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Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 20th of March 2005 10:09:16 PM

This began as a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org, either by me or someone else, but it has since morphed into a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org and the articles I've had published elsewhere.

Linux Tycoon: Design and Manage Your Own Distribution - March 31, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 Arrives for Testing - March 29, 2012
GNOME 3.4 Released with Lots of Improvement - March 28, 2012
Greg K-H Updates Tumbleweed Status - March 27, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.6 Released - March 22, 2012
openSUSE 12.2 M2, Better Late than Never - March 21, 2012
Mitchell Baker Says H.264 is About User Experience - March 19, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released with Fixes - March 18, 2012
Mageia 2 Beta 2, Still No Live Images - March 16, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Renamed to Honor Classical Composer - March 15, 2012
Final Debian 5 Update Released - March 13, 2012
Arch Turns Ten - Mar 12, 2012
Raspberry Pi Orders Now Being Accepted - Feb 29, 2012
Upcoming GNOME 3.4 Previewed - Feb 28, 2012
Fedora's Beefy Miracle Sizzling with Alpha 1 - Feb 28, 2012
Amnesia, Scariest Game Ever, to Get Sequel - Feb 24, 2012
Intel Joins TDF, Adds LibreOffice to AppUp Center - Feb 23, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 to 5.8 Risk Report - Feb 21, 2012
The Document Foundation Incorporated in Germany - Feb 20, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Pre-Order Registration Open - Feb 16, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5 Released - Feb 14, 2012
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Reaches End of Life - Feb 10, 2012
Pardus Future Uncertain, Fork Probable - Feb 07, 2012
PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released - Feb 02, 2012
openSUSE has a Dream - Jan 31, 2012
Mandriva Bankruptcy Crisis Averted, For Now - Jan 30, 2012
GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer - Jan 26, 2012
Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition - Jan 25, 2012
Mandriva Decision Delayed Again - Jan 23, 2012
Xfce's Early April Fool's Joke - Jan 20, 2012
KDE 4.9 to get a New Widgets Explorer - Jan 19, 2012
Meet Bodhi's Bulky Brother: Bloathi - Jan 18, 2012
Mandriva Delays Bankruptcy Decision - Jan 17, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Released - Jan 16, 2012
Fedora Running Beefy Contest - Jan 13, 2012
Mageia 2 Inches Along with Another Alpha - Jan 12, 2012
Linux Mint 12 KDE Almost Ready - Jan 11, 2012
Greg KH Posts Status of Kernel Tree - Jan 10, 2012
Unused LibreOffice Code Expunged - Jan 9, 2012
Is Mandriva Finished This Time? - Jan 5, 2012
New aptosid Fork, siduction 11.1 Released - Jan 4, 2012
Lefebvre Introduces GNOME 3 Fork - Jan 3, 2012
Gentoo Gets New Year's Release - Jan 2, 2012

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FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 Released, Fixes Ryzen 2 Temperature Reporting

Arguably most user-facing with this week's FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 release is updating the amdsmn/amdtemp drivers for attaching to Ryzen 2 host bridges. Additionally, the amdtemp driver has been fixed for correctly reporting the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX core temperature. The 2990WX temperature reporting is the same fix Linux initially needed to for a 27 degree offset to report the correct temperature. It's just taken FreeBSD longer to add Ryzen 2 / Threadripper 2 temperature bits even though they had beat the Linux kernel crew with the initial Zen CPU temperature reporting last year. Also: MeetBSD 2018: Michael W Lucas Why BSD?

GPU/Graphics: DRM/KMS and CUDA

Google's Pixel 3 Is Using The MSM DRM Driver, More Android Phones Moving To DRM/KMS Code

It turns out Google's recently announced Pixel 3 smartphone is making use of the MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver associated with the Freedreno open-source Qualcomm graphics project. Google is also getting more Android vendors moving over to using DRM/KMS drivers to power their graphics/display. Alistair Strachan of Google presented at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference and the growing adoption of Direct Rendering Manager / Kernel Mode-Setting drivers by Android devices.
Red Hat Developers Working Towards A Vendor-Neutral Compute Stack To Take On NVIDIA's CUDA

At this week's Linux Plumbers Conference, David Airlie began talking about the possibility of a vendor-neutral compute stack across Intel, Radeon, and NVIDIA GPU platforms that could potentially take on NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. There has been the work on open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) SPIR-V compute support all year and that's ongoing with not yet having reached mainline Mesa. That effort has been largely worked on by Karol Herbst and Rob Clark, both open-source GPU driver developers at Red Hat. There has also been other compute-motivated open-source driver/infrastructure work out of Red Hat like Jerome Glisse's ongoing kernel work around Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM). There's also been the Radeon RADV driver that Red Hat's David Airlie co-founded and continues contributing significantly to its advancement. And then there has been other graphics/compute contributions too with Red Hat remaining one of the largest upstream contributors to the ecosystem.

