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FOSS News No. 14 - a review of free and open source news for April 27 - May 3, 2020



Hello everyone!

We continue to review the news of free and open source software and hardware (and a bit of coronavirus). All the most important thing about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. The participation of the Open Source community in the fight against COVID-19, Canonical's self-sufficiency, holivar (or something more) about the suitability of GNU / Linux for desktops, Roskomnadzor’s next attacks on instant messengers, an excursion into the history of console commands and comparison with today, the release of flagship laptops Lenovo preloaded with GNU / Linux and more.

Table of contents


  1. Top news
    1. Coronavirus Control
    2. Canonical goes self-sustaining
    3. The main reason why Linux is still (response to criticism)
    4. Delta Chat received from Roskomnadzor a requirement for access to user data
    5. Complication of console commands, 1979−2020
    6. Lenovo will transfer three flagship laptops on Linux
  2. Short line
    1. System
    2. For developers
    3. Custom
    4. DIY
    5. Conferences
    6. Miscellaneous
  3. Releases
    1. Kernel and distributions
    2. System software
    3. For developers
    4. Special software
    5. Custom software

Top news


Coronavirus Control




We continue to publish news on the participation of the FOSS community in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Fresh headlines:

  1. Open Source takes a step forward because of COVID-19, causing changes in the digital world [->]
  2. Open Source contact tracking software to prevent COVID-19 infection [-> 1 , 2 ]
  3. Open Source Iron to Combat COVID-19 [->]

Canonical goes self-sustaining




Mark Shuttleworth, in his address dedicated to the release of Ubuntu 20.04, said that Canonical has long been independent of its personal financial investments and has become self-sufficient, according to OpenNET and CNews. Thus, the company's financial report for 2018 shows a gross income of $ 83 million and a profit of $ 10 million. And Shuttleworth does not abandon the intention of entering an IPO and turning Canonical into a public company.

Details ( 1 , 2 )

The main reason why Linux is still (response to criticism)




The debate about the suitability of GNU / Linux for ordinary users has been going on since time immemorial. And the next round of these disputes began on an article by Habré, the main complaint in which to GNU / Linux is “ this is not a system, but a heap of diverse crafts wrapped with electrical tape ”. The key answer point is that GNU / Linux is a fundamentally new system in which users not only stupidly poke their mouse, but get significantly more features and that’s why it is valuable. Who is right - judge for yourself, see links.

Criticism

Answer

Another article in favor of GNU / Linux

Delta Chat received from Roskomnadzor a requirement for access to user data




OpenNET writes - the developers of the Delta Chat project reported that they received from Roskomnadzor a requirement to provide access to user data and keys that can be used to decrypt messages, as well as registration in the registry of information dissemination organizers. The project rejected the request, citing its decision that Delta Chat is only a specialized mail client, whose users use the mail servers of providers or public mail services to send messages.

Details

Complication of console commands, 1979−2020




On Habré there was a translation of interesting material, where the evolution of command line tools over the past forty years is tracked. Has the UNIX way survived or have modern systems gone very far from its traditions? Anyway, is the principle of the author of “Philosophy of UNIX” by Doug McIlroy “ Do one thing, but do well ”. Examples of different teams, their arguments and functionality are considered. So, for example, in 1979 the cat team had only one option, and in 2017 - already 12.

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Lenovo will transfer three flagship laptops on Linux




Lenovo, China, intends to install IBM’s Fedora distribution on its three flagship GNU / Linux laptops, CNews reports. We are talking about the ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, ThinkPad P53 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8. In the future, the initiative may be expanded to the entire lineup of the company. Recall, Lenovo bought the business of manufacturing computers from IBM in 2004. Another interesting fact is that in December 2019, the Chinese government approved a three-year plan to completely abandon American computers and software in government agencies, the publication complements. Ars Technica has also released material on this subject under the heading, which can be translated as “Lenovo has joined Dell at the“ OEM Linux Laptop Club ”.

