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- Linux Action News 169
Our annual predictions episode kicks off with a review of what we got right and wrong for 2020, and then we speculate wildly about what could happen in 2021.
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28 min - Linux Action News 168
Another Google project meets an untimely demise, but we find the silver lining.
Plus new Matrix goodies, why AWS is investing in Blender, and more.
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- Google kills Android Things, its IoT OS, in January
— Google announced it had basically given up on the project as a general-purpose IoT operating system in 2019, but now there's an official shutdown date thanks to a new FAQ page detailing the demise of the OS.- Android Things Shutdown FAQ
- Ron Amadeo on Twitter
— Oof, Google promised three years of updates when Android Things launched in May 2018, the actual support it delivered? One year, three months.- Google, Qualcomm partner to bring 4 OS Android updates to new chipsets
— The new plan is three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates.- Qualcomm promises three years of Android updates for its entire SoC lineup
- Google acquires CloudReady OS to make PCs Chromebooks
— Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS. While primarily aimed at schools and enterprises, a free “Home” edition for everyone is available. Google has now acquired Neverware and CloudReady with plans to integrate it with Chrome OS.- Native Steam (Borealis) on Chrome OS likely arriving mid-2021
- GTK 4.0 Officially Released After More Than 4 Years of Development
— The GTK development officially released today the next generation of the GTK toolkit, GTK 4.0, after being in development for more than four years.- GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released
- GTK 4.0 – GTK Development Blog
- Matrix.to: Reloaded
— A challenge we regularly face is all the factors which make Matrix flexible and powerful as an open, secure decentralised protocol also increase the difficulty of getting started.- Matrix.to
— Create shareable links to Matrix rooms, users or messages without being tied to any app- Introducing Cerulean
— Alongside all the normal business-as-usual Matrix stuff, we’ve found some time to do a mad science experiment over the last few weeks - to test the question: "Is it possible to build a serious Twitter-style decentralised microblogging app using Matrix?"- Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play
— Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages technology, known as AMP among web publishers, took a beating this week as an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of Texas charged that the ad biz used AMP to hinder competition.- I have resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee – Terence Eden’s Blog
— I remain convinced that AMP is poorly implemented, hostile to the interests of both users and publishers, and a proprietary & unnecessary incursion into the open web.- AWS joins the Blender Development Fund
— AWS committed to a period of three years, specifically to support character animation tools development.32 min - Linux Action News 167
We explain the major changes to CentOS this week and break down the top four criticisms.
Plus Google makes their Fuchsia intentions a bit more clear, and why Linux 5.10 is a BIG deal.
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- Before You Get Mad About The CentOS Stream Change, Think About…
— But, before you get angry, please read this. I’ve been surfing Twitter, Reddit, and HackerNews threads just like many others. I’ve gathered some major buckets of complaints which seem to come up, and I’d like to address each of them.- CentOS project lead disappears
- Usage Statistics and Market Share of Linux for Websites, December 2020
- Red Hat and the CentOS Project Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation
- Transforming the development experience within CentOS
- CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
- FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates
- Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public
— To both support developers and make the Fuchsia development process less skunkworks and more public, Google is opening Fuchsia’s bug tracker to the public.- Expanding Fuchsia’s open source model | Google Open Source Blog
- Linux 5.10 LTS Released As One Of The Biggest Kernel Releases In A While
- Linux 5.10 Released
— Besides being the last kernel release of 2020, this is a significant milestone in that it's also a Long Term Support (LTS) kernel to be maintained for at least the next five years and also is a huge kernel update in general with many new features.- The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10
31 min - Linux Action News 166
Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.
Plus Michael Larabel from Phoronix joins us to discuss the state of Linux hardware support in 2020.
Special Guest: Michael Larabel.
