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  • 2019-09-25

    A patent lawsuit takes aim at the GNOME Foundation, Cloudflare launches a VPN service that does not protect privacy, a long-standing exploit has finally been disclosed for vBulletin, and Google has announced their latest code-in challenge.

    Links:

    • GNOME Foundation facing lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging
    • WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
    • Anonymous researcher drops vBulletin zero-day
    • Google Code-in 2019 is Right Around the Corner!
    3 min
  • 2019-09-24

    CentOS 8 is finally here, and with it comes a surprising new release from Red Hat.

    Plus .NET Core 3 is out, a new libc for embedded systems, and Google’s big win in the EU.

    Links:

    • CentOS 8.1905 Release Notes — Hello and welcome to the first CentOS-8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
    • Transforming the development experience within CentOS — CentOS Stream is a developer-forward distribution that aims to help community members, Red Hat partners and others take full advantage of open source innovation within a more stable and predictable Linux ecosystem. It is a parallel distribution to existing CentOS Linux, which this morning saw the release of CentOS Linux 8.
    • CentOS Stream Release Notes — CentOS Stream will be a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a cleared-path to contributing into future minor releases of RHEL while interacting with Red Hat and other open source developers. This pairs nicely with the existing contribution path in Fedora for future major releases of RHEL.`
    • Announcing .NET Core 3.0 — We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board.
    • Introducing .NET 5 (May 2019) — There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.
  • Picolibc Version 1.0 Released - Keith Packard's Blog — Now that I'm doing RISC-V stuff full-time, and am currently working to improve the development environment on deeply embedded devices, I decided to take another look at libc and see if a bit more work on newlib-nano would make it a good choice for wider usage.
  • Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case - BBC News — The EU's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally.
    • 3 min
  • 2019-09-23

    NPM's CEO Bryan Bogensberger resigns, Google's new Play Pass subscription service and their Kotlin bootcamp are announced.

    Plus some noteworthy updates for ulauncher and ReactOS.

    Links:

    • Bryan Bogensberger, CEO of NPM, resigns
    • The npm Blog — Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
    • New! Android Kotlin codelab courses are here
    • Kotlin Bootcamp Course
    • Android Kotlin Fundamentals Course
    • Google announces Play Pass
    • ReactOS 0.4.12 released
    • Ulauncher Release 5.3.0
    3 min
  • 2019-09-20

    The first Open Core Summit, an activist programmer takes aim at Chef, a French court disagrees with Valve's licensing model, and Lennart Poettering wants to rethink the Home directory.

    Links:

    • Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service
    • OSS Capital
    • Developer takes down Ruby library after he finds out ICE was using it
    • Valve will appeal French courts ruling that Steam cannot ban resale of 'dematerialised' games
    • Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling
    • Reinventing Home Directories
    3 min
  • 2019-09-19

    Fresh init system controversy at the Debian project, a more scalable Samba, and a big release for LLVM.

    Plus GitHub's latest security steps and a new version of OBS Studio.

    Links:

    • Bits from the DPL (August 2019) — I think to move forward, the elogind maintainers, systemd maintainers and release team need to work together. They may need to get input from the apt and possibly dpkg maintainers. The communication is not working.
    • Samba 4.11.0 - Release Notes — This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.11 release series. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
    • Securing software, together - The GitHub Blog — We believe that fast, unfettered movement of vulnerability data is critical to improving software security. This is why we’re excited to share that GitHub has been approved as a CVE Numbering Authority for open source projects.
    • Welcoming Semmle to GitHub - The GitHub Blog
  • Dependency graph support is now available for PHP repositories with Composer dependencies - The GitHub Blog
  • GitHub security alerts now support PHP projects | ZDNet — Since the Dependency Graph feature is intertwined with the Security Alerts (Vulnerability Alerts) feature, this also means GitHub users will also be eligible to receive automatic security alerts for any vulnerabilities that crop up in the dependencies of their PHP projects.
  • LLVM 9.0.0 Release
  • OBS Studio 24.0
    • 3 min
  • 2019-09-18

    Google's Stadia good news, VM encryption comes to an OpenStack near you, and details on Ubuntu 19.10's 32-bit support.

    Plus significant changes for Chef's certification program, and more.

