Ya está disponible la versión final de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE Leap 15.4 para actualizar o instalar en tu equipo, portátil, sobremesa o servidor

La comunidad de openSUSE, cumpliendo las fechas y plazos, vuelve a publicar una versión menor o «Service Pack» de openSUSE Leap 15, la que es openSUSE Leap 15.4.

Ya está disponible la imagen ISO final para descargar o actualizar tu versión 15.3 y seguir disfrutando

Después de un año de vida de openSUSE Leap 15.3 que se publicó a principios de junio del año 2021, la comunidad de openSUSE vuelve a publicar un nuevo «service pack» o versión menor de la versión 15 de openSUSE Leap.

La comunidad de openSUSE publica, entre otras opciones, dos distribuciones de GNU/Linux. Una rolling release llamada openSUSE Tumbleweed y otra de publicaciones periódicas llamada openSUSE Leap.

En openSUSE Leap, los paquetes más importantes se mantienen estables y sin cambios, únicamente actualizando los parches de seguridad y mejoras de errores graves, lo que hace un sistema estable, seguro y confiable.

Desde hace un par de versiones, la versión comunitaria openSUSE Leap y la versión empresarial SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, comparten binarios, así que prácticamente son la misma distribución, pero después en openSUSE tienes disponibles todos los paquetes de software comunitarios que empaqueta y pone a disposición de todo el mundo la comunidad de openSUSE.

Por tanto desde YaST, la herramienta de gestión del sistema de openSUSE y SUSE, se puede migrar desde openSUSE a SUSE de manera sencilla y seguir manteniendo los servicios que se ejecuten en nuestro sistema y disfrutar del soporte que ofrece la versión empresarial para servidores.

Junto con esta versión de openSUSE Leap 15.4 también se pone a disposición Micro OS 5.2, un sistema ligero e inmutable ideal para entornos IoT o crear entornos con contenedores específicos y relacionados con la industria automovilística, telecomunicaciones, robótica, etc…

openSUSE Leap 15.4 incluirá Plasma 5.24, la colección de parches KDE Qt5, GNOME 41 o Enlightenment 0.25. Y se mantendrá Xfce en su versión 4.16 o systemd 249 entre lo más destacable, pero hay mucho más!!

openSUSE Leap 15.3 tendrá soporte oficial hasta 6 meses después de la publicación de hoy de openSUSE Leap 15.4 por lo que se aconseja realizar la migración en estos 6 meses y no posponerlo más y poder seguir disfrutando de un sistema de GNU/Linux estable y seguro.

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NUREMBERG, Germany – The next minor release of openSUSE Leap 15 is now available on get.opensuse.org for users, professionals, hobbyists and developers who want to update to the latest version.

Leap 15.4 is a feature release version and provides a significant amount of updates from previous Leap 15.x versions along with new offerings.

“Leap 15.4 continues to provide a familiar rock-hard release and delivers stable open-source software for desktops, servers, containers and virtualized workloads,” said Max Lin, a member of the release team. “Leap is a hard distribution to ignore for technology specialists; security fixes, new technologies and updated packages give professionals a well engineered community release that is identical to its enterprise twin. And it offers an enormous amount community software.”

As with the previous Leap version, users can migrate to SUSE Linux Enterprise and leave workloads running as normal. This release further enhances migration proficiency because the YaST team developed a simplified migration tool for migrations to SLE.

Containers and workloads transition seamlessly, and the container story for Leap has expanded with a new offering of Leap Micro.

New to Leap 15.4 is Leap Micro 5.2. Leap Micro is a modern lightweight operating system that is immutable and ideal for host-container and virtualized workloads. Leap Micro is well suited for decentralized, computing environments, edge uses and embedded/IoT deployments. Developers and professionals can build and scale systems for uses in aerospace, telecommunications, automotive, defense, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and robotics. Leap Micro provides automated administration and patching. One of the packages related to Leap Micro for developers is Podman. Podman gives developers options to run their applications with Podman in production and the upgraded 3.4.2 version brings new pods support for init containers, which are containers that run before the rest of the pod starts.

Large development teams gain added value with openSUSE Leap 15.4 and Leap Micro 5.2 since workloads can be lifted and shifted to SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux 15 SP4 or SLE Micro for extended maintenance and favourable version migration advantages.

