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Posted in News Roundup at 4:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ This Is Ubuntu Linux First – Most Important Bug – Invidious

• Ubuntu has been around for an incredibly long time but have you ever wondered what the oldest bug for this popular Linux distro is? No, well I did so here we are.

=> ↺ The FTX Scam Goes So Much Deeper – Invidious

=> ↺ Google Settles Location Privacy Case – Invidious

• This week Google settled the location privacy case sending millions of dollars to over 40 states.

=> ↺ Linux Action News 267

• We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release.

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ mesa 22.3.0-rc3

Applications

=> ↺ Nageru 2.2.0 released

• I’ve released version 2.2.0 of Nageru, my live video mixer. The “big ticket” item this time is AV1 support (through SVT-AV1), but it’s still too experimental for production—in particular, as I’ve written about before, the client ecosystem isn’t quite there yet.

• But there’s also a few cleanups, in particular a dependency removal. Every dependency is a long-term burden, and in retrospect, I shouldn’t have taken on so many. (I am aware that this is ironic given the previous paragraph.) I’m wondering maybe if I should try to control my own fate a bit more and get rid of some.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Seamlessly Run Windows Apps on Your Linux Desktop With WinApps

• WinApps helps you install and run Windows apps on Linux using virtualization and RDP. Here’s how to get started.

• The inability to easily run popular Windows apps on Linux has long been a barrier to the widespread adoption of Linux. While most apps will run with Wine or in a VirtualBox virtual machine, these solutions are kludgy, inelegant, and can require a great deal of fiddling and configuration.

• With WinApps, you can easily manage and run Windows software on Linux, and even integrate it into your system and context menus.

=> ↺ EX180 Series: Install Podman and Set up OpenShift Using CodeReady Containers

• I’ll be taking Red Hat’s EX180 exam in a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d get a homelab set up to go through study material.

=> ↺ How to Install and Use htop in Linux – It’s FOSS

• Windows has its famous task manager. Linux has several GUI and command line system monitors. Every Linux system comes with a couple of them.

• On the command line, the top command is perhaps the goto command for checking the system resource utilization quickly.

• Using top command apart from viewing the processes could be tricky. And this is where htop tops top. Pun aside, htop is a top-like utility but with a better and user-friendly interface.

=> ↺ [Fixed] “Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring” Issue

• First thing first. It is not an error, it is a warning message. A warning does not stop the procedure. You can continue upgrading your system even if you see this warning message during an update.

• If you don’t like seeing the warning message, you can take some manual steps to get rid of it.

• There are two ways; the proper way and the quick and dirty way. Read both methods and see which one you feel comfortable with.

=> ↺ How to Use fgrep Command to Find Text Strings in Files

• In this beginner-friendly guide, we will discuss some practical examples of the fgrep command. By the end of this guide, users will be able to perform text search operations efficiently using the command line interface.

• Text searching is one of the most commonly performed operations. However, this simple task quickly becomes time-consuming if users are not familiar with the correct tools. In Linux, there are various text-filtering utilities such as awk, sed, cut, etc.

=> ↺ Install Nvidia drivers on RHEL 9 – Darryl Dias

• I recently installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on my NUC laptop and it ships with an RTX 3070. In the process of getting the GPU drivers set up, I came across a simple way to set up the official Nvidia drivers on RHEL.

• This article will cover every step. All you need is one reboot and you will have Nvidia drivers running.

=> ↺ How to Install Remi RPM Repo on Fedora 37/36/35

• REMI is a free-to-use repository created and maintained by Remi Collect. The REMI repository’s primary goal is to provide the latest versions of the PHP stack, full-featured, and some other software packages to the Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux) operating systems. The repository contains several thousand individual RPM packages continuously updated to match the latest upstream releases. In addition to providing access to the latest software packages, REMI also makes it easy to install multiple versions of the same software on a single system. This can be useful for testing or when running software that is incompatible with the latest version. REMI is an essential resource for anyone using Fedora or Enterprise Linux, and it is well worth setting up.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to import the Remi Repository on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux for users who prefer to install the latest version of the PHP branch installed on their system using the command line terminal.

=> ↺ How to Install RPM Fusion on Fedora 37/36/35

• RPM Fusion is a repository of add-on packages for Fedora and EL+EPEL that a group of community volunteers maintains. RPM Fusion is not a standalone repository but an extension of Fedora’s default packages that could not be included due to Fedora being bound by the same legal restrictions as Red Hat.

• The RPM Fusion repository comes in two flavors, Free and Non-Free. The free repository contains a free version of the open source and non-free, which mostly have almost all free software but are closed source and mainly proprietary.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install RPM Fusion on your Fedora 37/36/35 workstation or server to install additional open-source or proprietary packages, along with examples of using RPM in the command line terminal. For the long term, you can also search the RPM Fusion repository database for packages by visiting here.

