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The Enjade desktop environment is a community project to recreate and continue the Unity desktop environment. From the versatile Dash down to the global menu, Enjade promises to provide the familiar experience Ubuntu users love while adding new features to keep it up with the latest trends.

GitHub – p-e-w/plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

Have you used Sublime Text’s or Atom’s “Command Palette”? It’s a list of everything those editors can do that opens at the press of a key and finds the action you are looking for just by typing a few letters. It’s raw power at your fingertips.

Ubuntu-based All-in-One joins the brawn brothers

Today we are happy to announce, that the Dell Precision 5720, a 27″ All-in-One workstation class machine is available for purchase. The system can be ordered preloaded with either Ubuntu 16.04, RHEL 7.3 or Windows 10.

Projects that got our attention this week

torrent-peek: Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

Audio editing images

Audio Shop is a simple script
that I cobbled together that gets you started with mangling image data as
if it was audio data.

GitHub – nvbn/thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command

This is a little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal.
It tells you cute, self care things, and tries not to stress you out.

All Good Things T-Shirt

The time has come. Linux Action Show is ending and we want to celebrate its 11 years of Linux content with this bearded and dated LAS logo. We thank everyone for your support and hope you will continue to watch Jupiter Broadcasting for the exciting future.

Linux Academy

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Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement – Docker Blog

Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement – Docker Blog

The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement and help the ecosystem take containers mainstream.

It provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas.

FreeNAS Corral Canned Development

FreeNAS Corral launched about a month ago. Since then, Jordan Hubbard the lead on the project departed the company. It seems like that vacuum has had some consequence. The FreeNAS team after over a year of development on FreeNAS Corral decided to essentially call it quits on the new release.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Ubuntu 17.04

Ubuntu Gnome – no longer separate flavor

The development teams from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will be merging resources and focusing on a single combined release, that provides the best of both GNOME and Ubuntu. We are currently liaising with the Canonical teams on how this will work out and more details will be announced in due course as we work out the specifics.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will ship GNOME (including GNOME Shell) with ‘minimal Ubuntu customization’, rendering the community suggestions for refreshed designs, theming, and extension bundling are potentially moot.

Support Life Cycle for ZestyZapus – Ubuntu Wiki

Ubuntu 17.04 will be supported for 9 months until January 2018. If you need Long Term Support, it is recommended you use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instead.

Ubuntu 17.04 Available to Download Now, This is What’s New

This is no normal release of Ubuntu. It’s potentially the last version of the distribution that will come with the Unity 7 desktop by default. That’s not a certainty, of course, but we know that Ubuntu will switch to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS next year. It’s reasonable to expect developers to want to kick a few tyres on that switch ahead of time, in the next interim release.

I made some notes about what I did to fettle my Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME desktop to look & feel more familiar. https://t.co/erq1mvWzi7 pic.twitter.com/InNzGj7dIw

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 15, 2017

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 | Ubuntu MATE

We’re totally over the bloody moon to announce Ubuntu MATE 17.04.
This is our favourite release of Ubuntu MATE so far and, we believe, a
real return to form. Ubuntu MATE 16.10 was a transitional release, in
every sense, and 17.04 concludes the upheaval of migrating to GTK3+.
This has been a release focused on refining the distro and sweating the
details. As always, we’re never finished and eager to start work on
17.10 to bring you futher improvements and refinement. But for now, we
hope you enjoy Ubuntu MATE 17.04 as much as we’ve enjoyed making it
for you.

You Can Sync GNOME Extensions Between Desktops using Google Chrome – OMG! Ubuntu!

Do you love using GNOME Shell Extensions on your desktop, but don’t love having to manually install them each time you reinstall or switch machine?

DigitalOcean

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

Solus Releases ISO Snapshot 2017.04.18.0 | Solus

We’re proud to announce our second ISO snapshot, 2017.04.18.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions, as well as our new GNOME edition!

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Das Boot Manager | LINUX Unplugged 189

chris — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:06:16 +0000

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Follow Up / Catch Up

Kodi Is Getting A Proper Netflix Plugin

The anonymous news tipster wrote in to explain, “After years and years of users having to use workaround that relied on launchers of third-party external players or streaming transcoded video from other software there is now actually a real ‘Kodi native’ Netflix plugin/addon being developed for Kodi, and it is being developed as open source and has the potential of supporting multiple operating-system and different computer architecture platforms.

