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Wolfing Down Ubuntu 15.10 | LAS 388 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/89676/wolfing-down-ubuntu-15-10-las-388/ Sun, 25 Oct 2015 07:15:43 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=89676 Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out. Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more! Thanks to: Get […]

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Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out.

Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more!

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Ubuntu 15.10 Review

  • Linux kernel 4.2

  • Stateless persistent network interface names are now being used

  • GNOME packages have been upgraded to version 3.16.X

  • Upstream GNOME scrollbars are now being used.

  • GCC 5 and Python 3.x

  • Support for the Steam Controller when you install Steam from the repo.The Steam installer package takes care of setting requisite udev and uinput rules and permissions.

  • Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Since the Linux Kernel version used in the previous Ubuntu release (3.19 in Ubuntu 15.04), there are quite a few changes, including a new AMDGPU kernel driver for supporting recent and near-term Radeon GPUs, Intel Broxton support, F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) encryption support, support for Ext4 encryption, experimental support for managing clustered raid arrays, live patching the kernel code (aimed at applying security fixes without rebooting), dm-crypt CPU scalability improvements and more.

Ubuntu 15.10 Flavors Now Available for Download

Yep, downloads for Ubuntu’s colorful array of community flavors, including perennially popular Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu GNOME, are now live.

Unity 7.3.3 Features

Unity, the default desktop shell, has been handed a batch of small fixes and usability improvements for Ubuntu 15.10.

For example, you can now drag and drop apps from the Unity Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts, and navigate through Dash results using keyboard navigation keys.

The Unity Dash search box text and BFB tooltip no longer make mention of ‘online sources’ when you have online source searching set to ‘disabled’ under System Settings > Privacy.

Other changes in Unity 7.3.3:

  • You can now drag and drop apps from the Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts
  • Page up/down keyboard navigation works as scroll in the Dash
  • Dash title & BFB tooltip is updated based on your privacy settings
  • Session exit buttons now have a click effect
  • Fix to prevent ‘shutdown’ of computer when screen is locked
  • Active app icons now show unfolded when launcher accordion triggered
  • Fix for full screen menubar
  • Fixes issues with ‘show desktop’ that caused window decoration for two windows of same app to vanish
  • Dash: Non-expandable category headers skipped in keyboard navigation
  • Dash: Non-expandable category headers are no longer highlighted on mouse over
  • Dash: screenreader and KeyNav fixes
  • New setting to control the show-now delay (when pressing Alt key)
  • Logic tweak to stop adjacent menu opening when moving from an indicator icon to its menu

Ubuntu Make

Ubuntu Make, a command-line utility that makes installing popular developer tools easier on Ubuntu, now supports even more platforms, frameworks and services, including a full Android development environment.

Ubuntu 15.10: Wily Werewolf – not too hairy, not too scary •

What you won’t find in this release are any major changes. It used to be that the x.10 releases were the time when things got experimental, sometimes for the better, as in the case of the Unity shell, which became the only option in 11.10 (technically Unity first showed up in 11.04, but that version still offered a GNOME fallback) and sometimes for the worse, as in the case of Amazon search results which first showed up in 12.10. This release has nothing like that.

What’s new in 6 Ubuntu 15.10 offshoot ‘flavors,’ from Kubuntu to Ubuntu GNOME

Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, and other Ubuntu “flavors” with different desktops all saw their own changes and improvements.

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2

Martin Wimpress and Rohith Madhavan have made an Ubuntu MATE image
for the Raspberry Pi 2 which you can download or build yourself.

Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf may lack the bite of its namesake but there is still some nifty new changes shipping inside it.

The Unity 8 Desktop Preview in LXC is the new Unity 8 desktop shell running on the Mir display technology using an LXC container so users of released Ubuntu versions can use the latest versions of Unity 8 and Mir. The idea is that the LXC will be the latest development version of Ubuntu with the latest packages. Also, a user can log in to the Unity 8 LXC session from LightDM just as they would any normal session.

  • [Ubuntu 15.10 Screenshot Tour](https://www.linuxscreenshots.org/?release=Ubuntu 15.10)

Codenamed ‘Wily Werewolf’, 15.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.

“In 15.10, Unity8 is demonstrating Canonical’s convergence vision as a tech preview. Users can log into a Unity8 session on the desktop, experience the new features, and cleanly revert to the default Unity7 experience. The feature set of Unity8 now includes the important windowed mode for Desktop users, which allows users to multi-task between multiple running apps. Mobile apps such as the Music player and the Deko email client have added support to cover small form-factor devices and large screen Desktops. Ubuntu 15.10 also has improved supports for developers of traditional apps that want to bring these apps into Unity8,” say the Ubuntu developers.

