I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new version of GNU PSPP. PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.

• The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change | Ubuntu

  As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and granular access to system resources using the mechanism of interfaces allows snap developers to ship their applications packaged with strict confinement.

  However, there are some scenarios where even the liberal use of interface plugs cannot fully satisfy all of the functional requirements of specific applications. Certain programs need system-wide access to directories and files, and others may need to execute arbitrary binaries as part of their run. To that end, snaps can also be installed in the “classic” confinement mode, which gives them access similar to what the application would have if installed in the traditional way. The solution works, but now, there are proposals to make the classic mode even more robust and efficient.

• 6 Reasons Flatpaks and Snaps Are Great for Linux

  Getting software on Linux has long been both simple and complicated. Many programs are just a mouse-click or terminal command away. But if the apps available for your chosen version of Linux are outdated, then getting the latest updates could often be a real pain.

  With both Flatpak and Snap, that has changed. Introducing more package formats in a crowded landscape sounds complicated, but they have made daily life on a Linux desktop much easier to manage. Let’s look at why.

• POCO F4 launches with Android 12, up to 8 GB of RAM and minor upgrades compared to the POCO F3 - NotebookCheck.net News

• Google Pixel Bluetooth audio playback pausing after Android 12 update

• OnePlus Nord 2 Gets New Android 12 Update Without June Security Patch

• OnePlus 9RT gets OxygenOS 12 Open Beta 1 (Android 12) | Technology

• Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware – TechCrunch

• Clear Your Android Phone's Cookies and Cache To Get Rid of Excess Junk Files - CNET

• Into the Breach is the latest indie game to come to Android via Netflix Games

• The Galaxy Tab S8 has renewed my faith in Android tablets | Digital Trends

• 6 Ways Samsung One UI Is Better Than Stock Android

• Chrome OS update automatically brings photos from Android to your Chromebook | Ars Technica

• 10 Ways to Make Chrome a Better Android Browser

• Google wants input from Android app developers on device compatibility issues | Android Central

• Zack's Kernel News

• Sparkling gems and new releases from the world of Free and Open Source Software

• If You Think It's Great

• Linux Mint MATE 20.3 and FreeBSD 13.1

• Play the free SuperTuxKart racing game locally or online

• Checking for broken links in directory structures

• Moving to open source

• Lightweight Internet communications with the simple Gemini Protocol

• Playing old DOS games on the Raspberry Pi

• HP and System76 Announce the Dev One Laptop

• A simple storyboard editor

• First look at the Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation

• Creating multiboot-capable USB sticks

• Backing up a living system

• Redirect data streams with pipes

• Innovation and Community

• Conveniently read system information with inxi-gui

• Managing time-triggered events with Zeit

• Detect and restart hanging programs with Go

• Taking your hardware's temperature

Everyone comes across new words every day. With these dictionary tools, you can quickly learn more about such words on Linux.

If your work involves reading or writing a lot of text on your computer, a dictionary is an indispensable tool for you. It can save you the trouble of looking up a word on the internet and, in turn, aid you in your workflow.

Having a dictionary app on your computer makes it easy to find the meanings of words you encounter every day, check their spellings, and learn more about them, such as their synonyms and antonyms.

I’ve written about this GStreamer-based GTK media player before, but it was a while ago and I haven’t mentioned it since. It’s actually added quite a few new features since then, including experimental and entirely opt-in Pipewire support.

The latest version of Clapper, version 0.5, introduces a ‘new and improved GSrreamer video sink’. This switch introduces performance improvements and lays groundwork for future performance in the future, and handles overlay of subtitles.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9) is the latest version of Red Hat’s flagship operating system, released at the Red Hat Summit in May 2022. New capabilities added to RHEL 9 help simplify how organizations manage security and compliance when deploying new systems or managing existing infrastructure. This article takes a brief look at three of the new security features available in this release.

The default superuser account in Unix- and Linux-based systems is "root". Because the username is always "root" and access rights are unlimited, this account is the most valuable target for hackers. Attackers use bots to scan for systems with exposed SSH ports, and when found, they attempt to use common usernames and brute-force passwords to gain entry. Of course, the impact of a successful exploit would be a lot lower if the compromised user has unprivileged access. The breach would then be contained and limited to one user only.

