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Having a Backup Plan with SeaFile

• WannaCrypt Makes an Easy Case for Linux

• Dropbox Told Us our Files were Private

• Setup Seafile on Centos 7

• Seafile Client PPA

• Yamaha USB Mixer

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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Today, we are taking the next step in our journey. I am extremely excited to share that PowerShell is open sourced and available on Linux. (For those of you who need a refresher, PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET Framework to help IT professionals control and automate the administration of the Windows, and now Linux, operating systems and the applications that run on them.) I’m going to share a bit more about our journey getting here, and will tell you how Microsoft Operations Management Suite can enhance the PowerShell experience.

The Linux Foundation Releases Development Report Highlighting Contributions to the Linux Kernel Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Linux | The Linux Foundation

The report comes just days before the 25th anniversary of the initial release of the Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds on August 25, 1991, and analyzes the work done by over 13,500 developers over more than a decade, as well as more recent trends.

TING

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elementary Hackfest in Paris

Getting Developers in a Room together to work on kickass Open Source Software.

Security and reproducible-build progress in Guix 0.11

The GNU Guix package-manager project recently released version
0.11, bringing with it support for several hundred new packages, a
range of new tools, and some significant progress toward making an
entire operating system (OS) installable using reproducible builds.

Google to drop support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac and Linux

Google has killed a lot of things in the past, including Google Buzz, Google Wave and Google Reader. Well Google’s grim reaper is at it again. This time, Google Chrome apps will no longer work on Windows, Mac and Linux by 2018. The company says only 1 percent of Chrome users took advantage of this feature. However, Chrome apps will still function on Chrome OS, which powers Chromebooks.

FYI to you #NoMansSky players under #Linux Wine 1.9.17 Breaks No Man's Sky for me. Confirmed to work under 1.9.16 pic.twitter.com/QiPS6JhQAs

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) August 23, 2016

• WineHQ Bugzilla – Bug 41189 – No Man’s Sky fails to start due to a regression in ntdll

• systemd-boot

DigitalOcean

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

Librevault

Open source zero-knowledge peer-2-peer file sync.

• Librevault (@librevault) | Twitter

• GitHub – Librevault/librevault: Librevault – Peer-to-peer, decentralized and open source file sync.

Librevault is an open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization program, designed with convenience and privacy in mind.
Our goal is to make a better alternative to BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing.

• GPL Version 3

• Installing on arch, be sure to have qt5-tools installed.

Linux Academy

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Android 7.0 Nougat review—Do more on your gigantic smartphone

Nougat brings a new multitasking split screen mode, a redesigned notification panel, an adjustable UI scale, and fresh emoji. Nougat also sports numerous under-the-hood improvements, like changes to the Android Runtime, updates to the battery saving “Doze” mode, and developer goodies like Vulkan and Java 8 support.

• Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition review: A flagship Linux smartphone Review | ZDNet

Like the BQ phone, the Meizu MX4 is very much a device for early adopters, since Ubuntu for Phones is still in the development phase. While the €169.90 Aquaris E4.5 is a mid-range phone, the Meizu MX4 delivers considerably more computing power for €299. It runs on a Meizu-customised octa-core MediaTek MT6595 SoC with four ARM Cortex-A17 and four ARM Cortex-A7 cores, with a PowerVR G6200 GPU to handle the graphics, all supported by 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM.

• Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet – Features | BQ

The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition combines two different interfaces so you can use it either as a tablet or as a PC. The first module offers all the typical functions of a tablet, while the PC mode is activated automatically when you connect it to a mouse and keyboard.

• Devices | Ubuntu for phones | Ubuntu

• Want more Ubuntu Phones? We are closing the goal with ZTE! Let’s work together! : LinuxActionShow

• Touch/Libertine – Ubuntu Wiki

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• GitHub – trapexit/mergerfs: a FUSE based union filesystem

• Debian, MergerFS, SnapRAID and Docker – The Perfect Home Media Server 2016 – Linuxserver.io

• Greyhole – Redundant Storage Pooling using Samba

• OMV 3.x

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We cover some great open source projects that help you live life off-line, as if you were online. We also discuss the upstream contributions from Munich & an awesome block level back up system.

