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Linux Action News 183 Apr 04, 2021

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The first CentOS clone is out, but it's the second part of their announcement that might be the most important.

Plus our reaction to SCO reigniting their decades-long fight with IBM and Red Hat, and the big news in GTK-land you might have missed.

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AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative — As scheduled, AlmaLinux's initial release is available for download today from AlmaLinux.org. This initial AlmaLinux release is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 sources.
AlmaLinux OS on GitHub
AlmaLinux Repo
AlmaLinux Wiki
Shop Almalinux
CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux, CentOS Linux clone
How to migrate CentOS to AlmaLinux and avoid downtime in your data center
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IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos — Xinuos' lawsuit contends that IBM stole UnixWare and OpenServer code and incorporated it into the heart of its AIX, z/OS mainframe, and its midrange server operating systems.
SCO vs. IBM looks like it’s over for good
SCO slapped in latest round of eternal ‘Who owns UNIX?’ lawsuit
Judge spanks SCO in ancient ownership of Unix lawsuit
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
SCO keeps dying, and dying, and dying
SCO trading suspended in US
Xinuos sues IBM
SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead
Xinuos file suit against Red Hat and IBM
Canonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave — The setup is more user-friendly thanks to the Subiquity installer, and a utility called ubuntuwsl.
Announcing Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview
Super Sneaky Ubuntu Link
NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends — It looks like NVIDIA is finally taking the GBM route for supporting Wayland compositors with their proprietary driver...
Mesa GitLab WIP Merge request — GBM alternate backend discovery and loading
Introducing Libadwaita — This new libadwaita library intends to extend that concept by being the missing code part of Adwaita. and will be implemented as a direct GTK 4 continuation and replacement of libhandy.
OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support — Well-known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has been working on allowing good and native Wayland support for OBS Studio with the last of that work being merged upstream today.
OBS Studio on Wayland – Georges Stavracas
Arch Linux Packages - archinstall 2.1.3-1
Arch Linux installer GitHub

Halls of Glowing Apples | Coder Radio 407 Mar 31, 2021

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Ruby has gone off the rails this week, and Wes is here to explain what’s happened.

Plus emails into the show send Chris into a full Linux panic.

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Sacrificing acts of heroism, big and small - YouTube
Ruby off the Rails — On Wednesday, Bastien Nocera, the maintainer of a software library called shared-mime-info, informed Daniel Mendler, maintainer of a Ruby library called mimemagic, which incorporates Nocera's code, that he was shipping mimemagic under an incompatible software license.
Announcing the Deno Company — Deno is our attempt to breathe new life into this ecosystem.
Deno Deploy
Chip shortage could benefit Apple with better component pricing — The global chip shortage will become a problem for devices like iPhones and Macs requiring chips for storage, but Wedbush believes it could be beneficial to Apple and its suppliers by improving the pricing of components.

No PRs Please | LINUX Unplugged 399 Mar 30, 2021

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Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

Plus the tech behind Shells.com, community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Mathieu Comandon and Zlatan Todorić.

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68k.news — Headlines From the Future
Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
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Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
[Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
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Linux Action News 182 Mar 28, 2021

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GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release.

Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.

Special Guest: Neil McGovern.

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GNOME 40 Release Notes — GNOME 40 is the latest version of GNOME, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorporates 24571 changes, made by approximately 822 contributors.
Feeling brave? GNOME 40 is here and you can have a poke around in the Fedora 34 beta
GNOME 40
GNOME 3.38.5 Released with Support for Handling Monitor Changes During Screencasts — Coming a month after the GNOME 3.38.4 point release the GNOME 3.38.5 update is here with more bug fixes and various improvements to make the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment series more stable, secure, and reliable.
Forthcoming OpenSSL release — This release will be made available on Thursday 25th March 2021 between 1300-1700 UTC.
CVE-2021-3450: CA certificate check bypass with X509VFLAGX509STRICT — Starting from OpenSSL version 1.1.1h a check to disallow certificates in the chain that have explicitly encoded elliptic curve parameters was added as an additional strict check.
Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report | Linode
Run Windows on Linode
RMS is Back — Free software advocate Richard Stallman is rejoining the board of the Free Software Foundation.
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman
Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board | Ars Technica
Statement on the Re-election of Richard Stallman to the FSF Board | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Free Software Community Condemns Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board of Directors
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
SUSE joins open source bodies calling for Stallman to go
From PS5 to Ford F-150: How a global chip shortage is 'impacting everything' — The biggest news in the automotive industry right now isn't new electric vehicles or Tesla CEO Elon Musk's latest comments. It's a major semiconductor shortage that's hurting automakers across the globe.
[Video] How The Global Computer Chip Shortage Happened

The One with Jeff Geerling | Self-Hosted 41 Mar 26, 2021

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Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi.

Plus his thoughts on automation, self-hosting, and more.

Special Guest: Jeff Geerling.

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Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome — Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome is from now on under the Nabu Casa umbrella.
ESPHome
Jeff Geerling - YouTube — K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. Most anything has the potential for showing up on this channel. I might focus on one thing someday, but it's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS!
Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling — Now I have actual enterprise SAS drives running on a hardware RAID controller on a Raspberry Pi, and it's faster than the 'fastest' SATA RAID array I set up in that other video.
Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube
I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube
IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Day Special) - YouTube
Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID

Functional Sadism | Coder Radio 406 Mar 24, 2021

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Some sage developer wisdom is overshadowed by Mike's mad stonk game, while Chris worries Apple's secret M1 tricks charming Linux users.