• [Meme] EPO All Backwards: Are National Delegates and the Administrative Council Just Puppets of the Office They're Meant to Govern?
• 2,120 EPO Workers Sign Petition to the National Delegates, Who Can Put an End to EPO Abuses (But Repeatedly Fail to Do So)
• [Meme] You Cannot Protest Because...
• EPO Staff at The Hague Complains of New Pressure Tactics and Survey Shows Less than 10% Think Office Policies Serve the EPO's Interests
• Links 24/06/2022: SLE 15 SP4 and Darkbar 1.0.1
• Links 24/06/2022: Mostly Political Catchup
• IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 23, 2022
• Links 24/06/2022: FidelityFX Free Software and a Look at PetaPi

• The Steam Summer Sale is the best sale Valve's done in a long time (plus other Deck News) - Invidious

• 3×47: Fallacious Piece of History | Bad Voltage

  Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Victorian Tumblr is a thing,

• LHS Episode #472: Elementary My Dear Watson | Linux in the Ham Shack

  Hello and welcome to Episode 472 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics epsiode, the hosts discuss several amateur radio and open source related topics including improvements to GNU Radio, the new book from Science is Elementary, Shotcut, WunderGraph, an update on Hamshack Hotline and much more. Thank you for listening and we hope you have a fantastic week.

• Security updates for Friday

  Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ntfs-3g and ntfs-3g-system-compression), SUSE (389-ds, chafa, containerd, mariadb, php74, python3, salt, and xen), and Ubuntu (apache2).

• On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain

  Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written—not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections…people make to public blockchain systems.”

• 4 CNCF Projects For Key Management - Container Journal

  The nuances of cloud-native architecture necessitate some new approaches to security. Not only are container-based microservices inherently distributed, but there is a rising number of dependencies within the software supply chain. As a result, developers are faced with storing and accessing many types of secrets, including API keys, encryption keys, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and others when building cloud-native applications based on containers and running on platforms like Kubernetes. But, leaving such secrets exposed within your codebase goes against security best practices, as an attacker could easily access them.

  Software components must verify every request is coming from a legitimate source, known as authentication, and they must confirm the requesting party has the required permissions to access a resource, known as authorization. As part of this mission, we’ve seen a lot of development activity around automating secret issuance and distribution to securely store and distribute passwords among services.

• Panchan: A New Golang-based Peer-To-Peer Botnet Targeting Linux Servers [Ed: How Microsoft-friendly sites distract from the biggest culprit and badmouth Linux and Golang at the same time (simply because you can install malware)]

• How to Build Organizational Resilience to Cyberattacks [Ed: Can we stop assuming everyone uses Windows or that Windows security is possible/can be salvaged? Security is not part of the goals. Also, alcohol isn't medicine.]

  I became quite interested in cybersecurity around a year ago, given the growing threats of cyberattacks by criminal groups and adversarial governments. I then joined CAMS, MIT’s interdisciplinary cybersecurity consortium and started attending its online weekly seminars. A few weeks ago I attended a CAMS seminar on cyber resilience by Manuel Hepfer, a research affiliate at Oxford University and a research analyst at ISTARI, a cyber risk management company.

  What is cyber resilience? While cybersecurity is the practice of protecting critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks, cyber resilience is the ability to prepare for, withstand, and recover rapidly from any major disruption, whether an intentional cyberattack or a natural disaster.

  The seminar was based on a study by Hepfer and colleagues of the 2017 NotPetya ransomware attacks, a series of powerful cyberattacks which caused over $10 billion in global economic damage across a number of industries. Their study was primarily focused on three global companies that were the subject of NotPetya attacks: a logistics company with over 60,000 employees, a manufacturing one with over 20,000 employees, and a third in professional services with over 5,000 employees.

• Prioritize people during cultural transformation in 3 steps

  For the past few years, organizations have focused on finding technologies and processes that enable their employees to work from home. But with C-suites and HR professionals investing enormous resources into tools and processes, many are doing so without fully considering the most crucial piece of an agile enterprise – the people.

  To optimize performance in this new agile work era, boost employee morale, and recruit and retain the best talent amid a global-scale hiring crisis, organizations also need to address the needs of their workforce.

