Today in Techrights

• Links 28/1/2021: Stable Kernels and Sudo Bugfixes
• Showing Solidarity With FSFE Survivors
• IBM is Throwing Away Red Hat's 'de Facto Standard' Status in Servers, Wrongly Assuming People Can't (or Won't) Go Elsewhere
• Why 6 Screens and 6 Virtual Desktops
• Red Hat Developer Network Promoting Microsoft's Proprietary Software, Sometimes by Mass-Mailing People
• IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
• Links 26/1/2021: Mozilla Firefox 85.0, Tails 4.15, Zentyal Server 7.0, GNOME 40 Alpha
• Instead of Making Access to COVID-19 Solutions Easier Bill Gates Has Made It Harder (Patent Profits)
• We Need More Documents Leaked to Know Intel (From the) Inside

today's leftovers

• Felipe Borges: Call for Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2021

  It is that time of the year again when we start gathering ideas for Google Summer Code. This time around we will be posting and discussing proposals in GNOME’s GitLab instance. Therefore, if you have a project idea that fits Google Summer of Code, please file an issue at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/gsoc-2021/-/issues/new using the “Proposal” template. Everybody is welcome to add ideas, but it would be nice to verify whether the ideas are realistic and mentorship for it will be available. We encourage you to discuss your ideas with designers in #gnome-design to get their input and plan collaboration, especially if your ideas are related to one of the core GNOME modules.

• Standard Technology Presents Opportunities for Medical Record Data Extraction

  To address these challenges, health care can adapt the same technological approaches that have revolutionized other industries by incorporating digital tools called application programming interfaces (APIs). These tools allow personal finance websites to aggregate information from banks and credit card companies to provide consumers a complete picture of their spending habits, for example, or let travel services compare flights from multiple airlines without the user having to visit each airline’s site individually. If standard APIs were broadly adopted in health care, patients could access and compile their data from multiple providers while clinicians could process complicated information and make care recommendations. APIs would also offer other benefits, such as facilitating the exchange of clinical data among health care providers.

  This report will focus on three health care benefits of APIs:

  Patient access to data.

  The incorporation of clinical decision support (CDS) tools, such as risk calculators or apps that provide recommendations for prescribing antibiotics.

  Provider-to-provider exchange of information.

• How the pandemic is accelerating enterprise open source adoption [Ed: Microsoft openwashing and hijack of the voice of its opposition]

  In an interview with VentureBeat, GitHub VP Mario Rodriguez said, “Open source project creation just kind of shoots up” after March. He added, “2020 is interesting because everything from a technology perspective got accelerated, and you were trying to do more and more.”

• How SUSE Empowers our Partners

  Today, five to ten percent of all enterprise applications are containerized. According to Forrester, over the next three to four years, this will grow to over 50 percent. We believe that we have the right technology with Rancher, a full software stack that gives you everything you need to adopt and run containers in production with Kubernetes.

• Top Kubernetes Management Platforms

  The open source Kubernetes container orchestration platform is the foundation of cloud native deployments and is widely used by organizations of all sizes. At the foundational level, Kubernetes is an open source project, originally started by Google and now developed as a multi-stakeholder effort under the auspices of the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kubernetes enables organization to deploy, manage and scale application container workloads in an automated policy driven approach. It’s a model that also helps to enable both hybrid and multi-cloud computing, with organizations able to span Kubernetes workloads across on-premises and multiple public cloud environments as well.

First Look at MX Linux Fluxbox on the Raspberry Pi 4

MX Linux Fluxbox-RaspberryPi Respin is MX Linux’s first attempt to offer an AArch64 (ARM64) port for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer. The work is done by Jerry Bond and others, and let me tell you that it’s one of the best Linux on Raspberry Pi experiences I’ve tried so far in terms of performance and usability. I’m not a fan of the Fluxbox window manager, but I understand why Jerry Bond choose it as default graphical environment for this Raspberry Pi spin of MX Linux. It’s super fast and consumes very few resources. For example, the RAM usage is always around 300MB (without any apps running), and that’s very important for older devices, such as a Raspberry Pi 3 with 2GB RAM.