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  • Linux Action News 189

    Our reaction to System76's Launch keyboard, Google's new Fuchsia contributor that's a big name, and the repairable Linux Laptop with a few new tricks.

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    • Audacity’s new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage • The Register
    — "What wrong-footed us completely was that the news got out before we were ready to make an announcement about it."
    "It was a completely innocent mistake that ended up doing the announcing for us... in the worst way imaginable."
  • Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
  • USPTO Audacity Trademark Assignment
    • — Recorded: 12/29/2020
  • Samsung is now a contributor to Google’s Fuchsia OS - 9to5Google
    • — Samsung’s “Flash-Friendly File System.” Better known as “F2FS,” the project is an alternative system for managing the files on a storage device, such as the built-in storage of a smartphone.
  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released for Ubuntu Phones with NFC Support, Many Improvements - 9to5Linux
    • — According to UBports, NFC support can allow app developers to implement the ability to read and write NFC tags in their apps, as well as to communicate with another device that supports the NFC protocol.
  • Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
    • — A thin, lightweight, high-performance 13.5” notebook that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that no other notebook can.
  • Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 | TechCrunch
  • Framework Laptop upgradable, repairable & modular laptop pre-orders opened for $799 and up - CNX Software
  • Launch Keyboard - System76
    • — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
  • Meet System76’s First Mechanical Keyboard
  • Launch's Firmware based on Qmk
    • 25 min
  • Linux Action News 188

    We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.

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    • Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026
    — Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026.
  • Visual Studio Code April 2021
  • Native wayland support with newest electron
    • — Use --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.
  • VMware Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen Virtual GPU
    • — With SVGA v3 also comes the ability to enjoy 3D guest acceleration on 64-bit ARM.
  • Audacity ‘scared and excited’ to be bought and brought under Muse Group’s roof, promises to stay free and open source
    • — Veteran audio editor Audacity has been purchased by Muse Group, although its new management has pledged to keep the platform free and open source.
  • ‘A massive middle finger’: Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
  • Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy – Purism
    • — The ultimate reason that free software means better privacy is the fact that users can remove any code that violates their privacy and use the rest.
  • The Audacity Pull Request
  • Policies/Telemetry Policy - KDE Community Wiki
  • [pdf] IEEE Statement
    • — One of the PC members briefly mentioned a possible ethical concern in their review, but that comment was not significantly discussed any further at the time; we acknowledge that we missed it.
  • LKML: Kees Cook: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident
    • — This report summarizes the events that led to this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had been submitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits from UMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. It concludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMN included, can move forward.
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  • Linux Action News 187

    A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.

    Plus a major step in Apple M1 GPU support.

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    • FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates
    — CentOS Stream 9 will launch in Q2 2021 as part of the RHEL 9 development process.
  • Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
    • — Following the introduction of BTRFS as the default filesystem on desktop variants in Fedora Linux 33, we’ve introduced transparent compression on BTRFS filesystems.
  • Fedora 34 Changes
  • Gnome40
  • DefaultPipeWire
  • XwaylandStandalone
  • WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
  • BtrfsTransparentCompression
  • EnableSystemdOomd
  • Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
  • UnifyGrubConfig
  • An update on the UMN affair
    • — None of the three patches that contained real bugs were accepted by maintainers, though the reasons for rejection were not always the bugs in question. The paper itself has been withdrawn and will not be presented in May as was planned.
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  • “Full disclosure” from the University of Minnesota
    • — The researchers at the University of Minnesota have posted a description of the work they did as part of their "hypocrite commits" project. It includes a list of the buggy commits they posted and how they were handled.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 arrives
    • — The latest version of Red Hat's flagship Linux operating system is designed to be deployed on the computing edge.
  • Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Released For This New RHEL Alternative
    • — The first release candidate of Rocky Linux 8.3 is out, the project's inaugural release as a new binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
  • Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate 1
    • — The intent of a release candidate is for the community to test and validate expected functionality of Rocky Linux and report any bugs if present.
  • CentOS replacement distro AlmaLinux gets commercial support options
    • — CloudLinux Inc has announced that it will offer commercial support for the AlmaLinux community distribution. The new support plans will include regular patches and updates for AlmaLinux's kernel and core packages, patch delivery SLAs, and 24/7 incident support.
  • Commercial Support for AlmaLinux OS from CloudLinux
    • — CloudLinux Inc will start providing multiple support options for AlmaLinux OS in May 2021.
  • 8.4 Beta of AlmaLinux Released
    • — This is a BETA release and should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines, unless you don't mind if something breaks. 😉
  • Ubuntu Bug Breaks EFI on 21.04 Update With Older Machines
    • — The exact nature of the hardware likely to fail is still unclear. Canonical software engineer Dave Jones suggested modern machines would be unaffected but older machines such as a ThinkPad 420 from 2011 and a MacBook Air from 2012 were affected by the bug.
  • elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today
    • — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now! We first started talking publicly about elementary OS 6 in August of last year.
  • New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance
    • — Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities.
  • PDF: I See Dead ﾂｵops: Leaking Secrets
  • M1 Mesa Driver Upstreamed
    • — I’ve begun a Gallium driver for the M1, implementing much of the OpenGL 2.1 and ES 2.0 specifications. With the compiler and driver together, we’re now able to run OpenGL workloads like glxgears and scenes from glmark2 on the M1 with an open-source stack. To top it off, the compiler and driver are now upstreamed in Mesa!
  • mesa - Add asahi Gallium driver
    • 24 min
  • Linux Action News 186