Plus some great feedback, a road trip update & more!

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• How to Watch Netflix Natively on Linux – the Easy Way

Thankfully, all of that has become unnecessary and using Netflix natively on Linux is now really easy and basically all you need to do is use Google Chrome.

• How To Watch Hulu on Ubuntu 14.04 and Up – OMG! Ubuntu!

The problem? Ubuntu no longer includes HAL by default nor in the Ubuntu Archive. Sites that use Flash DRM don’t work on Ubuntu out of the box.

Feedback:

• Road show name

From: Dow
RE: Road Show

Finding Linux

Here is my name contribution! Love all the shows! Good luck with the endeavor!

• Name for road show

From: Terry
Subject: Name for road show

The Very Open Road Show (vors)

The Wide Open Road Show (off to the wors!)

The Linux Open Road Show

Linux On The Move

• If you pass by Colorado

From: Alex
Subject: If you pass by Colorado

For the road show I heard that you might pass by in Colorado. In case that is so, would be great if you like to come by for a beer at a microbrew.

Then the second thing, I was this week at a students meeting of linux users at the University, and it was great to see so many young people interested in linux.

They even helped installing Mint on whoever liked to try linux. Some of them where even running Arch! There were around 10-15 people, perhaps you like to meet them, they are the new generation of linux users.

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Vote on the Name of this Road Show

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Munich now a major contributor to open source

The city of Munich is a major contributor to free and open source projects, sending bugfixes to upstream developers, making available software solutions and sharing best practices and technical information. In August, Munich IT staff members shared the city’s accomplishments with the community of Debian developers, one of the main free software distributions.

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Off-Line Like your On-Line

what is wallabag? – wallabag

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages. Unlike other services, wallabag is free (as in freedom) and open source.

With this application you will not miss content anymore. Click, save, read it when you want. It saves the content you select so that you can read it when you have time.

KeePassX

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.
KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services 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.

Archiving a website with Wget

I’ll share the command I use to archive a single website.

wget -mpck –user-agent=”” -e robots=off –wait 1 www.foo.com

• Zoom Telephonics
• Zoom Telephonics – Mobile Broadband Modem and Smartphone Compatibility Information

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datto

The Datto Block Driver (Dattobd) solves the above problems. Dattobd is an open source Linux kernel module for point-in-time live snapshotting. Dattobd can be loaded onto a running Linux machine (without a reboot) and used to create an image file representing any block device at the instant the snapshot is taken. After the first snapshot, Dattobd tracks incremental changes to the block device and can therefore efficiently update existing backups by copying only the blocks that have changed.

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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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• Rugged NUC mini-PCs run Linux on Broadwell and Bay Trail · LinuxGizmos.com

• Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand | America’s Markets

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• BioShock Infinite Released For Linux, Thanks To Virtual Programming

• bioshock infinite is ready!!!!! : linux_gaming

• State of VoIP in Linux – Datamation

Like most people, I find myself using the same VoIP options everyone else is using. Thankfully, these days there are far more options available than what we might think. Today, I’ll look at these options and also explore up-and-coming alternatives as well.

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• Episode 82 – Pre-show Goes in my Favorites EVER! Awesome!

• Ubuntu developer portal

Here you can install everything needed to get developing apps and scopes for Ubuntu.

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

DigitalOcean

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Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges | Ars Technica

For $1,533 out of the gate or about $2,080 as tested, is the M3800 Developer Edition worth it?

Sure—if you want a fast, well-built, well-equipped 4K laptop preloaded with Ubuntu, with most of the potential edge-case configuration issues already taken care of, with an active set of developers working to ensure that the necessary repos are kept current, and with an actual, for-real OEM warranty and support.

