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Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 20th of March 2005 10:09:16 PM

This began as a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org, either by me or someone else, but it has since morphed into a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org and the articles I've had published elsewhere.

Linux Tycoon: Design and Manage Your Own Distribution - March 31, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 Arrives for Testing - March 29, 2012
GNOME 3.4 Released with Lots of Improvement - March 28, 2012
Greg K-H Updates Tumbleweed Status - March 27, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.6 Released - March 22, 2012
openSUSE 12.2 M2, Better Late than Never - March 21, 2012
Mitchell Baker Says H.264 is About User Experience - March 19, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released with Fixes - March 18, 2012
Mageia 2 Beta 2, Still No Live Images - March 16, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Renamed to Honor Classical Composer - March 15, 2012
Final Debian 5 Update Released - March 13, 2012
Arch Turns Ten - Mar 12, 2012
Raspberry Pi Orders Now Being Accepted - Feb 29, 2012
Upcoming GNOME 3.4 Previewed - Feb 28, 2012
Fedora's Beefy Miracle Sizzling with Alpha 1 - Feb 28, 2012
Amnesia, Scariest Game Ever, to Get Sequel - Feb 24, 2012
Intel Joins TDF, Adds LibreOffice to AppUp Center - Feb 23, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 to 5.8 Risk Report - Feb 21, 2012
The Document Foundation Incorporated in Germany - Feb 20, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Pre-Order Registration Open - Feb 16, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5 Released - Feb 14, 2012
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Reaches End of Life - Feb 10, 2012
Pardus Future Uncertain, Fork Probable - Feb 07, 2012
PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released - Feb 02, 2012
openSUSE has a Dream - Jan 31, 2012
Mandriva Bankruptcy Crisis Averted, For Now - Jan 30, 2012
GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer - Jan 26, 2012
Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition - Jan 25, 2012
Mandriva Decision Delayed Again - Jan 23, 2012
Xfce's Early April Fool's Joke - Jan 20, 2012
KDE 4.9 to get a New Widgets Explorer - Jan 19, 2012
Meet Bodhi's Bulky Brother: Bloathi - Jan 18, 2012
Mandriva Delays Bankruptcy Decision - Jan 17, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Released - Jan 16, 2012
Fedora Running Beefy Contest - Jan 13, 2012
Mageia 2 Inches Along with Another Alpha - Jan 12, 2012
Linux Mint 12 KDE Almost Ready - Jan 11, 2012
Greg KH Posts Status of Kernel Tree - Jan 10, 2012
Unused LibreOffice Code Expunged - Jan 9, 2012
Is Mandriva Finished This Time? - Jan 5, 2012
New aptosid Fork, siduction 11.1 Released - Jan 4, 2012
Lefebvre Introduces GNOME 3 Fork - Jan 3, 2012
Gentoo Gets New Year's Release - Jan 2, 2012

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Intel Is Working On A New ‘Data Parallel C++’ Programming Language

ntel has been working on its OneAPI project for quite some time. The company has now shared more details of the software project — including the launch of a new programming language called “Data Parallel C++ (DPC++).”
6 Best Data Science and Machine Learning Courses for Beginners

Many programmers are moving towards data science and machine learning hoping for better pay and career opportunities --- and there is a reason for it. The Data scientist has been ranked the number one job on Glassdoor for last a couple of years and the average salary of a data scientist is over** $120,000** in the United States according to Indeed. Data science is not only a rewarding career in terms of money but it also provides the opportunity for you to solve some of the world's most interesting problems. IMHO, that's the main motivation many good programmers are moving towards data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Find the smallest number within a list with python

In this example, we will create a python function which will take in a list of numbers and then return the smallest value. The solution to this problem is first to create a place holder for the first number within the list, then compares that number with other numbers within the same list in the loop. If the program found a number which is smaller than the one in the place holder, then the smaller number will be assigned to that place holder.
Basic Input, Output, and String Formatting in Python

To be useful, a program usually needs to communicate with the outside world by obtaining input data from the user and displaying result data back to the user. This tutorial will introduce you to Python input and output. Input may come directly from the user via the keyboard, or from some external source like a file or database. Output can be displayed directly to the console or IDE, to the screen via a Graphical User Interface (GUI), or again to an external source.
Want to level up your Python? Join Weekly Python Exercise, starting July 2nd

Let’s face it: Stack Overflow has made developers’ lives easier. Almost every time I have a question, I find that someone on Stack Overflow has asked it, and that people have answered it, often in great detail. I’m thus not against Stack Overflow, not by a long shot. But I have found that many Python developers visit there 10 or even 20 times a day, to find answers (and even code) that they can use to solve their problems.
Introducing pytest-elk-reporter

Few years back I’ve wrote a post about how I’ve connected python based test to ELK setup - “ELK is fun”, it was using an xunit xml, parsing it and sending it via Logstash. Over time I’ve learn a lot about ElasticSearch and it’s friend Kibana, using them as a tool to handle logs. and also as a backend for a search component on my previous job. So now I know logstash isn’t needed for reporting test result, posting straight into elasticsearch is easier and gives you better control, ES is doing anything “automagiclly” anyhow nowadays.

