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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program initiated by Google that encourages students worldwide to contribute to open-source software development. Under the GSoC program, selected students to work on coding projects with open-source organizations (as mentoring org) for three months during their summer break.
Here are some of the key projects for the Linux desktops and applications which is planned as part of GSoC 2023.
Linux Mint is a great operating system: nimble, friendly and packed with apps.
With macOS Catalina, it took three minutes for my Mac to boot and be ready for action. And even then, apps were often sluggish or unresponsive.
With Linux Mint installed, the system’s ready to go in around two minutes, apps open quickly, and everything from general web browsing, to tapping out documents, to watching videos on Netflix is just much smoother.
Josh and Kurt talk about the Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Josh was there and we pick on two observations. Firstly that security keeps trying to use fear as a feature, except it doesn’t work. Secondly we discuss AI and how people are talking about it. It is changing things, how much is yet to be seen.
**aalib** , **accountservice** , **adwaita-icon-theme** packages from the
Slackware **l** software series, and a whole lot about ALSA and Linux audio.
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Apache Tomcat or Tomcat is open-sourced application written in Java used for rendering Java web pages and executing Java web servlets. Tomcat is developed and maintained by an open community of developers, which is growing on a daily basis. In this tutorial will install Tomcat on Debian 11 and show you how to configure a reverse proxy with Apache as a web server.
Looking for a quick and easy way to resize multiple images on Ubuntu? You could use an image resizing app that handles batch conversions. Several terrific ones can be found in Ubuntu’s repos, many utilising the power of Imagemagick (which itself can be used standalone from the command line). Those methods are valid and in most cases preferable as they offer advanced configuration, cater to edge cases, and are able to perform additional actions at the same time. But you can also resize images straight from Nautilus, Ubuntu’s file manager.
Are you running low on space on your Linux machine, but have no clue what keeps eating away at your precious storage? Duplicate files could be a major reason why you are facing low storage issues. Worry no more, as we will discuss some amazing tools to find and remove duplicate files in Linux in this article. These can help you to optimize your storage and improve the performance of your system.
Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta has arrived, armed with a host of changes and improvements that make it an enticing alternative to the Windows operating system. Built on the solid foundation of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, this lightweight distribution aims to offer users a seamless and hassle-free computing experience. With its customizable Moksha desktop environment, extensive package selection, and commitment to user privacy, Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is poised to liberate users from the clutches of Windows.
Under the hood, Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta utilizes the latest kernel versions, including the standard 5.15.0-71-genericm, the HWE (Hardware Enablement) 5.19.0-41, and System76′s 6.2.6. These kernel upgrades enhance hardware compatibility and ensure optimal performance on a wide range of systems. Additionally, the inclusion of Ubuntu backports and essential software updates such as EFL 1.26.99-2 further solidify Bodhi Linux’s commitment to providing a cutting-edge computing experience.
I’ve said it before and want to underline again that this build of UBports 20.04 for the PinePhone is a community effort and not official. As such, it does a number of things differently. The focus of this port has been to get the operating system to boot and perform some low-level functions on the PinePhone. It hasn’t introduced much hardware functionality yet, such as GPS, screen rotation, and flashlight activation. These will come with time, probably before the port is declared officially supported.
I mention this because other devices which run UBports typically have a full range of working hardware and most of the bugs have been corrected. However, I didn’t have a supported device on hand, so I went with this unofficial port of UBports 20.04. It mostly works the same as version 16.04, but with some key improvements. It’s faster, responds more quickly, and it looks like the time sync issue has been fixed. The regressions all seem to be specific to hardware support/drivers which I suspect will be fixed in the coming months.
I wouldn’t recommend the PinePhone as a daily driver as a phone, probably with any operating system. However, I will say that with it running a full GNU/Linux platform, it works pretty well as an ARM-powered testing device and as a small home server. It’s silent, it has a built-in battery, it has a touch screen for times when we need local access, and it has a slot for SD cards, giving it expanded disk space. I’m quite content using mine as a backup and test server at home. Plus it fits in my pocket if I want to relocate the device.
In this way, I think of the PinePhone as a flexible single-board computer, such as a Raspberry Pi, more than as a phone. And, while running UBports 20.04, it feels well suited to this niche role.
deepin is an open-source desktop operating system based on Linux. As the first desktop operating system in China rooted in its community, the deepin community is thrilled to announce the official release of deepin V23 beta! Come and experience it, and contribute your thoughts and feedback. Let’s work together to create a beautiful and user-friendly operating system!
