News: About the new Fedora 27 .

Today I tried to make a simple installation of Fedora 26 which I did without problems.
After that, the software update come with the option to upgrade all of your Fedora system software to the new Fedora 27.
The work of the Fedora team is appreciated for the work being done to create this new version.
For those who have been following the evolution of the design team over the course of Fedora's development, they will see evolution and quality in the new Fedora design.
Most software used by me was implemented without errors and everything seems to work very well.
Here are some screenshots made during the installation process:

News: Tor Browser - version 7.5a7 .

The famous browser named Tor come with the new version 7.5a7 and is now available for our macOS and Linux users.
This browser can be used with Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, or GNU/Linux and come for both 32/64-bit OS.
The Tor project has now announced a significant set of changes to their anonymity network which involves next-generation crypto algorithms, improved authentication schemes, and redesigned directory.
The list with changes can be seen here and the news can be read on the blog of Tor project.

News: The new released Fresh IDE .

The reputable IDE for FASM named Fresh comes on 29.10.2017 06:47:22 with new news.
As you know, this can be used with the Linux and Windows operating system.
You can download it from here.
The development team comes with this new content:
Quick bugfix release. The description for v2.6.0 is still valid. Read below. 
The download links are updated. Download again and update your installation, if you downloaded v2.6.0.

News: The new Krita 3.3.0 .

The new Krita come for Linux users with 64 bits Linux: krita-3.3.0-rc1-x86_64.appimage.
As you know: the AppImage is a format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. About this new release then this new Krita comes with some improvements and features:

• support for the Windows 8 event API;
• hardware-accelerated display functionality to optionally use Angle on Windows instead of native OpenGL;
• some visual glitches when using hi-dpi screens are fixed
• several new command line options;
• the performance improvements and selections are fixed;
• the system information dialog for bug reports is improved

You can read more about this release here.

News: New release of PulseAudio.

As we already know: PulseAudio is a network sound server and works well with the Linux operating system.
Now a new version has been released.

PulseAudio 11.0 release notes:

• Support for newer AirPlay hardware
• USB and Bluetooth devices preferred over internal sound cards
• The default sink and source configuration is remembered better
• Bluetooth HSP headset role implemented
• Bluetooth HFP audio gateway role implemented (requires oFono)
• Bluetooth HSP audio gateway and HFP hands-free unit roles can be enabled simultaneously
• Upmixing can now be disabled without bad side effects
• Avoid having unavailable sinks or sources as the default
• Option to avoid resampling more often
• Option to automatically switch Bluetooth profile to HSP more often
• Better latency regulation in module-loopback
• Changed module argument names in module-ladspa-sink and module-virtual-surround-sink
• Fixed input device handling on Windows
• Improved Bluetooth MTU configuration (warning! this causes some hardware to not work anymore, see the details below for how to fix it)
• GNU Hurd support
• Applications can request LADSPA or virtual surround filtering for their streams
• Support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems 

News: Google with all features and options.

Not all Google options are available for all countries.
You should make a selection option depending on country and availability.
This will relieve us of unsuccessful attempts and queries to Google.
Here are all the Google options available now.

News: Faces of Open Source - website .

I have just discovered today this website named FACES OF OPEN SOURCE.
The development team tells us: Faces of Open Source is an on-going photographic documentation of the people behind the development and advancement of the open source revolution that has transformed the technology industry.
The area is:

• UNIX 
•  BSD 
•  Linux
•  Languages 
•  X Windows

They also want to get a book on this subject.

News: Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.

According to this article, Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.

This will happen at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
Adobe will also remain fully committed to working with partners ( Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla) to maintain the security and compatibility of Flash content.

The article was posted by ADOBE CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS ON JULY 25, 2017.

News: Mozilla try recognition systems .

The recognition systems improve the more people use them, but they are closed systems so no one other than Apple, Amazon, or Google.
The project named Project Common Voice website includes an option to donate your voice.
If you opt to do so, a number of sentences will be popped up in your web browser for you to say. Once recorded, you can play them back to check they are acceptable before submitting them to help the voice recognition engine learn.
You need to read a sentence to help our machine learn how real people speak.
The area of interest for this project come with demographic data. You can try this project on the official website.

News: Google startup program .

This is a new way to start your Google work.
This is a great idea from google maybe some team will agree with this help.
The goals from the Google team to do that is:
FEATURES:

• GCP and Firebase Credits 
• Office Hours 
• 24/7 Support 
• G Suite Online Training 
• Advertising for Startups 

The credits come with:
SPARK PACKAGE Get $20,000 in credit for 1 year. Credit can be applied to all Google Cloud Platform and Firebase products.
SURGE PACKAGE Get $100,000 in credit for 1 year. Credit can be applied to all Google Cloud Platform and Firebase products.

News: Send files on WhatsApp.

