FOSS News # 27 - Free and Open Source News Review for July 27 - August 2, 2020

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Sorry for the delay in release, urgent matters have arisen. So, 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. Translation of an interview with a GNOME developer on the future of the project, a report from the Apache Foundation, tips for advanced use of Git, the opening of registration for the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe conference, a small selection on the transition of European organizations to FOSS, and much more.

Table of contents

1. Main news
   
   
   1. From the first person: GNOME developer talks about new ideology and future usability improvements
   2. Apache Foundation Releases Fiscal 2020 Report
   3. In the same boat as the bastard: 11 advanced Git tips
   4. Registration for the conference LVEE 2020 Online Edition is open
   5. How Europe is moving to open source software for government agencies
2. In a short line
   
   
   1. FOSS organizations news
   2. Kernel and distributions
   3. Systemic
   4. Special
   5. Safety
   6. DevOps
   7. For developers
   8. Custom
   9. Games
   10. Iron
   11. miscellanea
3. Releases
   
   
   1. Kernel and distributions
   2. System software
   3. Safety
   4. For developers
   5. Special software
   6. Games
   7. Custom software

Main news

From the first person: GNOME developer talks about new ideology and future usability improvements

" The developer Emmanuele Bassi is confident that with the new updates the usability of the GNOME desktop will become more flexible and convenient, " they write in translation of an interview with OpenSource.com on Habré.



Here are examples of questions answered there:

1. GNOME 3.36 2020 . ?
2. GNOME ?
3. GNOME ?
4. GNOME 3.37 GNOME 3.38, 2020 ?

Apache 2020

OpenNET writes: “ The Apache Foundation has released its FY2020 report (May 1, 2019 through April 30, 2020). The volume of assets for the reporting period amounted to $ 3.5 million, which is 300 thousand less than in the 2019 financial year. The amount of equity capital for the year decreased by $ 281 thousand and amounted to $ 2.16 million. Most of the funding comes from sponsors - there are currently 10 platinum sponsors, 9 gold, 11 silver and 25 bronze sponsors, as well as 24 targeted project sponsors and 500 individual sponsors . " Also in the article following the link you can find more interesting statistics about this one of the largest FOSS funds.



Details

In the same boat as the bastard: 11 advanced Git tips

An article about using the most popular and at the same time free version control system Git appeared on Habré. The article has raised the topics of advanced use of the console and graphical interface, configuration files, temporary commits, the ability to hide unnecessary files, tracking local files without a repository, and many others.



Details

Registration for the conference LVEE 2020 Online Edition is open

OpenNET writes: “ Registration is now open for the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe international conference for free software developers and users, which will take place on August 27-30. This year the conference will be held online and will take four incomplete days. Participation in the online version of LVEE 2020 is free. … The format of the conference consists mainly of reports and short presentations; round tables, workshops and code sprints are also possible. The topics of the reports include the development and maintenance of free software, the implementation and administration of solutions based on free technologies, the peculiarities of using free licenses. The conference covers a wide range of platforms - from workstations and servers to embedded systems and mobile devices . "



Details ( 1 , 2)

How Europe is moving to open source software for government agencies

Munich, Barcelona and CERN show an interesting experience of switching to FOSS, they write on Habré.



In Munich's government agencies, the transition to Open source began over 15 years ago. It is believed that the push for this was the end of support for Windows NT 4.0. Munich started developing its own distribution - LiMux. But although good results have been achieved (15,000 workstations are switched to an open source distribution), the transition to Open Source did not go as smoothly as planned. There was even a period of rollback due to the change of government. But in 2020, with a new change of government and with the deployment of the "Common money, common code" campaign, everything again went ahead and there are hopes that a lot will be done before the new elections in 2026.



The experience of Barcelona is also remarkable: “Up to 70% of Barcelona's IT budget is spent on supporting local developers and developing open source projects. Many of them are being implemented not only throughout Spain, but all over the world - for example, the Sentilo Platform for analyzing data from weather meters and sensors is used in the city of Tarras, as well as in Dubai and Japan . "



In 2019, CERN decided to switch to Open Source, and the European Parliament generally recommends that all government organizations switch to free software.

