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FOSS News No. 15 - a review of free and open source news for May 4-10, 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, a prototype of a possible final solution to the problem of launching Windows applications on GNU / Linux, the start of sales of a degleded smartphone with / e / OS from Fairphone, an interview with one of the developers of OpenStreetMap, a continuation of the holivar (or something more) on the relevance of GNU / Linux on desktops and more.

Table of contents


  1. Top news
    1. Coronavirus Control
    2. Demonstrated layer for running MS Office on Linux
    3. Degraded smartphone / e / OS available for order with Fairphone
    4. Interview with one of the developers of OpenStreetMap
    5. Mein Linux - a continuation of the (un) holivar about whether GNU / Linux is needed on desktops
  2. Short line
    1. Code introduction and discovery, news from FOSS organizations
    2. Legal issues
    3. System
    4. Special
    5. For developers
    6. Custom
    7. 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. Mozilla begins funding Open Source technology projects designed to fight the coronavirus [->]
  2. About the participation of Red Hat, SUSE and others in the fight against coronavirus [->]
  3. One of Nvidia’s leading engineers developed a low-cost Open Source ventilator [->]
  4. GitHub analyzed the impact of COVID-19 on development activity [->]

Demonstrated layer for running MS Office on Linux




On Twitter, Canonical, an Ubuntu promoter in WSL and Hyper-V, posted a video on Microsoft Word and Excel running on Ubuntu 20.04 without Wine and WSL, OpenNET said. The launch of MS Word is described as “ The program runs quite quickly on a system with an Intel Core i5 6300U processor with integrated graphics. This is not a launch through Wine, it is not a remote desktop / cloud or GNOME running in a WSL environment on Windows. This is something else I'm working on .

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Fairphone /e/OS




A degleded operating system / e / OS ensures that the smartphone does not rely on Google services to work, It's FOSS writes. Therefore, / e / OS should be a great choice for Fairphone 3 for privacy-oriented users. In addition, supporting / e / OS out of the box was not only a decision of the manufacturer, but also of its community.

According to the manufacturer’s announcement:

“ For many, a fairer technology is not only the device and its components, but also the software that provides the product, and when members of the Fairphone community were asked what their preference was in choosing an alternative operating system for the next Fairphone, Fairphone 3, they voted for / e / OS »

Features of the new smartphone:
  1. Dual Nano-SIM (4G LTE / 3G / 2G support)
  2. Display: 5.65-inch LCD (IPS) with Corning Gorilla Glass 5
  3. Screen Resolution: 2160 x 1080
  4. RAM: 4 GB
  5. Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 632
  6. Internal storage: 64 GB
  7. Rear camera: 12 MP (IMX363 sensor)
  8. Front camera: 8 MP
  9. Bluetooth 5.0
  10. WiFi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac
  11. Nfc
  12. USB-C
  13. Expandable storage

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Interview with one of the developers of OpenStreetMap




Dmitry Lebedev is a master of economics, programmer and urbanist who has been working with OpenStreetMap for over 10 years. He not only draws houses, but also does a lot of research based on his data. On what path OSM went, whether it has a future and why programmers need the humanities - he told all this in an interview on Habré.

Interview

Mein Linux - a continuation of the (un) holivar about whether GNU / Linux is needed on desktops





On Habr, a holivar (or not) continues on the topic of how suitable GNU / Linux is for desktops and whether it has a future in this segment. The author remembered how he himself came to GNU / Linux, compared it with Windows, examined the current state, tried to answer the question “Is 1.5% of users really bad?” and look ahead to understand what the future of the system is. If you have not read past articles, read them and comments. If you read it, I think it will be interesting for you to continue the dispute from the point of view of a fairly qualified user.

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Previous articles on the topic:

  1. Seven Reasons Why Linux
  2. The main reason why not Linux
  3. The main reason why Linux

Short line


Code introduction and discovery, news from FOSS organizations


  1. GNU/Linux 10 [->]
  2. Google TensorFlow Runtime [->]
  3. Trust over IP Foundation Linux Foundation [->]
  4. - Linux [->]


  1. Popcorn Time GitHub [->]
  2. GitHub Kodi- Blamo [->]


  1. Linux Popcorn [->]
  2. 6 Prometheus [->]
  3. Nvidia Cumulus Networks, Open Source [->]
  4. LF Networking, Linux Foundation, Open Source PaaS 5G [->]
  5. Ubuntu Unison [->]
  6. Ubuntu 20.04 — « , Linux LTS» [->]


  1. [->]
  2. Tesla Open Source [->]
  3. 5 Open Source IT [->]
  4. OpenAI [->]
  5. 15 Linux Unigine Engine [->]
  6. Beaker – PtP [->]
  7. BpfTrace — , Dtrace Linux [->]


  1. bash- [->]
  2. Raspberry Pi [->]
  3. – bash [->]
  4. GitHub Open Source [->]
  5. Microsoft $100k Azure Sphere OS Linux [->]
  6. Python GitHub [->]
  7. Wayland [->]
  8. GitHub [->]
  9. Linux Kernel TLS Nginx [->]
  10. . [->]
  11. SMB OpenVPN [->]


  1. Open Source Headless CMS [->]
  2. GNU/Linux [->]
  3. 5 Open Source , « » [->]
  4. Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 20.04 [->]



  1. Android- Samsung, MMS [->]
  2. Ubuntu Studio c Xfce KDE [->]
  3. «» INSTEAD [->]




  1. Elementary OS 5.1.4 [->]
  2. OpenIndiana 2020.04 OmniOS CE r151034, OpenSolaris [->]
  3. Oracle Linux 8.2 [->]
  4. Live- Rebecca Black Linux Wayland [->]
  5. UbuntuDDE 20.04 Deepin [->]


  1. DOSBox Staging 0.75 [->]
  2. LibreSSL 3.1.1 [->]
  3. NetworkManager 1.24.0 [->]
  4. ScyllaDB 4.0 [->]
  5. TileDB 2.0 [->]
  6. Wine 5.8 Wine staging 5.8 [->]


  1. Embeddable Common Lisp 20.4.24 [->]
  2. GCC 10 [->]
  3. GitLab 12.10 CI AWS Fargate [->]
  4. Playwright 1.0, Chromium, Firefox WebKit [->]


  1. Clonezilla Live 2.6.6 [->]
  2. Inkscape 1.0 [->]
  3. Tails 4.6 Tor Browser 9.0.10 [->]
  4. Stellarium 0.20.0 0.20.1 [->]


  1. Firefox 76 [->] (UPD: Firefox 76 , Firefox 76.0.1 [->])
  2. MediaGoblin 0.10 [->]
  3. Matrix- Riot 1.6 [->]


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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