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We continue our coverage of free and open-source software and hardware news (and a little coronavirus). Everything you need to know about penguins and more, in Russia and around the world. The open source community's involvement in the fight against COVID-19, and a prototype for a possible final solution to the launch problem. Windows applications in GNU/Linux, the launch of a de-Googleized smartphone with /e/OS from Fairphone, an interview with one of the OpenStreetMap developers, a continuation of the holy war (or something bigger) on the topic of the appropriateness of GNU/Linux on desktops and much more.
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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:
- Mozilla Starts Funding Open Source Technology Projects Created to Fight Coronavirus
- About the participation of Red Hat, SUSE and others in the fight against coronavirus
- One of Nvidia's top engineers has developed a low-cost Open Source ventilator
- GitHub analyzed the impact of COVID-19 on development activity
A layer for running MS Office has been demonstrated Linux
On Twitter, a Canonical employee working on promotions Ubuntu in WSL and Hyper-V, published a video with Microsoft Word and Excel running in Ubuntu 20.04 without using Wine and WSL, reports OpenNET. Launching MS Word is described as "The program runs quite quickly on a system with an Intel Core i5 6300U processor with integrated graphics. It's not running through Wine, it's not running a remote desktop/cloud, or GNOME running in a WSL environment. WindowsThis is something else I'm working on.»
De-googled smartphone from Fairphone with /e/OS is available for order
The de-googled /e/OS operating system ensures that the smartphone does not rely on Google services to operate, writes It's FOSS. Therefore, /e/OS should be a great choice for the Fairphone 3 for privacy conscious users. In addition, supporting /e/OS out of the box was not only a decision of the manufacturer, but also of its community.
According to the manufacturer's announcement:
«For many, fairer technology is not just the device and its components, but the software that powers the product, and when asked what their preference was for an alternative operating system for the next Fairphone, Fairphone 3, they voted /e /OS»
Characteristics of the new smartphone:
- Dual Nano-SIM (4G LTE/3G/2G support)
- Display: 5.65-inch LCD (IPS) with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
- Screen resolution: 2160 x 1080
- RAM: 4 GB
- Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 632
- Internal storage: 64 GB
- Rear camera: 12 MP (IMX363 sensor)
- Front camera: 8 MP
- Bluetooth 5.0
- WiFi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac
- NFC
- USB-C
- Expandable storage
Interview with one of the OpenStreetMap developers
Dmitry Lebedev is a Master of Economics, programmer and urbanist who has been working with OpenStreetMap for over 10 years. He not only draws houses, but also does a lot of research based on his data. What path did OSM take, does it have a future, and why do programmers need the humanities - he talked about all this in an interview on Habré.
My Linux – continuation of the (non)holy war about whether GNU is needed/Linux on desktops
The holy war (or not so holy war) continues on Habr about how suitable GNU is/Linux for desktops and whether it has a future in this segment. The author recalled how he came to GNU/Linux, compared with WindowsI reviewed the current state, tried to answer the question "Is 1,5% of users really that bad?", and looked ahead to understand the system's future. If you haven't read the previous articles, please read them and the comments. If you have, I think you'll find this discussion interesting, from the perspective of a fairly experienced user.
Previous articles on the topic:
Short line
Implementations and discovery of code, news from FOSS organizations
- On the transition of government agencies to GNU/Linux it may take 10 years
- Google open source TensorFlow Runtime
- Trust over IP Foundation joins Linux Foundation
- The first Russian hardware and software complex based on Linux to automate the activities of the MFC
Legal Issues
- Motion Picture Association blocks Popcorn Time on GitHub
- The Association of Film Companies demanded to block the developer of the Blamo Kodi repository on GitHub
Systemic
- For the core Linux The Popcorn distributed thread execution system is being developed
- 6 Alternatives to Prometheus
- Nvidia buys Cumulus Networks, closely associated with open source solutions for data centers
- LF Networking, led by Linux Foundation unveiled the first open source PaaS platform for 5G.
- How to synchronize server directories Ubuntu with Unison
- Another review of innovations in Ubuntu 20.04 - "Welcome to the future, followers Linux LTS»
Special
- Interface prototype for transferring images from the real world to a graphics editor
- How Tesla Uses Open Source Tools to Build Resilient Electric Grids
- 5 Open Source Tools for IT Executives
- OpenAI begins to publicly track the performance of AI models
- 15 years have passed Linux Unigine Engine graphics engine
- Beaker - PtP web browser
- BpfTrace is finally a full-fledged replacement for Dtrace in Linux
For developers
- Be careful with editing bash scripts
- Raspberry Pi High-End Camera Module Introduced
- A little tip - how to repeat a bash command until it succeeds
- GitHub Starts Fighting Open Source Software Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft has offered a $100 reward for vulnerabilities in its Azure Sphere OS. Linux
- The Python project intends to move bug tracking to GitHub
- Free book about Wayland published
- Development environment and discussion system added to GitHub
- Linux Kernel TLS and Nginx
- Specify it. Yandex report
- Organizing remote work for SMB organizations OpenVPN
Custom
- How Open Source Headless CMS can help organize remote meetings
- Comparison of GNU desktop environments/Linux
- 5 Open Source Tools Every Digital Nomad Needs
- Review Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 20.04
Miscellanea
- Vulnerability in Android-Samsung firmware, operated via sending MMS
- Ubuntu Studio is switching from Xfce to KDE
- Parser game "ARCHIVE" on the free engine INSTEAD
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Elementary OS 5.1.4 distribution update
- OpenIndiana 2020.04 and OmniOS CE r151034 available, continuing development of OpenSolaris
- Distribution is available Oracle Linux 8.2
- Rebecca Black Live Distribution Update Linux with a selection of Wayland-based environments
- Distribution release UbuntuDDE 20.04 with Deepin Desktop
System software
- DOSBox Staging emulator release 0.75
- LibreSSL 3.1.1 Cryptographic Library Release
- NetworkManager 1.24.0 release
- ScyllaDB 4.0 release for big data
- TileDB 2.0 storage engine release
- Wine 5.8 release and Wine staging 5.8
For developers
- Embeddable Common Lisp 20.4.24
- Release of the GCC 10 compiler suite
- GitLab 12.10 release with requirements management and CI autoscaling on AWS Fargate
- Playwright 1.0, a package for automating work with Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, has been published
Special software
- Clonezilla Live 2.6.6 distribution release
- Release of the vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0
- Release of Tails 4.6 distribution and Tor Browser 9.0.10
- Stellarium 0.20.0 and 0.20.1
Custom software
- Firefox 76 (UPD: Firefox 76 Promotion Paused, Firefox 76.0.1 Available )
- A new version of the decentralized platform for sharing media files MediaGoblin 0.10
- Riot Matrix Client 1.6 Released with End-to-End Encryption Enabled
That's all, until next Sunday!
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