Hello there! Do you know who Keith Curtis? If yes then good! If no and you are someone who using opensource software then you should get to know who are this guy.

I never meet him personally but I my love with linux start with Debian and I like to read his blog about debian, opensource vs proprietary software, questioning about Ubuntu existant etc (which is how this thing lead me to his weblog 10 years ago).. I just silent reader, I read this articles including everyone comments which I believe everyone have they own implicit objective and mutual objective for everything about IT.

Ok, sorry for the crap introduction taking too long. Today, I visited his weblog and found out he releasing “Software Wars, the Movie”.

You can download the torrent file HERE or watch it on the Peertube that he already setup.

P/s: If you wonder which articles lead me to his weblog 10 years ago..then let me tell you. That articles was “Should Ubuntu Have Been Created?”. From the title itself you can already smell how controversial yet so brave. Even Mark Shuttleworth come and leave a comment there.

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 26, aka half of the year, is over. But as we all know, Tumbleweed does not care much about the weather, the temperatures, or the season at all. It only cares for its contributors to have fun – at any given moment. So, week 26 has seen 3 snapshots (0618, 0621, and 0622).

The snapshots contained these changes:

• VLC 3.0.11
• KDE Plasma 5.19.1
• Linux kernel 5.7.2
• LibreOffice 7.0 beta2 (please report bugs if you see regressions)

The staging projects are filled with these relevant changes:

• Linux kernel 5.7.5
• KDE Plasma 5.19.2
• systemd 245.6: the maintainer started adding the minor release number to the package version to make it clearer, what the openSUSE package is based on
• LibreOffice 7.0 will enable skia
• openSSL 3.0
• RPM change: %{_libexecdir} is being changed to /usr/libexec. This exposes quite a lot of packages that abuse %{_libexecdir} and fail to build

Have you heard keyword such as intellectual property, copyright, pattern, watermark, plagiarize etc? Well of coz you heard it everywhere. It all about licenses and permission.

If someone creating opensource software, we normally heard it under “Free and open-source software software licenses” such as GNU GPL, BSD, Apache, MIT, Mozilla public, Common public and many more.

How about books, plays, movies, music, articles, photographs, blogs, and websites? Okey,it is also eligible to file for a license. Creative Common license (CC) is one of several public copyright licenses we can use.

The CC licenses are appropriate for all types of content you want to share publicly, except software and hardware. The CC licenses all grant the “baseline rights”, such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work worldwide, for non-commercial purposes and without modification.

The details of each of these licenses depend on the version, and comprises a selection out of four conditions:

Icon	Right	Description
	Attribution (BY)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these. Since version 2.0, all Creative Commons licences require attribution to the creator and include the BY element.
	Share-alike (SA)	Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical (“not more restrictive”) to the license that governs the original work. (See also copyleft.) Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-NC.)
	Non-commercial (NC)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.
	No Derivative Works (ND)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it. Since version 4.0, derivative works are allowed but must not be shared.

Reference : wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license

This weblog work is under “CC BY-NC-ND 4.0”

As per title said, this weblog work is under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

This license is the most restrictive of CC six main licenses, only allowing others to download my works and share them with others as long as they credit back, but you can’t change them in any way or use them commercially purpose.

I choose to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 in order to be able to protect my own contents from getting stolen. Although things that I write might be full of crap and bulls**t, broken grammar, not interesting but at least it is a way to practice on using the intellectual property rights.

New Breezy Features work with GitHub, GitLab and Launchpad

The newest major version of the open-source offices suite landed in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week.

