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The cube sat in question is UPSat, a 2U cubesat that is completely Open Source. Everything from the chassis to the firmware is completely Open, with all the source files hosted on GitHub.

upsat-delivery-1.jpg (2048×1521)

Desktop App Pick

pulseeffects: Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications

Limiter, compressor, reverberation, stereo equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications

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Kali Linux 2017.1 Release

Finally, it’s here! We’re happy to announce the availability of the Kali Linux 2017.1 rolling release, which brings with it a bunch of exciting updates and features.

Kali Linux can now use cloud GPUs for password-cracking • The Register

The developers behind the distro this week gave it a polish, adding new images optimised for GPU-using instances in Azure and Amazon Web Services. The extra grunt the GPUs afford, Kali’s backers say, will enhance the distribution’s password-probing powers.

Linux Mint-using terror nerd awaits sentence for training Islamic State

A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of Linux Mint, has been described as a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.”

USB Type-C Port Manager Coming To Linux 4.12

Basically the TCPM driver is responsible for managing the role of each USB Type-C port on the system depending upon the connected device.

Blackmagic Design: DaVinci Resolve 14

DaVinci Resolve includes virtually every imaginable editing and trimming tool available, making it perfect for both creative and online editing! The new high performance playback engine, which is up to 10x faster, makes playback instantaneous and trimming more responsive than ever, even for processor intensive formats such as H.264 and RAW.

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Adopt-a-Dongle | LAS 466

chris — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:53:25 +0000

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Laptop Wins and Woes

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Cloud-enabled WiFi router adds VPN and Dynamic DNS

The Debian Linux driven Roqos Core router is now available with a v.1.6 upgrade that adds Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Dynamic DNS features. With the VPN feature, users can make a secure VPN connection from anywhere in the world, says Virginia based Roqos.

Desktop App Pick

Counter Attack

CounterAttack is in a very playable state with lots of content but we aren’t done adding new stuff! There are also a few big changes we would like to finish before the full release including a UI redesign, 4 player local co-op, and the ability to mix local co-op with online play.

HiDPI-Steam-Skin: HiDPI skin for Steam client based on default skin

This is a simple skin for Steam that gives everything a slightly larger font size.

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Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

More than 80 workers at Ubuntu-maker Canonical are facing the chop as founder Mark Shuttleworth takes back the role of chief executive officer.

Ubuntu Budgie Released

Ubuntu Budgie v17.04 (zesty) Released: April 13th 2017

A significant portion of this development cycle has been spent integrating with the Canonical build-system. Key visible integration items were:

Plymouth customisations

utilizing the Ubiquity installer

reworking packages to remove the “budgie-remix” identities and replaced with the updated “Ubuntu Budgie” identity.

This is the Ubuntu 17.10 Release Date

Ubuntu 17.10, codename Artful Aardvark, be the first version of Ubuntu since 2011 to not ship with the Unity desktop by default. Instead, **Ubuntu 17.10 will use GNOME as the default desktop environment **(it’s probable that this could be GNOME 3.26, due for release in September).

Artful (17.10) : Ubuntu

The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2017, designated 17.10.

BFQ I/O Scheduler Queued For Linux 4.12

BFQ has been used for a while now by some different Linux distributions that have opted to carry the patches. It’s seen a lot of work over the years while finally for Linux 4.12 it looks to be mainlined.

The BFQ scheduler has been queued in the Linux-Block For-Next tree meaning it should then be sent in for the upcoming Linux 4.12 merge window.

BFQ is a proportional-share storage-I/O scheduler that also supports hierarchical scheduling with a cgroups interface. Here are the main nice features of BFQ.

Low latency for interactive applications
Low latency for soft real-time applications
Higher speed for code-development tasks
High throughput
Strong fairness, bandwidth and delay guarantees

Feedback

Name: Baggio K
Subject: Exceeding 26 Letter /dev/sd*
Message:

I am a BSD user, but my company uses LInux :(.
Attached the output of ll /dev/sd* for a Linux server with 57 /dev/sd*.

https://jblive.wufoo.com/cabinet/dzd4MnI3/EqGtkOVoRys%3D/2017041613.06.33.png

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Dell’s Secret Sauce | LAS 465

chris — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:35:28 +0000

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Barton’s Blog | To the clouds and beyond…

Four and a half years ago a scrappy skunk works project by the name of “Project Sputnik” was kicked off at Dell to gauge interest in a developer-focused laptop. The project received an amazing amount of interest and support from the community and as result, nine months later this project became an official product — the ultra-mobile XPS 13 developer edition.

Barton George (@barton808) | Twitter

Avid father of 3. Founder & lead Project Sputnik (dev systems). Office of the CTO at Dell focusing on DevOps & Open Source. These insightful opinions are my own

Ubuntu-based Developer and Engineering systems

Part of Project Sputnik, these systems began as an open-ended exploratory project to identify what you — developers — demand in an ideal laptop. With your input, Project Sputnik became an official product and continues to evolve.

In addition to our 6th generation Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, we are introducing the next generation of the four systems that make up our Dell Precision Ubuntu-based line as well as added a new All-in-One offering. Additionally be sure to also check our portfolio of fixed Precision workstations (tower and rack) that are also available with Ubuntu.

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Our Trip to Dell | LAS 464

chris — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 14:42:41 +0000

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The Briggo Coffee Robot, Runs Linux

View the beast on imgur.com

The stories center on an Austin, Texas-based startup called Briggo, which has created a fully automated, one-stop coffee kiosk that churns out what it believes is a superior cup of joe. You can order and pay by smartphone, customize the brewing process to your precise specifications, and schedule it to be ready for pickup the minute you arrive. And it really doesn’t care if you say “venti” instead of “large.”

Desktop App Pick

GitHub – JannikHv/gydl: gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

Gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

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Ubuntu’s Drops Unity for Gnome

Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

We will continue to produce the most usable open source desktop in the world, to maintain the existing LTS releases, to work with our commercial partners to distribute that desktop, to support our corporate customers who rely on it, and to delight the millions of IoT and cloud developers who innovate on top of it.

Our efforts were seen fragmentation not innovation. And industry has not rallied to the possibility, instead taking a ‘better the devil you know’ approach to those form factors, or investing in home-grown platforms.

We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Welcoming Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland | Christian Schaller

am personally happy to see this convergence of efforts happening because I have for a long time felt that the general level of investment in the Linux desktop has not been great enough to justify the plethora of Linux desktops out there, so by now having reached a position where Canonical, Endless, Red Hat and Suse again share one desktop technology stack

Reportedly 30 to 60% of staff could be let go depending upon what comes of these outside investments. But the headcounts are going up in areas of security, cloud, and other money-making enterprise efforts.

Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors • The Register

In the best-case scenario, The Reg understands, departments would suffer a 30 per cent headcount reduction but in the worst it was 60 per cent. It’s not clear how many staff have gone, but Canonical is believed to have a workforce of 700.

Drop MIR/Unity for Wayland/Gnome (351 weight)

Release/GA Unity 8 (15 weight)
Easily, the most heavily requested, major change in this thread was for Ubuntu to drop MIR/Unity in favor of Wayland/Gnome. And that’s exactly what Mark Shuttleworth announced in an Ubuntu Insights post here today. There were a healthy handful of Unity 8 fans, calling for its GA, and more than a few HackerNews comments lamenting the end of Unity in this thread.

Welcome to Gnome and Wayland

Unity will Continue as a Fork

Lightworks 14 Released

Like a sequel to the Expendables, Lightworks 14.0 is packed to the rafters with cameos from features you always knew were there, but had sort of forgotten all about.

Part of the ‘old dog, new tricks‘ vibe is thanks to the top-to-toe redesign the non-linear editor is sporting. Lightworks’ new look (called “Fixed”, funnily enough) addresses the software’s most oft cited criticism: that it’s hard to use. Thew new layout aims to offer a “more organised” workspace, and help you discover, learn, and use the editor’s various features.

Light works supports Ubuntu 16.10 or later — sorry LTS users. You won’t be able to export to MP4 or MOV; you can’t import WMV; and there’s no FX plugin-support.