    The University of Minnesota has been banned from the Linux kernel.

    We'll share the history, the context, and where things stand now around the controversial research that led to the ban.

    Plus Ubuntu 21.04 is out, and we try WSL's new GUI Linux app support.

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    • Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers [LWN.net]
    — A buggy patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing list in early April was apparently the last straw for Greg Kroah-Hartman as it led to the planned reversion of a whole slew of commits with one thing in common: their origin at the University of Minnesota (UMN).
  • An open letter to the Linux community [LWN.net]
    • — We sincerely apologize for any harm our research group did to the Linux kernel community. Our goal was to identify issues with the patching process and ways to address them, and we are very sorry that the method used in the “hypocrite commits” paper was inappropriate.
  • Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release_msg - Greg KH
  • University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired • The Register
  • Greg Kroah-Hartman bans University of Minnesota from Linux development for deliberately buggy patches | ZDNet
  • Revertion of all of the umn.edu commits - Kees Cook
  • Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota | Tom’s Hardware
  • Statement from CS&E on Linux Kernel research - April 21, 2021 | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | College of Science and Engineering
  • Security Research Ethics Review. What’s the subject, Kenneth? | by Dave Dittrich | Apr, 2021 | Medium
  • Paper: Stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open source software via hypocrite commits
  • Ubuntu 21.04 Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New - 9to5Linux
    • — Ubuntu 21.04 has been released and is available to download from the Ubuntu website.
  • Ubuntu 21.04 is here | Ubuntu
    • — Ubuntu 21.04 comes with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application development SDK.
  • LINUX Unplugged 402: Our Worst Idea Yet
  • (Re)introducing the Community Team
  • Fedora 34 To Release Next Week As A Very Exciting Update - Phoronix
    • — After it was pushed back last week due to blocker bugs, on Friday it was determined that Fedora 34 is now in proper shape to officially ship next week.
  • Red Hat Summit 2021 | About
    • — Virtual again: April 27-28, 2021
  • Microsoft enables Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers - The Verge
    • — Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps.
  • Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux - Phoronix
  • GitHub - microsoft/wslg: Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
  • GitHub - microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
  • Introducing Linux GUI apps running on Windows using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • Watch Mars Ingenuity's First Flight! (VIDEO AND IMAGES)
    • — Mars​ Perseverance​ has been a historic mission, now its chopper, Ingenuity is flying on Mars. Watch a recap right here and see the very first video and images of it up in the air.
  • Open source goes to Mars 🚀 - The GitHub Blog
    • — Today, we want to make the invisible visible. So, we have worked with JPL to place a new Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission badge on the GitHub profile of every developer who contributed to the specific versions of any open source projects and libraries used by Ingenuity.
  • Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter · The ReadME Project · GitHub
    • — Today, nearly 12,000 developers will see a new badge on their GitHub profile celebrating their contributions to the specific versions of projects and libraries used by NASA to fly the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars.
  • Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars - NASA Mars
  • We’re Getting Ready for Ingenuity’s Second Flight - NASA Mars
  • We Are Prepping for Ingenuity’s Third Flight Test - NASA Mars
  • Mars helicopter shares first aerial color photo and preps for Sunday flight - CNN
  • NASA’s Mars helicopter completes second, higher flight – Spaceflight Now
  • Ingenuity: Nasa's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
    • — On Sunday, the little chopper rose to a height of 5m before speeding off laterally for 50m - half the length of a football field.
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  • Linux Action News 185

