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• Ubuntu Budgie machines — UK-based computer outfit Nimbusoft is gearing up to sell two laptops and an all-in-one desktop PC pre-loaded with the aforementioned nimble, GNOME-based Ubuntu spin.
• Librem 5 — The Librem 5 phone will be the world’s first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication.
• Jolla wants to try and sell a development ROM for €50 — Today it’s our pleasure to announce all the details for Sailfish X, aka Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia X!
• Android Oreo — Android Oreo brings with it a host of new features and improvements over Android Nougat. While not all of them would be immediately visible to end users, they would surely contribute towards the end experience of a mature smartphone OS.
• Chrome OS enterprise edition — The paid service will allow companies to manage multiple devices running Chrome, and includes support for Microsoft Active Directory and VMware Workspace One, as well as managed or custom storefronts in the Play service.
• Microsoft and Red Hat expand alliance to containers — Red Hat and Microsoft have expanded an alliance which was first announced about two years ago, with plans to help organisations more easily adopt the use of containers.
• SUSE pretends not to be butthurt — Asked where SUSE stood in view of the fact that Red Hat, whose revenue dwarfs that of the Germany company, would obviously be a preferred partner for Microsoft, a company spokesman said, pointing to the announcement of the deal: “I don’t see where it says Red Hat is ‘preferred’. Perhaps I’m missing something.”
• and holds firm on Btrfs — SUSE is committed to btrfs as the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise, and beyond.

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Solar Eclipse Oregon Meetup

Are Laptops & PCs Preloaded with Ubuntu Budgie on the Way? – OMG! Ubuntu!

That’s if hints dropped on the Linux distribution’s social media pages are to be believed.

CrashPlan is shutting down their Consumer plans

CrashPlan is making an immediate pivot to focus its cloud backup service exclusively on businesses, and the company is planning to shut down its consumer-facing “CrashPlan for Home” product as a result.

rclone supports Backblaze and Others

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from

• Google Drive
• Amazon S3
• Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
• Dropbox
• Google Cloud Storage
• Amazon Drive
• Microsoft OneDrive
• Hubic
• Backblaze B2
• Yandex Disk
• SFTP
• FTP
• HTTP

• The local filesystem

• Duplicati

• Déjà Dup in Launchpad
• duplicity: Main

FINALLY! An Electron based File Manager for Linux!!!oneone!!

It’s called JumpFM and it’s described as a ‘minimalistic dual pane file manager for Linux’. The developer of the app cites fman, a cross-platform Qt file manager, and Exa, a terminal tool that lets you add bling to the ls command, as key main influences.

ChromeOS is coming for the Enterprise

Google is launching a new enterprise service for large businesses that want to adopt Chrome OS devices. The new Chrome Enterprise subscription, which will cost $50 per device and year, is essentially a rebrand of Chromebooks for Work, but with a number of additional capabilities.

Easy bashrc generator

Pick the elements you want to use in your prompt.

banga/powerline-shell: A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell

A Powerline like prompt for Bash,
ZSH and Fish:

• Shows some important details about the git/svn/hg/fossil branch (see below)
• Changes color if the last command exited with a failure code
• If you’re too deep into a directory tree, shortens the displayed path with an ellipsis
• Shows the current Python virtualenv environment
• It’s easy to customize and extend. See below for details.

justjanne/powerline-go: A beautiful and useful low-latency prompt for your shell, written in go

A Powerline like prompt for Bash, ZSH and Fish. Based on Powerline-Shell by @banga. Ported to golang by @justjanne.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Ubuntu just showed every other distro how to roll a Dock

Ubuntu Dock is a light fork of Dash to Dock, with very few tweaks that I’ll highlight in this post.

• Ubuntu Dock Now Present By Default In Ubuntu 17.10’s GNOME Session

Check your containers before you wreck your self

Introducing Anchore Navigator, a service for quick discovery, deep inspection, and analysis of public and private container images.

DigitalOcean

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

Firefox wants more Data

One solution is the use of differential privacy [2] [3], which allows us to collect sensitive data without being able to make conclusions about
individual users, thus preserving their privacy.

An attacker that has access to the data a single user submits is not able
to tell whether a specific site was visited by that user or not.

The Google Open Source project called RAPPOR [4] [5] is the most widely known and deployed implementation of differential privacy.

We have been investigating the use of RAPPOR for these kind of use-cases, with initial simulation results being promising.

Plex changes its new privacy policy after backlash, clarified it’s not trying to see what’s in your library | TechCrunch

Popular media player software maker Plex has had a rough weekend. The company alerted users via email on Friday about an updated privacy policy due to go into effect in September. The new policy would remove users’ ability to opt out of data collection, said Plex. This move quickly resulted in much user backlash, with many subscribers concerned that their data would be shared or sold to third parties, or that Plex would now be able to identify the media files housed in their library.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Stage 9 | A virtual recreation of the Star Trek TNG sets in Unreal Engine 4

This aim of the Stage 9 project is to recreate the sets used in Star Trek The Next Generation in Unreal Engine 4 with a focus on attention to detail.

The eventual goal is to allow you to explore every part of the ship that you’ve seen on the show and interact with it.

Imagine walking to Worfs’ tactical station on the Bridge, pressing buttons on his control panel and firing torpedoes or sitting in Datas’ chair at the helm console and taking the ship into warp. Immersion and interactivity are the key here!

• stage9 log

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