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Dubstep Allan | LAS 463

chris — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:36:39 +0000

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The real reason LAS is ending

Noah reveals the real reason LAS is ending, discussing the details with Allan.
Allan has been helping Noah for months.
Allan has been helping Noah for months.
Noah is switching from Telegram to Threema
Plus another major switch!

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TravelMate Laptop with Rasp Pi RUNS LINUX!

Desktop App Pick

sesutils

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Open Shot 2.3 Released

new transform tool (make pictures bounce/scale etc – real-time transformations in preview window )
razor tool (back from version 1.4.3) quickly cut clips or transitions
better zoom (in and out of timeline – centers on mouse position)
improved title editor (grid of thumbnails to make finding the correct title easier)
better animated titles (type, pick color, refresh)
new preview window (dedicated video player – multiple video preview windows at the same time, renders audiofiles a waveform by default)
huge update (esp real-time preview performance – fewer freezes, hangs, frame detection)
new user guide using sphynx documentation
better audio
improved export dialog, new windows build server (the development system died), gitHub bug management
his kids put together a cat video

Steinberg Brings VSTs to Linux

VST plug in
3.6.7 version of their plug-in SKD for Linux (in addition to other OS)
nice for developers and end users
more native plug-ins for linux
cmake support
VST3 SDK on GitHub
GPL v3 license is now alongside the proprietary license (necessary for some open projects)

RedHat Profit Highest since 2015

shares climbed 6% on Tuesday – best day since March 2015
surpassed 30 day average trading volume of 1.83 million shares on Tuesday — with more than 1.89 million shares changing hands before noon
Revenue: $629 million vs $619 million expected (Fourth Quarter 2017)
The company’s subscription revenue, which accounted for 89 percent of total revenue for the quarter, was at $560 million, or up 17 percent from one year ago Red Hat said. It crossed $2 billion in annual subscription revenue for the first time this fiscal year.
first-ever deal of approximately $100 million in the fourth quarter
As of Monday’s close, shares of Red Hat were up more than 17 percent for the year and up more than 12 percent over the past 12 months.
Shares closed at $82.20 Monday and were trading above $86 per share after hours, on the heels of the company’s upbeat fourth-quarter earnings report.

Apple’s new FIle System

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Mail Bag

Name: Jonathan G
Subject: LAS Feedback
Message:

I just started watching LAS starting in January, and last week I overheard co-workers talking about Linux and I had to jump in and tell them about LAS. Was behind on my podcast watching but just finished 462. Sad to see this chapter ending but happy to see what you both will bring to us next. One thing that would love to see in Ask Noah or maybe in a monthly’ish podcast: do picks and dist reviews when the make scene. Do your top 5-10 app pick and what new dist came out. I really like those, but some times the picks and dist felt like you were forcing it too much. I have enjoyed LAS and really hope to more from Jupiter broadcasting.

Name: Efrain C
Subject: LAS – More than just Linux
Message:

hey Chris i’m writing this to you to say thank you so much for LAS.around 2010 i got hurt on my job and was home with nothing to do,sad having depression on top of that. it was very hard time for me.but i thought i try something new and watch a watch called Las on youtube.And thanks to you and Angela’s (fauxshow).i was able to deal with it and survive.i know this is not a linux question,but i thought you should hear this.linux not just a OS it can be so much more.i’m not a big linux user i’m still a bit of a noob .but i do like it.i use it every day.and i do try to switch people to it.and ohh Noah love you dude your one hell of a smart ass don’t stop doing what you do,guys like me who are not big on linux still care to know something about it,so i can’t wait to see ask Noah.and learn.sorry if this was to long,i just wanted to say thank you and i love you guys.

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The Final Countdown | LAS 462

chris — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:16:15 +0000

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What’s Next for LAS

6 episodes of LAS after this episode.
Chris gone next week, driving to Texas
Linux Action Show goes to Dell, and why.
Noah and Special Guest the week I am gone.
Then live from Dell, plus inside look at all their Linux.

Live From Dell

Chris and Noah go to Austin
Meet the teams behind Sputnik, Servers/Cloud, IoT, networking, HPC.
Meet up with Texas JB community members.
Going to try and vlog the entire thing
Rover Tracker will be LIVE again

Final LAS

Final LAS May 7th Live at LinuxFest Northwest 2017
Please come join us and hang out!

What’s New:

Two new shows, one revival
User Error relaunch, with more the Linux content that was cut to hold for LAS.

Linux News Show, with Chris Fisher and Joe Ressington

Live Sunday’s during LAS’ old time slot.
Going to add a new voice, and more focus on one of the most liked segments of LAS.
Released to the LAS rss feeds, and its own dedicated YouTube channel.
More details to come.

Ask Noah

Launching April 3rd
New user content, howtos, and questions answered.
Simulcasted on KEQQ 88.3 LPFM
Ask Noah Show
Telegram Group

We’re going to do our best

This will mean more, and better weekly Linux content.
We’re creating new content, with better focus, that better reflects the kind of stuff we are passionate about making.
We know we will lose some of you, please remember how hard we’ve worked every Sunday for a decade when you flame us.
We know we could lose sponsors and Patrons too.
If you grok what we are doin, we are going to need your help more than ever

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Crashed Display in Walmart, Runs Linux

LILO for bootloader
SysVinit-2.78-15.i386 RPM

Build date: Wed Apr 4 15:06:04 2001

thanks to twiggy99999 for the link

Desktop App Pick

Best password manager for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mac

Secure them with Enpass password manager

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GNOME 3.24 Release Notes

GNOME 3.24 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result
of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new
features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the
release incorporates 28459 changes, made by approximately 753
contributors.

Firefox Sync Support Is Coming to GNOME Web – OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Final Beta Released with Linux Kernel 4.10, Mesa 17.0

Canonical released today, as expected, the Final Beta of the upcoming Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) operating system, due for release on April 13, 2017, along with the rest of the opt-in flavors, such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, etc.

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Beta 2

We’re absolutely chuffed to bits to announce, what is quite possibly,
the best Ubuntu MATE beta we’ve ever released. We didn’t participate
in the Beta 1 so we have quite the change log from Alpha 2 that was
released in January. We still have some fixes to land for the themes
but overall this release is shaping up to be really great.

99900 – [NVC1] nouveau: freeze / crash after kernel update to 4.10

Xorg is now crashing whenever my monitors are going to sleep (happens always in my lunch time) – after returning its crashed and i need todo a hard reset to get the gpu running again.

State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016

The following document provides an overview about Linux support for the Apple
MacBook Pro 2016 line.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

Linux Desktop was the most loved platform. Sharepoint was the most dreaded. And finally, more developers wanted to work with Android this year than any other platform.

Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers

The US Senate today voted to eliminate broadband privacy rules that would have required ISPs to get consumers’ explicit consent before selling or sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other companies.

Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in the @nytimes calling out 50 senators #Broadbandprivacy pic.twitter.com/Gg62Fwycb7

— Zuri Berry (@zuriberry) March 26, 2017

US Senate votes to allow sale of people’s browsing history without consent

Following the vote, Senator Ed Markey said “ISP” should stand for “information sold for profit,” and “invading subscriber privacy,”

How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them

So what has changed for Internet users? In one sense, nothing changed this week, because the requirement to obtain customer consent before sharing or selling data is not scheduled to take effect until at least December 4, 2017. ISPs didn’t have to follow the rules yesterday or the day before, and they won’t ever have to follow them if the rules are eliminated.

Feedback

Re: our call out for engagement

We know not all, maybe even the majority are very active on social networks/reddit.
We are making a plea to those that are, those that reshare and are active. Help us please.

Feedback Takeaways

Each feedback medium reflects the era of the show when it was created to a degree.
r/las: Turns into a mob after a couple of days, misses our replies, accuses us of not replying. Often critical of Noah, tends to be nostalgic of the past.
Telegram: Loves Noah, mostly likes the show as is. Most of them have suggestions/ideas. All of which seem the best so far. Say I’ll keep following whatever you do.
Email: A lot of love, def some strong ideas for change.
Twitter: Mixed bag, but majority is positive.
YouTube: Similar to the r/LAS.
Patreon: Positive, and encouraging.

