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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #162 - October 2020

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Ubuntu Devices

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My Opinion

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Krita For Old Photos

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Letters

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Review

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Inkscape

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Ubuntu Games

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WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE

T his month, we have the usual suspects of Python, Inkscape, Krita and Rawtherapee, Podcast Production but Erik begins a new series (in Command & Conquer) about Nmap. To paraphrase Groucho Marx: "it may look complicated, it may sound complicated, but don't let it fool you. It really is complicated". But this month brings the Krita series to an end.

I'm sure you know by now that the next version of Ubuntu, and it's cousins, have been released. Well, Adam Hunt springs to the rescue with a review of the brand spanking new Ubuntu 20.10 with reviews of the other flavors in the coming months.

Elsewhere, we have an excellent piece from H?seyin about how, in 2015, a municipality in Turkey converted to using Pardus Linux and LibreOffice. It just shows how it can be done!

That's it for this month. Stay safe and well!

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LIBREOFFICE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF THE PROJECT:

28.09.2020

T he LibreOffice community has celebrated ten years since its inception. Ten years ago, the leading developers of formed a new nonprofit organization, The Document Foundation, to continue the development of the office suite as a project independent of Oracle, not requiring developers to transfer property rights to the code and making decisions based on the principles of meritocracy.

The project was created a year after the takeover of Sun Microsystems due to dissatisfaction with the tight control of development by Oracle, which prevented interested companies from connecting to collaboration.

https:// blog. blog/2020/09/27/libreoffice-10thanniversary/

OPENSSH 8.4 RELEASED:

28.09.2020

A fter four months of development , the release of OpenSSH 8.4 is presented, an open client and server implementation for the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols."OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support."

Just a long list of changes:

openssh-unix-dev/2020-September/ 038826.html

DSL (DOS SUBSYSTEM FOR LINUX) PROJECT FOR RUNNING LINUX APPLICATIONS FROM MSDOS ENVIRONMENT:

09/28/2020

C harlie Somerville, who develops the CrabOS operating system in

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Rust as a hobby, presented a comic, but quite working draft DOS Subsystem for Linux (DSL). It is positioned as an alternative to the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) subsystem developed by Microsoft for those who prefer to work in DOS. Like WSL, the DSL subsystem allows you to directly launch Linux applications, not from Windows, but from the MS-DOS or FreeDOS command shell. The subsystem sources are distributed under the AGPLv3 license.

A DOS environment with a DSL layer can be run in the form of a QEMU virtual machine, or installed on real hardware. Linux programs are launched using the dsl utility, similar to the wsl utility.

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RELEASE OF UBUNTU GAMEPACK 20.04:

09/29/2020

U buntu GamePack 20.04 is available for download, which

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includes tools for running more than 85 thousand games and applications, both specially developed for the GNU / Linux platform, and games for Windows launched with PlayOnLinux, CrossOver and Wine, as well as older games for MS-DOS and games for various game consoles (Sega, Nintendo, PSP, Sony PlayStation, ZX Spectrum).

The distribution kit is built on Ubuntu 20.04 and includes all updates, as of September 2020.



MIR DISPLAY SERVER 2.1 RELEASED:

09/29/2020

T he release of the display server Mir 2.1 is out, the development is continued by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the development of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in

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demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, which allows any application that uses Wayland (for example, built with GTK3 / 4, Qt5, or SDL2) to run in Mir-based environments. Installation packages are prepared for Ubuntu 18.04-20.10 ( PPA ) and Fedora 30/31/32 . The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.

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SCUMMVM 2.2.0 IS OUT:

09/29/2020

T he release of the free crossplatform interpreter of classic games, ScummVM 2.2.0 was released, which replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to run on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.

In total, it is possible to launch more than 250 quest games and

about 1600 interactive text games, including games from LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution Software, Cyan and Sierra, such as Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner, King's Quest 17 , Space Quest 1-6, Discworld, Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, and The Legend of Kyrandia.

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MESA 20.2.0, A FREE

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OPENGL AND VULKAN RELEASED:

09/29/2020

R epresented by release of free API OpenGL implementation and Vulkan - Mesa 20.2.0 . In Mesa 20.2 implemented full support for OpenGL 4.6 for GPU Intel (i965 drivers, iris) and AMD (radeonsi), OpenGL support 4.5 for GPU AMD (r600), NVIDIA ( nvc0) and llvmpipe, OpenGL 4.3 for virgl (virtual the GPU Virgil3D for QEMU / KVM), as well as Vulkan 1.2 support for Intel and AMD cards.

archives/mesa-announce/2020September/000600.html

OBS STUDIO 26.0 VIDEO STREAMING SYSTEM RELEASED:

30.09.2020

O BS Studio 26.0 for streaming, streaming, compositing and video recording is out. The code is written in C / C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Binaries are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS.

The development goal of OBS Studio is to create a free version of the Open Broadcaster Software application, not tied to the Windows platform, supporting OpenGL and extensible via plugins.



XEN HYPERVISOR SUPPORTS RASPBERRY PI 4 BOARD:

30.09.2020

T he developers of the Xen project announced the implementation of the possibility

of using the Xen Hypervisor on Raspberry Pi 4 boards. Adapting Xen to work on previous versions of Raspberry Pi boards was hampered by the use of a nonstandard interrupt controller that does not have support for virtualization. The Raspberry Pi 4 used the usual GIC-400 interrupt controller supported in Xen, and the developers expected that there would be no problems starting Xen. But in reality, everything turned out not to be as expected, and in order to make Xen work on the Raspberry Pi 4, noticeable changes had to be made to the code to work with memory. The fixes were included in the Linux 5.9 kernel, and now Xen is recognized as ready for virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4 boards.

xen-on-raspberry-pi-4-adventures/

PALE MOON 28.14 BROWSER RELEASED:

30.09.2020

T he Pale Moon 28.14 web browser has been released, a fork of the Firefox codebase to provide better work efficiency, preserve the classic interface,

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