The Good

• Ubuntu 14.04, factory-preconfigured to just work
• Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don’t have to
• High-quality build: no squeaks, no rattles, no shimmies
• 16GB of RAM, the potential for a large SSD, and a Haswell i7 CPU mean it’s got plenty of guts as a developer’s workstation
• Reasonable amount of upgradeability
• Display is bright, beautiful, and works with Ubuntu 14.04 (including the multitouch functionality)

The Bad

• Thunderbolt port doesn’t really work in Ubuntu
• Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
• If all you’re after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800’s starting price
• I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn’t

The Ugly

• Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day’s worth of working

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The future of Linux storage | ZDNet

For instance, Chris Mason, a Facebook software engineer and one of the _Btrfs(pronounced Butter FS) maintainers, explained how Facebook uses this file system. Btrfs has many advantages as a file system such as the ability to handle both numerous small files and single files as large as 16 exabytes; baked in RAID; built-in file-system compression; and integrated multi-storage device support._

Ubuntu MATE – Community – Google+

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Our guide to moving your Plex, btsync, SmokePing, and others to a new Linux server. And our take on how the Intel NUC performs as a home server with heavy Plex usage.

Plus the big features coming to a distro near you & has Netflix coming to Linux shown us how Linux users are now “all-in with DRM”? We debate.

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Migrate Plex and btsync to a new server.

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NUC Linux Server

Intel Nuc D54250WYKH

• Mini PC – Intel® NUC Kit D54250WYKH
• Amazon.com: Intel NUC BOXD54250WYKH1 Intel 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4250U with Intel HD Graphics 5000

The Intel NUC D54250WYKH has many useful features, including four USB 3.0 ports, an infrared sensor, a headphone/microphone jack, Mini HDMI*, and Mini DisplayPort* video interfaces, and extra space to accommodate 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives to support a variety of home or small office usages.

• The chubby NUC has room for a 2.5 Inch SSD which was great for my OS and still has the standard PCI Mini storage slot

• Low noise profile, not silent. But very quiet, about three feet away I can’t hear it.

Performance of the NUC

• AnandTech | Intel D54250WYKH Haswell NUC Kit with 2.5″ Drive Slot Mini-Review*

• Inital tesiting shows a busy btsync and 1080p Plex stream can nearly max the 4 core i5 out.

The power consumption at the wall was measured with the display being driven through the mini-HDMI port. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the D54250WYK with other low power PCs evaluated before. For load power consumption, we ran Furmark 1.12.0 and Prime95 v27.9 together.

Moving Plex Media Server to another server

1 . Set up coming UID and GIDs between your NFS and app server.
2. When migrating, try to keep the same file paths. IE: /mnt/nfs was where I had the media nfs mount on the previous box.
3. Setup your fstab, when possible use systemd to mount so the mount is network aware.

Mount using /etc/fstab with systemd

Another method is using the systemd automount service. This is a better option than _netdev, because it remounts the network device quickly when the connection is broken and restored. As well, it solves the problem from autofs, see the example below:

/etc/fstab

servername:/home   /mountpoint/on/client  nfs  users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,noatime 0 0

**Tip: **noauto above will not mount the NFS share until it is accessed: use auto for it to be available immediately.
If you have any issues with the mount failing due to the network not being up/available, enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service: this will ensure that network.target has all the links available prior to being active.

1. Stop Plex on your current server.
2. Copy your old Plex Media Server configs to the new server:

• In general, the location for the various Linux versions of Plex Media Server will be found under:

  $PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

Make sure that the directories and contents are all owned by plex:plex.

