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FOSS News No. 18 - a review of free and open source news for May 25-31, 2020



Hello everyone!

We continue to review news of free and open source software, materials about them and some iron. All the most important thing about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Huawei’s Open Source incubator, the difficult and controversial share of GPL projects in Russia, the continuation of the relationship between Microsoft and Open Source, the first laptop with AMD components and pre-installed GNU / Linux, and much more.

Table of contents


  1. Top news
    1. “What are you, Russian open source?” KaiCode, Huawei's Open Source Incubator
    3. Microsoft AppGet WinGet
    4. Windows : Microsoft Open Source?
    5. TUXEDO Computers AMD- Linux

    3. FOSS



« , ?» KaiCode, Open Source Huawei




Huawei has a staff of 80,000 developers around the world (for comparison, in Google 27K, and in Oracle 38K) and decided to join the fight for "Open Source Territory", with the stake placed on the Russian market, the company’s blog says on Habré. As part of this process, the launch of a kind of Open Source project incubator was announced: “ The process is running, we made the first of its kind event: KaiCode. This is something like an incubator, but not for startups, but for open source products. It works like this: 1) send your project through the form, 2) we select one and a half dozen of the best, 3) they come to the site on September 5th (or remotely) and present themselves, 4) the jury selects the three best and gives everyone $ 5,000 each (as a gift). In a year (or maybe earlier) all this is repeated again . ”

Details

About the relationship of the domestic software registry and free software




“ It seems that the drivers of the locomotive of domestic import substitution have led the innovative staff to a standstill"- such a conclusion is made in an article on Habré, where the author talks about his experience working with government agencies. Being forced to look for customers in the public sector, he first needed to get into the Register of domestic software. To do this, it was necessary to fill out an application according to the rules of Government Decision No. 1236, and the decision on inclusion is made by the Ministry of Communications. In this case, as it turned out in practice, the experts of the ministry are guided by a completely different document - methodological recommendations from TsKIT, the existence of which the author as a developer did not even know. And this document expressly prohibits the use of software components with GPL and MPL licenses. The paradox is that under the GPL the main Linux components are published, on the basis of which at least 40 domestic operating systems are built.

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Microsoft AppGet WinGet




Despite Microsoft’s remorse over the erroneous position regarding Open Source (he wrote about this in the last issue ), it seems that their EEE principle continues to live in some form. AppGet author Canadian developer Ceyvan Beigi, the FOSS package manager for Windows, told a telling story of how, starting July 3, 2019, Microsoft representatives had a dialogue with him, asking about the design of his project and the shortcomings of alternative solutions, as well as discussing possible help from Microsoft, including before employment. All this sluggishly lasted until December 5, 2019, then there were face-to-face negotiations during the day at the Microsoft office, half a year of silence, and in May 2020, the release of WinGet. On the AppGet page on GitHub, an announcement was made to close the project.

Details

Article on the release of the first version of WinGet

Former Windows Division Leader: Why Microsoft Waged War on Open Source?




Continuing the analysis of the relationship of the corporation (un) evil with Open Source. ZDNet quotes former Windows development manager Stephen Sinowski, who is trying to clarify the context of the corporation’s old and new relationship with the movement. Stephen says that the war with Open Source was justified before the mass distribution of SaaS solutions and was needed in those days, but now Microsoft is also betting on cloud technologies, there is nowhere without Open Source. Stephen also admits that Google circumvented Microsoft, recognizing a new trend in time.

Details (en)

TUXEDO Computers unveils the world's first AMD laptop with Linux preinstalled




TUXEDO Computers is one of the companies betting on laptops with pre-installed Linux-based operating systems. This week, she introduced the new BA15, which is reported to have specifications that set the device apart from similar solutions, writes 3Dnews.