LibreOffice 7 beta 2 was updated in snapshot 20200622. The new major version improves the usage of quotation marks and an apostrophe in several languages with autocorrect. LibreOffice 7 adds support for exporting to new versions of Open Document Format, available via Tools > Options > Load/Save > General > ODF format version: “ODF 1.3” and “ODF 1.3 Extended”; the latter is the default, unless the user has previously changed the version in the configuration. Another new (experimental) feature is to make documents more accessible: an accessibility check tool to review common accessibility problems in documents, and support for PDF/UA specifications in the PDF export dialog. To enable the accessibility check tool and the PDF/UA export, go to: Tools > Options… > LibreOffice > Advanced > Optional Features > Enable experimental features (may be unstable). Then restart LibreOffice. A handful of libraries were updated in the snapshot including libzip 1.7.1, which restore LIBZIP_VERSION_{MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO} symbols, and gnome-desktop 3.36.3.1 had some clock and translation updates. The general-purpose scripting language php7 updated to version 7.4.7 fixed a regression in the previous version when yielding an array based generator and fixed a bug that involved hangs when an invalid value was encountered. The microcode updates for Intel x86/x86-64 CPUs, ucode-intel, reverted some code for the processor microarchitecture Skylake in the snapshot that caused some stability issues. The snapshot is trending moderately stable with a rating of 78, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer.

The previous day’s snapshot, 20200621, brought an update for KDE users with an update to Plasma 5.19.1. The update fixed some unprintable characters and actions for application search results. KDE’s task manager and performance monitor, KSysGuard added units to disk/all/{read,write} and uses a new name for the dbus interface. The CD and DVD authoring application by KDE, k3b 20.04.2, had a fix for when the application does not finish if started without a splash screen. Both YaST and snapper received updates in the snapshot to versions 4.3.8 and 0.8.10 respectively; the graphical user interface yast2 package updated XML.validate arguments, made a change to distinguish between a String argument (containing a XML document/schema) and Pathname (path to a file) and the update also adds a method to determine the default start mode for a system service. Snapper’s update provides a special rollback for a transactional server. A change was made in the yast2-bootloader 4.3.6 version that avoids random failure in unit tests when there is a serial console. The version control system breezy 3.1.0 added several new features including a new brz land command that can merge merge proposals on Launchpad, GitHub and GitLab sites. And pkgconf received several fixes in it’s update from version 1.6.3 to version 1.7.3. Documentation generator python-Sphinx update to version 3.0.4; the new major version adds a new feature C, parse array declarators with static, qualifiers, and variable-length array specification. The snapshot is trending moderately stable with a rating of 79, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer.

The two snapshots be snapshots 20200618 and 20200617 both recorded a moderate rating of 74. The 20200618 snapshot had handful of packages updated including vlc 3.0.11, which fixed regression with some encrypted HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) streams, linux-glibc-devel 5.7, and nftables 0.9.6, which fixed two AddressSanitizer runtime errors. An update in the 20200617 snapshot brought a fix for some rendering issue affecting Unreal Engine 4 games on i965 with the update of Mesa 3D Graphics Library 20.1.1. The snapshot also brought an update of bolt 0.9, which is the userspace system daemon for Thunderbolt 3, and adds improvements and new features like a ‘generation’ attribute for the manager, an ability to change the policy of a stored device and support for systemd’s service watchdog. Ceph and zypper were also updated in the snapshot.

Having a party to celebrate an achievement is rewarding and the openSUSE community knows how to party; and get things done. This is no exception during the time of the pandemic.

A release party is in order for the general availability of openSUSE Leap 15.2. Celebrate the release the way you like and while doing so help promote the release.

openSUSE members can join and/or create a room to hang out with other members of the community to celebrate the release. There are already a couple planned for July 2. Just visit the launch party wiki and select or add a release party. While this list is mostly virtual, some people might be close enough to meet up for a physical party. In which case, they should add it to the list. People can also get creative make the parties purposeful like creating one room as a social media posting party.

We encouraging people to take photos and/or screenshot of their virtual release party and share it on social media with the slogan “#openSUSE is for everyone!” Make something like an openSUSE cupcake or print out one of the beer labels and put it on a bottle of whatever you’re drinking. “Bring Back Old Toad!” :-) Use Gimp or Inkscape to make something and have a lot of fun doing it.

We are also encouraging people to send a short video about “how I use openSUSE” or “why I use openSUSE” and send it to ddemaio@suse.com, so the videos can be edited and shared online. A five to 30 second clip is ideal.