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We continue to review free and open source news, materials about them and some hardware. All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Huawei's Open Source incubator, the difficult and controversial share of GPL projects in Russia, the continuation of the history of relations between Microsoft and Open Source, the first laptop based on AMD components and with GNU/Linux pre-installed, and much more.
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Top news and articles
“What are you like, Russian open source?” KaiCode, Huawei's Open Source Incubator
Huawei has a staff of 80 developers around the world (for comparison, Google has 000K, and Oracle has 27K) and decided to join the fight for "Open Source territory", and the bet is made on the Russian market, it is written in the company's blog on Habré. As part of this process, the launch of a kind of Open Source project incubator has been announced: “The process is running, we have made the first event of its kind: KaiCode. This is something like an incubator, but not for startups, but for open source products. It works like this: 1) send your project through the form, 2) we choose a dozen and a half of the best, 3) they come to the site to us on September 5th (or remotely) and present themselves, 4) the jury selects the top three and gives each of them $5,000 (as a gift). A year later (or maybe earlier) it all repeats again».
About the relationship between the registry of domestic software and free software
«It seems that the drivers of the locomotive of domestic import substitution have led the innovative composition to a dead end”- such a conclusion is made in an article on Habré, where the author talks about his experience of working with government agencies. Being forced to look for customers in the public sector, he first had to get into the Register of domestic software. To do this, it was necessary to fill out an application according to the rules from Government Decree No. 1236, and the decision on inclusion is made by the Ministry of Communications. At the same time, as it turned out in practice, the experts of the ministry are guided by a completely different document - the methodological recommendations from the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs, the existence of which the author, as a developer, did not even know. And this document expressly prohibits the use of software components with GPL- and MPL-licenses. The paradox is that the main components of Linux are published under the GPL, on the basis of which at least 40 domestic operating systems are built.
How Microsoft killed AppGet and created its own WinGet
Despite Microsoft's repentance due to the erroneous position regarding Open Source (I wrote about this in ), it looks like their EEE principle lives on in some form. AppGet author Canadian developer Keivan Beigi, FOSS package manager for Windows, told a revealing story of how, starting on July 3, 2019, Microsoft representatives had a dialogue with him, asking about the structure of his project and the shortcomings of alternative solutions, as well as discussing possible help from Microsoft, up to before employment. All this sluggishly lasted until December 5, 2019, then there were face-to-face negotiations during the day in the Microsoft office, half a year of silence, and in May 2020, the release of WinGet. An announcement was made on the AppGet page on GitHub that the project was closed.
Former head of the Windows division: why is Microsoft at war with Open Source?
We continue to analyze the relationship of the corporation (not) evil with Open Source. ZDNet quotes former Windows development lead Steven Sinowski as trying to clarify the context of the corporation's old and new relationship with the movement. Steven says that the war against Open Source was justified before the mass distribution of SaaS solutions and was needed at that time, but now Microsoft is betting on cloud technologies, there is nowhere without Open Source. Steven also admits that Google outperformed Microsoft by recognizing a new trend in time.
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TUXEDO Computers Introduces World's First AMD Laptop with Linux Preinstalled
TUXEDO Computers is one of the companies betting on laptops preloaded with Linux-based operating systems. This week, she introduced a new model BA15, which will reportedly have specifications that make the device stand out from similar solutions, writes 3Dnews.
