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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. Apple M1 Chip Linux Support Initiative; Google launched Atheris, a toolkit for fuzzing Python code; GNOME Circle Initiative for GNOME Platform Developers; Miguel de Icaza: From Midnight Commander to Mono in .NET 5 “How we started the Brain-Up social Open Source project to create a platform for the development of auditory perception”; FreeBSD - Review, Opinion, Desktop Suitability; Cyber Monday, up to 65% off all Linux Foundation trainings and certifications, and more.
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Apple M1 Linux
Category : News / Kernel & Distributions
OpenNET writes: “ Hector Martin has announced his intention to adapt Linux to run on Mac computers equipped with the new ARM Apple M1 chip. Hector has extensive experience in adapting Linux for unusual systems, for example, he is known for porting Linux to the Nintendo Switch / Wii, Microsoft Kinect and Sony Playstation 3/4 (including he was one of the defendants in the sensational lawsuit from Sony for circumvention of protection in Playstation 3 ). To fund his work, Hector launched a crowdfunding campaign that will allow him to purchase equipment with a new chip for reverse engineering and to work on the port on a full-time basis. The starting amount has already been collected and in January Hector intends to start writing the code . "
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Google unveils Atheris, a Python fuzzing toolkit
Category : News / Opening Code and Data
OpenNET writes: “ Google has announced the open source of the Atheris project, which develops specialized fuzzing testing tools for Python code and extensions for CPython written in C / C ++. The project uses an engine based on libFuzzer and can be used in conjunction with the Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behavior Sanitizer tools to detect additional bugs. The code is open under the Apache 2.0 license. ".
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GNOME Circle Initiative for GNOME Platform Developers
Category : News / News from FOSS Organizations
OpenNET writes: “ The GNOME Project launched the GNOME Circle Initiative to make it easier for third-party projects to enter the GNOME ecosystem. Until now, joining the GNOME project required a transition to the GNOME infrastructure and adherence to the project's rules of development, which was a barrier to the entry into the GNOME community of developers developing personal projects. With the help of GNOME Circle, it is planned to reduce the barrier to entry into the project and organize interaction with developers developing programs based on the GNOME platform ... Currently, 11 projects have already joined the GNOME Circle . "
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Miguel de Icaza: From Midnight Commander to Mono in .NET 5
Category : Articles / History
On Habré, in the JUG Ru Group blog, an article was published with the history of the path of one of the most famous developers associated with FOSS: “ Miguel de Icaza created a number of high-profile projects: GNOME, Mono, Xamarin, Midnight Commander ... For some IT people, this is a man of legend who has done an amazing amount of work for open source and the .NET ecosystem. Others do not know anything about him, but they constantly use the fruits of his labors ... How could the person who created GNOME end up at Microsoft? The CEO of what key IT project of our time has long been his main supporter? Why did Richard Stallman call Miguel “a traitor to the free software community,” while some others say he has been cloning all his life? ".
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“How we started the Brain-Up social Open Source project to create a platform for the development of auditory perception”
Category : Articles / Special
An article with the history of the development of an open project of assistance in solving one of the problems of child development from the author of the project, who personally faced such a problem, was published on Habré: “In September 2019, I started the Brain-Up social Open Source project. It is a web-based application that includes a series of interactive audio exercises to train your ability to hear and understand speech. I've been a Java developer since 2013 and at EPAM since 2017. And now, once faced with such a problem of speech perception in my child, I realized that I could try to start developing a product that could help people develop the ability to understand speech without leaving home, at the computer, through a website, without resorting to daily help of relatives, specialists. The first version of the product is already ready and available here. In this article I will tell you about our project, what tasks and how were solved, our plans and how you can join the project . "
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FreeBSD | Review, opinion, suitability for the desktop
Category : Articles / Kernel and Distributions
A new video has been released on the YouTube channel of the popular FOSS video blogger Alexei Samoilov, this time not about GNU / Linux, but about FreeBSD. The author shares his personal experience and considers how this system can be an alternative to GNU / Linux.
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Cyber Monday. Up to 65% off all Linux Foundation trainings and certifications
Category : News / News FOSS Organizations
It's FOSS writes: “The Linux Foundation offers all training and certification packages for beginners and advanced users at up to 65% off. You have a great career prospect for a Linux Certified Professional. The Linux Foundation is the official organization behind the Linux project and the employer of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Their main motto is to support ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate the development and commercialization of Linux-related projects. One of their goals is to prepare more people to meet the growing demand for Linux professionals in the IT industry today. They have a huge catalog of training courses and certification exams to help people make a career in Linux.".
