Party with Linux

Party with Linux | LAS 368

Posted on: June 7, 2015

Posted in: Featured, Linux Action Show, Video

Who doesn’t like a good party? Some folks will tell you that Linux is boring, or for geeks. This week we’ll show you how you can have a very loud and bright time with Linux.

Plus Valve officially pins down a Steam Machine launch date. More encryption for Linux, and did the CHIP guys underestimate the cost of their $9 computer?

Plus some great feedback, some helpful app picks & more!

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Runs Linux

Train Ad Sensor Runs Linux

Video of ad system that uses a raspberry pi to sense when a train is coming so that it can start playing a specific part of an ad.

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Desktop App Pick

Q Light Controller Plus

QLC+ is a fork of the great QLC project written by Heikki Junnila. This project aims to continue the development of QLC and to introduce new features.
The primary goal is to bring QLC+ at the level of other lighting control commercial softwares

Controls an arbitrary number of universes, 512 DMX channels each
Fixture editor to create and customize fixtures
440+ ready made fixtures
Web access for remote control
Input/Output plugins to support a wide variety of hardware and software
MIDI Input / Output and Feedbacks (for devices with motorized faders)
MIDI support of Notes, Control Change, Program Change and Beat clock
Virtual Console to get the best while performing live shows
Quick access to 750+ gobos, color presets, RGB values, thanks to the Click And Go technology
Simple Desk for manual DMX channels control
Multitrack Show editor for offline desk programming
Audio input/output support
Import/export fixtures list
Channels groups
Fixture remapping
ArtNet and E1.31 native input/output plugin
OSC input/output/feedback plugin
DMX4ALL StageProfi and FX5 DMX USB support
Dump DMX values into scenes/chasers
Look & feel based on the Humanity icon theme

Weekly Spotlight

+SSHFS

T his is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there’s nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.

Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for linux 😉
Multithreading: more than one request can be on it’s way to the server
Allowing large reads (max 64k)
Caching directory contents

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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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Steam Machine Launch Date

November 10, 2015: May it forever be known as “Steam Day”—the day Valve will officially unleash its suite of Steam Machines, Steam Link, SteamOS, and the Steam Controller. Sure, it’s almost exactly a year later than anticipated, but…well, if you want one, this is when you can get one. Officially.

“Unofficially,” you can get a Steam Machine and Steam Controller as early as October 16, provided you’re in the market for Alienware’s model. Preordering through GameStop ensures you’ll receive Alienware’s Steam Machine (which Valve previously referred to as “a console that encapsulates the full potential of what a Steam Machine should be”) almost a month early.

HP Enterprise will be all-in

What’s the latest enterprise IT company to proclaim its love of open source? HP, that’s who – or, more specifically, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two companies that will emerge once HP splits this November.

Speaking at the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas this week, CTO Martin Fink said open source will be central to how HP’s enterprise incarnation conducts its business.

“We have taken this very, very seriously and we are all-in on the notion of open source,” Fink said, adding that even game-changing big bets like the Machine will be backed by open source software.

“I want to stress something here: It is not called HP Grommet. It is called Grommet,” Fink said. “It is HP’s contribution to the IT industry to bring consumer-grade capabilities with an enterprise user experience framework so that all of you can take advantage of it.”

Dell Inspiron 14 Ubuntu Review

I ‘ve been using this new Ubuntu notebook from Dell for a couple days, and overall, I’m pretty happy. For a $299 computer (that’s list price, I got mine for $249), it has reasonably good specs, looks nice, and performs about like you would expect considering the hardware and price.

Easy Risk Free Encrypted Colab released for LINUX

Tresorit protects the files you never want leaked or lost.
Work with your most sensitive documents without second thoughts. Use Tresorit to keep control – even when you share with coworkers, clients or vendors

End-to-end encryption
Proven Security
Swiss Privacy
Encrypted Backup
Certified secure datacenters
Up to 1TB encrypted storage

Chip to be $20 not $9

Allwinner confirmed R8 just SOC cost $4.80 but this makes not much sense either this is the price of A33 quad core SOC why they price so expensive obsolete A13 Cortex-A8 SOC???

On my question how then Next Thing Co. sell this computer for $9 Allwinner response is:

“CHIP 9$ computer launched a big advertising campaign to promote their new development board, their actual cost is higher than 9$. After the Kickstarter their computer will sell for 39$.”

So, sorry guys to break your dreams for 1Ghz SOCs costing $1, maybe in future this would be possible, but not now.

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