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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. Rostelecom is transferring its servers to the Russian GNU / Linux distribution kit "Red OS"; published a report on the formation of the Rocky Linux distribution, coming to replace CentOS; Top 10 Open Source News for 2020 by opensource.com the podcast "The Complete History of Fediverse" was released and much more.
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Category : News / Implementation
CNews reports that Rostelecom plans to transfer its servers to the Russian GNU / Linux distribution Red OS. The transfer is planned to be completed by the end of 2023. Also in the future, the corporation is going to transfer to domestic OS and workplaces of employees. "Red OS" is certified by FSTEC of Russia, which confirms compliance with information security requirements and allows the system to be used in state information systems. Red OS, as CNews reports, will be the main server system of Rostelecom. According to the developers, the distribution is based on its own developments and free software taken from the repositories. Red OS uses the RPM package format, just like Red Hat distributions.
Details [→ 1, 2 ]
A report on the formation of the Rocky Linux distribution that replaces CentOS has been published
Category : News / Kernel and Distributions
OpenNET reports that the Rocky Linux project, which aims to create a new free RHEL build that can take the place of classic CentOS, has published its first report. Some interesting moments from it, according to the publication:
- The Rocky Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization, is registered in the United States to oversee development, liaise with sponsors, and legally represent the project.
- The main focus is on preparing the infrastructure for supporting the project and developing the first release, which is expected at the beginning of the second quarter of 2021.
- More than 370 people have registered as volunteers and willing to support the project.
- Several companies have expressed their desire to become sponsors of the project and are ready to provide developers, equipment, funding and cloud environments for the infrastructure.
Details [→]
Opensource.com's top 10 open source news for 2020
Category : Articles / News of FOSS organizations
The publication opensource.com has compiled a list of major events (both individual news and more general trends) of the outgoing year:
- FOSS conferences have successfully moved online
- Open Source projects are actively involved in the fight against COVID-19
- Java celebrated its 25th anniversary
- GNOME Launches New Member Program
- CERN uses the open source Ceph data storage platform
- CNCF takes responsibility for the development of the Red Hat Operator Framework
- Two regions of Germany have implemented an open messaging platform Element for 500,000 users
- The public release of the API Strapi building system took place after 5 years of development
- Wireguard is included in the Linux kernel
- Mozilla Foundation creates Thunderbird development subsidiary
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The Complete Story of Fediverse Podcast Released
Category : Articles / History
User ludi_vokrug writes on linux.org.ru: “ open.tube «» () Mastodon , , . — , . , , oStatus, jabber ActivityPub. Fediverse: Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Pleroma . , ".
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In a short line
news
Opening code and data
The source code of the client for Threema has been published [→]
FOSS organizations news
- Red Hat explains the transformation of CentOS by the desire to open up RHEL development [→]
- Fedora refuses to use master name in repositories [→]
- Search with pip search in the PyPi repository has been disabled due to increased load [→]
- A governing body elected to lead the development of Perl [→]
- Completed FreeBSD's migration from Subversion to Git [→]
- OSM Weekly 543 [→]
Kernel and distributions
- BtrFS performance regression detected in kernel 5.10 [→]
- In Linux 5.11, access to information about voltage and current of AMD Zen processors is removed due to lack of documentation [→]
Special
- The core development team of radare2 forked it into a new product Rizin [→]
- Sony has published Linux driver for PlayStation 5 DualSense game controller [→]
Training
Announcement, pre-order and free video tutorials on Apache Kafka [→]
Mobile
