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We continue to digest news and other materials about free and open source software and a bit about hardware. All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond on the possible transition of Windows to the Linux kernel in the near future; competition for the development of Open Source packages for the Robot Operating System; The Free Software Foundation is 35 years old; Rochester Institute of Technology created a university initiative to support, interact and research "open source" projects; we figure out what FOSS is (finally :)); trying to answer the question of what a global open organization might look like and much more.
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Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond: Windows will switch to the Linux kernel in the near future
The Selectel company writes in its blog on Habré: “Eric Raymond is a free software evangelist, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, author of Linus's Law and the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the holy book of free software. In his opinion, in the near future, Windows will move to the Linux kernel, so that Windows itself will become an emulation layer on this kernel. It seems like a joke, but today seems to be not April 1st. Raymond argues his assertion with the active actions of Windows in the field of open source software. For example, Microsoft is actively working on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), the Linux subsystem for Windows. He also did not forget about the Edge browser, which initially worked on the EdgeHTML engine, but was transferred to Chromium a year and a half ago. Plus, last year Microsoft announced the integration of a full-fledged Linux kernel into the OS, which is necessary for WSL2 to work with full functionality.».
Competition for the development of Open Source packages for Robot Operating System
In another interesting article on Habré, a post appeared about a new competition related to robotics: “Oddly enough, modern world robotics is currently developing on such a phenomenon as ROS and open-source. Yes, for some reason this is not understood and little known in Russia. But we, the Russian-speaking ROS community, are trying to change this and support those robotics enthusiasts who write open source for robots. In this article, I would like to reveal the work on such an undertaking in the form of a ROS package competition, which is currently underway.».
The Free Software Foundation turns 35
OpenNET writes:The Free Software Foundation is celebrating its 9th anniversary. The celebration will take place in the form of an online event, which is scheduled for October 19 (from 20:1985 to 17:XNUMX MSK). Other ways to celebrate the anniversary include experimenting with installing one of the completely free GNU/Linux distributions, trying to learn GNU Emacs, switching to free alternatives to proprietary software, promoting freejs, or switching to using the F-Droid Android app directory. In XNUMX, a year after the founding of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman established the Free Software Foundation. The organization was formed to protect against disreputable companies caught stealing the code and trying to sell some of the early GNU project tools developed by Stallman and his comrades. Three years later, Stallman drafted the first version of the GPL, setting the legal framework for the free software distribution model. On September XNUMX last year, Stallman stepped down as president of the Free Software Foundation and was replaced by Jeffrey Knaut two months ago.».
Rochester Institute of Technology created Open@RIT, a university initiative to support, collaborate and research "open source" projects.
Opensource.com writes: "Rochester Institute of Technology creates Open@RIT, an initiative dedicated to supporting all types of “open work,” including, but not limited to, open source software, open data, open hardware, open educational resources, Creative Commons-licensed works, and open research . The new programs are designed to define and expand the Institute's influence on all things “open”, leading to greater collaboration, creativity and participation on campus and beyond. An open source work is not proprietary—meaning it is licensed to the public and anyone can change or share it subject to the terms of the license. Although the term "open source" originally originated in the software industry, it has since become a set of values that find application in everything from science to the media.».
Linuxprosvet: What is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)? What is Open Source?
So I keep doing FOSS News digests, but do all readers and subscribers know what FOSS is? In case not all of them, we read a new educational program from It's FOSS (a small spoiler - there will be translations of these educational programs soon). This material tells the origin of the free software movement, its main principles, how developers earn money, and what is the difference between free and open source software.
What could a global open organization look like?
Another material from opensource.com this time aims at a topic much broader than our usual materials. The author analyzes the book by Jeffrey Sachs "The Years of Globalization" and continues the previous materials ( и ), delving into history, analyzing the experience of various stages of human development. In the third and last part, the authorexplores two more recent historical eras, industrial and digital, to explain how open principles shaped later globalization trends – and how these principles will be an integral part of our global future».
Short line
implementations
The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation chooses Linux
Opening code and data
Apple has released the Swift 5.3 programming language and open-sourced the Swift System library [→ , ]
News from FOSS organizations
- Firefox's share fell by 85%, but Mozilla's management revenue grew by 400%
- OpenJDK development moved to Git and GitHub
- Gitter moves into the Matrix ecosystem and merges with the Element Matrix client [→ , ]
- LibreOffice celebrates a decade of the project
- How the Docker Business Scales to Serve Millions of Developers, Part 2: Outbound Data (Part 35 was published in Digest #XNUMX [→ , ]
Legal Issues
SFC is preparing a lawsuit against GPL violators and will develop alternative firmware [→ , ]
Kernel and distributions
- Best Ubuntu? | Pop_OS. First Opinion
- Fedora Linux Edition for Smartphones Introduced [→ , ]
- Fedora 33 Distribution Enters Beta Testing
