today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 29, 2022

• Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (frr, gerbv, mujs, and twisted), Fedora (nodejs and python-virtualbmc), Oracle (dotnet7.0, kernel, kernel-container, krb5, varnish, and varnish:6), SUSE (busybox, python3, tiff, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (harfbuzz).

• Results from the survey about LibreOffice Impress - LibreOffice Design Team

  Similar to the questionnaires about LibreOffice Draw (see first and second blog post) and LibreOffice Calc (see this post) we now run a survey on LibreOffice Impress to learn how the program is utilized, what features are used most frequently, and what users see as positive and negative and what they expect of the future.

• Start the holiday season by becoming a member of the Open Source Initiative. [Ed: OSI wants people to pay to help Microsoft attack Free software via the OSI, promoting GPL violation and proprietary software instead]

• The new Arduino Cloud for Business will have you... on a cloud! | Arduino Blog

  While our philosophy is all about the democratization of technology, we are well aware that businesses and professional users have specific needs: that’s why our Pro business unit is entirely focused on catering to them, with dedicated solutions that meet the strictest requirements for performance and security.

  And after growing our Arduino Pro hardware portfolio with over a dozen new components in the past few months, we are happy to announce a major software advancement in our ecosystem: the Arduino Cloud for Business offers unique benefits for companies and industrial clients wanting enhanced features in terms of device management, RBAC, fleet management and safe remote access.

• COI Uno5 Projector with 800 ANSI lumens brightness will shortly begin crowdfunding - NotebookCheck.net News

  Plus, the Linux-based projector supports HDR10 and Dolby Atmos technologies.

• Gunnar Hellekson draws on passion for Linux and public sector expertise to run Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux - SiliconANGLE

  Gunnar Hellekson draws on passion for Linux and public sector expertise to run Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux

  [...]

  Red Hat’s RHEL strategy for the edge is also closely linked to its Ansible Automation Platform. In May, the company strengthened its edge focus with a series of updates for Ansible and OpenShift that included a new automated mesh element for edge environments. By automating edge workloads and moving them closer to devices, Red Hat believes this will appeal to enterprise customers seeking to simplify IT tasks and lower operational costs.

• CACI’s Archon Joins Red Hat Embedded Partner Program - HS Today

  CACI International Inc has joined the Red Hat Embedded Partner Program. Through this program, CACI and Red Hat will collaborate to deliver an enterprise scalable, Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) mobility solution using CACI’s Archon product line with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundation to provide a sophisticated customer experience. As both a CSfC Trusted Integrator and CSfC Solution Provider, CACI’s Archon offers capabilities that enable secure remote access to classified environments with turnkey onboarding and administration.

• The three tiers of Linux distribution difficulty | ZDNET

  Linux has been around since 1996 and has, over the years, been maligned as being too difficult for average users. In some cases, there were claims that Linux was simply too challenging for anyone who wasn't a developer. When I first started using Linux (back in '97), it was very challenging -- beyond the grasp of average users and even some advanced Windows users.

• 120HZ on Chromebooks doesn’t yet extend to Android or Linux

  I've really been enjoying 120Hz Chromebooks, but as it was recently pointed out, this fantastic feature doesn't extend to the Android or Linux portions of ChromeOS quite yet.

• FFmpeg - tips and tricks | There and back again

  Over the years, and in particular with preparing videos of a conference for publication on YouTube, I have accumulated a few reminders how to do things with FFmpeg. It is such a fantastic beast full of features, that I will never run out of new things to learn.

• GNU Linux Debian 10/11 – /etc/apt/sources.list suddenly empty (Signal?)

  something must have gone wrong during a apt update && apt upgrade…