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#SaveLAS | LAS 461

chris — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:32:50 +0000

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The credit card reader at gift shop uses Linux

Desktop App Pick

GScan2PDF

A basic scanning application that converts a document to a PDF file for archiving documents

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Major Upgrade to Wire

Calling has always been one of Wire’s most popular features. Today we’re happy to announce the rollout of a major upgrade to our calling protocol. It further improves the secure calling experience and takes a step forward for privacy.

This update means more successfully connected calls, even in challenging network conditions. Another iteration in a few weeks will significantly shorten the call setup time. When you call someone and they accept then you’ll be able to start talking almost instantly.

Telegram & WhatsApp Vulnerability

One of the most concerning revelations arising from the recent WikiLeaks publication is the possibility that government organizations can compromise WhatsApp, Telegram and other end-to-end encrypted chat applications. While this has yet to be proven, many end-users are concerned as WhatsApp and Telegram use end-to-end encryption to guarantee user privacy. This encryption is designed to ensure that only the people communicating can read the messages and nobody else in between.

BeagleBone Blue: A Linux Robot Computer

BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer. Community-supported and fully open-source, the real-time performance, flexible networking and rich set of robotics-oriented peripherals make building mobile robots quick and affordable.

Smartwatch OS

The news comes via an interview with Swatch CEO Nick Hayek, who stated, “there’s a possibility for wearables to develop as a consumer product, but you have to miniaturize and have an independent operating system.” The statement comes on the heel of Tag Heuer’s unveiling of a new super high-end modular timepiece.

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Future Show Direction

Name: Shannon S
Subject: Just some love
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah. I wanted to reach out to you and show some support and thanks for the time, energy, and money that you put into the research, production and high quality of your show.

My fiance Christopher has been listening for a few years now. He loves what you do, and so do I! As my fiance has become more knowledgeable and more passionate about Linux, security, etc, he has so few people in our real world social network to chat about it with. He can’t dig in deep and dork out over it without eyes glazing over. You guys have been guides and friends as he has worked on moving his career path towards tech.

it’s tough to feel the support of your viewers, especially when they become complacent with sharing on social media. Just know there is tons of love for you guys coming from over in Vermont (though not with social media shares, guilty as charged).

Also, I’ve always appreciated the time you have spent talking about women in tech and women using linux. I’ve got ubuntu gnome onto my laptop and I’ve become a much more knowledgeable and confident with my computer knowledge thanks to you both. This is coming from a very grudging tech user.

We also love love love Unfilter, and we both think the intro is fine as is

Name: Aaron R
Subject: Firewall with Reverse Proxy
Message:

Hey guys, I’m looking for a good open source firewall and reverse proxy that has a nice webUI that I can quickly configure and monitor from. I use cisco ASA’s and nginx combo normally but for the house and $ it doesn’t make sense. i have a limited number of external IP’s as you probably already know. I’ve now got a home setup that I’d like to start hosting some things on. I’m demoing cacheguard and it’s nice but only free for 5 users. Thanks! any help much

Noah’s Reccomendation

Protect your business network from viruses, malware and other threats using the UTM (Unified Threat Management) platform with the best usability in the industry. The Endian UTM appliance provides total network security including web and email filtering, VPN, intrusion prevention, bandwidth management and much more.

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NextCloud’s Can of Worms | LAS 460

chris — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:12:54 +0000

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Founder of Nextcloud, founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, photographer and founder of openDesktop .org

Nextcloud scanning people’s owncloud and nextcloud instances for security vulnerabilities.

Security Holes: German Parties and Ministries Vulnerable To Hacking Attacks

“While researching the product versions being used, his employees noticed that many customers were using disturbingly old software in order to store their data on the web. Karlitschek then informed the Cert emergency team at BSI. He says it was clear to him after the politically motivated hacker attacks in the U.S. that this was also “an explosive issue.”

While developing the security scanner we had a look at the state of security of private cloud servers online. Many administrators might not be aware how easy it is to get a list of servers on the web! Services like shodan.io provide the ability to search for specifics and it is simple to get a list of tens of thousands of instances and look at them.

Nextcloud scanning people’s owncloud and nextcloud instances for security vulnerabilities and alerting “security organizations” about vulns. : selfhosted

Reporting that information to a third party after that is pretty hard to justify in my mind regardless of whatever ‘greater good’ argument you can make regarding internet security. That is simply not the way white hats work. You can’t report vulnerabilities to a third party without trying to contact the party in question first.

This is doubly important because it appears you picked up some residential users by accident. Nearly everyone on this sub does /r/selfhosted because they don’t like third parties to hold their info. The whole idea of a private cloud to protect privacy is the #1 selling point on your own website. On top of the privacy concerns, nearly every home user running nextcloud is doing so against their ISPs TOS. That makes the privacy issues doubly important because they could lose the ability to host their cloud altogether.

EDIT: I’d like to further add, that the integrity of an OSS project is entirely dependant on trusting the devs. Very few people have the time of skill to go through all the code themselves and so trusting OSS is akin to trusting the devs that run the show. If we can’t trust the devs, it may as well be closed source. Again, especially in this sub, there is a reason people like to use OSS. It’s pretty hard to justify using nextcloud if people can’t trust the devs to be open and transparent.

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Gemini PDA Android & Linux keyboard mobile device

Planet Computers introduces the Gemini PDA from Planet Computers on Vimeo.

Gemini is an ultra-thin clamshell mobile device with fully integrated tactile QWERTY keyboard, that fits in your pocket. Designed for Android, it also features a dual boot Linux option. Gemini is fully equipped with 4G, WiFi & Bluetooth enabling both data communications and mobile phone calls.

Desktop App Pick

Tweet Nest

A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets

Distro of the Week

Plasma 5 ISO Update March

View post on imgur.com

We are proud to announce a fresh new Update for our Plasma 5 version of Neptune 4.5.

This version brings the latest and greatest of the Plasma 5 world to you. This includes Plasma 5.8.5 together with the desktop fix for contextmenu aswell as Dolphin 16.12.2, Kdenlive 16.12.2, Chromium 56, Icedove 45.6.

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Libreboot calls on AMD to release source code and specs on new Ryzen platforms

Just imagine what would happen if AMD started to produce cheap, affordable
libre hardware, to the point where Libreboot could start supporting newer systems
from AMD. The possibilities are endless! People would jump towards AMD
and AMD’s sales would go through the roof, while we in the libre hardware
community would finally have systems from a manufacturer that cares for
our freedoms to use our computers without proprietary software.

Firefox 52 Released with WebAssembly Support, Enhanced Sync

Firefox drops NPAPI support in this release (a change we’ve known about for a long time) for everything bar Adobe Flash. While this sounds trivial it does mean that GNOME users can’t install GNOME extensions from the GNOME Extensions website using Firefox as-is, as of this release.

Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP • The Register

The browser will now only run Flash. Anything else reliant on the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) is now verboten. Which means Silverlight, Java and Acrobat are gone, daddy, gone.

GNOME Shell integration – Chrome Web Store

Chrome OS Has Double the Marketshare of Regular Linux in USA

Chrome OS usage is up by over 50% compared to the previous year, when the thin-client OS hit a then-high of 2.02%.

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Laptop Reviewed on LAS – Sold on Ebay

Hi Noah! This isn’t really a question about the product. I just wanted to contact you. It’s hilarious because in the LAS episode, you were asked how and when do you run into LAS fans… well, here I am!

I’ve been on the market for an x260 since you unveiled your purchase in LAS episode 422, so I was shocked and excited to see the first great priced one I came across (fully equipped with WWAN too!) that wasn’t 720p belonged to you! Happy to be buying from you! Even more happy to escape 4GB of ram soldered and be able to use GNS3 on my laptop without sweating

Please be sure to mention your impressions of the X270 on LAS if you get the chance I also have two requests if you don’t mind:

Please keep the LAS sticker on the windows key!

You don’t need to load windows on it, if you haven’t already! 100% Linux here.

The laptop remains as pure as the day you got it and installed Linux without a single boot into Windows! That’s good news

I’ll make a post on /r/linuxactionshow when I receive the laptop

p.s. I find it quite funny that the laptop is priced the same as the Galago Pro 13″ starting price Even though you posted this before SCALE.

