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The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit.

Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome?

Plus an exciting first live on the show, tons of great feedback & more!

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Pre-Show:

• Amazon Echo Parody – YouTube

FU:

• How to fix the vsync issues with Nvidia cards

• Cheap Linux USB Headphones?

• Most persuasive features for potential switchers?

• Fedora Next – delayed but awesome.

Firefox Challange Follow Up

• I’m taking the Firefox Challenge, and I crash too

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. We believed then, and so did many of you, that the Web deserved an independent alternative. Today hundreds of millions of people trust Firefox because they understand that we’re different; that our independence lets us put you first.

Mozilla Introduces ‘Forget Button’ for Firefox and Dev Edition Browser

With a huge developer user base, Mozilla’s new Firefox Developer Edition browser looks to provide an all-in-one debugging toolset for professi

While it’s loosely based around the previous Firefox Aurora builds, it’s not a straight-forward rebrand — it’s closer to the nightly builds, but built for a developer user base with different needs. It also removes a lot of the safeguards that are vital in the consumer browser but that can frustrate developers.

Chromium:

• The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the BSD license,[18] with other parts being subject to a variety of different open-source licenses, including the MIT License, the LGPL, the Ms-PL and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license

• Chromium (web browser) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

  Differences from Google Chrome

Chromium is the name given to the open-source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project.[7] It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. To create Chrome from Chromium, Google takes this source code and adds:[8]

• A restriction blocking the installation of extensions from anywhere other than the Chrome Web Store[9]
• Integrated Flash Player[10] (proprietary license and code)
• Built-in print preview and print system
• The Google and Google Chrome names (both trademarked)[11][12][13]
• An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate (some, such as the Debian or Ubuntu community builds of chromium, rely on the package management system of the OS as an alternative)
• An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
• RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, including both when—and from where—Chrome was downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly, nor in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time (previously it was proprietary—and although the source is now open the feature was not migrated to Chromium) so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.[14]

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags. Google Chrome supports these as well as the patent-encumbered AAC and MP3 codecs. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player.[15] In October 2013 Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required.[16] As of December 2013, Chrome still supports H.264. Linux distributions that distribute Chromium may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

Gnome Vs Groupon

• Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark

Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation.” The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of applications they filed can be found here, here and here). To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous. Please help us fight this huge company as they try to trade on our goodwill and hard earned reputation.

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Wayland and Mir are now under heavy development, but the community seems more divided than ever. We’ll explain why the developers want to replace X11 so badly, the big challenges facing Mir, and the long term division that desktop Linux is facing.

Plus our quick review of Fedora 19, the solar powered Linux laptop generating so much buzz…

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Mir: First Hands On

Brought to you by: System76

• Dividing the Linux desktop [LWN.net]

• The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland

• Chris posts screenshot, inspires comment war

• Ubuntu’s Mir plans cause divisions

• Martin Gräßlin – Google+ – I just invested the time to watch this “Kubuntu on XMir”…

• Why is X11 obsolete? I don’t get it

Hands on experiences:

• Intel driver works best. Nouveau will work, but it failed on me fast.
• ATI oss driver was a no go. Gave me crazy results.
• Installing a proprietary driver automatically reverts you to standard X via Xmir’s pre-flight checks.
• Double mouse cursor – A result of the fact that all Mir is doing is providing a single full screen texture within which an x11 session is doing all the work. Which means Mir is doing nothing beyond the frame, for all intents and purposes.

More on Mir:

• Two-hour Ubuntu Weekly Update, inc. hour-long interview with Mir eng. managers and tech leads – [121:40]

• Installing and testing Ubuntu’s Mir server

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• Boxee acquired by Samsung, reports peg sale at $30 million

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• Natural Selection 2 Launch Trailer – YouTube

• Left 4 Dead 2 out of Beta on Linux

• What’s new in Linux 3.10

• LXDE – LXDE-Qt Preview

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• Releases/19/FeatureList – FedoraProject

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/24396/opensuse-12-2-review-las-s23e06/ Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:25:18 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=24396 One of the best performing distributions we’ve reviewed, but is this Linux legend held down by it’s complicated legacy? Or does it pull ahead as a distribution innovator? Tune in for our review! Plus: We’ll finally explain why you can’t count on Distrowatch’s numbers, why Linux hardware from Valve seems certain, and an awesome new […]

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One of the best performing distributions we’ve reviewed, but is this Linux legend held down by it’s complicated legacy? Or does it pull ahead as a distribution innovator? Tune in for our review!

Plus: We’ll finally explain why you can’t count on Distrowatch’s numbers, why Linux hardware from Valve seems certain, and an awesome new space shooter for Linux!

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Runs Linux:

• Most Formula 1 Teams, Run Linux
  • Thanks to crshbndct for submitting that to the subreddit!

Android Pick:

• Callisto
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Glances by nicolargo

• Picks so far

• Madjo

Distro Of The Day

• CTKArch

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• Linux Action Show Lookup
• Thanks to sakuramboo!

