Arm Launches Mbed Linux and Extends Pelion IoT Service

Politics and international relations may be fraught with acrimony these days, but the tech world seems a bit friendlier of late. Last week Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network and agreed to grant a royalty-free, unrestricted license of its 60,000-patent portfolio to other OIN members, thereby enabling Android and Linux device manufacturers to avoid exorbitant patent payments. This week, Arm and Intel kept up the happy talk by agreeing to a partnership involving IoT device provisioning. Arm’s recently announced Pelion IoT Platform will align with Intel’s Secure Device Onboard (SDO) provisioning technology to make it easier for IoT vendors and customers to onboard both x86 and Arm-based devices using a common Peleon platform. Arm also announced Pelion related partnerships with myDevices and Arduino (see farther below).

Programming: Version Control With Git, 5 Things Your Team Should Do to Make Pull Requests Less Painful and More GitHub Workflow Automation

• How to Use Git Version Control System in Linux [Comprehensive Guide]

  Version Control (revision control or source control) is a way of recording changes to a file or collection of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later. A version control system (or VCS in short) is a tool that records changes to files on a filesystem. There are many version control systems out there, but Git is currently the most popular and frequently used, especially for source code management. Version control can actually be used for nearly any type of file on a computer, not only source code.

• 5 Things Your Team Should Do to Make Pull Requests Less Painful

  A user story is a short description of a unit of work that needs doing. It’s normally told from the perspective of the user, hence the name. The journey towards a good pull request starts with a well-written user story. It should be scoped to a single thing that a user can do in the system being built.

• More GitHub workflow automation

  The more you use computers, the more you see the potentials for automating everything. Who doesn't love that? By building Mergify those last months, we've decided it was time bring more automation to the development workflow.

today's howtos

• Making better use of your Linux logs

  Linux systems maintain quite a collection of log files, many of which you are probably rarely tempted to view. Some of these log files are quite valuable, though, and options for exploring them might be more interesting and varied than you imagine. Let's look at some system logs and get a handle on some of the ways in which log data might be easier to probe.

• A look at fundamental Linux sed commands

• How to Password Protect a File in Vim Editor

• How To Determine Which System Manager Is Running On Linux System

• Chrony – An Alternative NTP Client And Server For Unix-like Systems

• Xrdp - Connect Ubuntu Linux Remote Desktop via RDP from Windows

• Linux tcpdump Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

Games: Cultist Simulator, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, CrossOver 18, Updated Proton 3.16 Beta, Descenders, Bridge Constructor Portal, Train Valley 2, Sipho

• Cultist Simulator has a free update out now along with The Dancer DLC

  Developed Weather Factory, some of the same people responsible for Fallen London and Sunless Sea, have pushed out a good free update for Cultist Simulator along with the first DLC.

• Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has a new public test build up with lots of improvements

  For those not clued up, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is now being run by a dedicated studio that are going to give it a new life with continued support and plenty of updates. The original Planetary Annihilation is no longer available to buy, with a permanent discount to upgrade to TITANS.

• CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux 18 Released With DXVK/VKD3D Support

  While CodeWeavers' developers have been busy with improvements to Wine and Valve's downstream "Proton" for allowing a great Windows-on-Linux gaming experience, they haven't parted ways with their core business and today they announced the availability of CrossOver 18.

• Proton beta 3.16-2 is out for Valve's Steam Play system

  Valve are continuing to polish the next version of Steam Play's Proton with an update to the beta channel.

• Updated Proton 3.16 Beta For Steam Play Has DXVK 0.90, D3D11 Fixes

  Valve in cooperation with CodeWeavers and other developers continues making rapid progress on Steam Play and their "Proton" downstream flavor of Wine. After re-basing to Wine 3.16 upstream a few days ago rather than the quickly-dated Wine 3.7, the second Proton 3.16 Beta is out this evening. This updated beta has switched over to the new DXVK 0.90 release with Stream Output support but keep in mind that requires the Vulkan driver on your system to support Vulkan's new transform feedback capability -- it's easy if using the NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver but otherwise for Intel ANV or Radeon RADV requires building patched versions of Mesa. DXVK 0.90 also brings various game fixes in its own right.

• Looks like the downhill freeriding game 'Descenders' is going to get multiplayer and more tricks

  Descenders, the rather good extreme downhill freeriding game from RageSquid looks to be getting some fun updates soon.

• Bridge Constructor Portal now has a built-in level editor and Steam Workshop support

  Bridge Constructor Portal, the rather amusing cross-over has been updated with a built-in level editor along with Steam Workshop support.

• Train Valley 2 adds more official levels and introduces a new electricity game mechanic

  The rather good Early Access puzzle game Train Valley 2 has just expanded with a rather big update with lots of new content. The developers said they weren't originally going to be adding in more official levels before the final release, however, given how active the community has been with creating their own content they decided to push this out early. This will also allow them to get more feedback on issues with it. These new levels include the brand new electricity game mechanic and resource, which mixes up the gameplay a little as it works differently. To produce it, you will need to constantly feed power plants for other buildings connected and so it does add a little bit of extra depth to the gameplay as well as present some interesting challenges.

• The action-survival game 'Sipho' that has you grow your creature is going to Early Access in November

  Developer All Parts Connected has now announced that their action-survival game Sipho is going to enter Early Access. on November 13th.