Let's hope to see more and more of these positive examples.



Details

In a short line

FOSS organizations news

1. A selection of useful links on OpenShift 4.5, the Kubernetes Operators book, and the Container Storage webinar. Useful links to live events, videos, meetups and tech talk from RedHat [→]
2. FOSS HR- 2020 Open Source Jobs Report! [→ (en)]
3. OpenJDK Git GitHub [→]
4. Micrsoft Blender Development Fund [→]

1. FreeBSD VFS [→]
2. ArchLinux: [→]
3. Manjaro vs Arch Linux: ? ? [→ (en)]

1. System76 CoreBoot AMD Ryzen [→]
2. Google M:N [→]
3. GRUB2 , [→]
4. Bitdefender HVI [→]
5. KDE Plasma 5.19.4. [→]

1. [→]
2. Pi-KVM — KVM- Raspberry Pi [→]
3. IBM Linux [→ 1, 2]
4. BigBlueButton: [→ (en)]
5. Garmin , - [→]

1. Meow 4000 Elasticsearch MongoDB [→]
2. 0-day Tor Tor Browser [→]
3. GitHub Git SSH- [→]
4. Perl- Module-AutoLoad [→]
5. Chrome- Google [→]
6. GRUB2, UEFI Secure Boot [→ 1, 2, 3]
7. KDE Ark, [→]
8. X.Org Server libX11 [→]
9. WordPress- wpDiscuz, 80 [→]

DevOps

1. Ansible, — , 3 [→]
2. VPS Linux : RDP Ubuntu 18.04 [→]
3. systemd cron [→]
4. CentOS GRUB2-efi [→]
5. Docker- [→]
6. Docker dnscrypt-proxy [→]
7. E – , , , [→]

1. , , Y – [→]
2. Android 3 , [→]
3. Angular [→]
4. () OpenStreetMap. [→]
5. Swift [→]
6. Redox OS GDB [→]
7. Rust 20 Redmonk [→]
8. Google Ubuntu Flutter Linux [→]
9. CVE [→]
10. Ubuntu ARM «from scratch» [→]
11. ++ [→]
12. - Flutter Linux [→]

1. Linux [→]
2. Linux [→]
3. top Linux [→]
4. Linux [→]
5. Chrome iframe- [→]
6. - Handbrake Ubuntu GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
7. Discord Ubuntu (3 ) [→ (en)]
8. Google Chrome GNU/Linux Arch Linux [→ (en)]

1. 2020 Linux? [→]

1. Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop [→]

1. TL;DR: open source, [→]
2. : [→ (en)]
3. : Linux System Administration () [→ (en)]

1. Linux 5.8 « » [→ 1, 2, 3 (en)]
2. , 9.1 [→ 1, 2]
3. OPNsense 20.7 [→]
4. Debian 10.5 [→]
5. 4MLinux – [→]

1. xfwm4 4.14.3 [→]
2. Xen 4.14 [→]
3. GTK 3.99.0 , GTK 4 [→]
4. systemd 246 [→ 1, 2]
5. wayland-utils 1.0.0 [→]
6. Wine 5.14 [→]
7. Enlightenment 0.24.2 [→]

1. Tails 4.9 Tor Browser 9.5.3 [→]

1. Git 2.28, „master“ [→]
2. JPype 1.0.2, Java- Python [→]

1. Darktable 3.2 [→]
2. Apache Hadoop 3.3 [→]

1. fheroes2 0.8 [→]
2. FreeOrion 0.4.10 «Python 3» [→ 1, 2]

1. digiKam 7.0 [→]
2. Telegram Desktop 2.2 [→ 1, 2]
3. Firefox 79 [→ 1, 2]
4. Thunderbird 78.1 OpenPGP [→ 1, 2]
5. Release of the GNU nano text editor 5.0 [→ 1 , 2 , 3 (en) ]
6. Updating the Event Calendar widget [→]

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That's all, until next Sunday!



Many thanks to OpenNET , a lot of news and announcements about new releases were taken from their site.



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