A new little Teaser showing off some new Features being worked on at MakuluLinux for our Upcoming "Max" release.
FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.
Automation and Hacking Your FreeBSD CLI, Run your own instant messaging service on FreeBSD, Watch Netflix on FreeBSD, HardenedBSD January 2023 Status Report, How To Set Up SSH Keys With YubiKey as two-factor authentication, OpenSSH fixes double-free memory bug that’s pokable over the network, A late announcement, but better late than never, Next NYC*BUG and more
Magnus, Daniel, Henrik, and I have met here and there when doing various things around open source. It can range from hanging out over beers at fosdem, to doing compliance work together at customers. Regardless of context, we always have fun and lots to talk about. So what's better than starting a podcast -- that way, we need to meet up just to talk. From this, fossified was born.
One of the easiest ways to list all open file descriptors is to use the lsof command If you are here to list out all the open file descriptors, then you may be aware of what a file descriptor is and what the use of it is, but if you are unaware of file descriptors...
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install Podman on CentOS 9 Stream / Fedora. What is Podman? Podman is a container engine compatible with the OCI Containers specification. Podman is part of Red Hat Linux, but it can also be installed on other distributions.
Cryptpad is an open-source collaborative office suite that serves as an alternative to Office 365. It allows you to access office applications via the web browser. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the Cryptpad suite on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, commonly known as VS Code, is a free, open-source, cross-platform code editor developed by Microsoft. It was first released in 2015 and has since gained immense popularity among developers across the globe.
Yet Another Yogurt, or YAY, is a popular AUR helper written in Go programming language. AUR (Arch User Repository) is a community-driven repository of user-created packages for Arch Linux and its derivatives.
WPS Office is a popular office suite software that provides users various tools for creating, editing, and sharing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The software was developed by Kingsoft Office Software Corporation Limited, a Chinese company, and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS platforms.
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite first released in 2010. It includes programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and more. LibreOffice is available for various platforms, including Linux, Windows, and macOS, making it a popular choice for users who want a free and reliable alternative to proprietary office suites.
In this guide, we will show you, how to install Node.js on Almalinux. It is an open-source JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Nodejs also provides an event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O that is optimized & scalable.
$ git ls-tree --name-only HEAD foldername/ | while read filename; do echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ci " -- $filename) $filename"; done | sort -rUpgrade to KDE Plasma 5.27 on Kubuntu 22.10 using the Kubuntu Backports PPA. Learn how to add the PPA to upgrade Plasma in minutes.
February 2023 was another busy month for Xfce devs as they released many new versions of popular Xfce apps and core components to bring you new features and improve reliability and stability by fixing more bugs, crashes, memory leaks, and other annoyances preventing you from fully enjoying your Xfce desktop.
Major changes were brought to the xfce4-notifyd notification daemon that implements the Freedesktop.org desktop notifications specification on Xfce, which received no less than four releases up to version 0.8.2. These include a new setting to never expire notifications, the ability to reposition notifications when the work area changes, and an improved Xfce panel icon when there are unread notifications.
System76 has been busy adding things to their upcoming COSMIC DE on Pop!_OS; they recently shared what they were up to for the month of February.
A new Bluetooth applet was included with the rest of the work-in-progress applets for the 'cosmic-panel', with discussions about how config files and widget layering should work on COSMIC DE.
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including...
KDE Gear 22.12.3 is here to improve various of the included KDE apps for a better, more stable, and reliable experience. For example, it improves the Ark archive manager to properly check if there is sufficient free space available before extracting archives.
The Kdenlive video editor received some fixes as well, such as a fix for a crash and offset when moving a group that includes a subtitle, a subtitle scrolling issue, the ability to scroll the timeline when moving a subtitle, a subtitle overlap issue on import, as well as a subtitle snapping issue.
Tumbleweed users who performed a distribution upgrade or zypper dup the last weeks on the rolling release with “recommended packages” enabled (the default) and matching hardware received a new package named patterns-glibc-hwcaps-x86_64_v3 automatically installed. This is a new Tumbleweed feature which will also automatically install the “recommended” package named with the -x86-64-v3 name suffix that provides the optimized version of the library.
“The performance optimizations people will gain from this change is the result of much effort and discussion,” said Douglas DeMaio, a member of the openSUSE release team. “The x86-64 architecture thread on the mailing list really drove the discussion and the results will immediately provide performance improvements for those with x86-64-v3 hardware. It would be great if people write about these improvements so the results can be shared among users of our rolling release.”
In today’s post we are going to recommend which distro use, from the RHEL family, for office environments and which one for a business environment.
