12.25.22

GNU/Linux

• Web Pro News ☛ Stack Overflow: Linux Surpasses macOS Among Developers

  Linux has reached a major milestone, surpassing macOS among developers for both personal and professional use.

  Linux has long been the third most popular operating system (OS), after Windows and macOS. Stack Overflow has released its 2022 Developer Survey, and it’s good news for Linux fans.

  According to the Developer Survey, Linux use has passed macOS by a significant margin. Linux is used by 40.23% of developers as their primary OS for personal use, while 39.89% use it as their primary OS for professional use. In contrast, macOS is used as a primary OS for personal use 31.07% of developers and for professional use by 32.97%.

• Slashdot ☛ Stack Overflow Survey Finds More Developers Now Use Linux Than MacOS – Slashdot

  Justin Garrison works at Amazon Web Services on the Kubernetes team (and was senior systems engineer on several animated films).

• Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux Weekly Roundup #215

  We had a full week in the world of Linux releases with Manjaro Linux 22.0, Clear Linux 37860, Bluestar Linux 6.1.1, ArcoLinux 23.01.03, Q4OS 4.11, Linux Mint 21.1, EndeavourOS 22.12, and BunsenLabs Beryllium.

• Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes 1.26: Pod Scheduling Readiness | Kubernetes

    Kubernetes 1.26 introduced a new Pod feature: scheduling gates. In Kubernetes, scheduling gates are keys that tell the scheduler when a Pod is ready to be considered for scheduling.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Video ☛ Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon Edition Includes Some New Features – Invidious

    Linux Mint 21.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.

  • Video ☛ LastPass | Withheld that Password Vaults were Stolen – Invidious

    What’s up, Linux Community!!! In this video, we check an article on how the world-leading password manager, LastPass, became victim’s of a security breach, again. Last month, the company announced that threat actors had accessed “certain elements” of customer info. Just as many US workers are leaving for a holiday break, the company reveals that meant their encrypted passwords.

  • Video ☛ Steam Deck – An average users thoughts on Valve’s first handheld! *reaction* – Invidious

    What does the every day average user think of Vales first handheld the Steam Deck?

  • Video ☛ ChatGPT Malware is a Thing – Invidious

    This week in Business News, Pine releases info on the next Linux tablet, Linux teams up to make a Google Maps Alternative, and Tesla causes a another crash.

  • Video ☛ Will Rust Free Linux Kernels Exist Anymore? – Invidious

    Now that Rust is a part opf the Linux kernel is this the end for a C only kernel, well right now maybe not but one day in the future it might not be that simple.

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ 2022 Tuxies | LINUX Unplugged 490 | Jupiter Broadcasting

    It’s the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.

  • Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode 355 – Security Boxing Day – Open Source Security

    Josh and Kurt talk about some security gifts for boxing day. We start out with the idea of the security poverty line and discuss a few ideas for how a low resource group can make their open source more secure. There are no simple answers unfortunately.

• Kernel Space

  • Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux 6.2-rc1

    So it's Christmas Day here, but it's also Sunday afternoon two weeks
    after the 6.2 merge window opened. So holidays or not, the kernel
    development show must go on.
    
    Thanks to a lot of people sending their pull requests early, I got
    much of the merge window work done before the holidays started in
    earnest, and mostly before my pre-xmas travel. So despite flight
    delays, missed connections, and the resulting airport hotel
    excursions, the merge window mostly went smoothly, and there was no
    reason to delay rc1.
    
    That said, realistically I expect most people to be on vacation for at
    least another week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a
    delayed final release due to the season. But it's too early to worry
    about that yet, we'll just have to see how it goes.
    
    Also, 6.2 looks like it's a bigger release (certainly bigger than 6.1
    was). The summary below is, as usual, just my merge log: we've got
    about 13.5k commits from ~1800 people in total in this merge window,
    which is actually not that far off the total size of the whole 6.1
    release. But let's hope that despite the size, and despite the likely
    slow start of the post-merge-window calming down period, we'll have a
    smooth release.
    
    And in the meantime, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all
    (replace as appropriate with whatever holiday, if any, you are
    celebrating).
    