• Move an Install to Another System – Plex

SickRage

FEATURES:

• XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
• configurable episode renaming
• available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
• can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are available
• specials and double episode support
• Automatic XEM Scene Numbering/Naming for seasons/episodes
• Episode Status Manager now allows for mass failing seasons/episodes to force retrying.
• DVD Order numbering for returning the results in DVD order instead of Air-By-Date order.
• Improved Failed handling code for shows.
• DupeKey/DupeScore for NZBGet 12+
• Searches both TheTVDB.com, TVRage.com and AniDB.net for shows, seasons, episodes
• Importing of existing video files now allows you to choose which indexer you wish to have SickBeard search its show info from.
• Your tvshow.nfo files are now tagged with a indexer key so that SickBeard can easily tell if the shows info comes from TheTVDB or TVRage.
• Sports shows are now able to be searched for..

Moving btsync between servers

1. Copy down your paths and keys
2. Shutdown btsync on your old system
3. Depending on your version you need to remove the .sync folder, or the .Sync folders. Newest versionf of btsync will asking you if you want “take owner ship”.
4. “Add Folder” and put your folder path in.
5. Edit the sync listing and click “view key” then click update key.
   
6. Post your orginal key you copied down early in. Now btsync will connect up to your peers.

Easy SmokePing Install and Setup

• Smoke Ping is a challange to setup on Arch

How to use this image

• Install Docker
  • Docker – ArchWiki
  • Docker Documentation

A. Pull down the SmokePing Docker image: mokeping Docker Image | Docker Hub Registry

docker pull dperson/smokeping

B. Start the Docker image

sudo docker run --name smokeping -p 8000:80 -d dperson/smokeping

C. Visit https://localhost:8000/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

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Scorpion TV Show is using linux as “hacker” os : LinuxActionShow

• Scorpion – First Look – YouTube

Desktop App Pick

bithammer · GitHub

• BitHammer : LinuxActionShow

Hey Chris and Matt, I thought I’d share this cool program BitHammer if you haven’t already heard of it. If you haven’t BitHammer searches out and bans BitTorrent users on your local sub-net. That means if you travel and work (Ohio LinuxFest), often using shared Wi-Fi. This is nice because many people have been plagued by rogue BitTorrent users who’ve crept onto these public hostpots either with a stolen/cracked password, or who lie (and the Wi-Fi owners) about it.

https://github.com/MichaelJCole/bithammer

Weekly Spotlight

Pocket-sized mobile touchscreen web server runs Tizen

The Egg is available in packages starting at $199 with 64GB through Nov. 6, with devices shipping in July 2015. The Egg is billed as a personal web server, and a way to cut the cord on social networking sites that sell information based on your data.

• The Egg | If you care about it, then Egg it! by Eggcyte — Kickstarter

— NEWS —

Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Many Great Features

Linux 3.17 is a big improvement and brings a ton of great features like working AMD Radeon R9 290 support, Xbox One controller support, DMA-BUF cross-device synchronization, a lot of ARM hardware improvements, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, Intel Braswell and Cherry Trail enablement work, EFI Xen Dom0 boot support, file-system improvements, and much more. Linux 3.17 is a very exciting update!

• The Top Features Of The Linux 3.17 Kernel

• Linux-Kernel Archive: Linux 3.17

At Last! Netflix Now Works On Ubuntu, No Hacks Required

Netflix now works on Ubuntu out of the box — no hacks, plugins or user-agent switching workaround required.

ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards. Only fully supported filesystems are FAT and NTFS.

let’s drop support for ext2/3/4. Unnecessary features like this make it difficult to implement a feature that matter

AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver

Basically converging the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver and closed-source AMD Catalyst driver to run off the same kernel driver

NVIDIA Presents Its Driver Plans To Support Mir/Wayland & KMS On Linux

No firm time table was provided when NVIDIA’s Unix driver team hope to have their Linux proprietary driver fully running with Wayland/Mir and available to the public, but based upon how things are looking right now, it would likely be a safe bet for 2015.

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

Firefox OS is now available on three continents with 12 smartphones offered by 13 operators in 24 countries. As the only truly open mobile operating system, Firefox OS demonstrates the versatility of the Web as a platform, free of the limits and restrictions associated with proprietary mobile operating systems.

