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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. Who will be engaged in the development of open source security, how open source software changed the business world, every PC owner, a science fiction-inspired terminal emulator, can help in the fight against coronavirus, how to participate in Open Source development, an initiative to ban protocols that allow to hide the name of a website and much more.
This issue comes out on Friday night instead of Sunday because on Saturday morning I am leaving for a long-awaited vacation. The next issue, if all goes according to plan, will be out on October 5th, Monday night.
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1cloud in a new material in its blog on Habré writes: “ In August, the Linux Foundation founded the OpenSSF foundation. It includes the Core Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Coalition. Their participants will develop tools to search for vulnerabilities in the code and verify the programmers involved in writing it. We tell what's what . " The author sees the benefit in the emergence of a new fund in a possible reduction in the number of bugs, generalization of experience in development methodologies and transparency of the selection process.
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How has open source software changed the business world?
ZDnet writes, " Eric Raymond, one of the founders of open source software, wrote in his seminal work Cathedral and Bazaar:" All good [open source] work starts with meeting the personal needs of the developer. " There is a lot of truth in this. This is how vital programs such as the Apache web server, MySQL and Linux began, as well as many small programs. But hardly many people have had a personal itch from building giant vertical programs like OpenDaylight and OPNFV for telecommunications or the Unified Code Base for Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). Today, vertical, narrow-minded companies are also using open source methods and software with open arms . ”
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Rosetta @ home: Help Fight COVID-19 with Your Linux System
It's FOSS writes in a new piece: “ Want to contribute to coronavirus research? You don't have to be a scientist to do this. You can donate some of your computing power thanks to the Rosetta @ home project. ... Rosetta @ home is a distributed computing project for predicting protein structure based at the Baker Laboratory at the University of Washington and powered by the open source Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which was originally designed to support SETI @ home . "
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eDEX-UI, the sci-fi-inspired terminal emulator we deserve
It's FOSS talks about a remarkable cross-platform terminal emulator: “ eDEX-UI is a cool sci-fi-inspired terminal emulator that looks great with a lot of options like system monitoring. Here we take a quick look at what he offers. You probably already know a lot of funny Linux commands. Do you know what else can be interesting when it comes to the Linux command line? The terminal itself. Yes, a terminal emulator (commonly known as a terminal) can be pretty fun too. Remember the Cool Retro Term terminal that gives you a vintage 80s and early 90s terminal? How about a terminal that is heavily inspired by the effects of the TRON Legacy movie? ".
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How to participate in an Open Source project? 8 replies to a newbie
Tproger writes - “ Participation in Open Source projects is an opportunity to improve your skills while creating something new or improving the existing one. Novice programmers can not only replenish their knowledge base, learn how to work with someone else's code and receive feedback from experienced programmers, but also replenish their portfolio with the first serious work "- and gives advice from experienced developers and other people from IT.
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In the Russian Federation intend to prohibit protocols that allow to hide the name of the site
The topic is not directly related to FOSS, but it is very related, and we all (well, almost all) live in Russia and the consistent tightening of IT and not only IT legislation affects everyone. Russia in the rating of Internet freedom according to the 2018 version is lower than the Gambia and Thailand and according to the 2019 version in the last place in Europe. But back to the topic itself. OpenNET writes: “Public discussion of the draft legal act on amendments to the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection", developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, began. The law proposes to introduce a ban on the use on the territory of the Russian Federation of "encryption protocols allowing to hide the name (identifier) of an Internet page or site on the Internet, except in cases established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. "
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In a short line
Events
October 10-11 - Arch Conf Online 2020 [→]
Opening code and data
Frictional Games has released Amnesia games [→ 1 , 2 ]
FOSS organizations news
- Linux Journal returns [→]
- Announcement of the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA) - certification systems for IT skills [→]
- Digest from RedHat: Ansible k8s Cheat Sheet, A Practical awk Tutorial, and 4 Reasons to Use Jamstack in Web Development [→]
- How the Docker Business is Changing to Serve Millions of Developers, Part 1: Repository [→]
- Free Introductory Linux Course Exceeds One Million Participants [→ (en)]
Kernel and distributions
- Solaris switched to continuous update delivery model [→]
- eBPF: Modern Linux Introspection Capabilities, or The Kernel Is No Longer Black Box [→]
Special
Storing knowledge with BlueSpice, an open source alternative to Confluence [→ (en)]
DevOps
- PostgreSQL Kubernetes. [→]
- GitLab.com Kubernetes [→]
- MySQL XtraBackup [→]
- MinIo [→]
- SAP HCM non-SAP [→]
- Kubernetes [→]
- Zabbix – IPMI, Mikrotik, MSSQL [→]
- Opennebula. [→]
- « Kubespray»: Southbridge [→]
- 3 Kubernetes production [→]
- Ceph [→]
- Ceph 2019 [→]
- Kubernetes KubeVirt [→ (en)]
- 7 , Ansible [→ (en)]
Data Science
Web
- , [→]
- 5 , [→ (en)]
- QEMU ( 1/2) [→]
- Git compare: [→]
- , «git push -f» [→]
- Linux IIO [→]
- 10 Open Source [→ (en)]
- , . Java [→ (en)]
- Linux Git ( ) [→]
- Plasma 6 API Vulkan [→]
- Linux [→]
- GNOME . GNOME 40 [→]
- Microsoft Office Linux [→]
- Ext4 [→]
- Linux [→]
- Linux Windows [→]
- Testing the KDE Plasma 5.20 Desktop [→ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Easy adjustment of image transparency using GIMP [→ (en)]
- Give your GNOME desktop a tiled look with the GNOME Material Shell Extension [→ (en)]
- Linux enlightenment: what is a rolling release distribution? [→ (en)]
- What opportunities did the rdiff-backup utility have thanks to the migration to Python 3 (it was in the last release, but in English, but here is the translation) [→]
Games
The game "Fox hunting", created for the MK-61 calculators, is adapted for Linux (old here?) [→]
Iron
- 7 Linux macOS, [→]
- Linux Chromebook Crostini [→ 1, 2 (en)]
- Python Mu [→ (en)]
- Scratch [→ (en)]
- , [→ (en)]
- Python [→ (en)]
- : [→ (en)]
- 4MLinux 34.0 [→ 1, 2]
- Ubuntu Touch [→]
- Puppy Linux 9.5, [→ 1, 2]
- KaOS 2020.09 [→]
- EndeavourOS 2020.09.20, ARM- [→]
- SystemRescueCD 6.1.8 [→]
- CODE 6.4 is available, a distribution kit for deploying LibreOffice Online [→]
System software
Rocm 3.8.0 released [→]
Safety
- Tor Browser 10.0 and Tails 4.11 distribution are available [→]
- Antivirus ClamAV 0.103.0 release [→]
- Snort 3 Attack Detection Candidate [→]
DevOps
- PostgreSQL 13 DBMS release [→ 1 , 2 ]
- Release of the global decentralized file system IPFS 0.7 [→]
- Samba 4.13.0 Release [→]
Web
- Release of Vue.js 3.0.0, a framework for building user interfaces [→]
- Release of the integrated set of Internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53.4 [→]
- Firefox 81 release [→ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]
- Thunderbird 78.3.0 mail client update [→]
- Release of Firefox Reality 12, a browser for virtual reality devices [→]
Special software
- Wine project released Vkd3d 1.2 with Direct3D 12 implementation [→]
- Caliber 5.0 e-book collection management system released [→ 1 , 2 ]
Multimedia
Drawing 0.6.0 image editor released [→]
General software
That's all, until October 5th!
Many thanks to OpenNET , a lot of news and announcements about new releases were taken from their site.
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