-Mark

Name Stefan
Subject New Format Feedback
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah,

First and foremost: I love the show, keep up the great work.

In my opinion the new show format is perfect for attracting new viewers, because there is nothing more disappointing on youtube than clicking on a video and having to listen trough like 40 min of random stuff before you get to the the actual information you want to hear about.

That said, I also have an Idea for the show notes (and yes I know this is a lot of work, but it would be very convenient for the viewers): timestamps for different topics during the show like “Bad Voltage” (https://www.badvoltage.org/2017/02/23/2×04/) does.

e.g. [00:14:22] Disassembled: Gitlab…

So if I wanted to listen to the Gitlab story first I could skip to that time, or if I don’t want to hear > about Gitlab on yet another Podcast I could skip to the next timestamp.

Just to be clear, I don’t want to tell you how to publish your Podcast, I’m just saying it would be convenient.

Also, an idea for an app pic:

Because I know you guys love CLI tools: Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)
Pandoc is for text what ffmpeg is for audio/video or imagemagic is for pictures
It translates every text format you’ll ever use into every other text format you’ll ever want. You could even convert HTML to epub (gigantic wikipedia pages into eBooks)

Cheers
Stefan aka thefenriswolf

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Live from SCaLE 15x | LAS 459

chris — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:33:28 +0000

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Live from SCaLE15x

Noah @Kernellinux in action at the #Nextcloud both #linuxactionshow .Would have liked to say hi but had to run for the next talk #scale15x pic.twitter.com/jobGqIYE8P

— Carmelito Andrade (@CarmelitoA) March 5, 2017

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— Carlos Quizhpe (@carlosquizhpe_) March 5, 2017

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Meet the Ubuntu Powered Augmented Reality Helmet

So think of it less of an Ubuntu Hololens and more of a souped-up set of cyborg Snappy Ubuntu Core goggles.

Desktop App Pick

Standard Notes – standard notes app, un-standard every other way.

A proof of concept collaborative text editor with end-to-end encryption. Simply share the URL with anyone you want to collaborate with.

The URL contains a unique, random identifier for the document, as well as an encryption key and edit token. Since the encryption key follows the # symbol, it is never sent to the server.

Edits to the document are end-to-end encrypted, meaning what you type is encrypted locally before being sent to the server and other users.

Other collaborators do not need Standard Notes to view the document. To allow others to edit the document, share the “Editing URL”. For viewing access only, share the “Viewing URL”.

Distro of the Week

Zenwalk GNU Linux: New Zenwalk Current ISO for 22 feb 2017

The main change is the comeback of Firefox, built with GTK3 and multithreading enabled by default : This build of Firefox starts and react nearly as fast as Chromium, and with many tabs opened : scales much better in terms of responsiveness and memory footprint.

— NEWS —

The New System76 Galago Pro is a Potential Macbook Kille

The Galago Pro is slim and lightweight, yet it packs in plenty of power under the hood. It’s powered by choice of Intel Kaby Lake processors — Core i5 or Core i7-7500U — with Intel Integrated Graphics 620, and can be configured withup to 32GB RAM.

Razer Is Planning Better Laptop Support On Linux – Phoronix

Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan has shared plans to improve their Linux support, at least when it comes to their Blade laptops.

Welcome to The Linux Corner! | Razer Insider

As Razer Insider is always adapting and evolving based on what our community is looking for, we decided to lead a new forum section that is dedicated to Linux’s applications for gamers or other creators alike. The Linux Corner is a result of this where fans can now discuss their experience, provide feedback, and talk about everything related to Tux’s OS running on the Razer Blade.

Jaguar Land Rover invests in artificial intelligence startup Mycroft

Mycroft has landed a strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover. The Kansas City-based artificial intelligence startup is among the first startups to enter the Portland-based Jaguar Land Rover Tech Incubator, which will provide Mycroft with a $110,000 investment and full-time engineering support.

Mycroft gets a Plasmoid – Mycroft

The Plasmoid is built on some of the latest technologies, so you need to be running KDE Plasma Desktop 5.9 or later.

Valve launches SteamVR support for Linux

We're now live with a developer build of SteamVR for Linux! https://t.co/UbsEC01eDh

— Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) February 21, 2017

The company just launched SteamVR for Linux, letting developers create Linux content for the HTC Vive VR headset, trackers and other hardware. The program is in beta, meaning developers must use an NVIDIA developer beta driver

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux | GamingOnLinux

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplayer and co-op campaign modes, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR with Croteam’s new Serious Warp movement system.

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Spotting LAS viewers in the wild

Cousin Randal @merlyn scores a second row seat @badvoltage #scale15x #goodtimes #clamsOnHalfshell #rollerskates pic.twitter.com/8sXV412min

— jordan247 (@jordan247) March 4, 2017

Where are some places where you’ve found fans of the Linux Action Show? Was it in a normal place, or some place exotic? Recently, I met a LAS viewer named Justin at a local Smash Burger in Texas (he was wearing a LAS hoodie with the logo on it). Apparently, he’s been a viewer for a long time.

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Noah’s Radio Hack | LAS 458

chris — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 06:04:44 +0000

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Arecord

arecord is a command-line soundfile recorder for the ALSA soundcard driver. It supports several file formats and multiple soundcards with multiple devices. If recording with interleaved mode samples the file is automatically split before the 2GB filesize.

id3v2

I wrote this because id3v1 are seriously deficient in what kind of info can be in them and the length of info that can be in them. id3v2 tags are much better but there isn’t a tool to edit them in Linux. This is a tool to fill that space.

In case you didn’t know id3 tags can be found on mp3 files, they can store information about what band recorded the song, the song name, etc. id3v2 adds all kinds of neat stuff and you can find out more about it at the id3v2 page
This utility is based on id3lib.

ANDFtp

AndFTP is a FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP client. It can manage several FTP configurations. It comes with both device and FTP file browser. It provides download, upload, synchronization and share features with resume support. It can open (local/remote), rename, delete, update permissions (chmod), run custom commands and more. SSH RSA/DSA keys support. Share from gallery is available. Intents are available for third party applications. Folder synchronization are available in Pro version only.

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UK Payroll RUNS LINUX

Sent by Richard N

The UK government has created a application for employers to do their payroll as a desktop tool then make their submissions online, through the tool.

It runs natively and flawlessly in Linux.

Desktop App Pick

Smem

smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system.

Because large portions of physical memory are typically shared among multiple applications, the standard measure of memory usage known as resident set size (RSS) will significantly overestimate memory usage. PSS instead measures each application’s “fair share” of each shared area to give a realistic measure.

Distro of the Week

NuTyX GNU/Linux

NuTyX is a complete GNU/Linux distribution with high flexibility, thanks to the collection concept.

It is based on the excellent Linux From Scratch books LFS and BLFS.

— NEWS —

Scale

Listeners of the Linux Action Show are getting 50% off! Just use the code LAS50 and save 50% off your trip to SCALE!

Mozilla Had A Crazy Week Landing Servo, WebRender & More Into Firefox Repo – Phoronix

Servo and WebRender are now landing in the firefox-central code-base, albeit this isn’t a magical switchover to using it by default or anything along those lines. Mozilla developers still hope to begin using some Servo components within mainline Firefox by the end of 2017. So a big milestone is crossed but this isn’t yet anything that is directly affecting end-users.

Fedora 27 Scheduled To Be Released On Halloween

While Fedora 26 isn’t even being released until June, today the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the initial release schedule for Fedora 27.

The approved schedule has the F27 branching from Rawhide on 25 July, a possible alpha release on 22 August, the beta release on 26 September, the final freeze on 17 October, and to do the official Fedora 27 release on 31 October. The approved Fedora 27 schedule can be found via this FESCo ticket.

LibreOffice 5.3 triggers a record of donations

In this case, one image is better than 1,000 words, as the histogram represents donations during the first 10 days of each month, since May 2013, and doesn’t need any further comment. LibreOffice 5.3 has triggered 3,937 donations in February 2016, 1,800 more than in March 2016, and over 2,000 — sometimes over 3,000 — more than any other month.Donations are key to the life and the development of the project. Thanks.

