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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. About the direction of Linux development and problems with the development process, about tools for finding the best FOSS software, the pain of using the Google Cloud Platform and discussions about how to maintain backward compatibility, a video about GNU / Linux distributions for beginners, about the KDE Akademy Awards and much other.
Table of contents
- Main news
- What's new in the Linux kernel and where is it going
- Why isn't there a handy tool for comparing and choosing the best Open Source software?
- Dear Google Cloud, backward compatibility is killing you
- Linux development process: is the game worth the candle?
- Choosing a Linux distribution for home
- KDE Akademy Awards announced
- In a short line
- Releases
Main news
What's new in the Linux kernel and where is it going
An article on the future of Linux has appeared on the HP Enterprise website. Author Stephen Van Nichols, CEO of Vaughan-Nichols & Associates, writes: “After so many years, Linux developers continue to innovate. Newer versions will be faster and more stable. Linux works almost everywhere: all 500 of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers; most of the public clouds, even in Microsoft Azure; and 74 percent of smartphones. Indeed, Android makes Linux the most popular operating system for end users, beating Windows by 4% (39% vs. 35%). So what's next with Linux? I've talked about Linux for almost the entire 29 years of its history and knew almost everyone who was in Linux development circles, including Linus Torvalds, and I think I have a clue as to where Linux is heading . "
Details (en)
Why isn't there a handy tool for comparing and choosing the best Open Source software?
An article appeared on Functionize describing an attempt to figure out how to choose the best FOSS software, the author writes: “ The wisdom of the crowd has inspired all kinds of online services in which people share their opinions and guide others in making decisions. The online community has created many ways to do this, such as Amazon reviews, Glassdoor (where you can rate employers), and TripAdvisor and Yelp (for hotels, restaurants, and other service providers). You can also rate or recommend commercial software, for example, on mobile app stores or on sites like Product Hunt. But if you want advice to help you choose open source applications, the results are disappointing . "
Details (en)
Dear Google Cloud, backward compatibility is killing you
A translated article appeared on Habré describing the pain that an author who has worked at Google for several years has experienced because of the approach used in the Google Cloud Platform, similar to "planned obsolescence" and forcing users to make significant changes to their code using this cloud provider every couple of years. This article describes, by contrast, solutions that have been supported for many years and where backward compatibility is really concerned (GNU Emacs, Java, Android, Chrome). The article will probably be of interest not only to GCP users, but also to software developers, which should work for at least several years. And since the article mentions many examples from the FOSS world, the article fit into the digest.
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Linux development process: is the game worth the candle?
On Habré, translated material was released from an author with solid development experience, where he discusses how the Linux kernel development process is now organized, and criticizes it: “Linux has been around for nearly three decades now. In the early days of this OS, Linus Torvalds himself manipulated code written by other programmers contributing to Linux development. Then there were no version control systems, everything was done manually. In modern conditions, the same tasks are solved using git. True, all this time, something remained unchanged. Namely, the code is sent to a mailing list (or several lists), and there it is reviewed and discussed until it is considered ready for inclusion in the Linux kernel. But despite the fact that this process of working with code has been used successfully for many years, it has been constantly criticized. ... I believe that my position allows me to provide some ideas regarding the development of the Linux kernel . "
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Choosing a Linux distribution for home
On the YouTube channel of Alexei Samoilov, a popular video blogger filming videos about Linux, a new video has appeared - "Choosing a Linux distribution for home (2020)". In it, the author talks about the best, in his opinion, distributions for the home, updating his video from 4 years ago. The distributions described in the video require virtually no configuration after installation and are best suited for beginners. The video covers: ElementaryOS, KDE Neon, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Solus.
Video
KDE Akademy Awards announced
OpenNET writes:
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This past KDE Akademy 2020 has announced the winners of the KDE Akademy Awards, the most distinguished contributor to the KDE community.
- Bhushan Shah received the award for Best Application for developing the Plasma Mobile platform. Last year, the prize was awarded to Marco Martin for the development of the Kirigami framework.
- The Non-Application Contribution Award went to Carl Schwan for his work on the modernization of KDE sites. Last year the award went to Nate Graham for blogging on the progress of KDE development.
- Special Jury Prize awarded to Ligi Toscano for localizing KDE. Last year, Volker Krause received the award for contributing to the development of various applications and frameworks including KDE PIM and KDE Itinerary.
