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We review Linux Mint 18 & our experience turns out to be a roller coaster ride from impressed glee to cautious concern. We’ve never felt more conflicted over a version of Linux Mint.

Plus we discuss the Ubuntu Forum hack, a Fedora bug that’s bricking some laptops & why we just can’t quit FreeNAS.

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Mint 18 Review

​Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the leading desktop front-end was Bash. Things have changed in those 25 years. Today, the best Linux desktop is the latest version of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 18 Sarah with the Cinnamon 3.0 interface.

Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon: Quick Screenshot Tour

Linux Mint 18 improves security, but at a cost – TechRepublic

While this is a much-needed improvement, the explanation of this change on the Linux Mint website is baffling. The website claims that kernel updates “aren’t really updates, but the availability of packages for newer kernels.” Aside from the fact that this is literally the definition of an update, this appears to be an attempt at minimizing the importance of kernel updates. In Linux Mint 18, users are only notified of kernel updates, but they are not installed by default.

• How to upgrade to Linux Mint 18

As excited as we are about Linux Mint 18, upgrading blindly for the sake of running the latest version does not make much sense, especially if you’re already happy and everything is working perfectly.

• Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer — Simple media player based on GStreamer.

Given the history of Linux Mint with their weird view on security (Linux
Mint is the very definition of a FrankenDebian [1]) where they withhold
important security updates because their weird mixture of packages would
otherwise break too often or their hijacking of package names (mdm, for
example), I don’t really trust them to come up with a clean design for
desktop agnostic applications. Heck, the first thing they wanted to do
was naming their forked version of Pluma “xedit”.

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recalbox.com

Recalbox allows you to re-play a variety of videogame consoles and platforms in your living room, with ease! RecalboxOS is free, open source and designed to let you create your very own recalbox in no time! Raspberry Pi.

• RecalboxOS v4.0.0-beta4 release | Blog recalbox

Spotlight

Felony: Next Level PGP

Felony is an open-source pgp keychain built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Redux. Felony is the first PGP app that’s easy for anyone to use, without a tutorial. Security++ to the greatest extreme!

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Ubuntu Forums Hacked, 2 Million Users’ Details Stolen

Canonical CEO Jane Silber explains: “We were able to confirm there had been an exposure of data and shut down the Forums as a precautionary measure. Deeper investigation revealed that there was a known SQL injection vulnerability in the Forumrunner add-on in the Forums which had not yet been patched.”

The attacker was able to “download portions of the ‘user’ table which contained usernames, email addresses and IPs for 2 million users.”

• Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums | Ubuntu Insights

​Early Look at Skype for Linux and Chromebooks

Skype for Linux is no longer an afterthought for Microsoft as the company introduces new versions of Skype for Linux Chromebooks and the Chrome web browser.

GNOME Maps Hits A Dead End, Can No Longer Display Maps

As of this week the nifty desktop navigation app canno longer fetch maps tiles to display.

MapQuest, the application’s tile provider, has amended its usage policy and discontinued direct tile access. GNOME developers have the choice of paying to keep using the service or, ultimately, using a new one.

PSA: Failure to boot after kernel update on Skylake systems

So in the last couple of days a significant issue in all Fedora releases has come to our attention, affecting (so far) several systems that use the Intel ‘Skylake’ hardware platform.

• Virtualization Revelation | Linux Action Show 418

• Bug #1569479 “Graphics glitches with Skylake Intel HD Graphics 5…”

• Intel Skylake Graphics: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance
• Well Known Linux Kernel Developer Recommends Against Buying Skylake Systems
• Early Intel Skylake Linux Users May Run Into A Silly Issue
• Screen flickering on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

CrossOver For Android Now Running On Chromebooks

CodeWeavers confirmed today that it’s possible to run CrossOver on Chromebooks now via the Android support. CodeWeavers was even able to install Steam for Windows on the Chromebooks via the CrossOver support.

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Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit?

Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product.

