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Unless you want to desolder flash memory from the motherboard, looks like it's impossible to add new games to NES Classic. pic.twitter.com/jc99WSrNJj

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The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux – Slashdot

With a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 256 MB of RAM, and 512 MB of NAND Flash, it is typical of the hardware found in Linux single board computers, like the Raspberry Pi 2. Surprisingly for Nintendo, there does not seem to be any custom components in it, and it looks like it even does run Linux.

Brutal Doom 64 mod – Mod DB

Desktop App Pick

SSH Power Tool

The SSH Power Tool (sshpt) enables you to execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously via SSH without using pre-shared keys. Uploaded files and commands can be executed directly or via sudo. Connection and command execution results are output in standard CSV format for easy importing into spreadsheets, databases, or data mining applications.

Advantages

Since sshpt does not utilize pre-shared SSH keys it will use provided credentials for all outgoing SSH connections. This has many advantages:

Can be used immediately: No need to spend enormous amounts of time setting up pre-shared keys.
More secure: A server with pre-shared keys is a huge security risk. It literally holds the keys to the castle! With sshpt you can perform all the same tasks as with pre-shared keys with less risk to your infrastructure.
More compliant: Executing commands as root via pre-shared keys makes it hard to figure out after-the-fact who did what (root as a shared account). When an administrator (or user!) uses sshpt to execute commands it is much easier to figure out “who did what and when” from an auditing standpoint.

Spotlight

Gruik.

It’s a free & open-source note-taking service. A space where you can store notes, tutorials, code snippets… by writing them in markdown and then keep them private or public.

Stickers – Super Key Sticker with Any LAS Sticker While They Last!

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LessPass

Stop wasting time synchronize your encrypted vault.
Remember one master password to access your passwords, anywhere, anytime.
No sync needed.

It’s official: Oracle will appeal its “fair use” loss against Google

Oracle’s post-trial motions, which the district court judge rejected, indicate the tack it might try to take on appeal. It could focus on jury instructions that it viewed as improper, or Oracle could simply argue that the evidence presented at trial was so overwhelming that no reasonable jury could have found in Google’s favor.

VoCore2: $4 Coin-sized Linux Computer with WiFi

Coin-sized Linux computer & smart router, target to make wireless life easier, fully open source.

Move over Raspberry Pi, here is a $4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer | ZDNet

VoCore2 is an open source Linux computer and a fully-functional wireless router that is smaller than a coin. It can also act as a VPN gateway for a network, an AirPlay station to play lossless music, a private cloud to store your photos, video, and code, and much more.

The Lite version of the VoCore2 features a 580MHz MT7688AN MediaTek system on chip (SoC), 64MB of DDR2 RAM, 8MB of NOR storage, and a single antenna slot for Wi-Fi that supports 150Mbps.

All this for $4.

Spend $12 and go for the full VoCore2 option and you get the same SoC, but you get 128MB of DDR2 RAM, 16MB of NOR storage, two antenna slots supporting 300Mbps, an on-board antenna, and PCIe 1.1 support.

Both versions of the VoCore2 have a power consumption of 74mA at standby, and 230mA at full speed. With this low power consumption, a small 9800mAh battery pack can power it for more than four days.

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Mail Bag

Name: Name: Andrew D
Subject: Chris was right

I think Chris’ stance on Lenovo being the problem and how they should be ashamed for building a non linux compatible machine was off target. Yes Intel are the issue here, but not Lenovo.

If Microsoft or any other company goes to a hardware manufacturer asked for a feature or specification to make their product stand out (like in this case better battery life), then there is no reason why that hardware manufacturer should not do that.

Just because it makes it makes it Linux incompatible seems to be the uproar here.

I didn’t see people grabbing pitchforks when the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 etc didn’t have standard windows support from the ARM processor.

Noah was dead right with this one. It’s disappointing that the last words on the topic were ‘Shame on Lenovo, they will never make that mistake ever again. +1 for the good guys’

Apart from that, loved the rest of it.

Name: James S
Subject: F.LUX approval by me

Hello, this is James from past las chatrooms and i recently saw where both of you use flux and i have been having back and other pain and was wondering if this would help. Doubtful to most, but between using flux and staying out of the sunlight considering the medications i am on i thought i would give it a try.

