Lead developer of Bodhi Linux, Jeff Hoogland, joins us to discuss this exciting distribution that showcases the Enlightenment desktop.

Plus Canonical could be going public, but what will that mean for the desktop? We debate. Firefox OS see’s a major course change ahead & more!

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Jeff Hoogland of Bodhi Linux

• Project Manager and Lead Developer

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DistroWatch.com: Bodhi Linux

Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop featuring the elegant and lightweight Enlightenment window manager. The project, which integrates and pre-configures the very latest builds of Enlightenment directly from the project’s development repository, offers modularity, high level of customisation, and choice of themes. The default Bodhi system is light — the only pre-installed applications are Midori, Terminology, EFM (Enlightenment File Manager), ePhoto and ePad — but more software is available via AppCenter, a web-based software installation tool.

• Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 install and overview | the Enlightened Linux Distribution – YouTube

In this video i am going to show the installation process of Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 after that i am going to do a overview of the operating system and show some of the applications pre-installed.

Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop featuring the elegant and lightweight Enlightenment window manager. The project, which integrates and pre-configures the very latest builds of Enlightenment directly from the project’s development repository, offers modularity, high level of customisation, and choice of themes. The default Bodhi system is light — the only pre-installed applications are Midori, Terminology, EFM (Enlightenment File Manager), ePhoto and ePad — but more software is available via AppCenter, a web-based software installation tool.

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Runs Linux

• The hunt for gravitational waves, runs linux

There is an article on Guardian explaining what is the experiment about https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/feb/12/the-hunt-for-gravitational-waves-could-be-nearing-success[1] .

On the video LIGO Generations we see the lab where they analyze results and we see all the lab run Ubuntu.

• The hunt for gravitational waves could be nearing success | Science | The Guardian

Here’s a date for your diary: 1 January 2017. It’s the day that physicists are predicting for a great scientific breakthrough: the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

It will be the equivalent of astronomers discovering a new sense. With telescopes, they can already see the universe. By detecting gravitational waves, they will be able to ‘listen’ to it as well. We would be able to ‘hear’ stars colliding with one another, the destruction of matter falling into black holes and the catastrophic detonation of distant massive stars.

Desktop App Pick

• LanguageTool

Submitted By Rikai

LanguageTool is an Open Source proof­reading program for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect and several grammar problems.

Weekly Spotlight

• Server Based Music Player

Submitted by Robert S.

Run it on a server connected to some speakers in your home or office. Guests can control the music player by connecting with a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Further, you can stream your music library remotely. Groove Basin works with your personal music library; not an external music service. Groove Basin will never support DRM content.

Features

• Fast, responsive UI. It feels like a desktop app, not a web app.

• Dynamic playlist mode which automatically queues random songs, favoring songs that have not been queued recently.

• Drag and drop upload. Drag and drop playlist editing. Rich keyboard shortcuts.

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​Mark Shuttleworth considering Canonical IPO

The decision won’t be entirely his. “I need to talk it over with my Canonical team.” He also said that the idea has been being seriously kicked around internally for the last several months.

Chromium Finally Gets HiDPI Support for Linux After Being Ignored for Three Years – Softpedia

“I’m happy to notice that High DPI is now fully supported in Chromium for Linux starting in Dev Channel. If you don’t have a HighDPI screen, you can still run chromium with the –force-device-scale-factor=2 switch to see how scaling works there,” wrote François Beaufort.

• Full HiDPI support in Chrome is now available in the main branch google-chrome as of version 43.0.2357.2-1 and works out of the box as tested with Gnome and Cinnamon.

Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

Mozilla has announced plans to launch a feature called “Suggested Tiles,” which will provide sponsored recommendations to visit certain websites when other websites show up in the user’s new tab page. The tiles will begin to show up for beta channel users next week, and the company is asking for feedback. For testing purposes, users will only see Suggested Tiles “promoting Firefox for Android, Firefox Marketplace, and other Mozilla causes.” It’s not yet known what websites will show up on the tiles when the feature launches later this summer. The company says, “With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users’ privacy and giving them control over their data.”

• Help Test Changes to New Tab in Firefox Beta

Mozilla gives up on its dream of a $25 Firefox smartphone | The Verge

CNET reports that in an email to employees sent out on Thursday, CEO Chris Beard made it clear that the company will soon be changing its mobile strategy. “We have not seen sufficient traction for a $25 phone,” Beard wrote. He went on to say, “We will focus on efforts that provide a better user experience, rather than focusing on cost alone.”

Intel takes on CoreOS with its own container-based Linux

In a detailed article at LWN.net, Intel engineer Arjan van de Ven described Intel’s aim to build a container system “where one can use the isolation of virtual-machine technology along with the deployment benefits of containers.”

The resulting system, Clear Containers, uses Linux’s kernel-native KVM hypervisor, but runs it in such a way that it avoids most of the startup time overhead typically associated with spinning up a KVM instance. Intel also claims it can leverage systemd and a few kernel-level memory-organization tricks to slim down and speed up the process even further.

Second stretchgoal reached and new builds!

We’ve got our second stretchgoal through both Kickstarter and the Paypal donations! We hope we can get many more so that you, our users, get to choose more ways for us to improve Krita. And we have got half a third stretch goal actually implemented: modifier keys for selections!

