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We continue to digests 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. Russian government agencies have started the transition to Astra Linux; Canonical Group Limited releases financial results for 2019; VKontakte posts KPHP again; discussion of factors that improve the innovative potential of the organization; a description of an attempt to use the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop; arbitrariness of HP and more.
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Astra Linux
Category : News / Implementation
CNews writes: “ A large-scale transition of government agencies to domestic software has begun in the Ivanovo region. According to the regional Department of Information Society Development, 26 executive bodies of state power (IOGV) will switch to operating systems of the Astra Linux family and other domestic software products . "
Details ( 1 , 2 )
Past important news related to Astra Linux:
- Rosatom will spend 820 million rubles. for the implementation of Astra Linux
- Astra Linux group of companies intends to invest 3 billion rubles. to the Linux ecosystem
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out the largest purchase of Astra Linux OS
Canonical Group Limited released financial results for 2019
Category : News / News FOSS Organizations
Linux.org.ru writes: “ Canonical Group Limited has submitted documents for the 2019 fiscal year to the UK Companies House. Their revenues in 2019 were $ 119 million, up from $ 97 million in the previous year. Their losses were only $ 2 million, which is much better than the $ 11 million in 2018. Canonical had an average headcount of 473 in 2019, up from 437 in the previous year. Even though they added about forty more employees, that's still less than the 500-plus people before the restructuring, when they ditched smartphones and other projects . ”
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VKontakte uploads KPHP again
Category : News / Opening code and data
VKontakte writes in his blog on Habré: “We have uploaded our PHP compiler, KPHP, to GitHub again. He has come a long way, and to tell about him, we first teleport six years ago. Let me explain for those who are not in the subject: the VKontakte platform was originally written in PHP. Over time, we were no longer satisfied with the performance, and we decided to speed up VK. Made a compiler - KPHP, which supported a narrow subset of PHP. It was a long time ago, and since then we have not talked about it, since KPHP almost did not develop until 2018. But two years ago, we took up it to breathe new life into this development. What they did and what result they got - I will tell you in this article. It will not be about a high-profile release that you can implement in your projects right now, but about the internal development of VKontakte, which we show to the community and continue to develop . "
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Open environments are places where innovative ideas thrive
Category : Articles / Miscellaneous
Ron McFarland writes on opensource.com: “ Certain environments are more conducive to innovation. A better understanding of the true nature of innovation can help us create it. In the first article in this series, I took a closer look at the nature of the innovation process. I also discussed some of the obstacles to doing this. In this second part of my review of How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley, I will explain the ideal environment in which discoveries are born, protected, and turned into useful products and services, given the specific prerequisites for innovation to flourish. And I will argue that the principles of open organization are the key to creating these conditions . "
Details (en)
Previous article in the series - "When the best ideas win, do we recognize everyone who came up with them?" (en)
Trying to use the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop
Category : Articles / User
DmitrySpb79 writes in his blog on Habré: “ Since the appearance of the Raspberry Pi 4, there have been much more people who want to use this microcomputer as the main PC. The processing power of the Pi4 is already pretty good, and full-fledged Linux on board sounds promising. I have long been interested in the possibility of using a portable and silent PC for simple tasks like typing this text, where the "real" desktop is redundant and the tablet is inconvenient. I bought a top-of-the-line Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of memory - it's time to see how it works . "
Part 1, Raspbian
Part 2, Ubuntu
EFF HP « »
Category : News / Miscellaneous
Poorly related to the world of FOSS, rather news from the other world. Linux.org.ru writes: “The human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released an accusatory article about the activities of Hewlett-Packard. In November 2020, it became known that HP changed the line of tariff plans, and removed the free option to print 15 pages per month through the Instant Ink program. Now, if the user does not pay $ 0.99 per month, then his mechanically working and charged printer will be turned off remotely . " There is a situation similar to streaming services, only if the data you purchased there does not essentially belong to you, then everything is even worse - your hardware no longer belongs to you.
