FOSS Weekly #16 - GNOME Mobile Update, Blender 3.3, OpenWrt 22.03, & a Red Hat IPO story
Sai Phanindra
September 09, 2022
Hope you had a good week! Here's everything happened this week in open source. Few interesting updates and lots of releases from projects. Also added an interesting story about Red Hat IPO from two decades ago at the end.
🐧 Linux updates
- GNOME shell on mobile (update) [blogs.gnome.org/.../gnome-shell-on-mobile]
- Fedora looks to replace DNF with DNF5 [fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceDnfWithDnf5]
- Debian bullseye 11.5 released [debian.org/News/2022/2022091002]
- Linux Plumbers Conference starts on 12th September in Dublin [lpc.events/event/16/timetable/#all]
📰 News
- Software Freedom Conservancy to host sourceware.org [sourceware.org/pipermail/overseers/2022q3...]
- Richard Stallman releases the "GNU C Language Intro and Reference Manual" [announcement] [repository]
- Altair releases Radioss as open source project [announcement] [github.com/OpenRadioss/OpenRadioss]
- Bitwarden raises $100 Million [bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden...]
- OPPO and Heroic labs join the Open 3D Foundation [linuxfoundation.org/press-release/open-3d-foundation-welcomes-new-members..]
📝 Releases
- Blender 3.3 LTS [blender.org/download/releases/3-3]
- LibreOffice 7.3.6 [blog.documentfoundation.org/...libreoffice-7-3-6]
- TensorFlow 2.10 [blog.tensorflow.org/2022/09/whats-new-in-tensorflow..]
- OpenWrt 22.03.0 [openwrt.org/releases/22.03...]
- ElementaryOS updates [blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2022]
- Distrobox 1.4 [github.com/89luca89/distrobox/releases/tag/1.4.0]
- Debian 10.3 [debian.org/News/2022/20220910]
- Homebrew 3.6.0 [brew.sh/2022/09/07/homebrew-3.6.0]
- Qt 5.15.6 [lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/develop..]
🔗 Also read
- This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/09/twig-60]
- This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com/..getting-plasma-5-26-ready]
- Fedora weekly round up [communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-36]
💡Interesting Finds
Did you know that Red Hat set aside 800,000 of the 6 million shares during its 1999 IPO to 3,500 open source contributors? While lots of developers thought the email was spam, some were able to buy the stock for $14 and it more than tripled to $52 post listing. Here's an article by Wall Street Journal from August 1999: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB934929846359464254
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