News recap for Linux, Open Source, and Privacy - September 2019
509News recap for September 2019, for Linux, open source and privacy topics. In this one, a lot of gaming updates, a new steam library, a GNOME lawsuit, and a bunch of interesting projects to follow !
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KdeConnect first release on Mac OS X.
https://kde.inoki.cc/2019/09/01/KDE-Connect-macOS-GSoC-Final-Release/
AMD looking to hire someone with UEFI and CoreBoot experience.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-For-Coreboot
Firefox 69 ships with cryptomining and third party tracking cookies protection enabled by default.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/
Brave accused Google of tracking people through a mechanism called push pages.
https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/
Microsoft announced a Linux powered AI camera.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-qualcomm-accelerate-ai-with-vision-ai-developer-kit/
Lutris brings D9VK support and Discord integration.
https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.3
Microsoft is bringing Microsoft Teams to Linux.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16911565-linux-client
DXVK 1.3.4, a small maintenance release.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.4
Manjaro announced they are creating a company.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-is-taking-the-next-step/102105
Microsoft will host a conference on the windows subsystem for Linux.
https://www.wslconf.dev/
The Eclipse Foundation and Oracle have made Java Entreprise Edition 8 open source, under the Jakarta brand.
https://jakarta.ee/release/
Manjaro 18.1 Juhraya brings a new setup screen to choose between FreeOffice, LibreOffice, and integrates snap and flatpak.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-18-1-0-juhraya-finaly-released/102668
GNOME 3.34 brings performance improvements to the shell, and the ability to create folders in the app overview, by drag and drop.
https://youtu.be/ElfpeiDHbwE
The /e/ operating system, a replacement for Google's Android has seen its first beta.
https://medium.com/hackernoon/leaving-apple-google-e-first-beta-is-here-89e39f492c6f
Huawei is now selling some of its laptops with Deepin Linux preinstalled.
https://www.linux.com/news/huawei-selling-matebook-laptops-with-linux-preinstalled/
The US Government is singling out the Pentagon for failing to meet its quota of open source.
https://www.linux.com/news/the-pentagon-needs-to-make-more-software-open-source-watchdog-says/
Mozilla is trying to make youTUBE work on its algorithm
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkhm4NLSoXZKNCWt4tGIeE0XQBQN7vNvWFtU6QEBJBpDSjhQ/viewform
Proton 4,11-4 has been released, with improvements to how games capture the mouse pointer, and how controllers are handled.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
Wine 4.16 has been released as well fixing 16 bugs
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.16
Version 5.3 of the Linux kernel has been released with support for AMD Navi GPUs, Zhaoxin x86CPUs.
https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
Canonical listed the 199 packages that will be maintained for the 32bit architecture in Ubuntu 20.04.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-process-for-32-bit-compatibility/12598
Valve released the new Steam Library interface in public beta.
https://store.steampowered.com/libraryupdate
DXVK 1.4 was released, and it brings support for Direct3D 11.4, which should fix issues with some games, and HDR.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.4
Thanks to Gaming On Linux, I learned about BoxTron, which is kind of like Proton, but for DOS games.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/running-dosbox-games-from-steam-on-linux-just-got-better-with-a-fresh-release-of-boxtron-for-steam-play.15068
Proton version 4.11-6 has been released, upgrading DXVK to version 1.4, which allows the Rockstar Launcher to start, and GTA 5 to be played again !
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
D9VK version 0.21 was also released, with more support for DirectX9 features
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/releases/tag/0.21
Purism announced that the first batch of Librem 5 phones started shipping.
https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/
DXVK 1.4.1 was released, fixing bugs and crashes in DirectX 10 games.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.4.1
Wine 4.17 was also released, with a new version of Mono, the Windows Script runtime Library, and 14 bug fixes.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.17
The GNOME foundation is being sued by Rothschild patent Imaging LLC, a patent troll.
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/
D9VK version 0.22 was released
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/releases