The Future Of Android-x86 Is In Question

Android-x86 has been an open-source project for the past 7+ years for providing suitable Intel/AMD hardware support for Google’s Android operating system. Unfortunately, its project leader may be stepping away.

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Name: Jonathan C
Subject: XFS vs ZFS on Arch
Message:

Hello Chris and Noah,

I remember seeing you guys discuss both ZFS and XFS on previous episodes of LAS. At the moment I’m thinking about changing the filesystem in my computer, which is currently ext4, and I’m still undecided on whether to go for ZFS or XFS.

Do you guys have any suggestions on recommendations on what I should go for? Or, should I just stay with ext4 for now? I’d like to know your thoughts about this. Thanks!

Cheers

Name: Andrew J
Subject: IP Sec and SimpleHelp
Message:

Hi, Just wanted to say I have been using simplehelp in my IT business for about 3 years now and I have to say it’s more than paid for itself many times over.

Also watched your IPSEC section, and wanted to highlight a new setup I’ve been migrating to using openVPN and a server app called pritunl. This setup handles site-to-site as well as road warrior.

I’ve installed pritunl on an amazon server because I need the lowest latency possible and Digital Ocean has no Sydney Datacentre

The beauty of this system is I have a web based interface which I create the openvpn server on for my clients premise – and then I add each user (a router can also be a user) that needs to connect, define the subnet of the local LAN and pritunl takes care of the rest.
The awesome thing is it gives you a profile uri link, so it’s as easy as pasting a link into their client and it’s ready to go.

Keep up the good work on the show

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XPS 13 Review | LAS 457

chris — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 10:51:39 +0000

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XPS 13 Kaby Lake Sputnik Review

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The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada

Today, on the 59th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US, Canada and Europe. This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS preloaded and features the InfinityEdge display

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Mavizen’s 130 MPH TTX02 Electric Motorcycle Runs on Linux

Here are some more specs:

Top Speed: 130 MPH
Core operating system is open source Linux
USB based system bus allows virtually unlimited number of peripherals to extend the capabilities of the machine with plug’n’play

Desktop App Pick

Undistract Me

Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.

Distro of the Week

NIxOS

NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.

— NEWS —

Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows

At a meeting next week, city leaders are expected to back proposals to switch to Windows 10 by 2021.

4365792.pdf

The Skype Linux App Will Stop Working on March 1

That e-mail goes on to state that version 4.3 of Skype for Linux will no longer work after March 1, 2017.

Civilization VI released for Linux, video and port report

Aspyr Media have officially released the Linux port of Civilization VI [Steam] and after testing it here’s some thoughts.

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Name: Dana L
Subject: Mirrored Hard Drives
Message:

Greetings guys!

After a recent ad on MY computer that was running Windows 10 (Grammy’s) I just had enough. I currently have Linux installed on a 500 GB hard drive, and Windows 10 still exists on a 1 TB boot drive, with REFS mirrored for Media on 2 x 2 TB drives.

I’d like to mirror the 2 x 2 TB drives for the Media, and perhaps move my /home directory over to the 1 TB drive. No software raid, and was thinking of using ZFS.

I’m running Antergos on my desktop and laptop, so I’d appreciate any pointers, since last time I tried ZFS with Antergos a kernel update trashed things.

I’m familiar with ZFS somewhat, but only under *BSD and I’ve been running Linux on and off since the pre 1.0 kernel.

Btw, I’d like this to be a stable running system.

Thanks for all the shows, you guys rock.

Name: Jim B
Subject: ThinkPads now shipping with Linux
Message:

ThinkPad P51s, P51, and P71 announced with options for Linux preinstalled.
Guessing you probably saw this but Linux preinstalled as option now.

Lenovo unveils refreshed line of Windows 7 and Windows 10 powered ProThinkPad P-series laptops

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Inside the Plasma Dev Den | LAS 456

chris — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:28:36 +0000

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Interview with the Plasma Desktop Team

KDE neon

The latest and greatest of KDE community software
packaged on a rock-solid base.

Beautiful New Design on kde.org | KDE.news

While in KDE we pride ourselves on making beautiful software our website has lagged behind modern requirements and trends. Visual Design Group member Ken Vermette has quietly worked away with key stakeholders to create a design and update the content. The new site uses correct HTML5 and is responsive to working on mobiles and tablets. It includes an introduction to our products, community and how you can get involved.

Jonathan Riddell’s Diary

Coming live from the Plasma Sprint sponsored by Affenfels here in Stuttgart, the KDE neon Docker images now support Wayland. This runs on both X and Wayland host systems. Instructions on the wiki page.

WikiToLearn – collaborative textbooks

WikiToLearn provides free, collaborative and accessible text books. Academics worldwide contribute in sharing knowledge by creating high quality content.

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M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine – Willemm.nl

Desktop App Pick

Synapse

GNOME-Do is still one of our favorite Linux launchers, but it hasn’t updated in over a year. If you’re looking for something a bit fresher (and without the ugly Mono dependencies), Synapse is a great replacement. It’s similar to GNOME-Do and other application launchers in the sense that, with a quick keyboard shortcut, you can launch an application or take action on a certain file, depending on the plug-ins you have installed.

Distro of the Week

GeckoLinux – Linux for Detail Oriented Geckos

GeckoLinux is a Linux spin based on the openSUSE distribution, with a focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop. It is available in Static (based on openSUSE Leap) and Rolling (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) editions.

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Arch Linux pulls the plug on 32-bit | PCWorld

“The decision means the February ISO will be the last that allows [installation of] 32-bit Arch Linux,” Piotrowski continued. The announcement goes on to say that i686 installs will continue to receive upgraded packages for a nine-month “deprecation period.” But starting November 2017, i686 will be effectively unsupported.

Noah’s Arch Quick Reference Guide

AppCenter: The Pay-What-You-Want App Store | Indiegogo

houston: Backend for AppCenter

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Name: Corey L
Subject: Video Tearing after Standby
Message:

Hello LAS!

I was wondering if you can help me with a problem I have been having with my current laptop running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04. The laptop is a Sager NP8152-S running in dedicated graphics mode on a Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU. When put to sleep via closing he lid, the laptop sleeps and recovers properly, but after being used for roughly five minutes, screen artifacts begin to appear in screen tearing, and black areas to the point where the cursor will no longer display and I have to reboot the machine to recover. I have tried all proprietary Nvidia binary diver versions available, and am currently operating on 378.09. Thanks for any help!

Best Regards,
Corey

GitHub – system76/nvidia-graphics-drivers: Packaging scripts for nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu
Got tearing with proprietary NVIDIA? Try this. | The Linux Rain
Name: Steve
Subject: Getting Back Into It
Message:

Hey guys, greetings form Downunder!

I’m a long time Unix/Linux user and was working in the field since the mid 90’s. However about 5 years ago I left as my wife and I wanted to start a family and I have been the stay-at-home dad since. My youngest has just started school and it’s time for me to re-enter the system administration world. What advise can you give me to help me get a leg up ?

I have already signed up to Linux Academy and and working through different courses to brush up my skills, and I am considering updating my Solaris credentials to Solaris 11 Associate. Can you advise anything more with regards to my Resume or Interviews that would help ?

Love the show!
Steve

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Low Cost Linux Challenge | LAS 455

chris — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 17:52:56 +0000

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How Low can You go? Cheap Linux Systems

Dell XPS 410 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2 40GHz 8GB 320GB HDD No OS
Computer Model Dimension 9200
Shipping Date 6/9/2007

Inexpensive Video Card

Low Cost Laptop

Intel® Core(TM) i5-6200U Processor 2.3GHz with turbo boost up to 2.8GHz
8GB DDR3L-SDRAM Memory
More productive. Windows 10 is the best for bringing ideas forward and getting things done.
1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive, DVD Writer
15.6″ diagonal Full HD SVA antiglare WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080)

SanDisk SSD

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TERES-A64-BLACK, DIY Laptop, Runs Linux

DIY Linux laptop: Build your own for $240 with fully open source Olimex Teres I

If you’re curious about building a cheap, entirely open-source laptop from scratch using step-by-step instructions, the Teres I could be just the ticket.