What have i got to lose right? I am in process of saving money for starting up a linux laptop business and i want to express my sincerest thanks to the developers of this program as well as you at jb for putting this flux program into the spotlight. I no longer have much joint back or shoulder pain and though i was having seizures and falls i have had none since Monday of last week. Thanks to you and the developers i am leading a new life. Thanks so much!

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Dial Up Linux | LINUX Unplugged 164

chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:14:42 +0000

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File Server with dedicated controller

2U rackmount design, 8 x hot-swappable SATA/SAS drive bays, 1 x slim CD-ROM bay, 1 x FDD bay, 4 x 80mm middle fans,
Switch: Power ON/OFF x 1, System reset x 1 ,Indicator: Power ON/OFF x 1, HDD x 1, NETWORK X 2, Connector: One front accessible USB port
Motherboard Compatibility: Support EEB (12″x13″), CEB(12″x10.5″), ATX (12″x9.6″), Micro ATX (9.6″ x 9.6″)
Power Supply Options: Standard 2U ATX power supply, Dimensions ( W x D x H ):19″ x 25.5″ x 3.5″ (483mm x 650mm x 88mm)

DigitalOcean

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

Getting Started with Arch / Antergergos

Yubikey on Arch
Install packer and then do this: Install or Remove a Package in Antergos
Manually Install a Package on Arch without Packer

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Penguin Powered Production | LAS 417

chris — Sun, 15 May 2016 22:37:41 +0000

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We go behind the scenes & give you details on our new Linux rig builds, using OBS to stream to multiple services, the hard lessons we learned & our Linux powered production pipeline. After our year long skunkworks project this episode is living proof of how for media production under Linux has come.

Plus now we can all say ZFS is officially on Linux, Intel’s plans to make up for their Linux Skylake screw up, Ubuntu gets some snaps, Fedora “attempts” H.264 support, some games worth your time & more!

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Hairpresenter

Antergos
Generates content such as web pages, videos, and music

Video Switcher

Switches inputs between sources

OBS Streaming Rig

Antergos
Provides full length recording, stream to JB satcom1 & satcom2
Provides for switching of streams (on location, In Studio)

Satcom 1

Ubuntu 14.04
Picks up initial stream and distributes to ALL streaming sources

Satcom 2

Ubuntu 14.04
Streams just to YouTube

ScaleEngine

CentOS (becuase BSD couldn’t do it)
Primary stream (in your web browser)

Problems

Networking “issues” that took us a bit to track down
ZFS module dkms builds AFTER the init image is created. No boot for root!
ZFS breaks on kernel upgrades. · Issue #102 · Antergos/antergos-packages · GitHub

New Features

Work in studio without having to reboot the stream before a show.
Local recordings now possible.
Many more streaming desntations, load taken off switcher box.
Exclusive live stream recordings for our TodayToday Patonss.
Airtime | Sourcefabric
GitHub – savonet/liquidsoap: Audio and video streaming language
ZFS breaks on kernel upgrades. · Issue #102 · Antergos/antergos-packages · GitHub
Savonet / Liquidsoap :: Multimedia Stream Generation

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Lightman Group – RUNS LINUX!

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Desktop App Pick

Kdenlive | Free and open source video editor for GNU/Linux

Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies, released as a free software (GPL). Using Kdenlive is investing in a community driven project, which aims to establish relationships between people in order to built the best video tools.

Latest version is Kdenlive 16.04.0, released in April 2016.

Spotlight

A Telegram Snap Package Is Available on Ubuntu 16.04

The Snap has been packaged up by a Canonical employee and, in theory, is safer to use as it runs in a confined sandbox (usual X11 flaws still apply, however).

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ZFS for Linux has truly arived with Debian now with ZFS on Linux included

The package is called zfs-linux and is currently available to Debian unstable users. Package details via the Debian Tracker. Additional commentary about this achievement by Debian developer Petter Reinholdtsen on his blog.

Petter Reinholdtsen: Debian now with ZFS on Linux included

Today, after many years of hard work from many people, ZFS for Linux finally entered Debian. The package status can be seen on the package tracker for zfs-linux. and the team status page. If you want to help out, please join us. The source code is available via git on Alioth. It would also be great if you could help out with the dkms package, as it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.