This version of Leap simplifies multimedia codec installation. Progress has been made to bring Cisco’s openh264 video codecs to users via a repository present by default on the system, which will come in a maintenance update. The release not only gains multimedia improvements; it gains open-source driver support. Besides AMD’s and Intel’s continual open-source Linux graphics drivers commitment, users of modern NVIDIA GPUs will benefit from it signing firmware images for the latest-generation GeForce 30 series GPUs.

Another new package to Leap 15.4 is Dell’s sassist. The package helps with troubleshooting/debugging issues with Dell PowerEdge Server and runs on the Linux Operating System to work with Dell integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) enabling log and configuration collection.

Those using Leap for server deployments will find a few notable changes. These changes include the deprecation of Python 2, libvirt LXC containers, and OpenLDAP server. The 389 Directory Server is the primary LDAP server, which replaces the OpenLDAP server.

PHP 8.1.0 has been added and brings many improvements. These include Enumerations, readonly properties, fsync, and many others. There’s also a 3.5 percent speedup with PHP 8.1.0 for WordPress and the new PHP version provides a Just-In-Time backend for ARM64 along with other JIT improvements and fixes. A couple other notable changes for Leap is that Wayland now works with the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver and LUKS2 is supported in the YaST Partitioner, but it has to be explicitly enabled.

Leap has a vast selection for desktop users and has a tradition of offering Long-Term Support versions of several packages; this community release does not disappoint either. Leap’s new minor version will offer KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS, on top of Qt 5.15 LTS with the “KDE Qt 5 Patch collection” on top.

“To transition to great future technologies like Qt 6, we need to have the peace of mind that our current users are catered for,” said KDE e.V. President Aleix Pol in an annoucement about Qt 5 patch collection. “With this patch collection we gain the flexibility we need to stabilize the status quo. This way we can continue collaborating with Qt and deliver great solutions for our users.”

Several other deliberately selected packages are aimed at the release’s stability and development purposes, including Qt6.

There are some newer desktop environments like Plasma 5.24, GNOME 41， Enlightenment 0.25 and MATE 1.26. These desktops will offer newer features, though not all desktops in the release will gain new features. Leap 15.4 will keep Xfce 4.16, which was updated in the Leap 15.3 release. Deepin 20.3 is initial bringing in Leap 15.4.

Leap 15.4 comes with KDE Frameworks 5.90.0, which made changes to several packages including Baloo, Breeze Icons, KConfig, KIO, Kirigami, KWayland, Oxygen Icons and more. This Leap version also includes KDE Gear 21.12.2; the Gear applications includes improvements to the music player Elisa, search tags for the file manager Dolphin and provides faster editing with KDE’s advanced video-editing application Kdenlive.

Versatile application framework Qt 5.15.2 will be upgraded; it’s 5.12.7 version has been in the distribution unchanged since Leap 15.2. This release brings in features of three minor releases and comes with a fully supported Qt Quick 3D.

The core of the system has received numerous updates. This Leap release updates systemd to version 249, which has plenty of changes to enhance user experience. The new system components can now correctly identify Amazon EC2 environments, and various improvements were made for the DHCP server network management protocol. A new udev hardware database has been added for FireWire devices and another notable change in the version is whole-file-system A/B updates where new operating system versions are dropped into partitions whose label is then updated with a matching version identifier. Leap provides the most up to date compiler set. The LLVM Compiler 13.0 version has some major new features and Improvements to Clang’s diagnostics. There are about a handful of new compiler flags.

The DNF stack was updated to version 4.10.0 and adds new features. Added support for autodetecting and excluding packages from being installed due to weak dependencies gives the package manager new quality.

Leap isn’t just for the savvy system administrator or IT professional. Leap gives musicians software to enhance the sound, recording and streaming quality of their performance. Virtual Studio Technology with packages like PipeWire, Wireplumber and synthesizer LV2 take instruments and lyrics to a new level. Professional content creators and website designers can leverage 3D modelling tools like Blender, video editor Kdenlive and image-editing software like Krita to turn their vision into reality.

Users who want specific packages in the next version of Leap 15.5 are encouraged to reach out to the release team. If there are community efforts that can be put forth to maintain certain packages, some packages might be able to be upgraded in the next release. Leap 15.5 is not expected to be a feature release and should have many of the same version packages that are in Leap 15.4. The successor to Leap 15 is likely to come soon after the release of Leap 15.5.