If buyers follow the instructions correctly, they should end up with a 980gm (2.16lb) laptop featuring a quad-core Allwinner A64 64-bit Ciortex-A53 processor, an 11.6-inch LCD screen, 4GB flash storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a camera, and 7,000mAh battery.

Desktop App Pick

jam: Google Play Music console player for Linux and Windows

The features it has are:

Last.fm scrobbling
populating a local database with the artists and albums you saved through the web interface (or by any other means)
searching within artists in the database
playing, pausing (buggy, I need help with it) , stopping, previous track, next track
the interface is Cmus rip off, I’ve only added a progress bar
this player no longer lists artists in random order – if you want to randomize them press R

Distro of the Week

Whonix

Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. It realistically addresses attacks while maintaining usability. It makes online anonymity possible via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network.

A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP leaks. Pre-installed, pre-configured applications are ready for use, and installing additional applications or personalizing the desktop will in no way jeopardize the user. Whonix is the only actively developed OS designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor.

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KDE – Plasma 5.9 Kicks off 2017 in Style.

KDE Plasma 5.9

Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Today KDE releases this year’s first Plasma feature update, Plasma 5.9. While this release brings many exciting new features to your desktop, we’ll continue to provide bugfixes to Plasma 5.8 LTS.

KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans

KDE Slimbook, together with KDE neon, offers us a unique opportunity to isolate and fix issues that users have with our software. When something in Plasma, a KDE Application or some software using a KDE Framework does not work as intended for a user, there are at least three layers that can cause the problem:

The KDE software itself
The operating system
The hardware or its drivers
Hardware
Slimbook KDE
i5 $786.26 US Dollar
i7 $915.69 US Dollar

The Document Foundation announces feature-rich LibreOffice 5.3

LibreOffice 5.3 represents a significant step forward in the evolution of the software: it offers an introduction to new features such as online with collaborative editing, which increase the competitive positioning of the application, and at the same time provides incremental improvements, to make the program more reliable, interoperable and user-friendly.

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Noah Needs Help!

Fixing a Trackpad

We recently purchased an Asus Republic of Gamer Laptop. Model G752V

The issue is when you press on the trackpad buttons they do not register a click right or left. If you place your finger even lightly on the trackpad the left button then registered but not the right. If you place TWO fingers on the trackpad and click with the left button it registers as a right click.

If you execute the command synclient ClickPad=0 the left button then works but still no right click.

We have researched the problem at length and basically what we’ve concluded is that it requires a Kernel patch.

I have a meeting on Monday evening at which point I either need this problem fixed or I am going to have to find another solution, and I don’t have any more time to spend on it.

If there is someone out there that knows how to / is willing to help me fix this, I am willing to pay you! Get ahold of me via telegram, twitter, or email @Kernellinux or noah [at] jupiterbroadcasting [dot] com with a quote. BY MONDAY NIGHT I WILL HAVE ANOTHER SOLUTION!

Mail Bag

Name: Paul D
Subject: Bulletproof Linux
Message:

Here’s my suggestion for your bulletproof Linux setup.

Stick with Arch that you know and love, but build it on a filesystem that supports snapshots (I’d recommend ZFS). Then setup auto snapshotting e.g. every day.

I rebuilt my main system just before Christmas on ZFS, then some weeks later as an after thought, enabled daily snapshots. The very next day I did something silly whilst browsing, clicked on a dodgy link, and started having windows opening by themselves. The solution – logout, drop to a terminal, issue a single “zfs rollback” command, and my home partition was restored to how it was when I’d booted that day!

Arch is pretty stable, despite being rolling. Providing you reboot when you update and follow the Arch Announcements list you won’t have any issues. I also only update monthly as I can’t see the point in doing so more frequently for a system that you want to keep stable.

Name: Mark
Subject: Help with Antergos
Message:

Hello LAS! I catch the LAAS podcast every week. But right now I could use your assisatance. I just got a Oryx Pro 17.3 inch with 32 gb of ram, 512 SSD, and 1tb 7200rpm hard drive with a 8gb GTX1070 Nvidia gpu. The problem I am having is trying to get Antergos installed. even in the live boot, the cursor always is stuck in the upper left corner and even after installing it to the hard drive it is the same or will not boot at all. I have tried debian and other distros with the same issues, even tried Manjarro and it was no better.
Can you help me?

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Noah’s IPSEC Adventure | LAS 454

chris — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:10:08 +0000

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IPSec

Head Office Configuration

GRE Tunnels

/interface gre
add comment=BranchOffice !keepalive name=”To Branch” remote-address=192.168.0.2

OSPF Routing

/routing ospf area
add area-id=0.0.0.1 name=”Area 1″
add area-id=0.0.0.2 name=”Area 2″
add area-id=0.0.0.3 name=”Area 3″
add area-id=0.0.0.4 name=”Area 4″

/routing ospf network
add area=”Area 1″ network=192.168.0.0/30
add area=”Area 1″ network=192.168.1.0/24
add area=”Area 2″ network=192.168.0.4/30
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.0.8/30
add area=”Area 4″ network=192.168.0.12/30

IP Addresses

/ip address
add address=192.168.0.1/30 comment=Branch interface=”To Branch”

NAT Bypass for IPSEC ( MUST BE DRAGGED TO THE TOP OF NAT RULES! )

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.2 src-address=192.168.0.1
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.6 src-address=192.168.0.5
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.10 src-address=192.168.0.9
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.14 src-address=192.168.0.13

IPSEC to Branches

/ip ipsec peer
add address=1.1.1.1 comment=”To Branch” enc-algorithm=aes-128 nat-traversal=no secret=
/ip ipsec policy
add comment=”To Branch” dst-address=192.168.0.2/32 sa-dst-address=1.1.1.1 sa-src-address=2.2.2.2 src-address=192.168.0.1/32 tunnel=yes
/ip ipsec peer

Set hostname

/system identity
set name=HeadOffice

Branch Office Configuration

GRE Tunnel

/interface gre
add comment=”To Headoffice” !keepalive name=”To Headoffice” remote-address=192.168.0.9

OSPF Routing

/routing ospf area
add area-id=0.0.0.3 name=”Area 3″

/routing ospf network
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.0.8/30
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.4.0/24

static route for vpn

/ip route
add dst-address=192.168.1.0/24 gateway=192.168.0.9

NAT Bypass for IPSEC ( MUST BE DRAGGED TO THE TOP OF NAT RULES! )

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.9 src-address=192.168.0.10

IPSEC to Heritage

/ip ipsec peer
add address=2.2.2.2 comment=”To headoffice” enc-algorithm=aes-128 nat-traversal=no secret=

/ip ipsec policy
add comment=”To Headoffice” dst-address=192.168.0.9/32 sa-dst-address=2.2.2.2 > sa-src-address=1.1.1.1 src-address=192.168.0.10/32 tunnel=yes

ntp settings

/system
ntp client set enabled=yes > server-dns-names=0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org,3.pool.ntp.org

Set hostname

/system identity
set name=BranchOffice

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Desktop App Pick

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their Github handle

Wouldn’t it be great to allow a fellow developer to quickly and securely SSH into
your laptop when you’re in the middle of a debugging session even if you are on two
separate networks behind NAT?

A few months ago we released a free tool, Teleconsole, we built so we
could do exactly that. We are a distributed team, with bare metal servers sitting in our San Francisco office, several AWS and Azure regions and a bunch of customer environments we are sometimes asked to jump into.

Distro of the Week

GeckoLinux – Linux for Detail Oriented Geckos

GeckoLinux is a Linux spin based on the openSUSE distribution, with a focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop. It is available in Static (based on openSUSE Leap) and Rolling (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) editions.

— NEWS —

Five States Are Considering Bills to Legalize the ‘Right to Repair’ Electronics

_The legislation is modeled on the _Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act a law passed in Massachusetts in 2012. T_hat law effectively became national legislation, because auto manufacturers feared having to deal with the intricacies of 50 different state laws on the issue. The hope is that at least one electronics right to repair law will pass this year, similarly opening the floodgates for consumers and repair companies around the country.

