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We continue to digest news and other materials about free and open source software and a little about hardware. The most important thing about penguins and not only, in Russia and the world. The power of Open Source manifested itself during the pandemic, the threat of Fediverse blocking clients on Google Play, the graphics device in GNU / Linux distributions, Ubuntu flavors, the history of the transition of one Turkish municipality to open technologies, the history of the formation of one engineer, and much more.
Table of contents
- Main news
- The power of open source during the pandemic
- Fediverse social media apps that do not accept censorship may be removed from Google Play
- How Graphics Work in Linux: An Overview of Different Desktop Environments
- The many faces of Ubuntu in 2020
- How the government of one municipality in Turkey moved to Open Source
- The dramatic story of becoming an open source engineer
- In a short line
- Releases
Main news
The power of open source during the pandemic
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Fediverse social media apps that do not accept censorship may be removed from Google Play
OpenNET writes: “ Google has issued a warning to Android developers Husky, Fedilab and Subway Tooter, which allows them to communicate on Fediverse decentralized social networks, to address violations of the Play Store catalog rules. 7 days are given to eliminate comments, after which applications that do not fulfill the requirements will be removed from the Google Play catalog. As a reason for the intended blocking, the possibility of using applications to access user-generated content that incites discrimination and includes elements of hate speech is mentioned. Apparently, notifications were received by applications in which there is no censorship and no blocking of servers on which there are groups that allow racism, xenophobia, extremism and ethnic hatred". Roskomsvoboda quotes Grigory Bakunov, Director of Technology Distribution at Yandex , as saying: “ How, how does Google imagine the fight against this? It's just a client that serves the protocol, the services themselves are generally made by other people. Let's then ban Chrome and remove it from the store, it also allows you to open the same social network sites! ".
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How Graphics Work in Linux: An Overview of Different Desktop Environments
An interesting post appeared on Habré with an educational program on the graphical component of GNU / Linux distributions. In the introduction, the author writes, “ If you don't really differentiate between KDE and GNOME, or do, but would like to know what other alternatives there are, then this article is for you. It is an overview, and although there are many names and few terms in it, the material will also be useful for beginners and only looking towards Linux. The topic may also interest advanced users when setting up remote access and when implementing a thin client. I often meet quite experienced Linux users with the statements "there is only the command line on the server, and I do not plan to study the graphics in more detail, since this is all necessary for ordinary users." But even Linux connoisseurs are surprised and happy to discover the -X option of the ssh command . "
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The many faces of Ubuntu in 2020
Another review material on Habré. “This is a biased, frivolous and non-technical review of the Ubuntu Linux 20.04 operating system and its five official flavors. If you are interested in kernel versions, glibc, snapd and having an experimental wayland session, this is not the place for you. If this is your first time hearing about Linux and you are interested in understanding how a person who has been sitting under Ubuntu for eight years thinks about it, then this is the place for you. If you just want to watch something not very complicated, slightly ironic and with pictures, then this is the place for you too. If it seems to you that under the cut there are a lot of inaccuracies, omissions and distortions and there is no logic at all - perhaps it is, but this is a non-technical and biased review, ”the author presents his article.
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How the government of one municipality in Turkey moved to Open Source
An interesting material about the introduction of open technologies came out on Opensource.com. “ In 2015, the Municipality of Eyup in Istanbul, Turkey, embarked on a bold transition to open source software. This led to several major changes: Linux on the desktop and major changes to the IT infrastructure, including a move to the Zimbra mail server and PostgreSQL database. It was an important decision, and it was not easy to make, ”the newspaper writes and provides information on the progress of user training and stages of transition.
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The dramatic story of becoming an open source engineer
Opensource.com has published material about the personal experience of one engineer "moving from hate to love for Open Source". “ The past five years have been an incredible journey from non-programmer to junior software engineer at Red Hat. This is a story worth telling - not because I have accomplished a lot, but because of a lot of drama and a lot of pitfalls. So grab a cup of coffee and I will share my love story for technology, ”writes the author in the introduction.
