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FOSS Weekly #12 - Linux Phones, Ubuntu LTS, yuzu on Linux, updates from big tech, ton of releases, and more
Sai Phanindra
August 12, 2022
Here are all the updates from the open source world this week. Two privacy-focussed phones published their updates, the Kubuntu laptop has a sale, yuzu released their Linux installer, and lots of projects shipped new releases.
🐧 Linux and Open source news
After long delays, Purism’s Librem 5 USA phone will ship in 10 days [puri.sm/posts/librem-5-usa]
Volla Phone August update: crowdfunded project ships new model [volla.online/august-update-22]
Kubuntu Focus Laptop back to school sale [kfocus.org/news/#bkm_back_to_school]
Canonical releases Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS [canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-22-04-lts]
Fedora Beta test weeks for the Fedora Kernel 5.19 and GNOME 43 announced [fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-beta-test-weeks/]
Asahi Lina is working on the new Apple Silicon GPU driver for Linux using Rust [lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/]
OpenStreetMap turns 18 [blog.openstreetmap.org/happy-18th-anniversary-openstreetmap/]
yuzu, the open-source emulator for Nintendo Switch releases installer for Linux [yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-linux-installer/]
📰 Big Tech and Enterprise
Autodesk, DNEG, and Sony Pictures open sources review and playback tools as part of Academy Software Foundation's open review initiative [aswf.io/news/academy-software-foundation]
Google overtakes Microsoft in number of active contributors for all of 2022 [opensourceindex.io]
Microsoft open sources over 1500 of its 3D emojis for creators [medium.com/microsoft-design/designing-in-the-open-source] [github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji]
GitHub will start sending dependabot alerts for vulnerable GitHub Actions [github.blog/dependabot-now-alerts...]
Boeing joins the Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) project [linuxfoundation.org/featured/boeing-joins-the-elisa-project...]
📝 Releases
Kali Linux 2022.3: Discord server, test lab, etc. [kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2022-3]
Sparky Linux 6.4 quarterly update [sparkylinux.org/sparky-6-4/]
Rescuezilla 2.4 gets Ubuntu 22.04 [github.com/rescuezilla/..releases/2.4]
PostgreSQL security fixes [postgresql.org/news/postgresql...beta-3-released]
EndeavourOS Artemis Neo minor update [endeavouros.com/artemis-neo]
Rust 1.63 brings scoped threads [blog.rust-lang.org/Rust-1.63.0.html]
ElementaryOS progress updates [blog.elementary.io/updates-for-july-2022]
This week in KDE: Accessibility improvements [pointieststick.com/week-in-kde]
This week in GNOME: Refined Documentation [thisweek.gnome.org/twig-56/]
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