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Links 10/05/2022: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9



  • GNU/Linux

    • Desktop/Laptop

      • TechRepublic ☛ The Razer Lambda Tensorbook deep learning laptop is a milestone in pure Linux power

        If I’ve ever experienced a more niche piece of hardware, I cannot recall what it was. The Lambda Tensorbook is niche at its best … and I mean that in all positive permutations of the phrase. This laptop is an absolute beast that shrugs off anything you throw at it (especially when you’re doing ML training with the GPU). So if machine learning and AI are your jam (and you’re willing to pony up the $3,499 for the base model), this laptop is what you want.

        It’s expensive, it’s heavy, and it can get pretty hot, but when you need unrivaled mobile power for ML/AI, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better option.

    • Audiocasts/Shows

      • Video ☛ China To Ditch 50 Mil Windows PCs for Linux - Invidious

        The chinese government wants to stop supporting western PC brands and software so they plan to replace millions upon millions of systems with local brands like Lenovo and a Linux based operating system

      • Video ☛ Hey, DT! Will You Create Your Own Desktop Environment? - Invidious

        On this episode of Hey, DT: 0:00 Intro 0:21 I don't feel like this is shared enough but I wanted to personally thank you... 3:45 I switch to an Arch-base distro and need a program not in the repos. 7:06 Can you find a full desktop environment that is as light as a window manager? 8:40 I've been a Windows user all my life. Is Linux Mint Xfce recommended? 11:35 Why are you using an Android phone and not a Linux phone? 15:06 Is this your channel as well? (YouTube link) 18:00 Hi from England, your content is great, have you written any books on Linux? 19:24 You said that if you created a desktop environment, you'd use Haskell... 21:59 Thanks to the Patrons!

    • Kernel Space

      • The Register UK ☛ Asahi Linux progress in graphics drivers on Apple's M1 ● The Register

        Progress was made in persuading 3D graphics to work in Linux on Apple's M1 over the weekend – in the form of a blue rabbit.

        Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is leading development of the Panfrost and Asahi Linux graphics drivers, showed off her continuing work in a succession of tweets involving Glmark2, an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics performance benchmark tool for GNU/Linux, successfully rendering the bunny in 3D detail..

    • Applications

      • Ubuntu Pit ☛ Top 10 Open Source Bug and Issue Tracking Tools for Linux

        Developers and software engineers build programs with extra care and efficiency. However, the way of developing software demands bug fixing and issue tracking. In this way, after running several beta tests and tracking issues, developers make a tool smooth for a better user experience. In Linux, there are tons of free, paid, and open source bug and issue tracking tools that can help you track down the bugs and get reports from users and testers to make your applications and softwares one step ahead.

      • "Say thank you. Report bugs."

        There is a great gem of advice in StackSmith wrote that I don't want to get lost in all this discussion about software size and the "philosophy" of CLI programs from the 1970s.

        [...]

        Someone worked hard, most likely out of love, building the Gemini client or server or service you are using. Consider dropping them a note to say thank you. Trust me, it helps a lot.

      • Gemipedia: a Gemini interface to Wikipedia

        Today I'm releasing Gemipedia, a Gemini interface to Wikipedia focused on an awesome reading experience.

      • MakeTech Easier ☛ 5 Tools to Easily Create a Custom Linux Distro

        With so many Linux distros out there, you are probably wondering why someone would want to create their own distro instead of getting a ready-made one. While in most cases a ready-made distro is fine, if you want to have a distro that is 100 percent tailored to your needs, you may have to create your own.

        With the right tools, creating your own Linux distro isn’t as hard as it seems, though it takes time for sure. There are many tools for the purpose – some of them are universal, and some of them are distro-specific. Here are a few of them.

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • ID Root ☛ How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, commonly used as an alternative to MySQL. It being a MySQL fork implies that MariaDB offers similar features and performance metrics with the advantage of being free and completely open-source.

        This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MariaDB open-source database server on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

      • ByteXD ☛ Use Quickemu to Run Windows, macOS & Linux Virtual Machines

        Virtualization is one of the most popular technologies utilized by most people and organizations who want to run multiple systems on single server hardware.

