# Linux Action News 165

URL: /show/linux-action-news/165/
> What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 165
- Date: 2020-11-29
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:30:10
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/db97416f-7cf8-4da9-95da-0a4531125bd7.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/6xTPKDJgNMY



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### Episode Links

  * [Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet ](https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4 "Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet ") — Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services. 
  * [Geoff Belknap on Twitter](https://twitter.com/geoffbelknap/status/1331690657170157568 "Geoff Belknap on Twitter") — “I… can’t vacuum… because us-east-1 is down.” 
  * [Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub](https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-publishes-lts-docker-image-portfolio-on-docker-hub "Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub") — The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical. 
  * [Vivaldi Integrates Email Client, Feed Reader, and Calendar in a Browser](https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/vivaldi-email-client-feed-reader-calendar-tech-preview/ "Vivaldi Integrates Email Client, Feed Reader, and Calendar in a Browser") — The Vivaldi team announced that they are bringing an Email client, a Feed Reader, and a Calendar – all of these together in the latest Vivaldi technical preview release.
  * [Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview](https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-mail-technical-preview/ "Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview")
  * [How to use the built-in GPG feature for Thunderbird](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-the-built-in-gpg-feature-for-thunderbird/ "How to use the built-in GPG feature for Thunderbird")
  * [Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-247 "Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability") — systemd 247 is very heavy on new features, and one big change for udev.
  * [[systemd-devel] systemd 247 released](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2020-November/045646.html "\[systemd-devel\] systemd 247 released")
  * [NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120160944.1629091-1-almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com/ "NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software") — The Paragon NTFS kernel driver patch is now on its 13th iteration
  * [Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-working-on-an-android-subsystem-for-windows-10/ "Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10") — This new initiative is called 'Project Latte,' and similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), will create a virtualized Android environment running directly within Windows 10.