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#openSUSE Tumbleweed revisión de la semana 9 de 2022

Tumbleweed es una distribución «Rolling Release» de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades.

Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE.

Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado hasta los repositorios esta semana.

El anuncio original lo puedes leer en el blog de Dominique Leuenberger, publicado bajo licencia CC-by-sa, en este este enlace:

Semana casi plena de actualizaciones. 6 nuevas snapshots en 7 días:
(0225, 0226, 0227, 0228, 0301 y 0302).

Los cambios más importantes que han llegado a los repositorios son:

  • ModemManager 1.18.6
  • Mesa 21.3.7
  • freerdp 2.6.0
  • Nodejs 17.5.0
  • Linux kernel 5.16.11
  • Python 3.6 ha sido eliminado
  • firewalld 1.1.0
  • screen 4.9.0
  • NetworkManager 1.36.0
  • pipewire 0.3.47
  • Ruby 3.1.1

Y ya preparándose para próximas semanas:

  • KDE Gear 21.12.3
  • Poppler 22.03.0
  • Rust 1.59
  • go 1.16.15 & 1.17.8
  • Binutils 2.38
  • GCC 12

Si quieres estar a la última con software actualizado y probado utiliza openSUSE Tumbleweed la opción rolling release de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE.

Mantente actualizado y ya sabes: Have a lot of fun!!

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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/09

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Another week, filled with snapshots, is coming to an end. Tumbleweed has been rolling full speed ahead, bringing you 6 snapshots in 7 days (0225, 0226, 0227, 0228, 0301, and 0302).

The snapshots contained, amongst others, these changes:

  • ModemManager 1.18.6
  • Mesa 21.3.7
  • freerdp 2.6.0
  • Nodejs 17.5.0
  • Linux kernel 5.16.11
  • Python 3.6 interpreter has been removed for good now
  • firewalld 1.1.0
  • screen 4.9.0: CVE-2021-26937: possible denial of service via a crafted UTF
  • NetworkManager 1.36.0
  • pipewire 0.3.47
  • Ruby 3.1.1

With all these changes done, the staging projects are almost empty now. OBS is getting bored. Keep your changes coming! Anyway, ‘almost’ empty is key here: we have these changes currently to be tested:

  • KDE Gear 21.12.3
  • Poppler 22.03.0: poppler being poppler, breaking left and right (Staging:M)
  • Rust 1.59
  • go 1.16.15 & 1.17.8
  • Binutils 2.38 (Staging:A)
  • GCC 12
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Fix the "Wrong version of perltidy" issue in tools/tidy

A commen error when running tools/tidy in the openSUSE/SLES tests repository for openQA is the following error:

Wrong version of perltidy. Found '20211027', expected '20211029'.

This indicated a mismatch of the found vs. expected version of perltidy and the tidy script aborts to avoid inconsistent formatting between your PR and the CI pipeline. In Perl this is unfortunately necessary, as often a new version of perltidy formats the code differently.

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La bandeja del sistema en Plasma 5.24

Sigo con la serie tras unos días en que he dado pie a otras noticias en el blog. El entorno de trabajo de la Comunidad KDE que fue actualizado el pasado 8 de febrero, sigue funcionando de maravilla y vale la pena seguir repasando sus novedades. Empecé con las novedades del escritorio (referido al fondo de pantalla), seguí con las mejoras visuales y las notificaciones más eficientes y hoy voy a hablar de la bandeja del sistema en Plasma 5.24, otro componente muy característica del escritorio.

La bandeja del sistema en Plasma 5.24

Comienzo comentando que es la bandeja del sistema, ya que siempre he querido pensar que este blog debe ser siempre didáctico.

Por norma general, en la parte inferior del ordenador, al lado del reloj, se encuentra un espacio repleto de iconos pequeños que nos permite acceder a ciertas opciones tanto de acción como de información de nuestro sistema. Por ejemplo, nos informará si conectamos un pendrive o nos permitirá conectarnos a la red WiFi, entre decenas de posibilidades.

La bandeja del sistema en Plasma 5.24

En Plasma, como no, la bandeja está llena de miniaplicaciones (muchas de ellas plasmoides) y es 100% personalizable, con lo que su uso es más que útil en todos los sentidos, y en cada versión, va mejorando.

