• Secure authentication with Red Hat AMQ 7.7 and ApacheDS LDAP server

  In this article, we will integrate Red Hat AMQ 7.7 with the ApacheDS LDAP server. However, any version of the AMQ 7.x series can be integrated with the steps mentioned in this article.

  For this example integration, we’ll use Apache Directory Studio, which is an LDAP browser and directory client for ApacheDS. You will learn how to set up the ApacheDS LDAP server from scratch, and how to integrate the new LDAP configuration changes that are required in AMQ 7.7. Finally, we’ll test the integration with an AMQ 7.7 shell-based client, using Hawtio as a graphical user interface (GUI). This will be helpful to system administrators and developers as they can quickly create a proof of concept for LDAP and AMQ integration. This will help in enabling role-based access control(RBAC) for accessing AMQ 7.7.

• Red Hat Insights delivers easier RHEL management with Red Hat knowledge base integration and enhanced customer portal applications

  As a system administrator, working quickly and efficiently is important. There is a good chance that you manage a large estate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and that it continues to grow in complexity. In this post, we'll look at some ways Red Hat Insights can help you deal with that complexity.

  Red Hat Insights, an operational efficiency and vulnerability risk management service that provides continuous, in-depth analysis of registered RHEL systems, is included in your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. Some users have referred to Insights as "like having an extra pair of eyes" to help you identify and manage risks to security, compliance, and operations across your evolving environments.

  Now, we’ve added three new integrations between Insights and the Red Hat Customer Portal to help you become even more productive.

• IBM-backed Grillo open sources earthquake early-warning system through The Linux Foundation

  Earlier today, The Linux Foundation announced it will host a new initiative to accelerate the standardization and deployment of earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems for earthquake preparedness around the world. Created by Grillo with support from IBM, USAID, the Clinton Foundation, and Arrow Electronics, the OpenEEW project includes the core components of the Grillo EEW system composed of integrated capabilities to sense, detect, and analyze earthquakes and to alert communities.

  IBM was originally connected to Grillo through the Clinton Foundation at a convening of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network. Now, IBM is assisting Grillo by adding the OpenEEW earthquake technology into the Call for Code deployment pipeline supported by The Linux Foundation.

  We sat down with Call for Code Chief Technology Officer Daniel Krook and IBM Developer Advocate Pedro Cruz to learn more about OpenEEW.

• IBM, Grillo, and the Linux Foundation partner on early earthquake detection systems

  The Linux Foundation — in partnership with IBM and startup Grillo — today announced an initiative called OpenEEW to accelerate the deployment of open source earthquake early warning (EEW) detection systems around the world. The organizations say OpenEEW will incorporate sensing, detection, and analysis components from Grillo’s EEW platform, along with a Docker software version of the detection component that can be deployed to Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

  An estimated 3 billion people live with the threat of earthquakes globally. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, in California, there’s a 94% chance that an earthquake will not be just a foreshock. Yet only a few countries — like Mexico, Japan, Turkey, Romania, China, Italy, portions of the U.S., and Taiwan — have EEWs, in part because they can cost upwards of $1 billion.

• The Linux Foundation, Grillo and IBM Announce New Earthquake Early-Warning Open Source Project

  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host Grillo’s OpenEEW project in collaboration with IBM to accelerate the standardization and deployment of earthquake early-warning systems (EEWs) for earthquake preparedness around the world. The project includes the core components of the Grillo EEW system comprised of integrated capabilities to sense, detect and analyze earthquakes as well as alert communities. OpenEEW was created by Grillo with support from IBM, USAID, the Clinton Foundation and Arrow Electronics.

  Earthquakes often have the most severe consequences in developing countries, due in part to construction and infrastructure issues. Timely alerts have the potential to help save lives in the communities where earthquakes pose the greatest threat. EEW systems provide public alerts in countries including Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but nearly three billion people globally live with the threat of an earthquake and don’t have access to nation-wide systems, which can cost upwards of one billion U.S. dollars. OpenEEW wants to help reduce the costs of EEW systems, accelerate their deployments around the world and has the potential to save many lives.

