• TNS Context: The CNCF Open Source Survey and the Ballerina Programming Language

  Today on The New Stack Context podcast, we talk with Chris Aniszczyk, co-founder of the TODO Group and Chief Technology Officer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) about the results of our recent open source program management survey. We also talk about WS02‘s new cloud native programming language, Ballerina.

  Joining Context host TNS editorial director Libby Clark for this episode is TNS founder Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

• The D Language Front-End Is Trying Now To Get Into GCC 9

  Going on for a while now have been D language front-end patches for GCC to allow this programming language to be supported by the GNU Compiler Collection. It's been a long battle getting to this state but it looks like it soon might be mainlined.

  Last June was the approval by the GCC Steering Committee to allow D support in GCC. While the committee approved of its addition, the D language front-end didn't end up getting merged in time for the GCC 8 stable release that took place earlier this year.

• Paris Art School Looking for Krita Teacher

  An art school in Paris, France, is looking for a Krita teacher! This is pretty cool, isn’t it?

• Linus Torvalds Taking a Break, Help Krita Squash the Bugs, Vulnerability in Alpine Linux, Flatpak Now Works on Windows Subsystem for Linux and AnsibleFest 2018 Announced

  Krita announced its developer fundraiser "let's squash the bugs"! The goal this year for the open-source graphics editor is to "fix bugs, make Krita more stable and bring more polish and shine to all the features we have made possible together". Visit here to learn how you can help.

• kgraphviewer 2.4.3

  KGraphViewer, your favourite visualiser of .dot files, has a new update.

• Webinoly – Easily Setup Optimized LEMP Stack For WordPress In Ubuntu

• How to Monitor your Desktop PC with Conky on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• How to Upgrade NoxPlayer to Android 7 Nougat

• How to Take Screenshots in Ubuntu with a Time Delay

• How to Install NextCloud 14 on CentOS 7

• How To Install Asterisk on Debian 9

• Automatic backup of users’ files on a NAS device to an external USB HDD

• Linux pinky Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

• Ubuntu refuses to reboot - what now?

I’m not a lawyer, I could be wrong or not accurate enough in my analysis (sorry!) but I’ll try nonetheless to give my understanding of the situation because the current state of licensing of Visual Studio Code tries to fool most users.

Microsoft uses here a simple but clever trick allowed by the license of the code source of Visual Studio Code: the MIT license, a permissive Free Software license.

Indeed, the MIT license is really straightforward. Do whatever you want with this software, keeps the original copyright and I’m not responsible of what could happen with this software. Ok. Except that, for the situation of Visual Studio Code, it only covers the source code, not the binary.

Unlike most of the GPL-based licenses for which both the source code and the binary built from this source code are covered by the terms of the license, using the MIT license authorizes Microsoft to make available the source code of the software, but do whatever they want with the binary of this software. And let’s be crystal-clear: 99,99% of the VSC users will never ever use directly the source code.

Ubuntu 18.10 which is codenamed as Cosmic Cuttlefish is around the corner, is planned to be released next month on 18th October 2018. You will be able to download this release from the official website as well upgrade manually from previous releases. This time there is no alpha or beta milestones rather testing weeks for releases.

• Zinc Launches UK’s First Open Source Blockchain-Based Hiring Software

  London: Zinc, a UK based start-up, today launches its blockchain based hiring software, which promises to eliminate many of the inefficiencies associated with recruitment within the technology sector.  Available to the public from today, Zinc has been successfully tested in beta with customers including GoCardless and Booking.com.

• Lumina Networks Expands Engineering Management to Drive Product Innovation and Open Source Leadership

  Open source networking leader Lumina Networks today announced the addition of three industry leaders to their engineering team.  Avinash Parwaney joins Lumina’s executive team as VP of Engineering. Parwaney is formerly from Cisco where he was Senior Director of Engineering. Prem Sankar Gopannan has joined Lumina as Director of Engineering and Iyappa Swaminathan has joined as Director of Technical Product Management.

  “I am pleased to welcome Avinash to lead the Lumina engineering team. He brings a wealth of real-world experience in large scale service provider networking,” said Andrew Coward, CEO of Lumina Networks. “Avinash will help Lumina accelerate our open source-based networking platforms and applications from proof of concept trials into production deployment. The addition of Prem and Iyappa to the team will further strengthen our ability to help lead the open source networking community, driving innovation and productization.”

• EU antitrust ruling on Microsoft buy of GitHub due by October 19

• which spare laptop?

  I'm in a perpetual state of downsizing and ridding my life (and my family's life) of things we don't need: sometimes old computers. My main (nearly my sole) machine is my work-provided Thinkpad T470s: a fantastic laptop that works so well I haven't had anything to write about it. However, I decided that it was worth keeping just one spare, for emergencies or other odd situations. I have two candidate machines in my possession.

