Tabs, Not Spaces: Recent Episodes
Tabs, Not Spaces
All the Linux and open source news you want to hear, and none of the chat that you don't. A rapid-fire roundup of the latest headlines, sometimes with more in-depth analysis or a dose of affectionate snark. Published twice a week, at daybreak Eastern.
The RISC-V desktop comes into view, while Mozilla can't catch a break. An unofficial build of Android 11 for the Pi 4, free training from the OpenSSF, TimescaleDB 2 is nearly here, the FSF wants to hear from you, and much more.
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• The Heart of RISC-V Development is Unmatched
• MDN Web Docs evolves! Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
• More online protection with the new VPN by Google One
• [PDF] VPN by Google One, explained
• New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL
• Committee begins review of High Priority Projects free software list — your input is needed by January 8
• Raspberry Pi 4 gets a taste of Android 11 via OmniROM
• SUSE joins OpenSSF as Trustworthy Security Drives Innovation
• Announcing: Secure Software Development EdX course, Sign Up Today!
• TimescaleDB 2.0: A multi-node, petabyte-scale, completely free relational database for time-series
A new QWERTY-slider mobile lands, with LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch as first-class citizens. The Linux Foundation continues its land-grab, releases for Fedora and fwupd, plus an open Facebook groups and events alternative, and more.
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• Fedora 33 is officially here!
• Release Notes for Fedora 33
• New fwupd 1.5.0 release
• Mobilizon. Your events. Your groups. Your data.
• Linux Foundation Focuses on Science and Research to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in Software Engineering
• New AI & Data Foundation Combines Industry’s Fastest-Growing Open Source Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Open Data
• Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other
• Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!
• Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
• The Pro1-X, in partnership with XDA.
• Yeah, XDA made a phone…
• Indiegogo: Pro1 X Smartphone Functionality, Choice & Control
• [Video] Ubuntu Touch + LineageOS? THIS Is The Linux Phone I Want!
New interim releases for Ubuntu and Node.js, and a practical Linux shell for iOS. A stealth WordPress plugin update and a takedown notice for youtube-dl raise eyebrows, 1Password lands on Linux, Debian boosts PeerTube's finances, and more.
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• Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) released
• Groovy Gorilla Release Notes
• Ubuntu 20.10 Flavours Released, This is What’s (Mostly) New
• [Video] Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi
• Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds
• Ubuntu clouds on the Raspberry Pi
• Node.js v15.0.0 is here!
• Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI
• iSH
• Installing apk on the App Store Version
• WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin
• Notice served on GitHub
• The RIAA is coming for the YouTube downloaders
• Reddit: youtube-dl github repo taken down due to DMCA takedown notice from the RIAA
• Hacker News: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
• 1Password for Linux beta is now open
• KeePassXC 2.6.2 released
• Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-10-22: Schedule Update
• Debian donation for Peertube development
• [Old] Our plans for PeerTube v3 : progressive fundraising, live streaming coming next fall
A new Pi Compute Module lands, and ODROID unveils a toaster-style NAS. Updates for Trisquel and Firefox, and a new storage and compute platform from iXsystems. IBM racks up another weak quarter, a surprise or two from Microsoft, and more.
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• Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25
• Vulkan update: merged to Mesa
• Trisquel 9.0 "Etiona" release announcement, and 10.0 plans
• [Old] Trisquel 8.0 LTS Flidas released
• Active kernel releases
• Firefox 82 release notes
• Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux
• The .NET Foundation Joins the Open Source Initiative's Affiliate Program
• .NET Foundation September/October 2020 Update
• IBM revenue falls but CEO promises imminent return to growth
• IBM earnings press release
• Why Does IBM Have 4 Huge Zero-Growth Businesses in Today’s Booming Market?
• SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory Business
• SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory and Storage Business: Frequently Asked Questions
• iXsystems Expands TrueNAS Product Line with R-Series Systems and Scale-out HCI Software
• New Home-Cloud platform : ODROID-HC4
The spat between LibreOffice and OpenOffice rumbles on. Canonical brings high-availability to MicroK8s, new versions of Snap! and VisiData land, and a Bluetooth vulnerability triggers the community. Plus new mobile hardware coming soon, and more.
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• LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die
• Jim Jagielski tweets
• Reddit comments: Apache OpenOffice: “Encourage Dual license commits!”
• LWN comments: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice
• [Jagielski 2016] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?
• The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of OpenOffice
• Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes
• Introducing Ubuntu support for Amazon EKS 1.18
• Introducing the Open Governance Network Model
• Snap!6 is here, and it's all about scale
• VisiData v2.0
• [Old] VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018
• Google warns of severe 'BleedingTooth' Bluetooth flaw in Linux kernel
• BleedingTooth: Researcher warns of gaps in the Linux Bluetooth stack BlueZ
• Intel: BlueZ Advisory
• Andy Nguyen on Twitter
• Matthew Garrett on Twitter
• Greg K-H on Twitter
• PINE64 Update: New Hacktober Gear
• Popcorn Computer Pocket PC: Starting production soon!