ZFS + dkms made it into Debian : LinuxActionShow

Basline H264 in Fedora Workstation… But what’s the point?

So after a lot of work to put the policies and pieces in place we are now giving Fedora users access to the OpenH264 plugin

UnitedRPMs – New RPMFusion Alternative for Fedora 24/25:

The UnitedRPMs repository provide the most popular multimedia packages for Fedora 24 and Rawhide: vlc, mpv, GNOME-mpv, smplayer, kdenlive, handbrake, deadbeef, foobnix, kdenlive and others.

United RPMS by UnitedRPMs
No GPG signatures, that’s a no no in our book.
No separation of free and non-free packages. But that’s not really why your using something like UnitedRPMs.
As an example, once the repo UnitedRPMs’ repo is setup, you can install gstream and the all the codecs for all the things:

dnf install gstreamer{1,}-{ffmpeg,libav,plugins-{good,ugly,bad{,-free,-nonfree}}} --setopt=strict=0

Intel Is Preparing A Major Restructuring Of Their Graphics Driver

Intel is brewing a makeover of their graphics driver stack through a large restructuring and consolidating initiative that will be formally announced in the coming weeks.

Stellaris on Steam

Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.

Civilization VI aka 6 announced, will support Linux & SteamOS | GamingOnLinux

@isosavi Civilization VI will be available on Mac and Linux too. We will have more info to share on those platforms in the coming months.

— Civilization (@CivGame) May 11, 2016

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Kernel of Truth | LINUX Unplugged 113

chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:38:07 +0000

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Performance tips for keeping your Linux install running like new, some basic tricks & some advanced tips.

Why Microsoft’s new Surface Book might be able to run Linux & we reflect on the larger issues behind the recent public exits from the Linux Kernel development team & more!

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Rover Electrical Upgrade | Rover Log 10

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World Without Linux Episode #1: What’s the Name of That Song?

Remembering who sings your favorite song is a lot harder without Linux.

N1 Is A Beautiful Open Source Email App for Linux – OMG! Ubuntu!

N1 is a new open source e-mail app from Created by Nylas Inc., built using React, Flux, and Electron.

Like a web-browser or modern text editor, N1 is designed to be built on and improved through extensions.

Rover Log

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Surface Book – The ultimate laptop

Ultra-thin, meticulously crafted, with incredible screen resolution. This is the ultimate laptop.

Hands On: Microsoft Surface Book | PCMag.com

The latching mechanism has a wide electrical connector, no doubt PCIe-based to facilitate communication between the GPU and the rest of the system.

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Keeping Linux Performing Well.

Tips and tricks for keeping your Linux box in top performance.

If you gotta swap, swap on a sep disk

Creating your swap files on a separate disk can also help quite a bit, especially if your machine swaps frequently. It happens if you do not have enough RAM for your environment. Using KDE with all the features and applications that come along may require several GiB of memory, whereas a tiny window manager with console applications will perfectly fit in less than 512 MiB of memory.

XFS – ArchWiki

Although the extent-based nature of XFS and the delayed allocation strategy it uses significantly improves the file system’s resistance to fragmentation problems, XFS provides a filesystem defragmentation utility (xfs_fsr, short for XFS filesystem reorganizer) that can defragment the files on a mounted and active XFS filesystem. It can be useful to view XFS fragmentation periodically.

Is it REALLY worth Tuning your IO scheduler?

The kernel supports different schedulers for storage disk in-/output (IO). These are the CFQ scheduler (Completely Fair Queuing), the NOOP and Deadline. Another, the BFQ (Budget Fair Scheduler) is available in the linux-zen kernel.

A HDD has spinning disks and head that move physically to the required location. Such structure leads to following characteristics:

random latency it quite high, for modern HDD it is ~10ms (ignoring a disk controller write buffer).
sequential access provides much higher throughput. In this case head needs to move less distance.

In case if we have a lot of running processes that make IO requests to different parts of storage (i.e. random access) then we can expect that a disk handles ~100 IO requests per second. Because modern systems can easily generate load much higher than 100 requests per second we have a queue of requests that have to wait for access to the storage. One way to improve throughput is to linearize access, i.e. order waiting requests by its logical address and always choose the closest request. Historically this was the first Linux IO scheduler called elevator scheduler.

