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  • Linux Action News 199

    We share the facts about a recent systemd vulnerability, the new details we've learned this week about the Steam Deck, and then dig into the reviews of the Framework Laptop.

    Plus, how hard is it to port Linux software to Fucshia? We get the answer from Google's Adam Barth.

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    • Denial of Service in systemd
    — The Qualys Research Team has discovered a stack exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerability in systemd, a near-ubiquitous utility available on major Linux operating systems. Any unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability to crash systemd and hence the entire operating system (a kernel panic).
  • Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed
    • — It works by enabling attackers to misuse the alloca() function in a way that would result in memory corruption. This, in turn, allows a hacker to crash systemd and hence the entire operating system.
  • Debian 11.0 “Bullseye” Gets An August Release Date
    • — Debian developers are aiming to release Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" on Saturday, August 14th, 2021.
  • Audacity publishes updated Privacy Policy and an Apology
    • — The update addresses the main points of criticism leveled against the previous version of the privacy policy.
  • Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after ‘significant lapse in communication’
    • — Open-source audio editor Audacity this week posted an apology on GitHub in response to the entirely predictable furore over the platform's privacy policy.
  • Valve corrects the RAM specs for the Steam Deck
    • — Yang also confirmed on Twitter that when docked you can run Steam Deck games off of an external SSD.
  • Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming
    • — Well, Valve and Linux Gaming together have come a very long way since the early blogs posts about getting Left 4 Dead 2 running fast on Linux to the new Steam Deck. But just how far have they come? Let's do a little reminiscing.
  • The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews
    • — We’re excited to see the first press reviews go live for the Framework Laptop and the first orders land on your doorsteps today! With the FTC unanimously voting to enforce the Right to Repair just yesterday, our timing couldn’t be better for delivering a great, high performance, easy to repair product.
  • Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
  • Two Googlers offer a tour & demo of Fuchsia OS
    • — Rubber Duck Engineering, a weekly web show hosted by Fuchsia software engineer Adam Barth and Flutter engineer Eric Seidel, was able to record a dedicated episode teaching about the current state of Fuchsia OS.
  • [Video] Rubber Duck Engineering Episode #57
    • — A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System
    18 min
  • Linux Action News 198

    Steam Deck looks impressive; we cover the details you care about and one aspect that concerns us.

    Plus, how Microsoft just gave a boost to the Linux Desktop and more.

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    • Valve has formally announced the Steam Deck
    — Valve has now formally revealed the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming console powered by a new version of their Linux-based SteamOS operating system.
  • Valve Making Linux Anti-Cheat a Reality for Steam Deck Launch
    • — Valve's newly-announced Steam Deck has a nice bonus for Linux gamers — it's helping to improve Linux anti-cheat by working with Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye to provide Proton support for their software.
  • Steam Deck FAQ: 31 Big Questions Answered - YouTube
  • First Hands-On With Valve’s Handheld Gaming PC - YouTube
  • Steam Deck :: Tech Specs
  • Valve has confirmed to me that we will have access to the Arch repository
  • Gabe Newell expects Steam Deck to sell ‘millions of units’
    • — "Our view is, if we're doing this right, we're going to be selling these in millions of units, and it's clearly going to be establishing a product category that ourselves and other PC manufacturers are going to be able to participate in."
  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 Officially Released
    • — Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 is here as a maintenance update that plugs various annoyances and bugs to make the entire Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system more stable and reliable.
  • Amazon’s Elasticsearch fork OpenSearch hits prime time
    • — Amazon has launched the first production-ready version of its Elasticsearch fork OpenSearch. This comes six months after Amazon’s AWS first revealed plans to fork Elasticsearch
  • Introducing OpenSearch
  • OpenSearch reaches 1.0 milestone
  • Windows 365 Cloud PC
    • — Securely stream your Windows experience—including your personalized apps, content, and settings—from the Microsoft cloud to any device with your Windows 365 Cloud PC. Available August 2.
  • Microsoft reveals $31 per user per month price tag
    • — Microsoft isn't sharing pricing for its just-announced Windows 365/ Cloud PC service until early August. But the pricing of one of its lower-end SKUs seemingly has leaked already.
  • Introducing a new era of hybrid personal computing
    • — Windows 365 supports your business apps—Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform—line of business apps, and more. With Windows 365, we also stand by our promise of app compatibility with App Assure, a service that helps customers with 150 or more users fix any app issues they might run into at no additional cost.
  • Microsoft is bringing Windows to a web browser, and it will work on iPad and the Mac
    • — Microsoft unveiled a new service called Windows 365, and it makes it possible for users to run a full version of Windows in a web browser on any device.
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  • Linux Action News 197

    Open Source's best hope for alternatives to Microsoft and Google gets a significant update this week, and we cover a plethora of new goodies coming to a Linux near you soon.

