News briefs for October 25, 2018.
SUSE
recently joined the OpenChain Project, which makes “open source license
compliance simpler and more consistent”. HPCWire notes that “conformance
with the OpenChain Specification confirms that an organization follows the
key requirements of a quality open source compliance program, and builds
trust between organizations in the supply chain”. In addition, SUSE is the
“first enterprise Linux distributor to earn conformance with the OpenChain
Project Specification”.
Pine64 is making a Linux smartphone that runs KDE Plasma. According to the FOSSBYTES
post,
the devices will be called PinePhone and PineTab, and Pine64 will begin
sending the first PinePhone developer kits to selected devs for free in November. The
open-source Linux smartphone is expected to start at around $100.
The Linux Foundation has released the first developer kit for its EdgeX
Foundry project, which is for “developing open source edge computing
middleware”. The kit is Ubuntu-based and is “built around an octa-core Samsung
Artik 710 Starter Kit teamed with a GrovePi+ I/O board. Future kits will
include an Artik 530 kit, and eventually, a Raspberry Pi/GrovePi+
combination.”
The Tor Project has announced that Mozilla will match all donations to the
project through the end of the year. ZDNet
reports that Mozilla matched $200,000 in donations to Tor last year.
This year, Tor plans to use the funds to “increase the capacity
modularization and scalability of the Tor network”; “better test for,
measure, and design solutions around internet censorship”; and “strengthen
development of the Tor Browser for Android”.
A new version of RaspEX Linux for Raspberry Pi has been released. This new
version as based on Ubuntu 18.10 and uses the LXDE desktop. According to Softpedia
News, “RaspEX LXDE Build 181022 is powered by the Linux 4.14.76 LTS
kernel built for the ARMv8 architecture, which means that it supports the
original Raspberry Pi 3 Model B single-board computer, as well as the
latest Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ variant. However, you can also use a 32-bit
kernel, Linux 4.14.74 LTS.” New packages included in this version are
Raspotify (a Spotify Connect client for RPi), Putty, RealVNC and Samba.