News briefs for May 2, 2019.
GNU Guix 1.0.0 was released[1] today. This big 1.0 release is the result of seven years of development and contributions by more than 260 people. If you're not familiar with GNU Guix, "GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom. Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines." This version brings many new features, including a new VM image, a new "first-class, uniform mechanism to configure keyboard layout" and more than 1,100 packages added. From the announcement: "The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, a virtual machine image, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from binaries. Guix users can update by running guix pull."
Season of Docs[2] announces 50 participating open-source organizations. The full list is here[3]. From the Google Open Source blog[4]: "Season of Docs brings together technical writers and open source projects to foster collaboration and improve documentation in the open source space. You can find out more about the program on the introduction[5] page of the website. During the program, technical writers spend a few months working closely with an open source community. They bring their technical writing expertise to the project's documentation and, at the same time, learn about the open source project and new technologies." Technical writer applications open May 29, 2019.
The beta version of Docker Enterprise 3.0 made its debut yesterday at DockerCon. ItPro Today reports[6] that "Being a major point release, the software previewed today arrives with plenty of new features under the hood, such as integration with