One of the problems with the elevator algorithm is that it makes suffer processes with sequential access. Such processes read a block of data then process it for several microseconds then read next block and so on. The elevator scheduler does not know that the process is going to read another block nearby and, thus, moves to another request at some other location. To overcome the problem anticipatory IO scheduler was added. For synchronous requests this algorithm waits for a short amount of time before moving to another request.

While these schedulers try to improve total throughput they also might leave some unlucky requests waiting for a very long time.

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Going my own way

In the end it’s a mixture of just being tired of dealing with the crap associated with Linux development and realising that by continuing to put up with it I’m tacitly encouraging its continuation, but I can’t be bothered any more. And, thanks to the magic of free software, it turns out that I can avoid putting up with the bullshit in the kernel community and get to work on the things I’m interested in doing. So here’s a kernel tree with patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel interface. Over time it’ll pick up some of the power management code I’m still working on, and we’ll see where it goes from there. But, until there’s a significant shift in community norms on LKML, I’ll only be there when I’m being paid to be there. And that’s improved my mood immeasurably.

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Arch Home Server Challenge | LAS 313

chris — Sun, 18 May 2014 16:19:39 +0000

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Coming up on this week’s episode of The Linux Action Show!

Arch Linux can make the perfect Home Server, we’ll share our tips to build the ultimate home server running the latest software, powered by Arch Linux.

Plus Ubuntu rocks the OpenStack summit, a first look at Syncthing (the fully OSS Bittorrent Sync killer), results from our Btrfs poll, our picks…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Ultimate Arch Home Server:

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Ubuntu 12.10 – Quantal Quetzal – End of Life reached on May 16 2014

Arch Home Server Install Notes:

My Arch server philosophy comes down to one word: Focus
Outside of a few exceptions, an Arch server should be an absolutely lean machine, with only the packages required to perform a specific function.
Additional functions should be spun out into separate VMs when possible. VMs are cheap, containers are even cheaper.
We use a Template with a base Arch install, with the correct uids for NFS, the correct groups, and the basic file system mounts entered to fstab. This also simplifies the Arch deployment process.
The best server is a headless server, with no GUI. When you toss out the GUI, the usability playing field for setting up a server gets leveled out to nearly flat.
The invaluable amount of help that comes from the Arch Wiki in many ways gives Arch a usability boost over other possible distributions for a headless home server.

Arch Installation Quick Reference Guide by jmac217

So over the past few months or so I\’ve been just been throwing often-used commands and links into a Google Document to get me up and running quickly when I want to spin up a new Arch installation.

[Google Doc Install Guide by jmac217][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC41PnZFX7en8L3l0AYLXQKFsC2kxFrZjxQ1Q36AP-k/edit?usp=sharing]

Proxmox

Proxmox supports a mix of KVM Virtual Machines, and Linux containers.
Arch currently (I believe due to a systemd bug) runs best in KVM, not in a container.
Arch might make a better Linux Container candidate after that bug is fixed.
Our Proxmox box is a Core i7 rig, with 1TB of internal RAID0 storage.
Important data is stored on the NFS FreeNAS box.
We run one Arch VM from the internal 1TB, and one from the NFS mount.

NFS Setup

FreeNAS was our selection for the back-end storage.
A btrfs powered server was considered, but upon a mighty reflection induced by our recent poll, ZFS seemed like the wiser choice.
ZFS does work on Linux, but the utility aspect of FreeNAS appeals.
When the application stuff is handled by front end systems, the backend storage should be a simple, reliable, and appliance like as possible. FreeNAS offers a lot of that, with a native ZFS implementation, backed by a trusted company – iXsystems.
Install NTP on both ends
In Arch use systemd to mount the NFS share
Create a common UID on the NFS server and Client. This makes file permissions much simpler. Have everything owned by your “media” user in your “media” share.

SABnzbd

Configured SABnzbd to work off the NFS mount.
sabnzb modify it to allow network connections:

/opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

CouchPotato.

packer -S couchpotato-git
cd /usr/lib/systemd/system
nano couchpotato.service – edit to run as root
chown -R root:root /opt/couchpotato
systemctl enable couchpotato
systemctl start couchpotato

Default port is 5050

SickBeard

SickBeard requires you have some usenet index search APIs. It’s built in search is limited.

