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We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Whether it’s systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year!

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• Episode 63 – For Forks Sake
• Episode 30 – Talkin’ Tox
• Episode 60 – Calm Before the Storm
• Episode 66 – Firefox gets Unplugged
• Episode 33 – Graphical Civil War

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We chat with three developers that are working to make the Linux desktop look even better. From building hardware to working with upstream we dig into the process at the ground level, with some exciting announcements.

Plus why Linux makes Docker relevant, a quick tour of some new Ubuntu MATE features, some great picks…

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Numix Update

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Numix – Not just yet another theme suite

Numix – Android Apps on Google Play

Croma | Firefox Marketplace

Ozon OS

An exciting new operating system from the developers of Numix & Nitrux.

• Ozon – Google+

• Ozon OS “Hydrogen” Alpha Available For Testing ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Ozon OS Ozon OS “Hydrogen” alpha is based on Fedora 20 and it uses GNOME Shell and Gnome apps by default, customized with various extensions.

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Meld

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld
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and directories, and has support for many popular version control
systems.

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Weekly Spotlight

Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon RC released!

Linux Mint 17.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

• Linux Mint 17.1 Release Candidate Out

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Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Released

This release is unusual in that it is based on Ubuntu MATE 14.04
but adds a number of new features and fixes many bugs. Although
this is a 14.04 release you can consider it a newer version than
14.10 but many of the changes outlined below have already been
released to Ubuntu MATE 14.10 via updates.

• Install MATE on openSUSE using a script

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Preconfigured Docker Platform

The ‘Preconfigured Docker’ platforms are delivered as Docker containers allowing you to develop and test your applications locally using the same container that your application will be deployed to on Elastic Beanstalk.

• AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service

In order to help you to realize these benefits, we are announcing a preview of our new
container management service, EC2 Container Service (or ECS for short).

This service will make it easy for you to run any number of Docker_containers across a managed cluster of _Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances using powerful APIs and other tools. You do not
have to install cluster management software, purchase and maintain the cluster hardware, or match your hardware
inventory to your software needs when you use ECS. You simply launch some instances in
a cluster, define some tasks, and start them. ECS is built around a scalable,
fault-tolerant,
multi-tenant base that takes care of all of the details of cluster management on your
behalf.

• AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service | ZDNet

The Switch To Systemd Will Likely Occur For Ubuntu 15.04

Among the bugs that need to be addressed for the switch to happen is needing some AppArmor fixes, support for Ubuntu working in a LXC container with systemd, working cryptsetup integration with systemd during the boot process, and other changes. Some of the other work needed includes bringing up the network enablement in a good manner, NFS improvements, improving Plymouth integration, validating behavior for various packages, etc. While there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to clear it for integration, the consensus expressed during today’s Ubuntu Online Summit was, “generally we are ready to switch now.”

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Flat GIMP icon Theme v 1.0.0 by android272 on deviantART

The Flat GIMP icon Theme was created to modernize GIMP and keep people focused on their art. I have heard it all over the web that GIMP is ugly and I wanted to change that.

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• New Surface Pro 3 Tablet

• Invite to participate in the 4th Annual HPR New Year 26 Hour show

• Frozen Synapse Prime devs: “Despite engine being cross platform, releasing for Linux/OSX would lose us money” – how is that possible?

• Rough Estimates put Steam’s Linux users base at around 500K give or take.

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The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit.

Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome?

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• Amazon Echo Parody – YouTube

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• How to fix the vsync issues with Nvidia cards

• Cheap Linux USB Headphones?

• Most persuasive features for potential switchers?

• Fedora Next – delayed but awesome.

Firefox Challange Follow Up

• I’m taking the Firefox Challenge, and I crash too

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. We believed then, and so did many of you, that the Web deserved an independent alternative. Today hundreds of millions of people trust Firefox because they understand that we’re different; that our independence lets us put you first.

Mozilla Introduces ‘Forget Button’ for Firefox and Dev Edition Browser

With a huge developer user base, Mozilla’s new Firefox Developer Edition browser looks to provide an all-in-one debugging toolset for professi

While it’s loosely based around the previous Firefox Aurora builds, it’s not a straight-forward rebrand — it’s closer to the nightly builds, but built for a developer user base with different needs. It also removes a lot of the safeguards that are vital in the consumer browser but that can frustrate developers.

