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FOSS News # 25 - Review of Free and Open Source News for July 13-19, 2020





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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. GitHub made an "Arctic backup" of all significant open source code, OpenCV announced a specialized single-board, an unusual story of the development of a speech synthesizer, an inexpensive laptop with wide support for GNU / Linux distributions, an investigation into the "theft" of software for sale within the framework of import substitution, a discussion post about a "brave new »Digital world and more.



Table of contents



  1. Main news

    1. GitHub Preserves Open Source Archive in Arctic Repository
    2. OpenCV Project Announces Raspberry Pi-Like Embedded AI Kits
    3. How a blind developer single-handedly built a speech synthesizer
    4. Six Linux distros to choose from for the Star Lite Mk III budget laptop
    5. Investigation: creator of AlterOffice stole code from Microsoft and breaks back into the registry
    6. No longer user friendly: how internet monopolies kill competition and turn users into a commodity
  2. In a short line



    1. FOSS organizations news
    2. DIY
    3. Legal issues
    4. Kernel and distributions
    5. Systemic
    6. Special
    7. Safety
    8. For developers
    9. Custom
    10. miscellanea
  3. Releases

    1. Kernel and distributions
    2. System software
    3. For developers
    4. Special software
    5. Custom software


Main news



GitHub Preserves Open Source Archive in Arctic Repository







OpenNET writes: “ GitHub has announced a project to create an open source archive hosted in the Arctic World Archive, capable of surviving in the event of a global disaster. 186 piqlFilm film drives, which contain photographs of information and allow storing information for more than 1000 years (according to other sources, the service life is 500 years), have been successfully placed in an underground storage on the island of Spitsbergen. The storage was created from an abandoned coal mine 150 meters deep, sufficient to ensure the safety of information even in the event of the use of nuclear or electromagnetic weapons. The archive contains about 21 TB of information representing the code of many open source projects hosted on GitHub . "



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OpenCV Project Announces Raspberry Pi-Like Embedded AI Kits







It's FOSS writes: “ The OpenCV project announced the OAK (OpenCV AI Kit) project, a Raspberry Pi-like single board aimed at computer vision applications. The support campaign is running on Kickstarter. The software is licensed under MIT, the hardware is based on the Myriad X chip ... The initial $ 20,000 target was met in 20 minutes ... OAK-1 includes a 4K AI camera module and OAK-D includes a three-camera module . " OAK-1 and OAK-D sell for $ 99 and $ 149, respectively, after the campaign ends the cost will be $ 199 and $ 299.



Details (en)



Page on Kickstarter (en)



How a blind developer single-handedly built a speech synthesizer







The history of the development of unique software is always interesting, especially if the complex software was made alone, also by a person for whom this development is much more difficult than for many. A new article on Habré is just about such a story: “ , , , . UI, , , , , . , ? , . . RhVoice . , ( ) , — ? , ".



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Six Linux distros to choose from for the Star Lite Mk III budget laptop







3Dnews writes: “ Star Labs, based in Europe, has announced a relatively inexpensive Star Lite Mk III laptop that uses Intel hardware and a Linux kernel. ... The notebook is equipped with an 11.6-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD format). ... A Gemini Lake generation Pentium Silver N5000 processor with four processing cores (1.1-2.7 GHz) without hyper-threading support and an integrated Intel UHD Graphics 605 accelerator is used. ... There are six Linux distributions to choose from: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Linux Mint 20 Ulyana, Manjaro 20.0 Lysia, elementary OS 5.1.5 Hera, Zorin OS 15.2 Core / Ultimate and MX Linux 19.2 Patito Feo . "



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Investigation: creator of AlterOffice stole code from Microsoft and breaks back into the registry







The unsightly side of import substitution. An investigation of one of the products that tries to look Russian, but in fact, according to the author, is almost complete borrowing of the well-known LibreOffice, Thunderbird and Microsoft Windows File Manager, has been published on Habré. Summing up, the author writes: “The analysis of the new AlterOffice distribution kit by Almi Partner LLC showed that, like last time, their software is just a clone of existing solutions, and not at least any significant Russian development. Probably, the guys from Nizhny Novgorod consider the Register of Domestic Software to be a haven for the orphan and the poor, where you can unload any slag in the hope of the short-sightedness of experts. Moreover, they clearly hold the members of the expert council for fools - otherwise it is not easy to explain why a legal entity, in their opinion, is obliged to pay Almi Partner for someone else's and free software . "



