Guido van Rossum has announced his retirement. The news is the final curtain on the career of the man behind the world’s most popular programming language. Van Rossum is leaving Dropbox, where he has spent the last six years as their Python Charmer in residence, a natural fit for a platform built, in no small part, in Python – the language he created and declared himself ‘Benevolent Dictator for Life’ (BDFL).
Source: The Inquirer
Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox
XPS 13 developer edition portfolio up 8X in the States, 6 core and more!
Barton George, the founder of Dell’s Project Sputnik announced that the company is increasing the number of configurations in the developer edition portfolio by a factor of eight. “In total, we now offer 18 different configurations of the 9th generation developer edition, 16 of which are available both online and offline,” said George.
(Source: Barton George)
Why encrypted email service ProtonMail is open-sourcing its mobile apps
At a time when public trust in “big tech” is at an all-time low over countless data breaches and privacy scandals, even companies that specialize in online security are having to go the whole nine yards to convince people that they’re serious about privacy. Encrypted email service ProtonMail this week announced that its iPhone app is now open source, with anyone able to peruse the code on GitHub. Why? Well, thousands of eyes are better than dozens of eyes in terms of spotting flaws in the source code. Moreover, full transparency fosters a higher degree of trust where trust is paramount.
(Source: Venture Beat)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Now Available On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
SUSE Linux Enterprise on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now available. SUSE said that both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications are now offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Source: TFiR
KDE Plasma 5.17.2 Desktop Environment Brings More Than 25 Bug Fixes, Update Now
The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the second point release to their latest KDE Plasma 5.17 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Coming just a week after the first point release, KDE Plasma 5.17.2 is here with another batch of bug fixes across a wide range of components, including Plasma Discover, Plasma Workspace, Plasma Desktop, KWin, System Settings, KMenuEdit, Breeze GTK, and Dr Konqi. This maintenance update contains a total of 27 changes.
Source: Softpedia
GitHub: All open-source developers anywhere are welcome
At Open Source Summit Europe in France, GitHub COO Erica Brescia said: “99% of software projects are built on open source.” With 96-million open-source projects from across the world living on the service, GitHub should know.
Brescia added:
“In these increasingly difficult geopolitical times. . . [many] companies have decided to geo-block access to their products for Iran, Syria, and Crimea, but GitHub has taken a different approach. We have left all of our open-source repositories available to developers in those countries.”
Source: ZDNet
Fedora 31 Now Generally Available
The Fedora Project has announced the general availability of Fedora 31, the latest version of the fully open source Fedora operating system. Fedora 31 includes new features that help to address a host of modern computing challenges, from building and running cloud native applications to driving innovation in the connected world. (Source: Yahoo!)
Linux Powered Azure Sphere OS Coming Out In 2020
2019 has been an exciting year for Linux. Microsoft has already become a Linux distributor by offering Linux kernel with WLS2, making Windows 10 one of the most ‘dominant’ Linux distribution. 2020 is going to be even more exciting as Microsoft said that Azure Sphere OS, a Linux-based IoT platform will be available in February 2020. (Source: Microsoft)
AWS to sponsor Rust project
Amazon Web Services has agreed to sponsor the development of the Rust project, being just one of the latest tech giants to throw its weight behind this security-focused programming language. (Source: ZDNet)