  “The OpenEEW Project represents the very best in technology and in open source,” said Mike Dolan, Senior Vice President and GM of Projects at the Linux Foundation. “We’re pleased to be able to host and support such an important project and community at the Linux Foundation. The open source community can enable rapid development and deployment of these critical systems across the world.”

• [S5:E3] Command Line Heroes: What Kind Of Coder Will You Become?

• Intel Adds Capability To Linux 5.9 For NVDIMM Firmware Updates Without Reboots

  For Intel NVDIMMs like DC Persistent Memory there is support on the way with Linux 5.9 to support firmware updates to the non-volatile memory device without the need for a system reboot. 

  The LIBNVDIMM changes for Linux 5.9 include "Runtime Firmware Activation" as the Intel-devised feature for accommodating device firmware updates to supported NVDIMM modules without needing a reboot. The intent is on being less disruptive than a reboot and allow loading the firmware still via the ndctl user-space utility and then the new ability to "activate" the new firmware. 

• F2FS With Linux 5.9 Adds Secure TRIM, New Garbage Collection Option

  The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been sent in for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel. 

  The prominent changes this cycle include a new garbage collection mode (GC_URGENT_LOW) and a "secure" TRIM option (F2FS_IOC_SEC_TRIM_FILE) in the name of security. 

  The F2FS_IOC_SEC_TRIM_FILE functionality is intended as secure erase functionality. For drives not supporting TRIM/DISCARD, zeroing out the given data range for the regular file is performed to ensure the data is wiped on disk. 

• Linux 5.9 Bringing Mellanox VDPA Driver For Newer ConnectX Devices

  There are a few changes worth mentioning out of the VirtIO updates submitted today for the Linux 5.9 kernel. 

  The latest Mellanox driver going mainline in the Linux kernel is a VDPA (Virtual Data Path Acceleration) for their ConnectX6 DX and newer devices. 

  The VDPA standard is an abstraction layer on top of SR-IOV and allows for a single VirtIO driver in the guest that isn't hardware specific while still allowing wire-speed performance on the data plane. VDPA is more versatile than the likes of VirtIO full hardware offloading. More details for those interested via this Red Hat post. 

       

• Linux Plumbers Releasing More Passes

  After a careful review we have decided to release more passes. We are thrilled with the interest for this first ever online Linux Plumbers. The highlight of Linux Plumbers is the microconferences which are heavily focused on discussion and problem solving. To give the best experience for discussion, we have chosen to use an open source virtual platform that offers video for all participants. The platform recommends not having more than a certain number of people in each room at a time, hence putting a cap on registration to avoid hitting that limit. We do have solutions that will hopefully allow as many people as possible to experience Plumbers. We appreciate your patience and enthusiasm.

• The best frontend JavaScript framework for Django

  A question I've seen asked a lot is "what's the best frontend JavaScript framework to use with Django".

  Django itself doesn't make any recommendation on which frontend framework to use, or even assumes you're using a frontend framework at all.

  So, which frontend framework should you be using? And which one "plays well" with Django?

• Ned Batchelder: You should include your tests in coverage

  This seems to be a recurring debate: should you measure the coverage of your tests? In my opinion, definitely yes.

  Just to clarify: I’m not talking about using coverage measurement with your test suite to see what parts of your product are covered. I’ll assume we’re all doing that. The question here is, do you measure how much of your tests themselves are executed? You should.

• Is Java and Python similar?

  I don't think python and Java have anything in common. I enjoy the simple clean utilitarian nature of python. As long as simple pep8 guidelines are followed it is very easy to read any strangers code. Most people write python in an OO sort of way. However one can get pretty far in writing with an FP lite methodology. Many people complain about indents. To me it is just different and something easy to get used to. Python has idioms that values being clean and concise. It is trivial to deploy. My main critique of python is that if one uses too much python it is easy to get dumbed down by all the magic. It is important to use other languages in addition to python just to keep ones skills sharp. Thinking about writing high performing Python usually means thinking about doing it in some other language.