KDE Plasma and Krita land new releases, and an updated BBC micro:bit is coming soon. Pine touts a new device, Plausible looks to protect itself with a license change, LibreOffice pleads with OpenOffice to fall on its sword, and much more.
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• Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice
• Plasma 5.20
• Krita 4.4.0 released!
• KernelNewbies: Linux_5.9
• ResidualVM announcement
• ScummVM announcement
• Lets create the PineCom
• micro:bit V2
• Open source licensing and why we're changing Plausible to the AGPL license
• Strict tracking protection breaks fetches from previously installed twitter.com ServiceWorker
• Firefox 81.0.2 release notes
• Open Invention Network Announces Continued Expansion of its Open Source Patent Non-Aggression Zone
Politics, privacy, and corporate maneuvering. Even in the tech world, you can tell November is just around the corner.
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• Pushing the boundaries of performance and security to unleash the power of 64-bit computing
• [Old] Android Developers Blog: Get your apps ready for the 64-bit requirement
• AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU
• AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
• [Old] Intel Agrees to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion
• IBM Jettisons Legacy Services to Focus on Hybrid Cloud
• IBM’s “Cloud” Business (or Lack Thereof)
• Twitter snark from Charles Fitzgerald
• [Bonus link] My first two predictions for 2020 -- IBM and Trump
• [Old] Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons
• Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project
• After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court -- and we listened in
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
• Supreme Court inclined to affirm Federal Circuit's copyrightability holding in Oracle v. Google, possibly unanimously--fair use may be remanded
• FACT CHECK: Ten falsehoods and fallacies Google's lawyer told the Supreme Court about Oracle's Android-Java copyright case
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• Announcing Global Privacy Control: Making it Easy for Consumers to Exercise Their Privacy Rights
• California Voters Asked to Amend Privacy Law
• Announcing Global Privacy Control in Privacy Badger
• Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better
• ICO letter about Cambridge Analytica
Hardware from NVIDIA and Turing Pi, and new releases for Python, Nextcloud and Magisk. Plus Bruce Perens drafts his Post-Open License, Fedora looks to go mobile, the FSF celebrates another anniversary, and more.
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• Nvidia Presents the DPU, a New Type of Data Center Processor
• Nvidia unveils Jetson Nano 2GB for students and robot hobbyists
• 7-slot Raspberry Pi CM3 cluster board returns in limited run
• What’s New In Python 3.9
• A new parser for CPython
• Nextcloud Hub 20 debuts Dashboard, unifies search and notifications, integrates with other technologies
• bridging chat services in Talk
• Magisk v21 and Magisk Manager 8.0.0 released with Android 11 support, app redesign, and much more
• (Re)Announcing the Mobility SIG!
• FSF at 35 -- join us in celebrating the incredible community
• GNU Project: Initial Announcement
• FSF 35 years: Limited edition T-shirt and poster for sale
• Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit
• Post-Open Source License – Early Draft
• Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform: reimagining PaaS to make it simpler for you to build, deploy, and scale apps.
• Platform Changes in elementary OS 6
The LibreOffice project faces a split, and Hacktoberfest stirs deep emotions. Conservancy is gunning for IoT infringers, while Richard Fontana thinks it's time to revisit the Open Source Definition. Plus a new Ubuntu beta, Gitter is sold, and more.
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• Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC
• Amateur Radio Digital Communications: Grants
• Is it time to revise the Open Source Definition?
• Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Final Beta released
• The internet needs our love
• This is how we unfck the internet
• Join the anti-establishment
• Request for Proposals: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant
• Gitter lands new home in Matrix with Element
• Welcoming Gitter to Matrix!
• OpenCL 3.0 Specification Finalized and Initial Khronos Open Source OpenCL SDK Released
• Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0
• Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest
• Require PRs be in a repo with hacktoberfest topic and be accepted #596
• An update on efforts to reduce spam with Hacktoberfest: introducing maintainer opt-in and more
• Collabora Online moves out of The Document Foundation
New dev laptops from Dell and Lenovo, and a milestone for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. Intel aims to unify accelerated computing development, and VMware snaps up Salt. Plus Cloudflare boosts its serverless offering, a new Fedora beta, and more.
