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Apple’s top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

Fun thing about the DMCA: it required Apple to state, under penalty of perjury, that the iBoot source code was legit: https://t.co/PKHZqcEe6h

— Karl (@supersat) February 8, 2018

Crucially, within the past day or so, someone decided to dump a copy of this secret sauce on popular developer hangout GitHub for all to find. Links to the files began circulating on Twitter in the past few hours.

Razer doesn’t care about Linux

I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something I’ve done for other vendors, and doesn’t take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices.

KDE Slimbook II Plasma-Based Linux Ultrabook Laptop Is Cheaper, More Powerfu l

Meet KDE Slimbook II, the second-generation of the KDE Slimbook laptop that emphasizes the widely-used KDE Plasma open-source desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. Build for running the KDE Neon Linux distro, the 1st-generation KDE Slimbook laptop was announced a year ago and offered some attractive features, including a 13.3-inch screen, faster SSDs, and latest Plasma desktop.

TING

• **Ting – mobile that makes sense

Let’s talk about elementary OS 5.0 Juno

But we’re finally ready to start (cautiously!) talking about Juno, the next major release of elementary OS.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Chris Goes to Microsoft

The third floor of one of the swankiest Microsoft offices I’ve ever been in #microsoft #opensourse #powershell

A post shared by Chris Fisher (@instachrislas) on Feb 12, 2018 at 10:10am PST

"Ambient Microsoft" interesting cross-cultural talk between @ChrisLAS and @jsnover that addresses the strategic (sea)change in Redmond [starts at 38:12]. cc:@maryjofoley @bdsams Hmm. All that's missing is an OS that runs all binary flavors… 😉 https://t.co/93Wqbj6mf5

— SpragueD (@SpragueD) February 13, 2018

• Administering Linux on Azure | Linux Foundation Training

• github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

KDE neon Developers Blog

With the new Plasma LTS came an update to KDE neon LTS Edition and lots of people asking which edition to use and what the difference is. This caused us to review the purpose of LTS and as a result we’ve just hidden LTS from the download page. The only difference with the LTS edition is that it stays on Plasma’s LTS release but apps and libraries still get updates. This doesn’t fit well with the main use cases of an LTS which is that it only gets bug fixes and no new features.

• Until last week, you could pwn KDE Linux desktop with a USB stick

The CVE-2018-6791 vulnerability – unsurprisingly designated as high risk – was fixed on Thursday with an update to the Plasma Desktop.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

  Plasma Challenge Check In

• KDE neon

• Plasma – KDE.org

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• Wilmer Writes in with Insights into Mike’s Dell GPU Woes

• Build a Progressive Web App using React

• Joe with a progressive business problem

• Josh asks if we’re orchestratiating our containers

Hoopla

• Kotlin: A massive leap forward

It was only after completing a large task in Kotlin that I realized my career outlook would be forever changed.

• How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software

These features were delayed after Apple Inc. concluded it needed its own major upgrade in the way the company develops and introduces new products. Instead of keeping engineers on a relentless annual schedule and cramming features into a single update, Apple will start focusing on the next two years of updates for its iPhone and iPad operating system, according to people familiar with the change.

• How To Backup Your Git Repository To DigitalOcean Spaces

Backing up our code repository into an object storage infrastructure provides us with an off-site copy of our data that we can recover when needed. Spaces is DigitalOcean’s object storage solution that offers a destination for users to store backups of digital assets, documents, and code.

Chris Goes to the Church of PowerShell

The third floor of one of the swankiest Microsoft offices I’ve ever been in #microsoft #opensourse #powershell

A post shared by Chris Fisher (@instachrislas) on Feb 12, 2018 at 10:10am PST

• Microsoft releases PowerShell Core 6.0 for Windows, macOS and Linux

Microsoft has released an updated version of PowerShell which adds support for macOS and Linux. PowerShell Core 6.0 uses .NET Core rather than the .NET framework, and this means it is able to break out of being a Windows-only tool.

• Difference between PowerShell and PowerShell Core

However, there are currently no plans to introduce new functionality to Windows PowerShell. This means that the risk of regression will be very low for Windows PowerShell, so you can count on it as a stable platform for your existing workloads.

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