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news
activity
FOSS organizations news
- Mozilla introduced the DeepSpeech 0.9 speech recognition engine [→]
- Google has obliged to use inclusive terminology in its open source projects [→]
- At Google's request, 135 repositories on GitHub have been blocked [→]
- Android switches to Bazel build system [→]
Special
WSL --install: added native installation of distributions in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246 [→]
Safety
- Malicious package discord.dll detected in NPM repository [→]
- Vulnerability in GDM to allow root privileges in Ubuntu [→]
- New Platypus attack on Intel and AMD processors [→]
DevOps
Linux Foundation and CNCF Release Free Course on Working with Linkerd [→ (en)]
Web
Chrome intends to remove support for Server Push technology [→]
For developers
C and Python displaced Java in the Tiobe programming language ranking [→]
Iron
- Intel microcode update has identified a hang issue on Tiger Lake systems [→]
- System76 has announced an updated Linux-laptop Galago Pro on the new 11th generation Intel [→]
Custom
DigitalOcean now allows you to deploy an Open Source application with one button [→]
miscellanea
DIY
- , Spark UI [→]
- [→]
- Linux Switchdev - [→]
- , [→]
- WireGuard NAT, [→]
- cl-build-… [→]
- . 3: Asterisk PjSIP [→]
- - Linux: [→]
- HAProxy [→ (en)]
- Cockpit [→ (en)]
- Home Assistant [→ (en)]
DevOps
- VDS Zabbix 5 CentOS 8 [→]
- PostgreSQL K8s Zalando: . (Zalando) [→]
- «Kubernetes »: 2.0? [→]
- GitLab Runner werf — SonarQube [→]
- , 100 [→]
- DockerHub CI/CD Docker? [→]
- Spring Boot- Kubernetes [→]
- Ansible Molecule Ansible [→]
- OpenShift Egress. 1 [→]
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management , 1. [→]
- Prometheus [→]
- PostgreSQL Kubernetes. 2: [→]
- Alerta.io [→]
- [→ (en)]
- Minishift Jenkins Linux [→ (en)]
- [→ (en)]
- Knative [→ (en)]
AI & Data Science
- Linux [→]
- 5 Linux 2020 [→ 1, 2 ( )]
- Linux [→]
- Ubuntu [→]
- Clear Linux [→]
- Fedora VirtualBox ( USB, ) [→ (en)]
- Etcher Linux Live Linux USB [→ (en)]
- Google Chrome Fedora ( ) [→ (en)]
- Quick Lookup: -, [→ (en)]
- Open Source macOS MacPorts [→ (en)]
- GNOME [→ (en)]
- Endless OS 3.9 [→ 1, 2]
- SparkyLinux 5.13. Distribution release [→]
- Release of MX Linux 19.3 distribution kit. What's new [→]
- The distribution kit of Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 is presented [→]
- Fedora 33 Images Published on AWS Marketplace [→]
- CentOS 7.9 Distribution Release [→]
- Oracle has released Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6U1 [→]
- Release of the distribution package Clonezilla Live 2.7.0 [→]
- Oracle Linux 8.3 distribution is available [→]
Systemic
KDE Frameworks 5.76 Release Available [→]
Special
- Wine releases 5.19 / 20/21. What's new [→]
- FontForge 20th Anniversary Edition [→]
- QVGE 0.6.1 release (integration with GraphViz) [→]
- New version of Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) 7.5.0 [→ 1 , 2 ]
- Frrouting 7.5 [→]
- Apache Ignite 2.9.0 release - what's new? [→]
- The OpenMP 5.1 parallel programming standard has been published [→]
- PostgreSQL update with vulnerability fixes [→]
Multimedia
GIMP 3.0 Graphics Editor Preview Available [→ 1 , 2 ]
Safety
Tor 0.3.5.12, 0.4.3.7 and 0.4.4.6 update with vulnerability fix [→]
Web
- Mutt 2.0 mail client release [→ 1 , 2 ]
- Firefox 82.0.3 and Thunderbird 78.4.2 update with vulnerability fix [→]
For developers
- GitLab 13.5 - [→]
- Calamares 3.2.33 [→]
- .NET 5 Linux WebAssembly [→ 1, 2]
- RESTinio C++ [→]
- cSvn 0.0.9, web- Subversion [→]
- LXQt 0.16.0. [→]
- KDE Plasma 5.20 KDE Applications 20.08.3 [→ 1, 2]
- Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 [→]
- Plasma Mobile Update: October 2020 [→]
Games
- FlightGear 2020 flight simulator release 3. Two years of work. Stable release [→]
- Valve has released Proton 5.13-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux [→]
miscellanea
- New release of Androwish, an environment for running Tcl / Tk applications on Android systems [→]
- The androwish "The Flux Capacitor" has been released. [→]
What else to see
Video from "Penguinus": News # 28. Smartphone Pro1 X, what's new in LXQt, FlightGear [→]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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