Find more information about openSUSE Leap 15.4 Windows Subsystem for Linux here.

End of Life

openSUSE Leap 15.3 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from today’s release. Users should update to openSUSE Leap 15.4 to continue to receive security and maintenance updates within six months of June 8, 2022.

Download Leap 15.4

To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/

Questions

If you have a question about the release or think found a bug, we’d love to hear from you at:

https://t.me/openSUSE

https://chat.opensuse.org

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/

https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE

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Get involved

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Vuelve de uno de los clásicos del blog, los temas de iconos. Y es que el numero de ellos es casi infinito y cada vez que encuentro uno que me llama la atención me gusta presentarlo en el blog. Hoy toca hablar de Firemoon con el que tenemos más iconos coloridos estilo neon, que es la forma que tengo de llamar a aquellos iconos de líneas gruesas multicolores, ideales para temas oscuros y que han conquistado mi corazón este 2022.

Más iconos coloridos estilo neon: Firemoon

Me fascina la variedad que tenemos a nuestra disposición tanto de forma, estilo o colores. Tenemos iconos clásicos, minimalistas, lineales, 3D, que simulan otros sistemas operativos, imaginativos, etc.

Uno de los que más me están gustando últimamente son los que se asemejan al típico cartel luminoso de estilo neon, y ya he presentado algunos como Oie Icons, el Epsilon Icons, Punk Theme, Abyss, BeautyLine y Miya.

A esta extensa colección se le une Firemoon, un tema de Fedelta que también destaca de los otros por tener las líneas más gruesas y, que como siempre, son fabulosos para temas oscuros.

Y como siempre digo, si os gusta el pack de iconos podéis pagarlo de muchas formas en la página en continua evolución (mirad su nuevo aspecto) de KDE Store, que estoy seguro que el desarrollador lo agradecer: puntúale positivamente, hazle un comentario en la página o realiza una donación. Ayudar al desarrollo del Software Libre también se hace simplemente dando las gracias, ayuda mucho más de lo que os podéis imaginar, recordad la campaña I love Free Software Day 2017 de la Free Software Foundation donde se nos recordaba esta forma tan sencilla de colaborar con el gran proyecto del Software Libre y que en el blog dedicamos un artículo.

Más información: KDE Store

La entrada Más iconos coloridos estilo neon: Firemoon se publicó primero en KDE Blog.

Most people I talked to about buying expensive products are aware of “the law of diminishing returns”. When you buy a product, the more you pay for it the less extra quality you get for the extra spending. However, not many people recognize that the same can be said of most human activities. It is a lie that “just a little more effort” will lift you from above average to the top, as the law of diminishing returns hits even harder. You can have all the money in the world, but time - that is limited.

The law of diminishing returns

I am a HiFi maniac, so I am affected greatly by this law. I can choose to buy a pair of headphones for $20, $200, or for over $2000. There is probably a 2-3x quality increase in sound between the $20 and $200 headphones. The difference in quality is even less noticeable from $200 to $2000. I try to convince myself that my Sony WH 1000XM3 or my Sennheiser HD300Pro are good enough. They are more expensive and of better quality, than what most people use around me. I am happy with them, but unfortunately, I can hear the difference between them and the $1000+ category. Thankfully, I am not this picky when it comes to many of my other interests. :-)

Just a little more

Photography. Hiking. Listening to music. Biking. Playing the synth. Reading. Writing. Teaching. Traveling. Coding. This is just a partial list of what I love to do in my free time. And I love to do all of these. It effects my mood if any of these are missing for a longer time.

Taking photos is fun. I love flowers and nature. I love to show people how beautiful our World is. I do not like taking photos of people, but occasionally, I do that as well. People love the results. They try to convince me to take photos at events. They tell me, that my photos are fantastic, that I am talented, and with a bit more effort I could be a real artist. It took me the past forty years to get to this level and I would need to practice a lot more, spend my time reading books and going to a years long photography training. I love photography, but not in place of all my other activities.

