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  • Linux Action News 99

    Mozilla’s new Android app, Google wants you to adopt AMP for Email, and our reaction to LVFS joining the Linux Foundation.

    Plus Debian's generous gift, Red Hat crosses the $3B mark, and the Open Source Awards are nigh!

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    • Firefox Lockbox comes to Android
    — Today, we are excited to bring Firefox Lockbox to Android users, a secure app that keeps people’s passwords with them wherever they go.
  • AMP for email launched
    • — Google today officially launched AMP for Email, its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences
  • Register with Google to send dynamic emails
  • Ubuntu 19.04 Beta is Now Available
  • Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi
  • Ubuntu Studio to Remain Officially Recognized Ubuntu Flavour
    • — The release of Ubuntu Studio 19.04 will remain on-course. Beta is scheduled for March 28th, Release Candidate for April 11th, and Final Release scheduled for April 18th.
  • Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark
    • — Red Hat recorded revenue of US$2.9 billion for the last fiscal year which ended in February 2018.
  • LVFS joins Linux Foundation
    • — The Linux Foundation welcomes the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as a new project.
  • Handshake donates $300,000 USD to Debian
    • — This significant financial contribution will help Debian to continue the hardware replacement plan designed by the Debian System Administrators, renewing servers and other hardware components and thus making the development and community infrastructure of the Project more reliable.
  • UK Open Source Awards 2019
    • — The Awards Event will be The Informatics Forum of the University of Edinburgh and will take place on Wednesday 12 June 2019.
    23 min
  • Linux Action News 98

    Is Linux gaming really being saved by Google's Stadia platform? We discuss the details and possibilities.

    Plus good news for KDE Connect users, Intel begins work on next-generation open source video drivers, and much more.

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    • Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
    — Google CEO: "We're building a game platform for everyone."
  • Killed by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery
  • How OpenXR could glue virtual reality’s fragmenting market together
    • — “OpenXR since the beginning has had a lot of positive energy and urgency," Trevett continued. “I think people kind of realize everyone can benefit. Obviously it's not going to be magic, but I think it can make a difference, because everyone wins."
  • Intel Xe Graphics Being Part Of The First US Exascale Supercomputer Is Great For Linux
    • — With Aurora expected to run Linux, this means the Linux driver support for Xe Graphics will have to be up to par by 2021.
  • Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter
    • — "KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS [1]. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and there's no way to talk to Google."
  • Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter
    • — "To close this thread, I want to say that KDE Connect finally got approved, and SMS support is back in version 1.12.4, both on the Play Store and F-Droid! Thanks everyone who spread the voice (this thread got half a million impressions on Twitter!) and helped make it happen :D… https://t.co/OTLY5KJdI6"
  • Android Developers Blog: Providing a safe and secure experience for our users
  • Google forced into Android browser choice
    • — Now we’ll also do more to ensure that Android phone owners know about the wide choice of browsers and search engines available to download to their phones. This will involve asking users of existing and new Android devices in Europe which browser and search apps they would like to use.
  • Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion
    • — Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising
  • EC fines Google €1.49bn for abusing ad market dominance
  • Google now pays more in EU fines than it does in taxes
    • 25 min
  • Linux Action News 97

    We try out the latest GNOME 3.32 release, and why it might be the best release ever. New leader candidates for Debian emerge, we experience foundation inception, and NGINX is getting acquired.

    Plus Android Q gets an official Desktop Mode, the story behind the new Open Distro for Elasticsearch, and more!

