# Linux Action News 124

URL: /show/linux-action-news/124/
> Richard Stallman resigns, we share our thoughts and discuss the future for RMS and the FSF.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 124
- Date: 2019-09-22
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:31:47
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/f389a151-c5a7-4e2a-b131-6ba97ba96fb3.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/hw8TGna70vs





### Episode Links

  * [Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF](https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns "Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF")
  * [Richard Stallman resigns from MIT](https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September_2019_\(Resignation\) "Richard Stallman resigns from MIT") — I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.
  * [A reflection on the departure of RMS - Thomas Bushnell](https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84 "A reflection on the departure of RMS - Thomas Bushnell") — By my reckoning, I worked for RMS longer than any other programmer.
  * [LINUX Unplugged 319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension](https://linuxunplugged.com/319 "LINUX Unplugged 319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension")
  * [Debian reconsiders init diversity](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/09/msg00001.html "Debian reconsiders init diversity") — In some ways dropping Elogind is a bigger decision. If we ever want to try something different than Systemd, we'll need something like Elogind. 
  * [Debian May Need To Re-Evaluate Its Interest In "Init System Diversity"](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Init-Diversity-Question "Debian May Need To Re-Evaluate Its Interest In "Init System Diversity"")
  * [systemd-homed: systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-homed "systemd-homed: systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling") — Among the goals are allowing more easily migratable home directories, ensuring all data for users is self-contained to the home directories, UID assignments being handled to the local system, unified user password and encryption key handling, better data encryption handling in general, and other modernization efforts.
  * [Lennart's Video: Reinventing Home Directories](https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2019-164-reinventing-home-directories#t=819 "Lennart's Video: Reinventing Home Directories")
  * [Huawei confirms the new Mate 30 Pro won’t come with Google’s Android apps](https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873690/huawei-mate-30-series-phones-google-android-ban-apps-block "Huawei confirms the new Mate 30 Pro won’t come with Google’s Android apps") — Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei’s consumer products division, revealed onstage at a press event in Germany this morning that the company has been forced to drop Google’s Mobile Services (GMS) license on the Mate 30 series of devices.
  * [Huawei clarifies it has "no plans" to unlock the bootloader](https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-mate-30-pro-bootloader-1031805/ "Huawei clarifies it has "no plans" to unlock the bootloader") — Huawei has “no plans” to unlock the bootloader on Mate 30 series devices. 
  * [Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux](https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-announces-oracle-autonomous-linux/ "Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux") — Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.
  * [CentOS Linux 7 (1908) released](https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023405.html "CentOS Linux 7 \(1908\) released") — This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS Linux 7