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BlueProximity

Add security to your desktop by automatically locking and unlocking the screen when you and your phone leave/enter the desk. Think of a proximity detector for your mobile phone via bluetooth.

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Hawaii – The QtQuick and Wayland system

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

The 2015 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is scheduled
for October 23rd and 24th
at Seattle Central College (Maps).

SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading
awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and
free/libre/open-source software/hardware.


Kubuntu’s Release Manager Calls It Quits

Now that Kubuntu 15.10 shipped yesterday, he’s moving on and will no longer be serving as the Kubuntu release manager. Instead, Riddell is just going to get involved with upstream KDE development more as he no longer wants to be involved under the Ubuntu/Canonical umbrella.

The release manager of the Kubuntu project has stepped down after the launch of Kubuntu 15.10. The information was made public by Jonathan Riddell himself on the official Kubuntu website.

Below are links to the past reports detailing the donations and disbursements from this program.

Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS

This week, Ubuntu developer Michael Hall posted proof of Canonical’s progress toward full Ubuntu convergence in the form of a screenshot from an Ubuntu-based Nexus 4 running desktop apps, including GIMP and Firefox.

Hall emphasized that the software in the image remains very much under development. “Lots of work still to do to make these useful, but it’s great to be able to show visible progress,” he wrote.

After Hall posted the screenshot, Softpedia confirmed with him that Canonical’s plan is indeed to make it possible to run any Linux application on Ubuntu.

Alienware Steam Machine Up for Pre-Order

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The Alienware Steam Machine opens up a new way to play, with the endless possibilities of SteamOS. It’s designed for your living room and built for fun. Ready? Let’s game.

Starting at $449.99

Valve Steam Controller hands-on: Opening a new world of PC gaming possibilities

It took three long, intense days of swearing and messing around in menus and playing Portal 2, but it’s official—we love the Steam Controller.

If you have 15.10 and newer you do not need to do anything except plug in the dongle and pair the controller when you launch steam big picture mode. 14.04 fix is in progress.

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ZoneMinder Review | LAS s28e10 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/43787/zoneminder-review-las-s28e10/ Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:00:30 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=43787 Matt demos his ZoneMinder setup, powered by consumer IP cams running on his Ubuntu home server.

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Matt demos his ZoneMinder setup, powered by consumer IP cams running on his Ubuntu home server. We’ll cover the exciting news for ZoneMinder, and how to get up and running quickly.

Plus: We dig into the Steam news of the week, then a fresh look at the interesting future of Gnome…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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ZoneMinder: Linux Powered Video Surveillance


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A puppet module to completely install ZoneMinder 1.26.0-beta.1 from source.
The ZoneMinder source is patched with mastertheknife’s performance patch.
After running this module, you will have a working ZoneMinder 1.26.0-beta.1 install.

Zoneminder install for Raspberry Pi running Raspbian


The budget IP camera with some great features:
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SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

We’re conducting a beta of the overall Steam living-room experience, so we needed to build prototype hardware on which to run tests. At Valve we always rely on real-world testing as part of our design process. The specific machine we’re testing is designed for users who want the most control possible over their hardware. Other boxes will optimize for size, price, quietness, or other factors.

We realized early on that our goals required a new kind of input technology — one that could bridge the gap from the desk to the living room without compromises. So we spent a year experimenting with new approaches to input and we now believe we’ve arrived at something worth sharing and testing with you.

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]]> Simulated Cyber War | TechSNAP 36 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/14956/simulated-cyber-war-techsnap-36/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:35:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=14956 Find out how the 2012 Olympics are preparing for cyper war, we’ll answer a great batch of questions. And Allan’s embarrassing tech war story!

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Find out how the 2012 Olympics are preparing for cyper war, we’ll answer a great batch of questions.

And Allan’s embarrassing tech war story!

All that and more, on this week’s TechSNAP!

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Big Oil the next big target for cyber attacks?

  • The IT Manager for Royal Dutch Shell told the World Petroleum Conference that their company has been receiving an ever increasing number of cyber attacks against its infrastructure.
  • The attacks are said to be motivated by commercial interest, as well as political and criminal interests.
  • If attackers managed to gain access to critical control systems, they would be able to manipulate valves and pumps, and cause unimaginable damage, physical, monetary and environmental.
  • British Petroleum said they had seen a large increase in cyber attacks after the US Golf Oil Spill disaster.
  • This is only further evidence that industrial control systems need to be completely isolated from the internet, not protected by just a firewall, but entirely isolated. Even then, threats such as stuxnet or duqu can be introduced by portable media such as USB flash drives. Physical and System security needs to be taken much more seriously.