=> ↺ How to Install OnlyOffice on Fedora 37/36/35

• ONLYOFFICE is a powerful and versatile office suite that allows you to edit text documents, spreadsheets, or presentations easily. It also includes many collaborative features, such as a CRM system for keeping track of contacts; a project management toolset that provides organization tools like task lists. The contact list can be accessed from anywhere worldwide via an internet connection! Furthermore, there are mail servers, so messages won’t get lost because they’re stored securely on one central server while users receive notifications whenever somebody sends them something new (which means less stress). And finally, ONLY OFFICE offers an easy way to navigate projects using calendars.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install OnlyOffice on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux by downloading the official RPM repository and installing it manually or using the third-party package manager Flatpak that is natively installed.

=> ↺ How to Create a Sudo User on Fedora 37/36/35

• Sudo is a powerful command line tool that allows users to run programs with administrative privileges. To use sudo, a user must first be added to the sudoers file. When installing Fedora, the user account created during the initial setup should have access to sudo rights. However, there may be a need to add additional sudo users or make the default user have sudo rights.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to create a sudo user and some handy hints and methods on a Fedora 37/36/35 Linux desktop or headless server using the command line terminal.

Distributions and Operating Systems

New Releases

=> ↺ wattOS R12

• wattOS has been rebuilt in 2022 with Debian 11 Bullseye as the basis for the OS. Giving you a stable and reliable foundation.

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ Fedora Linux 37 released! – Invidious

• Fedora version 37, which had a bit of a late start, is a truly fantastic release. Dare I say one of the best Linux distributions available right now.

=> ↺ Firefox 107 on POWER

• Firefox 107 is out, a modest update, though there are some developer-facing changes. As before linking still requires Dan Horák’s patch from bug 1775202 or the browser won’t link on 64-bit Power ISA (alternatively put –disable-webrtc in your .mozconfig if you don’t need WebRTC). Otherwise the build works with the .mozconfigs from Firefox 105 and the PGO-LTO patch from Firefox 101.

=> ↺ Little bug in Apostrophe in Fedora 37 (or “oh, I can’t log into bugzilla”)

• Installed Fedora 37 today and it was a pretty smooth experience. No surprises there. One of the recommended applications (Apostrophe) looked interesting so I installed that and found it wouldn’t start.

• Poking a bit at the terminal I got a Python error that I chased down on google and tracked back to a missing package (webkit2gtk4.0). Once I installed that it ran just fine.

=> ↺ Filipe Rosset: Fedora rawhide – fixed bugs 2022/10

=> ↺ IT hiring: Top 5 tech roles for non-techies | The Enterprisers Project

• Historically, trying to work in the tech industry without a background in tech was like trying to score a backstage pass when your ticket was in the nosebleeds – not impossible, but not easy, either.

• With the growing impact of technology in the day-to-day functions of our lives, however, this has changed. The need for tech workers is growing as all industries and businesses evaluate its implications for innovation and business growth. That means that workers with non-tech backgrounds are becoming increasingly valuable to the overall success of tech companies.

• If you’re interested in joining the tech industry but lack a traditional technology background, check out these five roles.

=> ↺ Modernize at scale with the new migration toolkit for applications

• The migration toolkit for applications from Red Hat equips developers with tools to assess, prioritize, and modernize Java applications across the hybrid cloud on Red Hat OpenShift. Version 6 of the toolkit is now generally available—and it’s a major step up from the previous version, offering new capabilities to accelerate large-scale application modernization efforts. Read on to explore the new toolkit and see a demo.

• Based on the open source Konveyor project, the migration toolkit for applications provides insights and alignment for project leads and migration teams as they move to Red Hat OpenShift for a single application or a portfolio of applications. These insights are a huge boost for developers and organizations looking to modernize and migrate from their legacy platforms to the cloud.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ NVIDIA Jetson Nano based AI camera devkit enables rapid computer vision prototyping

• DLINK “AI Camera Dev Kit” is a pocket-sized NVIDIA Jetson Nano devkit with an 8MP image sensor, industrial digital inputs & outputs, and designed for rapid AI vision prototyping.

• The kit also features a Gigabit Ethernet port, a USB-C port for power, data, and video output up to 1080p30, a microSD card with Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), and a micro USB port to flash the firmware. As we’ll see further below it also comes with drivers and software to quickly get started with AI-accelerated computer vision applications.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ How To Fix The Most Common Android Bluetooth Problems

=> ↺ Koch-funded group sues US state over mobile ‘spyware’ • The Register

=> ↺ What to do when your Android phone is frozen? – Android Authority

=> ↺ Yo Samsung, fans wanna know: Where’s Android 13 for your Fan Edition Galaxy S phones? – SamMobile

=> ↺ Galaxy M14 5G benchmark points at Exynos 1330 chip, Android 13 – SamMobile

=> ↺ PUBG Mobile 2.3 global version APK download link for Android devices

=> ↺ Google making Nearby Share another Android share sheet target

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ My Neighbor Mastodon – David Revoy

• An obvious parody to celebrate 15K followers on Mastodon (it grows quickly because a lot of Twitter users joins it recently). It’s a social network I love because it is made of Free/Libre software, a decentralized network, and open standards for the protocol.

