AppImage – Jupiter Broadcasting

Krypton brings updated default user interfaces, better organisation of settings, and many under-the-hood changes on VideoPlayer, Music Library, PVR, audio on Android, and thousands of small bugfixes and improvements to stability

Kodi – Android Apps on Google Play

Vizio smart TVs tracked viewers around the clock without consent

According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for automated content recognition—software. Without asking for permission, the ACR code captured second-by-second information about the video the TVs displayed. The software collected other personal information and transmitted it, along with the viewing data, to servers controlled by the manufacturer. Vizio then sold the data to unnamed third-parties for purposes of audience measurement, analysis, and tracking.

What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen | Federal Trade Commission

Ubuntu OTA-15 Is Now Rolling Out to Ubuntu Phones, Tablets

“This is a security bug fix update only, actually only including changes to oxide and the webbrowser. The next future OTAs will most likely be very similar, concentrating only on critical security issues — until ubuntu-personal enters the touch world with its snaps.”

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KDE Plasma 5.9.1 – Here is the First Bugfix Release

Today, the Kde team announced the first minor release for Kde Plasma 5.9 including various little but important bugfixes and translation updates. Certainly, this first small bugfix release will improve the stability and usability of the desktop environment.

Google Brain super-resolution image tech makes “zoom, enhance!” real | Ars Technica

Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. Google’s software, in short, basically means the “zoom in… now enhance!” TV _trope_is actually possible.

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boot – Windows 10 Update repartitioned my Ubuntu 16.04 drive – Ask Ubuntu

You’ve been hit with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update bug. It updates Windows 10, and wipes out Ubuntu (Linux) partitions.

Software containers improve performance

Performance for an application determines how quickly your software can complete the intended task.

Linux Container Hardening

This project will focus on hardening of Linux containers. It will help
contribute patches to the Kernel Self Protection
Project
that evolve the primitives in the Linux kernel used by containers (namespaces,
cgroups, etc) to be more secure.

FOSDEM 2017 – Resurrecting dinosaurs, what can possibly go wrong?

Containerised Application technologies like AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak promise a brave new world for Linux applications, free from the worries of shared libraries and dependency issues.

Just one problem, this is a road long travelled before, such as in the application dark ages of Win32 applications and DLLs. And it worked out so wonderfully there.

DigitalOcean

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#Noah is right, Solus will always be a “Boutique” distro and there is such a thing as finished software

For fuck sake. It is possible for software to be finished and stable.

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War of the Packages | LINUX Unplugged 150

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:17:51 +0000

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We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more!

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SilentKeys: A Keyboard that Protects your Privacy & Security by Preevio — Kickstarter

Follow Up / Catch Up

Fedora 24 released!

The Fedora 24 Workstation release features GNOME 3.20, with many usability improvements such as easier input device and printer settings, a better search interface, shortcut windows for keyboard commands, and more convenient music controls.

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is another building-block feature, with Software able to track installed Flatpaks and adding more features in the future as the technology develops. The Software app has also grown features to provide a full system upgrade directly from the desktop from one Fedora release to the next, and the ability to provide labeling as well as reviews of available software.

Fedora 24 continues our work on the X replacement, Wayland, a next-generation graphics stack. Although this release will not default to Wayland, it includes many improvements and is available as an option for users to try out, and potentially will be the default stack in Fedora 25.

Upgrading Fedora 23 Workstation to Fedora 24

Before you do anything, you will want to make sure you have the latest software for Fedora 23 before beginning the upgrade process. Additionally, make sure you back up your system before proceeding. One popular tool available in Fedora for this purpose is deja-dup. To update your software, use GNOME Software or enter the following command in a terminal.

Mycroft Core, v0.7 – Responsive Listening, 3rd Party Skills

Today marks the release of a new version of Mycroft. This moves us from the 0.6.X versioning to 0.7 – putting us closer to a 1.0 release. This is a significant update because it contains a large rethinking of the listener that Mycroft uses. The result is our new “Responsive Listening” mode.

OnePlus 3 to Become an Unofficial Ubuntu Phone, Development Will Start Soon

We’ve had a quick chat today with Marius Gripsgård from UBports.com, a group of independent developers trying to port Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system to as many devices as possible, about an upcoming port to OnePlus 3.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

LIMBO on Steam

Solus 1.2 Shannon Released

We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.2, the second minor release in the Shannon series of releases. Solus 1.2 builds upon the groundwork of 1.1 and 1.0, with continued improvements to Budgie, a huge focus on software optimizations, in addition to laying the framework for providing a performant gaming experience. Solus 1.2 furthers us on our journey to realizing the future of home computing.

Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine

Docker 1.12, which includes all of these new features, is now available as a release candidate, with general availability planned for July. Once they have been more thoroughly tested, swarm mode and other additions to 1.12 will find their way into the company’s commercial offerings in the second half of 2016.

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maru

Maru packs a complete desktop experience on your smartphone. Your phone runs independently of your desktop so you can take a call and work on your big screen at the same time. Personal computing couldn’t be simpler.