GitHub – asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

This plugin is not officially commisioned/supported by Netflix.

Star Trek Themed Kirk Ransomware Brings us Monero and a Spock Decryptor!

Discovered today by Avast malware researcher Jakub Kroustek, the Kirk Ransomware is written in Python and may be the first ransomware to utilize Monero as the ransom payment of choice.

A simple command allows the CIA to commandeer 318 models of Cisco switches | Ars Technica

Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the CIA to use a simple command to remotely execute malicious code that takes full control of the devices. There currently is no fix.

Bcachefs – encryption, fsck, and more [LWN.net]

We now have whole filesystem encryption

Linux Academy

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Solus Users Get MATE 1.18 and Linux Kernel 4.9.16, Budgie 10.3 Coming Very Soon

According to the developer, it would appear that the feature-rich MATE 1.18 desktop environment released last week is now available for installation from the official stable Solus repositories for users of the Solus MATE edition, along with the long-term supported Linux 4.9.16 kernel and numerous other up-to-date components.

Clear Boot Manager

Plasma Team Discusses Web-browser integration, Bundled Apps and new Features | KDE.news

KDE is experimenting with new ways to deploy applications. Under consideration are technologies such as Flatpak, Snap and AppImage, which all have their distinct advantages.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Media and Games

Obsidian has been published as a possible proposal for WebGL-Next. As we reported a few days ago, The Khronos Group now has a staging area for WebGL-Next proposals and just a few minutes ago was the first proposal submitted.

The Last AC-3 Patent Expired on March 20, 2017

AC-3 is a compressed digital audio format like MP3. It made its public debut in 1992. AC-3 has become the most common format for audio in film and television.

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Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web appssum

Then I wrote a script, nativefier-freedesktop, that takes *.webapp file as input, build the app with Nativefier and install it, so you can launch it from your app menu. It can include custom CSS style and JavaScript code to be injected during the building. The icon can be themed by icon themes.

GitHub – jiahaog/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application

Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web apps.

Many of which are closed source
Some have pervasive backend tracking
Performance/Overhead compares poorly to native apps.

Pro

We’ll never agree on a universal packaging format, so why not just bypass all of that with web applications
Larger industrial vendors.
More developers and applications. Some of which will be game changes for switches.
Are the benefits of having an open source platform demented if the bulk of critical user apps are closed source?
Build a Music Player with React & Electron I: Setup & Basic Concepts | Scotch
Overall speed of electron based products · Issue #5672 · electron/electron · GitHub
GitHub – sindresorhus/awesome-electron: Useful resources for creating apps with Electron
Is Electron (Atom) a good way to create offline js apps? : javascript
So refreshing to see a nice desktop app built without Electron. A well defined … | Hacker News
4 must-know tips for building cross platform Electron apps
Electron considered harmful – Drew DeVault’s Blog
Ask HN: Why / Why Not Use Electron? | Hacker News

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Noah’s IPSEC Adventure | LAS 454

chris — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:10:08 +0000

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IPSec

Head Office Configuration

GRE Tunnels

/interface gre
add comment=BranchOffice !keepalive name=”To Branch” remote-address=192.168.0.2

OSPF Routing

/routing ospf area
add area-id=0.0.0.1 name=”Area 1″
add area-id=0.0.0.2 name=”Area 2″
add area-id=0.0.0.3 name=”Area 3″
add area-id=0.0.0.4 name=”Area 4″

/routing ospf network
add area=”Area 1″ network=192.168.0.0/30
add area=”Area 1″ network=192.168.1.0/24
add area=”Area 2″ network=192.168.0.4/30
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.0.8/30
add area=”Area 4″ network=192.168.0.12/30

IP Addresses

/ip address
add address=192.168.0.1/30 comment=Branch interface=”To Branch”

NAT Bypass for IPSEC ( MUST BE DRAGGED TO THE TOP OF NAT RULES! )

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.2 src-address=192.168.0.1
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.6 src-address=192.168.0.5
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.10 src-address=192.168.0.9
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.14 src-address=192.168.0.13

IPSEC to Branches

/ip ipsec peer
add address=1.1.1.1 comment=”To Branch” enc-algorithm=aes-128 nat-traversal=no secret=
/ip ipsec policy
add comment=”To Branch” dst-address=192.168.0.2/32 sa-dst-address=1.1.1.1 sa-src-address=2.2.2.2 src-address=192.168.0.1/32 tunnel=yes
/ip ipsec peer