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- Budgie 10.5.2 Desktop Environment Released with Support for the GNOME 3.38 Stack
- Budgie 10.5.2 Released
- KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Is Out with More Than 40 Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Plasma 5.20.4 complete changelog
- GNOME 3.38.2 Desktop Environment Is Out with Even More Improvements and Bug Fixes
- 3.38.2/NEWS
- Cinnamon 4.8 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
- New Raspberry Pi OS release
— The traditional end-of-year new release of Raspberry Pi OS, which we launch today.- Raspberry Pi’s V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland
— Raspberry Pi fans were celebrating that the V3DV driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for supporting this modern high-performance graphics/compute API atop the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer.- Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE’s Rancher acquisition?
— SUSE, a major Linux and cloud company, finalized its acquisition of Rancher Labs earlier this year.. Rancher, formerly a privately held open-source company, had over 37,000 active users and 100-million downloads of its flagship Kubernetes management program, Rancher.- Rancher Labs - Wikipedia
- Network World
- SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs - YouTube
30 min - Linux Action News 165
What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.
Plus our reaction to Microsoft's Android subsystem that's in the works.
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- Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet
— Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services.- Geoff Belknap on Twitter
— “I… can’t vacuum… because us-east-1 is down.”- Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub
— The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical.- Vivaldi Integrates Email Client, Feed Reader, and Calendar in a Browser
— The Vivaldi team announced that they are bringing an Email client, a Feed Reader, and a Calendar – all of these together in the latest Vivaldi technical preview release.- Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview
- How to use the built-in GPG feature for Thunderbird
- Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability
— systemd 247 is very heavy on new features, and one big change for udev.- [systemd-devel] systemd 247 released
- NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software
— The Paragon NTFS kernel driver patch is now on its 13th iteration- Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
— This new initiative is called 'Project Latte,' and similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), will create a virtualized Android environment running directly within Windows 10.31 min - Linux Action News 164
The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home.
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- Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
— Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.- Remove cipher algorithm and mentions of copyrighted material
- GitHub reinstates youtube-dl library after EFF intervention
- $6 billion Linux deal? SUSE IPO rumored
— SUSE, the major European Linux company, may soon be spun out in a $6 billion IPO.- EQT Said to Plan IPO of $6 Billion Software Developer SUSE
- Canonical Saw ~$119M Revenue In 2019 But Still Operating At A Loss
— Ubuntu maker Canonical Holdings Limited recently submitted their UK financial report for their fiscal year ending 31 December 2019. During the pre-COVID times they generated around 22% more revenue than 2018 but still operated at a loss albeit more narrowly than in prior years.- Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
— Purism has begun shipping its mass-produced Librem 5 phone to customers.- Servo’s new home
— Servo was incubated inside Mozilla, and served as the proof that important web components such as CSS and rendering could be implemented in Rust, with all its safety, concurrency and speed.- Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation
- Starting January 4, 2021, Google will block all sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browser frameworks
— The browser must identify itself clearly in the User-Agent. The browser must not try to impersonate another browser like Chrome or Firefox.- Guidance to developers affected by our effort to block less secure browsers and applications
31 min - Linux Action News 163
The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd.
Plus the Linux tech Greg KH is most excited about, and more.
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- Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root
— A handful of commands was all it took for untrusted users to become all-powerful.- Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
- How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
- Meet Proxmox Backup Server, a Debian-Based Open Source Enterprise Backup Solution
— Proxmox launched today Proxmox Backup Server as a new edition of its Debian-based Linux distribution engineered to act as an enterprise solution for backing up and restoring physical hosts, virtual machines and containers.- Proxmox Roadmap
- Proxmox Backup Server
- Proxmox Backup Git Repo
- PayPal's crypto trading goes live in the US
— Customers will be able to trade up to $20,000 a week, rather than the originally announced $10,000.- Systemd catches up with bind events
— Perhaps the real lesson here is that the community would be better served by closer relations between the kernel project and projects managing low-level utilities like systemd.- eBPF - The Future of Networking & Security
— Cilium is an open source project that has been designed on top of eBPF to address the networking, security, and visibility requirements of container workloads. It provides a high-level abstraction on top of eBPF. Cilium is to eBPF what Kubernetes and container runtimes are to Linux kernel namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp- Linux App Summit 2020
27 min - Linux Action News 162
We review the Raspberry Pi 400. Then discover new features coming to Linux powered Dells.