Key Features:
- AMD Ryzen 5 3500U (4 cores, 8 threads, 2,1-3,7GHz, 4MB cache, 15W TDP)
- Radeon Vega 8 integrated graphics
- up to 4GB DDR32 RAM, up to 2TB storage
- 91,25 Wh battery
- 15,6 inch 1920×1080 IPS screen, HD webcam
- Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax dual band, Bluetooth 5.1
- two 2W speakers
- USB-C 3.2 Gen1, two USB 3.2 Gen1, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, 3,5mm headphone/microphone jack, micro-SD adapter
- Kensington connector
- Keyboard with signature TUX super-key has white backlighting
- comes pre-installed with Ubuntu, but there are other options
Short line
implementations
"Gorynych" on "Elbrus": Russian workstations based on "Alta" from "Basalt SPO" will come to schools and universities [→ , ]
Opening code and data
- Google Opens AI Source to Use Tabular Data for Natural Language Question Answering Tasks
- Indian contact tracing app open source
News from FOSS organizations
- The creator of Linux for the first time in 15 years switched to an AMD processor - 32-core Ryzen Threadripper
- Open Source YouTube alternative to PeerTube asks for support to release version 3
Systemic
- The latest Windows 10 update includes the Linux kernel [→ , (en)]
- systemd will change how your home directory works
- Linux improves support for pointing devices on some touchpads
- EdgeX Foundry Open Source Microservices Environment Reaches 5 Million Container Downloads
- Red Hat Runtimes adds support for Kubernetes-native Java Quarkus stack for building lightweight microservices
- Reiser5 announces support for Burst Buffers (Data Tiering)
- Project to form the base of supported hardware for BSD systems
Special
- The SPO Foundation launched a video conferencing service based on Jitsi Meet
- Notes on Oracle and Open Source Relationships
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invests $3,8 million in 23 open source biomedical projects
- Is the use of Open Source the way forward to software-defined wide area network (eng. SD-WAN)
- Introducing k8s-image-availability-exporter to detect missing images in Kubernetes
- Useful post: All the latest courses, broadcasts and technical talks from RedHat
- Nikolai Parukhin: “OpenStreetMap is too kind to people. He trusts them..."
- What kind of load on servers do network mechanisms create?
- Backup storage for thousands of virtual machines with free tools
- Cloud-based messaging on the Red Hat OpenShift platform using Quarkus and AMQ Online
- IPSec almighty
- Isolate Development Environments with LXD Containers
- USB over IP at home
Security
- Researchers find 26 vulnerabilities in USB implementation for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD
- 70% of security issues in Chromium are caused by memory bugs
- Hacking Cisco servers serving the VIRL-PE infrastructure
- Malware that infects NetBeans to inject backdoors into build projects
- 25 vulnerabilities in RTOS Zephyr, including those exploited via ICMP packet
- RangeAmp is a series of CDN attacks that manipulates the Range HTTP header.
Custom
- Chrome 84 will enable protection against annoying notifications by default
- Launching multiple Linux terminals in one window [→ , (en)]
- The Best Note-Taking Apps for GNU/Linux
- Nano Guide
- How to format a USB drive to exFAT on GNU/Linux
- FreeFileSync: FOSS file synchronization tool
- About using "apt search" and "apt show" commands to find information about packages in Ubuntu
- How to make a GIF in GIMP
Miscellanea
Multiplayer Console Tetris
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Release of the minimalist distribution kit Alpine Linux 3.12
- Chrome OS Release 83
- Release of BlackArch 2020.06.01, distribution for security testing
- Release of the GoboLinux 017 distribution kit with a peculiar file system hierarchy
System software
- Release of Mesa 20.1.0, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan
- OpenSSH 8.3 release fixes scp vulnerability
- Release of UDisks 2.9.0 with support for overriding mount options
- Second beta release of KIO Fuse
For developers
- Apache Subversion 1.14.0 release
- GDB 9.2 debugger release
- GNAT Community 2020 Released
- Godot game development environment adapted to work in a web browser
- Qt 5.15 framework release
Special software
- Release of open billing system ABillS 0.83
- Release of the free sound editor Ardour 6.0
- Audacity 2.4.1 Sound Editor Released
- Guitarix 0.40.0
- KPP 1.2, tubeAmp Designer 1.2, spiceAmp 1.0
- The second release of Monado, a platform for virtual reality devices
- nginx 1.19.0 release
- Release of DBMS SQLite 3.32. DuckDB project develops SQLite variant for analytical queries
- Distributed DBMS TiDB 4.0 Release
Custom software
- Beaker Browser 1.0 Beta
- Chrome/Chromium 83
- Firefox Preview 5.1 for Android is available
- NetSurf 3.10 Web Browser Release
- Release of pre-release version of Protox 1.5beta_pre, Tox client for mobile platforms
That's all, until next Sunday!
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Source: habr.com