Set hostname

/system identity
set name=HeadOffice

Branch Office Configuration

GRE Tunnel

/interface gre
add comment=”To Headoffice” !keepalive name=”To Headoffice” remote-address=192.168.0.9

OSPF Routing

/routing ospf area
add area-id=0.0.0.3 name=”Area 3″

/routing ospf network
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.0.8/30
add area=”Area 3″ network=192.168.4.0/24

static route for vpn

/ip route
add dst-address=192.168.1.0/24 gateway=192.168.0.9

NAT Bypass for IPSEC ( MUST BE DRAGGED TO THE TOP OF NAT RULES! )

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.0.9 src-address=192.168.0.10

IPSEC to Heritage

/ip ipsec peer
add address=2.2.2.2 comment=”To headoffice” enc-algorithm=aes-128 nat-traversal=no secret=

/ip ipsec policy
add comment=”To Headoffice” dst-address=192.168.0.9/32 sa-dst-address=2.2.2.2 > sa-src-address=1.1.1.1 src-address=192.168.0.10/32 tunnel=yes

ntp settings

/system
ntp client set enabled=yes > server-dns-names=0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org,3.pool.ntp.org

Set hostname

/system identity
set name=BranchOffice

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Desktop App Pick

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their Github handle

Wouldn’t it be great to allow a fellow developer to quickly and securely SSH into
your laptop when you’re in the middle of a debugging session even if you are on two
separate networks behind NAT?

A few months ago we released a free tool, Teleconsole, we built so we
could do exactly that. We are a distributed team, with bare metal servers sitting in our San Francisco office, several AWS and Azure regions and a bunch of customer environments we are sometimes asked to jump into.

Distro of the Week

GeckoLinux – Linux for Detail Oriented Geckos

GeckoLinux is a Linux spin based on the openSUSE distribution, with a focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop. It is available in Static (based on openSUSE Leap) and Rolling (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) editions.

— NEWS —

Five States Are Considering Bills to Legalize the ‘Right to Repair’ Electronics

_The legislation is modeled on the _Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act a law passed in Massachusetts in 2012. T_hat law effectively became national legislation, because auto manufacturers feared having to deal with the intricacies of 50 different state laws on the issue. The hope is that at least one electronics right to repair law will pass this year, similarly opening the floodgates for consumers and repair companies around the country.

Kicking Off Budgie 11

At this moment in time, the core remaining reason for Budgie even “working” on the GNOME stack, is that it expends
an awful lot of effort pretending to be GNOME Shell

Wine 2.0 is out, ready to disappoint you once again

Wine 2.0 is out, which is a huge milestone for the project. It has more support for more software, includes a lot of graphics speedups, and even supports retina displays on Mac. The list of compatible software is indeed impressive — the latest and greatest apps are rarely supported, but many relatively recent “classics” like Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, and Office 2013 are supposedly operational.

Simplehelp Delivers on Commitment to Linux

The real test of any software is not in its function but in how well the company stands behind the product. Well, this week that test happened. Simplehelp made an update that made the client totally unusable under Linux. Any key you pressed would repeat constantly and right mouse clicks would not work at all. I tweeted them. They responded again almost immediately and asked for specific distributions they could test. I gave them the distributions and the next tweet I received was them telling me the problem was fixed.

Feedback:

Chris Asks

Very high capacity storage, that’s protected from vibration and movement?

Mail Bag

Name: Chris B
Subject: Arch v LTS
Message:

Hey guys! Love the show, and had a question that I was wondering if I could get an opinion on from the two foremost Linux experts. I’m currently an Arch user, but I’m troubled by your recent stories of Arch breaking at a crucial time. I am considering a switch back to Xubuntu 16.04 when my new x260 (thanks Noah!) arrives, because I’ve noticed that the Arch system I have created now is very similar to a base install of Xubuntu. I enjoy the rolling release/bleeding edge nature of Arch (especially Pragha in the default repos and the newest version of Firejail), but wonder if Xubuntu would be more “bulletproof” (In keeping with your newest of discussions) and if Arch is worth the trouble if it will essentially be used to create Xubuntu. Thank you, love the show, and keep up the great work!