Coding is a fantastic brain exercise. I coded a lot during my university years. Simulations, measurement automation, data analytics. Even now, I write code occasionally. Many of my technical blogs have sample code in Python for sudo and syslog-ng. I even wrote some simple code to collect air humidity data on a Raspberry Pi. However, to be able to develop production-ready code, I would need to do more coding…

I started my personal blog, because I love writing. I am often told, that I should write more. Here, on my personal blog, to opensource.com, to the FreeBSD Journal, and elsewhere. But I do not feel pressured to write every day, or on a weekly basis.

Progress requires time.

Time

I learned writing at a major Hungarian magazine of the time. I spent there eight hours a week + travel + writing my home work. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed almost every moment of it. My colleagues and readers could feel the improvement. However, it also meant that each week, I spent over 15 hours on improving my writing skills. I did this for a whole year. Most of this time was taken away from other activities. I learned the hard way that 24 hour days are not enough for everything.

When it comes to activities, “just a little more” means that you have to make a tough choice about how you manage your time. Of course, it can be a worthy sacrifice, like my year-long writing course. However, it is better to think twice before falling for the “just a little more” suggestion, no matter how tempting it sounds when someone praises you.

Members of the openSUSE Brazilian community are getting together for a release party on June 15 for openSUSE Leap 15.4.

The team is developing a full schedule and will be doing live lectures and will give away a few items.

The event will be on YouTube and people are asked to sign up for a ticket to receive the participation link.

The event will run from 1 to 6 p.m. Brazilian Standard Time (16:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC). Leap 15.4 will be released on June 8.

Important Notice

With my new blogpost Installation of NVIDIA drivers on openSUSE and SLE this article here became more or less obsolete. So it is highly recommended to read my new article there instead.

Introduction

On May 19, 2022 NVIDIA made a release of their Open GPU kernel modules for their newer GPU platforms (Turing and newer) with Risc-V system processor. Meanwhile we have packages available in our currently supported openSUSE/SLE distributions. If you want to use these you need to install nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed package.

Installation

Installation instructions since Leap 15.6/SLE15-SP6 and Tumbleweed:

# will install needed packages
zypper in nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default

Find supported Turing/Ampere/Hopper/Ada/Blackwell GPUs here. Check with inxi -aG. Use hwinfo --gfxcard on SLE.

Display Drivers

nvidia-video-G06, nvidia-gl-G06 and nvidia-compute-utils-G06 packages are available via NVIDIA’s openSUSE/SLE repositories, which then can be used together with NVIDIA’s Open GPU kernel modules above.

Installing Display Drivers on Leap 15.6/Tumbleweed/SLE15-SPx

# if you have not added this repository yet
# Leap 15.6
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6/  nvidia
# Leap 16.0 (Beta)
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/16.0/  nvidia
# Tumbleweed
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/  nvidia
# SLE15-SP6
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/suse/sle15sp6/  nvidia
# SLE15-SP7
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/suse/sle15sp7/  nvidia
# SLE16 (Beta)
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/suse/sle16/  nvidia

# install all required packages
version=$(rpm -qa --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n' nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default | cut -d "_" -f1 | sort -u | tail -n 1)
zypper in nvidia-video-G06 == ${version} nvidia-compute-utils-G06 == ${version}

CUDA

With that - after installing nvidia-compute-utils-G06 (which requires nvidia-compute-G06, which contains libcuda) - you can experiment with CUDA. Install CUDA stack from NVIDIA’s webserver.

Installing CUDA on Leap 15.6/Tumbleweed/SLE15-SPx

# if you have not added this repository yet
# Leap 15.6/16.0(Beta)/Tumbleweed
zypper addrepo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/opensuse15/x86_64/  cuda
# SLE15-SPx/SLE16(Beta) (x86_64)
zypper addrepo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/sles15/x86_64/  cuda
# SLE15-SPx/SLE16(Beta) (aarch64)
zypper addrepo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/sles15/sbsa/  cuda

# will install needed CUDA packages
zypper in cuda-toolkit-12-8

# Unfortunately the following package is not available for aarch64,
# but there are CUDA samples available on GitHub, which can be
# compiled from source: https://github.com/nvidia/cuda-samples
zypper in cuda-demo-suite-12-8

Let’s have a first test for using libcuda (only available on x86_64).