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• Tiger Lake is coming in Dell XPS 13, XPS 13 DE, and XPS 13 2-in-1
• Featherweight X1 Nano is Lightest ThinkPad Ever
• Lenovo swings for the fences with unusual Tiger Lake laptop designs
• 20 Million Downloads from the LVFS
• Google Cloud Joins Linux Foundation Networking at Platinum Level
• Announcing the release of Fedora 33 Beta
• Plasma 5.18.6 LTS
• What we can learn from Plasma telemetry
• Intel oneAPI 1.0 Officially Released
• [Video] oneAPI: A Unified, Cross-Architecture Performance Programming Model for CPUs and Accelerators
• [Old] Nvidia CEO Slams Intel’s OneAPI, Says "Programming Isn’t As Simple"
• Argon One M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Adds SATA Support, Full-Sized HDMI Ports
• Introducing Cron Triggers for Cloudflare Workers
• Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
• Advancing VMware’s Cloud Automation Capabilities with Intent to Acquire SaltStack
• SaltStack to Join the VMware Family to Power the Next Phase of Intelligent Automation
AMD and Arm unveil new CPU options, and Lenovo broadens its Ubuntu consumer range. PostgreSQL and calibre land new updates, while Fedora plans to harden a future release. Plus more on GNOME's usability testing, and a snazzy new enclosure for the Pi.
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• Lenovo Launches Linux-Ready ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs Preinstalled with Ubuntu
• Lenovo begins selling OEM Ubuntu PCs to the general public
• PostgreSQL 13 Released!
• How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)
• Hacker News: An update to the Timescale license
• AMD Launches First “Zen”-based Chromebook mobile processors for faster web browsing, improved office productivity and better multitasking
• AMD announces new processors for Chromebooks (kind of)
• Accelerating the next generation cloud-to-edge infrastructure
• Arm Says New Neoverse V1, N2 Server CPUs Faster Than Intel, AMD
• Announcing Flutter Windows Alpha
• Introducing Swift on Windows
• Swift System is Now Open Source
• GNOME Shell user research goings on
• Changes/Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
• Removing run-time disabling for SELinux in Fedora
• New in calibre 5.0
• DeskPi Pro Raspberry Pi 4 Case Comes with 2.5-inch HDD/SSD Bay, Full-sized HDMI Ports, PWM Fansink
• Season 5 - Episode 1: A BRAND new season
Firefox 81 lands as Mozilla spins out its WebThings IoT project, Linux Journal is back, Andrew "bunnie" Huang unveils a new mobile open source hardware platform, Microsoft is previewing Edge on Linux next month, plus so much more.
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• ArcMenu Development is Stopping!!! to be continued..
• uMatrix development has ended
• The September release and EndeavourOS ARM arrived
• Introducing Precursor
• Proposal: Dual licensing Gutenberg under GPL v2.0 and MPL v2.0
• What’s New in Web Experiences, Ignite 2020: Need to secure your remote workers? Choose Microsoft Edge as your browser for business
• Firefox 81.0 Release Notes
• An Important Update on Mozilla WebThings
• Amazon Sidewalk Privacy and Security Whitepaper
• Amazon Sidewalk: a new way to stay connected
• Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
• Hacker News: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
• Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
• Linux Journal is Back
While IBM was birthing MQ for the Raspberry Pi, Firefox Send met its end. Plus a new GNOME release, more Linux laptop options, systemd is back in the headlines, GitHub mainstreams its CLI client, Tor triumphs with its latest fundraiser, and more.
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• Introducing GNOME 3.38: “Orbis”
• New GNOME versioning scheme
• The GNOME Extensions Rebooted Initiative
• IBM MQ on Raspberry Pi – our tastiest developer edition yet!
• [Old] From the mainframe to the mobile or to infinity and beyond. IBM MQ is everywhere!
• Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes
• Mozilla is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
• A New Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation
• Firefox for Android LAN-Based Intent Triggering
• Slimbook Essential
• Portable performance giant: The new TUXEDO Book XUX7
• PINE64 Store
• PSA: Vulnerability Disclosure 2020/09/17
• Debian Bug report logs - #964139; network-manager: Please restore removed init script
• GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available
• Tor’s Bug Smash Fund, Year 2: $106,709 Raised!
• Software Freedom Day
• Wikipedia: Software Freedom Day
Change is coming to the Arm and RISC-V ecosystems, Microsoft bids for a full-stack Linux experience on Hyper-V, the Ubuntu Community Council is returning, some cautionary ecommerce news, and Emacs Prelude hits its 1.0 release after nine years.
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• NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World’s Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI
• Arm is being sold to Nvidia. Help Stop it.
• Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
• SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference
• SiFive to demo PC running new RISC-V SoC and unveil next-gen AI SoC
• Mark Shuttleworth comments on Ubuntu Community Council
• Call for Ubuntu Community Council nominations
• Magento online stores hacked in largest campaign to date
• Researchers Targeting AI Bias, Sex Worker Advocate, and Global Internet Freedom Community Honored at EFF’s Pioneer Award Ceremony
• Pioneer Awards: Past Winners
• [Old] Lawmakers warn new purge at U.S. Agency for Global Media undermines anti-censorship efforts
• Emacs Prelude 1.0
• Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V
Better Linux disk integration for WSL 2 users, OpenWrt finds a new home, the boss chips in on Ubuntu community representation, more OS options appear for PineTab owners, Mozilla looks to its extension devs for extra funding, plus a whole lot more.
