Summary of the week of June 22, 2020 and end of season

[cobito]

With this weekly summary, we close the 2019-2020 season that has ended up being more intense than planned in terms of development and administration tasks. We have launched a new front page, our museum, the video section, and important improvement work has been carried out in the test bench and the results center.

Regarding the latter, Hardlimit has made an incursion into the Microsoft Store, which has given some visibility to the test bench beyond the borders of the web. But it seems that the adventure of signing the executable is being a fiasco because for now the Smartscreen message keeps appearing. Let's hope that with successive downloads, it will eventually disappear.

The new front page (which will probably not receive more news until the opening of the new season) was launched in September but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that all the features that were initially planned were included. It has gone from being a mere showcase of news to a page where the activity of all the sites is centralized. The old front page (although it was not announced), is actually still accessible from dplinux.net. All the guides, manuals, and news are still there, which includes a good collection of distros. That page remains as an archive and will not receive more updates to its content.

As for the museum, the foundations of the site were laid with analyses of retro PCs, hardware, programs, emulations, and magazines. There is still a lot to do both in terms of site development (it is still in its infancy) and content. But the concept is defined.

And the video section, despite being used for videos outside the scope of technology, most of the content being contributed are webinars related to programming, free software, administration, hardware development, and engineering, which is quite good. Honestly, I am pleased with the reception it has had, with university professors from the other side of the pond using it as a platform to disseminate their classes/seminars and the weekly deliveries of TSR, among other contributions.

What the next season will bring is still to be seen and will depend largely on natural phenomena of yet to be determined scope, in the same way that these external agents have marked this one.

And now, the last summary of the season:

Barva visualizes audio in the console

Someone has created a small program with which you can visualize the spectrum while variations occur in the console background depending on the audio being played.

Apple will switch to ARM

The rumors that appeared a few weeks ago have been confirmed. The developer will offer support for x86 through emulation.

Ampere processors with up to 80 cores

Processors with 128 ARM cores are expected to appear by the end of the year. Frequencies range from 1.7 to 3.3GHz and the TDP of the 80-core model is 250W.

Microsoft releases its antivirus for Linux and Android

The advanced threat protection of Microsoft Defender (ATP for its acronym in English) will have a version for RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Debian, and Oracle Linux. The idea is to be able to place their licenses in environments where not all systems run on Windows.

Have a great summer!

[kynes]

Likewise Boss, and thanks for everything you've done this year

Enjoy your vacation.

[Sylver]

Thank you for the kind words and for the work you have put, are putting and will put into this site, it is simply impressive.
I hope you all have a nice summer, and that we continue to grow in every way.

Best regards!