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- Linux Action News 182
GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release.
Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
Special Guest: Neil McGovern.
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- GNOME 40 Release Notes — GNOME 40 is the latest version of GNOME, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorporates 24571 changes, made by approximately 822 contributors.
- Feeling brave? GNOME 40 is here and you can have a poke around in the Fedora 34 beta
- GNOME 40
- GNOME 3.38.5 Released with Support for Handling Monitor Changes During Screencasts — Coming a month after the GNOME 3.38.4 point release the GNOME 3.38.5 update is here with more bug fixes and various improvements to make the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment series more stable, secure, and reliable.
- Forthcoming OpenSSL release — This release will be made available on Thursday 25th March 2021 between 1300-1700 UTC.
- CVE-2021-3450: CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT — Starting from OpenSSL version 1.1.1h a check to disallow certificates in the chain that have explicitly encoded elliptic curve parameters was added as an additional strict check.
- Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report | Linode
- Run Windows on Linode
- RMS is Back — Free software advocate Richard Stallman is rejoining the board of the Free Software Foundation.
- An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
- An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman
- Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board | Ars Technica
- Statement on the Re-election of Richard Stallman to the FSF Board | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Free Software Community Condemns Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board of Directors
- Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
- SUSE joins open source bodies calling for Stallman to go
- From PS5 to Ford F-150: How a global chip shortage is 'impacting everything' — The biggest news in the automotive industry right now isn't new electric vehicles or Tesla CEO Elon Musk's latest comments. It's a major semiconductor shortage that's hurting automakers across the globe.
- [Video] How The Global Computer Chip Shortage Happened
23 min - Linux Action News 181
Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.
Plus a PSA for GNOME users, and a recently improved tool for the Raspberry Pi.
Special Guest: Dalton Durst.
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- Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release
— Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!- Find your device: devices.ubuntu-touch.io
— This list shows the devices which are currently under development in the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem. Mature devices have easy access to installation through the UBports Installer. Devices in an early state generally need to follow a manual installation procedure.- Ubuntu Touch Q&A 96
- Extensions Rebooted: Porting your existing extensions to GNOME 40
— Since there have been significant changes in GNOME Shell – it will be important to understand where those changes are and how they might affect the various extensions that are out there.- Guide: Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 40
- XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience
— With no one willing to step up and manage the X.Org Server 1.21 release Red Hat engineers are now moving ahead with standalone XWayland releases.- Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report
- Google is preparing for Fuchsia’s first releases
— For years now, we’ve been watching and waiting as Google has gradually developed their Fuchsia operating system from the ground up. Now evidence has appeared pointing to Google’s Fuchsia OS getting its first — and second — proper release.- Raspberry Pi Imager Now Lets You Control Advanced OS Features When Flashing Images
— The biggest new feature in this release is the implementation of a hidden advanced options panel which lets you control additional features for the operating system you’re about to flash on an SD card or SSD drive.- GitHub: rpi-imager v1.6
23 min - Linux Action News 181
Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.
Plus a PSA for GNOME users, and a recently improved tool for the Raspberry Pi.
Special Guest: Dalton Durst.
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- Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
- Find your device: devices.ubuntu-touch.io — This list shows the devices which are currently under development in the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem. Mature devices have easy access to installation through the UBports Installer. Devices in an early state generally need to follow a manual installation procedure.
- Ubuntu Touch Q&A 96
- Extensions Rebooted: Porting your existing extensions to GNOME 40 — Since there have been significant changes in GNOME Shell – it will be important to understand where those changes are and how they might affect the various extensions that are out there.
- Guide: Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 40
- XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience — With no one willing to step up and manage the X.Org Server 1.21 release Red Hat engineers are now moving ahead with standalone XWayland releases.
- Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report
- Google is preparing for Fuchsia’s first releases — For years now, we’ve been watching and waiting as Google has gradually developed their Fuchsia operating system from the ground up. Now evidence has appeared pointing to Google’s Fuchsia OS getting its first — and second — proper release.
- Raspberry Pi Imager Now Lets You Control Advanced OS Features When Flashing Images — The biggest new feature in this release is the implementation of a hidden advanced options panel which lets you control additional features for the operating system you’re about to flash on an SD card or SSD drive.
- GitHub: rpi-imager v1.6
23 min - Linux Action News 180
The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.
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- Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
— The Linux Foundation, with the support of Google, Red Hat, and Purdue University, is launching a service called sigstore to help developers sign the code they release.- Linux Foundation announces new open-source software signing service
- Introducing sigstore
— Installing most open source software today is equivalent to picking up a random thumb-drive off the sidewalk and plugging it into your machine.- rekor: Signature Transparency Log
— Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain.- Fulcio: SigStore WebPKI
— fulcio is a free Root-CA for code signing certs - issuing certificates based on an OIDC email address.- cosign: Container Signing
— Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.- Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
- German software company SUSE targets pre-summer IPO
— SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.- SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
- VirtIO Sound Driver Coming
— The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring.- GNOME 40 Introducing Virtual Monitors
— This headless native back-end that was merged today into GNOME 40's Mutter allows for running the native back-end atop a render node in a headless configuration without a physical display attached.- GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing
— Among the changes coming with GRUB 2.06 are expanded Btrfs RAID support, LUKS2 encrypted disk support, the BootHole patches and other security work,- Progress Report Asahi Linux
— To adapt the Apple world into a devicetree world, we are developing m1n1.- Current status of the Corellium team's effort
— Wifi now works on Linux on the M1.25 min - Linux Action News 180
The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.