En esta versión de Plasma 5.24 tenemos las siguientes novedades:

  • Se ha añadido una opción Fecha siempre debajo de la hora para el Reloj digital.
  • El plasmoide de Previsión meteorológica nos solicitará que lo configuremos cuando se añade por primera vez a la bandeja del sistema, además de buscar automáticamente entre todas las fuentes meteorológicas disponibles.
  • Se ha simplificado el plasmoide de Batería y brillo para que muestre un título y un icono más preciso para los equipos que carecen de batería.
  • Los plasmoides del Portapapeles y de la Red permiten navegar por ellos usando solo el teclado.

Más información: KDE

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Prejudice and Privilege

Notes:
It is not about Linux or other geeky stuff nor it is a political writing. 


It was a day in the end of March 2007. I was just landed at the Franz Josef Strauss Munich Airport around 10 AM in the morning. I had 5 days free time from my work in Astrium. At that time I was contracted by EADS Astrium (now become Airbus Defense and Space) to work with them in Toulouse. I worked for one of their project. I flew from Toulouse where I worked to visit my brother family in Munich. Just after I picked up my luggage from the conveyor, three guys without uniform approaching me and asked me in English what i'm doing in Munich. I asked them if I did anything wrong. One of them told me that it was a random checked.  
 
"Who are you guys? Sorry sir if it is a random check, why do you choose me instead of other?" I reply to their answer. 

One of them said they're from the Munich immigration, and at the same time showing a gun behind his jacket. For my itinerary Munich was not the Schengen gate. Besides, I already did the interview in Netherlands and also in France embassy in Jakarta three months before so it is not a regular procedure. I never experienced a random check interview. Being someone with Asian look, Indonesian passport and with the name start with the Moslem name, I was fully aware at that time that my condition in Europe might be facing some unpleasant conditions.
I had to show them not only my passport and visa but all of my documents, including a letter from France Embassy in Jakarta stated that I'm working for French project and also a letter from EADS Astrium said that I'm working with them.
Luckily they know a bit about Astrium in Toulouse.

Astrium is an European consortium satellite maker. They also knew that Toulouse is a place where the Airbus aircraft will get the final assembly. Seems a bit surprise for them knowing that I worked for EADS Astrium. They asked me, "How did you apply and get the job in Astrium Toulouse?"

"I'm not apply, they found me! They came to Jakarta and picked me up from there." I reply.

"What is your purpose to visit Munich?" The biggest guy asked me again. 

"I want to visit my brother, he works in one of Airbus facility in Augsburg" I said.

After several minutes the situation changed, they became nice to me knowing that I work for one of European high-tech industry. If people communicate and talk, understand the position of each other, and try to see each other on the same position without prejudice everything will be much more better in this world. 

In the end they said "The documents seems legitimate. Enjoy Muenchen and Bavaria".

Astrium

Lab where i worked

A GSM BTS and an access point

I also have other uncomfortable experience in several places. Even in the south east asian countries. 

On the contrary, in several cases where I should go abroad where my employer was from the developed country and the place where I worked was a developing country the situation turned opposite. I experienced this when I should worked in Myanmar for USAID project for example. They treat me very well (actually it was too much) in Nay Pyi Taw. 




I never have any problem visiting Japan. A nice country, they are very modern and at the same time they still respect their tradition and culture. Besides the train with alcohol smell up in the air on the Friday night, and many people get drunk in certain places, Japanese are nice and polite people. I visited Kyoto one time, while I was walking on the side walk on that night there was a person who got drunk and seems disturbing passersby, less than a minute later a policeman riding a bicycle swiftly arrested him before he made any harm. On another visit to Tokyo my friend left his bag on the train. We contact the train office, told them that we lost a bag on our route. The officer on the phone asked us to visit one of the train station on 8 PM that night. We went there and the bag returned. Imagine if it happens in Jakarta Commuter Line :-)

From my experience there are problems on how the people in this world interact with each others, whether from the citizenship point of view or race point of view. In the connected world now it is very sad that prejudice and privilege still exist in the human mind. 

