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We continue our coverage of free and open-source software and hardware news (and a bit of coronavirus). All the latest news about penguins and more, from Russia and around the world. The open source community's participation in the fight against COVID-19 (Boston Dynamics made a contribution), the barriers and opportunities open source offers small and medium businesses, the growing number of vulnerabilities discovered in FOSS projects, an alternative to Zoom, the final release of Python 2, and examples of paid GNU/Linux.Linux distributions and much more.
Main news
Coronavirus Control
We continue to publish news about the participation of the FOSS community in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Recent titles:
- Boston Dynamics opens up some of its robotics developments to help build robotic assistants
- Developers continue to offer solutions to ventilator shortages and their development could change the future of healthcare long after the pandemic , ,
- 'handy' is a simple tool to keep things clean
Top Barriers and Benefits for Small Businesses Using Open Source
FOSS technologies are now widely used by industry leaders such as Oracle and Microsoft, who have been adopting them for many years, because such technologies make organizations more efficient and provide a highly customizable, adaptable, and scalable environment. With big players like Amazon and IBM focused on using open source as a tool to build powerful cloud solutions, it may seem like the technology is limited to the big leagues, but SMBs are slowly getting into the process as well. . Many understand that open source allows them to compete at the level of larger technology companies and provides the flexibility, interoperability, and cost savings that these solutions provide. But there are also challenges that the smaller players face: the need to find competent people, to choose the right projects to use, operational problems and lack of support.
The number of discovered vulnerabilities in Open Source projects increased by 50% in 2019. How will this affect development in 2020?
According to a research report by the WhiteSource team, the primary driver of the increase in vulnerabilities discovered in open source products is the increased use of such products, writes DevOps. There are now more open source projects, code, and community members than ever before. All these good people are working hard not only to write more code, often with the support of major tech giants, but also to find vulnerabilities in the code that could expose users of their components to risk. The combination of more code written and more eyes analyzing the code for these inevitable human errors ultimately leads to the discovery of more vulnerabilities. The increase in vulnerabilities in open source components will have a significant impact on software development. In recent years, we have seen open source components play an increasingly important role in how developers build their applications. Most estimates suggest that open source components make up 60 to 80% of the code base in most modern applications. When a vulnerability is reported in a popular project such as Apache Struts or coreLinux, then a huge number of developers are suddenly faced with the need to update their programs.
Want to get rid of Zoom? Jitsi Offers an Open Source Alternative
From meetings and parties to dates, we all now live in video conferencing applications, writes Wired. But after a series of privacy and security breaches at Zoom that has become almost synonymous with video conferencing during the Covid-19 pandemic, many organizations and individuals are wondering which service is the most secure for our conversations. Emil Ivov says you don't need to trust anyone. Ivov is the creator of the Jitsi open source text and video chat software and head of video collaboration at 8x8, which acquired Jitsi in 2018. The firm sells services based on the Jitsi code, but still pays developers to maintain the open source version. Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing app with handy features like the ability to password protect your meetings or kick people out of a meeting. But what makes it different from most famous video conferencing services is that it's free and can run entirely on your own hardware.
Final release of the Python 2 branch
Is Python 2 dead? Not quite, but from this event he takes a confident step towards his place of honor in the museum of the history of computer technology. On April 20, the final final release of Python 2.7.18 was presented, which marked the complete end of support for the Python 2 branch, writes OpenNET. This event ends an entire era, according to the expression . If you haven't upgraded to version 3 yet, now is the time. However, the 2nd version will continue to live through the efforts of individual companies for the time being, for example, Red Hat will continue to maintain packages with Python 2.7 throughout the life cycle of RHEL 6 and 7 distributions, and for RHEL 8 it will generate package updates in the Application Stream until June 2024 . If this is not your option - you are welcome to look . But it may take a long time, for example over the years xnumx.
Paid GNU distributions/Linux
Obviously, for all of us, free and open source code means free. However, there are companies that, based on FOSS projects, release paid binary builds, raising money by providing support or adding accessibility features. As an exception, we present a material entirely dedicated to such projects. The following examples of paid GNU/Linux distributions:
- Zorin OS Ultimate
- Red Hat Enterprise
- Astra Linux special Edition
- DEW
- clearOS
- Zentyal Server
- Parted Magic
Short line
- To the release Ubuntu 20.04:
- What's new in Ubuntu 20.04 ,
- 16 Things to Do After Installation Ubuntu 20.04
- What you need to know about Ubuntu 20.04
- Lenovo will begin pre-installing Fedora. Linux for ThinkPad laptops
- Kiwi web browser open source
- 18 GitLab Features Going Open Source
- A new project leader has been elected Debian, Git usage guidelines for maintainers have been published
- Vulnerability in the Squid proxy server that allows access restrictions to be bypassed
- The Tor project announced a significant reduction in staff due to the pandemic
- Open Source Tools for Online Communication: 3 Things to Understand
- Top 5 Open Source License Trends
- MystiQ: FOSS audio/video converter
- MindSpore: Huawei's General Purpose AI Framework Goes Open Source
- AWS and Facebook announce two new projects built around PyTorch
- Istio, one of the most important Open Source projects of Google Cloud, will receive its support fund
- Free Mini Linux Purism's PC is almost ready for sale.
- The postmarketOS distribution has implemented initial support iPhone 7 ,
- Fishtown Analytics Receives $12.9M in A-Round Funding to Develop Its Open Source Analytics Tool
- On the question of choosing GNU/Linux for corporate tasks
- Choosing GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems
- Getting Started with Pacman on Arch-Based Systems Linux distributions
- Debian abandons some old drivers
- WebGPU support added to Firefox nightly builds
- The OpenBSD project introduced the first portable release of rpki-client
- Panfrost driver provides 3D rendering support for GPU Bifrost (Mali G31)
- Facebook has proposed a new slab memory management mechanism for the kernel. Linux
- 724 malicious packages detected in RubyGems
- Rebuilderd is available for independent verification of Arch. Linux using repeatable assemblies
- FreeBSD fixes remote exploitable vulnerabilities in ipfw
- What benefits can be gained from built-in GNU/Linux dictionary distributions
Releases
- Organization Linux Foundation has released the AGL UCB 9.0 automotive distribution.
- Release of DXVK 1.6.1, Direct3D 9/10/11 implementations on top of the Vulkan API
- Git update to fix yet another vulnerability
- Update OS KolibriN 10.1 and MenuetOS 1.34, written in assembler
- Linux Lite 5.0: Everything you need to know about the upcoming version
- Release of LXQt 0.15.0 graphical environment
- Mattermost 5.22 is a messaging system focused on enterprise chats
- nginx 1.18.0 release
- Release of the NixOS 20.03 distribution using the Nix package manager
- Release of njs 0.4.0, Rambler filed a motion to dismiss the criminal case against Nginx
- Server-side JavaScript Node.js 14.0 release
- Kdenlive video editor release 20.04
- OpenSSL 1.1.1g released, fixing TLS 1.3 vulnerability
- Pixman 0.40 graphics library release
- Postfix 3.5.1 mail server update
- Release of machine learning framework PyTorch 1.5.0
- RSS reader release - QuiteRSS 0.19.4
- Corrective release of ROSA Fresh R11.1 distribution kit has been published
- Rust programming language 1.43 release
- Scientific distribution release Linux 7.8
- Release of the GNU Shepherd 0.8 init system
- Final beta release of Snort 3 intrusion detection system
- Distribution release Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Release of the free operating system Visopsys 0.9
- Wine 5.7 release
- wolfSSL 4.4.0 Cryptographic Library Release
That's all, until next Sunday!
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