    Plus, our take on the Audacity fork drama and the milestone reached this week that none of us have been looking forward to.

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    • Nextcloud Hub 22 Released
    — At a virtual presentation streamed worldwide, the Nextcloud team introduced the availability of Nextcloud Hub 22, the second major product launch this year.
  • Audacity fork maintainer quits after alleged harassment by 4chan losers who took issue with ‘Tenacity’ name • The Register
    • — A disagreement over the project's name. Being unable to use the Audacity trademark, now owned by Muse Group, cookiengineer ran a poll to find a new name for the fork.
  • will you switch to temporary-audacity/audacity after the new audacity drama · Issue #72 · flathub/org.audacityteam.Audacity · GitHub
  • Stepdown as Maintainer of this Fork · Issue #99 · tenacityteam/tenacity · GitHub
  • Breakdown of All Data Collected By Audacity : linux
  • ocenaudio
    • — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor
  • ardour
    • — Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing. Non-destructive (and destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any sample rate. Dozens of file formats.
  • REAPER
    • — REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
  • Microsoft Edge Beats Firefox To Become the Third-Most Popular Browser
    • — Microsoft Edge puts daylight between itself and Mozilla Firefox
  • Contribute to Fedora Linux Kernel 5.13 Test Week
    • — Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, July 11, 2021 through Sunday, July 18, 2021
  • USB Low Latency Audio Support Re-Submitted For Linux 5.14
    • — Submitted on Friday as part of sound fixes was that work to reduce the latency at playback start with the usb-audio driver.
  • Experimental Rust Support Patches Submitted to Linux Kernel Mailing List
  • [PATCH 00/17] Rust support - ojeda
  • Samsung Posts Newest “KSMBD” Linux Patches For In-Kernel SMB3 Server
    • — The focus remains on being able to deliver optimal performance and supporting more features like RDMA integration compared to what can be implemented efficiently in user-space with the likes of Samba.
  • Chromium OS Integrates CloudReady Installer
    • — Ever wanted to have a Chrome OS experience on a device that isn’t a Chromebook or a Chromebox?
  • [CrOS] Add install cloudready shelf button · Gerrit Code Review
  • CloudReady Home Edition USB Installation | Neverware Install Guide
  • Google bought CloudReady, the largest ChromiumOS distribution | Ars Technica
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  • Linux Action News 196

    We try out Pop!_OS 21.04 and share our thoughts on the COSMIC desktop and our reaction to Audacity’s new troubling privacy policy.

    Plus the good, the bad, and the impressive in the new Linux 5.13 release.

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    • System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.04: A Release of COSMIC Proportions
    — Pop!_OS COSMIC (Computer Operating System Main Interface Components) gives you the freedom to navigate your workflow via your mouse, keyboard, and/or trackpad.
  • Pop OS 21.04 Cosmic Desktop Brings Much Needed Productivity Boost
  • Pop!_OS 21.04 Released with New ‘Cosmic’ Desktop
  • Audacity Is Now A Possible Spyware, Remove It ASAP
    • — The updated privacy policy page for Audacity includes a wide range of data collection mechanisms. It states for example that it can hand any user data to state regulators where it is located, which is basically Russia, USA and the EEA zone.
  • Audacity GitHub: Clarification of Privacy Policy
  • Audacity GitHub: New privacy policy is completely unacceptable!
  • Audacity Desktop Privacy Notice
  • GitHub - cookiengineer/audacity: Audacity Fork without any Sentry Telemetry or Crash Reporting.
  • HN Audacity Discussion
  • Fedora Audacity discussion
  • Google is moving away from APKs on the Play Store
    • — Starting in August, Google will require that new Play apps will have to be published using the Android App Bundle format. Your phone will still download apps as APKs, but the app bundles will create APKs that are optimized for your device.
  • Linus Torvalds launches Linux kernel 5.13 after seven release candidates
    • — “In fact," he said, "it’s one of the bigger 5.x releases, with over 16k commits (over 17k if you count merges), from over 2k developers.
  • Some 5.13 development statistics [LWN.net]
  • Linux Git: Merge tag ‘landlock_v34’
  • (2016) Sandboxing with the Landlock security module [LWN.net]
  • NFS is broken in Linux 5.13
    • — This made it into 5.13 final, and completely breaks NFSD for me. Existing mounts on clients hang, as do new mounts from new clients.
  • Ubuntu 20.10 End of Life Warning
    • — Official support for Ubuntu 20.10 ends on July 22, 2021.
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  • Linux Action News 195

    The news this week that pushes Linux ahead in the enterprise, the challenges Windows 11 might bring, and we go hands-on with the new Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE.