When I visited Nuremberg in 2019, I found German are very open minded, very different with what I found in 2007. The immigration process was very fast, the officer was very warm welcome. I met a lot of people came from all over the world. One of a German friend said to me that Germany welcome people from around the world because they need immigrant to build the country.

Is the situation different now, 15 years after my experience in Munich? Maybe, maybe not, there are some effort but seems not enough. Some countries like Germany make very good progress, but other maybe need to be improved. There are several reasons, but for me as Indonesian citizen there are two main reasons:
  • human mindset
  • the state's efforts to improve the dignity of the nation
Human mindset

This is something that everyone can take a part to make the world to be a better place for live.

As a human, we need a security. People tend to protect themselves. They feel someone from other countries or race will become the threat of their security and their opportunity, disturb their privilege status quo. This condition exist because insecure mind, maybe they have some background that support it, or just a superiority complex, or maybe a racist point of view. In the capitalistic society where everything is about the wealth and money, the illusion of Weber social class (power, prestige/status, property/class) seems works well in the mind of most of the people. The higher the power, prestige and property/wealth/income, the higher opportunity for education, health, and job. People with the privilege will have better future. Actually this is not only happen in secular and capitalistic society, it happens everywhere regardless of people believes and religion. There are cases when people difficult to find a job, to get education or getting married because of their citizenship or race or social status or wealth.

Does it wrong? It is what it is, there is no absolute answer. In this world sometimes we cannot say it is right or wrong. Everyone can have their own view. For me it is wrong, I believe that everyone who lives in our world should have the same opportunity and right. You can disagree with someone but don't generalize based on race or nation or where someone come from. We cannot choose where and when we are born, what race we are, who our parents, what race and citizenship they are, it is given.

Charles Mills, a Jamaican philosopher proposes to develop a non-ideal theory to explain and expose the inequities of the actual non-ideal policy and to help us see through the theories and moral justifications offered in defense of them. Using it as a central concept, the notion of a Racial Contract might be more revealing of the real character of the world we are living in, and the corresponding historical deficiencies of its normative theories and practices, than the race-less notions currently dominant in political theory. He mention his theory in his book The Racial Contract. In commenting this book, Dr. Yassir Morsi, a lecturer in Gender, Sexuality & Diversity Studies at La Trobe University Melbourne Australia, said a daring statement. As a son of immigrant and grew up in Australia he understand very well about Mills statement and he said .... and the rest of us are trying to be white when we're trying to be human.


The state's efforts to improve the dignity of the nation

It is something that we can ask to our government to improve the situation. We may cannot directly involve on how they make the policy, but at least we can speak, give input to policy maker, support all decision and effort to increase nation competency and on the contrary speak loud if we found something useless on the government policy or policy implementation.

As a country move to the better direction, other countries will see that as a progress. Usually people will give a good impression if a country has a good implementation about democracy, human right, free of speech, law, no corruption, education, infrastructure development. Take your part to improve the thing that you believe you can do, every small contribution count!


Closing

I have many friends and colleagues from all over the world with diverse background. I'm very grateful that all of them are very open mind and treat everyone in equal. We are friend because we are in the same neighborhood, school, community, hobby, work relation, or just a friend.  Sometimes I met people who think their country, or race or citizenship is better than me, it is what it is. I just introspect and be grateful that I'm not one of them. 

To my gentle reader from Indonesia or other developing countries no worry. Never think that you are the lower class in this world. Try to improve yourself, make yourself useful for your family and community, learn and do your best in your work or study, and contribute back to society. If someone despise you or look down on you, move on, think positive, you're not as bad as they think. You don't have to proof anything.

World is a beautiful place, just make it to be more wonderful :-) 
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Tumbleweed Has Six Snapshots, Leap Gets Quarterly Respin

This week was filled with good news surrounding openSUSE.

On top of openSUSE Leap 15.4 reaching its beta build phase, rolling release Tumbleweed had six snapshots that updated a few networking packages and Leap 15.3 is putting out its second quarterly respin iso.