• [...]

• It will for sure weight in my brainstorming; I don’t feel the need to please any ranking algorythm.

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

=> ↺ Mozilla Firefox 108 Enters Public Beta Testing with WebMIDI Enabled by Default

• Firefox 108 doesn’t look like a big update to Mozilla’s web browser, but it does bring a few interesting things, starting with WebMIDI support enabled by default. WebMIDI is an API designed to provide MIDI support in web browsers, making it easier for musicians to interact with music using the Web.

• Firefox 108 also introduces support for importing maps that allow web pages to control the behavior of JavaScript imports by default, as well as support for proper color correction of images tagged with ICCv4 profiles.

SaaS/Back End/Databases

=> ↺ PostgreSQL: CloudNativePG 1.18.0, 1.17.2 and 1.16.4 Released!

• The CloudNativePG Community has announced version 1.18.0, a new minor release of the CloudNativePG Operator, which introduces support for cluster-managed physical replication slots to automatically manage physical replication slots for each hot standby replica in a High Availability cluster, failover events included.

Leftovers

Hardware

=> ↺ Video: EL Graphical Workstation with GPU in the Cloud

• There is a new (to me) commercial remoting protocol named Nice DCV. If using Amazon’s AWS for hosting your graphical workstation, Nice DCV is free… but if you want to run it on your on-premise physical or virtual system, it requires a commercial license. Supposedly Nice DCV is very performant and is being used for cloud hosted graphics workstations used by artists working for CGI production companies.

=> ↺ Smartphone shipments in Europe down by 16% in 3Q 2022

• European smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2022 declined by 16% year-on-year to a shade more than 40 million units, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, attributing this to economic challenges that placed constraints on consumer demand.

• However, the numbers were better than those for the second quarter, with the iPhone 14 launch and a sales push by Xiaomi and realme in Russia bringing about a 4% rise.

• Counterpoint associate director Jan Stryjak said: “The overall climate is still bleak in Europe. Weaker consumer demand for expensive devices, exacerbated by lockdown-related supply issues in China, meant Apple’s iPhone 14 launch was not as strong as expected, helping Samsung keep the top spot.

Security

=> ↺ #StopRansomware: Hive

• Today, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: Hive Ransomware to provide network defenders tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Hive ransomware variants. FBI investigations identified these TTPs and IOCs as recently as November 2022.

• Hive ransomware has targeted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including Government Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology, and—especially—Healthcare and Public Health (HPH).

=> ↺ CISA, NSA, and ODNI Release Guidance for Customers on Securing the Software Supply Chain

• Today, CISA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), published the third of a three-part series on securing the software supply chain: Securing Software Supply Chain Series – Recommended Practices Guide for Customers. This publication follows the August 2022 release of guidance for developers and October 2022 release of guidance for suppliers.

=> ↺ Microsoft fixes Windows Kerberos auth issues in emergency updates

• Microsoft has released optional out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix a known issue triggering Kerberos sign-in failures and other authentication problems on enterprise Windows domain controllers after installing cumulative updates released during November’s Patch Tuesday.

• The company acknowledged and started investigating on Monday when it also said that the known issue could affect any Kerberos authentication scenario within affected enterprise environments.

• While Microsoft has also started enforcing security hardening for Kerberos and Netlogon beginning with the November 2022 Patch Tuesday, it said that these auth problems are not an expected result.

=> ↺ iTWire – F5 issues fixes for BIG-IP, BIG-IQ flaws discovered by Rapid7

• Security firm F5 has released patches for vulnerabilities in its BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products, after the flaws were reported to it on 18 August by threat research outfit Rapid7.

• In a blog post, Rapid7 said both BIG-IP and BIG-IQ were susceptible to unauthenticated remote code execution through forgery of a cross-site request (CVE-2022-41622).

• Additionally, the appliance mode iControl REST was vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution via RPM spec injection (CVE-2022-41800).

• Three bypasses of security controls were also found, the Rapid7 post said, adding that F5 did not consider these to have a reasonable attack surface. All the flaws were discovered by Ron Bowes.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

=> ↺ Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for October 2022

• For the month of October 2022, IFF has filed 03 Right to Information (“RTI”) applications, 01 first appeal. In significant responses, the Ministry of Law and Justice told us that they do not keep a copy of the legal opinions sought by Ministries and Departments; and DoT shared the order constituting the committee which drafted the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022.

• [...]

• One of our key areas of work is ensuring that public authorities respect data privacy and engage in practices that will protect the right to privacy. We filed a first appeal with the Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; on their non-response to our RTI application seeking information on use of Facial Recognition Technology by them under IFF’s Project Panoptic.

• Under the project, we routinely file RTI applications with various public authorities after we come across news reports that they are developing or using facial recognition technology (FRT). We also filed an RTI with Delhi Public Works Department on CCTVs and FRT in Delhi prisons.

• For more information on the use of facial recognition technology and how it increases mass surveillance, visit IFF’s Project Panoptic.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Elon Musk: Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week – BBC News

• It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

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