Graphics: Weston 6.0.1, GPUs in OpenStack, Panfrost and Vulkan

weston 6.0.1

Weston 6.0.1 is released with build system fixes to smooth the
transition to Meson. Other miscellaneous bugfixes are also included.

Note that the PGP signing key has changed to 0FDE7BE0E88F5E48.

- (1):
      zunitc: Fix undeclared identifier 'NULL'

Alexandros Frantzis (1):
      clients/simple-dmabuf-egl: Properly check for error in gbm_bo_get_handle_for_plane

Antonio Borneo (2):
      clients: close unused keymap fd
      log: remove "%m" from format strings by using strerror(errno)

Daniel Stone (2):
      weston: Properly test for output-creation failure
      compositor: Don't ignore --use-pixman for Wayland backend

Fabrice Fontaine (1):
      Fix build with kernel < 4.4

Harish Krupo (4):
      meson.build: Fix warning for configure_file
      window.c: Don't assume registry advertisement order
      data-device: send INVALID_FINISH when operation != dnd
      Fix: clients/window: Premature finish request when copy-pasting

Kamal Pandey (1):
      FIX: weston: clients: typo in simple-dmabuf-egl.c

Luca Weiss (1):
      Fix incorrect include

Marius Vlad (3):
      meson.build/libweston: Fix clang warning for export-dynamic
      compositor: Fix invalid view numbering in scene-graph
      compositor: Fix missing new line when displaying buffer type for EGL buffer

Pekka Paalanen (7):
      meson: link editor with gobject-2.0
      meson: link cms-colord with glib and gobject
      meson: link remoting with glib and gobject
      meson: DRM-backend demands GBM
      meson: dep fix for compositor.h needing xkbcommon.h
      build: add missing dep to x11 backend
      libweston: fix protocol install path

Scott Anderson (1):
      compositor: Fix incorrect use of bool options

Sebastian Wick (1):
      weston-terminal: Fix weston-terminal crash on mutter

Silva Alejandro Ismael (1):
      compositor: fix segfaults if wl_display_create fails

Simon Ser (1):
      build: bump to version 6.0.1 for the point release

Tomohito Esaki (1):
      cairo-util: Don't set title string to Pango layout if the title is NULL

git tag: 6.0.1

Wayland's Weston 6.0.1 Released With Build System Fixes & Other Corrections

Weston 6.0 was released back in March with a remote/streaming plug-in and Meson becoming the preferred build system among other improvements. Weston 6.0.1 was released today by Simon Ser with various fixes to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 6.0.1 is mostly made up of Meson build system fixes/improvements to ensure a good Meson experience. There is also a fix for building with pre-4.4 kernels and a variety of other smaller fixes.
OpenStack Stein feature highlights: vGPU support coming in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15

Red Hat is working on the next release of the supported enterprise distribution of OpenStack, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15, based on the Stein community release. In this multi-part blog series, we’ll be examining some of the features that Red Hat and the open source community have collaborated on–starting with a look to future workloads, such as artificial intelligence. "How does OpenStack enable next generation workloads?" you ask. When it comes to computer-driven decision making, machine learning algorithms can provide adaptable services that can get better over time. Some of these workloads, such as facial recognition, require GPUs to ingest and process graphical data in real time. But the more powerful GPUs often used for machine learning and such are expensive, power-hungry, and can take up a lot of room in the servers' chassis. When working with GPUs at scale, optimized utilization is key to more cost effective machine learning.
Panfrost Gallium3D Picks Up Yet More Features Thanks To Collabora's Summer Internship

Just a few days ago I wrote how the Panfrost Gallium3D driver continues making incredible progress for this community-driven, open-source graphics driver targeting Arm Bifrost/Midgard graphics. There's yet another batch of new features and improvements to talk about. Most of this feature work continues to be done by Panfrost lead developer Alyssa Rosenzweig who is interning at Collabora this summer and appears to be spending most of her time working on this reverse-engineered Arm graphics driver supporting their recent generations of IP.
Vulkan 1.1.112 Released While Open-Source ANV + RADV Drivers Continue Marching Along