Kicking Off Budgie 11

At this moment in time, the core remaining reason for Budgie even “working” on the GNOME stack, is that it expends
an awful lot of effort pretending to be GNOME Shell

Wine 2.0 is out, ready to disappoint you once again

Wine 2.0 is out, which is a huge milestone for the project. It has more support for more software, includes a lot of graphics speedups, and even supports retina displays on Mac. The list of compatible software is indeed impressive — the latest and greatest apps are rarely supported, but many relatively recent “classics” like Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, and Office 2013 are supposedly operational.

Simplehelp Delivers on Commitment to Linux

The real test of any software is not in its function but in how well the company stands behind the product. Well, this week that test happened. Simplehelp made an update that made the client totally unusable under Linux. Any key you pressed would repeat constantly and right mouse clicks would not work at all. I tweeted them. They responded again almost immediately and asked for specific distributions they could test. I gave them the distributions and the next tweet I received was them telling me the problem was fixed.

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Chris Asks

Very high capacity storage, that’s protected from vibration and movement?

Mail Bag

Name: Chris B
Subject: Arch v LTS
Message:

Hey guys! Love the show, and had a question that I was wondering if I could get an opinion on from the two foremost Linux experts. I’m currently an Arch user, but I’m troubled by your recent stories of Arch breaking at a crucial time. I am considering a switch back to Xubuntu 16.04 when my new x260 (thanks Noah!) arrives, because I’ve noticed that the Arch system I have created now is very similar to a base install of Xubuntu. I enjoy the rolling release/bleeding edge nature of Arch (especially Pragha in the default repos and the newest version of Firejail), but wonder if Xubuntu would be more “bulletproof” (In keeping with your newest of discussions) and if Arch is worth the trouble if it will essentially be used to create Xubuntu. Thank you, love the show, and keep up the great work!

Name: Rick F
Subject: Bullet Proof Linux
Message:

Arch Linux proper with the linux-lts kernel, nvidia-lts driver if using Nvidia, and a Desktop Environment that is NOT Gnome or Plasma.

The only issues I have had with Arch Linux have been tied to the graphics driver, display manager, and desktop environment.

I love Gnome and Plasma, however both are being updated too often to be considered bullet proof. Use something boring like XFCE or MATE if you want bulletproof. By default XFCE and MATE look pretty boring, but they can be tweaked to look amazing. Check out reddit.com/r/unixporn

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Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453

chris — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:20:22 +0000

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Checking in our our Predictions

Consulting the Oracle 2016 | LAS 398

We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016

TrueOS now uses OpenRC to manage all system services, as opposed to FreeBSD’s RC. Instead of using rc.d for base system rc scripts, OpenRC uses init.d

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Jessie F RUNS LINUX

Base OS

I used to use Debian as my base OS but I recently decided to try and run CoreOS’ Container Linux on the desktop. Container Linux is made for servers, so obviously it doesn’t have graphics drivers. I added them and made a few other horrible tweaks that I’m sure would make some people at CoreOS cringe. I am not proud of these things but overall it worked!

Everything in Containers

So overall everything runs in containers, I can automatically update my operating system, and the containers are NOT running as root on my host. This is the dream and reality.

Desktop App Pick

KeePassXC

KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform port of KeePass for Windows. Every feature is cross-platform and tested to give users the same feel on each operating system, including the loved auto-type feature.

Distro of the Week

Chakra – Stable core, bleeding edge applications!

Chakra is a GNU/Linux distribution with an emphasis on KDE and Qt that focuses on simplicity from a technical standpoint and free software. The downloadable ISO features a bootable environment that allows you to test the system before installing it.

— NEWS —

This Dev Is Working on a Way to Run Android Apps on Ubuntu Phone

Major Stable Steam Client

This is the big one. Steam have released a major update of the Steam client which not only adds in some big new features, it also drastically improves the Linux client.

Improved interactions between the Steam runtime and host distribution libraries, which should let Steam work out of the box with open-source graphics drivers on modern distributions. If using an older distribution or running into problems, use STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 to revert to previous behavior.

New Inkscape Version

In short; the new Inkscape 0.92 can’t read SVG made with previous Inkscape versions without breaking them visually.
For a professional like me using Free/Libre Open-Sources Software, it means: if a client, a publisher, a contributor or a translator tries to open today one of the 10,804 available source SVG files on Pepper&Carrot with the new Inkscape 0.92, he’ll get rendering issues with text and will blame my competences as a professional for either making bad work or using unreliable tools.

I spent the evening on the inkscape-devel channel, and thanks to the hard work of the developers Mc and Su_v ; things are evolving in a good way. They had proof-of-concept of what could be done automatically in future 0.92.2 ( too late for 92.1 ) : The result is not pixel-perfect, but it’s near. Really near. ( imagemagick compare was used to make diff ) It’s so near it’s hardly perceptible for a trained human eye. This seems to be going well. They have a plan to make Inkscape take the ‘best decision’ to convert the file, based on whether the SVG file comes from version 0.48 to 0.91, and only prompt user with a more detailed dialog when the choice is really controversial. I have good hope this will lead to a 0.92 or 0.93 that is compatible with previous Inkscape SVG files.

OpenEMR Project needs Funding

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Chris Asks

How do you bulletproof Linux from crashes?

Mail Bag

Name: Nate DeMare
Subject: Switching to Arch
Message:

Hi Guys,

I discovered your show a few weeks back along with Linux Unplugged and User Error. I’ve been listening to all three in reverse order for a while now and I have to say great job overall.

You didn’t switch me to Linux, I’ve been using it as my daily driver for a while now, but you did switch me to Arch. Before I’d either be using Ubuntu or Fedora depending on machine compatibility with the latest release, and I would typically wind up doing a nuke and pave when upgrading because I wanted to play with different distro’s but I would always wind up on Ubuntu or Fedora. I’d heard of Arch, but never actually played with it as taking on a build from scratch was a daunting idea. As the last new releases came around I had my home tower that doesn’t do much on the upgrade list and after listening to your show decided to try building from scratch. Needless to say I fell in love with it, I only installed what I needed to get the system up and running plus my staple programs that I need from time to time on the KDE desktop and my tower is running better than ever. There’s one problem with it though, as it boots I notice it won’t mount the swap partition, it doesn’t seem to be cau
sing any problems, but I was wondering if this is something you’ve run into before.

Keep up the good work,
Nate

Name: Pierre C
Subject: Slimbook Katana: you can buy a computer with Antergos!
Message: Dear JB team,

First of all, congratulations for your work.

Second of all, I wanted to share with you a new company that is selling ultrabooks build for Linux!. The company allows you to buy the computer with a selection of distros and for what I know, all the distros work flawlessly.

Maybe you could take a look to the device and talk about it.

https://slimbook.es/en/ultrabook-katana-en

All the best,

Pierre

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Taking Linux To Heart | LAS 452

chris — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:41:41 +0000

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Runs Linux

The ZeroPhone, Runs Linux

It uses Raspbian Linux, which is currently based on Debian Jessie. This is because it can be tailored to suit our purpose very easily, and will still be /upgradable in the future – this project doesn’t need a separate distribution since that’s prone to obsolescence and is a maintenance nightmare (but I do plan on providing ready-to-go SD card images if the demand is there).

As for the user interface (controlling screen and buttons) – it’s written in Python. I’ll be using pyLCI as a base, but it’s clear for me it needs a rewrite to have all the capabilities a decent mobile phone UI should, and developing a good UI is one of the main goals of this project.

Desktop App Pick

Albert launcher

Access everything with virtually zero effort. Run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more. See wiki for more information.

Spotlight

Kanban Project Management Software

Visualize your work
- Limit your work in progress to be more efficient
- Customize your boards according to your business activities
- Multiple projects with the ability to drag and drop tasks
- Reports and analytics
- Fast and simple to use
- Access from anywhere with a modern browser
- Plugins and integrations with external services
- Free, open source and self-hosted
- Super simple installation
KANBOARD Kanban Project Management Software, a simple visual task board that is FOSS

— NEWS —

Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu

Dell’s Barton George says more Ubuntu-powered Precision workstations will go on sale in the coming months, worldwide, including an Ubuntu version of the company’s stylish newPrecision 5720 All-in-One desktop PC.