        Also, most cloud platforms (if not all) use virtual machines to host customer data and services.

        Some of the most popular Virtualization platforms are VMware and VirtualBox.

        Vmware is a commercial app, and you will need to pay a subscription fee, while the latter is free and open-source.

        If you are a Linux user, there is a relatively new software that you can use to spin Virtual machines – Quickkemu.

        QuickEmu is a command-line wrapper for the popular Virtualization tool known as Qemu.

      • H2S Media ☛ Install PostgreSQL Server & Client on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy

        In this tutorial, we will learn how to install PostgreSQL Database Client and Server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish using the command terminal.

        PostgreSQL Database is a object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). It differs from relational database management systems such as MySQL in that even complex data objects can be stored relationally in the database. It is distributed under a free BSD license and can be used platform-independently. PostgreSQL is a free database management system that appeared in 1996.

      • ByteXD ☛ How to Install & Use Bottles to Run Windows Apps on Linux

        One of the biggest hurdles for Windows users switching to Linux is the application compatibility issue.

        Some of the apps that you could efficiently run on Windows don’t include support for Linux systems. Some of the most affected categories of users are gamers and graphic designers.

        A very high percentage of all the games and graphic software developed only support Windows and maybe macOS. Games and apps like Adobe (Photoshop), Microsoft Office, .NET Framework, Starcraft, and many more are only available for Windows.

      • Julia Evans ☛ Pages that didn't make it into "How DNS Works"

        When I started writing that zine (in, uh, January 2021), I originally had in mind a broader zine on “everything you need to know to own a domain”. So it had a bunch of pages on domain registration, TLS, and email.

        At the time I thought “I can just explain DNS in like 5 pages, it’s not that complicated, there will be lots of space for other topics about domains”. I was extremely wrong about that and it turned out I needed all 28 pages to explain DNS. So I ended up deciding to just focus the zine on DNS and all those other topics didn’t make it into the final zine.

      • GNU Linux Debian 11 – Gnome Boxes – an Open Source VirtualBox replacement?
      • Linux Made Simple ☛ How to install Redream on a Chromebook

        Today we are looking at how to install Redream on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.

      • HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install Apache Solr on Ubuntu 22.04
      • When (not) to use the syslog-ng disk-buffer - Blog - syslog-ng Community - syslog-ng Community

        The syslog-ng disk buffer is one of the most often used syslog-ng options to ensure message delivery. However, it is not always necessary and using the safest variant has serious performance impacts. If you utilize disk-buffer in your syslog-ng configuration, it is worth to make sure that you use a recent syslog-ng version.

        From this blog, you can learn when to use the disk-buffer option, the main differences between reliable and non-reliable disk-buffer, and why is it worth to use the latest syslog-ng version.

      • Document Foundation ☛ Czech translation of LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.3

        Indeed, many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their work! Learn more about LibreOffice’s documentation project here.

      • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ [Quick Tip] How to Set Solid Color Background in Ubuntu 22.04 | UbuntuHandbook

        This quick tutorial shows how to easily set a solid color as background wallpaper in your Ubuntu 22.04 PC/laptop.

        To stay focused and increase productivity, user may set a solid color desktop background which can also reduce eye strain. And, a black background will consume significantly less power especially for AMOLED displays.

        If you already downloaded a solid color wallpaper from web, or created one via an image editor, simply click the “Add Picture” button in system settings -> Background. Then, your image will be there as a choice.

      • FAQForge ☛ How to Install Featherpad Text Editor on Ubuntu

        Featherpad is a unique text editor for programming. It directly competes with major text editors. However, Featherpad is based on Qt engine. It has some unique features like drag and drop of attachment. The tabs can be detached and the editor can autosave the progress.

        I will install it on Ubuntu 22.04 and show you how to do it on your Ubuntu system. The instructions are quite friendly to Ubuntu and related distributions. You must not mess up with Debian installing Ubuntu packages as it may create a technical issue.

      • Citizix ☛ How to host helm charts with gitlab package registry

        Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Helm charts are a collection of Kubernetes YAML manifests distributed as a single package. They make it faster and easier to deploy complex applications in your cluster. Using GitLab as a ledger allows your team to store charts with your code in an organization-managed repository.