    Plus, our thoughts on WD Live users getting their data wiped and Rocky Linux's gold master.

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    • Rocky Linux 8.4 Available Now
    — The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is pleased to announce the General Availability of Rocky Linux 8.4 for x86_64 and ARM64.
  • Ubuntu-maker Canonical will support open source Blender on Windows, Mac, and Linux
    • — The support offering will include Blender LTS releases across Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. Canonical’s engineers will engage directly with customers to provide comprehensive technical support to users by understanding, diagnosing and resolving issues as swiftly as possible.
  • Canonical Partners With Blender Around Paid LTS Application Support
  • Canonical Gives RISC-V a HiFive
    • — Canonical have announced that its Ubuntu operating system now supports two RISC-V boards from SiFive, the HiFive Unleashed and HiFive Unmatched.
  • “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
    • — On its website, Western Digital advised customers to disconnect their My Book Live devices to prevent further attacks while the company investigates the mass wiping.
  • WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide
  • Declarative Cloud Infrastructure Management with Terraform
  • Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips
    • — While Microsoft has required OEMs to ship devices with support for TPM chips since Windows 10, the company hasn’t forced users or its many device partners to turn these on for Windows to work. That’s what’s really changing with Windows 11, and combined with Microsoft’s Windows 11 upgrade checker, it has resulted in a lot of understandable confusion.
  • Windows 11 System Requirements: Will TPM 2.0 be mandatory for Windows 11 Build 21996?
  • TrueNAS SCALE 21.06-BETA Now Available!
    • — With this first BETA, we kickoff the official pre-release testing cycles and prepare for a release version in the coming months. Users are encouraged to provide feedback on any issues found to our bug ticketing system so we can continue the work to make SCALE the best, most stable release possible.
  • SCALE 21.06-BETA.1
  • TrueNAS SCALE Announcement and Nightly Image Downloads
  • TrueNAS SCALE Release Plan
  • TrusNAS Developer Notes
  • TrueNAS SCALE 21.06 BETA ISO
    • 23 min
  • Linux Action News 194

    Linux's résumé got a nice boost this week; why Google is paying for more kernel development, and how CloudLinux might be pulling ahead of the CentOS pack.

    Plus, our thoughts on Steam possibly coming to ChromeOS and the game-changing feature coming to ZFS.

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    • Rust in the Linux kernel just got a big boost from Google
    — The main goal of the push to bring Rust to Linux is to wipe out an entire class of memory-related security bugs in the kernel. This is important because, as Microsoft has recently highlighted, 70% of all bugs it fixes are memory-related. Historically, key Linux drivers that make up the kernel have been written in C, which is not memory-safe.
  • Supporting Miguel Ojeda’s Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel
    • — While this is the first memory safety effort we’ve announced under our new Prossimo project name, our memory safety work began in 2020. You can read about our efforts to bring memory safety to curl and the Apache HTTP server, and to add improvements to the Rustls TLS library.
  • ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon
    • — OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens opened a PR for one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a single RAIDz vdev.
  • June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit - YouTube
  • openzfs Pull Request: RAIDZ Expansion feature by ahrens
  • ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance
  • Systemd 249-rc1 Released
    • — The first release candidate of systemd 249 is now available for testing with yet more new and improved features.
  • Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images
    • — The journey from RC1 to full release is likely to take a month or so, judging by past releases, so we can expect systemd 249 sometime in July.
  • CloudLinux releases UChecker security tool for Linux servers
    • — This newly open-sourced program, part of the company's TuxCare security services, scans Linux servers for out-of-date libraries both on disk and in memory.
  • kernelcare.com
    • — Live patching for Linux kernels & shared libraries, vulnerability scanners reporting & patch management assistance.
  • cloudlinux/kcare-uchecker
    • — A simple tool to detect outdated shared libraries
  • Steam on ChromeOS: Not a Rumor Anymore
    • — There are now some QA testers being hired to work on the “ChromeOS Steam Launch Team” to triage games, find defects and test performance in specific configurations.
  • 🎉 nano-5.8 is released
    • — "Why is it necessary to be special?"
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  • Linux Action News 193

    The premier Linux desktops get some futuristic new features, and we break down the seven-year-old vulnerability in your Linux box revealed this week.