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​Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period | ZDNet

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the leading desktop front-end was Bash. Things have changed in those 25 years. Today, the best Linux desktop is the latest version of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 18 Sarah with the Cinnamon 3.0 interface.

• Linux Mint 18 reviews roundup | InfoWorld

Latest Vivaldi Browser Snapshot Improves Tab Hibernation on GNU/Linux Distros

“Good news for Linux users! You can now hibernate tabs while the browser is running,” said Magnus Peter Langeland. “Choose Hibernate Tab to hibernate the selected tab or Hibernate Background Tabs to hibernate all other tabs in the window. Oh and remember, you cannot hibernate a tab while you are viewing its contents.”

ICSI Netalyzr — Command-line Client

Debug your Internet.

• Any good Linux friendly VPN providers?

• 3G and 4G LTE Cell Coverage Map – OpenSignal

DigitalOcean

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

You Can Now Run Ubuntu Linux with the Unity Desktop on Top of Windows 10 – Updated

After doing all sorts of tricks in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CSSM) GUI configuration tool for Compiz, and using a combination of VcXsrv and XLaunch, two applications for configuring and setting up a Windows X server, he has managed to run Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with the Unity desktop environment on top of Windows 10.

Linux’s AV Stack Adding Awesome Features

• Beamforming in PulseAudio | Arun Raghavan

Beamforming as a concept is used in various aspects of signal processing including radio waves, but I’m going to be talking about it only as applied to audio. The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a mic array) in some known arrangement, it is possible to “point” or steer the array in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction are made louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer (attenuated).

Practically speaking, it should be easy to see the value of this on a laptop, for example, where you might want to focus a mic array to point in front of the laptop, where the user probably is, and suppress sounds that might be coming from other locations. You can see an example of this in the webcam below. Notice the grilles on either side of the camera — there is a microphone behind each of these.

• Introducing GStreamer VR Plug-ins and SPHVR – Lubosz’s Blog

Pronounced sphere, SPHVR is a python video player using gst-plugins-vr. Currently it is capable of opening a URL of an equirectangular mapped spherical video.

CopperheadOS – Secure Android

CopperheadOS currently supports the Nexus 5, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Nylas N1

• Nylas Pro

But right now, Nylas N1 is also free as in free beer, and that’s a problem. Due to its popularity, the API traffic for N1 users has dramatically eclipsed the combined volume of all other apps built on the Nylas Cloud APIs. We already sync several hundred terabytes of data for our users and are adding tens of thousands of new users each month. It’s costing us real dollars.

• Does anyone here use Nylas?

Dekko Is Shaping Up Nicely for Desktop Convergence

• Dekko developer Dan Chapman shared some images of a new, converged Dekko for the desktop on Google+, under the title “An all new Dekko is coming!”.

Linux Academy

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What’s Going on with Matrix.org?

• Ruma – A Matrix homeserver written in Rust.

Matrix is an open specification for an online communication protocol. It includes all the features you’d expect from a modern chat platform including instant messaging, group chats, audio and video calls, searchable message history, synchronization across all your devices, and end-to-end encryption. Matrix is federated, so no single company controls the system or your data. You can use an existing server you trust or run your own, and the servers synchronize messages seamlessly. Learn more in the Introduction to Matrix.

• Say Hello To Vector! — Medium

This week, we’re officially launching Vector, a forward-looking open source collaboration app, and the very first production-ready application built on top of the Matrix open standard. In fact Vector Web has been around for a bit, growing and being polished with the help of a passionate community of pioneers and they’ve done a great job of supporting us with useful feedback! And now the mobile apps are out! So today Vector is ready to be shared more widely as a proper beta.

• Interview with Matrix Dev

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Bodhi Linux grabbed our attention with the stable release of E17. We’ll tell you what makes this scrappy distribution standout, and why E17 could be an XFCE killer.

Plus: Our meta review of Fedora 18, Gnome 3 forked again, the awesome game coming to Linux next week, and Ubuntu’s possible BIG gamble.

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