linux — Introducing netdata.cloud, the free netdata service for all netdata users High performance plugins with go.d.plugin (data collection orchestrator written in Go) 7 new data collectors and 11 rewrites of existing data collectors for improved performance A new management API for all netdata servers Bind different functions of the netdata APIs to different ports Improved installation and updates