Linux and Open Source news you might have missed - July 2019
998Here are your Linux and Open Source News for the month of July 2019 ! This month, we have new distro releases, more Proton stuff, and some new hardware to look forward to !
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Miscrosoft announced that Linux has now surpassed windows on Azure.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server/
Mageia 7 was released.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_7_Release_Notes
Valve has announced they are working on a new MESA shader compiler called ACO, for AMD graphics.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1602634609636894200
A 17 year old flaw in Firefox still won't be patched.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/87928/hacking/firefox-flaw-data-theft.html
Gaming on Linux celebrated its 10 year anniversary.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/10-years-ago-gamingonlinux-was-created-what-a-ride-its-been.14505
Firefox is testing the waters for a new subscription that would remove ads from partner websites for 4,99€ per month.
https://firstlook.firefox.com/proxy/v4/
Wine 4.12 was released, bringing improvements to enumerating display devices, more support for plug and play drivers, and a lot of bugfixes.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.12
Debian 10 Buster released after 25 months in development.
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706
A new version of WPS Office has been released.
http://wps-community.org/downloads
THe Linux kernel version 5.2 has been released, which has seen 596 thousand new lines of code commited (including new stuff, and changes).
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/linux-5-2-kernel-features
A new version of D9VK was released, with a ton of new features, such as the support for hardware cursor, which should help in games like old World of Warcraft.
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/releases/tag/0.13
Fedora announced that they will disable the Gnome software Snap plugin.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/fedora-31-snap-plugin-removal
DXVK 1.3 was released with a bunch of technical improvements and new instructions which should enable to squeeze more performance out of Intel and Nvidia hardware.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3
Tim Sweeney from epic games discussed Linux and Gaming, bringing a few clarifications that might allow us Linux users to see them in a relatively more positive light.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/epic-games-tim-sweeney-talks-linux-and-gaming-some-more-says-linux-is-great.14576
A new version of the steam client was published by Valve, bringing improved support for SteamVR, the Switch Pro Controller, and steam remote play.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/52467/
Deepin 15.11 was released, bringing more polish to an already pretty good looking distro.
https://www.deepin.org/fr/2019/07/19/deepin15-11/
IBM has been working on a cancer-fighting AI, and has now made it open source.
https://www.linux.com/news/ibm-open-sources-cancer-fighting-ai-project
elementary OS presented their new users onboarding experience, which allows newcomers to get to grips with the features and configure important stuff right off the bat after an install.
https://medium.com/elementaryos/get-settled-into-elementary-os-with-onboarding-49a3e7031895
The PineBook Pro, a 200$ laptop, is now available for preorder.
https://store.pine64.org/?product=14-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop
THe Librem 5 phone specs have been finally revealed, and they paint a definitely mid-tier phone, with a 720p screen, a quad core ARM processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32Gb of storage.
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
The floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel has been marked as orphaned, which means that no developer can work on it anymore.
https://itsfoss.com/end-of-floppy-disk-in-linux/
Manjaro has announced that they would integrate snap support in Pamac, their package manager, on their GNOME, KDE, and XFCE editions. Additionaly, Manjaro rolled another weird change: they'll ship FreeOffice by default.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/testing-update-2019-07-29-kernels-xfce-4-14-pre3-haskell/96690
Blender 2.8 was released, bringing a huge number of improvements to an already stellar piece of software.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
Proton 4.11 was realeased, based on Wine 4.11.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog#411-1
Linux Mint Tina 19.2 was released, bringing a lot of improvements over the previous iteration.
https://linuxmint.com/rel_tina_cinnamon_whatsnew.php