Set SickBeard to ping Plex to update once a download completes.

Monitorix

Edit /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
Set your hostname and title
Double check the built in httpd port. 8080 is the default. Which is also sabnzbd’s port.
Set to enabled if you want to use the internal webserver.
Further down you can turn on and off what it graphs.
How to set up a web-based lightweight system monitor on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL

SSMTP

SSMTP is a program to deliver an email from a local computer to a configured mailhost (mailhub). It is not a mail server (like feature-rich mail server sendmail) and does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. One of its primary uses is for forwarding automated email (like system alerts) off your machine and to an external email address.
A lot of server side applications (and the next item down in this list) need to use smtp to send you an email notification. When you have automated processes happening at all different hours of the day, often kicked off my some script running headless in the background, it’s sorta a necessary evil.
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Logwatch

Logwatch is a powerful and versatile log parser and analyzer. Logwatch is designed to give a unified report of all activity on a server, which can be delivered through the command line or email.
A key part of set it and forget it is having your system alert you when it needs help, so you can address it before it becomes a disaster.

Syncthing

Per-user config files, example:

/home/studio/.syncthing/config.xml

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ExoMars Mission, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Castawesome

Castawesome is live screencasting tool for Linux. With it you can broadcast video and audio from your desktop to Twitch.tv/Justin.tv, Hitbox.tv and YouTube

Weekly Spotlight

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it\’s transmitted over the Internet.

Syncthing – Android Apps on Google Play

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Canonical Goes BIG at

OpenStack Deployments Are Up, And So Is Ubuntu—But Will It Stick?

This year more than 5,000 people showed up to the OpenStack conference, and 1,780 people filled out a survey that drills into how they\’re using OpenStack. Many of the respondents (60%) came from companies that employ fewer than 500 people, while a dwindling percentage was derived from users at companies that employ more than 1,000 people, compared to the October 2013 user survey (34%, down from 39%).

The Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – Mark Unveils the Orange Box

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.
Mark introduces the Orange Box: https://youtu.be/aEYCjHCderM?t=13m33s

Canonical offers \’Chuck Norris Grade\’ OpenStack private cloud service

This new offering is called Your Cloud. For $15 per day per host, \”Ubuntu offers all the software infrastructure, tools, and services you need to have your own cloud at your fingertips. Built by experts on Ubuntu OpenStack, fully managed and with 24/7 monitoring.\”

Canonical Juju DevOps tool coming to CentOS and Windows

It\’s hard to shock an audience at a technical conference. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company Canonical, managed it several times in his OpenStack Summit keynote speech. No news may have been more surprising than that Canonical had ported its Juju DevOps program to its rival\’s operating systems: Red Hat\’s CentOS and Microsoft\’s Hyber-V and Windows Server 2012.

Ubuntu\’s Unity 8 Desktop To Be Release As Separate Flavor?

“The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (we don’t plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project.

The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that’s required to make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration.”

Linux Mint will stick to LTS release

The decision was made to stick to LTS bases. In other words the development team will be focused on the very same package base used by Linux Mint 17 for the next 2 years.

It will also be trivial to upgrade from version 17 to 17.1, then 17.2 and so on.
Important applications will be backported and we expect this change to boost the pace of our development and reduce the amount of regressions in each new Linux Mint release.

This makes Linux Mint 17.x very important to us, not just yet another release, but one that will receive security updates until 2019, one that will receive backports and new features until 2016 and even more importantly, the only package base besides LMDE which we’ll be focused on until 2016.

Our traffic doubled lately and all our stats are on the raise, and we don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to the the end-of-life of Windows XP. We’re not really sure

Antergos\’ Release Candidate plus Partnering with Numix

Antergos is partnering with the Numix Project to create an exclusive edition of Numix Themes for our desktops (both GTK and QT). In this RC, you will be able to enjoy some premature advances of this agreement in the form of the icon theme. We’re not sure if the rest of the design will be make it into this release or if it will be postponed until next stable release.

Antergos – Here we are one year after

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Linux Your Chromebook | LAS s31e03

chris — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:13:44 +0000

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Can a cheap Chromebook loaded with Linux replace an Ultrabook? Is this the best bang for the battery life? We load Linux on the Acer C720 and put it to the test.