Olympic Control Center prepares for simulated Cyber Attacks

  • The new Olympic Control Center in Canary Wharf that will provide support and management for the IT infrastructure of the 2012 Olympics in London is preparing for a variety of Simulated Cyber Attacks in order to improve their preparedness for the Olympic games.
  • The simulated attacks will include a Denial of Service attack, which they plan to mitigate by using a distributed website, and viruses and other malware getting in to the organizers’ computers.
  • The computer network is used to store and record scores from the games and feed information to the public and the media.
  • The operations Center has a staff of 180 permanent employees.
  • “Another key principle is to keep mission-critical games systems quite isolated from anything web-facing. So very much partitioned and separated, thus making it hard for an external attack to succeed.”
  • The company running the Operations Center is Atos, a very large multinational IT services company. However Atos has had issues of its own.
  • In the autumn of 2008, Atos Origin was the subject of a government enquiry after a memory stick with passwords and user names for an important government computer system was found in a car park. BBC Coverage

War Story

Allan’s rm -rf / war story (Sovereign)

When I was in high school and college, I ran an IRC shell provider. It started out as one little home brew server on a 128kbit colocation, and grew to its peak of 9 dedicated servers in 4 data centers. As you can imagine, there were plenty of times where people tries to attack, hack or root my servers. It always made me laugh when they tried the latest Redhat exploit against my FreeBSD 4.x machine.

One such exploit involved a symbolic link to / with a obfuscated name (If I recall correctly, it was dot space space and then some unicode characters). As part of the cleanup, I went to remove the offending symlink. Because of the special characters etc in the name, I used the shell’s tab complete feature. Out of admittedly bad habit I used rm -rf rather than just rm, and either the shell or I put a trailing / on the symlink, so rather than removing the symlink, the shell resolved the symlink and started to execute the equivalent of rm -rf /. I knew something was wrong after a second or two when the command prompt did not return, and before I could figure out what was going on, I saw error messages about how /bin/tcsh could not be removed because it was in use, and that the kernel would not be deleted because it was flagged ‘system immutable’. I felt the blood drain out of my face and I quickly broke out in a cold sweat. I immediately hit control+c to prevent any further damage, but things were pretty far gone. /etc and /bin were gone, save for my shell because it was in use. So, without even ls, it was a little difficult to even tell what was left. This server had about 100 customers on it, and a decent uptime (175 days or so if I recall correctly).

Luckily, because of proper disaster planning on my part, daily Bacula backups of that server existed on our central backup server. A few commands to the bacula console and I was restoring /etc, /boot and /bin. Then I did a verify/compare operation to determine what other files may have been deleted, and restored them as well. Amazingly, all of this was pulled off without a reboot, and without a single complaint from a customer. Total time from disaster to recovery was less than 1 hour, and I managed to maintain the uptime.


Feedback

Q: (Matt) I listened to TechSnap – 28 and 34 about the ZFS Server Build. Now I’m a little confused, How is Allan’s ZFS server configured? If ZFS will do all the RAID stuff and he’s using RAID Z2 for the RAID–6 option then why are his drives on an Adaptec RAID controller and how is the Adaptec configured? Are you using a big RAID–0?

A: We’ve gotten this question quite a bit, because using a RAID controller is contrary to what I said during the TechSNAP 28 ZFS episode. In this case, I did not have a choice, I needed a controller that was supported under BSD, so I went with the Adaptec. The motherboard’s onboard Intel controller only has 6 ports, and 2 of those are used for the dedicated OS drives, which are mirrored in FreeBSD software using GEOM. The adaptec had the added advantage to their unique solution for battery backup. I have configured the Adaptec to pass-thru each drive directly to ZFS without any RAID, and then ZFS deals with the drives individually, making the RAID Z2 array. As I said during the initial episode, you don’t want to back your ZFS with a RAID device, because you lose control, and some ZFS features, like the ability to swap a device out. If I had done a big RAID–0 device exposed to ZFS, I could not have created the RAID Z2 array, because it requires at least 3 devices. Also, if one drive in a RAID–0 dies, the entire array is lost, so that would not be very good either.
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Q: (Graham) I am looking to do a Raid set up but I would like to know if need two hard drives to be the same make or model or can they be two hard drives of the same size?

A: While the two drives do not have to be the same model, size, or even manufacturer, it is best if they are. Then you are striping or mirroring, the performance is mostly dictated by the slower of the two drives, so identical drives means that one drive is not constantly waiting for the other. There are also be issues with timing when the drives have drastically different performance. However, depending on your configuration, sometimes it is possible to make use of the additional performance of one of the drives. The FreeBSD software RAID driver GEOM’s mirroring mode supports different balancing methods, including: load, prefer, round-robin and split.
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Q: (Bill) Currently I am designing/developing a client/server communications platform. I would love to make the project Open Source when I start developing the code but I am concerned about potential security implications. The plan is to use a user auth system so users can easily contact each other. This is making my security senses tingle because if you have the code for the auth system you could it break down easily. I would love to hear your opinions about this as there are ways it could be done but they could kill ease of use.