In January 2023, the Fedora Council approved a title change for the Fedora community role. The Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator (FCAIC) is now renamed to Fedora Community Architect (FCA).
Does a title change make sense?
Last December, I was working together with Matthew Miller and Ben Cotton on our role pages in the Council docs, as part of a planned review of our role documentation. While reviewing the FCAIC role documentation, I took a new look at the role title and whether I felt it was still right. While it does describe the role and responsibilities well, it still doesn’t feel quite right to me, in a similar way that Community Lead didn’t feel right in 2016. I spent some time thinking about the FCAIC role, how it has changed over the years, and what I feel it describes. Since I am still early in the role, it felt like a good time to consider a title change.
I settled on Fedora Community Architect as the new title for the FCAIC role. In addition to being shorter, I feel like it better describes the role. Community work does not have an industry-accepted job ladder, as is more common with software engineering. Red Hat eventually settled on the title of community architect to encapsulate and describe community work in its pioneering open source communities. I also like Community Architect as a title. There is more literature and examples for others to understand the work.
I thought I’d share a fun hour or so of my afternoon and how I approached tracking down a bug in the Fedora Xfce spin.
The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170682 “Updates cause Xfce to lose all menu icons”. A curious bug, on updating to the latest version icons in menus no longer were enabled (although the user didn’t disable them and they are enabled by default).
Since the report happily had the update where it started, I went and looked first upstream (which turned out to be a mistake, but you never know). I looked through the recent commits for xfce4-settings to see if anything stood out as possibly being related to this. Nothing really did. All the changes seemed minor and unrelated.
This article introduces four new projects available in Copr, with installation instructions.
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Sequent Microsystems launched last month an LCD Display Adapter HAT compatible with the Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer. This Raspberry Pi HAT is also equipped with up to 6x Push buttons, a rotary encoder and an onboard STM32 MCU.
LILYGO T-TWR is an ESP32-S3 development board fitted with an SA868 Walkie-Talkie module and a UHF or VHF antenna, a speaker, a microphone, a small 0.96-inch OLED, and a 18650 battery holder, plus some I/Os for expansion. Equipped with an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-16NR8 module, the T-TWR offers WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, a dual-core processor with 16MB flash and 8MB PSRAM, and enables users to design their own Walkie-Talkie, while its expansion capabilities allow the control of devices. L
With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors requiring negotiations to use the patents they have embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from Open Source arises from Open Source software licenses seamlessly and frictionlessly permitting anyone to use, modify, and redistribute the software for any purpose including monetization. When SEPs are licensed in such a way that bilateral negotiation with the licensors is a necessary element of software use, Open Source projects must necessarily avoid implementation of the associated standards to the extent that it is possible for them to do so. A requirement for bilateral, after-the-fact patent licensing is by definition not Open Source due to this introduction of licensing friction.
This is not a matter of ideology but of pragmatics. Open Source developer communities operate on the assumption that the intellectual property owners – including both copyright and patent owners – have granted in advance all necessary rights to enjoy the software in any field of use and in any way. SEPs licensed on bilaterally-negotiated terms break this model and thus are naturally avoided. Further, the tendency for such bilateral negotiations to have some form of non-disclosure agreement (NDA) as a prerequisite also prevents many communities wanting to engage with them as unlike companies they do not have the mechanisms or resources to “firewall” NDA terms and thus routinely refuse NDAs.
April will see the release of next versions of Ubuntu and Fedora. March will have next version of KDE and GNOME.
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!
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I began my tech career as a junior Unix sysadmin in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in 1999, with no connection to the exciting world of tech in Silicon Valley, New York, or even nearby Sydney. As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts! I made both of these my goals, even though I'd never been published before and I'd never been to the US. Or even on a plane.
I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology.
This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the European Commission. For those who don’t know that is the DMA, it’s a new law that the European Parliament voted on recently and one of its goals of it is to force some interoperability between messaging services by allowing small players to able to communicate with users from the so-called Gatekeepers (e.g., WhatsApp).
I attended this meeting as a representative of KDE and NeoChat. NeoChat is a client for the Matrix protocol (a decentralized and end-to-end encrypted chat protocol). I started developing it with Tobias Fella a few years ago during the covid lockdown.
I learned about this workshop thanks to NLNet, who funded previous work on NeoChat (end-to-end encryption). They put Tobias Fella and me in contact with Jean-Luc Dorel, the program officer for NGI0 for the European Commission. I would never have imagined sitting in a conference room in Brussels, thanks to my contribution to open-source projects,
Embedded World is almost here! With 930+ exhibitors, 200 nonstop hours of knowledge sharing, and an exciting programme structured along 9 tracks with 60+ sessions and 18 classes, Embedded World is the must-attend global event for the embedded community.