Main characteristics:

  1. AMD Ryzen 5 3500U (4 cores, 8 threads, frequency 2.1-3.7 GHz, 4 MB cache and 15 W TDP)
  2. integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics
  3. DDR4 RAM up to 32 GB, drive up to 2 TB
  4. 91.25 Wh battery
  5. 15.6-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1920 × 1080, HD-webcam
  6. Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax dual-band, Bluetooth 5.1
  7. two 2-watt speakers
  8. USB-C 3.2 Gen1, two USB 3.2 Gen1, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, 3.5 mm headphone and microphone jack, micro-SD adapter
  9. Kensington Connector
  10. a keyboard with a proprietary TUX super-key has a white backlight
  11. preinstalled with Ubuntu, but there are other options



Details

Short line


Implementations


“Gorynych” on “Elbrus”: Russian workstations based on “Alta” from “Basalt SPO” will come to schools and universities [→ 1 , 2 ]

Opening code and data


  1. Google opens AI source code for using tabular data for tasks in answering questions in natural language [→ (en)]
  2. Open Source Indian Contact Tracking Application [→ (en)]

FOSS news organizations


  1. Linux creator for the first time in 15 years switched to AMD processor - 32-core Ryzen Threadripper [→]
  2. Open Source YouTube alternative PeerTube asks for support for the release of the 3rd version [→ (en)]

System


  1. Windows 10 Linux [→ 1, 2 (en)]
  2. Systemd , [→ (en)]
  3. Linux - [→ (en)]
  4. EdgeX Foundry 5 [→ (en)]
  5. Red Hat Runtimes Kubernetes-native Java Quarkus [→ (en)]
  6. Reiser5 Burst Buffers (Data Tiering) [→]
  7. BSD- [→]


  1. Jitsi Meet [→]
  2. Oracle Open Source [→ (en)]
  3. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 3,8 23 [→ (en)]
  4. Open Source - (. SD-WAN) [→ (en)]
  5. k8s-image-availability-exporter Kubernetes [→]
  6. : , RedHat [→]
  7. : «OpenStreetMap . ...» [→]
  8. ? [→]
  9. - [→]
  10. - Red Hat OpenShift Quarkus AMQ Online [→]
  11. IPSec [→]
  12. LXD [→]
  13. USB over IP [→]


  1. 26 USB Windows, macOS, Linux FreeBSD [→]
  2. 70% Chromium [→]
  3. Cisco, VIRL-PE [→]
  4. , NetBeans [→]
  5. 25 RTOS Zephyr, ICMP- [→]
  6. RangeAmp — CDN, HTTP- Range [→]


  1. Chrome 84 [→]
  2. Linux [→ 1, 2 (en)]
  3. GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
  4. Nano [→ (en)]
  5. USB exFAT GNU/Linux [→ (en)]
  6. FreeFileSync: FOSS [→ (en)]
  7. «apt search» «apt show» Ubuntu [→ (en)]
  8. How to make GIF in GIMP [→ (en)]

Miscellaneous


Multiuser console tetris [→]

Releases


Kernel and distributions


  1. Alpine Linux 3.12 minimal distribution release [→]
  2. Chrome OS 83 release [→]
  3. The release of BlackArch 2020.06.01, a distribution kit for security testing [→]
  4. Release of the GoboLinux 017 distribution with a kind of file system hierarchy [→]

System software


  1. Release of Mesa 20.1.0, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan [→]
  2. OpenSSH 8.3 release with scp vulnerability fix [→]
  3. UDisks 2.9.0 release with support for overriding mount options [→]
  4. Second beta release of KIO Fuse [→]

For developers


  1. Apache Subversion 1.14.0 [→]
  2. GDB 9.2 [→]
  3. GNAT Community 2020 [→]
  4. Godot web- [→]
  5. Qt 5.15 [→]


  1. ABillS 0.83 [→]
  2. Ardour 6.0 [→]
  3. Audacity 2.4.1 [→]
  4. Guitarix 0.40.0 [→]
  5. KPP 1.2, tubeAmp Designer 1.2, spiceAmp 1.0 [→]
  6. Monado, [→]
  7. nginx 1.19.0 [→]
  8. SQLite 3.32. DuckDB SQLite [→]
  9. TiDB 4.0 [→]


  1. Beaker Browser 1.0 Beta [→ (en)]
  2. Chrome/Chromium 83 [→]
  3. Firefox Preview 5.1 Android [→]
  4. web- NetSurf 3.10 [→]
  5. - Protox 1.5beta_pre, Tox- [→]


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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