Chromium:

• The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the BSD license,[18] with other parts being subject to a variety of different open-source licenses, including the MIT License, the LGPL, the Ms-PL and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license

• Chromium (web browser) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

  Differences from Google Chrome

Chromium is the name given to the open-source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project.[7] It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. To create Chrome from Chromium, Google takes this source code and adds:[8]

• A restriction blocking the installation of extensions from anywhere other than the Chrome Web Store[9]
• Integrated Flash Player[10] (proprietary license and code)
• Built-in print preview and print system
• The Google and Google Chrome names (both trademarked)[11][12][13]
• An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate (some, such as the Debian or Ubuntu community builds of chromium, rely on the package management system of the OS as an alternative)
• An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
• RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, including both when—and from where—Chrome was downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly, nor in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time (previously it was proprietary—and although the source is now open the feature was not migrated to Chromium) so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.[14]

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags. Google Chrome supports these as well as the patent-encumbered AAC and MP3 codecs. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player.[15] In October 2013 Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required.[16] As of December 2013, Chrome still supports H.264. Linux distributions that distribute Chromium may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

Gnome Vs Groupon

• Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark

Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation.” The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of applications they filed can be found here, here and here). To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous. Please help us fight this huge company as they try to trade on our goodwill and hard earned reputation.

• Groupon respond to ‘Defend GNOME’ critisism

• Sri Viswanath the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Groupon just posted

MATE 14.04 is OUT!

• Ubuntu MATE | Ubuntu MATE

• More Ubuntu MATE coverage for our German members.

• Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Live Release at 1:01:15.

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We double down on your follow up. Working remotely, scratching your itch while at your current job, why we missed Heartbleed & the video that will make you never again complain about how hard something is.

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• Database Versioning
• Career Course Correction
• Remote work
• About Working Remotely
• Reading the OpenSSL Code base
• In House Github
• Tips for hiring?
• PHP to PDF Options (Question from Episode 98)

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• Weaving software into core memory by hand – YouTube
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It’s our review of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS. It’s Canonical’s latest and greatest, with five years of support. But are there storm clouds on the horizon for this major distribution?

We discuss what’s great about Ubuntu 14.04, what needs some serious work, and why we’re excited about what comes next.

Plus: TrueCrypt audit wraps up, Docker stands out at Red Hat summit…

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Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

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• TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Kylin. All other flavours will be supported for 3 years.

New Features in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop:

• Linux kernel updated to version 3.13
• Ability to change application menu position
• Ability To click-to-minimise Application from the Launcher
• Borderless windows
• A wider range of launcher icons – from 16 to 64 pixels
• Appearance improvements for very high-resolution displays
• New language status icon in the top menu bar
• Harmonised appearance for the lock screen
• System Settings (GNOME Control Centre) replaced by Unity Control Center
• Multi-task filtering by text input
• Opening a guest session triggers a ‘changes are temporary’ warning
• Since Ubuntu One is to close in June, 2014, this 14.04 will not support Ubuntu One File Services
• First time for Ubuntu community flavours (Edbuntu, Kubuntu etc) to also be approved for LTS status
• New Upstart — its last outing before Ubuntu switches to systemd

First Tweaks:

• Settings > Appearance > Behavior [x] Enable Work Spaces and Show Menus in the Windows title bar.

• 10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr To Get A Near Perfect Desktop

Here\’s a list of 10 useful things to do to get a near perfect desktop.

Ubuntu Software Center Disappoints…. Still.

• Steam is not well exposed or featured.
• Installing Steam requires I “buy” Steam.
• “Buying” Steam requires I have an Ubuntu One account.
• I thought Ubuntu One was shut down?
• Confusing messaging throughout the process. A bad onboarding for new XP switchers.

Chris’ Final Take

• Ubuntu still impresses, I’d expected my time in ARCH to have made me jaded.

• You can feel the reach of the platform when looking up guides/software/info. This can’t be understated for new users or folks short on time.

• The theme feels claustrophobically dated now. I quickly added the Numix PPA and installed the full suite.

• Ubuntu 14.04 feels fairly modern, with signs of age.

• The top bar looks very old, as does the system menu.

• In contrast to the Unity dashboard these stand out even more.

• New KDE Plasma Desktop 5, the design teams new work, Gnome 3.x getting better and better are legitimate competition to the Unity desktop which does feel like it’s standing a bit a slow.. Or is at least casually walking the marathon.

• On the “cloud” side this is is potentially a great, maybe the greatest LTS.

• Built in Docker.
• Built in btrfs

• Kernel 3.13 (legitimately recent for a Enterprise distro)

• Ubuntu 14.04 is standing on the edge, and we don’t know what comes next.

