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9 of the biggest open source stories in 2019  TechRepublic

Out today is a new development release of GNOME Shell on the road to GNOME 3.36 in March...

Private Internet Access updates Linux desktop client to prevent against [CVE-2019-14899]  Privacy News Online

Should Discord Be in Your Incident Response Toolbox?  LinuxInsider.com

Intel's OpenSWR software rasterizer for OpenGL as an alternative to the likes of LLVMpipe could soon have OpenGL 4.0 and is a step closer to that code thanks to... Microsoft code...

Linux-driven RISC-V core to debut on an NXP i.MX SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Out today is NVIDIA 440.44 as the latest stable Linux driver update in their new long-lived driver series...

NVIDIA 440.44 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE Honored With Vulkan  Phoronix

Linux Fu: Debugging Bash Scripts  Hackaday

How to use the pipe in Linux commands  TechRepublic

Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019  Phoronix

Recently I wrapped up some benchmarks looking at the performance of Ubuntu on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux comparing WSL on Windows 10 Build 18362 (May 2019 Update) and then both WSL and WSL2 performance using the Windows 10 Build 19008 Insider's Preview (what will come as Windows 10 20H1 update) for looking at where the WSL performance is heading. Additionally, looking at the bare metal performance of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for which the WSL instances were based plus Ubuntu 19.10. As well, for the Windows-compatible tests also looking at how the Windows performance itself was outside of WSL/WSL2.

Microsoft Teams comes to Linux  Computerworld

1. Microsoft Teams comes to Linux  Computerworld
2. Microsoft Teams is now available for Linux  TechRadar
3. Microsoft Brings its Teams Chat and Collaboration App to Linux  Tom's Hardware
4. Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux  The Register
5. Microsoft announces the release of Teams on Linux  Critical Hit
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New release includes an updated CLI and support for custom report formats and analysis tool extensions

Tern is a VMware-originated open source tool that inspects container images to find individual software packages and their metadata installed in the image.

Due to changes in the command line options, Tern version 1.0.0 is the first non-backwards compatible release. If you have been using previous versions of Tern, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest release. You can run Tern by installing it from PyPI or you can clone the project from GitHub and install the project after cloning it.

Tern has a number of built-in report styles available including SPDX tag-value, JSON and YAML. Tern release 1.0.0 provides the ability to customize your own report plugin, which allows data collected by Tern to be formatted in a custom way to accommodate any user’s internal automation and auditing process. Tern uses the OpenStack Stevedore python module to dynamically load any customized report plugins at runtime. If you’re curious about how you can customize your own report plugin, we supply directions for how to do this on Tern’s GitHub page.

In addition to customizing your report format, the Tern 1.0.0 release can be extended to analyze container images using external file or filesystem analysis tools. The two currently supported external tools are scancode-toolkit and cve-bin-tool. Support for formatting the output of these external tools is expected to be completed in subsequent releases.

Scancode-toolkit is a license scanning tool that finds licenses in source code and binaries. cve-bin-tool is a security vulnerability scanning tool that finds common vulnerabilities. Note that although you can use a security scanner with Tern, there isn’t any support for reporting the results beyond printing them to console. This may change as the industry demand for security information in Software Bill of Materials seems to be on the rise. If you would like incorporate your own tool extension to Tern, there are some general steps to follow documented on Tern’s GitHub page.

The 1.0.0 release for Tern also includes important bug fixes to support the SPDX tag-value reporting that Tern does. These bug fixes primarily improve Tern’s compatibility with the SPDX online validation tool.

Other notable additions to Tern in the 1.0.0 release include:

• Enablement for Tern to consume raw image tarballs
• Continue to analyze the base image if a Docker build fails from a Dockerfile
• Gracefully exit if Docker is not installed or properly setup
• Fix working directory cleanup after a keyboard interrupt
• Bug fixes that improve the overall stability and robustness of the tool

The next Tern release will be a little smaller in scope. It will focus on enabling the pip package manager to collect information and adding a “dockerfile freeze” command line option which will produce an annotated Dockerfile with all the versions pinned to the versions Tern finds in order help developers achieve a somewhat repeatable build (similar to the “pip freeze” functionality in Python).

If you are interested in contributing to Tern, or just want to know more about the project, visit our GitHub page.

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Global Linux Software Market Size, Market Share, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and Forecasts, 2019 to 2023  New York Tribunal

Microsoft Teams is first Linux Office 365 app  ITProPortal