Details ( 1 , 2 )

Short line


System


  1. elementary OS [->]
  2. 44 Debian [->]
  3. Clear Linux [->]
  4. Metabase, Open Source [->]
  5. GNU/Linux [->]
  6. Red Hat Summit: Linux – , OpenShift – [->]
  7. GNU/Linux [->]
  8. COVID-19 Linux 5.6-ck1 MuQSS [->]
  9. Micron HSE, SSD [-> 1, 2]
  10. Xfce GitLab [->]
  11. SMR- WD ZFS, [->]


  1. open source . ? [->]
  2. (RPA) [->]
  3. VoIP- Mediastreamer2 [-> 11 [->] 12]
  4. 3 5 Open Source Slashdata [->]
  5. Corona Solar2D [->]
  6. Open Source Tern Docker [->]
  7. TON OS - TON [->]
  8. Microsoft QUIC [-> 1, 2]
  9. Open Source [->]
  10. IBM Research Open Source [->]
  11. V8 WebAssembly [->]


  1. [->]
  2. Google Chrome Web Store [->]
  3. Krusader, KDE, [->]
  4. Ubuntu [->]
  5. Mozilla email- Firefox Private Relay [->]
  6. XMPP- Conversations [->]
  7. Firefox 77 AVIF [->]

DIY


  1. Linux- Raspberry Pi [->]
  2. – 1930- GNU/Linux [->]
  3. : « OpenStreetMap , » [->]
  4. ! - - [->]
  5. «switcher» linux: [->]


  1. : InnerSource Commons Summit [->]
  2. Pycon Russia 2020 [->]


  1. Open Source Initiative – , [->]
  2. Ubuntu 4.10 20.04 [->]
  3. KDE e.V. — KONTENT GmbH [->]
  4. Red Hat Open Source [->]
  5. DataStax [->]



  1. CentOS 7.8 [->]
  2. Linux- Fedora 32 [->]
  3. GhostBSD 20.04 [->]
  4. Linux 5.7-rc3 – , [->]
  5. Manjaro Linux 20.0 [-> 1, 2]
  6. Parrot 4.9 [->]
  7. Linux- Pop!_OS 20.04 [-> 1, 2]
  8. SourceHut [->]
  9. VisOpSys 0.9 [->]
  10. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 [->]
  11. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. ? [->]
  12. Endless OS 3.8 [->]
  13. Sailfish 3.3 [->]


  1. IPFS 0.5 [->]
  2. KDE 20.04 [->]
  3. OpenCL 3.0 [->]
  4. Regolith 1.4 [->]
  5. - Trinity R14.0.8, KDE 3.5 [->]
  6. Redis 6.0 [->]
  7. QEMU 5.0 [->]
  8. Wine 5.7 [->]


  1. Qbs 1.16 [->]
  2. Qt Creator 4.12 [->]
  3. R 4.0 [->]
  4. Microsoft Rust/WinRT. Rust-analyzer Rust c IDE [->]
  5. RosBE (ReactOS Build Environment) [->]


  1. Proton Technologies ProtonMail! Android- [->]
  2. OSINT Snoop Project V1.1.9 [->]
  3. Ultimaker Cura 4.6, 3D- [->]


  1. Calligra 3.2 [->]
  2. Camelot v0.1 — [->]
  3. Firefox Preview 5.0 Android [->]
  4. Valve Proton 5.0-7, Windows- Linux [->]
  5. qBittorrent 4.2.5 [->]
  6. Qmmp 1.4.0 [->]
  7. qTox 1.17 [->]
  8. web- qutebrowser 1.11.0 Min 1.14 [->]
  9. VLC 3.0.10 [->]
  10. SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Integrated Internet Application Suite Launch [->]


That's it, until next Sunday!

Thanks to Linux.com for their work, a selection of English sources for my review is taken from there. I also express many thanks to OpenNET , a lot of news materials and messages about new releases are taken from their site.

If anyone is interested in compiling reviews and has the time and opportunity to help, I will be glad to write to the contacts listed in my profile or to private messages.

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