The latest snapshot is 20220302. NetworkManager 1.36.0 reworked the handling of Layer 3 configurations that results in more robust behavior when addressing information from multiple sources (DHCP, manually configured, VPN) when applied simultaneously. Performance and memory should also slightly improve with the update. PipeWire 0.3.47 had a fix that removed infinite loops and the buffer size handling was fixed that made some applications stutter. Other packages to update in the snapshot were nftables 1.0.2, ruby3.1 3.1.1, xscreensaver 6.03 and a couple of Python Package Index version updates.

Caching proxy squid 5.4.1 was updated in the 20220301 snapshot; the package had some code cleanup and made some visible developer changes. Window manager screen 4.9.0 eliminated a Common Vulnerability and Exposure that made a denial of service attack possible via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence; this was fixed by replacing the dropped combchar.diff. Other packags to update were autoyast2 4.4.32, yast2-trans and more.

A handful of RubyGem RSpec packages were updated in the 20220228 snapshot and the branding-openSUSE package was updated, which drop systemd icons for the distribution logos. The fwupd package updated to version 1.7.6. The firmware updating package added several new features like the addition of a flag for UEFI devices that never want a capsule header auto-added. It also fixed loading flashrom devices in coreboot mode. The 4.4.45 yast2-installation update fixed an issue with a VNC server during installation.

The 20220227 snapshot updated firewalld to version 1.1.0. The new version added http3 and added a couple service definitions for Web Services Dynamic Discovery. The data storage package hdf5 1.10.8 added new build tools and fixed a few vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-17432, which would have allowed an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted hdf5 file. A switch to f-strings was made in the update of urlscan 0.9.9 and the package also updated setup.py.

Optimizing the performance of the thumbnail resizing algorithm was done in the ImageMagick 7.1.0.26 update, which arrived in snapshot 20220226. Some unrecognized coloring was also fixed in image editor. The 3D graphics package Mesa fixed some regressions in the 21.3.7 update. The Embedded Linux library (ell) 0.49 version fixed an issue affecting DHCP server. A dependency of npm 8.4.1 was added to the update of nodejs17 17.5.0 and experimental support to the fetch Application Programming Interfaces was added; this adds a --experimental-fetch flag that installs the fetch, Request, Response and Headers globals. Several Berkeley Packet Filter adjustments were made in the 5.16.11 Linux Kernel updated. The Kernel also made some fixes affecting Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Other packages to update in the snapshot were freerdp 2.6.0, libzypp 17.29.5, zypper 1.14.52 and several translations for for yast2-trans.

The snapshot from last Friday, 20220225, updated ModemManager from version 1.14.8 to 1.18.6. The DBus-activated daemon that controls mobile broadband devices and connections can run now in a ‘quick suspend/resume’ mode; no explicit data disconnection is triggered on suspend, and no explicit device re-probing is done from scratch. Instead, the daemon tries to refresh the state of all interfaces upon suspend. Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn added support for the T99W175 5G wireless module, which includes a built-in FCC unlock procedure, and Foxconn also added a new Intel MBIM Qualcomm Device Update firmware method. Fetchmail 6.4.27 updated Romanian translations and bumped up wolfSSL to version 5.1.1 in order to pull in security fixes. The 2.2.0 rubygem-faraday package was the only other package to update in the snapshot.

Leap Quarterly Respin

The quarterly respin of openSUSE Leap 15.3 iso image is expected to arrive soon. The first quarterly respin of the iso was published in October. Respins refresh the iso images based on General Availability (GA) release and contain all the updates for the past quarter. Respins allow users to take advantage of the latest bug fixes and updates immediately, which helps reduce bandwidth use of the download and online updates after an installation. More information about the release of the quarterly builds can be found on the Leap Roadmap.

Users can download the updated iso at get.opensuse.org.

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Tercera actualización de KDE Gear 21.12

La Comunidad KDE es una comunidad responsable y no solo se preocupa en lazar novedades sino que también en mejorarlas. Me complace presentar la segunda actualización de KDE Gear 21.12 que apareció hace casi dos meses. Más estabilidad para nuestros entornos de trabajo.

