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By Roy Schestowitz Created 16/12/2020 - 10:49pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of December 2020 10:49:25 PM Filed under Misc [1]

Register for LibrePlanet 2021 and help us to empower users [2]

LibrePlanet is a vibrant multi-day event that attracts a broad audience of people who are interested in the values of software freedom. The event brings together software developers, law and policy experts, activists, students, and computer users to learn skills, celebrate free software accomplishments, and face upcoming challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2021 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels. The theme for LibrePlanet 2021 is "Empowering Users." This year's event will be keynoted by Julia Reda, and other community leaders. The full schedule will be released in January. With a record number of speakers submitting talk proposals for the event, it is promising to be a fantastic experience.

[Old] Why the GPL is great for business: Debunking the current business licensing discussion[3]

In the last few years we saw a lot of discussion in the open source and free software startup space around licenses. Several companies stepped forward and claimed that it?s not possible to build a working company on top of a free software product. Some changed the license of their product to proprietary license like the Commons Clause or the Business Source License. They claim that this is needed to ?save? free software. This talk describes why this is fundamentally wrong. It?s possible to build a working startup and company on top of a free software product. This talk discusses how companies like Red Hat, SUSE and Nextcloud manages to have a 100% free software product including a big contributor community but is still able to pay developers and grow. Nextcloud Launches Easy Data Migration Tools [4]

Nextcloud has announced availability of easy migration apps for Nextcloud users looking to move from popular proprietary cloud services to a private cloud platform.

Files will be automatically transferred to Nextcloud and import of calendar, contacts and other data is available for some of the migrations.

How To Join the Fediverse and Cast Off the Attention Economy [5]

When you use email, you can send a message from an account at Google to one at Yahoo, Microsoft, or any of millions of businesses and organizations running their own mail server. Unlike, say, Facebook, email isn?t a single service, but rather a whole bunch of independent systems that can communicate (or federate) with each other.

The Fediverse is similar, and the most advanced Fediverse client is .

[...]

So, why does Mastodon make a difference?

First of all, you get to pick your host (and even software). With , you pretty much are using Twitter (yes, I know of things like Hootsuite, but for the vast majority of people, it?s twitter.com only). With Mastodon, you have choice. Pick the host that runs the software and has the kind of moderation you like.

Secondly, Mastodon is not for profit. There is no money to be made in keeping you on the site. Almost all Mastodon instances are ad-free. And Mastodon?s completely open protocols make it easy to go elsewhere if you like.

Use Amazon ECR Public and EKS-D to deploy LTS Docker Images [6]

It?s re:invent season already, and we had exciting news to announce with Amazon this year. With all these remote sessions, what?s better than a quick lab to play with the new stuff? It?s starting to feel like Christmas already!

We?re going to kill two birds with one stone (just an idiom, keep reading) and experiment with two of our latest announcements. First on the list is the ?Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere? with the EKS , a frictionless way to try all the EKS-D experience in a snap. Second is the LTS Docker Image Portfolio of secure container images from Canonical, available on Amazon ECR Public. [Sparky ] Zettlr [7]

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Zettlr

What is Zettlr?

A Editor for the 21st century. With Zettlr, writing professional texts is easy and motivating: Whether you are a college student, a researcher, a journalist, or an author ? Zettlr has the right tools for you.

Kentaro Hayashi: Say Good-Bye and Thanks hal-flash [8]

Today, hal-flash package was removed from Debian unstable.

hal-flash is wrapper library for HAL which is not used nowadays. At that time, HAL was required because Adobe Primetime DRM uses libadobecp, but HAL was already replaced to udev or udisks. So we need emulation layer for HAL. hal-flash was it for such a purpose. (At least, hal-flash is required to play hulu.jp movies which uses Adobe DRM)

Everything you need to know about the ArcoLinux Tweak Tool [9]

Using pamac-all to be able to install snap and flatpak packages [10]

In December we have switched from pamac-aur to pamac-all.

It is all about choices. You can find these packages on the AUR.

It gives us the advantage of installing snap and flatpak packages.

Remember often these packages are also available on the AUR.

Ampere Altra Performance Shows It Can Compete With - Or Even Outperform - AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon - Phoronix[11]

Here is our initial look at the Ampere Altra performance on Linux in our independent performance benchmarks.

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Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145551 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/78 [2] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/register-for-libreplanet-2021-and-help-us-to-empower-users [3] https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/gpl_and_business/ [4] https://www.tfir.io/nextcloud-launches-easy-data-migration-tools/ [5] https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10124-how-to-join-the-fediverse-and-cast-off-the-attention-economy [6] https://ubuntu.com//blog/use-amazon-ecr-public-and-eks-d-to-deploy-lts-docker-images [7] https://sparkylinux.org/zettlr/ [8] https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2020/12/15/173257 [9] https://arcolinux.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-arcolinux-tweak-tool/ [10] https://arcolinux.com/using-pamac-all-to-be-able-to-install-snap-and-flatpak-packages/ [11] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-q80&num=1