Plus: The big security mistake that impacts tons of open source software, a quick demo of the new Krita release, our picks of the week…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Chromebook Acer C720 Running Linux Review:

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Whatever the reason, you may find the paltry offering of a 16GB SSD on the Acer C720 Chromebook to be lacking for some use cases out there. You can pick up a C720P model with 32GB of internal storage — and a touchscreen — for $50 more than the regular C720, but what if you already have one or need more than 32GB? Well, it turns out it’s extremely simple to replace the SSD in the Acer C720, and we’re going to show you how to do it.

Installing Arch Linux on the C720

Acer C720 Chromebook – ArchWiki
Need to enable legacy bios mode.
Has a guide on getting the trackpad to work.
SeaBIOS – coreboot

SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86 hardware with the use of coreboot.

SeaBIOS is the default BIOS for qemu and kvm.

Battery Life

Tip: To monitor cpu speed in real time, run:

$ watch grep \“cpu MHz\” /proc/cpuinfo

Power saving – Audio

Cons:

Screen Viewing Angle is really limited. Even leaning on my hand with elbow on the desk decreases viewability by a very noticeable amount.
Only one USB3 Port.

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Desktop App Pick

uGet 1.10.4 Released and a bit of Celebration

This year marks the 11th Year of uGet, that’s right, uGet has been available to the Linux community for over 11 years now and we are not slowing down, we are excited for the future of uGet! If you’re excited too then please consider donating to the project. (blog post about the donation drive)

Weekly Spotlight

Dukto R6
Simple user interface
No server or internet connection needed
Zero configuration
Clients auto-discovery
High speed file transfer
Multi-OS native support
Portable version available
Multi files and folders transfer
Transfers log
Send and receive text snippets (eg. useful for sending URLs)
Open received files directly from the application
Windows 7 taskbar integration with progress and transfer indicator
Show your IP addresses on the IP connection page
Full Unicode support
Metro style UI
Free and open source
There is one issue with Dukto though: its security: the application doesn’t use any passwords, no encryption, etc., so its developer recommends using it only on trusted local area networks.

Dukto is a free open source project, licensed under GPL. Official releases are made by me for the following platforms:

Windows (XP or later)
OS X (10.6.x or later)
Linux (packaged for Ubuntu and Fedora)
Symbian (for Nokia touch phones)
Write up at Web Upd8: Dukto LAN File Transfer Tool Is Easy To Use, Multi-Platform

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A longstanding GnuTLS certificate validation botch

Perhaps the biggest irony is that the fix changes a handful of “goto cleanup;” lines to “goto fail;”. It also made other changes to the code (including adding a “fail” label), but the resemblance to the Apple bug is too obvious to ignore. While the two bugs are actually not that similar, other than both being in the certificate validation logic, the timing and look of the new bug does give one pause.

The problem boils down to incorrect return values from a function when there are errors in the certificate.

It is hard to say how far back this bug goes, as the code has been restructured several times over the years, but the GnuTLS advisory warns that all versions are affected.

Emacs, wget, NetworkManager, VLC, Git, and others.

Fedora 20 system, attempting to remove GnuTLS results in Yum wanting to remove 309 dependent packages, including all of KDE, Gnucash, Calligra, LibreOffice, libvirt, QEMU, Wine, and more.

It was a code audit done by GnuTLS founder Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (at the request of Red Hat, his employer) that discovered the bug.

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping

Video Acceleration Takes The Backseat On Chrome For Linux

Due to notorious Linux graphics drivers, Google developers working on Chrome/Chromium aren’t looking to enable hardware video acceleration by default anytime soon. The problem ultimately comes down to poor Linux graphics drivers.

Ami Fischman explained in a bug comment yesterday, “There is a history of users disabling the blacklist (entirely) because they want a feature that is disabled. That destabilizes the entire browser, and users frequently forget about this action (and waste time trying to re-stabilize their browser later). If this landed I expect that sooner or later we’d get a rash of blog posts explaining how to get HW decode on linux ‘for free’ (by disabling the GPU blacklist) and the overall result for our Linux userbase would be a worse experience (because the blacklist will never be consulted on their system), not better (b/c they’ll have HW acceleration of h.264 decode). This is a judgement call and I can certainly see how reasonable people can disagree, but this is my personal judgement.”