- DSL (DOS Subsystem for Linux) project for running Linux applications from an MS-DOS environment
- Interview with the author of the millionth commit in the kernel Ricardo Neri
Systemic
Mesa developers discuss adding Rust code
Special
- Xen hypervisor now supports Raspberry Pi 4 board [→ , ]
- OpenSSH 8.4 release
- Bagisto: Open Source eCommerce Platform
- KeenWrite: An editor for data science experts and mathematicians
Security
- Hacktoberfest T-shirt Desire Leads to GitHub Spam Attack
- Google will disclose information about vulnerabilities in third-party Android devices
- GitHub launched static code analysis for vulnerabilities [→ , ]
- Vulnerabilities in PowerDNS Authoritative Server
DevOps
- Using inventory plugins from Ansible Content Collections in Ansible Tower
- Introduction to pg_probackup. Second part
- Virtual PBX. Part 1: Easy installation of Asterisk on Ubuntu 20.04
- Setting up the Linux kernel for GlusterFS
- Data recovery in modern infrastructure: how one admin set up backups
- What's new in the Linux kernel (translation, the original was published in digest #34 [→ , ]
- Linux style kung fu: easy file access via SSH
- About transferring MIKOPBX from chan_sip to PJSIP
- DataHub: An all-in-one metadata search and discovery tool
- Open Source DataHub: LinkedIn Metadata Search and Discovery Platform
- In Tarantool, you can combine a super-fast database and an application to work with them. Here's how easy it is to do
- Jenkins Pipeline: Optimization Notes. Part 1
- Autoscaling Kubernetes Applications with Prometheus and KEDA
- Four Simple Kubernetes Terminal Tweaks to Boost Your Productivity
- Just add some salt
- IT Boroda: Containerization in plain language. Interview with System Engineers from Southbridge
- Semantic Versioning Automation with Maven (SemVer GitFlow Maven)
Website
Firefox nightly builds noticeably improved JIT compilation performance
For developers
- The history of the successful transfer of ScreenPlay from QMake to CMake
- The KDE Developer Center has a new detailed tutorial on creating widgets for the Plasma desktop
- More development, less debugging with virtual environments in Python
- How the Linux kernel handles interrupts
- Adding Music to a Game in Python
- 5 lessons learned from Open Jam 2020
- Perl 5.32.2
- Second life Virtual Floppy Drive
- Building a Modern PHP API in 2020
- How to develop an analogue of Zoom for set-top boxes on RDK and Linux. Understanding the GStreamer Framework
- Background: "Unix philosophy" - basic recommendations, evolution and some criticism
- Automation of system tests based on QEMU (Part 2/2)
Management
- 5 Qualities of Great Open Source Community Managers
- About the example of building a successful community
- Applying open management to create an atmosphere of mutual respect and support
Custom
- Introduced the MyKDE identity service and the KDE startup mechanism with systemd
- NetBSD has switched to the default CTWM window manager and is experimenting with Wayland
- On improving bash history with Loki and fzf
- How to run Linux command line on iPad (translation and original) [→ , ]
- Creating template files in GNOME
- About experience with Intel NUC and Linux
- Linuxprosvet: What is a package manager in Linux? How does he work?
- How to free up space on /boot partition Ubuntu Linux?
- Drawing - Open Source drawing application similar to MS Paint for Linux
- How to use the Firefox task manager to find and disable excessively RAM and CPU consuming tabs and add-ons
- Description of iostat Linux
- How to find out the Linux file system
- how to run exe on linux
- Setting up Zsh and Oh my Zsh
- How to uninstall ubuntu
- Conky setup
- Installing Conky on Ubuntu
- Launched a new account system for KDE Web Services
- This week in KDE [→ , ]
- What happens if you connect a smartphone with Plasma Mobile to an external screen?
- What's in store for the KDE websites in September?
Games
The largest distributor of DRM-free games GOG celebrates its 12th anniversary: in honor of the holiday - a lot of new things!
Hardware
Lenovo ThinkPad and ThinkStation ready for Linux [→ , ]
Miscellanea
- Introduction to Node-RED and stream programming in Yandex IoT Core
- Almost unGoogled Android
- DNS flag day 2020 initiative to address fragmentation and TCP support issues
- Buildroot received patches to support IBM Z (S/390) mainframes
- Python script imitating Babbage's computer
- How a Big Mistake Can Lead to Open Source Success
- Isn't it time to redefine Open Source?
- 5 Ways to Conduct User Research Openly
- How Open Source Supports Blockchain Technology
- Open Source Tools Provide Economic Benefits to Science
- About the past, present, future and relationship with Open Source POWER architecture
- Create console presentations with Python's Present tool
- Kickstarter campaign to open source Sciter
- The Digital Humanism of Peter Hinchens
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Release of distribution kit Elbrus 6.0
- Ubuntu 20.10 beta release
- The release of the distribution kit for running games Ubuntu GamePack 20.04
- Debian 10.6 Update [→ , ]
- Puppy Linux 9.5 distribution release. What's new and screenshots
System software
- RPM 4.16 release
- Release of Mesa 20.2.0, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan
- Taiwins 0.2
Security
Nmap Network Security Scanner 7.90 Released
Website
- Firefox 81.0.1 update. Enabling OpenH264 support in the Firefox for Fedora package [→ , ]
- Release of nginx 1.19.3 and njs 0.4.4
- MediaWiki 1.35LTS
- Pale Moon Browser 28.14 Release
- Geary mail client release 3.38. Added support for plugins
For developers
- Apache NetBeans IDE 12.1 Released
- ZenMake 0.10.0
Special software
- Wine 5.18 release [→ , ]
- Nextcloud Hub 20 Collaboration Platform Launched
- Release of virt-manager 3.0.0, interface for managing virtual environments
- Release of Stratis 2.2, a toolkit for managing local storage
- libmdbx 0.9.1 compact embedded database release
- OpenCL 3.0 final specifications published
- OBS Studio 26.0 Live Streaming Release
- After a year of silence, a new version of the TEA editor (50.1.0)
- Stellarium 0.20.3
- PiTiVi video editor release 2020.09. What's new
Games
- Release of a free emulator of classic quests ScummVM 2.2.0 (olds here? :))
- fheroes2 0.8.2 (oldies still here? :))
- ScummVM 2.2.0 test build for Symbian released (old? ;))
- Release of terminal open source remake of Boulder Dash
Custom software
- Mir 2.1 display server release
- Release of the GNU grep 3.5 utility
- Broot v1.0.2 (console utility for searching and manipulating files)
- CherryTree note manager release 0.99. Rewrote the whole program
That's all, until next Sunday!
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