FOSS Weekly #2 - Linux Laptops, Google's new sorting algorithm, and more.

I am continually amazed by how much happens in a week in the world of open source software. This week, the $219 Linux Laptop I've wanted to buy is coming back into production, Kernel Recipies took place in Paris, and several projects are setting ambitious goals such as reducing carbon emissions in data centers. We've also seen Big Tech companies releasing open source tools, funding projects, and collaborating with governmental organisations.

💻 Software

• Google open sources "Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort" that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort [https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized...]

• KubeCost launches OpenCost to measure and manage cost across cloud native environments [blog.kubecost.com/blog/hello-opencost/]

• Spotify introduces BasicPitch.io, an open source ML model that turns audio into MIDI [engineering.atspotify.com/2022/06/meet-basic-pitch/]

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) now available on Windows Server 2022 [techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/wsl2-now-a]

• GNOME developers are porting GNOME Shell to a phone form factor with support from German Ministry of Education's Prototype Fund [blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022..]

• Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot funded by the European Union [blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation...]

• 13 cool open source web games from Gamedev.js Jam [github.blog/2022-05-31-top-games-source-code-from-gamedev-js-jam-2022/]

🔌 Hardware

• Google launches developer portal to allow anyone to submit open source integrated circuit designs to get manufactured at no-cost. [opensource.googleblog.com/2022/05/Build...]

• Pinebook Pro, the $219 Linux Laptop overcomes production hurdles after an year, will be available in late June [pine64.org/2022/05/31/may-upd...]

• HP Dev One, the Linux Pop!_OS Laptop is available for purchase in the USA [hpdevone.com]

📝 Releases

• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 [github.blog/2022-05-31...]

• Eleven new GNU releases in May [fsf.org/blogs/comm..]

• GNOME 42.2 [gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME...]

• Firefox 101.0 [mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/101.0]

• Linux Lite 6.0, NixOS 22.05, deepin 20.6, and other distro releases [distrowatch.com]

🗞️ Other News

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation establishes a new working group for environmental sustainability. Data Centers are apparently using 2% of the world’s energy. [cncf.io/blog/2022/05/31/cncf-wg-environmental-sustainability/]

• Kernel Recipes 2022 concludes in Paris [kernel-recipes.org/en/2022/category/live-blog/]

• Spotify announces its FOSS Fund recipients. Gives €100K to 8 projects that it rel most on [engineering.atspotify.com/2022/06/say-hello]

• NVIDIA 515.48.07 Linux graphics driver released as first version with open source modules [9to5linux.com/nvidia-515-48-07-linux-gra...]

• GitHub announces Maintainer Month [github.blog/2022-06-01-welcome-to-maintainer-month...]

• Six new members join Fintech Open Source Foundation including Google Cloud and American Express [finos.org/press/six-new-members-join-finos]

• GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil [github.blog/2022-06-01-github-s..]

• Red Hat joins forces with U.S. Department of Energy laboratories to bridge the gap between High-Performance Computing and Cloud Environments [redhat.com/en/about/press-releas...]

🔍 Rare Find of the Week

This blog post by Tavis on how he ported 30-year-old Lotus 1-2-3 to Linux

Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles. [Wikipedia]

Tavis, a vulnerability researcher at Google managed to port Lotus 1-2-3 to Linux. Linux didn't even exist when Lotus 1-2-3 was released!

Read here: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

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