Plus an important Let's Encrypt update, and the next billion-dollar tech coming to Linux.
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- Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC
— The Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit is the “Christmas morning” product, with the best possible out-of-box experience: a complete PC which plugs into your TV or monitor.- Raspberry Pi 400 - First Impressions
- Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you needed
- Dell is Adding Webcam and Microphone Kill Switches
— Dell is adding new code in Linux kernel that will enable you to disable newer Dell system’s webcam and microphone with keyboard shortcuts. Why? Because privacy.- Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux
- Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs
— Expiration of cross-signed root certificates spells trouble- Standing on Our Own Two Feet - Let's Encrypt
- Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store
— Currently, Chrome uses the certificate root store part of each operating system. Google plans to manage its own list of "approved" certificates from now on, similar to Firefox.- BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools
— Two new technologies, BTF and CO-RE, are paving the way for BPF to become a billion-dollar industry.- What is eBPF?
- eBPF: Put the Kubernetes Data Plane in the Kernel
- LINUX Unplugged 293: Netflix's Gift to Linux
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A RISC-V development PC is in the works, we have the details and try to set expectations.
Plus what's new in Fedora 33, and an important youtube-dl update.
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- Fedora 33 is officially here! - Fedora Magazine
— Fedora Workstation now uses BTRFS as the default filesystem.- Fedora 33 Review: What’s New and How to Upgrade | FOSS Linux
- AWS Marketplace: Fedora 33 Cloud Base Images (x86_64) HVM
- Fedora IoT To Be Promoted To An Official Edition With Fedora 33 - Phoronix
— Fedora IoT relies on RPM-OSTree for offering atomic updates and focuses on container-based workloads.- Fedora IoT
- SiFive unveils plan for Linux PCs with RISC-V processors | VentureBeat
— Developers can use the boards to test code for real-time operating systems, custom Linux distributions, compilers, libraries, and applications.- The Heart of RISC-V Development is Unmatched - SiFive
- SiFive Is Launching The Most Compelling RISC-V Development Board Yet - Phoronix
- Check out their Chip Configurator
- James Prior from SiFive on Wendell’s show
- Codeplay joins the RISC-V foundation - SemiAccurate
- New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL | Ubuntu
— Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246 users can enable a complete WSL experience with simply: wsl.exe --install.- Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over youtube-dl takedown demand - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy
— We call on Microsoft to resign from the RIAA and remove their conflict of interest in this matter. This is an important opportunity for Microsoft to stand up for the values of software freedom.- RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms & Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
- Tzlil on Twitter
— So the CEO of GitHub popped in #youtube-dl a few hours ago, looks like they are trying to get youtube-dl back, I hope this works out.- New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
26 min - Linux Action News 160
Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown.
Plus Edge is out for Linux, and PayPal gets bitcoin fever.
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- Ubuntu 20.10 Released, Now Available to Download
— Ubuntu 20.10 rides atop the Linux 5.8 kernel, includes the GNOME 3.38 release, has new wallpapers, Active Directory integration (for enterprise users) in the installer, and carries a clutch of updated software, tools, and libraries.- Ubuntu 20.10 Flavours Released
- Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds
- How to build a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster using MicroK8s
- Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart
- Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise
— It is the world’s first software that runs Windows directly on enterprise Chromebooks―enabling full-featured Windows apps including Microsoft Office and proprietary apps―even when there is not an Internet connection.- youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice
— Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, audiovisual works and images, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.- How the youTube-dl devs found out about DMCA takedown
- Microsoft Edge arrives in preview form for Linux
— The release officially supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE. Sadly, there is no love for Pi fans at present; the team are apparently "looking at Arm", but no release has been forthcoming.- We Go Hands on With Microsoft Edge for Linux
- PayPal Launches New Service Enabling Users to Buy, Hold and Sell Cryptocurrency
— Today announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal account, and signaled its plans to significantly increase cryptocurrency's utility by making it available as a funding source for purchases at its 26 million merchants worldwide.- PayPal and Venmo will offer and accept cryptocurrency for all online payments
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