LWDW 380: Red Hat Limits RHEL Source Availability

CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository RHEL-related source code releases, Intel discontinues ARC A770 LE, Opera’s AI browser comes to Linux, functional retro desktoping with the Not so Common Desktop Environment, and a $79 SBC with a built in screen.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Games need stories
00:42 RIP Intel ARC A770 LE
02:19 USB LED strips
05:22 USB wall charger holes
06:31 Steve is on the mend
10:02 Game backstories
10:31 Functional retro desktop Not so Common Desktop Environment 2.3
16:52 Opera AI browser comes to Linux
23:59 Red Hat Limits RHEL Source Availability
33:09 $79 SBC with a touchscreen

Not so Common Desktop Environment 2.3

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/releases/tag/2.3

For the irrationally nostalgic!
Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM.
NsCDE is intended for people who don’t like “modern” hypes.
This is what you remember expensive workstations looking like in the 90s.
Granted, it’s a bit too stripped down even for me.
XFCE strikes a nice balance or minimal + useful.
New in the release.
QT6, Xscreensaver 6, Picom Compositor, and ThunderFox theme integration.
Deb and RPM packages are available.
Way back on LWDW early last year we talked about the new in development NsCDE, who’s main goal is to revive the look and feel of the Common Desktop Environment.
Yeah, this gives me and Venn both nerd chills… using the Common Desktop Environment, known as CDE from the Sun Solaris and Unix days of yore.
And there are lots of improvements and bug fixes in this release, including new themes can now be reloaded without restarting FVWM and lots of X11 integration improvements.

AI Opera

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/opera-one-ai-browser-linux/amp

Let’s revisit one of my favorite web browsers from the past, that runs great on Linux, and has an intriguing update!
The Opera web browser just hit it’s 100th version, and with this release it is now known as Opera One.
Opera One is the first browser to come with an integrated browser Artificial Intelligence.
Opera One’s AI is named Aria.
Aria can be easily reached from a new command line by typing Ctrl+/ and asking your question.
Or you can use the browser sidebar button that opens an AI conversation panel beside your web content, allowing you to punch in your prompt.
It offers free access to ChatGPT and other AI services along with up-to-date information from the web.
But you have to create an Opera account to access the AI features, seems reasonable.
Deb, Flatpak, or Snap.
The deb package gives you the option to add a repo while installing.
Takes up around 300MB.
AI integration includes Aria, ChatGPT, and ChatSonic.
7 messengers, facebook, whatsapp, telegram, insta, Tok, Twitter and the like.
It’s another chromium based browser.
Runs on Debian 12 without any noticeable issues.

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability (RTheren)

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Appendix_1_Global_English_20230309.pdf

- Before CentOS Stream, Red Hat pushed public sources for RHEL to git.centos.org.
- CentOS is no longer being built downstream of RHEL.
- No longer want to maintain separate, redundant, repositories.
- The latest source code will still be available via CentOS Stream.
- CentOS stream is not RHEL, and that is what will be needed by Rocky, Alma, and Oracle.
- RHEL sources will be available via the customer and partner portals.
- Red Hat can minimally perform duties under the GPL by providing the source only to subscribers.
- Could Rocky or others buy a sub to get the source code that way?
- Not according to section 1.2 (g) product appendix 1 from RedHat.

(d) using Subscription Services in connection with any redistribution of Software or (e) using Subscription Services to support or maintain any non-Red Hat Software products without purchasing Subscription Services for each such instance.

Oracle Linux.

Touch Pi

https://www.unihiker.com/

$79 and it includes a screen.
Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A35, neat.
16Gb Flash, neat.
WiFi and Bluetooth, also neat.
512 MB of RAM, booo!
See, you knew there was a catch in there somewhere.
This is more like a Pi Zero 2 W on roids vs a RasPi 4.
This is a sweet Raspberry Pi device! It is called the UNIHIKER.
UNIHIKER is a single-board computer that features a 2.8-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
It is equipped with a light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope and microphone.
It has a built-in co-processor, and is able to communicate with various analog/digital/I2C/UART/SPI sensors and actuators.
UNIHIKER offers an innovative development experience for learning, coding, and creating
Debian Linux and many programming apps are pre-installed.
It features a built-in Jupyter Notebook browser-based programming environment which allows developers to program the single board computer using a smartphone or tablet.
And the integrated PinPong control library allows developers to directly control UNIHIKER’s built-in sensors and hundreds of connected sensors and actuators using Python.
And it is available at dfrobot.com and other sites for $79.90!