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- Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service — The Linux Foundation, with the support of Google, Red Hat, and Purdue University, is launching a service called sigstore to help developers sign the code they release.
- Linux Foundation announces new open-source software signing service
- Introducing sigstore — Installing most open source software today is equivalent to picking up a random thumb-drive off the sidewalk and plugging it into your machine.
- rekor: Signature Transparency Log — Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain.
- Fulcio: SigStore WebPKI — fulcio is a free Root-CA for code signing certs - issuing certificates based on an OIDC email address.
- cosign: Container Signing — Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
- Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
- German software company SUSE targets pre-summer IPO — SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
- SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
- VirtIO Sound Driver Coming — The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring.
- GNOME 40 Introducing Virtual Monitors — This headless native back-end that was merged today into GNOME 40's Mutter allows for running the native back-end atop a render node in a headless configuration without a physical display attached.
- GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing — Among the changes coming with GRUB 2.06 are expanded Btrfs RAID support, LUKS2 encrypted disk support, the BootHole patches and other security work,
- Progress Report Asahi Linux — To adapt the Apple world into a devicetree world, we are developing m1n1.
- Current status of the Corellium team's effort — Wifi now works on Linux on the M1.
25 min - Linux Action News 179
Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
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- Canonical: Flutter Is The Default Choice For Future Ubuntu Apps
— Along with the new installer, Ken Vandine, Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical revealed that the out-of-the-box experience for devices preloaded with Ubuntu will also be powered by Flutter.- Ubuntu on Twitter
— Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps. @kenvandine, Engineering Manager, is here to tell you about some of Canonical’s contributions to Flutter at #FlutterEngage.- Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu
- Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
- The Linode network model
— As we worked on expanding our global network, three things were non-negotiable: maintaining vendor diversity, balancing flexibility and control, and incorporating Linux starting at the network level as much as possible.- Chrome (Chromium) release cycle shortened to 4 weeks, Chrome(ium) gets “Extended Stable” release every 8 weeks
— We are excited to announce that Chrome is planning to move to releasing a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021.- Chrome Moving To A 4-Week Release Cycle
- (2019) Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle
- Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users
— Besides looking for available updates, the Manager will also track cases where updates are overlooked. This will include metrics on when updates were last applied; when were packages last upgraded; and how many days have passed since a particular update was made available.- Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates
- Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon
- Update your computer! – The Linux Mint Blog
- A warning about 5.12-rc1
— This merge window, we had a very innocuous code cleanup and simplification that raised no red flags at all, but had a subtle and very nasty bug in it: swap files stopped working right. And they stopped working in a particularly bad way: the offset of the start of the swap file was lost. Swapping still happened, but it happened to the wrong part of the filesystem, with the obvious catastrophic end results.- That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File
- Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels
- Save the Date! | Container Plumbing Days
— The Container Plumbing Days will be a 2-day event to investigate, discuss, hack, learn, and celebrate the “lower-level” open source container technologies, everything from the container runtime on down to the Linux kernel.30 min - Linux Action News 179
Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
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- Canonical: Flutter Is The Default Choice For Future Ubuntu Apps — Along with the new installer, Ken Vandine, Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical revealed that the out-of-the-box experience for devices preloaded with Ubuntu will also be powered by Flutter.
- Ubuntu on Twitter — Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps. @kenvandine, Engineering Manager, is here to tell you about some of Canonical’s contributions to Flutter at #FlutterEngage.
- Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu
- Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
- The Linode network model — As we worked on expanding our global network, three things were non-negotiable: maintaining vendor diversity, balancing flexibility and control, and incorporating Linux starting at the network level as much as possible.
- Chrome (Chromium) release cycle shortened to 4 weeks, Chrome(ium) gets “Extended Stable” release every 8 weeks — We are excited to announce that Chrome is planning to move to releasing a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021.
- Chrome Moving To A 4-Week Release Cycle
- (2019) Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle
- Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users — Besides looking for available updates, the Manager will also track cases where updates are overlooked. This will include metrics on when updates were last applied; when were packages last upgraded; and how many days have passed since a particular update was made available.
- Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates
- Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon
- Update your computer! – The Linux Mint Blog
- A warning about 5.12-rc1 — This merge window, we had a very innocuous code cleanup and simplification that raised no red flags at all, but had a subtle and very nasty bug in it: swap files stopped working right. And they stopped working in a particularly bad way: the offset of the start of the swap file was lost. Swapping still happened, but it happened to the wrong part of the filesystem, with the obvious catastrophic end results.
