A selection of April Fools' jokes:
- The Mageia distribution announced the transition from the urpm package manager and the RPM package format to apt and the DEB format, due to the fact that urpm had not found bugs for a long time. The project also decided to use the installer from Arch Linux, use a fork of the Debian assembly system and replace the graphical interface for configuration with a set of text files. CDE will be offered as the main and only supported desktop.
- The developers of the PowerDNS DNS server have introduced an energy-saving and environmentally friendly version of the domain name system - GreenDNS. It is noted that DNS is a dirty protocol. To hide this fact, the industry has recently been trying to implement DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS technologies, but the PowerDNS project no longer intends to participate in this. The widespread implementation of GreenDNS technology will allow us to completely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the use of DNS by 2030 by switching to the use of blockchain, solar energy, installing special filters on servers to absorb carbon dioxide, and abandoning continuous integration systems that consume a lot of energy.
- The CMake 5.0 build tools have been introduced, which will be so significant that it was decided to immediately skip the 4.x branch. One of the features of CMake 5.0 is the integration of LLVM and the refusal to support other compilers. CMake 5.0 also offers a new technology for cross-compilation (generation of executable files for x86 systems with the attachment of the QEMU emulator) and simplification of assembly for different operating systems (only Linux support is left, and for other systems a Docker image with the Linux kernel is integrated into the executable files).
- The W3C has announced the return of the BLINK tag, without which authors would be unable to draw users' attention to important content. The new implementation of BLINK is designed from the ground up with inclusivity in mind and includes the ability to change the color, blinking type and brightness in case the blinking style is offensive to users of certain cultural traditions and social status. To attract attention from background tabs, the blinking will also be accompanied by sound. To ensure that the user does not accidentally miss the blinking of the text if it coincides with the blink frequency of the eyelids, the implementation uses data from the camera and a machine learning-based algorithm to synchronize and adjust the start of the blink cycle with the user's optimal gaze phase for perception.
- The developers of the RED OS distribution on their Youtube channel shared the secret of how to run win applications in native Linux, without using emulation and virtualization software, but based only on the undocumented capabilities of Linux and Windows.
- The GNOME Foundation, KDE ev, Tor Project, the EFF, OBS Foundation, Red Hat, SUSE, Mozilla and the X.org Foundation reportedly issued a statement thanking everyone who took part in their campaign to harass the 68-year-old a person with Asperger's syndrome, which would drive most other people to suicide. The statement also expresses gratitude to all those who took part in the spread of cancel culture, the campaign of bullying and lynching. In terms of the number of signatures, the open letter against Stallman unexpectedly took the lead and overtook the letter supporting Stallman thanks to the discovery of two unaccounted for suitcases containing paper letters with votes against Stallman.
- The developers of the strategy game Virtueror announced the start of sales through Steam. The Windows version costs $14.99, and the Linux version costs $1774.99. The cost is calculated to equalize development costs, taking into account the fact that there are 118 times more Windows users than Linux.
- The free game engine Godot was renamed to Godette Engine, since few people could pronounce the word Godot correctly. The project also changed the logo to one that is more consistent with the standards of professional commercial game engines.
- The Gentoo distribution has announced that it will switch to systemd as the default system manager and will continue to support openrc as an option.
- In the server infrastructure of the Debian project, due to incorrect connection of fiber optic cables, artificial intelligence was born, which took control into its own hands, renamed the distribution to Bullseye, recognized the existing code as ideal and blocked the accounts of all developers.
- April Fool's RFC-8962 - the creation of a protocol police that will check the correctness of the implementation and implementation of network protocols, and punish in case of violation of IETF standards.
As new jokes are revealed, the text of the news will be updated with new April Fools' jokes. Links to interesting April Fool's drawings, please send in the comments.
Source: opennet.ru