During the testing of Rocky Linux 9.2 for Power (Little Endian) AKA ppc64le, the Rocky Release Engineering and Testing teams identified a serious issue with the version of python3.9 bundled with release 9.2 of RHEL and Rocky Linux that is considered a Release Blocker per our policies.
Due to the nature of this bug and the potential it has to break existing installations of Rocky Linux on Power, we have made the decision as a community to hold back only the ppc64le architecture for Rocky Linux 9.2 and release the other three architectures as they have passed our testing procedures and met criteria. Notably, we have not been able to reproduce the python3.9 bug on any other architecture (x86_64, aarch64, or s390x), and believe that the bug is architecture specific.
Use LUKS2 by default for all new Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes. LUKS2 provide stronger cryptography by default.
The Sipeed Tang Nano 20K is a low-cost FPGA development board based on Gowin GW2AR-18 FPGA with 20,736 logic cells and 64Mbit RAM, which coupled with 64MBit QSPI flash provides enough resources to simulate a 32-bit RISC-V core booting Linux or playing retro games in an emulator.
The FPGA board comes with a USB-C port for power and to load the FPGA bitstream through a BL616 microcontroller that also acts as a USB to serial chip, an HDMI port and an RGB LCD interface for video output, two user buttons, and two rows GPIOs to connect peripherals such as gamepads (through adapters).
Nyxt is a one-of-a-kind beast. Proclaimed itself as “the hacker’s browser,” heavily inspired by Emacs and Vim, Nyxt offers a user experience unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Designed to enhance productivity and efficiency for advanced users who prefer navigating the web using keyboard shortcuts and commands, you won’t find any of the typical Firefox or Chrome-like experiences here.
Recently, after nearly two years of heavy development, the final stable version of Nyxt 3.0 is here. So, let’s see what’s new.
We’re happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.3!
The first time that you boot Easy, there is text-mode GUI asking for choice of language. There is a snapshot here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202301/first-bootup-2-letter-language-asked-in-initrd.html
The names of the countries are all in English. The problem I had then was the ‘dialog’ utility was not displaying UTF-8 characters. It is supposed to be able to, but wasn’t.
The initrd is using PSFU console fonts, but that is not the problem. I discovered that ‘dialog’ does not like LANG=C, it wants LANG set to a UTF-8 locale. OK, I set “LANG=en_US.UTF-8″ just to run ‘dialog’, and that fixed it.
Congress needs to ban the government from buying up sensitive geolocation data entirely — not just preventing its seizure.
↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-19 [Older] 88-year-old Australian freed 7 years after being kidnapped in West Africa
According to data from layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, approximately 695 tech companies have resorted to laying off around 198,000 employees thus far in the current year
The year 2023 seems to be brutal for the tech industry. Reports suggest that nearly 2 lakh tech employees — from Big Tech firms to startups — have lost their jobs globally. Almost all big IT companies have announced job cuts — Facebook-parent Meta, Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, Accentuare and many others. Some companies have announced plans to lay off more employees in the coming months. As per the data by layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 695 tech companies have cut around 1.98 lakh jobs so far this year. Here are some of the biggest technology companies that have cut jobs in India as well as those who may in the coming days.
Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs across sectors in 2023 as technology behemoths raced to cut costs.
The job cuts in the technology sector neared 90,000 in January 2023 and came down to 39,471 in February, 37,662 in March, 19,807 in April and 11,491 in the month of May so far, according to layoffs tracking platform Layoffs.fyi.
The platform showed that 695 tech companies have executed job cuts of around 198,000 employees so far in 2023. In 2022, over 1,000 tech companies laid off more than 161,000 employees. This indicates about a 19 per cent increase in the number of tech professionals who have lost their jobs in 2023 compared to the previous year.
Bengaluru: On 27 April, a Twitter user who goes by the handle @kadaipaneeeer, tweeted: “Marks don’t decide your future, but it definitely decides whether you get a flat in Bangalore or not”.
After interning at a bank, Mr Fadi Ghazi was over the moon to get a job offer. The only problem: The bank was First Republic – one of the lenders that just collapsed spectacularly.
His offer was rescinded.
Mr Ghazi is one of the millions of college seniors in the United States graduating into the “real world”. For many, today’s job market is not exactly living up to their big freshman-year dreams.
The job prospects these days are nowhere near as bad as they were for students who graduated into the Great Recession and, in many cases, still carry the economic scars. But after Covid-19 turned the nation’s campuses upside down and disrupted virtually every aspect of college life, the Class of 2023 is having one more can-you-believe-our-luck moment.
Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios as he gave the school’s commencement address in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside
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