today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2022

• Valve’s Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais' Interview with Japanese Media: "We don't consider the Nintendo Switch to be a competitor" - Boiling Steam

  As I was going around my press reviews for what was written about the Steam Deck in Japan after the Tokyo Games Show, I came across this exclusive interview given by Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais during their stay in Japan, just before the Tokyo Games Show 2022 started. I have prepared a translation below so that you can all enjoy making sense of it, but the original article (from Nikkei X-Trend) is here and should be considered the better source if you can read Japanese. If you reference the English translation please link to this page as well.

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  For example, we are working with Google to run Steam on Chrome OS. A prototype version of the software has already been released.

• RemotePC Offers High Performance and Affordable Remote Access for Linux Machines

  RemotePC™, an award-winning remote access provider is offering one of the industry's best and most affordable remote desktop access for Linux solutions, allowing users to connect directly to their Linux machines and manage them from anywhere.

• Meet the New Release of ODBC Driver for BigCommerce with macOS and Linux Support

  Devart, a recognized vendor of world-class data connectivity solutions for various technologies and frameworks, announces the new version of ODBC Driver for BigCmmerce 2.0 with macOS and Linux support.

• IoT Project Lifecycle: Efficient prototyping with Snaps and Ubuntu Core [Part I] | Ubuntu

  There is nothing more exciting than creating something new. Whether developing a new idea, coding a new software feature or creating a new product altogether. After a lot of hard work, we can finally see users interacting with the system and sharing their feedback. The quickest way to reach that point in a project is to start prototyping early.

  With an abundance of hardware and software available, it has never been easier to create a working prototype. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings. Providing an interactive solution to stakeholders and potential users is the easiest and fastest way to convey and validate your ideas.

• Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022 | Ubuntu

  The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.

• Gunnar Wolf: 6237415

  Years ago, it was customary that some of us stated publicly the way we think in time of Debian General Resolutions (GRs). And even if we didn’t, vote lists were open (except when voting for people, i.e. when electing a DPL), so if interested we could understand what our different peers thought.

  This is the first vote, though, where a Debian vote is protected under voting secrecy. I think it is sad we chose that path, as I liken a GR vote more with a voting process within a general assembly of a cooperative than with a countrywide voting one; I feel that understanding who is behind each posture helps us better understand the project as a whole.

  But anyway, I’m digressing… Even though I remained quiet during much of the discussion period (I was preparing and attending a conference), I am very much interested in this vote — I am the maintainer for the Raspberry Pi firmware, and am a seconder for two of them. Many people know me for being quite inflexible in my interpretation of what should be considered Free Software, and I’m proud of it. But still, I believer it to be fundamental for Debian to be able to run on the hardware most users have.