Linux Action News 218
12/06/21 • 21 min
Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize.
Special Guest: Carl George.
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- Blender 3.0 Released — Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.
- Blender - YouTube
- Blender 3.0 Shines As A Huge Update For This Leading Open-Source 3D Modeling Software
- Blender 3.0 is out now with a visual refresh, huge new features
- Firmware “Best Known Configuration” in fwupd — These are used by server vendors to identify a known-working (or commercially supported) set of firmware on the machine. This is currently opt-in for each vendor to avoid the UI clutter on the components view, and so if you’re a vendor reading this post and realize you want this feature, let me know and it’s two clicks on the admin panel.
- FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares “Best Known Configuration” Feature
- Linux Vendor Firmware Service Serves Up 40 Millionth Download
- Introducing CentOS Stream 9
- CentOS Stream 9 Now Available To Live On The Bleeding-Edge Of RHEL9
- EPEL 9 is now available
- Carl George on Twitter — "I've been explaining the relationship between @Fedora, @CentOS, and #RHEL for years, long before I was hired by Red Hat. It usually happened in the form of drawing on a dry-erase board. Of course, CentOS Stream changes things. 🧵"
Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize.
Special Guest: Carl George.
Sponsored By:
- Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account.
- Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!
Links:
- Blender 3.0 Released — Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.
- Blender - YouTube
- Blender 3.0 Shines As A Huge Update For This Leading Open-Source 3D Modeling Software
- Blender 3.0 is out now with a visual refresh, huge new features
- Firmware “Best Known Configuration” in fwupd — These are used by server vendors to identify a known-working (or commercially supported) set of firmware on the machine. This is currently opt-in for each vendor to avoid the UI clutter on the components view, and so if you’re a vendor reading this post and realize you want this feature, let me know and it’s two clicks on the admin panel.
- FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares “Best Known Configuration” Feature
- Linux Vendor Firmware Service Serves Up 40 Millionth Download
- Introducing CentOS Stream 9
- CentOS Stream 9 Now Available To Live On The Bleeding-Edge Of RHEL9
- EPEL 9 is now available
- Carl George on Twitter — "I've been explaining the relationship between @Fedora, @CentOS, and #RHEL for years, long before I was hired by Red Hat. It usually happened in the form of drawing on a dry-erase board. Of course, CentOS Stream changes things. 🧵"
Previous Episode
Linux Action News 217
Fedora's massive endorsement this week that went unnoticed, why RISC-V mobile devices might be getting near, and the significant change coming to a critical open-source tool.
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- The world’s first RISC-V phone might be just around the corner — The Sipeed Maix Amigo kit from 2020 was among the first RISC-V PDAs
- A $16.90 Allwinner D1 Linux RISC-V board
- Sipeed’s $17 LycheeRV Board Has Allwinner RISC-V Processor
- LLVM Is Still Working On Relicensing, Needs Help Locating Some Past Contributors — LLVM is seeking help in trying to track down some past individual contributors and organizations so they can proceed with their relicensing of the massive code-base.
- LLVM relicensing - long tail - Google Sheets
- The LLVM Project Blog
- German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice — The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools.
- Amazon Linux 2022 Released - Based On Fedora With Changes — Amazon Linux / Amazon Linux 2 had been based on a combination of RHEL and Fedora packages while in today's Amazon Linux 2022 release they note it's explicitly based on Fedora.
- amazon-linux-2022: Amazon Linux 2022
- Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022
Next Episode
Linux Action News 219
The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.
Plus, some good news for the Desktop and systemd-homed gets one step closer.
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Links:
- GNOME 42 To Finally Allow Input Events To Happen Full-Rate — Up to now GNOME Shell has been compressing pointer motion events so they are synchronized to the monitor refresh rate, which can be anywhere from around 30 to 144 events per second depending upon display.
- An Eventful Instant – GNOME Shell & Mutter
- Do not throttle input in wayland event delivery
- FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Announcement — The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/12 branch.
- systemd 250 Is Coming With A Boat Load Of New Features — systemd 250 is packing a rather large number of new features and changes across the board for this dominant Linux init system and service manager.
- Log4Shell — RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package
- Apache - The ASF on Twitter — “Did you know that Ingenuity, the Mars 2020 Helicopter mission, is powered by Apache Log4j? https://t.co/gV0uyE1ylk #Apache #OpenSource #innovation #community #logging #services
- Tom (^-^) on Twitter
- Kevin Beaumont on Twitter — “Starting a new thread for log4j security vulnerability and fallout. Spoiler: although this emerged as a Minecraft issue (lol) there is going to be impacts across a wide range of enterprise software for some time.”
- Log4jAttackSurface MEMES
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