/usr/local/cuda-12.8/extras/demo_suite/deviceQuery

CUDA Minimal Installation

Users, who don’t need a graphical desktop, can omit the installation of the display driver packages above and perform a CUDA Minimal Installation instead.

version=$(rpm -qa --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n' nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default | cut -d "_" -f1 | sort -u | tail -n 1)
zypper in nvidia-compute-utils-G06 == ${version} cuda-libraries-12-8

Longterm Kernel on Tumbleweed

In case you’re using Tumbleweed’s longterm Kernel (kernel-longterm), please replace default with longterm in the commands above, i.e.

[...]
# Installation
zypper in nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-longterm
[...]
# Display Drivers / CUDA Minimal Installation
version=$(rpm -qa --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n' nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-longterm | cut -d "_" -f1 | sort -u | tail -n 1)
[...]

Feedback

If you have questions, comments and any kind of feedback regarding this topic, don’t hesitate to contact me via email. Thanks!

Un script en bash que muestra en formato entendible para humanos el dato del uptime de nuestro sistema GNU/Linux

Tal como podemos leer en la Wikipedia, el dato de «uptime» es:

el tiempo en el que una máquina o servidor se mantiene activo durante un tiempo determinado.

Es decir, el tiempo que nuestro equipo lleva funcionando sin reiniciar, ni apagar.

Para conocer el dato, en GNU/Linux tenemos el comando «uptime» que nos mostrará la hora actual, el tiempo propio del uptime de la máquina, el número de usuarios registrados y la carga promedio de la CPU en el último minuto, cinco minutos y quince minutos.

Muy bie, pero yo solo quiero que me muestre el dato del uptime de una manera sencilla y directa y «entendible por humanos».

Así que también podemos acceder al dato ejecutando:

cat /proc/uptime

Que nos mostrará unos valores y en concreto para este caso nos interesa el primero de los dos valores, que es el tiempo en segundos del uptime.

Procesando esos datos en segundos de la manera apropiada mediante el script en Bash, podemos descomponer el dato en días, minutos y segundos y mostrarlos de una manera sencilla al usuario.

Eso es lo que hace este pequeño script llamado «aptaim» (castellanización del término en inglés «uptime») en Bash que está disponible en GitLab:

• https://gitlab.com/victorhck/aptaim

Descarga el archivo mediante:

wget https://gitlab.com/victorhck/aptaim/-/raw/main/aptaim

Dale permisos de ejecución:

chmod +x aptaim

Y muévelo a la carpeta que quieras, por ejemplo /usr/bin/, y simplemente ejecútalo. Vale, no es mucho lo que hace, pero era lo que yo quería/necesitaba.

Si a ti de alguna manera te sirve/quieres pues muy bien... quizás en un próximo artículo lo utilice para otros menesteres…

Hoy toca una entrada ligera ya que os presento A-T-Scarlet-sword, unos cursores inspirados en la serie de animación Adventure Time, conocida en España como Hora de aventuras para tu PC.

A-T-Scarlet-sword cursores de Adventure Time para tu PC

Nacidos de la mano y de la mente de darkeye90 nos llegan los cursores A-T-Scarlet-sword un conjunto de cursores inspirados en una serie de animación Adventure Time realizados mediante Inkscape y GIMP. Hay que comentar que no son muy completos pero pueden ser el inicio de una interesante proyecto para los simpatizantes de esta serie.

Y como siempre digo, si os gusta este conjunto de cursores A-T-Scarlet-sword podéis «pagarlo» de muchas formas en la página de KDE Store, que estoy seguro que el desarrollador lo agradecer?: puntúale positivamente, hazle un comentario en la página o realiza una donación. Ayudar al desarrollo del Software Libre también se hace simplemente dando las gracias, ayuda mucho más de lo que os podéis imaginar, recordad la campaña I love Free Software Day 2017 de la Free Software Foundation donde se nos recordaba esta forma tan sencilla de colaborar con el gran proyecto del Software Libre y que en el blog dedicamos un artículo.

Más información: KDE Store

Cómo cambiar el tema de los cursores en Plasma

Al igual que con los iconos hay varias formas de cambiar el tema de cursores en Plasma, pero la más fácil es:

• Abrir las Preferencias del Sistema
• Ir a la sección Tema de Cursor
• En esta ventana pinchar en «Obtener nuevos temas»
• Buscar Material, seleccionar el estilo y dar a instalar.
• Seleccionar el tema y aplicar.