  [...]

  Note: I recognize Java is the most popular language in the world. Many great successfull applications use Java. One can eventually use Java to solve almost any problem. That doesn't mean I like it or think it is good for the industry.

• Real Python: Identify Invalid Python Syntax

  Python is known for its simple syntax. However, when you’re learning Python for the first time or when you’ve come to Python with a solid background in another programming language, you may run into some things that Python doesn’t allow. If you’ve ever received a SyntaxError when trying to run your Python code, then this guide can help you. Throughout this course, you’ll see common examples of invalid syntax in Python and learn how to resolve the issue.

• PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check-In #6 (2nd Aug - 9th Aug)

• PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check-In #11

• PSF GSoC students blogs: Week 10 Check-in

• PSF GSoC students blogs: Week 10

• PSF GSoC students blogs: GSoC: Week 11: InputEngine.add(paths)

• Emacs 27.1 released

  Version 27.1 of the Emacs editor is out. New features include support for arbitrary-sized integers, HarfBuzz support, improved drawing with Cairo, and the obligatory new JSON parser.

• Don’t look, vi users: Emacs 27.1 waves bye to ImageMagick, adds native JSON parsing support

  The GNU project’s text editor Emacs is now available in version 27.1, which introduces native JSON parsing and tab bar support, allows basic image transformations without ImageMagick, and uses HarfBuzz, a tool also employed in GNOME, KDE, and Android, to make text look nice.

  Amongst other things, Emacs has learned to work with arbitrary-size integers, and graduated the option –with-cairo for building the editor with support for the drawing tool from its experimental state. Emacs now also uses the GNU Multiple Precision library GMP if not told otherwise, and replaces unexec with a portable dumper as the default. The latter is meant to improve compatibility with memory allocation on modern systems, which lets the tool work with techniques such as address space layout randomisation which is supposed to improve security.

As part of the layoffs, Baker laid out a series of new focuses for Mozilla to set a stronger course for the company. That includes focuses on building community, building new products that “mitigate harms” and “that people love and want” to use, and crucially, to build out new revenue streams.

Mozilla makes most of its money from companies paying to make their search engine the default in Firefox. This includes deals with Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia, and most notably, Google in the US and most of the rest of the world. The company also makes money from royalties, subscriptions, and advertising, but those search deals still represent the “majority” of its revenue.

Baker says Mozilla will initially focus on products such as Pocket, its VPN service, its VR chatroom Hubs, and new “security and privacy” tools. The company started launching paid consumer services over the past year, offering a news subscription and access to a VPN from directly within Firefox.

Firefox is also getting a stronger focus on user growth “through differentiated user experiences.” That means reducing investment in other areas, though, such as in building out developer tools.

Mozilla has had a rough decade, as Firefox’s market share dwindled and attempts at bigger projects — like a Firefox phone running Firefox OS — fell apart. Baker seems to recognize that Mozilla needs to meet people where they are, building products that people want to use on the platforms they’re already using. She became CEO in April and was appointed interim CEO in December 2019; Baker has been the chair of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003.

• Linux 5.8.1

  I'm announcing the release of the 5.8.1 kernel.

  All users of the 5.8 kernel series must upgrade.

  The updated 5.8.y git tree can be found at:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.8.y
  and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
  https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...

• Linux 5.7.15

• Linux 5.4.58

• Linux 4.19.139

• Party game 'Drink More Glurp' is an absolute barrel of laughs - out now

  Drink More Glurp, a party game that thoroughly parodies sporting events like the Olympic Games and also pokes fun at sponsorship systems is out now. Note: key provided by the developer.

  Set on an alien world where the inhabitants attempted to copy our sporty games, however they got everything just a little bit wrong which has resulted in a serious of ridiculous contests with completely mental physics. This might be the funniest party game I've played all year. After trying the original demo during the Steam Game Festival, I was hooked.