  [...]

  Surprising myself perhaps more than anyone else, I've ended up opting for the Toshiba. The weight was the clincher. The CPU performance difference was too close to matter, and 3G RAM is sufficient for my spare laptop needs. Once I'd installed a spare SSD as the main storage device, day-to-day performance is very good. The resolution difference didn't turn out to be that important: it's still low enough that side-by-side text editor and browser feels crowded, so I end up using the same window management techniques as I would on the X61s.

  What do I use it for? I've taken it on a couple of trips or holidays which I wouldn't want to risk my work machine for. I wrote nearly all of liquorice on it in downtime on a holiday to Turkey whilst my daughter was having her afternoon nap. I'm touching up this blog post on it now!

• Canonical Developers Now Preparing Mir 1.0 For Release With Wayland Support

  Mir 1.0 was talked about for release last year but at the last minute they reverted it to Mir 0.28. There is now a patch pending that is once again attempting the Mir 1.0 milestone.

  Mir 1.0 was pulled back previously after Canonical shifted away from its mobile/convergence effort as well as slashed some of the Mir resources involved. Since then Mir has continued to mature but with a focus on offering Wayland protocol compatibility and a platform still catering to Snaps and Ubuntu IoT use-cases.

  With the Wayland support within Mir squared away for the essentials, now it seems they are preparing for the Mir 1.0 banner.

• NVIDIA Further Details Turing's Mesh Shaders, Supports OpenGL/Vulkan

  Later this week the GeForce RTX 2080 "Turing" GPUs begin shipping and one of the interesting additions with this new GPU architecture is support for mesh shaders.

  Mesh shaders are part of a new programmable geometric shading pipeline that allows the generation of compact "meshlet" meshes on-chip. Mesh shaders work with not only Microsoft Direct3D 12 but can also be setup with new OpenGL/Vulkan extensions.

• All of the WineConf 2018 Videos Are Now Available

  Happening back at the end of June was WineConf 2018 in The Hague as the annual Wine developer conference. The remaining video recordings from that event are finally available.

• Security updates for Monday

• PAM HaveIBeenPwned module

• Remote code exec found in Alpine Linux

  Users of Alpine Linux are advised to update their installations - especially those used for Docker production environments - after a researcher found a remotely exploitable bug in the distribution's package manager.

  Alpine Linux is popular with Docker users due to its small size and package repository.

  Crowdfunded bug bounty program BountyGraph co-founder Max Justicz managed to exploit Alpine .apk package files to create arbitrary files which could be turned into code execution.

• What is Wireshark? What this essential troubleshooting tool does and how to use it

  Wireshark is the world's leading network traffic analyzer, and an essential tool for any security professional or systems administrator. This free software lets you analyze network traffic in real time, and is often the best tool for troubleshooting issues on your network.

  Common problems that Wireshark can help troubleshoot include dropped packets, latency issues, and malicious activity on your network. It lets you put your network traffic under a microscope, and provides tools to filter and drill down into that traffic, zooming in on the root cause of the problem. Administrators use it to identify faulty network appliances that are dropping packets, latency issues caused by machines routing traffic halfway around the world, and data exfiltration or even hacking attempts against your organization.

  [...]

  While Wireshark supports more than two thousand network protocols, many of them esoteric, uncommon, or old, the modern security professional will find analyzing IP packets to be of most immediate usefulness. The majority of the packets on your network are likely to be TCP, UDP, and ICMP.

  Given the large volume of traffic that crosses a typical business network, Wireshark's tools to help you filter that traffic are what make it especially useful. Capture filters will collect only the types of traffic you're interested in, and display filters will help you zoom in on the traffic you want to inspect. The network protocol analyzer provides search tools, including regular expressions and colored highlighting, to make it easy to find what you're looking for.

• How gaming turned me into a coder

  I think the first word I learned to type fast—and I mean really fast—was "fireball."

  Like most of us, I started my typing career with a "hunt-and-peck" technique, using my index fingers and keeping my eyes focused on the keyboard to find letters as I needed them. It's not a technique that allows you to read and write at the same time; you might call it half-duplex. It was okay for typing cd and dir, but it wasn't nearly fast enough to get ahead in the game. Especially if that game was a MUD.

• Linux Fedora 28 and Avantree ANC032 wireless headphone

• Configuring the MongoDB WiredTiger memory cache for RHMAP

• Launch your Ecommerce Business for Free with Open Source Solutions

• Linux For Beginners: What's A Desktop Environment?

• Intel 2.5G Ethernet Controller Support Continues Being Prepped For The Next Linux Kernel

  Last month we covered early work being done on an Intel 2.5G Ethernet Linux driver. That "IGC" driver for Intel I225-LM/I225-V 2.5G Ethernet adapters didn't make it for Linux 4.19, but it looks like it will be on track for the Linux 4.20~5.0 kernel.