      • HowTo Geek ☛ How to Set the Default Gateway in Linux

        Access to the internet—or any other network—is governed by the default gateway. We explain what a default gateway is, and how to set and change it on your Linux computer.

      • OSNote ☛ How to Install JAVA JDK on AlmaLinux 8, CentOS 8 and Rocky Linux 8 – OSNote

        Java is a popular programming language used to build a variety of apps and websites. But what is the real story of Java, and who uses it?

        Java has been around since 1995. It was released by Sun Microsystems as a programming language for “smart” consumer devices, particularly those with multimedia capabilities. This included interactive television systems as well as some early smartphones. Much later on, in 2006, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems, and with it the Java programming language. However, this isn’t why most people know about Java today.

      • OSNote ☛ How to Install Hyper Terminal in Ubuntu – OSNote

        Any Ubuntu release includes several command-line interfaces (CLIs) that you may use to suit your unique requirements. The console’s adaptability and simplicity of use are enhanced by its development in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Hyper Terminal also provides a wide selection of additional features, and that’s why the bulk of people prefer it. As just a consequence, this article will show you how to install Hyper Terminal. Hyper Terminal appears to be a command interface that is compatible with Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows (OS).

      • Video ☛ How to install Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS - Invidious

        In this video, I am going to show how to install Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS.

    • Games

    • Desktop Environments/WMs

      • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Distributions

      • ZDNet ☛ EndeavorOS is an Arch Linux distribution for all | ZDNet

        If you've ever dipped your toes into the Linux waters, you've probably heard of Arch Linux. On the scale of Ubuntu (user friendly) to incredibly challenging (Gentoo), pure Arch Linux lands somewhere near the top. But even Arch Linux is making strides to achieve a much more user-friendly platform (such is the case with the release of the new menu-based installer).

        But for those who want to lower the barrier of entry for Arch Linux, there are options, one of which is EndeavorOS. This version of Arch Linux strives to be accessible and usable to anyone, regardless of skill level. And although EndeavorOS isn't nearly as user-friendly as the likes of Ubuntu and Linux Mint, it is at least considerably easier to install than pure Arch Linux. And the inclusion of a handy Welcome app makes getting up to speed with EndeavorOS a fairly painless process.

        Recently, the developers launched the latest version of EndeavorOS, Apollo, and although it includes all the tools necessary to make it a power user's dream distribution, I'm confident this new release would feel right at home under the fingers of someone who has only recently discovered Linux.

      • SUSE/OpenSUSE

        • SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ Explore the Future of Linux at SUSECON Digital 2022

          I cannot wait to join you all at SUSECON Digital 2022 on June 7-9, when I will again have the pleasure of leading the Business Critical Linux keynote.

        • SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ Kubernetes in Docker Desktop Just Got Easier with Epinio | SUSE Communities

          Epinio takes developers from application to URL in one step. In this blog post, I’m going to tell you about the new Epinio extension for Docker Desktop, that allows you to run Epinio on your laptop. DevOps are very interested in the details of containerized workloads and Kubernetes especially, but for developers, the abstraction layer provided by Kubernetes might not be too relevant to their daily work. And managing a Kubernetes cluster certainly is above and beyond for most application developers.

          However, deploying an application with Epinio is possible with very little Kubernetes knowledge. On a real cluster, Epinio also offers several advantages to operators, but that is a story for another post.

      • IBM/Red Hat/Fedora

        • Fedora Magazaine ☛ Announcing Fedora Linux 36

          Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of Fedora Project contributors: our latest release, Fedora Linux 36, is here!

        • Fedora Magazaine ☛ Fedora Magazine: What’s new in Fedora Workstation 36

          The latest release of Fedora Workstation 36 continues the Fedora Project’s ongoing commitment to delivering the latest innovations in the open source world. This article describes some of the notable user-facing changes that appear in this version.

        • Linuxiac ☛ Fedora Linux 36 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New

          Fedora 36, Red Hat’s free Linux distro, brings an updated desktop experience and some behind-the-scenes tweaks.

