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Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 1:50p |
Plasma 5.20 released Version 5.20 of the Plasma KDE desktop is out. " A massive release, containing improvements to dozens of components,
widgets, and the desktop behavior in general.
Everyday utilities and tools, such as the Panels, Task Manager,
Notifications and System Settings, have all been overhauled to make them
more usable, efficient, and friendlier." There are also significant improvements in Plasma's Wayland support. | | 1:58p |
The Open Invention Network's expanded Linux System Definition The Open Invention
Network, which offers patent protection for a wide range of open-source software, has expanded its Linux System
Definition — the set of software covered by the OIN patent non-aggression agreement. In particular, the new definition includes the exFAT filesystem (once the subject of a lot of patent worries), the KDE Frameworks, the Robot Operating System, and version 10 of the Android Open Source Project. | | 2:06p |
Plausible relicenses to AGPL Plausible, a web-analytics package that was reviewed here in June, has announced a move from the MIT license to the Affero GPL, version 3. " This change
makes no difference to any of you who subscribe to Plausible Cloud or who
self-host Plausible, but it may upset a few corporations who tried to use
our software to directly compete with us without contributing back." | | 2:14p |
An open letter to Apache OpenOffice On the 20th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the OpenOffice.org suite, the LibreOffice project has sent an
open letter to the Apache OpenOffice project suggesting that it is time for the latter to recognize that the game is over. " If Apache
OpenOffice wants to still maintain its old 4.1 branch from 2014, sure,
that’s important for legacy users. But the most responsible thing to do in
2020 is: help new users. Make them aware that there’s a much more modern,
up-to-date, professionally supported suite, based on OpenOffice, with many
extra features that people need." | | 3:02p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (mariadb), openSUSE (qemu and tigervnc), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (chromium-browser and kernel), and SUSE (php5). | | 5:49p |
[$] Python and the infinite A recent proposal on the python-ideas mailing list would add a new way to represent floating-point infinity in the language. Cade Brown
suggested the change; he cited a few different reasons for it, including fixing an inconsistency in the way the string representation of infinity is handled in the language. The discussion that followed branched in a few directions, including adding a constant for "not a number" (NaN) and a more general discussion of the inconsistent way that Python handles expressions that evaluate to infinity. | | 6:01p |
[$] Some 5.9 kernel development statistics The 5.9 kernel was
released on October 11, at the end of a ten-week development cycle — the first release to take more than nine weeks since 5.4 at the end of 2019. While this cycle was not as busy as 5.8, which
broke some records, it was still one of the busier ones we have seen in some time, featuring 14,858 non-merge changesets contributed by 1,914 developers. Read on for our traditional look at what those developers were up to while creating the 5.9 release. |
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