Ami went on to imply that the VA-API Linux support will never be in good enough shape for Chrome, “We don’t ship code we consider to be permanently ‘experimental’ or ‘beta’, only code we expect to be stable/production-quality eventually, if not at landing. This feature will never graduate to that status, so this CL is effectively shipping a feature that is known to be mostly-broken on most Linux installations.”

Chrome developer Jorge Lucangeli Obes also commented on this report, “Supporting GPU features on Linux is a nightmare (I know from dealing with the GPU sandbox). Enabling this feature should come after thinking how we can make it available without making Chrome on Linux less stable.”

Fedora To Have a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” For Contributors

"The Fedora Project is now going to enforce a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for contributors. What the project’s engineering committee is asking their members to conceal is a contributor’s nationality, country of origin, or area of residence. There’s growing concern about software development contributions coming from export restricted countries by the US (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) with Red Hat being based out of North Carolina

Developers from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan & Syria can’t contribute to US based open source projects?

Krita 2.8.0 Released

Some major updates in Calligra office suite are:

The word processor, Words received support for comments
Sheets has better support for pivot tables
Kexi now runs on Windows and about 30 major issues has been fixed in this visual database application.
Flow now supports SVG based stencils.
A thumbnail sketch of Krita 2.8

The 2.8 release marks the debut of several new under-the-hood changes in Krita. The first is a major refactoring of the application’s OpenGL canvas code.

For 2.8 the OpenGL support was brought up to OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 compliance (the latter of which enables the tablet-centric “Krita Sketch” variant to run on embedded hardware).

Along the way, Krita’s Windows builds gained OpenGL support as well; 2.8 marks the first version of Krita to be declared stable on Windows

The more interesting improvement for Linux users is an entirely new OpenGL scaling algorithm that offers better quality than the default OpenGL scaling options. The upshot is smoother rendering, especially when zooming in on the canvas.

The new rendering code was written by Kazakov, whose time on the project is funded by the Krita Foundation. Kazakov also undertook the other major piece of plumbing to debut in version 2.8: native support for pressure-sensitive graphics tablets.

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CuBox Linux Review | LAS s30e08

chris — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:09:39 +0000

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ARM CPUs are famous for the low power and price point. But is a tiny low-cost system built around a quad-core ARM cpu ready to replace your Linux Desktop? We put the CuBox-i4-Pro from SolidRun to the test.

Plus some big distro news, changes at openSUSE…

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CuBox-i4pro a Tiny Linux Computer:

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Antergos Linux

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Antergos Interview | LAS s29e08

chris — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:36:50 +0000

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Antergos is bringing Arch to the masses, but still keeps it simple. We chat with the founder of Antergos, formerly Cinnarch, about their future plans, and how they hope to improve Arch without taking away what makes it so great.

Plus: A backdoor worm plagues Linux boxes, details on SteamOS game streaming…

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Antergos

Antergos, as its father, Arch Linux, is a rolling release distro. This means that you don’t have to worry about if there’s a new version to download, like in Ubuntu or Fedora.

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Genymotion

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Bankrupt Linux News | LINUX Unplugged 11

chris — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:00:20 +0000

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The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community.

We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

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FU

Thanks to the Antergos devs for reaching out.
Big con of the Synology DiskStation DS412+ is the PSU.
\”If you don\’t like it, don\’t use it.\”
Why is nobody mentioning Debian and its rolling model?
Linux Unpluged Episode 10: Ubuntus Rolling issue
- Gary points out devs:

Prod machines should be locked down that are inside the firewall. A dev machine should be close to a prod environment and testing a staging machines should be identical to prod. When updates occur, libraries change (including the runtime) and when a library changes that your app uses, full regression testing should be done.

The Bankrupt Linux News

The free software media and cults of personality

I\’m talking about the cults of personality that often dominate the free software community
such cults are contrary to community values. Worse, they can do untold damage, imposing commercial values at the cost of community ones, or dividing the community as those at the center of such cults decide to air their personal grudges in public. They can cause people to discard their own judgment and choose software on the basis of who endorses what, and even to compromise themselves morally by choosing sides in a flame war when they should be condemning everyone involved.