          Red Hat’s community Linux distro Fedora version 36 rolled out in beta on March 28, 2022, and today, almost a month later, Fedora 36 is officially released and available for download.

          While the emphasis remains on a desktop PC with cutting-edge everything, Fedora 36 focuses on extending existing features and improving support. It’s a nice middle-of-the-road update that combines the new features we’ve seen in recent Fedora and GNOME desktop releases and some refinements.

          So without further ado, let’s get started by inspecting what’s new.

        • Release Notes

          This document provides the release notes for Fedora Linux 36. It describes major changes offered as compared to Fedora Linux 35.

        • LWN ☛ Fedora 36 released [LWN.net]

          The Fedora 36 release is now available. Improvements include GNOME 42, Wayland support by default on systems with NVIDIA graphics, Podman 4.0, Ansible 5, the removal of support for legacy ifcfg configuration files, GCC 12, and more; see the release notes for details.

        • Its FOSS ☛ 17 Things to do After Installing Fedora 36

          Fedora 36 is an exciting upgrade with numerous features and visual treats.

          Can’t wait already? If you already installed (or upgraded) Fedora 36, we recommend following a few important things that can help enhance your desktop experience with Fedora 36.

          If you still haven’t installed it, you may want to check out the feature list of Fedora 36 to explore more about it.

        • Its FOSS ☛ Fedora 35 v Fedora 36: What's the Difference? - It's FOSS News

          Fedora 36 is an impressive release with a list of interesting feature upgrades.

          While Fedora 35 included GNOME 41 and debuted with a new KDE variant (Fedora Kinoite) and several other technical changes, Fedora 36 is another interesting upgrade.

          Fedora 36 packs in GNOME 42 with new feature additions, and some usual technical improvements.

        • Its FOSS ☛ Fedora 36 Releases With GNOME 42 and Linux Kernel 5.17 - It's FOSS News

          After six months of development, Fedora 36 is finally here! This release packs some massive changes, notably GNOME 42 (and all its associated features).

          [...]

          GNOME 42 is the biggest improvement, with several visual upgrades and changes. You can check out the best GNOME 42 features if you are curious.

          Some associated changes are the key highlights of the release. Accompanying them are Plasma 5.24 and XFCE 4.16 as available editions.

          The LXQt desktop environment has been upgraded to 1.0.0 on Fedora 36.

        • How To Upgrade To Fedora 36 : Fedora Linux 36 Released | Itsubuntu.com

          Fedora Linux 36 is now officially available for download. You can download Fedora Linux 36 right now from the official website. Fedora Linux 36 is powered by Linux Kernel 5.17. You will find the GNOME 42 desktop environment on Fedora 36.

        • Beta News ☛ Fedora Linux 36 is finally here and it is much better than Ubuntu

          Ubuntu is a great Linux-based operating system that seems to get all the attention. Truth be told, however, Fedora is the better Linux distribution. Hell, some would argue it is the overall best distro. Quite frankly, if you are an open source champion, you should be using Fedora. It is the perfect no-nonsense distribution, and best of all. it largely focuses on truly free and open source software.

          Today, following some delays, Fedora 36 finally becomes available for download. While hardly an exciting update, this new version of the Linux-based operating system is notable for utilizing GNOME 42 and kernel 5.17. Plus, for those using an NVIDIA GPU and driver, you will now get Wayland by default. You can read full release notes here.

          Acknowledging the rather lackluster update, Matthew Miller, Fedora project leader explains, "Sometimes small improvements can make a big impact. This latest version of Fedora Linux brings many under-the-hood improvements for a variety of use cases. This helps us fulfill our mission: we make an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users."

        • Linux Foundation's Site/Blog ☛ Create Impact Change with the 2022 Call for Code [ED: IBM call for slaves. A new LF marketing campaign for a deeply racist company. LF still does greenwashing for IBM while this goes on.]

          I am always amazed at the impact we all have coming together, using our collective talents for good. Combining our collective brain power, skills, time, and resources produces stellar results – maybe it is better rendering management for films that entertain with mind-bending CGIs or improving automated software testing and deployment so developers can spend more time on innovation. Human ingenuity is amazing!

