ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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Follow Up / Catch Up

An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

• GitHub – ynsta/steamcontroller: Standalone Steam Controller Driver
• Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

• All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
• Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
• Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
• Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
• Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Leo Laprote Tries out Arch Linux

• Previously on Unplugged: Drive-By Advice | LINUX Unplugged 34

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

The LFNW is So Nigh

• Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) – Meetup
• Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
• Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
• Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
• Turkey Feed

Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

• Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
• Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
• Install unzip on Ubuntu
• unzip the package
• Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
• Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
• Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
• Quick Start – Traccar
• guest access / embedding? – Traccar
• Public/View-only-Webinterface (no login required) · Issue #96 · tananaev/traccar-web · GitHub

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