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Linux is the ultimate productivity OS. This week we’ll show you how to divorce your Chromebook from Google, sync all your Linux desktops with free software and improve your workflow at the same time.

Plus the new tool from Red Hat you’ll be using soon, Ubuntu shows developers some love & the big game coming to Linux we’re excited about!

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Howto Install Linux on Chromebook

Suggest: ‘Linux on Chromebook how to’ LAS episode

• Acer C720 Chromebook – ArchWiki

The Acer C720 Chromebook (and newer Chromebooks in general) features a “legacy boot” mode that makes it easy to boot Linux and other operating systems. The legacy boot mode is provided by the SeaBIOS payload of coreboot. SeaBIOS behaves like a traditional BIOS that boots into the MBR of a disk, and from there into your standard bootloaders like Syslinux and GRUB.

• How to run DotA 2 on a Chromebook

Accessing the superuser shell with Chrome OS installed

If you have configured Chrome OS already:

• Open a crosh window with Ctrl + Alt + T.
• Open a bash shell with the shell command.
• Become superuser with sudo bash

Enabling the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS

This method will allow you to access the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS through the Developer Mode screen in coreboot.

• Inside your superuser shell enter:

  crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1

• Reboot the machine.

You can now start SeaBIOS by pressing Ctrl + L at the white boot splash screen.

Remove the write-protect screw to Perma-Disable the boot message warning

By removing the bottom panel of the laptop by removing the 12 visible screws and another one underneath the warranty sticker, then separating the plastic starting at the back

Finally completely remove the write-protect screw from the motherboard, which is labelled as #7 in this picture

• Setsuna666/elementaryos-chromebook · GitHub

ChromeeOS will install elementary OS (with ChrUbuntu) and apply automatically all the necessary fixes to run elementary OS on Chromebooks. You will be able to boot in ChromeOS or elementary OS on your Chromebook.

Troubleshooting

Legacy Boot Doesn’t Work

Sometimes it’s possible to break the SeaBIOS install in the flash (sometimes doing innocuous things like tweaking the GBB flags). If you do get into such a situation:

• Check that dev_boot_legacy is set to 1 when you run crossystem
  • If it isn’t, then see the normal Legacy Boot section above
  • if it is, then see below

You can safely reset the copy of SeaBIOS in your flash by running (as root):

# chromeos-firmwareupdate --sb_extract /tmp
# flashrom -w /tmp/bios.bin -i RW_LEGACY

OwnCloud 7 Digital Ocean Tutorial?

• software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud

For xUbuntu 14.04 run the following:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud

You can add the repository key to apt. Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information). To add the key, run:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key  

• After Packages are Installed Guide

Navigate to your ownCloud instance.

• If you are installing ownCloud on the same machine as you are accessing the
  install wizard from, the url will be https://localhost/owncloud

Which is better files synchronizer – ownCloud or BitTorrent Sync?

• Accessing your Files (WebDAV) — ownCloud User Manual 6.0 documentation

BitTorrent Sync

Share directly from device to device. No cloud. No limits.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services 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.

• Private. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally.
• Encrypted. All communication is secured using TLS. The encryption used includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from ever gaining access to your data.

• Authenticated. Every node is identified by a strong cryptographic certificate. Only nodes you have explicitly allowed can connect to your cluster.

• Syncthing in the official Arch Linux [community] repository – Syncthing Forum

Open Development

• Open Discourse. Development and usage is always open for discussion.

Syncthing Discussion Forum
* Open Source. All source code is available on GitHub — what you see is what you get, there is no hidden funny business.

Syncthing Source Code
* Open Protocol. The protocol is a documented standard — no hidden magic.

Syncthing Protocol Definition
* Open Development. Any bugs found are immediately visible for anyone to browse — no hidden flaws.

