A new trick up Fedora’s sleeve might be worth trying on your own Linux install, the new mini-pc revolution is here & the Raspberry Pi Zero brings it for $5. Adobe announces the death of Flash… Kind of. But we’ll share how to finish the job & truly banish flash from your Linux rig.
Plus open source gaming just got an upgrade, GIMP has some fancy & more!
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Offline Media solution for the Rover / Bandwidth challenged.
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Emby? tablet/PC?
- Plex and Plex Pass on a tablet?
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rsync and vlc on a laptop?
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Warsow 2.0 Released With Better Graphics, CC-Licensed Game Assets
Warsow 2.0 adds a tutorial level to help new gamers, many graphical effects were revamped, weapon parameters were tweaked, new HUDs, and many other changes.
The Warsow 2.0 renderer is reported to be 30~50% faster for overall performance, reduced vRAM footprint for textures, KTX texture format support, support for the GLSL binary cache, multi-threading to speed-up map loading, and many other interesting changes.
GIMP 2.9.2 Released
with 2.9.2, you can already benefit from certain aspects of the new engine, such as:
- 16/32bit per color channel processing
- Basic OpenEXR support
- On-canvas preview for many filters
- Experimental hardware-accelerated rendering and processing via OpenCL
- Higher-quality downscaling
Additionally, native support for PNG, TIFF, PSD, and FITS files in GIMP has been upgraded to read and write 16/32bit per color channel data.
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F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver – devel-announce – Fedora List Archives
Plain DNS protocol is insecure and therefore vulnerable from various
attacks (e.g. cache poisoning). A client can never be sure that there
is no man-in-the-middle, if it does not do the DNSSEC validation
locally.We want to have Unbound server installed and running on localhost by
default on Fedora systems.
Linux Academy
The Mini PC Roundup
Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer – Raspberry Pi
Today, I’m pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of Raspberry Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5. Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family, featuring:
- A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
- 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
- 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
- A micro-SD card slot
- A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
- Micro-USB sockets for data and power
- An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
- Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
- An unpopulated composite video header
- Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm
Raspberry Pi Zero runs Raspbian and all your favourite applications, including Scratch, Minecraft and Sonic Pi. It is available today in the UK from our friends at The Pi Hut and Pimoroni, and in the US from Adafruit
Kodi on the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero
Omega – Onion
Omega is an invention platform for the Internet of Things. It comes WiFi-enabled and supports most of the popular languages such as Python and Node.JS. Omega makes hardware prototyping as easy as creating and installing software apps.
Dimensions: 28mm x 42mm
OS: OpenWRT Linux
Processor: 400MHz
RAM: 64MB DDR2
Flash: 16MB
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n
Ports: 18 GPIO
Language: Python, Node.JS, PHP, Ruby, Lua and more…
Wireless Raspberry Pi speaker | Linux User & Developer – the Linux and FOSS mag for a GNU generation
AirPlay uses Apple technology that was reverse-engineered in 2011, which means that third-party devices can now participate in the fun. AirPlay allows any Apple device to broadcast whatever is coming out of its speakers to an AirPlay receiver (which will be our Pi in this case). There is a way to send audio from PulseAudio to AirPlay receivers
GeekBox | by geekbuying the Pioneering Versatile Open Source TV Box
The RK3368 is an Octa Core 64bit, ARM Cortex-A53 processor with PowerVR G6110 graphics chip, 28nm processing design, Support OPENGL ES 3.1. RK3368 with super video capabilities, 4K×2K, H.265 and HDMI 2.0@60Hz output support.
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Adobe kills the ‘Flash’ name after twenty years
Adobe revealed that the Flash product will be called Adobe Animate CC from January’s update of the Creative Cloud suite. There’s no explicit mention of what the browser plug-in will be called, but presumably it will mirror the change of name.