today's leftovers

• Soldat 2 brings the next-generation of fast-paced online platformer action - out now

  Available now in Early Access, the online platformer shooter Soldat 2 brings in the full charm of the original classic that took the early internet by storm and will continue to expand it. If you played the original - right now it's very much as you expect. Fast paced, ridiculous, seriously easy to get into and really rather fun. You can't ask for much more in a military-style platformer shooter, it does exactly what it sets out to do. You run, you throw a grenade, you spray and pray and hopefully get a few frags along the way. Slightly prettier than the original but still just as insane. [...] Plenty more is to come including more of pretty much everything: levels, weapons, vehicles - you name it and it probably will get it at some point. The big idea with Soldat 2 is to be a platform for others to create, as much as it is a game itself so it's going to have full modding support for all sorts of community content.

• VirtualBox, 15 practical examples

• Fedora 32 : Testing the Bookworm software.

• AMD Dimgrey Cavefish and VanGogh Support Lands In Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver

  The latest enablement work landing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source driver is for AMD Dimgrey Cavefish and VanGogh. Merged today to Mesa 20.3-devel was VanGogh and Dimgrey Cavefish support. VanGogh and Dimgrey Cavefish are both GFX10.3 (Navi 2) parts. Van Gogh has been rumored for a while as a next-gen mobile API with Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2 graphics in the 7.5~18 Watt TDP space. Details on Dimgrey Cavefish are light as it's another Linux-specific codename for a Navi 2 part in following the X.Org color + fish family naming convention.

• Updates for CAP Deployment in public clouds

  Our vision for the SUSE Cloud Application Platform Deployment tool is to provide the simplest experience possible and do so across a variety of supported cloud service providers. Since my last post we’ve made some significant strides, so it’s time to catch up on our status.

• Create and import COCO datasets into Maximo Visual Inspection

  A lot of work has gone into the labeling UI for IBM Maximo Visual Inspection (MVI). However, there are situations where you want to work with an already existing dataset that was created outside of MVI. Thankfully, MVI already supports importing COCO datasets, label information and all. That’s easy enough. But what if you want to modify or add some images before importing that dataset? Maybe you have some colleagues without access to MVI who need you to keep things in a common format? Or maybe there are other tools that interact with these datasets? We can’t expect everyone else to use MVI’s dataset format. I’m hoping this post will help you along in figuring how to do what you need to do outside of MVI. We’re going to create our own little COCO dataset with LabelMe and LabelMe2coco, and turn that into an MVI dataset that we can train MVI models with.

• Linux on Lenovo, jdk transition to Git, and more industry trends

  The impact: That is an epic list of achievements on behalf of all of us that use Linux on the desktop. Kudos and thank you to the Fedora Desktop team!

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 Delivers Kubernetes-Based Data Services

Programming Leftovers

• Release Candidate 3 is here

  Hello everyone,
  
  After some delay, the llvmorg-11.0.0-rc3 tag was just created.
  
  Source code and docs are available at
  https://prereleases.llvm.org/11.0.0/#rc3
  and
  https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/tag/llvmorg-11.0.0-rc3
  
  Pre-built binaries will be added as they become ready.
  
  Please file bug reports for any issues you find as blockers of
  https://llvm.org/pr46725
  
  Release testers: please start your engines, run the script, share your
  results, and upload binaries. And thank you very much for your help so
  far.
  
  There are currently no open release blockers, so unless anything new
  and bad comes up, this is what the final release will look like.
  
  Thanks,
  Hans
  

• LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update

  LLVM 11.0 was originally scheduled to be released at the end of August while now it looks like that official milestone is coming in the next few days or week. Tagged today was LLVM 11.0-RC3 as the belated extra release candidate for this half-year update to the LLVM compiler infrastructure and subprojects like Clang, LLD, FLANG, and libcxx, among others.

• Excellent Free Books to Learn D

  D is a general-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax that compiles to native code. It is statically typed and supports both automatic (garbage collected) and manual memory management. D programs are structured as modules that can be compiled separately and linked with external libraries to create native libraries or executables.

• Crosspost: Nginx/Certbot Recipe

  Back in Februrary I posted an article in which I promised a follow up telling you how I now manage my certificates. We’ll all these months later I’ve finally published it to dev.to (to push its reach beyond just Perl) https://dev.to/joelaberger/no-magic-letsencrypt-certbot-and-nginx-configuration-recipe-3a97 .

• wxPython by Example – Adding a Background Image (Video)

  In this tutorial, you will learn how to add an image to your panel so that you have a background image to put your widgets on.

• PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #439 (Sept. 22, 2020)

Linux kernel report shows more than 20,000 contributors since beginning

As the use of Linux has grown, the number and variety of contributors has done likewise. The study found that from 2007 to 2019, there were 780,048 commits accepted into the Linux kernel from 1730 organisations. The top 20 can be seen in the chart in this article. In this table, unknown refers to contributions for which a supporting employer’s existence could not be determined. None indicates the patches are from developers known to be working on their own time. The release model for the kernel now has four categories; Prepatch (or “-rc”) kernels, Mainline, Stable, and Long Term Stable. Each release cycle begins with a two-week “merge window” when new features can be reviewed and then included in the git repository for the next release.

Puppy Linux 9.5 “FossaPup” Is Here to Revive Your Old PC, Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

One of the coolest things about Puppy Linux is that it’s a modular distribution, which means that it lets users swap out the kernel, apps and firmware in seconds. One top of that, it can be turned very easily into a minimal bare bones version just by removing a single file, followed by a reboot, of course. As its codename suggests, Puppy Linux 9.5 is based on Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series. This means that users will have access to the official Ubuntu 20.04 LTS software repositories to install any packages they want.