Linux, Open Source, and Privacy News - 1st to 15th November
980Here are some Linux, Open Source, and Privacy news you might have missed during the first half of November 2019 !
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Dell announced they would up the number of configurations they’ll offer with ubuntu.
https://bartongeorge.io/2019/10/31/xps-13-developer-edition-portfolio-up-8x-in-the-states-6-core-and-more/
ProtonMail has open sourced its iOS application.
https://protonmail.com/blog/ios-open-source/
Wine 4.19 was released, with fixes for AMR64, more visual basic script features, and 41 bug fixes.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.19
Getting Things GNOME, the Gnome task manager inspired by GTD is in the process of being picked up by a new developer.
https://fortintam.com/blog/survey-on-making-gtg-sustainable/
Firefox announced that sideloading extensions won’t be allowed anymore in Firefox 73, expected to release in February 2020.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/
LibreOffice will use native GTK dialogs in its version 6.4, instead of the current custom toolkit they use.
https://caolanm.blogspot.com/2019/10/native-gtk-dialogs-in-libreoffice.html
A bug has been discovered in the latest version of Ubuntu: it seems taht the system could share a user’s photos, videos, and music on a LAN network.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/11/rygel-autostart-media-sharing-bug-ubuntu
Mozilla announced that they would block notification prompts in Firefox.
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricting-notification-permission-prompts-in-firefox/
Nvidia released a new version of their Linux driver.
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/153226/en-us
Microsoft announced they would bring their antivirus software, called Microsoft Defender, to Linux.
https://www.fosslinux.com/24186/microsoft-defender-atp-is-coming-to-linux-in-2020.htm
Microsoft announced officially that Microsoft Edge would be coming to Linux.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/11/04/introducing-the-new-microsoft-edge-and-bing
Steam might be bringing its own cloud offering to the table, called Steam Cloud gaming.
Firefox celebrated its 15th Birthday.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90428050/firefox-at-15-its-rise-fall-and-privacy-first-renaissance
Proton 4.11-8 was released, with updates to DXVK 1.4.4, D9VK 0.3, and new versions of Mono and Faudio, and adds VKD3D.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
Microsoft will enact the measures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, everywhere in the United States.
https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/221821/microsoft-to-support-ccpa-everywhere-in-the-u-s
Google revealed its Stadia launch lineup, and it’s far from impressive. Only 12 games will be available at launch.
https://www.blog.google/products/stadia/lineup-games-coming-to-stadia/
The Linux App Summit took place, and ended on November 15th. It regrouped developers and contributors drom Canonical, CodeThink, elementary OS, GNOME, KDE, LibreOffice, Purism, Ubuntu...
https://www.toolinux.com/?Le-Linux-App-Summit-2019-commence-aujourd-hui
OnlyOffice is now available on Flathub.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors
Intel seems to have lied when they said they had fixed all know flaws linked to Spectre and meltdown in May.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/technology/intel-chip-fix.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Brave, the chromium based browser, launched its version 1.0. It boasts 8 million users, and 300 thousand publishers on board to make use of their Basic Attention token.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/brave-launches-version-1-0-of-its-privacy-focused-browser/
Codeweavers, developers of Crossover, a commecially supported implementation of Wine, and one of the project’s major contributors, is looking for a graphics developer to further the DirectX implementation.
https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs#job-gfx
Disney+ launched, and it seems it doesn’t work on linux, probably for some DRM related reason.
www.disneyplus.com
The Ubuntu Snap team wrote a blog post stating the technical differences between flatpak and snap, and it’s worth a read.
https://snapcraft.io/blog/a-technical-comparison-between-the-snap-and-the-flatpak-formats
Some mad developers are now working on allowing developers to include DXVK directly in their DirectX games, bypassing the need to port them with wine.
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk/commit/c333d4fe027b2ba8a6ce42f4f792afd70b280a92
Wine 4.20 was released, bringing yet another new version of the Mono .net engine, ans dome updates for Vulkan.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.20