Si tenéis dificultad, simplemente se debe descargar a tu disco duro y extraer el tema en «/usr/share/icons» o «~/.icons».

Rápido, sencillo y efectivo, como la mayoría de cosas en en el escritorio Plasma de la Comunidad KDE.

La entrada A-T-Scarlet-sword cursores de Adventure Time para tu PC se publicó primero en KDE Blog.

Recently I was packaging one of the Retro freeware games, which are supported by the ScummVm project. It’s called Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back and the story is some kind of strange mixture between Dracula and Frankenstein.

Language Support

When testing the language support I noticed, that it has been originally developed by a company in Spain called Alcachofa Soft S.L., so additional to English it also includes speech in Spanish. Subtitles are available in English, German , French, Italian and Spanish. Therefore I decided to try improving my Spanish language skills and began to play this Adventure. And although the game is from 1996 I enjoyed it a lot!

I figured out that if you press SPACE while a character is speaking, the sentence will be interrupted (apart from the voice part). And by pressing SPACE again the game continues. Which was rather useful for me in order to have more time for reading and understanding the subtitles. Press F7/F10 to load/save the game.

Installation

You can find drascula and scummvm packages in the games repository of the openSUSE Build Service.

Installation instructions for openSUSE Leap:

# if you don't have added the 'games' repository yet
# Leap 15.4
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/  games
# Leap 15.5
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/  games
# will install 'scummvm' package and other dependancies automatically
zypper in drascula

Then just run the command drascula, select your language (via xmessage - isn’t this retro?) and enjoy!

Need help?

And in case you struggle - Walkthroughs are available on Youtube - also in Spanish. :-)

Running on Windows, MacOS, etc.

In case you’re using Windows, MacOS, etc. There are precompiled executables of the ScummVM program availabe for download on the ScummVM Download Page, which you can easily install on your machine. Don’t forget to download also the Drascula datafiles. You will need: Freeware Version (English), Freeware Version (Music Adon, OGG format) and Freeware Version (Updated Spanish, German, French and Italian AddOn). Extract all of them in your favorite directory (readme.txt can be overriden), then run scummvm, press Add Game and Choose the directory, into which you installed the Drascula datafiles right before. Now select Graphics, enable Override global graphic setting, set Scaler to HQ and 3x and enable Fullscreen mode. Now select Audio, enable Override global audio setting and set Text and speech to Both. Press Ok. Then press Start to start the game. Have fun!

Hoy me quiero poner un poco pedante, y es que un tema para aquellos que escribimos mucho es evitar las palabras inventadas o los llamados anglicismos (ya que la mayoría vienen de ese idioma), algo que la mayoría de las lenguas evitan. Es por eso que de la mano de FundéuRAE he encontrado (gracias Rubén) un artículo que nos ayuda a evitar extranjerismo en el español con una serie de consejos y resolviendo algunas dudas habituales

Cómo evitar extranjerismos en el español

Para empezar quisiera comentar que la Fundación del Español Urgente —FundéuRAE— es una institución sin ánimo de lucro que tiene como principal objetivo impulsar el buen uso del español en los medios de comunicación, promovida por la Real Academia Española (RAE) y la Agencia EFE.

Esta fundación, con motivo del Día Mundial de Internet que se celebró el 17 de mayo, ha realizado un artículo donde se repasan algunos extranjerismos muy utilizados en este ámbito pero que tienen alternativas en español. Como extra también comenta como tratar con algunos términos que plantean dudas en cuanto a su escritura.

De esta forma, ya a modo de ejemplo, tenemos la palabra estrella Internet, que puede escribirse internet con inicial minúscula si se considera un nombre común referido al servicio, y con mayúscula si se percibe como nombre propio de la red. Además, puede emplearse tanto en masculino como en femenino.

Por otra parte tenemos una serie de palabras que deberían ser traducidas como son:

• Online: que puede traducirse por conectado, digital, electrónico, en internet o en línea.
• Hacer clic, clicar y cliquear son tres formas adecuadas para indicar la presión o golpe que se hace con el ratón del computador, en lugar de la voz inglesa click.
• Medios sociales es el equivalente recomendado de la expresión inglesa social media.
• Link debe traducirse como enlace o vínculo.

Como evidentemente no quiero hacer un copia y pega, os remito a todo el artículo para escribamos un poco mejor.

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