Vulkan 1.1.112 was outed this morning as the newest documentation update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Vulkan 1.1.112 is quite a mundane update with just documentation corrections and clarifications this go around and not any new extensions. But at least the clarifications should help out some and other maintenance items addressed by this Vulkan 1.1.112 release. It's not a surprise the release is so small considering Vulkan 1.1.111 was issued just two weeks ago.

today's howtos

5 Best and Free Desktop Email Clients for Linux and Windows

If you are looking for free Email clients for Linux and Windows – here are 5 of them we list which you can try and consider for casual or professional uses. Web based email is popular today which can be accessed via browser or mobile apps. However, big and medium enterprises, generic users still prefers native desktop email clients for heavy and office uses. Microsoft Outlook is the most popular desktop email client which is of course not free and you have to pay huge licence fee to use. There are multiple options for free desktop email clients available. Here are the best 5 free and open source email clients which you can go ahead and try then deploy for your needs.

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Krita Interview with Chris Tallerås

My name is Chris Tallerås and I’m a 23 year old dude from the Olympic city of Lillehammer in Norway and I do political activism traveling the country to fight the climate crisis and to advocate free culture/free, libre & opensource software in our kingdom. [...] Maybe later in 2017. I was getting tired of Windows and wanted to get into Linux...
IPFire 2.23 - Core Update 134 ready for testing

The Linux kernel was vulnerable for two DoS attacks against its TCP stack. The first one made it possible for a remote attacker to panic the kernel and a second one could trick the system into transmitting very small packets so that a data transfer would have used the whole bandwidth but filled mainly with packet overhead. The IPFire kernel is now based on Linux 4.14.129, which fixes this vulnerability and fixes various other bugs.
Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS is OpenAwards 2019 Best Tech Community Winner

Kiwi TCMS is the winner at OpenAwards'19 category Best Tech Community! Big thanks to the jury, our contributors and core-team and the larger open source and quality assurance communities who voted for us and supported the project during all of those years.
The need of US OSS for the programs [Ed: What an awful article. Original? Plagiarism? Even the encoding is all wrong.]

A wide range of sorts of OSS licenses exist. In any case, there are basic traits among most OSS licenses. Two of the principle normal qualities are that: (1) beneficiaries can uninhibitedly utilize, change and convey the product; and (2) the source code (for example the comprehensible code) is made accessible to empower the activity of these rights. This recognizes OSS from restrictive programming. With exclusive programming licenses, ordinarily duplicating, altering or redistributing is disallowed and just the item code (i.e., the machine meaningful code or 'gathered structure') is circulated. The centrality of this is to adequately adjust the product, an engineer commonly would need access to the source code.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam and Courses Are Now Offered Onsite in China in Local Language

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today is announcing the availability of Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam and corresponding Kubernetes Fundamentals course as in-country, instructor-led programs taught in Chinese. According to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation survey, 44 percent of Mandarin respondents are deploying Kubernetes. There is great demand in China and the overall Asia/Pac region for training courses that will help developers accelerate their work with Kubernetes and associated technologies. Since launching in 2017, the CKA exam has been taken by nearly 10,000 professionals around the world. Now it will be easier for Chinese users to take advantage of this offering with in-person instructors and in their local language. To register for the exam and courses, please visit: http://training.linuxfoundation.cn/ “The Kubernetes administrator courses and certified exam are among the most popular training courses we offer,” said Clyde Seepersad, general manager, Linux Foundation training. “We’re now able to make the courses and exam available in Chinese with in-country exam delivery and instructors, which we hope will increase access and opportunity to learn and apply one of today’s most relevant and pervasive open source technologies.”
Harnessing hybrid cloud for HPC

As a grizzled veteran of the IT industry, I have been involved in many high performance computing (HPC) projects over the years, both from a hardware and software perspective. I have always found them to be intensely interesting mainly because the projects were deeply scientific in nature, whether it be decoding the human genome, designing better, more efficient vehicles or even deep space research. What’s different now is the emergence of HPC into the mainstream. Instead of it just being the preserve of academics, scientists and other boffins, normal commercial organisations are trying to harness the power of HPC to solve their business issues, notably through its application to AI and Machine Learning. As today’s technology creates vast hordes of unstructured data, unlocking the business value therein has become a key competitive advantage and almost the Holy Grail of Digital Transformation for many organisations. HPC has a key part to play in this as deriving insight from large data sets has been a major component of scientific research for many years.
Building Nonstop Data Access