• AntiMicro | Map Keyboard and Mouse Controls to Gamepad on openSUSE

  Installed a game called Pokemon Insurgence on Lutris and there was no way to play the game with a gamepad. Rather than try to fight things, set out for an application that would map the keyboard controls to the WiiU Pro Controller that has become my gamepad of choice.

  I know I heard it was possible on a podcast some time ago and since I was probably doing something else and didn’t have a notebook handy to write down whatever it was, I began my search and found this AntiMicro as a solution.

• Vibrant twin-stick slasher 'Breakpoint' gives you exploding weapons

  Enjoy some classic fast-paced vibrant arcade-style action? Breakpoint looks like it's worthy of some attention for putting a nice unique spin on it.

  With bright neon graphics, they mixed in elements from the classic arcade games with "modern sensibilities". It's a top-down highscore chaser with melee weapons that…explode? Yes. No ranged attacks, no laser weapons, no pew-pew-pew. Instead you slice, crush, and blast your way through the swarm and when you push your weapons to their breaking point (it's called Breakpoint—get it?), they unleash a big explosion.

• Steelbreakers turns the feel of classic Zelda into local multiplayer action

  The developer mentioned their idea with it was to make a game they wanted to play that they felt didn't exist already. As they said they "always wanted to play a Zelda game that demanded technical skill and would let you fight with your friends on a top-down 2d playing field" and so Steelbreakers was created.

  Together up to four players can fight for dominance in small arenas with traps and all sorts. At release, the developer is planning to have online play, additional game modes, plenty of maps and weapons, AI enemies and the list goes on. The demo is just a small slice of what to expect.

• RimWorld gets a big 1.2 update out with lots more options to tweak your game

  The brilliant colony-building sim RimWorld has another mega post-release update available now, with content included for both the base game and the Royalty expansion.

  Looking over the changelog, which is as long as expected, it sounds excellent. RimWorld has gained a whole new way to tweak your experience with a "custom playstyle system", which allows you to adjust a large number of settings to how you want your game to be. So you could make it a lot easier and more of a building sim and less of a "oh my god everyone is going to die from raiders" sim. There's also a bunch of new visual effects and many new sound effects added in for free too. There's loads more, especially for the Royalty DLC like an entirely new major quest that involves defending a damaged shuttle or assaulting a bandit camp.

• Competitive platform-jumper 'Jumpala' reveals new character, getting a free version

  Jumpala is an upcoming fast-paced competitive platformer that sees you constantly hopping across tiny little pads, it's actually brilliant fun and they've done a few new reveals recently.

  When you think about platformers, traditionally this would mean running along different floors, a little tricky jumping here and there and perhaps various enemy encounters. Jumpala is none of that. Instead, the whole arena scrolls upwards with small platforms each player needs to jump across, to turn it into their colour before it drops of the screen. It's highly competitive and from the early builds we played—a huge amount of fun.

• Hilarious slapstick comedy game West of Loathing had an anniversary update

  Three years after launching, Asymmetric have given West of Loathing a big anniversary update to get rid of some issues and add in some silly new content. Even their version numbering is ridiculous, with this being update v1.11.11.11.1.

  From the creators of the browser-based comedy MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing, don't let the stick figures and super-simple style fool you, this is a great game worthy of your time and it's definitely funny. Easily on of 2017's best indie games. This is where you get to pick a character class between a Cow Puncher, a Beanslinger and a Snake Oiler so you know you're in a for a wild ride right away.

• Check out the new trailer and demo for the sci-fi puzzle platformer Transmogrify

  Your facility appears to be overrun by strange creatures, with a forgetful research AI trying to help you escape but you do at least have a gun that can turn creatures into useful objects. This is Transmogrify, an upcoming sci-fi platformer that was partly funded on Kickstarter a few years back.

• Samsung Android upgrades now 3 years instead of 2

• Google's version of iPhone AirDrop is rolling out to Android phones now. Here's how to use the new feature

• [Update: New features] OnePlus to unveil Android 11-based HydrogenOS on August 10

• OnePlus' Oxygen OS 11 could borrow these cool new features from Hydrogen OS 11

• The 2021 Polestar 2 has a great cabin—and deep Android integration

• Android Auto gets Google Calendar integration

• You can now collaborate on YouTube Music playlists or take song suggestions from AI

• 5 best photo editing apps for Android users

• Android vs. iOS: Which Mobile OS Is Best?