        • Red Hat ☛ Introducing Red Hat OpenShift extension for Docker Desktop

          Today we are announcing our new Red Hat OpenShift extension for Docker Desktop, which helps developers with all of the different steps required to get an application running on Kubernetes. The extension aims to provide a bridge from your local environment to the environments where you run your applications.

        • Red Hat Official ☛ Fueling the spark of innovation

          Open source can fan the sparks of potential around the world, unlike any system that has ever existed. It solves two fundamental problems that limit innovation:...

        • Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier: The new normal for IT starts with open source

          Globally we saw nearly every industry go to 100% remote working overnight. Regardless of industry and size, organizations learned to operate virtually and on-demand. Companies needed to deliver goods and services to customers without a set brick-and-mortar footprint. We saw new tech hubs emerge in unlikely places because workers we no longer bound by needing to be based in specific cities. Newly-remote workers realized that they didn’t have to be tied to a physical office, and organizations focused on hiring new talent based on skill and not location.

        • Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat Defines a New Epicenter for Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

          Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, the Linux operating system designed to drive more consistent innovation across the open hybrid cloud, from bare metal servers to cloud providers and the farthest edge of enterprise networks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is designed to drive enterprise transformation in parallel with evolving market forces and customer demands in an automated and distributed IT world. The platform will be generally available in the coming weeks.

        • The Register UK ☛ At last, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 slips out

          Red Hat has officially lifted the lid on version 9 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), code-named Plow, the latest major version of the dominant paid-for, commercial server Linux.

          This release aims to roll out features and functionality without being too different from its older siblings.

          Version 9 represents a number of firsts. It's the first major release since IBM's acquisition of Red Hat concluded in July 2019 – RHEL 8.0 came out two months before. It's also the first major version of the enterprise distribution since Red Hat redefined its free enterprise distro CentOS as being upstream of RHEL rather than a rebuild of it.

          The Reg looked at the beta last year. This release is based on Fedora 34, which we covered in March last year. That means several significant changes for desktop users, including GNOME 40, which should run on Wayland by default, the Pipewire audio server, and incremental updates to Flatpak packages.

        • ZDNet ☛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Security baked in | ZDNet

          Boston: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been the Linux for business for a generation now. Today, RHEL touches more than $13 trillion of the global economy. Remember when people used to think Linux couldn't handle big business? Ha! With the release of RHEL 9 at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat improved its offerings from the open hybrid cloud to bare metal servers to cloud providers and the farthest edge of enterprise networks.

        • Video: RHEL 9 released

          As predicted, RHEL9 was released today.. as was RHEL 8.6 and Fedora 36. Big release day. Here's a marketing video on the new release. I'm sure more videos, some with actual technical content, will follow.

      • Debian Family

        • Daniele Scasciafratte & Mozilla, OSCAL, Albania dating

          Debian Community News has also published evidence that many of the women who received travel bursaries are not publishing code.

          It is obvious that many of the women in red t-shirts are being paid to attend the Albanian conferences and pretend to be volunteers. They come and sit in the workshops to make the room look full. They ask questions and then at the end of the day they all disappear. There is no follow up on any of the topics presented. As soon as they receive their cash payment at the end of the day, all these women vanish.

          If this is so obvious, why do the leaders of free software organizations continue to give their developers travel funds to go to events in Albania?

      • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

        • Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Linux on Mac takes the next step with Multipass 1.9

          This week, the Multipass team announced a new version of the VM manager and local mini-cloud. Multipass makes it easy to run Linux virtual machines on Mac, Windows, and Linux hosts by providing a streamlined CLI that abstracts away the admin overhead of working with VMs.

          This new update comes with some exciting new features, including enhanced networking and suspend capabilities on macOS, and the ability to authenticate clients, which allows Multipass to run as an unprivileged user. Last but not least: this update enables Multipass users to run our 22.04 Ubuntu release, Jammy Jellyfish, on Mac and Windows.

        • Hackaday ☛ Framework Board Gets This Round Display PC Rolling | Hackaday

          [Penk] has Ubuntu 22.04 LTS loaded up right now, and he reports that everything works as expected, though there are a few xrandr commands you’ll need to run in order for the system to work properly with the circular display. The standard Ubuntu UI doesn’t look particularly well suited to such an unusual viewport, but we imagine that’s an issue you’ll have to learn to live with when experimenting with such an oddball screen.