• How IBM Is Using Open Source for a Greater Good

  Dr. Angel Diaz is the face of open source at IBM as Vice President of Developer Technology, Open Source & Advocacy. At the recent Open Source Summit in Vancouver, we spoke with Diaz to talk about the importance of open source at IBM and how it’s changing the world around us.

• [llvm-dev] [7.0.0 Release] The final tag is in

  The final version of 7.0.0 has been tagged from the branch at r342370. It is identical to rc3 modulo release notes and docs changes.

• LLVM 7.0 Is Ready For Release

  The LLVM/Clang 7.0 release had been running a bit behind schedule and warranted a third release candidate, but this week LLVM 7.0.0 is now ready to ship.

  Release manager Hans Wennborg announced minutes ago on the mailing list that the 7.0.0 release has been tagged in their source tree. This ends up being the same as last week's 7.0-RC3 except for release notes and documentation updates.

• LLVM Developers Still Discussing SPIR-V Support Within Clang

  One of the features that didn't materialize for LLVM / Clang 7.0 is the SPIR-V support within the compiler toolchain.

  While there has been a SPIR-V / LLVM translator out-of-tree and various developers at different vendors have been discussing for months the prospects of adding SPIR-V intermediate representation support to LLVM/Clang, it has yet to materialize.

  The latest developer discussion is to have a roundtable talk on the SPIR-V integration at the 2018 LLVM Developers' Meeting. This year the LLVM Developers' Meeting is happening at the San Jose Convention Center from 17 to 18 October.

Back in June, Valve announced "Moondust" as a new VR technical demo to showcase their hardware efforts (primarily with the Knuckles EV2 VR controllers) and consists of some mini games. It looks like this tech demo might be soon open-sourced.

If you missed Valve's original announcement of Moondust, you can find it on SteamCommunity.com granted this tech demo is primarily aimed at VR-enabling game developers.

• 2D wizard arena-fighter 'Gift of Parthax' now has a Linux beta

  Gift of Parthax is an arena fighting game where you play as a Wizard who can create their own spells, looks interesting and it now has a Linux beta available for testing.

• Top-down closed arena shooter 'Galaxy Champions TV' lands Linux support

  For those of you who love over the top fast-paced action, Galaxy Champions TV is now officially available on Linux.

  The Windows version release on September 6th, with the developer stating a Linux version will come "hopefully next week". True to their word, they delivered a Linux build on the 14th. Nice to see a developer put in the effort!

• Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown coming next year

  Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the final campaign in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove saga which has now been pushed back until next year. Also announced is Shovel Knight Showdown, a local multiplayer version of the game.

• BlockShip Wars: Roguelike is another game to let you build and battle with your own spaceship, now on Linux

  I don't think I will ever tire of seeing more games that let you build your own spaceship, BlockShip Wars: Roguelike added Linux support recently.

  It has two game modes available, the first is what they're calling "Roguelike mode" featuring permanent death, no levelling or experience points and the other is the "RPG mode" which has experience, levelling and so on.

• Surreal first person exploration game 0°N 0°W adds Linux support

  Do you like your meditative exploration games? 0°N 0°W looks absolutely surreal and it added Linux support. They haven't announced it yet, with Linux support being added two days ago as they're currently working on the changelog. It is very much live though.

curl is quite literally used everywhere. It is used by a huge number of applications and devices. But which applications, devices and users are the ones with the largest number of curl installations? I've tried to come up with a list...

I truly believe curl is one of the world's most widely used open source projects.

If you have comments, other suggestions or insights to help me polish this table or the numbers I present, please let me know!

• Increasing Security of Istio Deployments by Removing the Need for Privileged Containers

  With the 1.0 release, Istio is preparing itself for prime time by companies developing container-native applications with a desire for adopting a service mesh solution.

  However, there is a potential issue that may slow down the adoption rate: Pods that belong to the Istio mesh require elevated privileges in order to function properly.

  In this article we will present the istio-pod-network-controller, a solution to mitigate this issue.

  [...]

  The istio-pod-network-controller is an option to make Istio deployments more secure. It does so by removing the need to run pods in the Istio mesh with the privileged SCC and allows them to run just with the nonroot SCC. If you decide to adopt this solution, please keep in mind that this is currently a best effort project and not officially supported by Red Hat.

• Save the date for AnsibleFest 2018

  Mark your calendar for AnsibleFest 2018 taking place in Austin, Texas, Oct. 2-3, at the JW Marriott. AnsibleFest is an annual user conference for the Ansible community and Red Hat Ansible Automation users. The event brings together Ansible users, contributors, developers and industry partners to share innovative practices, case studies, Ansible news and much more.

