Entroware’s Apollo laptop has arrived, and we share our first hands on impressions of their ultra Linux laptop, how does it compare to the Purism, and a quick chat with Entroware’s co-founder.
Plus we discuss the Mint hack, and solutions we could create as a community to solve the bigger problems, updates from some of our favorite open source projects, and chat about Beep Beep Yarr, and more!
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Follow Up / Catch Up
Beep Beep Yarr! by Linux Voice
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Silk Guardian is an anti-forensic LKM kill-switch that waits for a change on your usb ports and then wipes your ram and turns off your computer.
MUTINY! — Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Adds Unity-Style Desktop Layout
“There’s a Mutiny coming!,” the Ubuntu MATE team teases. “Yes, that is a top menu. Yes, this is Ubuntu MATE. See you Thursday for the Beta 1 release!”.
Cnchi v0.14 Moves Into Stable Branch
The most notable change in Cnchi 0.14 is beta support for ZFS (in Automatic Installation Mode). It is now possible to install Antergos with ZFS as your chosen filesystem. You simply tell Cnchi which drive to use and it will take care of formatting the drive and configuring ZFS for you.
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The most powerful Ubuntu phone is still not good enough
The Meizu Pro 5 has the Galaxy S6’s processor, but not its performance
100,000,000 Monthly Active Users
Now Telegram has more than 100,000,000 monthly active users. 350,000 new users sign up each day. We’re delivering 15 billion messages daily.
DigitalOcean
“The Mint Hack”
Hacker explains how he put “backdoor” in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads | ZDNet
The hacker responsible, who goes by the name “Peace,” told me in an encrypted chat on Sunday that a “few hundred” Linux Mint installs were under their control — a significant portion of the thousand-plus downloads during the day.
Backdoored Linux Mint, and the Perils of Checksums
But it’s also important to note that comparing the checksum of a file you downloaded with what you see on the website you downloaded it from isn’t secure either, even if you are using SHA256. If a hacker can hack the website to modify the download link, they can modify the checksum at the same time to match their malicious download.
The only solution to this problem is to use public key cryptography.
Linux Academy