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The embedded ecosystem is a key focus area for Canonical. We are fully committed to supporting device manufacturers and IoT pioneers across their deployment journeys by providing a best-in-class experience for embedded Linux in production.
At Embedded World, you’ll connect with manufacturers engaging in large-scale, mass-deployments of Linux boards. Those forward-thinkers and innovators push the envelope of digital infrastructure by adopting Ubuntu Core, the most popular Linux-based operating system (OS) purposefully designed for the embedded world. By relying on an enterprise-grade Linux distribution supported over 10+€ years, they empower their enterprise customers to focus on what drives their business, shortening time-to-market.
Meet our experts at€ Booth 4-600 in Hall 4 to learn about Ubuntu Core, the secure, application-centric IoT OS for embedded devices. Embedded devices on Ubuntu Core remain fully operational during both application and system updates, as the delta, OTA, transactional updates are either 100% successful or not installed, leaving no trace of failure other than log details. Device manufacturers are relieved of the time and effort required to implement reliable updates.€
LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 10 Beta2!
It has been said (and often required by recruitment agencies) that system administrators need to be proficient in a scripting language.
In the previous article of this Python series, we shared a brief introduction to Python, its command-line shell, and the IDLE.
According to Tayyip Erdogan, 461 000 people are currently sheltered in the entire province of Kahramanmaras.
To get CHIPS Act subsidies, semiconductor companies will have to agree to numerous terms.
FBI€ Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the€ COVID-19 pandemic.
As Hong Kong lifts its almost three-year-old Covid-19 mask mandate on Wednesday, a medical expert has urged students to take their masks off for the benefit of their education and immune system.
A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat patients before symptoms appear, paving the way toward preventing this and other autoimmune diseases.
New techniques to quantify what lived in and on preserved animals throw light on how parasite abundance has changed over time.
“I don’t feel safe not wearing one,” said a professional in the city.
An investigation shows that both father and daughter, who died last week, contracted the virus from birds in the village.
Nurses and midwives have been warned against posting content on the adults-only website by the industry’s professional complaints body.
With the exception of individuals in risk groups, the health agency does not recommend vaccine boosters for most people.
OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
Here are some pointers to keep your electronic device safe while connected to the internet. Since we live in a digital age, the internet has become an important part of our daily lives. It makes things easier and more efficient.
Piles of confidential documents containing the personal details of ANZ customers have been found thrown in a skip bin on a busy street by someone walking by.
Scott Collins, 26, was walking near Armadale Central Shopping Centre, in Perth's south-east, when he noticed the papers overflowing from the bins which were being used in renovations.
He said they included bank statements, letters and internal communications that showed customer account numbers, personal details, emails, phone numbers and transaction histories.
'I was just coming from work... I managed to find these documents floating down the street,' he told 9News.
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court seem ready to restrict federal prosecutors' use of a federal law criminalizing identity theft after hearing a case challenging its application in a Medicaid fraud case.
This week, the Indian government announced a third-party security audit of Diksha, the educational app it owns and uses to provide online education to students in grades 1 to 12. The government also committed to better protect the data privacy of children and teachers using its app.
The news comes after Human Rights Watch reported in January that the app had, for over a year, exposed the personal data of millions of students and teachers. The unprotected records included children’s names, schools, the state, district, and block where they live, test scores, and partially redacted phone numbers and email addresses. Human Rights Watch also documented how the app had the capability to collect children’s precise location data, and that it transmitted their data to a third-party company using a tracker designed for advertising.
The New Delhi-based digital rights group Internet Freedom Foundation has called on the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to initiate an inquiry into the government’s violations of children’s privacy.
A destroyed Russian tank on display in central Vilnius was spray-painted on Tuesday night. The tank, exhibited since last week, has become a site of symbolic fight between supporters of Ukraine and Russia.
Residents of two blocks find themselves homeless overnight amid a junta eviction campaign.
Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on February 28.
India is trying to push for one similar to that reached by G-20 leaders last year.
Recording the pH within decaying organs for the first time, researchers come closer to understanding why some soft tissues are more likely to be preserved as fossils than others.
Unlike other fast-growing cells, regenerating tadpole cells fuel growth using the pentose phosphate pathway rather than glycolysis, a study indicates.
Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures that scientists are trying to protect.
Animal rights group has criticised biotech giant for going against its own declared target of curbing its use of monkeys
The lack of births will reduce Japan's workforce and taxpayers in the world’s third-largest economy.
