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I know what I’m going to be doing tomorrow (that would be Wednesday October 14) at about 1:30 pm Eastern Time. I’ll be removing some Movietime popcorn from the microwave and curling up next to my laptop to watch the world premiere of “KDE: The Documentary.” Well, I think it’s a world premiere, but I could’ve just made that part up.

Until now, The Document Foundation has been getting by using the logo of the software project most closely identified with it. Now it has its own. “This was a deliberate choice: a young project needed to concentrate recognition on a single name and a single mark, and LibreOffice was the name people needed to know,” Italo Vignoli, a TDF co-founder, wrote on the foundation’s website on Friday.

Source: Gentoo The Linux distribution Gentoo announced last week that it’s looking for some infrastructure sponsors. Like a large number of open source projects — and probably a majority of distros — Gentoo relies not only on volunteer developers to write and maintain code, it’s also dependent on community donations and sponsors to help cover expenses and meet infrastructure needs.

Source: Pixabay Open source software has become fundamental to modern application development. Few development teams today build an application entirely from first principles. Instead, they depend on open source databases, libraries, frameworks, cryptographic components, web servers, and thousands of smaller packages that allow them to deliver software far more quickly. That model has been enormously successful.

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Source: Pixabay Open source is having another “the king is dead; long live the king” moment. Last week Siemens announced it was replacing open source OpenRadioss with a proprietary project with a slightly different name: Simcenter Radioss. While OpenRadioss wasn’t anything approaching being a household name, it was important software.

Source: OpenSSH Yesterday, longtime OpenSSH developer and maintainer Damien Miller reported on the openssh-unix-announce mailing list that OpenSSH 10.6 has been released as the go-to free and open way to SSH into servers and other remote hardware. What I found most interesting about the announcement were some notes included by Miller on security in the age of AI.

Source: Pixabay Yesterday, IBM and Red Hat announced that AI-driven Lightwell has identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in popular Java libraries. Launched in July, Lightwell is a platform for delivering automated vulnerability remediation at scale.

Nextcloud has announced the launch of Nextcloud Academy for app developers who want to create apps for the host-it-yourself cloud platform. The plan is for it to provide hands-on courses for beginners as well as more experienced Nextcloud developers.

Source: Pixabay For Linux administrators, keeping systems patched has always been one of those jobs that sounds considerably easier than it actually is. Run the updates. Reboot when necessary. Watch the security mailing lists. Done. Except that isn’t how real Linux environments work. Servers accumulate packages. Applications bring dependencies. Containers multiply. Somebody keeps an old system running because one application still needs it.