- KDE Plasma Mobile is dropping support for Halium and is focusing on mainstream phones [→]
- Plasma Mobile finishes 2020 with major updates [→]
Safety
Vulnerability in Apache Airflow allowing the use of one session on different servers [→]
For developers
Microsoft and Azul are porting OpenJDK to Apple's new Silicon M1 processor [→]
Custom
- GNOME 40 expected major changes to the GNOME Shell interface [→]
- MyGNUHealth, a GNU Health component for recording and keeping track of personal health data, has become a KDE project [→]
Iron
Huawei is preparing its most informal laptop - with Kirin 990 and Linux [→]
Articles
FOSS organizations news
The FFmpeg project is 20 years old [→]
DIY
Kernel and distributions
Linux distributions similar to Windows [→]
Special
Training
- .Using GitHub to Teach Students [→]
- .Using GitHub in Training. Examples. Part I [→]
- 4 ways how Open Source transformed education in 2020 [→ (en)]
Database
Charge your Patroni. Testing the Patroni + Zookeeper cluster (Part one) [→]
Multimedia
Stream and cast youtube and more ... (part 2) Raspicast, Mps-Youtube and Youtube-viewer [→]
Safety
5 Best Open Source Security Practices of 2020 [→ (en)]
DevOps
- Kubernetes [→]
- 10 , 2020 [→ (en)]
- k0s: Kubernetes [→]
- Headlamp — GUI Kubernetes [→]
- Linux [→]
- Tarantool Cartridge Kubernetes [→]
- 7 , , OpenShift [→]
- Ceph: [→]
- SRE-. 3 [→]
- 3 DevOps 2020- [→ (en)]
- Solving Microservice Connectivity Problems with Network Logs [→]
- Security of sensitive data with Traefik Enterprise and Vault [→]
AI & Data Science
Designing intents with Apache NlpCraft [→]
Web
The best Linux messengers [→]
For developers
- Rediscovering Algol 68 by programming the game [→ (en)]
- Analysis of the dependence of code security on the programming language used [→]
- Debugging the Makefile / part 1 / [→]
- Build and install Linux packages in Russian certified OS [→]
- Debugging the Makefile / part 2 / [→]
- Learn Rust by Programming a Game [→ (en)]
- Delphi Linux [→]
- Eclipse IDE [→ (en)]
- 5 Atom [→ (en)]
- 10 Rust 2020- [→ (en)]
- VRSpace, VR [→ (en)]
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- Git, ! [→]
- React- [→]
- 6 , Focuswriter [→ (en)]
- KWrite [→ (en)]
- 10 Linux 2020- [→ (en)]
- Notepadqq – , Notepad++ [→ (en)]
- Linux [→]
- Font Manager: Open Source GTK+ [→ (en)]
- Sed [→ (en)]
- heredoc [→ (en)]
- GUI CLI [→]
- About the GNU nano text editor, a simpler alternative to Vim [→ (en)]
Games
Universal application (games) manager [→]
miscellanea
- What musicians are more afraid of: piracy or monopolization of rights to the results of their work [→]
- 9 stories about switching to Open Source alternatives in 2020 [→ (en)]
Releases
Kernel and distributions
- Tails 4.14 distribution is released [→]
- Release of Q4OS 3.13 Distribution [→ 1 , 2 ]
- First release of DentOS, a network operating system for switches [→]
- Release of Icaros Desktop 2.3, AROS operating system distribution kit [→]
- Linux port for Nintendo 64 game consoles introduced [→]
- Release of the operating system Redox OS 0.6, written in Rust [→]
- Release of the distribution kit 4MLinux 35. What's new [→]
Special
- QVGE 0.6.2 release (visual graph editor) [→]
- Bareos 20 backup system available [→]
- pcem v17 released [→]
- lsFusion 4: pivot tables, charts, maps and calendars, OAuth authentication, dark theme and more [→]
Database
Release of TimescaleDB 2.0 DBMS [→]
Multimedia
- LSP Plugins 1.1.28 audio effects released [→]
- Guitarix 0.42.0 [→]
- Release of the video editor Kdenlive 20.12 [→ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Darktable 3.4 professional photo processing software released [→ 1 , 2 ]
Mobile
Ubuntu Touch 15. Ubuntu for smartphones released [→]
Web
- Pale Moon 28.17 browser release [→]
- Firefox 84.0.1 update [→]
- KDE project introduced NeoChat 1.0 communication client [→ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
For developers
- NPM 7.3 Package Manager Release [→]
- GTK 4 release. What's new [→]
- PoCL 1.6 released, an independent implementation of the OpenCL standard [→]
- SDL 2.0.14 Multimedia Library Release [→ 1 , 2 ]
- Tizen Studio 4.1 development environment release [→]
- Release of the Ruby 3.0 programming language [→]
Custom
- IceWM 2.0 window manager released [→]
- Camelot v0.2 released [→]
- Xfce 4.16 User Environment Release [→ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Games
What else to see
Video: IT News # 32 - What to expect in GNOME 40, GTK 4, Raspberry Pi 400, Plasma Mobile, new Bash [→]
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