today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 14, 2023

• Linux Around The World: USA – Arizona

  We cover user groups that are running in the US state of Arizona. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.

• Sudo Show 62: Linux Desktop Application Landscape

  The Hosts get back together to talk about our point of view on the previous and current state of the Linux app ecosystem and development state as a follow up to episode 61...

• Sriyansh Shivam: GSoC 2023 [Ed: "GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization" is false because it's acting as a front group for greedy for-profit corporations]

  What is GSoC?

  Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.

  GNOME Foundation :

  GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Orinda, California, United States, coordinating the efforts in the GNOME project. The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software.

• Petter Reinholdtsen: OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time

  A bit delayed, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch package in Debian now got the latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm. Because it depend on a package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the testing migration script did not understand that the tests were actually working, so the migration was delayed. A bug in the package dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package (opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui) installed by default. I am very grateful to Gustavo Iñiguez Goya for his work on getting the package ready for Debian Bookworm.

• Kubernetes Cluster Features 8 Raspberry Pis, Custom PCB

  Alexander Rau has created a custom Raspberry Pi-powered cluster using Kubernetes with automated functions handled by Ansible.

• Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 4

  After a lot of work I did in parallel for my previous post, almost everything is done. Now we need to check everything together and reassemble the machine! PSU Check As the PSU only produces a 5v output the test was relatively easy.

• The Artist and the Amiga

  Andy Warhol was enamored with the first computer he ever owned—and he didn’t seem all that worried about the risks of disruption.