        • Ubuntu ☛ HP brings the power of Ubuntu-based data science to Windows workstations [Ed: The official Ubuntu blog is promoting Windows laptops. This is how pathetic and supine Canonical has become. Don't use Ubuntu.]
    • Devices/Embedded

    • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

      • [Older] The Register UK ☛ Apache says Struts 2 security bug wasn't fully fixed in 2020

        The security flaw exists in Struts versions 2.0.0 to 2.5.29, and an attacker could exploit it to gain control of a vulnerable system.

      • The Register UK ☛ Alibaba opens up code for federated learning platform [Ed: GitHub is proprietary software; seems like the wrong way to "open up"]

        Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has open-sourced a federated learning platform it claims protects privacy by enabling the development of machine learning algorithms without having to share training data.

      • FSFE ☛ 46 Sign OS Freedom Open Letter +++ Fair Market App +++ Your Digital Rights

        The EU is redefining their ecodesign criteria for environmentally friendly electronics. The FSFE provided input by publishing an open letter demanding the right to install any software on any electronic device. This right would allow to keep our devices longer, but it requires manufacturers to follow certain rules. For example, manufacturers must be required to unlock bootloaders on all devices, including computers, tablets and phones; they must also publish full specifications for every component on the device. This allows us and any third party to better repair our devices, and even reuse parts of them. The use of Open Standards is also necessary for devices to communicate and operate with each other.

        Initially 38 organisations agreed on the necessity of these conditions and signed the open letter before publication. It is still possible to sign the letter and more than 45 organisations have now signed. It speaks volumes that tech companies, right to repair initiatives, and important environmental organisations support the right to install any software on any device.

      • Medevel ☛ CaBr2 Generates a safety data sheets for lab experiments

        It is written in Angular and can be either used as a standalone desktop application or as a static webpage with WASM bindings and an API server to generate PDFs.

        [...]

        The project is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3.0.

      • Content Management Systems (CMS)

        • WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Now Available for Testing – WordPress News

          The next release candidate for WordPress 6.0 is now available!

          WordPress 6.0 is scheduled for release on May 24th, 2022 – just two weeks from today.

          “Release Candidate” means that this version of WordPress is ready for release! Since the WordPress ecosystem includes thousands of plugins and themes, it is important that everyone within the WordPress community check to see if anything was missed along the way. That means the project would love your help.

          Thank you to everyone who has contributed towards testing and logging issues to help make WordPress 6.0 stable (and awesome). WordPress still needs your help testing, especially theme and plugin developers.

      • FSF

        • FSF ☛ FSF board shares next steps in board nomination process

          The board of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published a board matrix of fundamental requisites and valuable attributes that will be used to evaluate nominees for the FSF board of directors. Nominations are not yet open, but the board also published a preview of the form that associate members will soon use to submit their nominations of candidates for the board.

          "As we prepare to add new directors to the FSF board, the board needs to state the requirements and qualities that should be used to assess nominees," said FSF president Geoffrey Knauth. "Current board members who wish to continue to serve the FSF will also be reviewed based on these expectations, once new directors are on the board."

      • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

        • Open Data

          • Forbes ☛ WWF Launches Open-Source App To Make Food Supply Chains More Transparent

            The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched an app that aims to help food supply chains become more transparent.

            The transparenC app (available for both Android and iOS devices) and web portal is the world’s first open-source traceability software for any kind of food supply chain.

            It can be used anywhere by farmers, buyers and retailers without paying licensing fees to ensure transparency and accountability across all stages of food production.

      • Programming/Development

  • Leftovers

    • Five Senses

      I’ve always wondered why there are five senses while to me it didn’t seem like salt and sour were the same sense, or why prickly and warm were the same sense, or why dark and green were the same sense. But I’m rereading The Treasury of the Dharma Eye, and Dōgen explains it in his explication of the Heart sutra. Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and mind. I guess that’s how they organized ‘em back then.