    The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.

    Plus Google adds its weight behind Rust in the Linux Kernel, and the new security features landing in WSL2.

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    • Dell to spin out remaining VMware stake, cements Friends With Benefits status for at least five years
    — The proposed transaction has been pitched as delivering value for shareholders, both in the short term and once the two corporations have less complicated structures that will let them compete more aggressively.
  • Dell Technologies Announces Planned VMware Spin-Off
    • — Under terms of the planned spin-off, VMware will distribute a special cash dividend of $11.5 - $12 billion to all VMware shareholders, including Dell Technologies.
  • Dell Buys EMC For $67B In Largest Deal In Tech History
  • COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04
    • — We’re providing a honed desktop user experience in Pop!_OS through our GNOME-based desktop environment: COSMIC. It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.
  • There’s no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux
    • — System76 said that it studied user behaviour and sought to refine key elements of the desktop accordingly.
  • pop-os/cosmic:
    • — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
  • Carl Richell on Twitter
    • — Yes, indeed. Pop!_Shell will remain a separate extension.
  • Carl Richell on Twitter
    • — Yes, tiling will remain a separate extension and can be used on other distros. COMIC can as well.
  • Carl Richell on Twitter
    • — The is an extension that creates a unique GNOME UX while maintaining compatibility with GNOME and the GNOME app ecosystem and HIG.
  • Carl Richell on Twitter
    • — Pop with the COSMIC desktop.
  • Carl Richell on Twitter
    • — We’re currently developing and testing on X and Pop 21.04 will default to X as well. However, we may be able to shift over to Wayland for future releases with the recent nvidia news about Wayland driver support.
  • Google backs effort to bring Rust to the Linux kernel
    • — "We feel that Rust is now ready to join C as a practical language for implementing the kernel."
  • Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel
  • HN: Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
  • Linux 5.12 Diverted From Release To Allow An Extra Week Of Testing
    • — Due to still a number of fixes landing this week, .Linus Torvalds decided to be safe and go for the extra round of testing.
  • The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12
  • A bumpy 5.12 is due for release
  • Element Matrix Services launches bridging for Microsoft Teams
    • — A single Microsoft Teams Bridge supports unlimited users across unlimited channels. Pricing is based on the number of active users using the bridge from MS Teams, at a cost of $0.50 per user per month. Traffic from Element (or any other Matrix-based client) is free.
  • HN: Will this bridge be be open source?
  • Servicing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 Linux kernel
    • — We’ve just shipped the 5.10.16.3 WSL 2 Linux kernel version to Windows Insiders which brings exciting new changes: Support for the LUKS disk encryption, and some long-awaited bug fixes.
  • Microsoft Docs: Release Notes for WSL kernel
  • microsoft/WSL: Issues found on WSL
  • Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER
    • — Wednesday's release of Hangover 0.6.5 now allows for starting QEMU automatically if needed.
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  • Linux Action News 184

    Don't buy that M1-powered Apple machine just yet, solving Wayland-driven fragmentation, and why Firefox is about to get an upgrade on Linux.

    Plus the imminent problem KDE solved this week, and more.