                       Linus
    

• Graphics Stack

  • WCCF Tech ☛ AMD Focuses On Various Driver Improvements For RDNA 3 GPUs Running In Linux

    AMD left Linux users without great graphics support when they released the new Radeon RX 7900 GPUs based on the RDNA 3 architecture. The graphics kernel was old and did not prepare users with newer firmware during launch. Now, engineers are beginning to change their focus towards the RDNA 3 support with a newly published firmware update, allowing users to rely on the frame buffer from the firmware when the AMDGPU driver crashes.

• Applications

  • Make Use Of ☛ What Are the Best Disc Burning Apps for Linux

    CDs and DVDs might seem to be a relic of the past with most people choosing to stream music and video from remote servers to their entertainment devices, and storing large collections of files on USB flash drives of up to a terabyte.

    But even though few laptops come with an optical drive these days, it’s occasionally useful to burn a CD or DVD for use in your car, or for entertainment in an area where network connectivity is spotty. Here are the best tools for CD burning on Linux.

  • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Kodi 19.5 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 | 22.10 | UbuntuHandbook

    Happy Christmas and happy new year to my dear readers! Kodi, the popular home media center software, release 19.5 version to celebrate the holidays.

    It’s the last point release for the 19.x release, while Kodi 20 now is in RC2 stage. And, this release mainly include bug-fixes and improvements backport from dev release.

• Instructionals/Technical

  • Video ☛ How to install MEGASync on KDE Neon – Invidious

  • Linux Made Simple ☛ How to install MetaTrader 5 with the Traders Global Group Incorporated Broker on a Chromebook

    Today we are looking at how to install MetaTrader 5 with the Traders Global Group Incorporated Broker on a Chromebook.

  • AddictiveTips ☛ How to convert images on a Chromebook

    Do you have some image files you need to convert to your Chromebook? Can’t find any Chrome OS apps that do the job? Good news! Since Chrome OS supports Linux, it is possible to install the Converter tool. An easy-to-use tool for converting image formats. Here’s how to get it working on your system.

  • LinuxOpSys ☛ How to Make Ubuntu Terminal Look like Kali Linux

    Here learn how to make your Ubuntu terminal look like Kali Linux. For this install zsh shell, zshell plugins and some additional tools.

  • Why won’t crusty old host recognize my shiny new terminal emulator?

    Spiffy new terminal emulators seem to come with their own terminfo definitions. Venerable hosts that I ssh into tend not to know about those. kitty comes with a thing to transfer that definition, but it breaks if the remote host is running tcsh (don’t ask). Similary the one liner for alacritty on the arch wiki seems to assume the remote shell is bash. Forthwith, a dumb shell script that works to send the terminfo of the current terminal emulator to the remote host.

  • Make Use Of ☛ How to Find Your MAC Address on Linux

    If you are administering a Linux system, there will likely be times when you need to know your system’s MAC address. You may need this information for several reasons. Perhaps you want DHCP to assign you a fixed IP address. For this, you will need the MAC address so that you can add the IP and MAC address mapping to your DHCP server configurations.

    You may also need this information for MAC address filtering to allow or block certain devices on your network. Or maybe you want to set up Wake-on-LAN. Whatever the reason is, here are a few different ways to find the MAC address on your Linux system.

  • How to Install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu [Ed: This is proprietary Microsoft spyware; better never to install such a thing]

  • Make Use Of ☛ Reducing Docker Image Sizes With Alpine Linux Images

    The size of a Docker image affects its runtime and the performance of your application. Small containers run faster, are easier to manage, and take up less disk space.

    There are several ways to reduce the size of Docker images. In particular, you can use Alpine Linux images which are much smaller than the rest.

  • UNIX Cop ☛ Install Samba Server with Selinux and Firewalld Enabled

    Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to Install Samba Server with Selinux and Firewalld Enabled. For this post, we will use Rocky Linux 9, but actually the algorithm followed should work for other distributions, of course making the necessary modifications.

Distributions and Operating Systems

• Red Hat

  • Container Journal ☛ Red Hat Extends Managed OpenShift Service for Building AI Models – Container Journal

    Red Hat extended the capabilities of its managed service for building artificial intelligence (AI) models on top of its Kubernetes distribution to foster greater collaboration among data scientists and DevOps teams.