• How to Hide Files with Google’s Safe Folder on Android

• The best TikTok alternative apps for Android and iOS

• How to Install Wine on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• Add Trash Can to Activities Panel in GNOME Desktop

• How To Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• How to Create a Comprehensive Mail Server on Ubuntu

• How to Use the Hugo Static Site Generator on Linux

• Install Odoo using Docker, Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 – AWS

• Don't ignore .gitignore

• Limit Ranges in Kubernetes

• Move the Raspberry PI root file system to a USB drive

• When backups fail: A cautionary sysadmin tale

• Reduce PDF Size in Linux (Step-by-Step Guide)

• Setting up multi-factor authentication on Linux systems

• You Just Know Somebody is in a State of Retreat When the Strategy Becomes to Discredit One’s Critics (or Collectively Paint Them All as Wrong/Crazy)
• United States v IBM Archives/Resources
• History Goes in Cycles
• Looking Back at the Real Story of Microsoft
• Europe Deserves Better Than Today’s EPO
• European Patent Office Management Swims With Sharks and Liars
• Linked In to Pedophilia
• Whistleblower Aid Already Showed Cover-up of Bill Gates ‘Contributions’ to MIT
• Proof (Archived Original Letter): Bill Gates Lied to the New Yorker, BBC and Others About Connection of MIT Money to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Their Close Relationship
• All This Happened While Bill Gates’ Engineer Was on Trial for Amassing Child Pornography
• IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 10, 2020
• IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 09, 2020
• Release: Bill Gates’ Engineer Busted for More Child Pornography Than Reported in the Media
• Links 10/8/2020: Popcorn Computers Pocket PC, Finnix 121, GhostBSD 20.08.04, EasyOS 2.3.8
• Links 10/8/2020: KPhotoAlbum 5.7.0 and MX Linux RC

• Paytm All-in-One Portable Android Smart POS device launched

• Paytm launches portable Android POS device

• Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network

• Android phones in California will now automatically get earthquake alerts

• Every Android phone will now help detect earthquakes

• Android phones will soon be able to detect earthquakes thanks to the power of crowdsourcing

• Google turns Android phones into an earthquake detection network

• Google is turning Android Phones into seismometers

• Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensors; California to get alerts

• Samsung Electronics Aiming to Become No. 1 Android AP Maker by Joining Forces with ARM and AMD

• Stadia now plays in 4K HDR on Android TV

• What is Android’s Nearby Share and how does it work?

• Chrome for Android might soon get a handy new password management tool

• How to check accidentally cleared notifications on Android phones

• Download: Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro receives stable beta Android 10 update with MIUI 11

• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can try Android xCloud streaming today

• Firefox for Android now displays simplified URLs, similar to Chrome

• Best Mental Health Apps for Android in 2020

• All Android phones can now use Bedtime Mode and Sunrise Alarm in Google Clock

• Top 6 TikTok alternatives to go for on Android iOS: Chingari, Mitron, Instagram Reels and more

• You might be one in a billion (Android users at risk by more than 400 Qualcomm Snapdragon vulnerabilities)

• Android 11's new media player controls can be swiped away in Beta 3

• Android 11 upgrades autofill for passwords by using your keyboard, already working w/ Gboard

• Android Malware "BlackRock" Can Steal Your Banking and Financial Information

• One BILLION Android phones at risk of 'Achilles' vulnerabilities

• Oppo Watch review: like an Apple Watch, but for Android

• Google Pixel 4a review: A worthy Android alternative to the iPhone SE

• Gboard for Android getting Smart completions, new Assistant-powered voice typing, more

• Poll: Do you use an Android controller for gaming?