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    • GNOME 3.32 Released
    — Version 3.32 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance improvements and new features.
  • Leaderless Debian
    • — What would happen if Debian were to hold an election and no candidates stepped forward? The Debian project has just found itself in that situation and is trying to figure out what will happen next.
  • Debian project leader candidates emerge
  • Foundations galore
    • — The merger is supported by 30 corporate and end user members including Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Joyent.
  • New Red Team Project
    • — The Linux Foundation has launched the Red Team Project, which incubates open source cybersecurity tools to support cyber range automation, containerized pentesting utilities, binary risk quantification, and standards validation and advancement.
  • CommunityBridge
    • — The Linux Foundation today announced CommunityBridge – a new platform created to empower open source developers – and the individuals and organizations who support them – to advance sustainability, security, and diversity in open source technology.
  • Funded by Github
  • Understanding LF's New “Community Bridge” - Conservancy Blog
  • NGINX to be acquired
    • — I’m incredibly excited that today we announced NGINX has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by F5.
  • Open Distro for Elasticsearch
    • — We have therefore decided to partner with others such as Expedia Group and Netflix to create a new open source distribution of Elasticsearch named “Open Distro for Elasticsearch.”
  • Jeff Barr – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
  • Android finally getting desktop mode
    • — The AOSP Launcher has a new component that, when launched, brings up a new Android desktop interface.
  • Here are the new Android Q features
    • 32 min
  • Linux Action News 96

    Free Software does what commercial can't this week, getting a Debian desktop on more Android devices gets closer, and PureOS promises Convergence but is there more beneath the surface?

    Plus Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator, and a quick recap of SCaLE 17x.

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    • Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released
    — OTA-8 is primarily a stability improvement release as we continue to work on using upstream technologies in Ubuntu Touch, increasing our project output.
  • PureOS convergence
    • — Purism’s PureOS showcasing adaptive convergent design
  • Announcing Maru 0.6 Okinawa
    • — In Maru 0.6 Okinawa, the game completely changes, laying the foundation to run Maru on nearly any Android device.
  • Android app devs to get new monetisation method
    • — Google Play is excited to announce rewarded products, a new product type now available in open beta in the Play Console.
  • Google Glass’ second-gen enterprise model leaks
    • — Google’s not-quite-there vision of the future is getting a second enterprise model
  • Microsoft open-sources Windows Calculator
    • — Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License.
  • calc.exe is now open source
    • 24 min
  • Linux Action News 95

    We sift Mobile World Congress to find just the best and most relevant stories, and discuss the Thunderclap vulnerability.

    Plus we say goodbye to Koroa, find a reason to checkout GRUB nightlies, and how Android aims to kill passwords for good.

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    • LineageOS 16.0 released
    — We feel that the 16.0 branch has reached feature parity with 15.1 and is ready for initial release. With 16.0 being the most recent and most actively-developed branch, on March 1st, 2019 it will begin receiving builds nightly and 15.1 will be moved to weekly builds.
  • XDA Coverage of LineageOS 16.0
  • KaiOS now with 85M feature phones shipped
    • — With 85 million phones now shipped in more than 100 markets with handset brands like Nokia and India’s Jio, KaiOS now has an expanded partnership to put more Google
  • KaiOS is doing well in US too
  • RISC-V Support Added To The GRUB Bootloader
    • — As working towards this year's GRUB 2.04 update, we've known they have been on the finishing stretch for merging RISC-V support and as of this morning that milestone has been crossed.
  • RISC-V Support in the FreeRTOS Kernel
  • Bringing energy efficiency to IoT architecture
  • The Challenge Of RISC-V Compliance
  • Thunderclap and Linux
    • — The authors built a "fake" network card2 and performed various DMA attacks and were able to temper with memory regions that their network card should have no access to whatsoever.
  • [announce] Struck by a Thunderbolt
  • [official site] Thunderclap
  • RIP Korora
    • — "Our @kororaproject website has been redirected to @fedora as we do not have any new releases coming. Thank you for your support over the last 13 odd years."
  • We saw this coming
    • 30 min
  • Linux Action News 94

    Linus pops another hype bubble, we go hands on with the new OnionShare, and some insights into Redis labs changing its license... Again.

    And why KDE joining the Matrix, along with others might be establishing a new open source standard.

