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FOSS Weekly #12 - Linux Phones, Ubuntu LTS, yuzu on Linux, updates from big tech, ton of releases, and more
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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