Syncthing Issue Tracker

MEGAsync For Linux Desktops MEGA.co.nz Linux Sync Client

MEGAsync for Linux comes with most features available for other similar tools (like Dropbox): the tray icon displays the sync status (and if you use the Nautilus extension, the files have emblems which show their sync status), it supports selective sync, you can use proxies, you can copy a public link for a file via the Nautilus context menu and so on.

There are also some extra features: you can upload a link to MEGA directly from the tray/appindicator app and import links to your MEGA account

• MEGA

MEGA currently provides a multi-platform software development kit, and we have plans to release the source code to MEGAsync under an open-source license.

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Hackers Run Linux, Acording to NBC

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Desktop App Pick

slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing
from the terminal easier. It has:

• first-class mouse support
• GUI editor-like keybindings*
• copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
• undo/redo
• syntax highlighting for many languages
• a Sublime-like file sidebar
• select word to highlight other occurrences; double-click to select word
• easy-to-use finding with regex support
• bracket matching
• … many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind

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Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop Alphas now available

David Purse has announced the availability of the alpha release of Simplicity Linux 14.10, a lightweight Puppy-based distribution with LXDE as the preferred desktop environment: “After a bit of a delay, the Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop alphas are now available for download. All versions of Simplicity Linux 14.10 alpha are using the 3.15.4 kernel and are based on Puppy Slacko 5.9.3. As usual, Netbook is aimed at users who tend to do things online, but still want a pretty and professional looking desktop. It runs LXDE as the window manager, has Wbar as a dock, and comes complete with Firefox and TOR browser. Desktop 14.10 alpha is aimed at users who want a full-featured desktop Linux. It comes complete with LibreOffice, WINE, Java, VLC and a host of other applications. As with Netbook, it also comes with Firefox and TOR browser built in.” Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): Desktop1410Alpha.iso (580MB), Netbook1410Alpha.iso (324MB).

• Development Release: Simplicity Linux 14.10 Alpha (DistroWatch.com News)

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Red Hat Developers Introduce New Tool For Linux Storage Management

blivet-gui, a new open-source storage tool designed by Red Hat for configuring disks and file-systems.

This tool replaces the deprecated system-config-lvm storage management tool.

Open WebOS reborn in new LuneOS release

The Open WebOS mobile Linux operating system has been renamed “LuneOS,” and is available in an “Affogato” release supporting HP’s TouchPad and LG’s Nexus 4.

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, Makes It Easy To Install Android Studio And Android SDK In Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Developer Tools Center was created, a project to enable quick and easy setup of common developers needs on Ubuntu. For now, Canonical is focusing on Android developers, but more will follow, like Go developers, web developers, Dart and more.

Linux Gaming Round-Up: Borderlands 2, Wasteland 2 & Sanctum 2

In fact, it’s so good that we’re a little swamped by the latest bout of releases, teases and rumours! To help us (and you) get back on top of things, we’ll rattle off the biggest gaming stories of the past fortnight or so in one swoop.

cool-old-term is dead, long live cool-retro-term | Swordfish’s Labs

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Dropbox receives a major storage and functionally update, is this enough to overlook the services glaring issues? Twitch.tv is now bigger than CNN & Red Hat sees a major executive abruptly leave.

Plus the new improvements to BitTorrent Sync & more!

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Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month

Many Dropbox users start out as Basic users, but the company increasingly has been trying to get customers to upgrade and pay for storage. In 2011, the company launched Dropbox for Business, which has seen a fair amount of success in the years since. Dropbox says that it’s used within 4 million companies and 97 percent of Fortune 500 businesses, although not all of those companies are paying customers.

Until today, those so-called “prosumers” were paying $10 a month for 100 GB of storage, but they had a feature set that was pretty similar to the company’s Basic offering.

Dropbox is looking to offer Pro users a lot more storage and a lot more features than their Basic brethren, which it hopes will give a lot more people a reason to upgrade.

