Canonical first published last year the ranking of the five most popular Linux applications based on snaps from the Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro and Ubuntu distributions. Now they have done the same exercise again to establish a comparison and be able to analyze how the patterns of use in these systems have changed.
In this current situation with a global pandemic which has highly affected socially and economically, one of the biggest changes in companies is the implementation of remote working.
Remote working has been the salvation for many companies during this period. It has served to reduce the effects of economic inactivity derived from lockdown. Many companies have seen remote working as an opportunity to invest in, and it could be implemented in many of these in the near future.
The European Open Source Observatory (OSOR) team has published a handbook that includes a series of guidelines for creating sustainable Open Source communities in the public sector. Public officials, administrators, project leaders, IT developers and anyone interested in open software will find in this document practical advice to build communities that last over time.
Developers who use the Pyton programming language have an Open Source tool at their fingertips that helps them better understand how their projects work. VizTracer displays and tracks code execution without making any changes to the source code.
One of the strengths of VizTracer is its simplicity. It’s very user-friendly and has no dependencies. Once you use it to track a program, it generates an HTML report that can be opened in Chrome.
A new side channel attack threatens Intel and AMD CPUs. It has been discovered by a group of Austrian researchers from the Graz University of Technology. They have called it PLATYPUS and it allows exploiting variations in processor power consumption to access confidential data. One of the characteristics that differentiate this attack from other similar ones is that it does not require physical access to the server, desktop or laptop.
Accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem. That is the goal of Linux Application Summit (LAS), an online event that begins tomorrow and will last until Saturday, November 14 and is organized by the GNOME and KDE communities.
