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  • 2020-07-01

    Mozilla's Firefox 78 rollout is not going smoothly, antirez steps down as the Redis Labs leader, Couchbase debuts a new managed service, the ArcMenu GNOME extension introduces new features, and manjaro32 closes its doors.

    Links:

    • Firefox 78.0 release notes
  • Bugzilla: Turn off search modernisation for 78 release
  • Mozilla pauses Firefox 78.0 rollout, prepares Firefox 78.0.1
  • Firefox 78.0.1 release notes
  • antirez: The end of the Redis adventure
  • Thank You, Salvatore Sanfilippo
  • New Governance for Redis
  • Couchbase Cloud DBaaS is Here
  • Couchbase joins the cloud database party
  • ArcMenu v47 has been released
  • manjaro32 has ceased due to a lack of time and a hardware failure
  • [Old] Introducing: manjaro32.org
  • manjaro32.org
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-29

    Ubuntu gains an unofficial rolling release version, Mastercard joins the chorus of voices warning Magento store owners to update, and two more browsers join the bandwagon on certificate lifetime shortening.

    Links:

    • GitHub: Ubuntu Rolling Rhino
  • Ubuntu Podcast: S13E14 – Ace of spades
  • Adobe, Mastercard, Visa warn online store owners of Magento 1.x EOL
  • [Info] 25 Magento Statistics You Need in 2020 to Boost Your Online Business
  • Apple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespans
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-26

    Linux Mint lands version 20 as an LTS, Mozilla welcomes an unlikely member into its Trusted Recursive Resolver program, elementary ditches Bountysource, TWRP gets closer to supporting Android 10, System76 introduces a new high-end laptop, and the EFF joins the Internet Archive's legal battle against the publishing industry.

    Links:

    • Linux Mint 20 Available to Download, This is What’s New
  • Comcast’s Xfinity Internet Service Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program
  • Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers
  • Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox
  • Goodbye, Bountysource
  • [Old] TWRP and Android 10
  • TWRP 3.4.0-0 Released
  • TWRP 3.4.0 enables OZIP decryption for Realme/OPPO devices and support for legacy devices upgraded to Android 10
  • Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro
  • Oryx Pro
  • EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library
  • EFF & Heavyweight Legal Team Will Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library Against Publishers
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-24

    The Open Mainframe Project announces the first LTS release of Zowe, Microsoft's Defender Advanced Threat Detection is now available for Linux, New Vector plans to rebrand several of its Matrix-related products, and a new Raspberry Pi powered laptop has been funded.

    Links:

    • Open Mainframe Project Announces Major Technical Milestone with Zowe’s Long Term Support Release
  • Zowe LTS timeline
  • Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available!
  • Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Android
  • Riot: The world is changing...
  • Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed is now available
  • CrowPi2 - STEAM Education Platform & Raspberry Pi Laptop
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-22

    Older Raspberry Pis receive a near-compatible Vulkan driver, Google's upcoming Nearby Sharing may include cross-platform functionality, Free Pascal adds more target architectures with its latest compiler release, and open source projects band together to lobby the US Congress.

    Links:

    • Nvidia Engineer's Vulkan Driver For Raspberry Pi Runs Quake III Over 100 FPS at 720p
  • Android’s Nearby Share file-sharing feature may support Chrome OS, Windows, macOS, and Linux thanks to Google Chrome
  • Free Pascal
  • FPC New Features 3.2.0
  • 400 organizations sign open letter to save Open Technology Fund (OTF)
  • Open Technology Fund
  • [PDF] Open Technology Fund FY 2018 Annual Report
  • Save Internet Freedom: Support the Open Technology Fund
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-19

    A now-rescinded change to the Bountysource terms of service is causing turmoil in the open source community, Apache Spark celebrates ten years of development with a new release, Krita launches version 4.3 with new tools and interface improvements, and several projects are seeking feedback.

    Links:

    • BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?
  • Bountysource abandons new terms of service
  • Why Bountysource? Why?
  • Spark Release 3.0.0
  • Krita 4.3 Release Notes
  • IoT Developer Survey takes a turn to edge computing: Deadline June 26 2020
  • Help the Zowe project plan for 2020 and beyond!
  • Linux Foundation & Harvard Announce Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Survey
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-17

    Canonical enters the software appliance image market, Israeli researchers discover a set of major flaws in an ancient TCP/IP stack with massive ramifications for embedded and IoT devices, Google partners with Parallels to bring Windows apps to Chromebooks, and Fairphone continues to support its 2015 flagship.

    Links:

    • The Ubuntu Appliance portfolio
  • Ripple20
  • CERT: Treck IP stacks contain multiple vulnerabilities
  • ICS Advisory (ICSA-20-168-01): Treck TCP/IP Stack
  • The future of computing showed up early
  • Parallels and Google Partner to Bring Enterprises Full-Featured Windows Applications to Chrome Enterprise
  • Google and Parallels announce plans to bring Windows apps to Chromebooks
  • We’re excited to announce that a beta version of Android 9 is now available for Fairphone 2!
  • [Old] Fairphone 2 is the first and only Snapdragon 801 phone to get Android Nougat
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-15

    The Linux Mint 20 beta is available for testing, RiskSense warns of an increasing number of open source security vulnerabilities, and Pine announces that the next Community Edition of its phone will ship with postmarketOS.

    Links:

    • New features in Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon
  • Linux Mint project comments on snaps
  • Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” Cinnamon – BETA Release
  • Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” MATE – BETA Release
  • Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” Xfce – BETA Release
  • [PDF] RiskSense: The Dark Reality of Open Source
  • June Update: PostmarketOS CE PinePhone, Shipping & PINE64 Cluster
  • PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition
  • PINETAB – 10.1″ Linux Tablet With Detached Backlit Keyboard
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-05

    The first-ever Blender LTS is out with support for VR, the CNCF debuts a training program to convey students from novice to cloud professional in six months, the Matrix project previews peer-to-peer messaging, and Canonical introduces two developer tools.

    Links:

    • Blender 2.83
  • Blender LTS
  • Blender: Long-term Support Pilot
  • CNCF and Linux Foundation Announce New Cloud Engineer Bootcamp
  • Introducing P2P Matrix
  • MicroK8s now native on Windows and macOS
  • Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory
    • 3 min
  • 2020-06-03

    Lenovo doubles down on Linux support, Firefox 77 arrives with better extension permission handling, the Tor Browser's latest release focuses on exposing features to users, Nextcloud Hub 19 includes security and collaboration improvements, and the Linux Professional Institute launches a new webzine.

    Links:

    • Lenovo Brings Linux Certification to ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio, Easing Deployment for Developers & Data Scientists
  • Firefox 77.0 release notes
  • New in Firefox 77: DevTool improvements and web platform updates
  • Firefox 77.0.1 will be released today to fix one issue
  • New Release: Tor Browser 9.5
  • Nextcloud Hub brings productivity to home office
  • Collabora Online as default in Nextcloud Hub
  • Making Collabora Online trivial to setup
  • Welcome FOSSlife! A new web magazine is born
    • 3 min

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