The WhatsApp software lets users share multimedia content, but you can't send files directly to other users.
If you wanted to send unsupported file formats like .apk, .zip etc, you had to rename the file to a supported file format.
For example, if you wanted to send the apk for your favorite app, you’d rename it such that it ends with .txt. I tested with Whatsapp™ For PC extension - Opera add-ons and works great.
I send a document file (.doc) with an approximate size of 5 Mb, without any interruption of the connection and a fluid transfer to the application.

Note:

You need to know also, there’s a limit of 100 MB to any attachment.
The executable file is not allowed ( like: .exe, .dll).
Meanwhile, messaging app Telegram is still leading the pack when it comes to file size restrictions — it has supported 1.5 GB files since its launch.

News: Linux kernel 4.12 released .

On 2 July, Linus Torvalds released the kernel 4.12, and it is available for download on kernel.org.
Linux 4.12 provides support for USB Type C in the form of a port management - that provides the correct power consumption.
Some significant changes are once again from the AMD-GPU driver.
About Data Integrity Protection, the device mapper driver receives an extension called dm_integrity to check the integrity of encrypted data on block devices and to protect it in the long term.
Read more about this news here.

DB Browser - tool for databases.

Also is a good tool for learning and test database queries.
About this tool the development team tells us:

DB Browser for SQLite is a high quality, visual, open-source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite. It is for users and developers wanting to create databases, search, and edit data. It uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and you don't need to learn complicated SQL commands. 

• Controls and wizards are available for users to: 
• Create and compact database files 
• Create, define, modify and delete tables 
• Create, define and delete indexes 
• Browse, edit, add and delete records Search records 
• Import and export records as text 
• Import and export tables from/to CSV files Import and export databases from/to SQL dump files 
• Issue SQL queries and inspect the results 
• Examine a log of all SQL commands issued by the application

Under Fedora distro, the package is named: SQLite browser.
To install it just use this:

$ sudo dnf install sqlitebrowser

You can use also with this OS: Windows, macOS X, OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) - 10.12 (Sierra), Linux (Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu, and Derivatives).

News: WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

This is a old news and comes from WikiLeaks how to start one new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
For me is another way to show bugs to people.
The article can be found here:
Some software come with new updates to fix bugs - like notepad, see article: Notepad++ 7.3.3 update fixe.

News: OpenSSL Security Advisory [16 Feb 2017]

According to this website:  www.openssl.org/news

OpenSSL Security Advisory [16 Feb 2017]
========================================

Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
====================================================

Severity: High

During a renegotiation handshake if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is
negotiated where it was not in the original handshake (or vice-versa) then this
can cause OpenSSL to crash (dependent on ciphersuite). Both clients and servers
are affected.

OpenSSL 1.1.0 users should upgrade to 1.1.0e

This issue does not affect OpenSSL version 1.0.2.

This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 31st January 2017 by Joe Orton (Red Hat).
The fix was developed by Matt Caswell of the OpenSSL development team.

Note
====

Support for version 1.0.1 ended on 31st December 2016. Support for versions
0.9.8 and 1.0.0 ended on 31st December 2015. Those versions are no longer
receiving security updates.

References
==========

URL for this Security Advisory:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20170216.txt

Note: the online version of the advisory may be updated with additional details
over time.

For details of OpenSSL severity classifications please see:
https://www.openssl.org/policies/secpolicy.html

News: Linux kernel 4.9 LTS.

According to this email, the Linux kernel will come with the long-term supported kernel version.
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Might as well just mark it as such now, to head off the constant
questions. Yes, 4.9 is the next longterm supported kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

News: PulseAudio 10.0 released.

Read about this news here.

• Automatically switch Bluetooth profile when using VoIP applications
• New module for prioritizing passthrough streams (module-allow-passthrough)
• Fixed hotplugging support for USB surround sound cards
• Separate volumes for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP profiles
• memfd-based shared memory mechanism enabled by default
• Removed module-xenpv-sink
• Dropped dependency to json-c
• When using systemd to start PulseAudio, pulseaudio.socket is always started first
• Compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.0

Fedora assembly IDE - SimpleASM.

This integrated development environment (IDE) named SimpleASM (SASM) let you to make application using assembly language.
The good part for linux users is the crossplatform IDE for NASM, MASM, GAS, FASM with syntax highlighting and debugger.
I used fasm so this help me.
The debugger is gdb - GNU Project Debugger and supports working with many opened project.
If you want to use this IDE with Fedora then you can get from Fedora 24
The official web page is here.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (beta)

This is the first release of Bash on Windows and it is branded "beta" deliberately - it's not yet complete! You should expect many things to work and for some things to fail! We greatly appreciate you using Bash on Windows and helping us identify the issues we need to fix in order to deliver a great experience.
Try this tutorial.
The Fedora don't have a docker userspace, but Suse come with this feature.