The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in€ Biden v. Nebraska and€ Department of Education v. Brown, two cases that will determine the future of the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness program.
Even the experts don’t really know where inflation and jobs are headed.
March 1 brought a reprieve for winter campers served an eviction notice in Køge, but will the proposed new rules be enough to save them next winter?
Local leaders are forging ahead on initiatives that enhance North American economic collaboration. By excluding them from key international summits, national leaders are missing out on a big opportunity.
As Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its second year, calls are mounting for the establishment of a special tribunal to try the Russian leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, writes Irina Paliashvili.
Quelling the Wagner Group's influence in Libya will be challenging, as the US must address Libyan realities and unite Europe and regional powers to support its foreign policy endeavor.
At least 32 people were killed and another 85 injured after two trains collided near the Greek city of Larissa, authorities said, as emergency services raced Wednesday to find survivors among the charred wreckage.
Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Iraq for his first visit in six years Tuesday in a show of "solidarity" after a drawn-out political crisis in the country.
Hong Kong prosecutors are set to apply for a witness anonymity order in the city’s largest national security trial relating to 47 pro-democracy figures. Meanwhile, the hearing was adjourned after a defendant on bail was absent in court due to a sports injury.
Pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong has been played at a sporting event in Bosnia and Herzegovina instead of the city’s official national anthem, China’s March of the Volunteers.
A court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case involving state gifts and concealing his assets from the sale of the gif
By posing as Tate, Dr. Reality hopes to make a buck.
The "Bold Glamour" filter, which seamlessly changes people's facial features and simulates makeup, has been used over 6 million times.
By treating Trump differently than any other person suspected of stealing classified documents, Steven D’Antuono may have given Trump the opportunity to steal another 47 documents.
According to messages EDNY wants to introduce at the Douglass Mackey trial, his goal was to depress turnout of Black voters in Pennsylvania -- a goal that perfectly enhanced Paul Manafort's plan to win.
“I don’t know how they manage it,” the media mogul said, of inveterate truthtellers. “I’ve told the truth once, and I don’t intend to do it again.”
The German city of Frankfurt has cancelled an upcoming Roger Waters concert over his antisemitic remarks.€
Bruce Lehrmann has accused two major news organisations of being “recklessly indifferent to the truth” for reporting rape allegations made by his former colleague Brittany Higgins, legal documents reveal.
Out of 187 internet shutdowns globally recorded by Access Now, 84 took place in India.
Chinese activists – including dissident artist Badiucao – have been approached by social media users falsely claiming to be journalists from Reuters, the news agency reported on Tuesday. The two journalists who had their identities faked were Shanghai bureau chief Brenda Goh, and correspondent Jessie Pang, who is based in Hong Kong.
Using fake accounts on Telegram, Instagram, they tried to get information about overseas Hong Kongers.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday ruled that employers who oppose abortion have a right to refuse to employ people on the basis of their reproductive health decisions under the freedom of association contained in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
A US federal judge Monday approved a settlement for over $1 million in a class action lawsuit that involved a 2018 immigration raid on a Tennessee meat packing plant that lead to the detainment of approximately 100 Latinx workers.
>Around 40 trade unions, such as government hospital staff and bank employees, have called for work stoppages.
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, and the NSW Government have announced that they will jointly fund the provision of enhanced broadband services to 11,000 homes and businesses in 46 locations.
In a statement, NBN Co said this would involve either building or co-locating 56 new fixed wireless towers that could use 5G millimetre wave technology.
The announcement comes ahead of the NSW state elections which are scheduled to be held on 25 March. The cost of the initiative was not provided.
StubHub says the FAIR Ticketing Act is “particularly concerning” in a marketplace where Live Nation and Ticketmaster “regularly manipulate the release of ticket supply and availability to take advantage of high demand through dynamic ticket pricing.
Not too long after the Supreme Court decided Mayo v. Prometheus, I wrote an article suggesting, based on some of the history that followed Funk Brothers, that patents on ordinary industrial processes and compositions could become ineligible in Mayo’s wake. As the Federal Circuit has interpreted Mayo and Alice, some of that has come to pass. In the controversial case of American Axle v. Neapco, the Federal Circuit held claims to a process of manufacturing automobile driveshafts ineligible under €§ 101, because the claims were directed to ‘laws of nature’ and nothing more. And in Yu v. Apple, the Federal Circuit held claims directed to a digital camera ineligible as “abstract ideas.”
The latest EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines enter into force on 1 March 2023, with the public user consultation continuing until 4 April.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.