Endless OS Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For More Responsive Linux Desktop

While Con Kolivas' kernel patch series decided to do away with BFQ support, the GNOME-aligned Endless OS Linux distribution has decided to do the opposite in move from CFQ as the default I/O scheduler over to BFQ. Endless OS has decided to switch to the BFQ (Budget Fair Queuing) I/O scheduler since it prioritizes interactive workloads and should make for a better experience for its users particularly when applications may be upgrading in the background. During heavy background I/O, Endless found that their launch time of LibreOffice went from taking 16 seconds with CFQ to just three seconds when using BFQ. Other tests were also positive for improving the interactivity/responsiveness of the system particularly during heavy background I/O.

Goa to train teachers in new open-source software apps for cyber security

After working with Google India for wider adoption of internet safety in schools two years ago, Goa education agencies will implement another project to train computer, information and communication technology school and higher secondary teachers in new open-source software applications for cyber security integration. The State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education and Goa State Council Educational Research and Training (GSCERT) have decided to begin the second programme with over 650 computer teachers from December 4 to 18, Mr. Ajay Jadhav, Board of Study member and coordinator of the first project with Google, said on Friday. The cyber security training syllabus has been worked out and 18 resource persons are ready for the project.

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today's leftovers

7 Days to Die experimental alpha 17 due next week and it's a massive overhaul to the game

Developer The Fun Pimps is finally about to release the much anticipated experimental alpha 17 of 7 Days to Die, which should be early next week.
CUCUMBER LINUX 2.0 ALPHA 1 HAS BEEN RELEASED

The first alpha for Cucumber Linux 2.0 is now available. Several packages have been updated from Cucumber Linux 1.1, including Linux, GCC, glibc, binutils, OpenSSH, MariaDB, Rsync, Perl and PHP. Additionally, LibreSSL and Neovim make their debut. This release is intended for early testing purposes as it contains only a subset of the packages that will be included in the final release. New packages will be installable via pickle as they become available.
Outreachy Announces Its Winter 2018 Interns To Work On The Linux Kernel, GNOME

Following the recent application period, Outreachy on Thursday announced the dozens of selected participants who will have a $5500 USD paid internship the next few months for working on open-source projects.
Understanding Disease with Tabula Muris – The Open Source Database via Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

In this new Open Science article, we have explored an Open Source Database called Tabula Muris and how can it significantly contribute in the process of understanding disease for its prevention or cure.
Tens of millions of private text messages and security codes exposed

The database of text messages, used by companies to send password reset information, shipping notifications and security codes, was left exposed by communications company Voxox.
How to Use Linux SFTP Command to Transfer Files
How to Setup a VPN Easily on your Android Device
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Using libgps instead of libQgpsmm within a Qt application
Uber Joins Linux Foundation As A Gold Member

The Linux Foundation has announced that Uber is the newest Gold member to join the non-profit organization. Uber made the announcement at the 2018 Uber Open Summit committing to use and contribution to open-source tools. Uber’s CTO, Thuan Pham said, “We are honored to join the Linux Foundation to foster greater collaboration with the open source community.”
Microsoft wants to put ads in Windows email — and it’s already testing them out (update)

These aren’t rhetorical questions — as Windows news site Aggiornamenti Lumia noticed today, Microsoft is already testing that exact idea in a number of countries around the world. According to Microsoft’s FAQ, what we’re seeing is a pilot program, an experiment, a test that’ll theoretically help the company decide if it should actually roll out the feature for real.

Update, 11:52 AM PT: Microsoft comms head Frank Shaw tells us the company has decided to turn these ads off. He also says the experiment was never intended to be tested broadly, which doesn’t quite jibe with the existence of a FAQ about a pilot program taking place in several countries around the world, but either way the ads should be gone.

Coreboot Support Taking Shape For Intel Icelake

Intel developers have been punctual in their bring-up of Icelake support within Coreboot. Intel's open-source developers have already been busy for more than a year on bringing up bits of Icelake CPU and graphics support within the Linux ecosystem from new instructions for the GCC compiler, enabling the "Gen 11" graphics, adding the new device IDs, and other kernel and user-space for preparing for this exciting generation of Intel hardware.

KDE: This week in Usability & Productivity and KBibTeX's Latest

This week in Usability & Productivity, part 45

Let’s have a bit more Usability & Productivity, shall we? The KDE Applications 18.12 release is right around the corner, and we got a lot of great improvements to some core KDE apps–some for that upcoming release, and some for the next one. And lots of other things too, of course!
Running KBibTeX from Git repository has become easier

A common problem with bug reports received for KBibTeX is that the issue may already be fixed in the latest master in Git or that I can provide a fix which gets submitted to Git but then needs to be tested by the original bug reporter to verify that the issue has been indeed fixed for good. For many distributions, no ‘Git builds’ are available (or the bug reporter does not know if they exist or how to get them installed) or the bug reporter does not know how to fetch the source code, compile it, and run KBibTeX, despite the (somewhat too technical) documentation. Therefore, I wrote a Bash script called run-kbibtex.sh which performs all the necessary (well, most) steps to get from zero to a running KBibTeX. The nicest thing is that all files (cloned Git repo, compiled and installed KBibTeX) are placed inside /tmp which means no root or sudo are required, nor are any permanent modifications made to the user&aposs system.