#FP_Discussions: Have you ever succeeded in making someone else switch to Linux? What were the hardest things standing in the way?
China announces a similar initiative to Google Summer of Code called "2021 Summer of Open Source Promotion Plans" to help develop open source projects: https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/help/en
#FP_Discussions: Would you support such initiative?
#FP_Discussions: Would you support such initiative?
Python micro-framework Flask 2.0 was released: https://palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-2-0-released/
Pallets
New Major Versions Released! Flask 2.0, Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and MarkupSafe 2.0
Audacity answers to criticism about adding telemetry to the program; Will drop all of it: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
GitHub
Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · audacity audacity · Discussion #889
Hi everyone, I’m going to describe the actions we propose to take to address the concerns raised about PR #835 (opt-in Telemetry using Google and Yandex as 3rd party hosts): We are dropping the tel...
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PipeWire: the new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/
Fedora Magazine
PipeWire: the new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34 - Fedora Magazine
Learn more about PipeWire—Fedora Linux's new default audio and video daemon—in this interview with it's creator Wim Taymans.
“I COULD REWRITE CURL”
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
Inkscape 1.1 released: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1
inkscape.org
Download Inkscape 1.1 | Inkscape
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OBS Studio 27 released with native Wayland support through Pipewire
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0
GitHub
Release OBS Studio 27.0 · obsproject/obs-studio
If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective!
New Features and Additions
Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
Added a new capture metho...
New Features and Additions
Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
Added a new capture metho...
openSUSE 15.3 officially released: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/06/02/opensuse-leap-bridges-path-to-enterprise/
openSUSE News
openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise
CA / CS / ES / FR / ID / IT / NL / PT / SV / ZH-CN / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany, June 2, 2021 – openSUSE Leap 15.3 is released! The newest minor version of ope...
Stats showing the sharp decline in #Freenode IRC network number of users after the last controversy.
Source: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
Source: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
PeaZip 8.0 released: https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html#software_development_log
PeaZip file archiver utility, free RAR ZIP software
Change log | PeaZip bug fixes, new features, release notes
Change log of PeaZip project development: bug fixes, improvements, new features, software release notes, packages hash values.
Someone created this website with much dedication to see whether #Freenode is dead or not yet: https://isfreenodedeadyet.com
Check for some useful and nice stats.
Check for some useful and nice stats.
freenode is IRC; As in “Dumbest Takeover in History”
https://fosspost.org/freenode-is-irc-as-in-dumbest-takeover-in-history/
https://fosspost.org/freenode-is-irc-as-in-dumbest-takeover-in-history/
FOSS Post
freenode is IRC; As in "Dumbest Takeover in History"
Just today morning, freenode pulled the trigger on their servers and removed all channels, all users, all settings... Everything. And they say that they have
Linux marketplaces vulnerable to RCE and supply chain attacks
https://positive.security/blog/hacking-linux-marketplaces
https://positive.security/blog/hacking-linux-marketplaces
positive.security
Linux marketplaces vulnerable to RCE and supply chain attacks | Positive Security
We're disclosing patched vulnerabilities in KDE Discover and the Gnome Shell Extensions website, as well as unpatched vulnerabilities in the PlingStore app and Pling-based Linux marketplace websites (e.g. appimagehub.com, store.kde.org, gnome-look.org).