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    • KDE is adding Matrix to its instant messaging infrastructure
    — KDE is adopting non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix.
  • Matrix the basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger app
  • Interview with Matthew Hodgson: Matrix in the French State
  • New Release: OnionShare 2
    • — OnionShare is an open source tool for securely and anonymously sending and receiving files using Tor onion services.
  • Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
    • — “Some cloud providers have repeatedly taken advantage of successful opensource projects, without significant contributions to their communities.”
  • Arm unveils new Neoverse chips for data centers
    • — Arm claims that the design provides as much as 2.5 times more processing power for certain server workloads than the previous Cortex-A72 architecture.
  • GCC 9 Compiler Support For The Arm Neoverse N1 + E1
  • Linus' doubts
  • Intel Confirms Apple Macs Will Switch to Arm CPUs by 2020, Says Report
  • Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha
    • — Hangover 0.4 is the first (alpha) release from this project for running x86/x86_64 Windows programs now on 64-bit ARM Linux distributions.
  • Linux Academy - Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote)
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  • Linux Action News 93

    Google scrambles to repurpose Android Things, Microsoft wants to protect your Linux install really bad, and the first bank backed Crypto-coin makes a splash.

    Plus Void Linux issues a warning, running Linux on ARM laptops built for Windows, and more.

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    • Google refocuses Android Things as a ‘platform for OEM partners’
    — When Google announced Android Things at its 2015 I/O developer conference, it pitched it as a versatile, embedded, and open operating system designed to run on low-power and memory-constrained internet of things (IoT) devices with support for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and the Weave protocol.
  • Android Developers Blog: An Update on Android Things
  • Now you can run Linux on (some) ARM laptops designed for Windows 10 on ARM
    • — The folks behind the AArch64 Laptops open source project on github have come up with a way to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on some of the first Windows 10 on ARM laptops.
  • aarch64-laptops
  • Microsoft Developer: You Still Should Have Anti-Virus With Windows Subsystem For Linux
    • — In CPU/system benchmarks we routinely see Windows 10 WSL with Ubuntu and other distributions performing very well, but when it comes to disk reads/writes, it's drastically slower than bare metal Linux installs and in some cases much slower still than dedicated virtual machines.
  • What’s new for WSL in Windows 10 version 1903? – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
    • — The next Windows update is coming soon and we’re bringing exciting new updates to WSL with it. These include accessing the Linux file system from Windows, and improvements to how you manage and configure your distros in the command line.
  • Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
    • — We are going to consolidate and use a single database, PostgreSQL. We began investigating a move to a single database upstream in Pulp as early as 2016.
  • [Pulp-dev] Transition from Mongo to Postgre
    • — MongoDB is great at what it does and a good fit for some use cases, but we learned that it's not the best fit for Pulp.
  • (Red Hat dropped MongoDB in January)
  • Digitalocean launches Managed Databases for PostgreSQL
    • — Starting with support for PostgreSQL, Managed Databases enables developers of all skill levels to quickly and easily spin up a high-performance database cluster that is worry-free and scalable
  • Void Linux loses control of .eu domain
    • — We would like to warn people of a domain name that is no longer under Void Linux control. voidlinux.eu lapsed in its original registration, and was purchased by an unknown 3rd party before Void Linux could regain ownership.
  • J.P. Morgan Creates Digital Coin for Payments
    • — J.P. Morgan this month became the first U.S. bank to create and successfully test a digital coin representing a fiat currency. The JPM Coin is based on blockchain-based technology enabling the instantaneous transfer of payments between institutional accounts.
  • JPMorgan is creating a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar
    • — The new cryptocurrency will be built atop JPMorgan's Quorum blockchain technology, a variant of Ethereum that has been modified to serve the needs of a major financial institution like JPMorgan.
  • Don’t Call JP Morgan Chase’s New ‘JPM Coin’ a Cryptocurrency
    • 31 min
  • Linux Action News 92

    A week of nasty security flaws, and a lack of patches... For some of us. Raspberry Pi opens a physical store, our thoughts on the new LibreOffice interface, and the new round of nasty flaws hitting all versions of Android.

    Plus new disk encryption coming to Linux, Intel releases their open source encoder for future video on the web, and more.