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The proprietor of Evolve OS stops by to discuss what makes Evolve OS a unique Linux desktop & the challenges smaller projects face getting coverage and attention.

Plus a look at tiny powerful Linux hardware gadget that we think might be worth backing, a debate about “the look” of Linux apps & more!

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Pre-Show:

• Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter
  • Ridiculous Ruling In Ireland Requires ISP To Kick Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of File Sharing Off The Internet | Techdirt

Catch Up:

• Systemd Developers Did NOT Fork The Linux Kernel

• digiKam at CeBIT 2015

The award for the best open source photo management application went to digiKam.

• Official GNOME SDK runtime builds are out | Alexander Larsson

This repository contains the gnome 3.16 runtimes, org.gnome.Platform, as well as a smaller one that is useful for less integrated apps (like games) called org.freedesktop.Platform. It also has corresponding develoment runtimes (org.gnome.Sdk and org.freedesktop.Sdk) that you can use to create applications for the platforms.

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• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

• Landed Linux Admin Job

• Ubuntu touch apps on other distributions… Or how Chris is wrong (NSFW rant)

Right, this has been stopping me from sleeping from a while because it has wound me up quite a lot. (slightly sarcastic)

On a certain episode of L.U.P Chris questioned how Ubuntu applications (made with the Ubuntu SDK) would look on non Ubuntu desktop environments, and quite rightly so came to the conclusion of “well, they would look out of place”. Fine.

Lets stop right now and talk about something else, Gnome “Apps”. Gnome Apps are fucking shit under anything that isn’t Gnome, however nobody is giving Gnome a hard time over this. Gnome is shitting all over everyone else with their poorly designed applications and the Ubuntu Desktop and other desktops are suffering because of it.

• Cinnamon Developers Working to Improve Loading Times for the Desktop
• Cinnamon Developers Working to Improve Loading Times for the Desktop – Softpedia

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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I created a Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup group. I was inspired by the idea of how nice it would be to have a rough idea of how many folks will be making it out to LFNW. Just to help with planning.

But I realized my long-term plans are a bit more ambitious. As the weather gets nice in the Seattle area, I’d like to hold semi-frequent meetups with Jupiter Colony members that are in the area. Maybe once a month, record them, or stream them. Eat, chat, maybe even create show content.

Also as we travel to other fests, or hit the road, I’d like to have a tool to suss out interest in your area.

So after LFNW I’d like to use the group for that kind of stuff, which sounds like a lot of fun to me!

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TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter

Tiny but powerful Linux + WiFi development board. With Cloud Integration & App Store, making hardware is as easy as installing apps!

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting
• How To Resize Your Droplets on DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean

Show distro coverage criteria: what do you suggest? Here are my thoughts.

• Would you guys like Chris and Noah to Interview the Fedora team again before their Fedora 22 release May 19th

Evolve OS

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Are boutique distributions a bag of hurt for new users?

We love a good underdog, but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us and we recommend something that’s not appropriate for a switcher to land on.

Plus some quick thoughts on the beating open source is taking as fallout from the Heartbleed bug.

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F.U.

• KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #11 – Go time!

• Is anyone else having problems with Gnome Terminal 3.12?

• On The Subject of Linux UX

• Linux Learners – LUP35

• Terminal v/s GUI // Slexy 2.0

• The big point for technical switchers everyone missed

• Steam Controller comes out this fall

Underdog Syndrome

• Recent discussions on LUP about switching
• End of XP brings this to front of mind.

• Ubuntu 14.04 this Sunday on LAS. The big dog on the desktop.

• These smaller, boutique distros are great for experienced enthusiasts.

• Sending users from the worlds most deployed desktop operating system to a niche distribution of a niche desktop operating system is a recipe for failure.

• Support community is always smaller.
• Random poorly crafted Google searches are less likely to show distro relevant results.

• Long term viability of really small teams is always questionable. Larger distros even if corporate backers or the large community dropped it – the code would go on. Smaller distros that’s not always the case.

• Do these concerns apply to the more esoteric desktops, ie Cinnamon, MATE?

Heartbleed Butt Hurt

• OSS name getting dragged through the mud.
• Why are we not focused on the patch turn around time?

• Ability to audit future code.

• Heartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It\’s Not What You Think

A week after the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability wreaked havoc across the web, the conversation is shifting from reaction to reflection. The discussion is no longer about what to do now, but what can be done to prevent another Heartbleed from happening in the future. In other words, we\’re entering the blame game chapter in this saga.

• Heartbleed: Open source\’s worst hour | ZDNet

Everyone just assumed that OpenSSL must be perfectly safe because, well OpenSSL has a reputation for being safe, therefore it was safe. Developers, website developers, security experts, one and all, it seems no one ever thought to actually use those eyeballs that successful open source relies upon to check the code to see if it really was safe.

• Did open source matter for Heartbleed? | ZDNet

Open source does not provide a meaningful inherent security benefit for OpenSSL and it may actually discourage some important testing techniques. Also, panhandling is not a good business model for important software like OpenSSL.

• Stop laying the blame for Heartbleed on open source | Open Source Software – InfoWorld

Security experts acknowledge that open source is the best model for crypto, so how do we drive improvements to the model for creating security-critical infrastructure?

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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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