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Media Production Under Linux

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Software:

• ocenaudio

ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.

• FFmpeg

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

• ownCloud.org

Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.

• Best VOIP Clients for Linux (That Aren’t Skype) | Linux.com

So if you’re looking to connect with other SIP users, give any one of these apps a try and see if they can’t serve as a perfect drop-in replacement for Skype.

Hardware:

• Wild Dog Performance – System76

• Amazon.com: PreSonus AudioBox USB 2×2 USB Recording Interface

• Amazon.com: M-Audio 2-Channel Portable USB Audio and MIDI Interface: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI HDMI to USB 3.0 Video Capture Dongle: Electronics

• Atomos Ninja-2 camera-mounted recorder, monitor & deck for HDMI cameras and DSLRs : Camera And Photography Products

• BeachTek

Microphones

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE320 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE20 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: AKG Perception 220 Professional Studio Microphone

• Amazon.com: Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Studio Microphone: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: ART Pro-VLA II Two Channel Vactrol-based Compressor: Musical Instruments

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Runs Linux

This programmable, six screen, water proof cube called the Cuberox, runs Linux

• Linux-powered programmable cube gets touchy-feely · LinuxGizmos.com

The Cuberox runs Arch Linux on an ARM9-based Freescale iMX233 SoC, backed up with 64MB RAM. There’s an SD slot with a 4GB data card capable of holding 8,000 of the device’s minimalist apps. A separate Qi wireless charging station includes surround sound speakers.

Specifications listed for the Cuberox include:

• Processor — Freescale iMX233 (1x ARM926J @ 454MHz)
• Memory — 64MB RAM, SD slot with 4GB data card
• Display — 6x 256-pixel sides with accelerometer-based touch input and backlighting
• Wireless — WiFi; Bluetooth
• Sensors — Accelerometers; gyroscope; vibration feedback
• Other features — dustproof, waterproof, polycarbonate construction
• Battery — 7800mAh with wireless charging
• Charging station:
  • Qi wireless charging
  • Micro-USB port for power (DC 5V 2A)
  • Speakers with surround sound
  • Bottom backlight
• Dimensions — 100 x 100 x 100mm (3.94 x 3.94 x 3.94 in.) .
• Operating system — Arch Linux ARM (3.16 kernel); Node.js with Cuberox API

Desktop App Pick

Save 80% on Torchlight II on Steam

The award-winning action RPG is back, bigger and better than ever! Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets – and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands!

• Snowmix

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Live and recorded video feeds can be fed to the mixer via GStreamer pipelines. Output can be accessed through GStreamer pipelines.

• Rtorrent

rTorrent is a quick and efficient BitTorrent client that uses, and is in development alongside, the libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent-rasterbar) library. It is written in C++ and uses the ncurses programming library, which means it uses a text user interface. When combined with a terminal multiplexer (e.g. GNU Screen or Tmux) and Secure Shell, it becomes a convenient remote BitTorrent client.

Weekly Spotlight

Imcomptech

The cost for me to share music is low, and the benefits are high. There are a lot of schools with no money, and plenty of film makers who want to have music – but can’t afford to clear copyrights from the existing systems that are set up. I believe that copyright is badly broken , so I chose a license that allows me to to give away the rights I wish to surrender.

Linux Action Show at LFNW | Offical LAS 2015 Shirt

We are releasing another set of LAS shirts in preparation for LinuxFest Northwest which is at the end of April 2015! We hope to color Bellingham Technical College with LAS supporters donning their favorite Linux podcast!

Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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— NEWS —

PC gaming is expanding, Valve’s GDC 2015 announcements recap

Valve attended GDC in full force this year and talked about a lot of stuff. Here’s everything they talked about it in one post.

• Gabe Newell talks Steam Machines, Free Source 2.0 Engine, the growth of PCs and Steam Controller – YouTube

• Steam launches massive Linux game sale to celebrate Steam Machine unveiling

More than 50 titles are highlighted, including three of PCWorld’s favorite games of 2014—The Talos Principle, Transistor, _and our Game of the Year, _Wasteland 2—and a slew of other spectacular titles like Metro Redux, The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Civilization: Beyond Earth, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, _and _Goat Simulator, among many others.

• Reported Steam Linux Usage Battles To Stay Above 1.0% – Phoronix

This drop to just over 1.0% is the lowest numbers we’ve seen for Linux’s representation on Steam in quite a number of months. However, it’s not a huge surprise.

• Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver – Phoronix

With the Vulkan API still in flux and not finalized until later this year, Valve has been developing their own Intel GPU reference driver for Vulkan to help early adopters boot-strap their code. Valve said during their presentation today at GDC2015 that this Intel Linux driver will be open-sourced, but they haven’t provided a time-frame for doing so.

VMware alleged to have violated Linux’s open source license for years

Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig filed the suit in the district court of Hamburg, Germany with funding from the nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy, which works to “promote, improve, develop, and defend” free and open source software. The case centers on “a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (‘vmkernel’) with portions of Linux’s code, which was licensed only under GPLv2,” _the group said in an FAQ describing the lawsuit._

• Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Lawsuit

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy’s ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware’s ESXi products.

​No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in October 2014, the two groups got together and started work on a way to _patch Linux without rebooting that combines the best of both programs. Essentially, what they ended up doing was putting both kpatch and kGraft in the 4.0 Linux kernel._

New App Brings Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop

The new project is called ‘Nuntius’ and lets notifications received on an Android phone appear on the GNOME desktop.

• holylobster/nuntius-linux · GitHub

Nuntius delivers notifications from your phone or tablet to your computer over Bluetooth.

Nuntius is an Open Source project from HolyLobster.

To use Nuntius you will need to install a companion tool on your phone or table and pair it via Bluetooth.

• HolyLobster · GitHub

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