Category: News

Following regulation in South Korea last year and a somewhat more voluntary “User Choice Billing” in March, Google announced today that it would soon allow nongaming Android apps to offer users in Europe (European Economic Area) an alternative to Google Play’s billing system. This is in response to the Digital Markets Act, with Google saying it’s “committed to meeting these new requirements while ensuring that we can continue to keep people safe on our platforms and invest in Android and Play for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.” It’s almost like regulation works. We’ll have to wait and see if these changes are enough.

Happy Monday, everyone! Let’s review the Apache community’s activities from the past week, including major announcements and status snapshots. Have an item to add? Feel free to email the press team!

New features include i18n support for multilingual websites, integration with Shoelace & Lit components, HTML & XML Inspectors, Sass support with esbuild, and Markdown enhancements. And just published: a website migration guide from Jekyll. Check out the full announcement here.

Ansible Vault lets you keep sensitive data, such as passwords and keys, in encrypted files. Here’s how to use it in playbooks to improve automation workflow safety. Read More at Enable Sysadmin

The post How to encrypt sensitive data in playbooks with Ansible Vault appeared first on Linux.com.

We have recently began a repackaging of [nonsystemd] packages (see #3290). The displaymanager-openrc package has been removed and specific init scripts have been added for their respective display manager (e.g. sddm-openrc for sddm, gdm-openrc for gdm and so on with lxdm, xdm and lightdm)

Regarding NetworkManager and dbus, their nonsystemd builds used to ship with their corresponding OpenRC init scripts, but now they were separated into networkmanager-openrc and dbus-openrc. Please install these when upgrading those packages.

Work on this Fuchsia project within Android — dubbed “device/google/fuchsia” — stalled in February 2021, with no public indication of how things were progressing. This week, all of the code for “device/google/fuchsia” was removed from Android, formally signaling the end of this particular avenue. In its place, we have a lone “TODO” message, suggesting that Google may be building up something new in its place. The developer responsible for the change primarily works on Fuchsia’s “Starnix” project. First shared in early 2021 as a proposal, Starnix is designed to make it possible for Fuchsia to “natively” run apps and libraries that were built for Linux or Android. To do this, Starnix would act to translate the low-level kernel instructions from what Linux expects to what Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel expects. Fuchsia is still very much in flux, and stuff like this further illustrates that while I firmly believe it’s the future of Google’s consumer operating system efforts, it’s still got a long way to go.

RSpec request specs can test endpoints that raise exceptions handled by Rails to return 4xx or 5xx responses. To test the returned response code, rather than the exception, you need extra setup. Read more.

The REUSE initiative[1] is a Free Software Foundation Europe program that facilitates the documentation of licenses of Libre projects like GNU Health.

After several meetings with our friends from FSFE, we have decided to implement REUSE in all GNUHealth components, that is:

• Hospital Management System
• MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record
• Thalamus
• GH Federation Portal

We believe that for large projects like GNUHealth, with multiple files of different kinds (code, graphics, data, ..) REUSE will be a great companion.

1.- https://reuse.software/