The traditional way we think of data is as something that’s stored and then used later, like electricity in batteries. But today, data is always flowing, and constantly in use, much more like the electricity you pull from a grid than the energy you store in a battery. In the old days, you could wait a day, even a week, to get ahold of data. Today, it needs to be there at the flip of a switch.
Asteroids, SUSE and Protecting the Planet

Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we can do to protect our planet, families, communities and future generations from future asteroid impacts. Asteroid Day takes place on June 30, the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. That asteroid decimated about 800 square miles (to put that in perspective, greater London is about 600 square miles). It’s estimated that a Tunguska-level “city-killer” asteroid hits the Earth every 500 years. So, while there is nothing to lose sleep over, it’s imperative that we are aware and have a plan.
Microsoft bans its employees from using Slack, Google Docs, and more

Keeping your company's data safe can be tricky when your competitors are begging you to put all your conversations, projects, and hard work right into the palms of their hands. To make sure its competitors aren't able to look behind its tightly drawn curtains, Microsoft has a list of online services that it forbids its workforce to use, according to a report from GeekWire. They're familiar names for most modern professionals: Slack, Google Docs, and Amazon Web Services (among others). Despite the popularity of some of these services that allow for easy communication between employees and data storing and sharing, Microsoft wants to make sure everybody is keeping all their information in-house with its own programs. Actually, not even all of its own programs are safe, as the Microsoft-owned GitHub is also off limits.
What are you working on this summer?

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[Mozilla] Emily Dunham: More on Mentorship

Last year, I wrote about some of the aspirations which motivated my move from Mozilla Research to the CloudOps team. At the recent Mozilla All Hands in Whistler, I had the “how’s the new team going?” conversation with many old and new friends, and that repetition helped me reify some ideas about what I really meant by “I’d like better mentorship”.

Proprietary Software and Games: OnlyOffice, Total War: THREE KINGDOMS and Underspace From Pastaspace

OnlyOffice Desktop Editors review - A challenger appears

OnlyOffice Desktop Editors is definitely an interesting office suite. Unique, fairly stylish, with reasonably good Microsoft format compatibility - I'm not sure about the background image transparency, whether it's a glitch, a bug or a PEBKAC. I also like the UI - minimalistic yet useful. Plugins are another nice feature, and you will find lots of small, elegant touches everywhere. With a free price tag, this is a rather solid contender for home use. But there were some problems, too. The initial startup, that's a big one for newbies. Styles can be better sorted out, document loading is too slow, the UI suffers from over-simplification here and there, and the fonts need to be sharper and with more contrast, the whole new-age gray-on-gray is bad. Maybe some of these missing options are actually there in the business editions, and I'm inclined to take those for a spin, too. So far, I wouldn't call this an outright replacement for Microsoft Office, but I'm definitely intrigued, and do intend to continue and expand my testing of OnlyOffice. Very neat. I suggest you grab the program for a spin, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Oaths, coalitions and betrayal — some thoughts on Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS was released in its all-caps glory about a month ago and saw a same-day Linux release thanks to porters Feral Interactive. The action this time around is centered in China during its fractious Three Kingdoms period of history that saw the end of the Han dynasty and warlords and coalitions battle it out for supremacy. More specifically, this Total War title also takes inspiration from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel and its larger-than-life heroes and villains. Developer Creative Assembly has put in plenty of time and effort to capture the feeling of both novel and the historical conflict. At the heart of this design philosophy is the option to play the turn-based campaign in Romance mode. Veteran players that have played other Total War titles such as the Warhammer entries may be familiar with the prominence that hero units and leaders have come to take in the series. Romance mode continues this trend by making it so the commanders of retinues are key to warfare. They lead troops, use abilities to buff allies and hamper enemies, can stand up to dozens of regular troops and fight duels with enemy commanders. A more classic mode, where regular troops feature more prominently, is also available but I spent the majority of my time with the game playing in Romance mode.
Open-world space arcade-action game "Underspace" is on Kickstarter with a Linux demo

Oh goodie, more space action goodness! Underspace from Pastaspace Interactive is on Kickstarter looking for funding and it seems like quite a promising game.

Ubuntu/Debian Leftovers

Canonical backtracks on i386 packages

Canonical has let it be known that minds have been changed about removing all 32-bit x86 support from the Ubuntu distribution.
Create Minimal Debian Upstream Images with Debos and Armbian

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 584

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