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Progress

You won’t hear about this anywhere else, but it is likely that the version number for the next stable release of MATE Desktop will be _2.0._

Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 a…

Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 and Ubuntu MATE 17.04 daily images.

Feedback:

Chris Asks:

sabnbd in docker?
GitHub – linuxserver/docker-sabnzbd
OSS Dev Patreon or other

Mail Bag

Name: Wolf M
Subject: ArchAnywhere
Message:

Hey guys! So it has been awhile since I worte into you, but I have been watching religiously I promise! LOL. Anyhoo, I stumbled upon something I think is pretty cool and thought I would share it.

So I have been using Arch for a long time and it is my go to distro. I am sure noth of you know that the one of the biggest hurdles against trying Arch for many folks is lack of a HUI installer. Installuing Arch has typically always been done via comman line.
UNTIL NOW!

Introducing ArchAnyWhere! Ok so I found this by accident, but I had to try it. Fortunatley, I had an okd machine sitting around waiting for me to put Linux on it. So I did. This is impressive. Installation of Arch was seamless and fast.

And yes, this is pure Arch, not a derivative. This is simply a graphical installer.
Now I perrsonally will always prefer to install Arch via cli, but this shatters the old barrier, making it easy for “noobs” to give Arch a go. So I just wanted to share.

Always a huge fan,

Wolf Mandraagora

Name: James G
Subject: Getting more from ripped DVDs
Message:

I am in the process of trying to learn as much a I can about setting up content for Plex. A couple of subjects have not turned up much that is helpful in search.

MakeMkv seems to drop many of the extra feature content. Are there options I can use to get makemkv to extract more of the content.

Is there anything that can extract the menu data from a DVD? This would be helpful for naming the extras content. I know I could play the DVD and make notes on the menu. I hope to find ways to do this faster.

Is there a way to either allow Plex to play an .iso or some other format that incorporates the DVD’s original menu?

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Mac’s Exodus of 2017 | LAS 451

chris — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:39:41 +0000

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PREDICTIONS!!

Chris’ Predictions:
Big year for media production on Linux. Linux is damn near perfect for audio podcasting already.
Microsoft makes a deal with Canonical to run a product on Ubuntu blessed Kernel
A great year for Elementary OS / Solus – For different reasons, that appeal to a large and not yet discovered base.
Plasma Desktop’s best year in ages. They’ve hit a stride and the Neon project is showing everyone the results as fast as they can ship it.
Gnome will likely be the biggest receiver of Macs exodus.
Dell expands its Linux line to the point that I start taking them seriously as a Linux vendor.
Valve pulls back on Steam Machines for 2017, doubles down on Steam Link.
Valve Brings early VR to Linux.
By the end of 2017, OSS File Sync is mostly a finished discussion.
Noah’s Predictions:
IOT pisses me off more than in any year past
USB3 available on every laptop sold
A fall in macbook purchases
Chris mispronounces a project name
JB Moves to a internet based server arch
Intensive application such as audio/video avail on linux via cloud
Linux based self driving car as a service

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Runs Linux

Smart Watch RUNS LINUX

Here’s the sad thing; on my laptop, I still am running the bloated, legacy X11 display server. I had to because I was involved in maintaining an X11 desktop environment. But Asteroid OS is 100% Wayland only. And it works like a charm:

Desktop App Pick

FSlint – Duplicate file finder for linux

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.
I.E. unwanted or problematic cruft in your files or file names.
For example, one form of lint it finds is duplicate files.
It has both GUI and command line modes.
For more info please see the FAQ.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird replicates the new look and feel of Mozilla Firefox in an effort to provide a similar user experience across all Mozilla software desktop or mobile and all platforms.
Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Tabs appear on the top of the menu bar providing a powerful visual experience and allowing the toolbars to be much more contextual.
Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference. Double-clicking or hitting Enter on a mail message will open that message in a new tab.
When quitting Thunderbird, visible tabs will be saved and will be restored when you open Thunderbird the next time. There is also a Tab menu on the Tab toolbar to help you switch between tabs.

Spotlight

Commercial DAW VST Plugins on Linux

Unleash your creativity with this collection of inspiring, contemporary DSP effects. Compatible with all major DAW’s, your signature sound is no longer limited to a single host.
Introducing a collection of 16 contemporary FX plugins for use with any DAW. Utilizing the very latest algorithms and coding techniques, the plugins feature extraordinary sound quality in an extremely efficient package, allowing the plugins to be used liberally across a wide range of native computer systems. Empower your creativity with the DAW Essentials Collection.

— NEWS —

Canonical Clarifies Ubuntu Phone State: Nothing Really Until Snap-Based Image Ready

Pat shares that the Click-based Ubuntu Phone images are indeed on the way out, there will be no new Ubuntu Phone models until there is a “Snap image”, and they don’t plan to do an OTA-15 feature release. Canonical doesn’t plan to land any new features to the current stable PPA, but they will be providing security updates for important components.

Is Ubuntu Touch Dead?

Endless introduces Linux mini desktop PCs for American market

For the past few years Endless Computers has been making inexpensive Linux-based computers designed for use in emerging markets. Last summer the company also started working with PC makers to load its Endless OS software on some computers.
Now Endless is launching its first products designed specifically for the United States.
The Endless Mission One and Mission Mini are small, low power computers that sell for $249 or less. They should both be available for pre-order starting January 16th.
Home | Endless Computers

KDE Neon Now Available as Docker Image

I’m announcing a beta of KDE neon on Docker. Docker containers are a lightweight way to create a virtual system running on top of your normal Linux install but with its own filesystem and other rules to stop it getting in the way of your OS. They are insanely popular now for server deployment but I think they work just as well for checking out desktop and other UI setups.
To give it a try first setup docker as you would for your distro. For Ubuntu distros that means running:

NVidia New ShieldTV

Nvidia’s Shield set-top streaming device got an update at this year’s CES, and it was a big one: The new hardware is 40 percent smaller than the original, with a new Android 7.0 Nougat-based operating system and a redesigned UI that groups games together and just generally organizes things a bit more logically. It also handles 4K HDR content streaming, and boasts the most sources available for such content of any set-top streaming device currently available.

Pornhub 2016 – Linux up by 3%

When it comes to porn, we usually ask if you’re more into ass or tits, though the increasingly more important question when it comes to porn consumption is Apple or Android? And Pornhub never misses a chance to report on the different behavior between different OS users. So looking back at 2016, we (of course) dug into the difference in traffic and tastes by operating systems. Let’s start with desktop. While Windows continues to dominate when it comes to which operating system users count on to watch Pornhub (about 80% of desktop users), Mac OS and Linux are on the rise, with Mac OS up 8% in traffic share and Linux up an impressive 14%.

Feedback:

Mail Bag

Name: frodo wiz
Subject: Solus Feedback
Message: I tried this out a few times throughout this year and was happy with it until i found out it will never support ZFS. solus os has some bells and whistles as far as steam goes. except for data integrity. simple question for Ike: Do you expect me to amass 500 gig of games over a cell phone connection and trust that data wont get bit rot with any other file system than ZFS? wanna re-download 10 of them over cell connection? i didn’t think so. ike has done a great job with solus os but it falls short if it leaves out ZFS. kinda like building a car by hand and equipping it with bicycle tires. you can still drive it on some roads maybe, under some circumstances. handicapped

ive been entrusting my data to a 2 TB ZFS mirror for 2 years now and i cringe thinking about anything else.when you dont have the time or resources, you use the best.

if solus had zfs, it would be a no-brainer, especially for a game machine.

Name: Jason
Subject: Getting into a Linux Career
Message:

I have been listening to several of the shows that Jupiter Broadcasting has, and religiously tune in to LAS and Linux Unplugged every week. You guys are doing a great job!

Would studying with Linux Academy and getting my RHCA and RHCE be enough to get into a job making a decent wage? I know there is the Catch 22 of certs are worthless without experience. However, but if I am correct, RHCA and RHCE are performance based exams. Wouldn’t that be enough to get your foot in the door?

I have taken several Linux, Windows and Cisco courses back in 2005, 2006, however I know a lot has changed since then.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for everything you guys do at Jupiter Broadcasting and I want to wish you all a belated Happy New Year!

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