    In addition, the latest edition of Red Hat OpenShift Data Science service includes support for NVIDIA data center graphical processor units (GPUs) that can run a certified instance of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite.

  • CRN ☛ AWS Star Innovative Solutions Bets On Red Hat OpenShift, AI And Cloud Migration In 2023 [Ed: Too many buzzwords rather than substance]

    Innovative Solutions CEO Justin Copie explains to CRN his vision to drive sales in 2023 by creating new practices and services that customers are demanding.

  • Red Hat Official ☛ Modularity in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

    Many have noticed a general lack of modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9. There was only a single module in the Beta release, and none in the initial release, leading many to question the current status and plans for modules in general.

    In this article we will delve into a bit of history as to how modules have been used, some of the lessons learned during their initial adoption, and what you can expect from RHEL 9.

• Canonical/Ubuntu Family

  • DebugPoint ☛ Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera”: Best New Features

    An article featuring the best new features of Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera”.

    Linux Mint 21.1 was released a few days back and received a positive response overall. If you are still trying to get this version, do it today. We have several guides on upgrading to this version because it’s one of the best Linux Mint versions.

    Before getting your new Mint desktop, do check out the new features of Linux Mint 21.1 in this assorted list.

• Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • The Sun ☛ People are only just realizing a quick trick can save you from annoying Android notification confusion | The US Sun

  • Android Police ☛ 20 of the best Android games released in 2022 for your new phone, tablet, or Chromebook

  • Android Police ☛ How to transfer photos from Android to a computer

  • Make Use Of ☛ How to Control Your Android Phone’s Camera Using the Galaxy Watch 4 or Watch 5

  • How to tell if someone is snooping on your Android | Fox News

  • Hindustan Times ☛ The top ten android TVs as per customer satisfaction

  • 9to5Google ☛ Android apps: Install these on your new smartphone – 9to5Google

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

• Libre Arts ☛ Libre Arts – Weekly recap — 25 December 2022

  The next weekly recap will be out in January. But for now, here are this week’s highlights: new releases of darktable, Hugin, LSP Plugins.

• FOSS Weekly ☛ FOSS Weekly #29 – Tails 5.8, Google’s OSS tools, Linux Mint 21.1 and more | FOSS Weekly

  Welcome to this week’s edition of FOSS Weekly! This post includes updates from Google, Tencent, and the EFF, as well as Linux updates from Manjaro, Tails, and Linux Mint. There were also some notable releases from Rust, NetBSD, NumPy, and Ruby. Read on for all the updates!

• Programming/Development

  • Perl / Raku

    • Russ Allbery ☛ Eagle’s Path: podlators 5.01 (2022-12-25)

      podlators is the Perl distribution providing Pod::Man and Pod::Text, along with related modules and supporting scripts.

      The primary change in this release is the addition of configurable guesswork for Pod::Text, paralleling Pod::Man. I had forgotten that Pod::Text also had complex heuristics for whether to quote C<> text that have the same Perl-specific properties as Pod::Man. This is now configurable via a guesswork option, the same as in Pod::Man, although the only type of guesswork supported is quoting. I also updated the default regexes, which include some fixes from Pod::Man.

    • Russ Allbery ☛ Eagle’s Path: rra-c-util 10.3 (2022-12-25)

      This is a minor feature and bug fix release of my collection of utilities and tests intended for copying into other packages I maintain.

      The new feature is an additional Perl test using Test::Kwalitee to check a few more things about the Perl packaging, and a MANIFEST.SKIP file that is suitable for copying as-is into most Perl packages.

    • Rakulang ☛ Raku Advent Calendar: The 2022 Raku Advent Posts

  • Python

    • TecAdmin ☛ How to Call a function in Python – TecAdmin

      In Python, a function is a block of code that performs a specific task and can be called from other parts of your program. Functions are an essential part of Python programming, and they allow you to write reusable, modular code that is easier to maintain and debug.

      In this tutorial, we will learn how to call a function in Python. We will discuss the different ways you can pass arguments to a function, and we will also look at some common mistakes to avoid when calling functions in Python.

