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We continue to review the news of free and open source software and hardware (and a little coronavirus). All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. The participation of the Open Source community in the fight against COVID-19, the prototype of a possible final solution to the problem of running Windows applications in GNU / Linux, the start of sales of a de-google smartphone with / e / OS from Fairphone, an interview with one of the OpenStreetMap developers, the continuation of a holivar (or something more) on 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
Demonstrated a layer to run MS Office on Linux
On Twitter, a Canonical employee who promotes Ubuntu on WSL and Hyper-V posted a video of Microsoft Word and Excel running on Ubuntu 20.04 without Wine and WSL, according to OpenNET. Launching MS Word is characterized as "The program works quite quickly on a system with an Intel Core i5 6300U processor with integrated graphics. It's not running through Wine, it's not remote desktop/cloud, or GNOME running in a WSL environment on Windows. It's something else that 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.
Mein Linux - a continuation of the (not) holivar about whether GNU / Linux is needed on desktops
On Habré, a holivar (or not) continues on the topic of how suitable GNU / Linux is for desktops and whether it has a future in this segment. The author remembered how he himself came to GNU / Linux, compared it with Windows, considered the current state, tried to answer the question “is 1,5% of users so bad?” and look ahead, understand what the future of the system is. If you haven't read the previous articles, read them and the comments. If you read it, I think it will be interesting for you to continue the dispute from the point of view of a sufficiently qualified user.
Previous articles on the topic:
Short line
Implementations and discovery of code, news from FOSS organizations
- It may take 10 years for government agencies to switch to GNU/Linux
- Google open source TensorFlow Runtime
- Trust over IP Foundation joins Linux Foundation
- The first Russian hardware and software system 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
- Distributed Thread Execution System Popcorn Develops for the Linux Kernel
- 6 Alternatives to Prometheus
- Nvidia buys Cumulus Networks, closely associated with open source solutions for data centers
- Linux Foundation-led LF Networking Introduces First Open Source PaaS Platform for 5G
- How to sync Ubuntu server directories with Unison
- Another overview of what's new in Ubuntu 20.04 - "Welcome to the future, followers of 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
- Linux Unigine Engine turns 15 years old
- Beaker - PtP web browser
- BpfTrace is finally a complete 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 $100k bounty for discovering vulnerabilities in its Linux-based Azure Sphere OS
- 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
- Organization of remote work of SMB organization on OpenVPN
Custom
- How Open Source Headless CMS can help organize remote meetings
- Comparison of desktop environments for GNU/Linux
- 5 Open Source Tools Every Digital Nomad Needs
- Overview of Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 20.04
Miscellanea
- Vulnerability in Samsung Android firmware exploited via MMS sending
- Ubuntu Studio moves 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
- Oracle Linux 8.2 distribution available
- Rebecca Black Linux Live Update with a selection of Wayland-based environments
- UbuntuDDE 20.04 distribution release 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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Source: habr.com