Tercera actualización de KDE Gear 21.12

A pesar de lo que puedan pensar muchas personas, las aplicaciones no son perfectas. Entre las líneas de código se pueden colar errores de tipografía o que el usuario realice alguna opción que en un principio no estaba prevista por los desarrollador, por poner solo un par de ejemplos de imperfecciones.

Este no es un problema del Software Libre ya que el Software actual funciona de esta manera ya que no se piensa en él como un producto final que se encierra en una caja y se olvida. En la actualidad se sabe que el Software está vivo y sería estúpido ir guardando las mejoras sin dejarlas a disposición del gran público.

Con esto se gana en rapidez y evolución pero puede aumentar el número de errores (por norma general) leves, los cuales son subsanables con pequeñas actualizaciones.

La Comunidad KDE lo tiene claro: grandes lanzamientos cada cuatro meses y actualizaciones mensuales para subsanar errores.

Tercera actualización de KDE Gear 21.12

Por ello me congratula compartir con vosotros la tercera actualización de KDE Gear 21.12 que nos ofrece más de 120 errores resueltos entre aplicaciones, librerías y widgets, algo que mejora el rendimiento del sistema.

Por poner algunos ejemplos que podemos ver en la lista de cambios de KDE Gear 21.12:

  • kcron: Mejorar el manejo de archivos temporales
  • kio-extras: SFTP puede utilizar el acceso aleatorio
  • kontact: Arreglar la caída del gestor al hacer clic en Nuevo.

Más información: KDE Gear 21.12

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1U Raspberry Pi Rack Mount Bracket

In an effort to improve the organization of my home computer “core” I have made the search for a solution to mount my Raspberry Pi and potentially future Pis on my 2-post server rack. The solutions I found were outside of my budget for a small change so I found a solution on Thingaverse.com by […]
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openSUSE Leap 15.4 beta disponible para descargar

openSUSE Leap, 15.4, entró en su fase de versión beta y ya puedes probar la versión para encontrar errores antes de la publicación final el 8 de junio

Desde el pasado 2 de marzo de 2022 openSUSE Leap 15.4 entra en su fase Beta de desarrollo. Por lo que podrás descargar, probar lo que trae de nuevo y reportar algún error o problema que encuentres.

En esta versión o service pack 4 de la serie 15, a diferencia de las anteriores se ofrecerán unas actualizaciones de algunos paquetes de software.

Entre esos paquetes de software actualizados desde la versión openSUSE Leap 15.3, podremos mencionar Qt 5, Plasma, GNOME, Enlightenment y muchos otros paquetes. A diferencia de estos, por ejemplo Xfce se mantendrá en su versión 4.16.

Otros cambios en esta Beta de Leap 15.4 será que existe una versión de Leap Micro 5.2, que es una nueva oferta de MicroOS para Leap. MicroOS es una variante de Tumbleweed. Leap Micro es un sistema operativo moderno y liviano que es inmutable e ideal para cargas de trabajo virtualizadas, proporciona administración y parches automatizados.

Leap Micro es ideal para entornos informáticos descentralizados y es una distribución de microservicios para desarrolladores, proyectos informáticos distribuidos y profesionales. Quienes quieran probar esta beta de Leap Micro lo podrán hacer en un par de semanas, y verán un lanzamiento general en la primavera; esto sucederá antes de que Leap 15.4 llegue a su lanzamiento público.

El progreso de Leap 15.4 continúa para garantizar que los complementos H.264 y gstreamer se puedan instalar mediante una serie de clics según lo necesite el usuario final. Estos deberían estar disponibles después de la fase Beta o cuando Leap 15.4 publique su Release Candidate.

La hoja de ruta muestra que openSUSE Leap 15.4 llegará a su fase Release Candidate a finales de abril y se espera que la versión final Gold Master esté lista para el 27 de mayo, seguido de un lanzamiento público el 2 de junio. La fecha límite para la documentación y las traducciones es el 14 de mayo.

Las arquitecturas disponibles para las pruebas incluyen x86_64, aarch64, PowerPC y s390x. Aquellas personas interesadas ​​en imágenes de prueba beta para openSUSE Leap 15.4 Windows Subsystem for Linux pueden comunicarse con el administrador de versiones de Leap, Luboš Kocman, o con la lista de correo de factory.

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