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    • Raspberry Pi opens IRL store
    — The store is located on the first floor in the Grand Arcade in the centre of Cambridge, UK.
  • Security bug fixed in LibreOffice but not OpenOffice
    • — Austrian researcher Alex Inführ publicly reported the vulnerability on Friday
  • LibreOffice 6.2 has a new UI
    • — LibreOffice 6.2 with NotebookBar, a significant major release of the free office suite which features a radical new approach to the user interface
  • Android PNG vulnerability
    • — A maliciously crafted PNG image could execute code smuggled within the file, if an application views it.
  • Adiantum: encryption for the low end
    • — Low-end devices bound for developing countries, such as those running the Android Go edition, lack encryption support because the hardware doesn't provide any cryptographic acceleration.
  • Google Adiantum announcement
  • Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for Next-Gen AV1 Codec
    • — SVT-AV1 requires Skylake-generation or newer Xeon processors with at least 112 threads and at least 48GB of RAM for 10-bit 4K video encoding.
  • The AV1 Video Codec - YouTube Talk
    • — This talk will discuss the road from specification to production, the current state of AV1 deployment, and our own efforts to write an AV1 encoder in Rust, rav1e. It is intended for a technical audience, but does not require previous signal processing experience.
    30 min
  • Linux Action News 91

    Firefox is standing out, Pine64 has a lot more cheap Linux hardware coming, and the good and the bad with the new Kodi Release.

    Plus HP Joins LVFS, why you shouldn't expect a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019, and more.

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    • Firefox 65 released
    — We’re happy to announce a new set of redesigned controls for the Content Blocking
  • Next version of Firefox might warn users of software that performs MitM attacks
    • — The Firefox browser will soon come with a new security feature that will detect and then warn users when a third-party app is performing a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack by hijacking the user's HTTPS traffic.
  • Mozilla halts Firefox 65 distribution on Windows
    • — The organization released Firefox 65.0 for all supported operating systems a few days ago on January 29, 2019.
  • CFR annoying some users
  • HP joins LVFS
    • — If you’ve got a Z2, Z6, Z8, Z440, Z640 or Z840 system then you might want to check for an update in the GNOME Software updates panel or using fwupdmgr update in the terminal.
  • Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop
    • — Pine64, the company that gave us the $89 Pinebook Linux laptop, is branching out and is set to launch a Linux tablet this year for just $79. That's as well as a new Linux laptop, smartphone, camera, single board computers, and retro gaming kit.
  • Pine64 forum announcement
  • We won't see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019
    • — "I don’t have a route to do something this year," he told us. "I think we kind of understand what featureset we want [and] what would be involved in getting that featureset. I don’t think we have a  defined plan for turning that into a product yet."
  • Kodi 18.0 Released
    • — One of the big features of this release: support for gaming emulators, ROMs and controls.
    28 min
  • Linux Action News 90

    Debian has a big fix, Chromium might block ads, Valve makes another big investment in Linux, and Google gets serious about bringing Fuchsia to market.

    Plus we announce a new Linux podcast, and run down the many ways to run Ubuntu on Windows.

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    • Choose Linux - New JB Show
    — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
  • Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores
    • — Users can now launch Windows games purchased on platforms outside of Steam from inside the Steam for Linux client.
  • Looks like it’s still using Wine 3.16
  • Wine 4.0 Released
    • — This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000
    individual changes.
  • Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components
    • — The Security Program Manager then said that he "improved the security posture of Windows Open Source Components through initiatives that investigate vulnerabilities found and establish a process for remediation.”
  • Multipass for Win10 public beta
    • — Multipass, at its core, is a service to manage Linux (in this case, Ubuntu) virtual machines in Windows 10 without the overhead of faffing about with Hyper-V (although Hyper-V is most definitely required to make the thing work).
  • Ubuntu Core 18 gets 10 years of support
    • — Dell has been working closely with Canonical over the past three years to certify Ubuntu Core on all our Edge Gateway platforms.
  • Debian releases new images with apt fix
    • — This point release incorporates the recent security update for APT, in order to help ensure that new installations of stretch are not vulnerable. No other updates are included.
  • It might be harder to block ads in Chromium
    • — Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including ad blockers.
  • Google poaches 14-year Mac veteran from Apple to bring Fuchsia to market
    • — Stevenson started at Apple in 2004 as a Product Release Engineer for OS X. In this role, he “triaged and diagnosed” application and framework issues, while also working with third-party developers.
    34 min

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