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No longer user friendly: how internet monopolies kill competition and turn users into a commodity







It is the 21st century, capitalism has conquered the world, biting into the IT revolution. Everything becomes a commodity. The next article is not so much about FOSS, but about our "brave new" digital world in general. But FOSS has become an important part of it and can continue to be either its subordinate component, or perceive itself as a sprout of an alternative world. The author writes: “The internet of romantic entrepreneurship is being replaced by the internet of big business. Instead of the good old unity "you and me are of the same blood", geek and user, start-up and user, there was a stratification into antagonistic entities: corporations against users. The very word "users" reflects the paradigm of the old Internet, when services were waiting for people who would use them. Now the criterion for the effectiveness of an Internet business is the ability to keep a person in order to use it already. The modern Internet is increasingly based not on the ability to be useful to people, but on using them. Benefit for the user is no longer their main task, but a tool that helps to attract more people and keep them longer in order to use them . "



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FOSS organizations news



  1. Openshift 4.5, - OpenShift administrators & operations… , . , , RedHat [→]
  2. 10 13 - Open Source Tech Conference [→]




DIY



  1. babooshka tv, - « » [→]
  2. ARP- Python [→]
  3. zond- [→]




  1. Open Source [→ (en)]
  2. [→ (en)]
  3. [→ (en)]




  1. Rust Linux [→]
  2. Deepin DE Ubuntu [→]
  3. Linux Mint 20 ( ) [→ (en)]
  4. Linux Mint 20? [→]
  5. 17- Ubuntu 19.10, 20.04 [→ (en)]
  6. Linux 5.8 [→]
  7. GloDroid Android 10 PinePhone, Orange Pi Raspberry Pi [→]
  8. PinePhone postmarketOS [→]
  9. Fedora Desktop Btrfs vi nano [→]
  10. Ubuntu [→]




  1. Xfce Classic, Xfce [→]
  2. SSH [→]
  3. 2020 : Hyper-V, KVM, vSphere XenServer [→]
  4. VPS Linux : VNC Ubuntu 18.04 [→]
  5. nftables Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [→]
  6. Ansible, — , 2 [→]
  7. xtables-addons: [→]




  1. LINKa . [→]
  2. . Redis, ClickHouse Grafana [→]
  3. Totum – open source CRM/ERP (PHP + PgSQL) [→]
  4. Cisco TRex: [→]
  5. PostgreSQL AGE [→]
  6. Microsoft Linux- ProcMon [→]
  7. SAIL [→]
  8. libtorrent WebTorrent [→]
  9. « VoIP- Mediastreamer2» pdf- [→]
  10. Handbrake? [→]




  1. Glibc memcpy, [→]




  1. JPype 1.0, Java- Python [→]
  2. - jquery [→]
  3. () OpenStreetMap. [→]
  4. ( ) [→]
  5. [→]
  6. Command & Conquer: 90-. [→]




  1. OneNote Linux [→]
  2. 10 open source Google Photos [→]
  3. 7 open source Skype [→]
  4. Top 5 Open Source [→ (en)]
  5. espanso: Open Source , [→ (en)]
  6. Matrix- Riot Element [→ 1, 2 (en), 3]
  7. Mozilla VPN [→]
  8. Chrome 86 URL [→]
  9. KDE [→]
  10. KDE [→]
  11. «Firefox Multi-Account Containers» [→]






  1. Pine64 Linux- [→]
  2. Linux- $200, [→]






  1. Nokia SR Linux [→]
  2. EndeavourOS 2020.07.15, Antergos [→]




  1. GNU Autoconf 2.69b , [→]
  2. IceWM 1.7 [→]
  3. NetworkManager 1.26.0 [→]
  4. Sway 1.5, Wayland [→ 1, 2]
  5. KDE Frameworks 5.72 [→]




  1. - OTOBO, OTRS [→]




  1. Java SE, MySQL, VirtualBox Oracle [→]
  2. LSP Plugins 1.1.24 [→]
  3. VST3 KPP 1.2.1 [→]
  4. VirtualBox 6.1.12 [→]
  5. Wine 5.13 [→]




  1. Chrome 84 [→]
  2. ClamAV 0.102.4 [→]
  3. Claws Mail 3.17.6 [→]
  4. Pale Moon 28.11 [→]
  5. Tauon Music Box 6.0 [→]
  6. Thunderbird 78 [→]
  7. Zulip 3.0 Mattermost 5.25 [→]




That's all, until next Sunday!



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