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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. This issue contains a lot of important materials about mobile devices. PinePhone with KDE Plasma Mobile for desktop use; the Librem 5 smartphone has entered the stage of mass production; launched a fundraising campaign for the Pro1 X slide-out smartphone; GitHub has unblocked youtube-dl and has taken steps to eliminate unreasonable locks; Ubuntu Web Remix (alternative to Chrome OS with Firefox instead of Google Chrome); how Open-Source is monetized; whether Gossoft will switch to open source technologies (opportunities for the development of this trend in the US) and much more.
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the main thing
Introduced PinePhone with KDE Plasma Mobile, which can be used as a desktop
Category : News / Mobile
OpenNET writes: “ The Pine64 community and the KDE project have announced the imminent availability of the PinePhone KDE Community Edition smartphone, complete with firmware with the KDE Plasma Mobile user environment. The KDE edition complements the previously released smartphone variants that ship with postmarketOS, UBports / Ubuntu Touch, and Manjaro. The edition of the PinePhone smartphone with KDE will go on sale on December 1 and will come in versions with 2GB RAM + 16GB eMMC and 3GB RAM + 32GB eMMC + USB Type-C adapter for connecting to a monitor (HDMI), network (10/100 Ethernet), keyboard and a mouse (two USB 2.0 ports). The cost of the devices will be $ 149 and $ 199 ".
Details ( 1 , 2 , 3 ,4 , 5 )
Librem 5 smartphone has entered the stage of mass production
Category : News / Mobile
OpenNET writes: “ Purism has announced the mass production of the Librem 5 smartphone, notable for the presence of software and hardware tools to block attempts to track and collect information about the user. The smartphone gives the user full control over the device and is equipped with almost only free software, including drivers and firmware . " As in the previous news, the smartphone can be used as a base for a kind of desktop computer - "by connecting a smartphone to a monitor, get a typical GNOME desktop based on a single set of applications ."
The main characteristics, according to the publication:
- SoC i.MX8M with quad-core ARM64 Cortex A53 (1.5GHz) CPU, Cortex M4 auxiliary chip and Vivante GC7000Lite GPU supporting OpenGL / ES 3.1, Vulkan and OpenCL 1.2.
- 5.7-inch screen (IPS TFT) with 720 × 1440 resolution.
- RAM - 3GB.
- built-in Flash 32GB plus microSD slot.
- Battery with a capacity of 4500mAh.
Details ( 1 , 2 , 3 )
Fundraising campaign for the production of Pro1 X, a smartphone with a slide-out keyboard compatible with Ubuntu Touch and Android
Category : News / Mobile
OpenNET writes: “ UK company F (x) tec is working with the online community XDA to fundraise to support the new version of the Pro1 smartphone with a physical keyboard. The main feature of this device is declared to support the OS to choose from - Android 9, Lineage OS 17, or Ubuntu Touch. For the latter, support for "convergence" is declared - the possibility of using it as a desktop PC when connecting a monitor, keyboard and mouse . "
The main characteristics, according to the publication:
- 5.99-inch AMOLED display with 2160x1080 resolution.
- Processor - Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 MSM8998.
- RAM - 6 or 8 GB LPDDR4.
- Storage - 128GB or 256GB expandable up to 2TB by microSD card
- Battery - 3200 mAh with fast charging.
Details
GitHub youtube-dl
Category : News / News FOSS Organizations
OpenNET writes: “ GitHub has restored access to the repository of the youtube-dl project, which was blocked last month following a complaint from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which accused the developers of the project of violating the US Copyright Act. digital age law (DMCA). The youtube-dl development is back on GitHub. ... The lock was removed after a developer made a change to remove the test downloads mentioned in the RIAA complaint. Recall that the main reason for blocking was the presence in youtube-dl of a code to check the correctness of the work, using materials in test downloads, the copyright of which belongs to the RIAA participants . "
Details ( 1 ,2 )
Ubuntu Web Remix — Chrome OS Firefox Google Chrome
Category : News / Kernel and distributions
The Selectel company in its blog on Habré writes: “ Chromebooks are popular devices, sales of which are gradually growing. There are several reasons for this - they are inexpensive, relatively versatile, and great for study or work, including telecommuting. As a result, in the third quarter of this year, sales of Chromebooks grew by 122%. The only problem with Chromebooks is that the operating system is Chrome OS with a Chrome or Chromium browser. Although many people like this software, but not everyone. A large number of users are forced to accept Chrome OS, having no alternative. But now it seems she has appeared. This is a Linux distribution called Ubuntu Web Remix. It was started in early summer and is now available for download.".
