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Tern 1.0.0 is Generally Available!

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Linux.com Editorial Staff
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Tern is a VMware-originated open source tool that inspects container images to find individual software packages and their metadata installed in the image.

Due to changes in the command line options, Tern version 1.0.0 is the first non-backwards compatible release. If you have been using previous versions of Tern, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest release. You can run Tern by installing it from PyPI or you can clone the project from GitHub and install the project after cloning it.

[Source: Blog post by VMware Open Source Engineer Rose Judge at linuxfoundation.org]

Keith White To Lead HPE GreenLake Business Unit

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Keith White, one of Microsoft’s top cloud executives, will now be leading HPE’s GreenLake business. As general manager and senior vice president, White will be responsible for leading the go-to-market, field sales, strategy and ecosystem development efforts for Greenlake.

A Microsoft veteran for more than 20 years, White most recently served as vice president of the intelligent cloud, worldwide commercial business at Microsoft.

[Source: TFiR]

How open source can live up to its name in a post-Brexit world

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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“Brexit”, the popular term coined to represent Britain’s exit from membership of the European Union, has caused political and social turmoil in the UK for the past three years. And while the exit date may have shifted three times and prompted two general elections, clarity around whether the UK’s population and economy will be open or closed to the EU, after 46 years of membership, has yet to be realised. It is a situation which has left many people and businesses in the UK exhausted and uncertain of their future.

Perhaps those handling the Brexit crisis could benefit from taking a closer look at the open source community, whose philosophy is based on working collaboratively toward common goals with the accent on quality and transparency. With this approach in mind, could Brexit present an opportunity, whatever the outcome of the UK’s voting practices?

[Source: Information Age]

Money Moves: November 2019

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Take a look at some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from the past month. Google acquired CloudSimple, a startup that makes it easier for customers to move VMware workloads from their on-premises data centers into public clouds. The acquisition gives Google an edge as it competes against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and that public cloud provider’s hybrid cloud service with VMware called VMware Cloud on AWS.

Also, former Contrail Systems CEO Ankur Singla’s new startup Volterra officially launched with more than $50 million in funding and more than 30 customers using its distributed cloud platform.

[Source: SDxCentral]

Too many Google Chrome tabs open? Here are tips on how to take back control!

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Take a look at your Google Chrome. Go on, I’ll wait for you. So, how many tabs do you have open? If you’re like me, I’ll bet it’s a lot, but fear now! Help is at hand. Here’s how you can take back control and make your browser a happier, more productive place to work.

Don’t use tabs as bookmarks: Use bookmarks as bookmarks. Leaving tabs open because you want to go back to that page or remember where you saw something is the biggest cause of tab overload.

[Source: ZDNet]

Canonical Releases Updated Ubuntu Images for All Supported Raspberry Pi Boards

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Canonical released today updated Ubuntu images for all supported Raspberry Pi single board computers with out-of-the-box USB ports functionality and various bug fixes. Last month, Canonical pledged to fully support its popular Ubuntu Linux operating system on all Raspberry Pi boards, including Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3, and the latest Raspberry Pi 4 model. Ubuntu 19.10 shipped with a Linux kernel bug blocking the use of USB ports out of the box in the official arm64 image on the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC with 4GB RAM.

[Source: Softpedia]

Pixel 4 gets automatic robocall screening, improved location accuracy, and more

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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If Google’s Pixel 4 is your daily driver, good news: It’s now able to screen robocalls — and more. Google announced this morning an update to the Pixel 4’s Call Screen feature in the U.S. that automatically declines calls from unknown parties and filters out suspected robocallers, alongside an improved video calling experience on Duo, the rollout of the new Google Assistant to more users, and a zippier software experience made possible by memory usage optimizations.

On the subject of Duo, Google’s cross-platform video chat app, it auto-frames faces to keep them centered during conversations even as subjects move around. Plus, playback of calls is smoother than before thanks to an AI model that predicts the likely next sound and helps to keep the conversation going with minimum disruptions.

[Source: VentureBeat]

It’s the end of the road for Google Glass Explorer Edition

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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There is an element of risk in being an explorer, as Wikipedia grimly documents. Perhaps with hindsight, the words “Explorer Edition” that featured prominently on the first generation of Google Glass should have warned of a similarly disappointing end. Google plans to put out one final software update and then to cut all those Explorers loose. And it’s less of a last hoorah and more a last wah-wah.

The update simply lets you pair Glass with the phone, as MyGlass will stop working. Bluetooth will continue, as will the ability to creepily take photos and videos via your lenses.

[Source: The Inquirer]

Linus Rejects “Size Of Member” Change From Linux 5.5 Kernel

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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This weekend was the last-minute pull request by Google’s Kees Cook to introduce the new sizeof_member() macro that had been previously rejected from Linux 5.4. Well, it was again rejected by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging the Linux 5.5-rc1 kernel.

The sizeof_member() macro has been aimed to unify 2~3 other macros within the kernel tree currently and using the size-of-field moniker, but Cook argued that for measuring the size of a member of a C struct, the new macro is more appropriate and converted usage of the old macros to this new single macro.

[Source: Phoronix]

Linux users can now enjoy Disney+

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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When Disney+ launched, Linux users were shut out. Attempting to stream content resulted in an error message reading: “Something went wrong. Please try again. If the problem persists, visit the Disney+ Help Center (Error Code 83).” The problem stemmed from the way in which Disney chose to implement digital rights management but now the company has tweaked the way DRM is used, lowering the security settings it had in place, meaning that it is now possible to enjoy Disney+ on Linux.

[Source: BetaNews]

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