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LibreOffice Might Delay Its "Personal Edition" Branding Or Change To "Community Edition"

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 19:06
In response to the largely critical feedback of LibreOffice 7.0-RC1's branding as "Personal Edition" for the standard version of this open-source office suite, the branding is being reconsidered to either delay it until LibreOffice 7.1 or potentially relabel it as the "Community Edition" version...

GCC Compiler Lands Mitigation For Arm's Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 18:38
It took a month after Arm disclosed the CPU "SLS" vulnerability and when the LLVM compiler landed their initial mitigation, but the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has mitigations as well for this Straight Line Speculation vulnerability...

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 18:12
Following last week's release of openSUSE Leap 15.2, this latest community, SUSE-backed Linux distribution release is now available via the Microsoft Store...

A Microsoft Addition For systemd 246 Exposes Host OS Information To Containers

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 15:02
There is a last minute change from a Microsoft engineer to the upcoming systemd 246 that is now undergoing release preparations...

What you need to know about automation testing in CI/CD

opensource.com - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 15:02

"If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough." —Mario Andretti

Test automation means focusing continuously on detecting defects, errors, and bugs as early and quickly as possible in the software development process. This is done using tools that pursue quality as the highest value and are put in place to ensure quality—not just pursue it.


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Expand your Raspberry Pi with Arduino ports

opensource.com - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 15:02

As members of the maker community, we are always looking for creative ways to use hardware and software. This time, Patrick Lima and I decided we wanted to expand the Raspberry Pi's ports using an Arduino board, so we could access more functionality and ports and add a layer of protection to the device. There are a lot of ways to use this setup, such as building a solar panel that follows the sun, a home weather station, joystick interaction, and more.


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Making compliance scalable in a container world

opensource.com - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 15:00

Software is increasingly being distributed as container images. Container images include the many software components needed to support the featured software in the container. Thus, distribution of a container image involves distribution of many software components, which typically include GPL-licensed components. We can't expect every company that distributes container images to become an open source compliance expert, so we need to build compliance into container technology.


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How to Configure Network Services to Auto Start on Boot

Tecmint - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 13:29
It’s usually a good idea to configure essential network services to automatically start on boot. This saves you the hassle of starting them manually upon a reboot and also, the resulting havoc caused in

Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 12:00
Mesa 20.1.3 is out as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable Mesa3D series...

GNOME 3.36.4 Released With Faster Mutter Fix Back-Ported

Phoronix - Thu, 07/09/2020 - 06:09
A day after the GNOME 3.37.4 development release, out today is GNOME 3.36.4 as the latest stable point release for the current desktop series...

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