      I bristled at this teaching in grade school (in “lÃ¥gstadiet”) because it felt like we were being taught an oversimplification, a falsehood, a myth.

    • Integrity/Availability

      • Proprietary

        • ZDNet ☛ Docker Desktop for Linux finally arrives [Ed: Docker the company is in awful hands since the interference and takeover]

          Docker Desktop is an easy-to-use Docker container integrated development environment (IDE). It includes Docker Engine, Docker CLI client, Docker Compose, Docker Content Trust, Kubernetes, and Credential Helper. With it, you can easily build and share containerized applications and microservices. There's only been one problem: It hasn't been available for the Linux desktop.

        • Docker Announces Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux at DockerCon 2022
        • Yahoo News ☛ Zerto Extends Leadership in Ransomware Resilience by Bringing New Recovery Capabilities in a Multi-Cloud World [Ed: Multi-clown nonsense with "Linux" thrown in there for good measure; Clown computing means security breach, by intention]
        • Pseudo-Open Source

          • Privatisation/Privateering

            • Linux Foundation

              • Linux Foundation's Site/Blog ☛ In Memory of Shubhra Kar

                This past week, we lost our dear friend, colleague, and a true champion of the open source community. Our CTO, Shubhra Kar, passed away suddenly while he was with his entire LF family at our first in-person, all-hands gathering since before the pandemic.

                Those who had the honor to work with him will know, he was a special leader and a wonderful human being. Above all, Shubhra was the kind of leader who quickly passed the credit for accomplishments to his team over himself. His humble spirit and ever-present smile was admired by all around him. He was so proud of the world class team he had built here, and did that in part with engineers who followed him from one organization to another throughout his career.

        • Security

    • Censorship/Free Speech

      • It has to be the radio, Ebba!

        Ebba Busch is boycotting the Swedish radio because in their Arabic, Somali, and Kurdish transmissions they translated her desire to shoot “islamists” as her wanting to shoot “muslims“.

        [...]

        I’ll end the way I started: the way they did translate it was not good, even though they were put in a very difficult bind.

    • Civil Rights/Policing

      • Technocracy Rising with Patrick Wood

        In this episode, Whitney and Patrick Wood discuss the historic roots of the technocratic movement, its development and relevance to current events as well as the ulterior motives behind the so-called “green” agenda and the Data-centered “religions” of Silicon Valley.

      • Daniel Kahn Gillmor: 2022 Digital Rights Job Fair

        I'm lucky enough to work at the intersection between information communications technology and civil rights/civil liberties. I get to combine technical interests and social/political interests.

        I've talked with many folks over the years who are interested in doing similar work. Some come from a technical background, and some from an activist background (and some from both). Are you one of them? Are you someone who works as an activist or in a technical field who wants to look into different ways of meging these interests?



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Brigading Against Women - Part XX - Attempts by Lozza to Deplatform Techrights and Tux Machines Only Days After I Sued Garrett and My Wife Also Sued Garrett (Shortly Before the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Joined)
in 2024
Links 06/10/2026: A Year Since "NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released From Prison", World Tries to Deal With El Niño
Links for the day
Red Hat is Phased Out of Existence This Month Onwards
Within a few years we'll probably not see many redhat.com addresses anymore; many became ibm.* last week
NVIDIA Buys the Media With Companies It Sponsors to Pretend to be Customers (Circular Funding Scheme)
The media crisis worsens
 