- That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File
- Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels
- Save the Date! | Container Plumbing Days — The Container Plumbing Days will be a 2-day event to investigate, discuss, hack, learn, and celebrate the “lower-level” open source container technologies, everything from the container runtime on down to the Linux kernel.
30 min - Linux Action News 178
Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.
Plus why we've recently switched back to Firefox, and more.
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- Red Hat Announces Free “RHEL For Open-Source Infrastructure”
— Eligible organizations will be able to enjoy no-cost RHEL for use within their infrastructure for continuous integration, web servers, and more.- Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff
- Red Hat Announcement
— Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations- Red Hat opens the door for both VMs tand containers in its latest OpenShift release
- Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Blurs The Line Between VMs And Containers
— With OpenShift 4.7, Red Hat attempts to simplify the migration of virtual machines to containers.- Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Is Now Available
- OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 release notes
- [Video] What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift 4.7
- Introducing the Framework Laptop
— We’re here to prove that designing products to last doesn’t require sacrificing performance, quality, or style.- Framework Laptop
- Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security
— Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve kernel security and associated initiatives in order to ensure the world’s most pervasive open source software project is sustainable for decades to come.- Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection
— In today’s release, we added multiple picture-in-picture views, available on Mac, Linux and Windows, and includes keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. Total Cookie Protection stops cookies from tracking you around the web by creating a separate cookie jar for every website.- Firefox 86.0 released
- Total Cookie Protection
- Firefox for Enterprise 86 Release Notes.
26 min - Linux Action News 178
Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.
Plus why we've recently switched back to Firefox, and more.
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- Red Hat Announces Free “RHEL For Open-Source Infrastructure” — Eligible organizations will be able to enjoy no-cost RHEL for use within their infrastructure for continuous integration, web servers, and more.
- Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff
- Red Hat Announcement — Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations
- Red Hat opens the door for both VMs tand containers in its latest OpenShift release
- Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Blurs The Line Between VMs And Containers — With OpenShift 4.7, Red Hat attempts to simplify the migration of virtual machines to containers.
- Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Is Now Available
- OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 release notes
- [Video] What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift 4.7
- Introducing the Framework Laptop — We’re here to prove that designing products to last doesn’t require sacrificing performance, quality, or style.
- Framework Laptop
- Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security — Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve kernel security and associated initiatives in order to ensure the world’s most pervasive open source software project is sustainable for decades to come.
- Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection — In today’s release, we added multiple picture-in-picture views, available on Mac, Linux and Windows, and includes keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. Total Cookie Protection stops cookies from tracking you around the web by creating a separate cookie jar for every website.
- Firefox 86.0 released
- Total Cookie Protection
- Firefox for Enterprise 86 Release Notes.
26 min - Linux Action News 177
We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.
Plus a major new feature coming to a Linux distro near you.
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- The Coder: Look and feel comfortable, while kicking ass. Life is better in a robe.
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- How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars
— This the first time we’ll be flying Linux on Mars. We’re actually running on a Linux operating system. The software framework that we’re using is one that we developed at JPL for cubesats and instruments, and we open-sourced it a few years ago.- The Perseverance Mars rover just took Linux to another planet
- Ingenuity (Mars helicopter) on Wikipedia
- Mars Helicopter on YouTube
- Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars
- SparkFun Electronics
- Linaro Projects
- Linaro on Wikipedia
- Ivan Čukić on Twitter
— Another @kdecommunity #KDE Mars landing a success!- Linux 5.12 Git Seeing New Code Land Following Winter Storm
— While the first week of a new merge window is often one of the busiest times for Linus Torvalds in overseeing the Linux kernel, until last night there was no actual Linux 5.12 code being pushed into the Linux Git repository. Linus was offline most of the week due to winter storms preventing him from pushing to the Git repository and interacting much with the mailing list.- There Are Big Changes On The Horizon With Linux 5.12
- Btrfs With Linux 5.12 Gets More Performance Improvements, Working Zoned Mode
- XFS File-System With Linux 5.12 Has “A Lot Going On This Time”
- IDMAPPED Mounts Aim For Linux 5.12 - Many New Use-Cases From Containers To Systemd-Homed - Phoronix
— This patch series introduces idmapped mounts which has been in the making for some time. Simply put, different mounts can expose the same file or directory with different ownership.- NVIDIA continues tweaking their work for hardware accelerated Xwayland support
— Performance should be fine in full-screen games, as long as the compositor supports the required zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1 interface.- Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working
— With the new "request for comment" patches, there is now working support for copy/paste, drag-and-drop, and the ability to change the display mode.- Apple M1 teaser
— So OpenBSD boots multi-user on the new Apple M1 hardware. This still has some hacks in it that need to be fixed, so don't expect support for this in the tree right now. But a big thank you to those that contributed to the pool for getting us some hardware.21 min
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