  As more employees voice their needs and concerns regarding their work lives, here are three ways to prioritize the people within your organization.

• Create a more diverse and equitable open source project with open standards

  This article is intended to serve as a reference so that you can understand everything you need to be proud of your repository and make your open source project more open. By using open standards, an open source project improves its quality and shareability, since such standards exist to foster better communication between creators and consumers of the project. Most importantly, open standards can guide technology development by gently enforcing space for diversity and equity.

• Fedora Community Blog: CPE Weekly Update – Week 25 2022

  The purpose of this team is to take care of day-to-day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.

• The road to JBoss EAP 8 | Red Hat Developer

  As a leading, open source, Jakarta Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE)-compatible application server, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) has been a trusted workhorse for enterprise Java workloads for the past decade. This article describes how the Jakarta EE specifications have evolved since the release of the current version, JBoss EAP 7, and what you can look forward to with JBoss EAP 8.

  JBoss EAP 7 is optimized for cloud environments, and when deployed with Red Hat OpenShift, offers containers, load balancing, elastic scaling, health monitoring, and the ability to deploy to a container directly from the IDE to improve developer productivity and experience.

• AlmaLinux Build System: What You Need to Know

  The AlmaLinux Build System will let users build software for the AlmaLinux distribution. Full access of ALBS is slated for July.

• Utkarsh Gandhi: First Update!

  It's been almost 2 weeks into the GSoC coding period, and the project has picked up the pace!

  [...]

  The current implementation of the New Documents submenu is a GtkPopoverMenu. It uses the GMenuModel, which is added as submenus in the right-click popover menu.
  What we plan to do is to expose all the templates in a single-view, tree-like structure!
  So how are we supposed to do this? Well, the answer is GtkListView as a custom child widget in the popover menu model. And for a GtkListView, we need a GListModel or more specifically GtkTreeListModel as well as a factory to create list items.

• Godot Engine - Godot community poll 2022

  It's this time of the year! Godot Community Poll 2022 is now out for everyone to take part. Let us know what your relationship with Godot is in this brief list of questions!

  The poll is completely anonymous, and you can see the results after filling it. It will remain open for a week. Completing the poll should take less than 5 minutes.

• Fun with Paths and URLs in QML - KDAB

  There are a few small, and sometimes already quite old, features in Qt that, when combined, can be a very nice way to deal with assets in your QML application — especially if some of them live on the file system, some in a resource, and some may need localization or translation. Let’s dive in!

• How to change boot options on Linux | Enable Sysadmin

  When a computer starts, the first processes that happen are on the motherboard. These processes are hardcoded into read-only memory (ROM) chips (collectively called "firmware") on the motherboard, and they happen fast, with the primary goal being to locate a hard drive with a bootable system on it.

• How we wound up with Linux’s kernel mode setting – OSnews

  I’ve got two fantastic posts about Linux today, from the same author – Chris Siebenmann. First, the history behind kernel mode setting in Linux.

• How I sketchnote with open source tools | Opensource.com

  Sketchnoting, also called visual notetaking, is a method of taking notes using illustrations, symbols, graphic layouts, and text. It's meant to be a creative and engaging way to record your thoughts. It can work well in your personal life as well as in your work life. You don't need to be an artist to create a sketchnote, but you do need to listen, and visually combine and summarize ideas through text and drawings.

• How To Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

  This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Ruby on Rails web application framework on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

• Slow YaST in Container or How to Run Programs from Ruby? | YaST

  We noticed that when running the YaST services manager module in a container then the start of the module is about 3 times slower than running in the host system directly. It takes about a minute to start, that is way much…

Darkbar is a tool for pixel perfectionists and dark mode users. It allows you to control whether an application uses dark or light styles for the window controls. It supports X11 and XWayland windows using traditional titlebars (e.g. no client side decorations) like you might find with The GIMP or Electron-based applications.

The SLE engineering team is excited to announce that SLE 15 SP4 is now available for download!
We have been working hard to make this release as boring smooth as possible for our users, despite updating at least 23% of our entire code and syncing selected packages from openSUSE Factory. Countless internal person-hours was required for developing, testing, releasing, documenting this new Refresh Service Pack and yet we also have to thank our Public Beta testers, our Technology Partners and of course our openSUSE community for their priceless contribution! Releasing our SUSE Linux Enterprise product Family is a truly collective effort, so thank you all!