• Project xCloud Early Access Goes Live On Android Today

• Realme 43 inch Full HD LED Smart Android TV (TV 43) Review

• Android: 3 simple signs your smartphone has hidden malware you need to delete now

• Paytm earmarks Rs 100 crore to market pocket Android POS device

• Paytm's new Android PoS for ordering, billing and payments

When it comes to ultra-mobile computing, I prefer the PocketCHIP or a Raspberry Pi with a screen rather than a mobile phone or tablet. These solutions offer a pure Linux environment that's as open source as the hardware allows and make no assumptions about how I expect to work.

Sometimes, though, the only thing I have on me is a mobile phone. While there are some really great Android apps out there, many feel like overkill for simple tasks, especially knowing how much can be done in a simple terminal on my Linux desktop. I'm not the only person who feels this way, and that's why the Termux project was born.

My most recent coverage on remote sessions was on takeover.sh, an open-source script for operating Linux using SSH. Today’s eye is on the best apps that enable us to operate Linux from any modern Android device.

All these applications are loved for their speed, low memory requirement, price tag, and ease of use. Do you have any suggestions that should be on the list? Add your comments below.

• GNU Emacs 27.1 Adds HarfBuzz Text Shaping, Native JSON Parsing

  GNU Emacs 27.1 is the latest feature release for this very extensible text editor. With Emacs 27.1 there is support for utilizing the HarfBuzz library for text shaping. HarfBuzz is also what's already used extensively by GNOME, KDE, Android, LibreOffice, and many other open-source applications.

  Emacs 27.1 also adds built-in support for arbitrary-size integers, native support for JSON parsing, better support for Cairo drawing, support for XDG conventions for init files, the lexical binding is now used by default, built-in support for tab bar and tab-line, and support for resizing/rotating images without ImageMagick, among other changes.

• Philip Withnall: Controlling safety vs speed when writing files

  g_file_set_contents() has worked fine for many years (and will continue to do so). However, it doesn’t provide much flexibility. When writing a file out on Linux there are various ways to do it, some slower but safer — and some faster, but less safe, in the sense that if your program or the system crashes part-way through writing the file, the file might be left in an indeterminate state. It might be garbled, missing, empty, or contain only the old contents.

  g_file_set_contents() chose a fairly safe (but not the fastest) approach to writing out files: write the new contents to a temporary file, fsync() it, and then atomically rename() the temporary file over the top of the old file. This approach means that other processes only ever see the old file contents or the new file contents (but not the partially-written new file contents); and it means that if there’s a crash, either the old file will exist or the new file will exist. However, it doesn’t guarantee that the new file will be safely stored on disk by the time g_file_set_contents() returns. It also has fewer guarantees if the old file didn’t exist (i.e. if the file is being written out for the first time).

• Daniel Espinosa: Training Maintainers

  Is not just help others to help you, is a matter of responsibility with Open Source Community. Your life have wonders and should change for better, so you will be lost opportunities or simple can’t work on your favorite open source project. Prepare your self to be a maintainer professor, change your mind for the beginning and help others, that is also a great contribution to open source software.

  Be kind. Your potential contributors will take over when required. Making sure they have the abilities and use best practices in the project, is not just good for your project, is good for all others out there; they will use them to help other projects.

• nanotime 0.3.1: Misc Build Fixes for Yuge New Features!

  The nanotime 0.3.0 release four days ago was so exciting that we decided to do it again! Kidding aside, and fairly extensive tests notwithstanding we were bitten by a few build errors: who knew clang on macOS needed extra curlies to be happy, another manifestation of Solaris having no idea what a timezone setting “America/New_York” is, plus some extra pickyness from the SAN tests and whatnot. So Leonardo and I gave it some extra care over the weekend, uploaded it late yesterday and here we are with 0.3.1. Thanks again to CRAN for prompt processing even though they are clearly deluged shortly before their (brief) summer break.

• Explore 10 popular open source development tools

  There is no shortage of closed-source development tools on the market, and most of them work quite well. However, developers who opt for open source tools stand to gain a number of benefits.

  In this piece, we'll take a quick look at the specific benefits of open source development tools, and then examine 10 of today's most popular tooling options.