A: If you rely on nothing more than the fact that no one knows how your security system works (called Security Through Obscurity), then it is not really security at all. Rather than writing your own authentication system, it might be best to use an existing library, depending on what exactly you are trying to authenticate against. Standard libraries for cryptography like AES, SHA and Blowfish, and authenticity libraries like GPG and SSL/TLS. In the end, being open source allows other developers to spot any mistakes you make, and either notify you about them, or contribute patches to resolve them.

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    We react to Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, and share our thoughts, predictions, and a full round up of analyst chatter. Plus find out why Microsoft might be getting a bit of a deal on this massive $8.5B purchase!

    Plus – Our quick thoughts on today’s Google I/O news and a few highlights from today’s announcements from Google!

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    Skype acquired by Microsoft
    Announcement
    Confirmation
    Fears & Hopes
    Coming to MS platforms
    5 Big TakeawaysSecurity vulnerability on Skype for Mac

    MS Not paying US taxes for the $8.5Bill purchase?
    “Of Microsoft’s nearly $50.2 billion in cash and liquid investments, about $42 billion is held in foreign subsidiaries and would otherwise be subject to a tax hit if the money were brought back to the U.S. Ballmer said it is appropriate to use overseas cash because Skype is headquartered in Luxembourg.”

    Chris’s thoughts:
    -Xbox 360 integration might finally bring Video calling to the TV in an easy way?
    -Crazy VR possibilities with Kinect?
    -What does this mean for Skype on Linux? (and Mac?)
    -Will skype be built into Windows Phone 7 to compete with facetime and GoogleTalk?

    Google I/O:
    “This Is My Next” coverage: https://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Google_IO_2011
    Gizmodo coverage: https://gizmodo.com/5800397/live-from-google-io
    Engadget coverage: https://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/live-from-google-i-o-2011s-opening-keynote/

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    GDC 2011 – Day One | J@N | 3.1.11 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/5647/gdc-2011-day-one-jn-3111/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:27:50 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=5647 When a convention is called the "Game Developers' Conference", we pay attention. Tonight we take a look at some of the info that's come out from Day One!

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    Yes, we’re gamers. So when a convention called the “Game Developers’ Conference” gets together, we pay attention. On tonight’s episode, we’ll be taking a look at some of the info that’s come out from Day One of GDC 2011 (the conference’s 25th anniversary), as well as scouring for speculation on what else may pop up over the coming days.

    NEWS

    Google hands out CR-48 laptops to GDC attendees

    Angry Birds Panel gets a surprise
    – The open-source physics engine used in the game (Box2D) is not credited anywhere in the game/app. The inventor of Box2D snuck up to the mic during the Q&A and asked if it could be credited. Producer responds “let’s talk after the panel” to applause.

    Humble Indie Bundle retrospective
    – Over $3million earned between the two bundles, >$1million for charity
    – Steam users paid less than average independent downloaders.
    – Linux users almost doubled the average contributions of Windows and OSx, on a per-purchase basis.

    Minecraft getting a lot of attention
    Nominated for 3 awards at Indie Game Fest (a sub-conference of GDC)
    Recently announced official plans to release iOS version
    Follow Notch on Twitter for up-to-the-minute updates
    Mojang officially announced next title:  “Scrolls”

    Valve/Steam announces “Big Picture Mode” to turn your PC into a console
    – Controller-friendly interface, designed for easy navigation of your existing Steam library on TVs and PC monitors.

    Magicka announces expansion pack: “Vietnam”
    – Ridiculous, and highly inappropriate. But also looks like a lot of fun.

    SPECULATION

    What people WANT to hear in the MMO community:
    – Info on: Black Prophecy, Secret World, Jumpgate: Evolution, Fallout Online, The Agency
    – Launch dates for:  SW:TOR and Guild Wars 2

    What people WANT to hear about offline games:
    – Half-Life 2, Episode 3
    – The future role of mobile games (alternative? mainstream? console killer?)
    – Epic Games (UT, GoW) plans to announce a new IP

    And if they don’t announce it at GDC, PAX East is next weekend!

    WHAT TO WATCH

    Official GDC Schedule

    IGN’s coverage
    Joystiq’s coverage
    g4tv’s coverage

    If you keep your eyes on GDC as it continues through Thursday, remember to Skype in after our Thursday show to share further thoughts on any news that interests you! (must have Skype 5.0)

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