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news
Opening code and data
On setting a standard for publicly available goods [→ (en)]
FOSS organizations news
- GitHub has published statistics for 2020 [→]
- OSM 541 Weekly [→ (en)]
- The company "Basalt SPO" presented for the participants of the Olympiad of students and schoolchildren "Trajectory of the future" a separate nomination called ALT Linux [→]
Kernel and distributions
- End of support for CentOS 6, RHEL 6 and Scientific Linux 6 [→]
- There are already people who want to transfer linux to the new Apple processor - M1 [→]
Systemic
DwarFS file system with very high compression [→]
Multimedia
- About watching Live TV on Linux with Hypnotix: a new IPTV application developed by the Linux Mint team [→ (en)]
- Mobile
- PinePhone with Plasma Mobile is now pre-ordered [→]
Safety
- FreeBSD adds VPN WireGuard support [→]
- Continent - VPN client / server and encrypted container file [→]
DevOps
- New restrictions on Docker Hub usage and how GitLab reacted to their input [→]
- Don't panic: Kubernetes and Docker [→]
Web
- The Ruffle project develops a Flash Player emulator written in Rust [→]
- Experimental API for editing about: config from WebExtensions [→]
For developers
Application giving direct links to artifacts from GitHub Actions [→]
Articles
DIY
- Zotero: [→ (en)]
- OberonJS [→]
- - Linux: incron [→]
- - [→ (en)]
- tcpdump [→]
- - Linux: [→]
- FT4232H c ftdi_eeprom [→]
- Kubernetes : CNCF [→]
DevOps
- Kafka [→]
- Samba, [→]
- SSH-Jump Server [→]
- Nextcloud: [→]
- Kafka . (2017) [→]
- Terraform 12 Terragrunt Multi-Cloud-. [→]
- Helm-: [→]
- 10 Kubernetes: , [→]
- Kubernetes: , [→]
- /proc/meminfo + gawk = JSON discovery zabbix [→]
- Haproxy - programming and configuration using Lua [→]
- To the ground from the clouds: moving Proxmox to a computer in an office in the Russian Federation [→]
Web
9 Open Source forum engines that can be deployed on your Linux servers [→ (en)]
For developers
- Bug in ESP-IDF: MDNS, Wireshark and what does unicorns have to do with it [→]
- 8 Git aliases to improve efficiency [→ (en)]
- About using Jupyter for journaling [→ (en)]
- How to turn any script into a Telegram bot [→]
- Multitasking in shell scripts [→]
- Upgrade Android project with GitHub Actions. Part 1 [→]
- Upgrade Android project with GitHub Actions. Part 2 [→]
- A little about how Stack Overflow works [→ (en)]
- Error: success and what to do about it [→]
- 5 practical guides for working with the Linux command line [→ (en)]
- Pushing Prometheus metrics using pushgateway [→]
- Linux Kung Fu: Turning Web Applications into Complete Programs [→]
History
Openness is the key to innovation, history shows [→ (en)]
Custom
- Error you have broken packages [→]
- About the Jed console text editor [→ (en)]
- Best Linux Clipboard Managers [→]
- About adding third party repositories to Fedora [→ (en)]
- About love for Emacs [→ (en)]
- 5 OnlyOffice, Google Docs [→ (en)]
- - Linux: [→]
- Super Productivity [→ (en)]
- Vi [→ (en)]
- Linux [→]
- Ubuntu [→]
- Jove – Emacs [→ (en)]
- Kate [→ (en)]
- : Linux [→ (en)]
- About working with the text editor Xedit [→ (en)]
Iron
Unpacking and dealing with the Raspberry Pi 400 [→ (en)]
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- GhostBSD 20.11 Release [→]
- Chrome OS 87 Release [→]
- Server distribution kit NethServer 7.9 is available [→]
- Manjaro Linux 20.2 Distribution Release [→]
- December update of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution kit [→]
- T2 SDE 20.10 meta-distribution released [→]
- The Manjaro 20.2 "Nibia" distribution is released. What's new [→]
- Debian 10.7 Update [→]
Systemic
- Release of Wi-Fi daemon IWD 1.10 [→]
- OpenZFS 2.0 release, ZFS implementation for Linux and FreeBSD [→]
- OpenZFS 2.0.0 [→]
- Wait - the systemd 247 system manager has been released [→]
- OpenZFS 2.0 released, ZFS implementation for Linux and (now) for FreeBSD [→]
Special
- WebThings Gateway 1.0 available, gateway for smart home and IoT devices [→]
- Wine 6.0 Release Candidate and DXVK 1.7.3 Release Candidate [→]
Database
SQLite DBMS 3.34.0 Release [→]
Multimedia
- Ardor 6.5 released. Support for plugins in VST3 format ... [→]
- Mesa 20.3.0, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan released [→]
- GMusicBrowser 1.1.16 audio player released. Revival after 5 years [→]
Web
- Release of Lighttpd http server 1.4.56 with HTTP / 2 support [→ 1 ]
- Vivaldi 3.5 Android [→]
- Beaker 1.0 P2P- [→]
- RedHat: OpenShift, 4 SOE [→]
- Video: IT news # 30 - Domestic software for smartphones, Ubuntu Touch failure, Cinnamon 4.8 [→]
- This week at KDE: Entering Diacritics / Alternate Characters [→]
That's all, until next Sunday!
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