Name: Rick F
Subject: Bullet Proof Linux
Message:

Arch Linux proper with the linux-lts kernel, nvidia-lts driver if using Nvidia, and a Desktop Environment that is NOT Gnome or Plasma.

The only issues I have had with Arch Linux have been tied to the graphics driver, display manager, and desktop environment.

I love Gnome and Plasma, however both are being updated too often to be considered bullet proof. Use something boring like XFCE or MATE if you want bulletproof. By default XFCE and MATE look pretty boring, but they can be tweaked to look amazing. Check out reddit.com/r/unixporn

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The Evolution of Solus | LAS 392

chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:08:54 +0000

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We review Solus OS, a new distribution from scratch with it’s own GTK-based desktop called Budgie. Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus Operating System & we give you our first impressions.

Plus projects like Jolla & Canonical’s convergence have been doomed from the start, the big changes coming to GTK, the Plasma desktop gets another great release, highlights from the 2015 kernel summit & more!

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D-Link’s Komfy Switch with Camera, Runs Linux

D-Link’s Linux-powered, WiFi-enabled “Komfy Switch with Camera” also includes a cloud service, sensors for temperature, humidity, and CO2, and IFTT support.

Desktop App Pick

Pitivi 0.95

Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work.

Weekly Spotlight

Nmap 7 Release Notes

The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 7.00 from https://nmap.org/. It is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6 release in May 2012. Nmap turned 18 years old in September this year and celebrates its birthday

— NEWS —

Jolla files for debt restructuring

Jolla Ltd, the mobile company from Finland today announced that its latest financing round which aimed to end in November, has been postponed and the company needs to adjust its operations accordingly. At the same time the company has filed for a debt restructuring program in Finland, to ensure the continuity of its business. Jolla will also temporarily lay off a big part of its personnel.

Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring

Months after the smartphone company Jolla announced its split and intent to focus on Sailfish OS licensing, its financial situation has not improved. Jolla’s latest financing round has been delayed and so they have had to file for debt restructuring in Finland. As part of that, the company is temporarily laying off a big part of its personnel (Google translation of Finnish original). Jolla co-founder Antti Saarnio said, “Our operating system Sailfish OS is in great shape currently and it is commercially ready. Unfortunately the development until this point has required quite a lot of time and money (PDF). To get out of this death valley we need to move from a development phase into a growth phase. At the same time we need to adapt our cost levels to the new situation. One of the main actions is to tailor the operating system to fit the needs of different clients. We have several major and smaller potential clients who are interested in using Sailfish OS in their projects.”

A GTK+ update

You may have noticed that GTK+ master has a large number of changes in the CSS area. As some like to put it:

Oh NO! they’re breaking themes again!

GTK+ 3.19.2, More CSS Changes For The Toolkit

KDE Ships Plasma 5.5 Beta Release

In response to feedback, we’ve rewritten support for legacy applications not using the StatusNotifier standard for system tray icons.

The 2015 Kernel Summit Highlights

Power-management knobs

Rafael Wysocki started off his 2015 Kernel Summit session by noting that
every generation of hardware promises to be more power-efficient than its
predecessor. But that efficiency is not always experienced by users. In
an ideal world, systems should run in the most power-efficient mode
whenever possible and only employ the less-efficient modes when performance
requirements demand it. Real-world systems, though, tend not to run as
efficiently as they can. Rafael came with a proposal that, he thought,
might improve the situation, but it’s not clear that the idea will be
implemented.

Benchmarking and performance trends

Mel took over to say that, from his point of view (watching
over performance for SUSE), there have not been that many scheduler
problems. His biggest complaint, instead, was with the Intel “pstate”
driver, which handles CPU frequency and voltage management on Intel
processors. This driver, he said, is making poor decisions. CPUs never
seem to go above the minimum frequency on lightly-loaded machines, with
results that look like a 10-20% scheduler performance regression,
but are really due to pstate. This is, he said, a serious issue; we are at
a point where we are extremely efficient at doing nothing, but not so good
at actually doing work. As a result, a lot of users are disabling pstate
altogether.

QEMU 2.5-RC0 Released, Supports VirtIO-GPU 3D Mode

QEMU-side of the work for supporting 3D with VirtIO-GPU. With the Linux 4.4 kernel there is now the new DRM driver for supporting VirtIO GPU DRM with 3D support.