The problem is that journalism as it is practiced today finds cults of personality convenient. Being able to mention celebrities in the headlines increases page views,
As for writers, mentioning someone famous is a quick way of validating a point. Even if the celebrity fails to make a logical argument or offer a scrap of insight, readers are more likely to be swayed to a viewpoint by learning that a celebrity supports it.

However, even when a writer is not stooping to such tactics, not feeding a cult of personality can be difficult. Readers want to hear about what the famous are doing or thinking. They are far less interested in ordinary people, which is why stories about people behind the scenes, while well-meaning, rarely keep people reading unless the writer can quickly establish an interesting angle.

In fact, just as a side-effect of free software has been to create de-centralized means of collaboration, those of us who are free software journalists can try to create our own standards for a story — one that doesn\’t depend on celebrities, but on skilled writing.

That\’s a lofty goal, but it\’s one at which I\’m determined to aim.

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The Ubuntu Hangover | LINUX Unplugged 10

chris — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:53:20 +0000

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What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in.

PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you\’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward.

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The Big Picture for Linux

The Linux desktop is easily still a good 5 years behind Windows and OSX and without LTS Linux wouldn\’t even be in the ballpark.

Linux outlasts Any Distro, Experienced End-Users Should Embrace that.

Watching the events around Ubuntu unfold it\’s once again teaching us something that anyone who\’s watched Linux for a long time, has noticed, but like my self, refuses to fully accept it. Many (maybe all? In the grand scheme) die or change for the worse.

And yet many Linux users are afraid of a \”raw\” Linux experience without the protection of their distro masters. They fear total system havoc without some bearded keeper of the repo gates preventing mass chaos from entering their system during some random update.

Four months into using Arch as my daily driver, in production and play, has taught me a big lesson. Not about how l33t Arch is, or that Wiki\’s can actually not suck, but that upstream is amazing. The near real time work that is being done is inspiring and encouraging to watch and enjoy.

Some examples of cutting edge:

Maybe there is a case to be made, that if you, like me, often enjoy toying with computer instead of playing a video game, then perhaps it in Linux and all upstream code\’s best future interests to try and live outside the box a little.

irrationalNumber comments on Ubuntu 13.10 Review | LAS s29e02

I\’ve spent a lot of time with each of the main-line distros (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, openSUSE, Slackware), and I have to say that if I weren\’t using Arch, I really don\’t know what else I would use.

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In Defense of KDE

Chris points out that Gene wanted the Enterprise to be clean, and streamlined. Because the technology had become so perfected by that point it was natural and comfortable to use.

Good and Bad Advice for Linux Noobs

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Docker: Containers Made Easy | LAS s27e01

chris — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:09 +0000

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Linux Containers offer functionally similar to FreeBSD’s Jails and OpenVZ, but have remained mostly outside the reach for casual users. Today we’ll show you how Docker can get you up and running with some of the most powerful technology available for Linux today, in minutes.

Then – We run down the big distro releases, debate of Ubuntu is the OS X of Linux, answer some of your great question…

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Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider.

Docker is an open-source implementation of the deployment engine which powers dotCloud, a popular Platform-as-a-Service.

The future of Linux Containers – YouTube

At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.

Can you run GUI apps in a docker?

You can simply install a vncserver along with firefox

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lxc Linux Containers

LXC is the userspace control package for Linux Containers, a lightweight virtual system mechanism sometimes described as “chroot on steroids”.

LXC builds up from chroot to implement complete virtual systems, adding resource management and isolation mechanisms to Linux’s existing process management infrastructure.

The LXC package combines these Linux kernel mechanisms to provide a userspace container object, a lightweight virtual system with full resource isolation and resource control for an application or a system.

Jails vs VMs | TechSNAP 110

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Google Glass Runs Linux

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Gyft – Mobile Gift Card Wallet
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Freeciv-web

Freeciv-web can be played online using a desktop computer, mobile phone or tablet. Freeciv-web has been optimized for the iPhone 5 on mobile and modern HTML5 browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.

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Docker – Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Raring already comes with the 3.8 kernel, so we don’t need to install it. However, not all systems have AUFS filesystem support enabled, so we need to install it.

Docker is available as a Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive), hosted on launchpad which makes installing Docker on Ubuntu very easy.

Arch Linux Guide

Please note this is a community contributed installation path.

Installing on Arch Linux is not officially supported but can be handled via
either of the following AUR packages

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