Mageia 8 released: https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/26/made-it-to-a-byte-announcing-the-release-of-mageia-8/
Mageia Blog (English)
Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8
Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8. Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hard…
Although it was originally published two weeks ago, it's still an interesting material.
Come listen to this podcast featuring Brandan Eich; Javascript founder and Mozilla co-founder, and current Brave CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE&t=156s
Come listen to this podcast featuring Brandan Eich; Javascript founder and Mozilla co-founder, and current Brave CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE&t=156s
YouTube
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
- The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/
- Sun Basket: https://sunbasket.com/lex and use code LEX…
- The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/
- Sun Basket: https://sunbasket.com/lex and use code LEX…
A vulnerability was discovered in 'git clone' command: https://github.blog/2021-03-09-git-clone-vulnerability-announced/
The GitHub Blog
Git clone vulnerability announced
Today, the Git project released new versions to address CVE-2021-21300: a security vulnerability in the delayed checkout mechanism used by Git LFS during git clone operations affecting versions 2.15 and newer.
Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-21.0-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-21.0-Released
Phoronix
Mesa 21.0 Released With Numerous RADV Improvements, New Vulkan Extensions, Many Fixes - Phoronix
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
SUSE, the German open source company, is planning to for an IPO: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2B12AD
U.S.
German software company SUSE targets pre-summer IPO: sources
Open-source enterprise software company SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
GNOME 40 to break Shell extensions, again for the 235136 time: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/03/12/gnome-40-your-extension/
How I earn a living selling my open source software
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e
Indie Hackers
How I earn a living selling my open source software
Hi, I'm the founder and sole developer of my own open source software called open3A. It's a web-based invoicing application that I started in 2007 and h...
Google rejected GNU from participating in GSoC
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2021-03/msg00000.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2021-03/msg00000.html
Tusky, the Mastodon app, has been removed from the PlayStore by Google
https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/105904002285019275
https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/105904002285019275
chaos.social
Conny Duck (@ConnyDuck@chaos.social)
#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google
Audacity 3.0 released: https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/
Audacity ®
Audacity 3.0.0 Released
We’re pleased to announce release of Audacity 3.0.0 which replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Audacity 3.0.0
.aup3 Project Format
Audacity 3.0.0 is a major update on our previous Audacity 2.4.2. We've changed the format…
Audacity 3.0.0
.aup3 Project Format
Audacity 3.0.0 is a major update on our previous Audacity 2.4.2. We've changed the format…
Flutter and Ubuntu so far
https://ubuntu.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far
https://ubuntu.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far
Ubuntu
Flutter and Ubuntu so far | Ubuntu
At Flutter Engage, Ken VanDine, engineering manager for the Ubuntu desktop, made an appearance in the keynote speech to talk about Flutter on Ubuntu. Canonical has been working to support Flutter for some time now, bringing the SDK to Linux, committing to…
Google is cracking down very hard on ungoogled services/software.
Google has removed ClearURLs extension from Chrome web store; an extension which was used to remove Google tracking from search results, for no reason: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102
Google has removed ClearURLs extension from Chrome web store; an extension which was used to remove Google tracking from search results, for no reason: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102
GitHub
Addon Unavailable on Google Chrome · Issue #102 · ClearURLs/Addon
Has the addon been removed from the webstore? The URL listed here is responding with a 404 error. It's not coming up in search either. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanj...
Manjaro 21.0 released: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-21-0-ornara-released/59399
Manjaro Linux Forum
Manjaro 21.0 Ornara released!
We are happy to publish our latest stable release 21.0 we named Ornara. Our last release Nibia was from January and a lot of things changed between those releases. For once, we dropped Gnome Initial Setup routine from our ISOs. It was nice to try out, but…
Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20,000 euros in damages
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.fr.html
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.fr.html
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20,000 euros in damages - FSFE
In a historic judgment in Italy, in a case initiated by FSFE supporter Luca Bonissi, Lenovo was ordered to pay 20,000 euros in damages for abusive behaviou...
PHP moves to Github due to the compromise of git.php.net
https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838
https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838
Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/linus-torvalds-weighs-in-on-rust-language-in-the-linux-kernel/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/linus-torvalds-weighs-in-on-rust-language-in-the-linux-kernel/
Ars Technica
Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel
"Memory managed languages? In my kernel?" It's more likely than you think.