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    • Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel
    — This initial Apple M1 Linux port gets the UART, interrupts, SMP, and DeviceTree bits in place for offering basic functionality.
  • “Challenge accepted”
  • Ars: Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13
  • Official support for Linux on the M1 Macs could come as soon as June
  • [GIT PULL] Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up for 5.13
  • Asahi Linux on Twitter
    • — Initial M1 support has been merged into the Linux SoC tree and will be coming to Linux 5.13!
  • SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
    • — The HiFive Unmatched has a FU740 RISC-V SoC that features four U74-MC cores and one S7 embedded core, 16GB of RAM, USB 3.2 Gen 1, one PCI Express x16 slot (operating at x8 speeds), an NVMe slot, and Gigabit Ethernet.
  • How to Secure phpMyAdmin
  • Firefox Is Making WebRender The Default Rendering Engine On Linux This Month And There Is A Facelift Coming In May
    • — The Firefox web browser is finally making the long-anticipated WebRender rendering engine the default on GNU/Linux when Firefox 88 is released later this month.
  • uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
    • — The Firefox version of uBO makes use of WebAssembly code for core filtering code paths. This is not the case with Chromium-based browsers because this would require an extra permission in the extension manifest which could cause friction when publishing the extension in the Chrome Web Store.
  • Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That
    • — Currently there is no de facto EDID parsing library for Linux but many different choices and most Wayland compositors rolling their own. Rather than exposing all of the parsed information from the kernel, there is now a call to have a more unified Linux EDID parsing library.
  • vgpu_unlock
    • — Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer-grade GPUs.
  • Hacker figures how to unlock vGPU functionality intentionally hidden from certain NVIDIA cards for marketing purposes
  • Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection
    • — As Qt 5 support is drawing to a close, and we shift to Qt 6, we need to ensure that KDE products are as reliable as ever. To this end, KDE will be maintaining a set of patches with security and functional fixes so that we can enjoy good KDE Software still based on Qt5 until our software is reliably based on Qt 6.
  • Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier than April 14
    • — During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
  • LUP 400 Beer Stein
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  • Linux Action News 183

    The first CentOS clone is out, but it's the second part of their announcement that might be the most important.

    Plus our reaction to SCO reigniting their decades-long fight with IBM and Red Hat, and the big news in GTK-land you might have missed.

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    • AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative
    — As scheduled, AlmaLinux's initial release is available for download today from AlmaLinux.org. This initial AlmaLinux release is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 sources.
  • AlmaLinux OS on GitHub
  • AlmaLinux Repo
  • AlmaLinux Wiki
  • Shop Almalinux
  • CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux, CentOS Linux clone
  • How to migrate CentOS to AlmaLinux and avoid downtime in your data center
  • AlmaLinux OS Homepage
  • IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos
    • — Xinuos' lawsuit contends that IBM stole UnixWare and OpenServer code and incorporated it into the heart of its AIX, z/OS mainframe, and its midrange server operating systems.
  • SCO vs. IBM looks like it’s over for good
  • SCO slapped in latest round of eternal ‘Who owns UNIX?’ lawsuit
  • Judge spanks SCO in ancient ownership of Unix lawsuit
  • SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
  • SCO keeps dying, and dying, and dying
  • SCO trading suspended in US
  • Xinuos sues IBM
  • SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead
  • Xinuos file suit against Red Hat and IBM
  • Canonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave
    • — The setup is more user-friendly thanks to the Subiquity installer, and a utility called ubuntuwsl.
  • Announcing Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview
  • Super Sneaky Ubuntu Link
  • NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends
    • — It looks like NVIDIA is finally taking the GBM route for supporting Wayland compositors with their proprietary driver...
  • Mesa GitLab WIP Merge request
    • — GBM alternate backend discovery and loading
  • Introducing Libadwaita
    • — This new libadwaita library intends to extend that concept by being the missing code part of Adwaita. and will be implemented as a direct GTK 4 continuation and replacement of libhandy.
  • OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support
    • — Well-known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has been working on allowing good and native Wayland support for OBS Studio with the last of that work being merged upstream today.
  • OBS Studio on Wayland – Georges Stavracas
  • Arch Linux Packages - archinstall 2.1.3-1
  • Arch Linux installer GitHub
    • 28 min
  • 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
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  • 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.
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