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In a short line
Events
- Zabbix Summit 2020 will be held online [→]
- OpenStack Neutron PTG Review June 2020 [→]
- Online intensive SRE: we will break everything to the ground, then fix it, break it down a couple more times, and then rebuild it [→]
FOSS organizations news
Mozilla has published the results of a study on the ability to identify users based on the profile of visits in the browser [→]
Kernel and distributions
- Linux kernel development statistics [→]
- Fedora IoT, the end-to-end solution for the Internet of Things, becomes an official Fedora release [→]
- Microsoft optimizes Linux kernel for server ARM [→]
- How to Choose Realtime Linux Kernel Patching Software [→]
- Making Zephyr (a real-time OS for embedded devices) more secure - interview [→ (en)]
- PCLinuxOS Review: A Classic GNU / Linux Distribution That Is Definitely Worth Seeing [→ (en)]
Special
- Chrome, [→]
- AF_PACKET Linux [→]
- GnuPG 2.2.23 [→]
- , SSH [→]
- Docker- [→]
- WordPress- File Manager, 700 [→]
DevOps
- — [→]
- VDS- Linux [→]
- IMAPSync [→]
- Kubernetes: , , [→]
- GitLab [→]
- Ansible [→]
- Terraform . (2018) [→]
- Kubernetes [→]
- ELK, SIEM OpenSource, Open Distro: Case management [→]
- Custom Tooling Argo CD [→]
- . [→ (en)]
Web
4 reasons why Jamstack is changing web development [→ (en)]
For developers
- "O tempora, o mores!" About Tempus Time-Lapse Library [→]
- How to use a simple utility to find vulnerabilities in program code [→]
- Freeradius + Google Autheticator + LDAP + Fortigate [→]
- Translation formulas: clever localization for iOS and beyond [→]
- Krax! Millennials invented the Python framework [→]
- Building complex Node.js projects with the run-z utility [→]
- Developing Java Applications for Kubernetes Using Eclipse JKube [→]
- Chipmunk Updates [→]
- Checking QEMU using PVS-Studio [→]
- Node-RED TensorFlow.js [→ (en)]
- Python Jupyter Notebooks [→ (en)]
- Groovy [→ (en)]
- Flutter [→ (en)]
- C++ [→ (en)]
- , Plasma 5.20. [→]
- Ubuntu 20.10 [→]
- KDE Neon [→]
- SELinux [→]
- Vim [→]
- Chrome Android DNS-over-HTTPS [→]
- GNOME Fly-Pie [→]
- Iceweasle Mobile Firefox Android [→]
- awk [→ (en)]
- / GNU/Linux ( ) [→ (en)]
- desktop Linux Mint [→ (en)]
- Linux Mac [→ (en)]
- Rclone Browser GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
- How to set up facial recognition for login to Ubuntu and other GNU / Linux distributions [→ (en)]
Games
From console master to grandmaster: playing chess in the console [→ (en)]
Iron
- PinePhone smartphone announced on Manjaro Linux [→]
- TUXEDO Computers Presents 2 GNU / Linux Gaming Laptops [→ 1 , 2 (en) ]
- Lenovo has started shipping ThinkPad notebooks with Fedora Linux preinstalled [→ 1 , 2 ]
miscellanea
- A font that automatically censors offensive language has been published [→]
- Why Open Source your project needs not only programmers [→ (en)]
- Setting up a school bell on your GNU / Linux distribution [→ (en)]
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Oracle has released Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U4 [→]
- Amazon published Bottlerocket 1.0.0, a Linux distribution based on isolated containers [→]
- Linux From Scratch 10 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 10 published [→]
- Chrome OS 85 Release [→]
- Release of Nitrux 1.3.2 distribution, migrated from systemd to OpenRC [→]
- Real-time OS Embox v0.4.3 [→]
- Release of OS Genode 20.08 [→]
System software
Weston Composite Server 9.0 Release [→]
DevOps
Cert-manager 1.0 released [→]
Web
- Apache OpenMeetings 5.0 web conferencing server released [→]
For developers
QtProtobuf 0.5.0 [→]
- ZombieTrackerGPS v1.02 [→]
- 3D- Blender 2.90 [→ 1, 2]
- CinelerraGG 2020-08 [→]
- VirtualBox 6.1.14 [→]
- Avidemux 2.7.6 [→]
- BashStyle-NG 10.7.2. Bash [→]
- CudaText 1.110.3 [→]
- Pale Moon 28.13 [→]
- Firefox 80.0.1. [→]
- Protox 1.6, Tox- [→ 1, 2]
- Xfce 4.16 [→]
- Thunderbird 78.2.1 [→]
- htop 3.0 [→ 1, 2, 3]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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