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How Open Source is monetized
Category : Articles / Miscellaneous
Jitsu company writes in its blog on Habré: “When we hear the word open-source, something related to charity and altruism immediately comes to mind: talented programmers write code at night after work to make the world a better place. However, life is more complicated. While open-source does make the world a better place, most open source is written for purely commercial purposes. Some companies use open source products as part of their marketing or hiring strategy. Other companies, however, base their entire business entirely on an open-source core. … We at Jitsu also chose an open-source strategy. We are building our business on the open core EventNative (we wrote about it in the previous text). Before settling on such a model, we researched the market and understood a lot about its structure . "
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Will gossoft be transferred to open source technologies - opportunities for the development of this trend in the USA
Category : Articles / Miscellaneous
The VAS Experts company writes in its blog on Habré: “ Earlier we dwelt in detail on how the US authorities plan to develop IT infrastructure and communication lines throughout the country - we discussed why this process is hindered by the current standards, reporting collection methods from Internet providers and the low accuracy of the so-called broadband cards built on its basis. Despite these difficulties, regulators and telecom companies are increasingly moving from words to deeds . "
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news
activity
Kubernetes for Developers: 3-Day Intensive [→]
FOSS organizations news
- Mozilla donated Servo engine to Linux Foundation [→ 1 , 2 (en) , 3 ]
- IBM, Linux Foundation, Cisco, Akamai and VMware have started promoting inclusive terminology [→]
- Color Management & HDR Development Initiative for Wayland [→]
- Facebook became a corporate sponsor of the Blender Foundation [→]
- Fedora 34 plans to use PipeWire for sound instead of PulseAudio [→]
- Consolidation of AI and ML projects in the Linux Foundation [→ (en)]
Multimedia
The GIMP Project celebrates its 25th anniversary [→]
Safety
Critical vulnerability in the Drupal content management system [→]
Web
Flash support in Mozilla Firefox ends January 26, 2021 [→]
Custom
Improvements to Wayland support in KDE programs [→]
Iron
Purism has unveiled the Librem Mini v2 Linux computer [→]
Articles
DIY
Cloud management or local. What to Choose for Home Automation? [→ (en)]
Kernel and distributions
Comparison of KDE Neon vs Kubuntu [→]
Systemic
How to Forget ZFS and Start Using Btrfs [→ (en)]
Special
LazySSH, an SSH server for running temporary virtual machines [→]
Multimedia
LazPaint: An open source alternative to Paint.NET [→ (en)]
Safety
- CrowdSec is a modern alternative to Fail2Ban and herd immunity for the Internet [→]
- bdshemu: - Bitdefender [→]
- SELinux [→ (en)]
DevOps
- Git [→]
- [→]
- Smarkets Kubernetes- [→]
- Terraform 0.12 [→ (en)]
- Terraform tfenv [→ (en)]
- Ansible [→ (en)]
Web
- cSvn [→]
- . Kivy [→]
- [→]
- Material Design AvaloniaUI [→]
- Python OpenCV Android [→]
- Python Django [→ (en)]
- 7 Rust Cargo [→ (en)]
- [ ] , C Ubuntu [→ (en)]
- - Linux: ripgrep [→]
- Google Chrome Linux Mint [→]
- 6 , Ubuntu Windows [→]
- - Linux: awk [→]
- man [→]
- Linux [→]
- - Linux: [→]
- [ ] [→ (en)]
- VirtualBox [→ (en)]
- Linux [→ (en)]
- : Grub Linux ? [→ (en)]
Psion 5mx and hardware entertainment with linux [→]
miscellanea
- Protocols, not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - Part 1 [→]
- How to calculate the metrics of the success of Open Source events [→ (en)]
- Open Source brings musicians together in a virtual space [→ (en)]
- Labor Relations and Open Source [→ (en)]
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Ubuntu Touch 14 is released. Ubuntu for smartphones. What's new [→]
- Release of the MidnightBSD 2.0 operating system [→]
- Solaris 11.4 SRU27 is available [→]
- Kali Linux 2020.4 Security Research Distribution Release [→]
Systemic
Web
- - SeaMonkey 2.53.5 [→]
- P2P- GNUnet 0.14 [→]
- gping, [→]
- Firefox 83 [→ 1, 2, 3]
- Tor Browser 10.0.5 Tails 4.13 [→]
- Chrome 87 [→ 1, 2]
- Thunderbird 78.5.0 [→]
miscellanea
Release of GCompris 1.0, a learning kit for children 2-10 years old [→]
What else to see
4 books on digital transformation for team leaders, a cheat sheet on Quarkus & Observability ... - digest from RedHat [→]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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