- Special Prize from KDE eV went to Kenny Coyle, Kenny Duffus, Allyson Alexandrou and Bhavisha Dhruve for hosting the KDE Akademy Conference
Source and links to details
In a short line
Events
- LZHAM Crunch [→]
- IBM , A2O POWER [→]
- Google Makani [→]
- Comodo Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) [→]
- VPN TunnelBear , ESNI OkHttp [→ 1, 2]
FOSS
- tp-link t4u linux [→]
- PinePhone 13 [→]
- Gentoo Linux [→ 1, 2]
- Linux [→ 1, 2]
- - FreeBSD 12.2 [→]
- Deepin 20: Linux ( ) [→ 1 (en), 2, 3]
- Manjaro 20.1 «Mikah» [→]
- Zorin OS 15.3 [→]
- Firefox Android, Wi-Fi [→]
- Mozilla Firefox Send Firefox Notes [→]
- ftpd FreeBSD, root- ftpchroot [→]
- WSL ( ). 1 [→]
- Linux- [→]
- Samba ZeroLogin [→]
DevOps
- Threat Modeling AWS: 50+ open-source DevOps [→]
- Google Kubernetes Confidential Computing [→]
- Kubernetes [→]
- Lyft Kubernetes CronJobs [→]
- Postgres, () [→]
- Go? Bash! shell-operator ( KubeCon EU'2020) [→]
- Bloomberg SDS [→]
- Kubernetes , 30. (2018) [→]
- Ceph Kubernetes [→]
- NetApp Volumes SSH [→]
- Helm [→]
- . Balerter [→]
- Zabbix 5.0 [→]
- Ansible- Molecule Podman [→]
- About remote updating of devices, including firmware and bootloaders, using UpdateHub [→ (en)]
- How Nextcloud Simplified the Registration Process for Decentralized Architecture [→ (en)]
Web
Termination of development of the Moment.js library, which has 12 million downloads per week [→]
For developers
- New site for KDE platform for developers launched [→]
- How to remove sensitive files from the Git repository [→]
- PHP development environment based on Docker [→]
- Pysa: How to Avoid Security Issues in Python Code [→]
- Rust 2020 Status Survey [→]
- 3 « » ( FOSS, ) [→ (en)]
- Python [→ (en)]
- Wekan GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
- , . Python [→ (en)]
- KDE: Akademy [→]
- iperf [→]
- Linux [→]
- Pop OS [→]
- Ext4 vs Btrfs vs XFS [→]
- Gnome Tweak Tool Ubuntu [→]
- Cawbird 1.2.0 Twitter client released. What's new [→]
- How to fix "Repository is not valid yet" error on Ubuntu Linux? [→ (en)]
- How do I run multiple commands at once in a GNU / Linux terminal? (for completely newbies) [→ (en)]
- Linux enlightenment: what is a Long Term Support (LTS) release? What is Ubuntu LTS? [→ (en)]
- KeePassXC, an excellent community-developed open source password manager [→ (en)]
- What's new in rdiff-backup after migrating to Python 3? [→ (en)]
- About analyzing Linux startup speed with systemd-analyze [→ (en)]
- On improving time management with Jupyter [→ (en)]
Iron
A wide variety of Linux systems are available for Slimbook Essential notebooks [→]
miscellanea
- ARM Panfrost [→]
- Microsoft Hyper-V Linux [→ 1, 2]
- Raspberry Pi Ansible [→ (en)]
- Python Jupyter Notebooks [→ (en)]
- 3 Confluence [→ (en)]
- [→ (en)]
- Genode Sculpt 20.08 [→]
- ALT p9 starterkits [→]
- Solaris 11.4 SRU25 [→]
- FuryBSD 2020-Q3, Live- FreeBSD KDE Xfce [→]
System software
Release of the NVIDIA driver 455.23.04 with support for GPU RTX 3080 (the driver is not FOSS, but for FOSS operating systems and important, therefore it is included in the digest) [→]
Safety
- Release of the new stable Tor 0.4.4 branch [→]
- Cisco has released a free anti-virus package ClamAV 0.103 [→]
For developers
- Java SE 15 Release [→]
- Release of the compiler for the Vala programming language 0.50.0 [→]
- Release of assembly tools Qbs 1.17 [→]
Special software
Magma 1.2.0, a platform for fast deployment of LTE networks, released [→]
Multimedia
- digiKam 7.1.0. A program for working with photos. What's new [→]
- LSP Plugins 1.1.26 audio effects released [→]
- Release of Simplest Studio 2020 SE for FLAC and WAV optimization [→]
- BlendNet 0.3 release, add-ons for distributed rendering [→]
Games
Battle for Wesnoth 1.14.14 - Battle for Wesnoth [→]
Custom software
- Release of the GNOME 3.38 user environment [→ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 (en) ]
- KDE Plasma 5.20 beta is available [→]
- Geary 3.38 mail client release [→]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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