  [...]

  Git is a distributed code management and version-control system, often used with web-based code management platforms like GitHub and GitLab. The integration with these platforms makes it easy for teams to contribute and collaborate, however getting the most out of Git will require some kind of third-party platform. Some claim, however, that Git support for Windows is not as robust as it is for Linux, which is potentially a turnoff for Windows-centric developers.

  [...]

  NetBeans is a Java-based IDE similar to Eclipse, and also supports development in a wide range of programming languages. However, NetBeans focuses on providing functionality out of the box, whereas Eclipse leans heavily on its plugin ecosystem to help developers set up needed features.

• Andre Roberge: Rich + Friendly-traceback: first look

  After a couple of hours of work, I have been able to use Rich to add colour to Friendly-traceback. Rich is a fantastic project, which has already gotten a fair bit of attention and deserves even more.

  The following is just a preview of things to come; it is just a quick proof of concept.

• Growing Dask To Make Scaling Python Data Science Easier At Coiled

  Python is a leading choice for data science due to the immense number of libraries and frameworks readily available to support it, but it is still difficult to scale. Dask is a framework designed to transparently run your data analysis across multiple CPU cores and multiple servers. Using Dask lifts a limitation for scaling your analytical workloads, but brings with it the complexity of server administration, deployment, and security. In this episode Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson discuss their recently formed company Coiled and how they are working to make use and maintenance of Dask in production. The share the goals for the business, their approach to building a profitable company based on open source, and the difficulties they face while growing a new team during a global pandemic.

• Manjaro Monday: Installing this Arch Linux branch on your Chromebook

• Stylishly Take your notes, mindmaps, and tasks with this Lightweight App: TreeSheets.

• Online training courses in September/October 2020

• Containers in Production: Day 1 – Wrap up

• Containers in Production: Day 1 – SIG Cloud Provider + Provider OpenStack

• Containers in Production: Day 1 – Kickoff

• Containers in Production: Day 1 – Using OpenStack + containers together

       

• TDF Annual Report 2019

  The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2019 is now available in PDF format from TDF Nextcloud in two different versions: low resolution (6.4MB) and high resolution (53.2MB). The annual report is based on the German version presented to the authorities in April.

  The 54 page document has been entirely created with free open source software: written contents have obviously been developed with LibreOffice Writer (desktop) and collaboratively modified with LibreOffice Writer (online), charts have been created with LibreOffice Calc and prepared for publishing with LibreOffice Draw, drawings and tables have been developed or modified (from legacy PDF originals) with LibreOffice Draw, images have been prepared for publishing with GIMP, and the layout has been created with Scribus based on the existing templates.

• LibreOffice QA/Dev Report: July 2020

  LibreOffice 6.4.5 was announced on July, 2

• Physics Based Animation Effects Week#10

  This week, I was mainly working on cleaning up and migrating the patches from my experimental branch to LO master.

Top command is good but there are better alternatives to Top. Take a look at these system monitoring tools in Linux that are similar to top but are actually better.

I'm happy to announce that QML Online is now running with the last version of Qt (5.15) and with an initial Kirigami integration with breeze icons!

Also: Old truths remain

The release manager for openSUSE Leap, Lubos Kocman, has updated openSUSE’s develop community on efforts to bring the codes of Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer together.

In an email to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, Kocman explained that the prototype project openSUSE Jump should become available for early testing soon and that contributions to the project could become available in the next five weeks.

“First, I’d like to announce that we’ll start publishing images and FTP trees for openSUSE Jump, so people can get their hands on [it],” Kocman wrote. “Please be aware that Jump is still in Alpha quality. I expect data to be available later this week as there is still pending work on pontifex by Heroes.

The Alpha quality state of Jump is gradually progressing.

Jump is an interim name given to the experimental distribution in the Open Build Service as developers try to synchronize SLE binaries for openSUSE Leap.

Kocman explained how feature requests will work, the process for how contributions will be handled and and he also explained how the submissions will lead to greater transparency.