• The developers are just discussing the start of coverages between the desktop and mobile apps. Questions are being asked as to which classic applications we’ve come to live will be replaced with in-house Qt solutions.

Do any of you plan to switch from other distributions to Ubuntu LTS 14.04

donniezazen writes :

I am thinking about switching from Fedora 20 KDE to Kubuntu and stick with it for a long time.

Doing more with your Unity8 preview session in Ubuntu 14.04

The Unity 8/Desktop preview primarily is not a resurrection of Windows 8 – what you are looking at is the Ubuntu for Mobile UI running on your Desktop/Laptop. Changes to the user experience to move this UI to a Desktop/Laptop environment are coming in the next cycles.

It also is not at a quality level you’d expect from a LTS (hence it’s living in Universe), although it works fairly well on my 2 test machines. Due to limitations discussed in a previous post you might not be able to bring up Unity 8 on NVidia or ATI GPUs. We have not spent a lot of time on Hardware compatibility testing for this release and will focus on that as we march towards Ubuntu 14.10.

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• 64 bit Server CD image for Apple computers

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Linux-Based Autonomous Sub Leads Malaysia Airlines Flight Search

It could take 60 more days for the Bluefin-21 to completely search the area \”lawnmower\” style. On one of its first dives to the floor of the Indian Ocean, the unmanned submarine reached the limit of its 2.8-mile depth range

Desktop App Pick

Variety

Weekly Spotlight

Are PPA\’s safe to add to my system and what are some \”red flags\” to watch out for?

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TrueCrypt audit finds “no evidence of backdoors” or malicious code

On Monday, after seven months of discussion and planning, the first phase of a two-part audit of TrueCrypt was released.

The results? iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Windows kernel driver for any backdoor or related security issue, concluded (PDF) that TrueCrypt has: “no evidence of backdoors or otherwise intentionally malicious code in the assessed areas.”

While the team did find some minor vulnerabilities in the code itself, iSEC labeled them as appearing to be “unintentional, introduced as the result of bugs rather than malice.”

Matthew Green, a Johns Hopkins cryptography professor who has been one of the people leading this effort, told Ars. “I think the code quality is not as high as it should be, but on the other hand, nothing terrible is in there, so that\’s reassuring.”

Overall, the source code for both the bootloader and the Windows kernel driver did not meet expected standards for secure code. This includes issues such as lack of comments, use of insecure or deprecated functions, inconsistent variable types, and so forth.

The team also found a potential weakness in the Volume Header integrity checks.
“It did not seem extremely important, but I think it\’s good to know about,” Green noted. “But I think it\’s good that we didn\’t find anything super critical.”

Cinnamon 2.2 Released With System Settings Improvements, HiDPI support And Mor

With Cinnamon 2.2, the System Settings UI was refined, making it look more consistent and also, the settings are better categorized, this allowing the Cinnamon developers to remove the switch between normal and advanced settings modules.

Another interesting improvement added with Cinnamon 2.2 is the way applets work: each applet is now able to register \”roles\” which tell Cinnamon which functionality they provide and this is used to allow Cinnamon to automatically hide systay icons for which the functionality is already present in an applet.

Here\’s an example from the Cinnamon 2.2 release announcement: \”Say you remove the network applet, well… you’ll see the Network Manager GTK systray icon appear. Say you put the network applet back in the panel, the Network Manager systray icon will then disappear.\”

Better systemd/logind support;

• New Gnome style CSD seems a bit odd:

• Same problem with XFCE, more of a CSD issue:

Red Hat Summit’s 10th Year: Docker Shines

April 14th-17th 2014

• Docker Featured in Red Hat’s summit highlights

• Red Hat contributed code to Docker to support openstack

• YouTube Channel for Red Hat Summit with lots of videos

• Docker becomes de facto Linux standard

A lot of the buzz is around containerization in general and Docker in particular. Docker is set to ship with the latest version of RHEL (RHEL 7.0). Also, Docker will integrate with Red Hat\’s Open Shift PaaS. This is in addition to the earlier announcement that Red Hat is launching certification of applications delivered in the Docker container format.

Besides Red Hat, Docker already ran on the Amazon AWS version of Linux, as well as several other Linux distros. Also, sources tell me that we can expect to see more announcements in the weeks ahead about Docker being included by default in several other of the major Linux distros.

Docker is becoming synonymous with containers in Linux. By the time any other project or competitor look up they will have this one sewn up.

• Docker in Ubuntu, Ubuntu in Docker

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