    • TecAdmin ☛ Current Date and Time in Python: In-Depth Tutorial – TecAdmin

      Getting the current date and time is a common task in Python programming. There are several ways to do this, depending on your needs and the libraries you have available. In this article, we will explore some of the most common methods for getting the current date and time in Python, including using the built-in datetime module, the time module, and the dateutil module. We will also discuss how to format the date and time values as strings, and how to convert between timezones. Whether you are working with timestamps, scheduling tasks, or just want to display the current date and time in your Python program, this article will provide you with the tools you need.

  • Rust

    • Amos Wenger ☛ Day 15 (Advent of Code 2022)

      The day 15 puzzle falls into the “math puzzle” territory more than “let’s learn something new about Rust”, but since several folks asked if I was going to continue… let’s continue.

Leftovers

• Matt Rickard ☛ Christmas 2022

  Over the next few days, I’ll be reflecting on the predictions I had for 2022 and the process I used to get there (the process is more important to me than the outcome). I’ll reflect on some of the things that I did, and some of the things I wished I had done. And finally, I’ll try to put out some thoughts on what I think 2023 might hold, for both me and the the broader market. And it wouldn’t be an end-of-the-year reflection without thinking about some of my posts that resonated the most (and the ones that resonated the least) and why.

• Security

  • Help Net Security ☛ Open-source tool for security engineers helps automate access reviews – Help Net Security

    ConductorOne open-sourced their identity connectors in a project called Baton, available on GitHub. Each connector gives developers the ability to extract, normalize, and interact with workforce identity data such as user accounts, permissions, roles, groups, resources, and more, so they can audit infrastructure access, start to automate user access reviews, and enforce the principle of least privilege.

  • Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for Authenticated Remote Users – Slashdot [Ed: The severity of 10 is no longer 10 for the "Linux" flaw; it was SMB related and was downgraded later, days after all the drama]

    This new program, which was introduced to the kernel in 2021, was developed by Samsung. Its point was to deliver speedy SMB3 file-serving performance….

    Any distro using the Linux kernel 5.15 or above is potentially vulnerable. This includes Ubuntu 22.04, and its descendants; Deepin Linux 20.3; and Slackware 15.

  • Security Affairs ☛ Critical Linux Kernel flaw affects SMB servers with ksmbd enabled [Ed: No, the severity is not 10!]

    Experts warn of a critical Linux Kernel vulnerability (CVSS score of 10) impacting SMB servers that can lead to remote code execution.

Gemini* and Gopher

• Technical

  • the concept of fragments log, taken from Brandur

    This post might be cross-linked from the gemlog, but it’s not gemlog. Wait nevermind

    It will be the other way now.

  • cleaning

    I’ll be doing some general cleaning by the end of this week and that includes this gemlog. changing the header/footer and maybe adding something other than email for getting in touch.

  • Evolving harn: C + Forth polyglot system

    I presented my project as an interactive linker for a harnessed C compiler. And it true: I’ve implemented the infrastructure for extracting compiled C functions and data out of ELF object files, and interning them into the system, including being able to replace old versions with new ones. I set up a basic way to track ingested code as symbols, which are kept in packages, kind of like Lisp. The whole thing lives as an image which can be saved and restored. Oh, and I made provisions for keeping the sources of everything ingested.

  • Xmas

    • Merry Christmas

      No matter what holiday(s) you celebrate this season, I hope it brings you an opportunity to be with people you care about and share in your joys and gratitude.

    • it’s 25th, how has December been

      One has been in my family and the other I bought because the former had keyboard keys not working. The keyboard issues are something that historically one could sometimes fix by twisting the whole case of the laptop. Dad suggests it may be fixable by remounting the keyboard.
      That other one I bought had the keyboard work well but the Touch Stick in it has issues about going all the way upper-right or all the way lower-left, unless pressed hard in the opposite direction. I had to install the pointing device driver and in it I can disable Touch Stick separately from Touch Pad.
      I expected the former one to have a broken HDD and the other one to lack a HDD. But they turned out to both have HDDs. The former one had Ubuntu 6.XX with the familiar login prompt sound and the other one had an empty installation of Windows 98 that I subsequently reinstalled, also having a sticker for Windows.. 95, which seems a bit odd.