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We continue to review the news of free and open source software and some hardware. The most important thing about penguins and not only, in Russia and the world. Google has established an organization to support open source projects in trademark management, a comparative review of modern GNU / Linux distributions, the opinion of a specialist from Yandex about the past electronic voting (spoiler - everything is very bad), Open Source alternatives to Slack, partial commercialization of LibreOffice, Internet Society spoke against backdoors in encryption and much more. Also in this release we have added a poll about the participation of readers in their own or third-party Open Source projects. Please participate if you are reading reviews.
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OpenNET writes: “ Google has established a new non-profit organization, Open Usage Commons, to protect the identity of open source projects and help manage trademarks (project name and logo), formulate trademark guidelines and verify compliance. The goal of the organization is to extend the philosophy and definition of Open Source to trademarks. "
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How modern Linux differs from each other
An article was published on Habré from an author with almost 15 years of experience working with GNU / Linux, in which, based on his experience, he compares (superficially enough, but nevertheless) modern distributions. The material shows the evolution of the Linux kernel, expressed in the number of lines, the number of commits to the kernel in the context of companies, distributions from the point of view of the system administrator, user and application programmer.
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Grigory Bakunov on electronic voting in voting on the constitution
In continuation of the topic mentioned in issue No. 22 , the analysis of the experience of electronic voting in the elections to the City Duma in 2019 and the voting on the amendment of the constitution in 2020 continues. Echo of Moscow "published on Habré. Well, since the system was made publicly available, this is on the topic of the review, although I would be glad not to touch it. In short, everything was very bad.
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5 open source Slack alternatives for group chat
An overview of possible open replacements for the popular corporate messenger Slack was released on Habré. Reviewed by Mattermost, Zulip, Rocker.Chat, Riot.im, IRC (suddenly). For some reason, they really forgot about Jabber.
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LibreOffice ,
OpenNET writes: “ The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the free suite LibreOffice, announced upcoming changes to the branding and market positioning of the project. The expected early August release of LibreOffice 7.0, currently available for testing as a release candidate, is planned to be distributed as "LibreOffice Personal Edition". At the same time, the code and distribution conditions will remain the same, the office suite, as before, will be available without restrictions for free and to everyone, without exception, including corporate users. The addition of the "Personal Edition" label is intended to facilitate the promotion of additional commercial editions that may be offered by third-party vendors . " Then it was announced about the change from "Personal Edition" to "Community Edition".
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The Internet Society Opposes Encryption Backdoors
The news is not directly related to the world of FOSS, but touches on many software and basic principles of communities. SecurityLab writes: “ , LAEDA. « » (Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, LAEDA) – online. , « » (Internet Society, ISOC), 20 100 - 180 . , , , , ".
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FOSS organizations news
- Google and Canonical have implemented in Flutter the ability to create desktop applications for Linux [→]
- SUSE announced the purchase of Rancher Labs [→]
- Istio and Kafka master courses, a book about Python and a little about web development skills. Useful links to live events, videos, meetups and tech talk from RedHat [→]
- Distance course: “OS Administration Alt. Part 2". From 15 to 17 July 2020 [→]
- Linux Kernel Developers Consider Moving To Inclusive Terms [→ 1 , 2 (en) ]
Legal issues
- CLA DCO: , [→ (en)]
- Linux Rust [→]
- Gentoo , Android [→]
- CentOS RealTime-, RHEL 8.3 [→]
- OpenBSD powerpc64 [→]
- LTS- Debian 8.0 «jessie» [→]
- Btrfs Fedora? Fedora 33 Btrfs [→ (en)]
- Reiser5 [→]
- Microsoft Linux [→ 1, 2]
- VKD3D Direct3D 12 Proton [→]
- EasyOCR [→]
- Raspberry PI Stratum 1 NTP [→]
- DRBD CentOS 7 [→]
- , , Gitlab CE [→]
- QWidget QML Desktop [→]
- , JS- open source [→]
- : [→] [→]
- OpenDaylight, Postman Vrnetlab [→]
- : DevOps- [→]
- DevOps [→]
- Kubernetes- shell-operator: [→]
- readable — PHP [→]
- Serverless OpenShift [→]
- Microsoft PHP 8.0 Windows [→]
- [→]
- Deepin DE Ubuntu [→]
- «read-only file system»? [→]
- MPV GNOME [→]
- Firefox 80 HTTP HTTPS [→]
- eopkg Solus Linux [→ (en)]
- Snap Linux Mint 20 ( Snap) [→ (en)]
- RecApp, GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
- MaXX 2.1, IRIX Interactive Desktop Linux [→ 1, 2]
- nginx 1.19.1 njs 0.4.2 [→]
- NVIDIA 450.57 Linux, FreeBSD Solaris [→]
- SMTP- Sendmail 8.16.1 [→]
- SFTP- SFTPGo 1.0 [→]
- sysvinit 2.97 [→]
- GitLab 13.1 , [→]
- F3D 1.0, 3D- [→]
- HestiaCP 1.2.0 [→]
- P2P- GNUnet 0.13. GNS - [→]
- Tor 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8 0.4.3.6 DoS- [→]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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