    Links:

    • Google announces Stadia Premiere Edition as Founder's pack sells out in most of Europe
    • Improving trust in the cloud with OpenStack and AMD SEV
    • OpenStack Releases: Train
    • Community process for 32-bit compatibility
    • Announcing the release of Fedora 31 Beta
    • Chef Certification Refresh
    3 min
  • 2019-09-17

    Richard Stallman resigns from the board of the Free Software Foundation and his position at MIT.

    Plus Microsoft's latest open source project, Oracle's new Linux distribution, and a release date for CentOS 8.

    Links:

    • Richard M. Stallman resigns — Free Software Foundation — On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.
    • 2019: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman — I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.
  • GNOME relationship with GNU and the FSF – Liberal Murmurs — In my capacity as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, I have also written to the FSF. One of the most important parts of my role is to think of the well being of our community and the GNOME mission. One of the GNOME Foundation’s strategic goals is to be an exemplary community in terms of diversity and inclusion. I feel we can’t continue to have a formal association with the FSF or the GNU project when its main voice in the world is saying things that hurt this aim.
  • Richard Stallman Does Not and Cannot Speak for the Free Software Movement - Software Freedom Conservancy — We are passionate about software freedom because we know it is a necessary precondition to safe and effective software that we can rely on in the long term. We fight for copyleft because it is a powerful tool to help us actually control the technology that is being increasingly embedded in our lives. The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom; our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. With these as our values and goals, we are appalled at recent statements made by the President and founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, in his recent email to the MIT CSAIL mailing list.
  • Open Sourcing MSVC's STL | C++ Team Blog — Today at CppCon 2019, we (the MSVC team) announced that we’re releasing our implementation of the C++ Standard Library (also known as the STL) as open source.
  • Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux | ZDNet — Billed as the world's first autonomous operating system, Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.
  • Autonomous Linux for Cloud | Oracle — Oracle Autonomous Linux executes automatic patch updates and tuning—without human interaction—improving IT staff productivity, security, and downtime. Combined with native Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services such as Oracle OS Management Service, it offers even more automation such as autoscaling, lifecycle management across pools, and monitoring.
  • Raspberry Pi Super Computer — What does a blue British telephone booth have to do with the World’s Largest Raspberry Pi Cluster? We’re not sure either but our extremely large take on a mobile device (it’s on casters) contains 1024 Raspberry Pis!
  • About/Building 8 - CentOS Wiki — The final release will be on September 24.
    • 3 min
  • 2019-09-16

    A new Linux Kernel is out; we break down the new features, PulseAudio goes pro and the credential-stealing LastPass flaw.

    Plus the $100 million plan to rid the web of ads, and more.

    Links:

    • Linux_5.3
    • LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.3
    • GNU Linux-libre 5.3-gnu
    • PulseAudio 13.0
    • LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site
    • Tavis Ormandy on Twitter — LastPass could leak the last used credentials due to a cache not being updated. This was because you can bypass the tab credential cache being populated by including the login form in an unexpected way!
    • Mozilla, Creative Commons and Coil Launch $100 Million Web Fund
    3 min
  • 2019-09-13

    Updating your Firmware just got a lot easier, Chrome Canary shows signs of long-awaited features, why Krita went to Steam, and Tor's Bug Smash Fund is making headway.

    Links:

    • GNOME Firmware 3.34.0 Release
    • Google Chrome Canary adds a Shared Clipboard feature for Android and PC
    • Krita 4.2.6, Steam, and Linux!
    • Krita on Steam
    • Tor’s Bug Smash Fund: $86K Raised!
    • Donate to Tor
    3 min
  • 2019-09-12

    It's open source release day with GNOME 3.34 bringing a host of workflow and usability improvements and Manjaro 18.1 adding a new office suite installer option.

    Plus Mozilla's recent addition of premium Firefox support and a quick look at the Sega Genesis Mini.

    Links:

    • GNOME 3.34 Release Notes — GNOME 3.34 is the latest version of GNOME 3, 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.
    • Firefox Premium Support — Firefox premium support provides Private help for customization, deployment and management of Firefox,
    SLAs on critical security bug fixing, access to the enterprise critical issues distribution list, a private customer portal and the ability to contribute to Firefox and our roadmap.
  • Manjaro 18.1.0 - Juhraya finally released! - Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum — After six months of development, version 18.1 of Manjaro Linux is now available. Juhraya offers numerous improvements, especially with regard to Office productivity applications and package management.
  • SEGA Genesis Mini
  • Sega Genesis Mini review: $80 delivers a ton of blast-processing fun | Ars Technica
    • 3 min

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