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Caesar Sengupta leaving Google after 15-year career — The initiative has been led by Caesar Sengupta who announced today that he’s leaving Google after nearly 15 years.
The man behind Google's 'Next Billion Users' is leaving
Caesar Sengupta on Twitter — After ~15 wonderful yrs @Google, I’m stepping into the outside world on a new journey. I leave, heart full of gratitude, joy and many deep friendships. 🙏🙏🙏 @sundarpichai and many many Google friends.
Apple's Longtime App Store Developer Relations Lead Retires — Okamoto was responsible for overseeing the ‌App Store‌ review process and policies, distributing tools to allow developers to build and sell apps, developer support, developer communications, developer awards, and he also handled the annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple 'Surprised' By Developer Frustration
Apple Developing New 'HomePod' Models With Screens and Cameras — Bloomberg's Mark Gurman briefly mentioned that Apple has "been developing new speakers with screens and cameras."
HomePod Mini Features Dormant Temperature and Humidity Sensor — Apple's HomePod mini includes a dormant hidden sensor that can measure temperature and humidity, potentially providing the means to power upcoming features that could arrive in a future software update, according to Bloomberg.
Apple Adds FaceTime Framework to Apple TV/HomePod — Ahead of these rumors, MacRumors contributor Steve Moser was combing through the tvOS 14.5 beta code and found that Apple has added FaceTime and iMessage frameworks, along with a new AVFCapture framework related to capturing images.
Google’s new Nest Hub tells you how well you slept — The latest Nest Hub leverages Soli technology to measure your sleep patterns
GitLab 13.10 released — 13.10 offers administrative enhancements to help scale DevOps in your org, Geo package integrity verification to improve Disaster Recovery, vulnerability management automation to apply efficiency and consistency to security processes, and—as always—a ton of fantastic contributions from the wider community.
Adobe details the transition of its apps to Apple Silicon — We compared an M1 MacBook to a previous-generation MacBook similarly configured, and found that under native mode, Photoshop was running 50% faster than the older hardware.

Back in the Freedom Dimension | LINUX Unplugged 398 Mar 23, 2021

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We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service.

Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Daniel Fore.

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Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.
[Video] Richard Stallman is Back
edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
Linux Action News 181
Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.
Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust [LWN.net]
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
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Hoppy — Hoppy provides a unique public IPv4 and IPv6 address to each of your devices, allowing connectivity without limitations. If you are behind a restrictive ISP, constantly on the move, or self-hosting services, Hoppy is for you. All major platforms are supported.
ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clients
WireGuard Routing and Port Forwarding
Gist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPN
Expose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPS
How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
FORWARD and NAT Rules
Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
Feedback: Raspberry Pi POCKIT
Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
GNOME 40’s Best New Features
FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Linux Action News 181 Mar 21, 2021

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Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.

Plus a PSA for GNOME users, and a recently improved tool for the Raspberry Pi.

Special Guest: Dalton Durst.

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Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
Find your device: devices.ubuntu-touch.io — This list shows the devices which are currently under development in the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem. Mature devices have easy access to installation through the UBports Installer. Devices in an early state generally need to follow a manual installation procedure.
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 96
Extensions Rebooted: Porting your existing extensions to GNOME 40 — Since there have been significant changes in GNOME Shell – it will be important to understand where those changes are and how they might affect the various extensions that are out there.
Guide: Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 40
XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience — With no one willing to step up and manage the X.Org Server 1.21 release Red Hat engineers are now moving ahead with standalone XWayland releases.
Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report
Google is preparing for Fuchsia’s first releases — For years now, we’ve been watching and waiting as Google has gradually developed their Fuchsia operating system from the ground up. Now evidence has appeared pointing to Google’s Fuchsia OS getting its first — and second — proper release.
Raspberry Pi Imager Now Lets You Control Advanced OS Features When Flashing Images — The biggest new feature in this release is the implementation of a hidden advanced options panel which lets you control additional features for the operating system you’re about to flash on an SD card or SSD drive.
GitHub: rpi-imager v1.6

Method Not Allowed | Coder Radio 405 Mar 17, 2021

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Mike goes straight for the attack and hits Chris where it hurts, then it's problem-solving time.

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Common Lisp — Common Lisp Editing Extension for vscode
USB Video Capture Card — The video capture cards is up to 4K@60Hz High Definition Input, output max resolution 1920×1080@60Hz.
Adium — Adium is a free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.
Farewell HomePod, Apple's most misunderstood product — There was a huge chasm between what it really was, and what most people thought it was – and Apple’s marketing didn’t help …
Mike's CrowdSourced Trolling of Chris
Employees Actually Work Less Than 3 Hours a Day — New research from the UK’s largest money saving brand has revealed that the average UK office worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes out of the working day.

Linux Desktop Levels Up | LINUX Unplugged 397 Mar 16, 2021

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We break down the next-level features coming to a Linux near you in just a few weeks.

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Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
OBS Studio on Wayland
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Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
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