• Avaloq upgrades open software architecture

  Avaloq is collaborating with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to simplify and further standardize the deployment and operation of software components by means of Red Hat’s Kubernetes1 application platform Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform to run cloud-native apps. The collaboration with Red Hat reflects Avaloq’s commitment to promoting cloud-based processes and providing market-leading solutions to its clients.

• Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface

  Red Hat will add support for the Container Storage Interface to its existing OpenShift container platform and storage products next year, according to Red Hat executives who spoke to Computer Weekly last week.

  [...]

  Gerald Sternagl, storage business unit manager for Europe, the Middle East and Asia at Red Hat, said: “If customers want to do something with containers, then, in the long term, the path is from on-premise deployments to hybrid cloud.

  “You can’t achieve this with a hardware agenda. Look at NetApp. Its Trident storage orchestrator is the only one it supports and storage can only be NetApp storage.”

  Sternagl said Red Hat also plans to support the Container Storage Interface (CSI) from next year.

• Raleigh firefighters respond to downtown gas leak

  A portion of downtown Raleigh had to be cleared Monday morning after a gas leak in front of Red Hat.

  The Raleigh Fire Department responded to the intersections of Wilmington and Davie streets and Davie and Blount streets just before 7:30 a.m. Monday and had to evacuate the immediate area.

  [...]

  “We’ve just cleared up,” said Allen Wilson, Raleigh fire division chief, around 8:30 a.m. “This happens from time to time where we have a gas line leak or rupture. They were able to get PSNC on the scene and get it under control.”

• Red Hat rolls across North America with 18 wheels worth of open source solutions

  Rather than having customers approach the technology company first, Red Hat decided to take a more proactive approach by cramming a bevy of open source platforms and technologies into an 18-wheeler trailer and visit customers directly across North America. The tour has been a resounding success, says Red Hat’s marketing lead for the West region, Chris Hawyer.

  “It’s hard for everyone to attend the summit and all of our other events,” Hawver told CDN during a stop in Toronto. “This seemed like a perfect way to go directly to our customers.”

  [...]

  “All of the presentations are done by our solution experts,” says Hawver, noting those experts are either there in-person or working remotely from their office. Even CEO Jim Whitehurst has made brief appearances via teleconferencing. “We’ve been recommending that you bring as many customers together as possible, and get them to test out their ideas and collaborate. We’ve never had a session end on time.”

• Red Hat's (RHT) OpenShift, Ansible Adoption to Aid Q2 Earnings

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• Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) Receives Daily Media Sentiment Rating of 0.14

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• Android TV apps now available for A&E, Lifetime, FYI, and History Channel

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• WhatsApp is working on Swipe to Reply for Android devices and Dark mode

• Two New Monero Malware Attacks Target Windows and Android Users

• How to easily free up space on Android Pie

• Apple vs. Android: Which does your hospital's innovation strategy resemble?

• Poll: Apple vs. Android: What's your innovation strategy?

Last week I provided a fresh look at the latest Linux performance on 22 Intel/AMD systems while for kicking off the benchmarking this week is a look at the current Linux performance on sixteen different ARM single board computers / developer boards from low-end to high-end.

For those curious about the current ARM Linux performance or wanting to compare your own x86/ARM/POWER/MIPS performance to these 16 ARM boards, here are some fresh benchmarks using the latest ARM Linux image releases for these different boards under test. Without going into too old of ARM platforms and based upon what I had available, the sixteen ARM boards for this comparison were...

On behalf of the Apache SpamAssassin Project Management Committee, I am
very pleased to announce the release of Apache SpamAssassin v3.4.2.
This release contains security bug fixes. A security announcement will
follow within the next 24 hours.

Apache SpamAssassin can be downloaded from
https://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi and via cpan
(Mail::SpamAssassin).

Our project website is https://spamassassin.apache.org/

Our DOAP is available at https://spamassassin.apache.org/doap.rdf

DRM is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. DRM creates a damaged good: it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book-burnings and conduct large-scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits.

Organized by the Defective by Design team, IDAD has occurred annually since 2006. Each year, participants take action through protests, rallies, and the sharing of DRM-free media and materials. Participating nonprofits, activist groups, and companies from around the world include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Open Rights Group, Public Knowledge, the Document Foundation, and others (for a complete list, see: https://dayagainstdrm.org). These groups will share the message by writing about why DRM is harmful, organizing events, and offering discounts on DRM-free media.

In November, Bulgaria’s state eGovernment agency SEGA (Държавната агенция „Електронно управление“ ДАЕУ) will award a contract for building the country’s open source code repository. SEGA began studying submitted proposals this Tuesday. The repository, to be based on Git, will be hosting source all software newly developed by or for Bulgaria’s public services.