SMLR 312 Merge branch ‘floppy’
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Show Notes
System76 Is Launching An Insanely Powerful Linux Laptop With 4K OLED Display And Intel i9-9980HK
Linux finally dropping floppy drive support
https://techreport.com/news/3464145/linux-dropping-floppy-drive-support/
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4
Proton 4.11 released, kernel packages available for testing
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/2957094910196249305
Valve LKML post
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/1399
Kali Linux For Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Officially Released
https://www.kali.org/news/raspberry-pi-4-and-kali/
Alibaba Chip Subsidiary Launches First Product Using Open-Source Architecture
Deepin 15.11 Released
Deepin desktop environment (DDE) uses the Kwin (KDE Window Manager) for compositing and management. As well boasting a crop of bug fixes, the new version of dde-kwin is said to be lighter and less crashy than before.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/deepin-15-11-released-this-is-whats-new
Facebook open-sources algorithms for detecting child exploitation and terrorism imagery
Apple joins the Data Transfer Project: an open source project to allow data portability
https://www.techspot.com/news/81221-apple-joins-data-transfer-project-open-source-project.html
IBM JUST MADE ITS CANCER-FIGHTING AI PROJECTS OPEN-SOURCE
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ibm-cancer-ai-open-source
Understanding Linux /etc/passwd File Format
https://www.2daygeek.com/understanding-linux-etc-passwd-file-format/
Phil
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Cool tool
Sampler is a tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.
The license is pretty restrictive in that the software can only be used by a single user.
https://github.com/sqshq/sampler
Flame graphs are a visualization of profiled software, allowing the most frequent code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately.
The x-axis shows the stack profile population, sorted alphabetically (it is not the passage of time), and the y-axis shows stack depth, counting from zero at the bottom. Each rectangle represents a stack frame. The wider a frame is, the more often it was present in the stacks. The top edge shows what is on-CPU, and beneath it is its ancestry.
Flame graphs can be generated from any profile data that contains stack traces, including from the following profiling tools:
Linux: perf, eBPF, SystemTap, and ktap
Solaris, illumos, FreeBSD: DTrace
Mac OS X: DTrace and Instruments
Windows: Xperf.exe
https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph
In Episode 311 we mentioned that Epic Games awarded the Blender Foundation with $1.2 million dollars. This is the first big release since that award.
Blender 2.80 features a redesigned user interface that puts the focus on the artwork that you create. A new dark theme and modern icon set were introduced. Keyboard, mouse and tablet interaction got a refresh with left click select as the new default. Quick Favorites menus provide rapid access to often-used tools.
Following up on the
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
The Linux community was in a bit of an uproar this week when Manjaro Linux announced that it would be swapping out the open source office suite LibreOffice in version 18.1 and replacing it with the proprietary FreeOffice. It’s due to a new partnership between the Manjaro developers and FreeOffice creator SoftMaker.
After community backlash, the Manjaro developers decided on a solution that would be the best of both worlds, offer their users the choice to pick which
office suite to install. Softmaker went on to publicly state they will be adding save to DOC, XLS, PPT, ODT to their FreeOffice free tier as well.
Debian 10 Buster is now available on DistroTest
DistroTest allows you to take a look at the existing systems, test them live in your browser without any installation. Typically you wait up to 1 minute in a queue before being presented with a popup VNC browser.
https://distrotest.net/Debian/10.0
GitHub is blocking users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria from accessing its services to comply with U.S. trade control laws.
The Microsoft-owned company disclosed the action on a support page as a courtesy, noting that GitHub users ultimately are responsible for ensuring that their use of GitHub’s products and services complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
The blocking is based on source IP address and payment history for GitHub Pro accounts. GitHub states that developers are not allowed to use VPNs to circumvent the ban. However, this is just an ongoing game of cat and mouse. The developers this ban has blocked are those technical enough to research ways to evade being blocked.
https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/GitHub-Blocks-Devs-in-US-Sanctioned-Regions-86154.html
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