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Flatpak Released

Stockholm, Sweden – 21st June 2016 – The development team behind Flatpak is excited to announce the general availablity of their new framework for desktop applications on Linux. Previously named xdg-app, Flatpak is available on a range of major Linux distributions.

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A Bearded Thinkpad | LAS 422

chris — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:16:11 +0000

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We review the ThinkPad x260 with Linux & compare it to the XPS 13.

Then we discuss Snaps, AppImage, Flatpak & the Universal Package war that’s brewing, what the major downsides are & why we think this concept of universal Linux apps is not going away.

Plus our picks of the week, a laptop giveaway & more!

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ThinkPad x260

Intel 8260AC+BT 2×2 vPro
Sierra EM7455 WAN Adapter
SIM Card for WWAN 2
Accessories 2 NONE
X260 IGPU i7-6600U
Camera 720p HD Camera
AC Adapter and Power Cord 45W 2pin US
Intel Core i7-6600U MB
12.5 FHD IPS Non-Touch
Smart Card Reader
Hard drive 512GB SSD SATA3
Backlit KYB ENG
16GB DDR4 2133 SoDIMM
Battery 2 6cell 72Wh Rear
Battery 3cell 23.2Wh Front

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Runs Linux

ASM IV Series Automatic Scrap Monitoring System, Runs Linux

The ASM IV radiation detection system is designed to monitor a variety of
vehicles and/or scan for undesirable sources of radiation commonly found
in scrap metal and reject them before hey can cause harm to people, property or product.

Desktop App Pick

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line. It is flexible, fast, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way.

tasknc is a ncurses wrapper for task warrior written in C. It aims to provide an interface like the excellent ncurses programs mutt and ncmpcpp.

TaskWhisperer – GNOME Shell Extensions

Taskwhisperer is a extension for TaskWarrior Application https://taskwarrior.org to manage todos.

Spotlight

Deep->Derp Browser Extension

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

Introducing the Nextcloud bug bounty program

We offer some of the highest bounties in the open source software industry, rewarding responsible disclosure with up to $5,000 for qualifying vulnerabilities!

We have partnered with the HackerOne platform because of its extraordinary popularity among IT security professionals. More than 3,000 hackers have reported over 24,000 bugs via the platform. Running a program on HackerOne allows us to quickly leverage the collective knowledge of a huge amount of these security experts.

Snaps vs AppImage vs Flatpak

What am I missing (as a user) regarding the excitement over all these competing new universal packaging standards?

App distribution for Linux just got way better

Ubuntu’s “snap” package format now works on a bunch of other popular Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and most of the Ubuntu flavors. It’s also coming to CentOS, Mint, OpenSUSE, and even OpenWrt, among others.

Ubuntu’s ‘Snap’ packages may be the future of software installation on every Linux PC

This is big news. The Linux community has seen a constant stream of projects attempting to provide an easy software installation system across Linux distributions for more than a decade. But Ubuntu’s Snap package format is the first one that looks like it has some serious traction.

Ubuntu Snappy-Based Package Format Aims to Bridge Linux Divide

According to Shuttleworth, the “stunning” and “surprising” emergence of snap as a universal package format was not even on his roadmap a few months ago. He said that when he told ISVs that Canonical was extending snap to classic Ubuntu, the response was overwhelming.

Shuttleworth conceded that there are other universal open source packaging solutions available, such as AppImage and the newer Flatpak, but argued that most lack the security and/or transactional nature of snap. “The snap mechanism has sophisticated capabilities in the way it delivers updated versions,” he said. “Snaps are perfectly transactional.”

Kirta Packager on Appimage/Flatpak/Snap

The old rpm/deb way of packaging is excellent for creating the base system. For software where having the latest version doesn’t matter that much for productivity. It’s a system that’s been used for about twenty years and served us reasonably well. But if you are developing software for end users that is regularly updated, where the latest version is important because it always has improvements that let the users do more work, it’s a problem. It’s a ghastly drag having to actually make the packages if you’re not part of a distribution, and having to make packages for several distributions is not feasible for a small team.

uApp Explorer

Community Reaction

Flatpak is the new name for GNOME’s XDG-App initiative, though ‘…95% of the commits come from one Red Hat employee,’ Shuttleworth cheekily noted.

flatpack currently has 29 different committers, most of them not Red Hat employees; one is even a Debian developer.
Alexander Larsson has 78% of the commits, not 95%.
snappy has 5 only committers, all of them Canonical employees.
If you want people to help you with your snaps, don’t require them to sign Canonical’s CLA, open all snap components (including the server side) and stop spreading FUD in first place.

Chris’ note: The above has some mistakes. He is confusing Snappy and snapd. Snapd has 30 contributors.

Typical Linux Shit Show with Evil Cononical Behind it All, Time for WAR

What’s going on is that Canonical beat us to market in development… and now their marketing folks have beat us in marketing, too. We of course have zero plans to adopt Snappy in Fedora, and in fact multiple Fedora developers
are working on a competing solution, Flatpak

On Snappy and Flatpak: business as usual in the Canonical propaganda department

That’s not being constructive or working together with others. That’s being a bunch of asshats and trying to present the rest of the community with a fait accompli – and notably, a fait accompli in which Canonical holds all the strings (by means of the Canonical CLA controlling contributions to the client end, and the closed source, closed shop server end that is owned entirely by Canonical).

Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default

Currently Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default, since
substantial parts of the implementation of interfaces that allow the
applications to access resources outside the sandbox in a secure way
(“Portals”) are missing.

Sandbox · flatpak/flatpak Wiki · GitHub

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10 Year Old ThinkPad T43 Rocks Today’s Tasks

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Snaps are Go! | LINUX Unplugged 149

chris — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:40:40 +0000

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Canonical drops a bombshell by making snap packages available for nearly all Linux distributions, Nextcloud has some serious momentum, Samsung is rumored to drop Android in favor of Tizen across all devices & Wes kicks the tires of elementary OS’ new Beta of Loki.

Then we try out Snap packages & discuss needs to happen next to really make them take off as the standard universal Linux installer.

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

After a slow start, Dell turns up the dial on Steam Machines

Samsung Planning To Replace Android With Linux-based Tizen OS On All Smartphones

The largest Android smartphone manufacturer Samsung is considering a shift from Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to a report, the South Korean tech giant is planning to expand its homegrown Tizen OS to all of its devices in future.

The executive said that Samsung launched Samsung Z1 and Z3 in the Indian market to see Tizen’s performance. “Samsung’s Z-branded Tizen-powered phones are popular with Indian consumers. During the first quarter of this year, Samsung sold about 64 million phones there. This means that Tizen is proving its competitiveness,” said the executive.

Apart from smartphones and smartwatches, the Korean giant wants to use Tizen in the Internet of Things applications. The company is soon looking to expand Tizen’s reach to more household devices like cameras, televisions, smart refrigerators etc.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

Using Apple File System

An open source implementation is not available at this time. Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format when Apple File System is released in 2017.

you can use MPV to make a Picture in Picture video like the one apple showed off yesterday

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Loki Beta is Here

This release brings tons of fixes and new features for both users and developers. Over 20 blueprints were implemented and over 800 issues closed. Time to break it all down and reveal what the future holds for the next version of elementary OS!

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Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros

“We hope today’s announcement will be surprising because it’s not about Ubuntu,” Shuttleworth said in a press calls held earlier today.

Adios apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere | Ars Technica

Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other Linux distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo among others.

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Linux Look-Back | LINUX Unplugged 50

chris — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:19:06 +0000

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We look back at five years of Linux memories, and reminisce about the bad old days of the Linux desktop.

Then the exciting future for PC-BSD, and it’s new unique desktop.

Plus our favorite ways to track performance, desktop Linux app containers that are already here and shipping and much more!

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Lifehacker Pack For Linux 2014: Our List Of The Essential Linux Apps

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On encapsulated linux applications

Hi I wonder why you haven’t talk much about linuxportable apps, is really great for users that dont want to deal with dependencies and distros and such. Even the Portable Linux Games is awesome since games are non standard linux installs (usually a gnome or kde app will make more sense than a game that has no connection with the DE).

Portable Games for Linux

Please let me know what u think, and who has used before?

AppImageKit

Using AppImageKit you can package applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives.

The AppImage format has the following properties:

The AppImage is an ISO9660 file
The contents of the ISO9660 file can be compressed with zf
In the first 32k of the ISO9660 file, an ELF executable is embedded
which mounts the AppImage, executes the application from the
mounted AppImage, and afterwards unmounts the AppImage again
The ISO9660 file contains an AppDir as per the ROX AppDir specification
The AppDir contains one desktop file as per the freedesktop.org specification

For an AppImage to run on most systems, the following conditions need to be met: 1. The AppImage needs to include all libraries and other dependencies that are not part of all of the base systems that the AppImage is intended to run on 2. The binaries contained in the AppImage need to be compiled on a system not newer than the oldest base system that the AppImage is intended to run on 3. The AppImage should actually be tested on the base systems that it is intended to run on

Retro

5 Years ago: July 2009

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4

https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-gnome.png
https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-kde-desktop.png

Sabayon 4.2

review – https://wolf911.us/wgo/?p=190
https://techexposures.com/2009/07/sabayon-4-2-gnome-linux-review-and-screenshots/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz_Fusion_Desktop_Wall.png

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01

RELEASE NOTES: https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/9.04.01
https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/screenshots/9.04.01

PC-BSD 7.1.1

The PC-BSD developers have announced the release of version 7.1.1, the Galileo Edition of their open source operating system. Version 7.1.1 is a maintenance release and includes several bug fixes and improvements.
https://www.pcmech.com/article/pc-bsd-711-quick-review/
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd.html

Slackware Linux 13.0 RC1

Release Announcement: https://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php
https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/12/17/review-slackware-13-0/

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released its Launchpad source code

under a free software license. (announcement)

Amazon fails in its irony detection and deletes George Orwell’s 1984 (and Animal Farm) from users’ Kindle e-book readers. (New York Times coverage)

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