In this article, you will see how to manage gnome extensions from the terminal to list out extensions that have been installed by the system and user. You will also find a way to install, enable, disable, and uninstall extensions all from the terminal itself.

• Google Pixel 4 accidentally gets Android 13 update - Gizchina.com

• Quectel SG560D 5G & WiFi 6E module runs Android 12, targets AIoT applications - CNX Software

• Google Pixel Bluetooth audio playback pausing after Android 12 update

• Motorola Android 12 update and bugs tracker (cont.updated)

• 4 sports apps that you will find useful having on your Android today

• 5 Tips For Setting Up A New Android Phone

• Disney Mirrorverse for Android review: A divergent universe, but a gacha game all the same | Android Central

• The ultimate guide to Android security: Everything you need to know | Android Central

• Android tackles power management w/ community help - 9to5Google

• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip gets June 2022 Android security patch - GSMArena.com news

• Clear Your Android Phone's Cookies and Cache To Get Rid of Excess Junk Files - CNET

• Why this upcoming Android phone is everything the iPhone isn't, and will turn Apple users' heads - PhoneArena

Firstly, An open-source software toolkit called Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) enables the creation of native Android apps based on the Solana blockchain. The Mobile Wallet Adapter, a protocol for connecting mobile Solana wallets, is part of the package. It will function on all mobile devices, not just Android ones, claims the company.

Nonetheless, Keeping private keys, seed phrases, and other sensitive data secure on Android is now possible through the Seed Vault feature. Seed phrases are essentially the passwords that unlock crypto funds, and the company is providing a custody solution to keep them secure. SMS offers Solana Pay for Android, a platform that permits mobile payments.

• The Beginner’s Guide to IPTables (Linux Firewall) Commands

  If you are using Computers for while, you must be familiar with the word “Firewall”. We know that things do seem complex from the surface but through this tutorial, we are going to explain the basis of IPTable and the use of basic commands so that even if you are a networking student or want to deep dive into networks, you can benefit from this guide.

• Backup List of Installed Packages and Restore Them on a Freshly Installed Ubuntu System - TREND OCEANS

  For new Linux users, reinstalling the operating system is a hurdle. It’s funny, but I’ve seen many Linux users manually install packages and applications from their previously installed Linux system into their freshly installed Ubuntu Linux system.

  I used to be one of them, and you might be too. So, let’s forget the time we have wasted and learn today how to backup a list of installed packages and restore them on a freshly installed Ubuntu system.

• How to Enable Arch User Repository (AUR) in Manjaro Linux

  The Linux operating system is associated with various distributions whose design and development footprints are focused on meeting different user requirements. One such distribution is Manjaro Linux.

  Since it is based on the Arch Linux operating system, this free and open-source Linux distribution prioritizes accessibility and user-friendliness as its major design parameters. The Pacman package manager and its rolling release update model are also key identifiers of Manjaro Linux.

• How to Install Angular CLI on Ubuntu 22.04 – TecAdmin

  Angular CLI is a powerful tool that allows developers to quickly create and deploy Angular applications. It provides a number of commands for quickly creating and deploying ng-based applications. We will also cover some of the features of Angular CLI.

• Boot into an Older Kernel By Default in Ubuntu & Other Linux

  Here’s a possible scenario. Your system received a kernel update but somehow things are not working as smoothly as previously.

  You realized that if you boot into the older kernel (yes, you can downgrade kernel), things are back to normal.

  That makes you happy with a little inconvenience. You have to manually select the older kernel at each boot.

  This problem was faced by an elderly It’s FOSS reader. The new kernel update in Linux Mint wasn’t working as expected. Booting into the older kernel ‘fixed’ the issues but choosing the older kernel at each boot was a problem.

  Removing the new kernel (while using the older kernel) is not a good idea because the new kernel will be installed and used with the next system updates.

  So, I suggested booting into the older Linux kernel by default. How to do that? That’s what I am going to show you in this tutorial.

I have already used free and open source software, for example the Linux distribution Ubuntu as part of my studies, or Eclipse even before my studies. However, I have not yet participated in such a project myself.

Apart from the questions, I would also like to thank you again for the support and recognition of my achievements.