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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. Who replaced Stallman, an expert review of the Russian GNU / Linux distribution Astra Linux, an SPI report on donations for Debian and other projects, the creation of The Open Source Security Foundation, why people refuse piracy and much more.
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Main news
Jeffrey Knaut elected new president of the Free Software Foundation
OpenNET writes:The Free Software Foundation announced the election of a new president, following the resignation of Richard Stallman after accusations of behavior unworthy of the leader of the Free Software movement, and threats to break off relations with the Free Software of some communities and organizations. The new president is Geoffrey Knauth, who has been on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation since 1998 and has been involved with the GNU project since 1985. Jeffrey graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics, after which he devoted his career to computer science, which he now teaches at Lycoming College. Geoffrey is a co-founder of the GNU Objective-C Project. In addition to English, Jeffrey speaks Russian and French, and also speaks German tolerably and some Chinese. Of interests, linguistics is also mentioned (there is work on Slavic languages and literature) and piloting».
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TAdviser tested the Astra Linux operating system. Expert Product Review
The TAdviser analytical center continues a series of expert reviews of software products, this time the attention was drawn to the "Russian operating system" (perhaps the "Russian distribution kit of GNU / Linux" will be more correct) Astra Linux, namely its Common Edition. The Special Edition is going to be dismantled in early September, it should be more interesting there. The presence of Astra Linux OS in government structures is described, the methodology and testing scenarios (“Typical civil servant” and “Departmental IT administrator”) are indicated, conclusions are given. Briefly - a mature product, suitable for import substitution.
SPI report on donations to Debian, X.Org, systemd, FFmpeg, Arch Linux, OpenWrt and more
OpenNET writes:SPI (Software in the Public Interest), a non-profit organization that oversees donations and legal issues (trademarks, asset ownership, etc.) for projects such as Debian, Arch Linux, LibreOffice ... has published a report with financial indicators for 2019. The total amount of funds raised was 920 thousand dollars (in 2018 they collected 1.4 million)". Debian raised the most ($343). For comparison, The Apache Software Foundation raised $000 million, I referred to their report .
Creation of The Open Source Security Foundation
As a worldwide foundation for software development, FOSS projects require special attention to their security. This reflects the recent merger of many large companies into The Open Source Security Foundation for a higher level of FOSS security. "OpenSSF founding members include GitHub, Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, NCC Group, OWASP Foundation, and Red Hat. GitLab, HackerOne, Intel, Uber, VMware, ElevenPaths, Okta, Purdue, SAFECode, StackHawk, and Trail of Bits have joined as participants. … The work of OpenSSF will focus on areas such as coordinated vulnerability disclosure and patch distribution, developing security tools, publishing best practices for secure development, identifying security-related threats in open source software, conducting audit work, and hardening critical important open source projects, creating tools to verify the identity of developers' - says OpenNET.
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No more yo-ho-ho: why people refuse online piracy
An article was published on Habré showing examples of refusals from "piracy" both in the field of software products and creative works. Not exactly related to our FOSS topic, but very close, so included in the digest. "In terms of the prevalence of piracy, Russia is currently in second place in the world. Although if we take not the general study of Muso, but only the report on software made by BSA, then our country is already 48th. … However, there are also enough of those who go over to the “light side of the force”. Knowing that specific people with their stories are hidden behind each figure, we, together with ALLSOFT, easily found them and found out what prompted everyone to abandon piracy, although a freebie, it would seem, is always somewhere nearby"- write the authors. The stories of a network engineer, an iOS developer, a co-owner of a digital agency, a managing partner in a web studio, and a meteorologist are given. Very interesting comments on the article.
Short line
Events
- GNOME and KDE to Host Virtual Linux App Summit
News from FOSS organizations
- First meeting after 26 years of collaborative development of FreeDOS
DIY
- Free web encyclopedia for any IT projects on your own engine
Legal Issues
- The GPL code from Telegram was taken by the Mail.ru messenger without complying with the GPL
Kernel and distributions
- Proposal to block interlayer drivers that provide access to GPL calls to the Linux kernel [→ , ]
- Fedora 33 will ship an official IoT edition
- FreeBSD 13-CURRENT supports at least 90% of the popular hardware on the market
- Faster, Higher, Stronger: Is Clear Linux the Fastest x86-64 Distribution?
Systemic
- Distributions fix GRUB2 update issues
- LLVM 10 imported into OpenBSD-current
Security
- Firefox started to enable redirect tracking protection
- Vulnerabilities in FreeBSD
DevOps
- We solve practical problems in Zabbix using JavaScript
- The Future of Prometheus and the Project Ecosystem
- Modern applications on OpenShift, part 2: chained builds
- TARS (Microservice Creation Framework): Contributing to the Open Source Microservices Ecosystem
- Why Use Ingress Controllers with Kubernetes Services
- Cerberus - a solution for large-scale continuous testing
- Use your favorite programming language to build IaC with Pulumi
For developers
- PHP 8 beta testing has begun
- Facebook introduced Pysa, a static analyzer for the Python language
- Simulate building an ARM application on an x86 processor using Qt as an example
- QML Online, KDE's project to run QML code in the browser, now has the ability to be easily embedded into other sites
- Practicing NLP with Python and NLTK
- Advanced Guide to NLP Analysis with Python and NLTK
- Creating and Debugging Linux Dump Files
- Improving the development of network functionality with the Capsule Rust framework
- 5 Tips for Making Documentation a Priority in Open Source Projects
Custom
- Firefox Reality PC Preview for Virtual Reality Devices Introduced
- Linux fdisk command
- Why is Ubuntu not logging in
- Doing Math in the GNU/Linux Console with GNU bc
Games
- How to Install the Itch Online Indie Game Service Desktop Client on Ubuntu and Other GNU/Linux Distributions
Hardware
- Embedded computer AntexGate + 3G modem. Useful settings for a more stable Internet connection
Miscellanea
- Yandex provided a mirror server for downloading programs from KDE
- NextCloud as a service for creating secure links
- Linux kernel USB stack moved to use inclusive terms
- What You Can Learn From Teaching C Programming on YouTube
- No computer science education required to work with Open Source software
- 5 Reasons to Run Kubernetes on Your Home Raspberry Pi Lab
- How to Install Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi 4
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS release [→ , ]
- Elementary OS 5.1.7 distribution update
- BSD Router Project 1.97 distribution release
- ReactOS 0.4.13 CE (Coronavirus Edition)
System software
- Glibc 2.32 System Library Release
- AMD Radeon 20.30 Video Driver Set Release for Linux
- Composite server Wayfire 0.5 available using Wayland
- Apache 2.4.46 http server release with vulnerabilities fixed
For developers
- Compiler release for the Vala programming language 0.49.1
- Julia Programming Language 1.5 Release
Special software
- Release of Mastodon 3.2, a decentralized social networking platform
- QVGE 0.6.0 release (visual graph editor)
Custom software
- The graphic editor Pinta 1.7 has been published, acting as an analogue of Paint.NET [→ , ]
- The release of the free office suite LibreOffice 7.0 [→ , , , ]
- Pale Moon Browser 28.12 Release
That's all, until next Sunday!
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Source: habr.com