    Plus the critical kernel feature that lacks funding, and our take on helloSystem, a FreeBSD-based macOS alternative.

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    • Plasma 5.22
    — Plasma 5.22 improves its stability and usability across the board.
  • KDE Plasma 5.22 Arrives with Miscellany of Usability Improvements
  • Plasma 5.22 arrives but I bet you’ll want 5.23 once I show you this – Adventures in Linux and KDE
  • GNOME 40.2 Released with Better Flatpak Support, Improved Screencasting, and More
    • — The GNOME Project released today GNOME 40.2 as the second minor point release to the latest and greatest GNOME 40 desktop environment series.
  • GNOME 40.2 Release News
  • Privilege escalation with polkit
    • — The vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to get a root shell on the system. It’s easy to exploit with a few standard command line tools
  • Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding
    • — These "RT" patches have long been maintained out-of-tree but it turns out that while in the past it was seemingly close for merging, that effort has stalled for lack of funding.
  • helloSystem Release r0.5.0
    • — This release is based on FreeBSD 12.2
  • helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop
  • FOSDEM 2021 - hello... again?
    • — helloSystem is FreeBSD preconfigured as a desktop operating system. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from a world in which a global menu bar exists, the Command key is used rather than Control, and applications are contained in .app bundles.
  • Bearded Tux Unisex Joggers - Jupiter Garage
    • — Get ready for that 10K run or take it slow in your backyard—these joggers are sure to make you feel comfortable either way while making a low key statement that Linux is awesome.
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  • Linux Action News 192

    An old Linux distro gets a new trick, and all Linux users get a few excellent quality of life updates.

    Plus, the new initiative that has Apple, Google, and Microsoft all working together.

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    • GRUB Adds Backup/Restore Safeguard
  • " href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=8ddbdc3bc238d6009afeb7c6b4d8df9e8495a708" rel="noopener noreferrer">grub-install: Add backup and restore
  • " href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=81f1962393f4403e2b6b127f23524a962a236afb" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs: Use 64-bit type for filesystem timestamp
  • " href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=777276063e2ec146d5bd0e379717c199967c65ed" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs/xfs: Add needsrepair incompat feature support
  • " href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=8b1e5d1936fffc490510e85c95f93248453586c1" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs/xfs: Add bigtime incompat feature support
  • PipeWire 0.3.29
  • WebRTC Work
  • Firefox 89.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
  • Forming the WebExtensions Community Group | WebExtensions Community Group
  • WebExtensions Community Group
  • Browser Extension Community Group — Browser Extension Community Group
  • Web Extensions Group Charter
  • Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week - Phoronix
  • The Insane Power Use Of Benchmarking Linux Every Day
  • OpenBenchmarking.org
  • LinuxBenchmarking.com
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 Released - Built Using Same Binary Packages As SUSE Linux Enterprise - Phoronix
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise
  • GNOME’s Need To Broaden Its Audience For Greater Impact & Funding
  • Atari VCS finally actually launches (in the US) on June 15 | GamingOnLinux
  • Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2 - Phoronix
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  • Linux Action News 191

    Our reaction to the new Freenode developments, and Audacity's latest shock to the community.

    Plus Pwned Passwords goes open source, the public release of Fuchsia, and Valve's rumored Linux handheld.