IBM Cannot Hide the Layoffs Forever
we welcome whistleblower to tell us more and send us documents related to that
EPO's Central Staff Committee Asking The Council to Get Rid of Corrupt Campinos
We'll be covering EPO scandals around the time of that meeting
Gemini Links 06/10/2026: EU Kids Act, Practicality of Gemini, and Games
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Links 06/10/2026: Data Breaches Epidemic and Turkey Blocking Journalists
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The Whole Point of Computing is That Computers Are Deterministic (Speed With Predictable Accuracy)
Unlike stochastic parrots that stochastically utter out lies
It's Not a Linux Back Door If It's an Unpatched Device
"Linux Backdoor" is a glaring misfit, a possibly 'obscene' term
"SIRIUS CORPORATION LIMITED" as Evidence of the Financial Shell Games in the UK
Rianne and I still have some fond memories of the time the ex-wife of the CEO treated us like human beings
Lots of Silent Layoffs at IBM Last Week, Employees Explain Patterns of Those Impacted
It wasn't just gossip, it actually happened even if the media chose to look the other way (as usual)
Gemini Links 06/10/2026: Fighting for Purpose, Gemlogs, and Gemtext
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 05, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, October 05, 2026
Finland's GNU/Linux Share Measured at 12%
Last month GNU/Linux was measured at about 10% in Finland
UK Layoffs and Closures by Microsoft. In Expected Blow, Microsoft Likely Shuts Down Another Studio.
Microsoft's layoffs are never-ending, they just try to keep them all secret.
Discussion About Potential Sale of EPO Buildings and Enshittification of Europe's Largest Patent Office
It's noteworthy that only one hour (or 70 minutes) was devoted to so many topics
Brigading Against Women - Part IXX - Overreaction From Young Female Professional After Invalid Threats Made and Sent From an Incel in Another Continent
Cowards who send threats after committing crimes online
Stonewalling by Bots
We'll now turn our attention back to EPO and other matters
Gemini Links 05/10/2026: "Posthumanism", Cardputer, and More
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Links 05/10/2026: “I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” and Slop Scammers "Lobbying the Vatican"
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SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD Officially Insolvent, Is Reform UK Next?
Sirius no more
Links 05/10/2026: "Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again" and Update on Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence
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libera.chat is an Agenda-Peddling Platform Run by Agenda-Peddling Individuals
The volunteers of libera.chat ("staff") aren't working for free, they work towards an agenda
Nobel Season is Plutocracy Week
Later this week the billionaires will give a fake "Nobel" (in "Economics") to someone who parrots their preferred narrative and those same billionaires will use "Nobel" to bless the promoter of their latest pyramid scheme/buzzword
GNU/Linux Market Share in North America 13% This Past Weekend
It is perhaps not shocking that adoption of GNU/Linux is very high there
When Did Europe Begin to Side With White-Collar Criminals (or Participate in Suppressing People Who Oppose Them)?
How much corruption can we tolerate before the European Union becomes another Russian Federation?
Libera Chat's "Level of Control Might Make Sense for a Corporate Platform"
IRC is not centralised
Brigading Against Women - Part XVIII - Turning Censorship Attempts (Articles About Matthew Garrett) Into Mild Redactions
What Lozza did two years ago
Greenland Needs Digital Sovereignty
the large icy island isn't moving to GNU/Linux as quickly as the rest of Europe
Tracker of Internet Relay Chat Networks Out of Service (But Not Down) Since Thursday
We should note that the number of unique networks they track has grown since we last checked
Gemini Links 05/10/2026: NixOS, Guix, Codeberg Banning Slop, and "Gopher Apps on Android"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 04, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, October 04, 2026
Secret Microsoft Layoffs and Maybe Another "Voluntary Exit Program at Microsoft in October"
there's a morale crisis at Microsoft
MIT Technology Review (MTR) Reinforces MIT's Role in Promoting Slop (Pyramid Scheme) in Exchange for Money
MIT is a poster boy (or child) of institutional corruption, perverts, and corporate takeover
Many Topics to Cover
Drops in a big ocean
Proving Wrong Those Slop Maximalists and Boosters, GAFAM Says Slop is a Nuisance and Bans/Hides the Slop Submissions
People who say slop in projects is inevitable or even desirable are usually cheaters with self-guilt
Links 04/10/2026: “AI Torture Chamber” and "Aggressive Push to Integrate Hey Hi (AI) Slop Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster"
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How Microsoft Hides Massive Layoffs From the Media (as Explained by Microsofters)
"rewards" are not exactly rewarding
Brigading Against Women - Part XVII - The Appeal
more to be known towards the end of the year
Gemini Links 04/10/2026: Peace in Outage, Pen Pals, and deGoogling
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Links 04/10/2026: Fires Rage in Borneo and Mass Layoffs at Disney
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Garrett's Litigation Partner is Unemployed Again
losing one's job
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 03, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, October 03, 2026