News:

• The Rain In Spain… | e17releasemanager
• The 5 most popular Linux distributions
  • Wikimedia traffic analysis…Ubuntu 70 times more popular than Mint?
  • Stats Show Ubuntu Not Losing Ground to Linux Mint
  • Google Trends
  • https://i.imgur.com/5PaOj.png
• Ubuntu’s Unity/Compiz Gets Even Slower
• Valve seeking testers for the beta version of Steam on Linux
• Steam Box take two: Job listing suggests Valve is developing hardware+ Lightworks Linux Alpha Planned For Next Month
• Asus Eee PC netbook discontinued: tablet demand to blame
• Ubuntu Tablet – Designs
• First Issue of New GIMP Magazine Released
• About Frakking Time – After 4 Years In Development, Diaspora (Battlestar Galactica sim) Is Ready | Linux Game Cast

openSUSE 12.2 Review:

Brought to you by: System76

• Matt’s own history as a System76 customer – circa 2008

• System76 Serval Professional Review – YouTube

• System76 Serval Professional Review

• openSUSE 12.2 Portal

• KDE 4.9 Repo for openSUSE 12.2

• software.opensuse.org

• Matt: OpenSuSE update woes

• Chris gets package conflicts Installing XFCE

Chris:

openSUSE 12.2 is one of the most integrated and well done KDE experiences I’ve used. The team’s guiding rule of stability and maturity in packages where appropriate, and cutting edge where needed, balanced by their 8 month release cycle could be a model for other distros to look at.

openSUSE does feel a bit weighed down by some legacy, with some tasks seeming overly complex (even if just in appearance or UI function). YaST could once be defined as the definitive tool to use for any type of system change, from your X11 resolution to package updates. But today more and more functionality is leaving YaST as the desktops start to integrate these tools.

This leaves a powerhouse of a tool less and less functional.

openSUSE 12.2 looks like a race car, and drives like a race car. But when you open the hood, you discover it’s sitting on top of a semi truck engine with all the good and bad.

The result is a bit of a mixed message, I don’t see openSUSE as a strong contender in the server rack (when up against RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu LTS) and it’s loaded with desktop goodies. And while I think they’ve got a great desktop, it feels like it could still use a bit more attention and focus to really make it a standout experience. I think the openSUSE team has the talent to pull it off, but I think the question is if they want to.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18887/ubuntu-12-04-review-las-s21e06/ Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:40:18 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18887 It’s our review of Ubuntu 12.04. Does Conical have a winner on its hands? Or is this new release, a STINKY-McSTINKER?! Tune in to find out!

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It’s our review of Ubuntu 12.04. Does Conical have a winner on its hands? Or is this new release, a STINKY-McSTINKER?! Tune in to find out!

PLUS: How to remotely control any desktop, new of a heavyweight video editor might be headed to Linux in a matter of weeks, we’ve got the details!

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• ReText? ReText / Home / ReText
• Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!

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• SOS: Save Our Slackware?
• Linus Torvalds now a Millenium Technology Prize laureate
• HP to certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for its Proliant servers
• Google Stops Supporting Picasa For Linux
• Gentoo Linux releases 12.1 LiveDVD
• Lightworks Video Editor coming to Linux on May 28th?

Ubuntu 12.04 Review:

• Please Fix the Menus
• HUD: Probably the best feature in Ubuntu 12.04
• More Transparent Development for 12.04
• New Privacy Features are a nice touch..
• Ubuntu 12.04 is for App Developers
• Bryan’s thoughts on Ubuntu 12.04.

Matt’s Howto:

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2) Select Add to Chrome.

3) New dialog appears, choose Add.

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5) Access the Chrome apps by opening a new tab in a current version of Google Chrome.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/12691/virtualbox-pros-and-beginners-las-s18e10/ Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:09:42 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=12691 VirtualBox is a power house Virtualization wizard! We’ll show you how to get off the ground, and how to pull tricks so fancy you’ll be the hit of the party!

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VirtualBox is a power house Virtualization wizard! We’ll show you how to get off the ground, and how to pull tricks so fancy you’ll be the hit of the party!

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• HTC acknowledges security vulnerability, patch already in development
• Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster – Slashdot
• OpenStack spinning off from RackSpace
• Linux Tablet Will Be Fully Open Source
• Native Netflix Client Coming to Linux ‘In The Next 12 Months’
• Kernel.org is back [LWN.net]
• The Humble Frozen Results

VirtualBox

• Can you run virtualbox headless?
• VBoxHeadless
• USB device to virtualbox?
• VirtualBox/USB – Community Ubuntu Documentation
• How to enable USB support in Virtualbox
• Virtual adapters and bridges.
• Remote desktop feature of Virtual box. Is there a client?
• Can VBox run off a physical device instead of a vhd

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/3071/arch-linux-review-linux-action-show-s14e03/ Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:35:36 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=3071 We review Arch Linux and tell you why this 8 year old Linux distribution is the freshmaker!

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We review Arch Linux and tell you why this 8 year old Linux distribution is the freshmaker!

Then – We cover Ubuntu’s plans to switch to Unity, huge news for Compiz, and the Gnome projects mega cash infusion!

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Runs Linux:

Delta Airlines, Runs Linux

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Tango Video Calls
Uninstaller

News:

Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04
A bright new future for Compiz
Unity to use Compiz instead of Mutter
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Banshee becomes Ubuntu 11.04 default music player

Illumination Software Creation Station is Suse Appliance of the Week

Arch Review:

Linux Action Show’s ArchBox torrent

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Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues Forum
Chakra 0.3-beta2, Released! (based on Arch)
apt-fast: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get

Arch Community Links (via Michael on Buzz):
https://archlinux.me/ – a site where users of Arch can get a blog.
https://archlinux.us/ – a site where users of Arch can get a free e-mail address.
https://rollingrelease.com/ – a new site created after the Archlinux Magazine didn’t hit off as desired. A magazine style site relating to everything Archlinux.

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