today's leftovers

• 2019-12-13 | Linux Headlines

  Zulip version 2.1 is out, LibreOffice has a new manual, the Linux Foundation announces yet another initiative, and individual talks from the Linux App Summit have hit the web.

• Intel Releases Cloud-Hypervisor 0.4 As Its Rust-Written VMM Built Off KVM

  Friday marked not only the release of QEMU 4.2 for Linux virtualization but Intel's open-source crew developing the Cloud-Hypervisor as the Rustlang-based VMM built around Linux's KVM and VirtIO interfaces is out with a big feature release. Cloud-Hypervisor took shape this year and has been quick to evolve since its inaugural release in July. Cloud-Hypervisor during its pre-alpha stage is catered to Clear Linux and Ubuntu while also focusing on x86_64 CPU support but AArch64 coverae is said to be coming in the future. Windows 64-bit guest support is also under evaluation.

• Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc3 has been released!

  We’re pleased to announce the third release candidate for Qubes 4.0.2!

• History of Java

  Java was first introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1995. The project was started in the lab of Sun Microsystems by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton. There were more people in the team but these three were main. The name of this team was the Green Team. The first version’s name was the Java Alpha Beta version in 1995. Java Development Kit also called JDK was first introduced in 1996. When Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java in 1996, it was called JDK 1.0 and the code name for this project was OAK. The OAK word was taken from the name of OAK Tree. The picture of the OAK tree is shown below.

• Python 3.7.5 : Django admin shell by Grzegorz Tężycki.

  Today I tested another python package for Django named django-admin-shell.

• How the community can help your business: People Powered [Ed: Microsoft-leaning propaganda is consistent. Microsoft propaganda and talking points everywhere, every day, even in the "LINUX" section.]

• Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners

  To add to all the bad news that is Ring camera's life cycle to this point comes the report that a group of malcontents has been exploiting default/weak credentials to gain access to cameras. Joseph Cox has the this-would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-scary details at Motherboard.

• Apple Releases CUPS 2.3.1 To Fix Security Issue + Other Bugs

  Back in August was the release of the very big CUPS 2.3 update that shifted the source code license, added support for IPP Printer presets, added a new utility, and other improvements for this Apple-controlled Unix/Linux printing system. Available now is CUPS 2.3.1 with various fixes.

OSS: Adoption, Creative Commons (CC), Mozilla and LibreOffice

• Firms Lack Enterprise Open-Source Strategy

  Wall Street’s adoption of open-source development has come to a crossroads, according to recent research published by industry analyst firm Aite Group. In the 28 years since Linus Torvalds released his open-source Linux operating system kernel, it has taken 23 years for the adoption of the development model to gain prominence with financial services institutions, according to Tosha Ellison, director of member success at the Fintech Open Source Foundation as whose organization sponsored the research,

• Introducing CC Vocabulary, Our New Web Design System

  Over the past few months, we’ve been working on CC Vocabulary, a new open source software project that provides a cohesive design system to unite the web-facing Creative Commons (CC).

• Pub True [Ed: Mozilla does surveillance on Firefox users, using the popular euphemisms “data science” and “telemetry”]

  I'm ramping up on a project to understand how Firefox retains users. Right now I'm trying to build some context quickly. For example, what's our monthly retention? How about our annual retention? There's a bunch of interesting and nuanced measurement questions that we'll eventually have to answer, but for now I'm just interested in getting some quick back-of-the-envelope numbers.

• Help our community with social media in various languages and locations!

  Love LibreOffice? Want to help spread the word? And do you speak another language than English? Then we’d appreciate your help! We have lots of community-created LibreOffice accounts on Facebook and Twitter, but some haven’t been updated for a while. The full list is below, with the date the account was last active – if you’re interested in helping to maintain one, join our marketing list and let us know!

Red Hat's Openwashing and IBM Using Red Hat to Sell Proprietary z/OS

• Tech Marketing the Open Source Way: Lessons from RedHat and GitHub [Ed: Why does Red Hat prop up proprietary software (GitHub) that's owned by Microsoft? What does that say about Red Hat? This openwashing was composed by someone who came from Microsoft Black Duck.]

• New extensions in IBM z/OS — containerized workloads

  Container frameworks like Docker allow software to be deployed in a modular fashion and provide the foundation for cloud architectures. With the release of container extensions, IBM’s z/OS platform now supports containerized workloads and enables future deployments through orchestration mechanisms like Kubernetes and OpenShift. This allows z/OS to operate more seamlessly with Linux-based open source workloads that require access to local mainframe resources and subsystems.

This week in KDE: building up to something big

We’ve got some really big things planned and in progress for Plasma 5.18 and Frameworks, and work proceeds smoothly. None of it is quite done yet, but we did land a number of nice bugfixes and user interface polish for issues that have been irritating people for years…and mere days!