Dropbox Pro now offers 10x the storage that users previously got, boosting available capacity for each of its users to 1 TB for $10 a month. By doing so, Dropbox is matching pricing for Google Drive, which lowered its prices for a TB of storage earlier in the spring.

Another feature that is now available to Pro users is the ability to remotely wipe files from your Dropbox folder if your laptop happens to get lost or stolen. By doing so, any Dropbox files or folders that were connected to that device will no longer be accessible the next time that the computer, phone, or other device comes online. And if the device is recovered, users can easily reconnect it to their account.

Dropbox previously offered 200 GB for $20 a month and 500 GB for $50 a month, but with the increase in storage to 1 TB, it’s decided to drop those tiers. As a result, in the short term it could make slightly less money from users who paid a premium for their storage plans.

However, the company could easily make up the difference by increasing the number of Pro users who sign up.

BitTorrent Sync Gets New Interface, Links for Sharing

Version 1.4 is designed to fundamentally change the way users interact with the app by simplifying the sharing process. In that vein, Sync for Windows and OS X have a redesigned user interface to make it easier for sharing via a new workflow and customizable folder list for folders.

You can now right-click on a folder, select “Share with BitTorrent Sync” and then choose either Email (a preformatted message will show up and you’ll need to input the email addresses), Copy (the link will be put in your clipboard), or QR code (for mobile scanning).

The sender can set a given link to expire after a number of days or after a certain number of times it is used, and can also require confirmation to ensure that only the receiver can sync the data in question (this is on by default but can be turned off for less important transfers). If the receiver doesn’t have Sync version 1.4, the webpage will prompt them to install it.

Twitch is now bigger than CNN, MSNBC, and MTV during prime time | The Verge

The New York Times had a great data-driven article this morning about just how big Twitch has become. One year ago the video game live-streaming platform wasn’t even equal to HLN in size. Fast-forward to this summer and Twitch is bigger during prime-time hours than CNN, E!, or MSNBC, with occasional spikes that put it above MTV as well.

Right now Twitch has about 715,000 concurrent viewers during prime time, but will quickly eclipse that if its growth continues apace.

Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch doesn’t need a phone to get online or make calls

The Gear S (not Solo) has a twist: there’s a 3G modem inside.

That means that even when outside the range of a Bluetooth-connected phone or WiFi, it can still send and receive messages or make calls.

It has a 2-inch AMOLED screen plus a dual-core 1GHz CPU inside along with GPS, heart rate and motion sensors, all powered by a 300mAh battery Samsung says can last up to two days.

It runs Tizen instead of Android Wear.

In the run up to IFA next week Samsung is also introducing the Gear Circle headset.

The Gear Circle has a magnetic clasp so it fits around your neck while not in use, a touch sensor and battery with up to 11 hours of talk time.

Pairs with a phone over Bluetooth, letting users hear notifications, use voice commands or listen to music through the earbuds.

Both devices will go on sale in October, although there’s no word on a price for either.

Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens has resigned.

In a short press release, the company announced: “Brian Stevens will step down as CTO.”

Stevens, whose Red Hat page was taken down minutes after the news was released, had been with Red Hat since 2001. Before that he had been the CTO at Mission Critical Linux, and a senior architect at Digital Equipment Company (DEC), where he worked on Digital’s Unix operating system, Digital Unix. Today it lives on as HP’s Tru64. In technical circles, he’s perhaps best known for his work on the X Window System

Some Red Hat employees speculated that Stevens may have left because friction between Stevens and Cormier.

Paul Cormier is Red Hat’s president of products and technologies.

They observed that CTO office had been moved out from underneath Cormier’s control some time back. However, no one said that was any kind of current feud that might have lead to this move.

Others suggested that perhaps Steven wanted to move up to a CEO slot and that would never happen within the company.

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Can two of the hottest sync systems live in harmony? We’ll compare SpiderOak and Bittorrent Sync, and see if we can use each for it’s specific strengths.

Plus: Intel and XMir drama, developers plea for the end of DirectX, your emails…

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