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    • After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for ‘policy violations’
    — All told, it appears something like 700 Freenode channels have been seized and re-permissioned, supposedly because the channels mentioned Libera Chat in violation of Freenode's advertising policy.
  • Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince”
  • IRC Announcement - Fedora Magazine
  • Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations
  • One week of Libera Chat
    • — It’s been an exciting first week, and we’d like to say a massive thank you for your support, enthusiasm, and patience as we continue to work to bring Libera.Chat up to full capacity. In these first few days, we’ve been able to reach 16,500 simultaneous connections and 20,000 registered accounts.
  • kline󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on mastodon: “andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode”
  • PSA: Ubuntu’s IRC Channels Have Moved from Freenode to Libera Chat
  • Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
    • — Today (2021-05-26) a large number of Gentoo channels have been hijacked by Freenode staff, including channels that were not yet migrated to Libera.chat. We cannot perceive this otherwise than as an open act of hostility and we have effectively left Freenode.
  • Pwned Passwords, Open Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI
  • Pwned Passwords is now open source!
  • Troy Hunt on Twitter RE: the news
  • The FBI will feed compromised passwords to Have I Been Pwned
    • — As Hunt explained, the FBI is involved into all sorts of investigations into digital crimes, such as botnets, ransomware, online child sexual exploitation and terrorism. The compromised passwords they find are often being used by crime rings, so the passwords' quick addition to the HIBP database would be extremely helpful. That said, the website doesn't have a way for the feds to quickly feed passwords into its database yet.
  • Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
    • — Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.
  • Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
  • Linux Action Show 431
  • Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
    • — On Tuesday, SteamDB operator Pavel Djundik spotted the change in Steam's code, which pointed to a new device named "SteamPal".
  • New Audacity Owners Want a CLA
    • — For those not yet aware, we are introducing a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which contributors to Audacity will need to sign in order to contribute code to the project.
  • Information About Our New Contributor License Agreement
  • Nextcloud iOS app Open Sourced
  • GitHub: nextcloud/ios/COPYING.iOS
  • Nextcloud iOS app License Guidelines
  • List of Open-Source iOS Apps
  • Jami on the Mac App Store
  • mediaU on the App Store
  • Linux Game Development at Tesla?
    • — Some of you might have heard, our dear technoking is bullish on games and making an awesome platform for all gamers in Tesla vehicles. The latest Model S on our website can give you a hint of what we're aiming for in terms of platform capability (sorry, can't divulge much more for now). The Tesla infotainment OS and platform software are based on a standard Linux, so of course, we're interested in helping the gaming community make Linux gaming excellent.
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  • Linux Action News 190

    Our take on the Freenode exodus, Linux Apps going public in Chrome OS, and Red Hat's desktop hiring spree.

    Plus the new Firefox security features in beta, great news for F-Droid, and Apple transfers CUPS to a new home.

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    • Chrome OS’s Linux app support is leaving beta
    — Google announced at I/O that Linux on Chromebooks would finally be coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91.
  • Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own
    • — In Google's official blog post announcing Android 12 the company confirmed that it’s "delivering on [its] promise to make third-party app stores easier to use on Android 12."
  • Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers
    • — Red Hat is now hiring two more graphics engineers working on the Linux graphics drivers. This will be focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and upstream graphics drivers for the open-source code around Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.
  • Senior Software Engineer - GPU Hardware Enablement
  • Software Engineer - GPU, Input and Multimedia
  • Principal Engineer - Hardware Enablement for Infotainment/Automotive
  • New opportunities in the Red Hat Desktop team — Christian F.K. Schaller
    • — We also have flexibility for people who want to work remotely, so as long as there is a Red Hat office in your home country you can work remotely for us.
  • OpenPrinting Now Developing Upstream CUPS, Apple Bows Out
    • — Apple has decided not to pursue feature development further on CUPS and upstream feature development has been effectively transferred to the OpenPrinting project.
  • Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture
    • — Site Isolation builds upon a new security architecture that extends current protection mechanisms by separating (web) content and loading each site in its own operating system process.
  • Linux 5.13 Reverts + Fixes The Problematic University of Minnesota Patches
    • — Linux kernel developers have finally finished reviewing all UMN.edu patches to address problematic merges to the kernel and also cleaning up / fixing their questionable patches.
  • Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network
    • — Founded 26 years ago and home to some 80,000 users over 40,000 channels, the freenode is reportedly the largest IRC network and has enjoyed something of a rollercoaster history.
  • Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
    • — Through a complex series of events which actually started several years ago, control of Freenode has been taken from the community and put into the hands of an enigmatic and wealthy entrepreneur who claims his ultimate goal is to revolutionize IRC and return it to the forefront of online communication.
  • Upheaval at freenode
    • — Evidently there has been a change of control within the volunteer-run organization that has led to the resignations of multiple different volunteers, at least in part due to a concern about the personal information of freenode users under the new management.
  • Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
  • Welcome to Libera Chat
    • — We’re excited to announce the launch of Libera.Chat, and welcome you to a next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours.
  • [HN comments] Welcome to Libera Chat
  • CentOS IRC channels moving to irc.libera.chat
  • Freenode IRC and Gentoo
  • Spaces: The next frontier
    • — Spaces rethink groups in Element and Matrix, and today we’re launching public beta testing on Element Web, Desktop and Android (with iOS coming soon!).
  • [FOSDEM 202] Building massive virtual communities in Matrix
    • — In this talk, we'll explain all the features we've been adding to let Matrix scale to support massive virtual communities such as FOSDEM itself, Mozilla, KDE and others.
  • JB Matrix Server
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