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• The Mozilla Manifesto Addendum
• Introducing the Promoted Add-ons Pilot
• OpenWrt Joins Conservancy
• GPL Initiative Grows Over 40%; More Than 60 Companies Have Joined the Campaign for Greater Predictability in Open Source Licensing
• [Info] Join the GPL Cooperation Commitment
• [Old] Red Hat leads coalition supporting key part of Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement
• IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 14.0-0
• Advance Toolchain 14.0-0 release highlights
• Mark Shuttleworth comments on Ubuntu community representation (thread above)
• Our family is growing! Meet our newest member… the YubiKey 5C NFC
• Cawbird Twitter Client Gains New Features and Lowers Memory Usage
• Ardour 6.3 Open-Source DAW Released with New Loudness Analysis Feature
• Access Linux filesystems in Windows and WSL 2
• Mobian Linux is now available for the PineTab (as well as the PinePhone)
• Now Arch Linux ARM Runs on PINE64’s PineTab Linux Tablet
Mozilla's CEO lobbies Europe for a less open web. Inkscape and digiKam drop new releases, while Ubuntu and Thunderbird plan upcoming changes. Plus Chef gets taken off the menu, and the FSFE opens its coffers to deserving causes.
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• Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity
• [Old] Mitchell Baker on Facebook and YouTube censorship
• Updating to Thunderbird 78 from 68
• BitTorrent v2
• Inkscape version 1.0.1 patches crashes & bugs
• digiKam 7.1.0 is released
• The Fourth Chapter of Chef Has Arrived: Progress to Purchase Chef
• Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef
• Ubuntu installer Active Directory integration
• Android 11 is now available in stable for Google Pixel phones and in beta for some OnePlus, Xiaomi, Realme, and OPPO phones
• Call to apply for FSFE support for your local project
Has the growth in open source development peaked? A group of academics thinks so. Plus the GNOME patent troll settlement finally sees the light of day, an upcoming ultra-mobile PC for engineering staff, and a whole lot more on today's show.
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• Quo Vadis, Open Source? The Limits of Open Source Growth
• Making Apps for Linux, a Proposal
• Polaryzing gamers: New TUXEDO Polaris 15 and 17
• One-Netbook's upcoming ultra-mobile PC
• Lessons from the GNOME Patent Troll Incident
• Qualcomm Scales 5G to the Snapdragon 4-Series Mobile Platforms
• LineageOS 17.1 adds support for the Google Pixel 2, Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Moto G7 Power/Play, and Huawei P20 Lite/P Smart
• Rust: Planning the 2021 Roadmap
• Python Software Foundation End-of-the-Year Fundraiser
• Free Software Awards: Recognize those who advance our freedom by October 28th
Genius marketing, or a one-way ticket to Clown World? The community finally wakes up to Fedora's big change. Plus Amazon's Bottlerocket Linux goes GA, a new funding initiative for Tor, the Linux Foundation looks to go green to make green, and much more.
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• Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
• [Old] why redhat abandon btrfs where SUSE makes it default.? [sic]
• Hacker News: Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
• AMD Sneaks Out The Radeon RX 5300 For Casual 1080p Gaming
• Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
• New LF Climate Finance Foundation to Host Open Source Initiative to Address Climate Risk and Opportunity in Financial Sector
• Thunderbird Release Notes, Version 78.2.1
• Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020
• Blender 2.9
• Linux Mint: Monthly News – August 2020
• The Tor Project Membership Program
• Lawmakers warn new purge at U.S. Agency for Global Media undermines anti-censorship efforts
• PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
Bruce Perens unveils a plan to get FOSS developers paid, Mozilla continues to disappoint, Blender and Redis Labs are in the money, containers are back in the headlines, new tooling could see desktop Android explode, and so, so much more.
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• Bruce Perens: What Comes After Open Source
• Join us for OSI's first State of the Source Summit!
• If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended
• Update on Mozilla Mixed Reality
• Ubisoft Renews Development Fund Membership
• Redis Labs, Maker Of Database Software, Hits $1 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise
• Scaling Docker to Serve Millions More Developers: Network Egress
• [Old] Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images
• Kubernetes 1.19: Accentuate the Paw-sitive
• Rancher Labs’ K3s Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Sandbox Project
• Introducing the new Istio steering committee
• Announcing Jetpack Compose Alpha!
• The Android Generic project aims to bring popular custom ROMs to your PC
• Linux Has A Hardware Problem And We Need To Solve It
• The Best is Yet to Come | LINUX Unplugged 368
• elementary OS on Pinebook Pro