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There’s a Snap for That | LINUX Unplugged 136

chris — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:57:34 +0000

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The future of Linux package management is here & there’s a lot of ideas on how to solve it. We discuss some of the more popular ones & how they might be impacting your Linux desktop much sooner than you expect.

Plus that awkward moment when a traditional desktop environment adopts a controversial UI modern element, the new generation of “perfect” Linux laptops & more!

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Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi

The 314GB drive, which will normally cost $45.81 but is currently available for $31.42, is a 7mm-high drive based on the basic Western Digital Blue drives that still ship in many budget and mid-end laptops and PCs. The difference is the interface, which has been changed from SATA to USB and is designed to connect to the Pi directly without drastically increasing the footprint of the device.

Mozilla’s super speedy new browser will be available for testing in June

Servo is a browser engine that was built from the ground up in the Rust language to specialize in performance, security, modularity and parallelism.

Mycroft Announces The OpenSTT Project – YouTube

Mycroft is announcing that we are going after the Watson AI XPrize, and our first project aimed at achieving this goal is OpenSTT, an initiative to create an open source speech-to-text model that products and services, the world over, will be able to make use of.

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MATE in 16.04 to support Client Side Decoration (CSD) and Header Bars

The attached screenshot shows a number of applications that use Client Side Decoration and Header Bars. They are pictured here running on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 daily using the Marco window manager with software compositing enabled.

You may not be a fan of CSD applications, but there are a good number of them and undoubtedly there will be many more released over the coming years. It would be remiss of the Ubuntu MATE team to not provide first class CSD application support for the upcoming LTS release. With these changes, Ubuntu MATE can finally bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary applications.

[What is Client Side Decoration?]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28650646/what-is-client-side-decoration)

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Is the Future Snappy?

Snappy are repackaged .deb packages, which bring its own libraries and therefore might be a bit bigger than usual debs.

Advantages
Developers can choose which version of libraries they want you to use
If an update failed you can reverse to the last working one without any problems
Apps are sandboxed and cannot modify or read files that they aren’t supposed to
Cons
Bigger files
Developers have to update snaps if there is a security hole in a library
Snaps are Ubuntu exclusive, afaik

The questions we have:

Its approach is nothing new: just bundled libs, as Windows does. This is a security nightmare.

Could this lead to a security nightmare? All those linked libs?
Why not bundle dependencies – Gentoo Wiki

How to create local repository for Ubuntu Snappy – Ask Ubuntu

You can “snappy install” a snap directly on a machine, but there isn’t an equivalent to the idea of a local repository.

Skylake-based Dell XPS 13 with Linux arrives in the US

The fifth-generation XPS 13 developer edition ships with a Core i7 processor, up to 16 GB of memory, and Ubuntu Linux.

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OSCON Behind The Story | LINUX Unplugged 51

chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:21:41 +0000

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We’ve got more exclusive interviews from OSCON 2014, and then debate if fragmentation is simply the result of winning.

Plus why the Linux community needs a reality check about the popularity of Apple’s MacBook, and how poor the solutions are for MacBook owners who want to run Linux.

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Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model

In the old development model, an army of packagers would shoot new packages and updates to Factory, with a relatively small team of Factory Maintainers taking care of the integration process of all those packages. This often took a long time to stabilize for a release.

In the new “rolling release” development model, package submissions cannot go to Factory directly. First they have to prove to be functional and trustworthy in a staging project. Staging projects are projects in our Open Build Service where groups of submissions are collected, reviewed, compiled and tested with openQA. But even after the packages survived the staging project, they don’t directly end up in Factory.

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A talk in 9 images: GTK+3 dialogs without CSD

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Pidora – Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix

Pidora is a Fedora Remix optimized for the Raspberry Pi computer.

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Tech, gardening, politics, Quakerism, and more. Senior Editor @OReillyMedia, Co-Chair, Fluent and OSCON

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Apple grows Mac sales by 18% on the back of the MacBook Air

Sells 4.4M Macs in the face of continued declines in the PC industry overall; sets June quarter sales record

Apple, Inc’s double digit U.S. Mac growth contradicts IDC & Gartner reports of a Mac sales slump

“This growth is particularly impressive, given the contraction of the overall PC market. Macs have now gained global market share for 32 of the last 33 quarters,”

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Mint 17: Fresh or Stagnant? | LINUX Unplugged 43

chris — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:45:24 +0000

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We’ll take a look at the new features of Linux Mint 17, and discuss the new Cinnamon release. Then we’ll debate if distro derivatives are a bad thing.

Plus: Is Red Hat too over controlling of Gnome? Candidates for the Gnome Foundation’s board think so, we’ll discuss.

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Does Apple\’s new OS X Yosemite rip off Gnome 3\’s design? And should we consider imitation the sincerest form of flattery when the one doing the imitation is in Apple\’s position?

GNOME Foundation board candidate questions Red Hat\’s \’dominance\’

According to its own website, the GNOME Foundation \”steers releases, determines what software is officially part of the Project, and acts as the official face of the GNOME Project to the outside world, though it delegates most of its authority to specialised teams\”.

Are Ubuntu Derivatives a Bad Idea?

When most people think of Ubuntu derivatives, they usually categorize them into an \”Ubuntu with a different desktop environment than Unity\” category. However, according to Ubuntu, they refer to Ubuntu-based distros with different desktop environments as a derivative as well as distros using their own tools/apps/goals as customizations.

New features in Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 17 features Cinnamon 2.2, MDM 1.6, a Linux kernel 3.13 and an Ubuntu 14.04 package base.

Linux Mint 17 will receive security updates until 2019.

Until 2016, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base as Linux Mint 17, making it trivial for people to upgrade.

Until 2016, the development team won\’t start working on a new base and will be fully focused on this one.

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The Rest of the Fest | LINUX Unplugged 38

chris — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:48:21 +0000

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We had a chance to chat with folks from Firefox, the EFF, SUSE, and more. Plus we discuss the real benefits to Linux conventions like LinuxFest Northwest.

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dnschneid/crouton · GitHub

crouton is a set of scripts that bundle up into an easy-to-use, Chromium OS-centric chroot generator. Currently Ubuntu and Debian are supported (using debootstrap behind the scenes), but \”Chromium OS Debian, Ubuntu, and Probably Other Distros Eventually Chroot Environment\” doesn\’t acronymize as well (crodupodece is admittedly pretty fun to say, though).

Firefox OS — The Adaptive Phone — Great Smartphone Features, Apps and More — Mozilla

Your needs change from one moment to the next. That\’s why Firefox OS does the same. It gives you the power to live every moment to its fullest and participate in a better world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Defending your rights in the digital world

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Client Side Drama | LINUX Unplugged 37

chris — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:02:19 +0000

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The GTK camp is pushing hard for Client Side Decorations, but there are some major drawbacks on non-Gnome desktops. We discuss the pros and cons, and if this is going to lead to a new kind of desktop Linux fragmentation.

Plus our thoughts on the best password managers, your follow up, and more!

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Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

That’s why I decided to CC the Ayatana mailinglist and publish this letter as an open letter on my blog. CSD is a topic that is important for every user and nothing we should discuss in a small group.

Consistent window decorations: This in fact is my greatest doubt. The current situation is that all windows have the same window decoration. For CSD to work applications have to be changed to support them. This will render the changed applications using CSD while all other applications are decorated by the window manager. I think it is impossible to have the same behavior for both CSD and wm decos. I think there are lots of legacy applications which cannot be changed, for example Amarok 1.4 which is still used by many users even in GNOME. I doubt you will be able to change Qt 3 to use CSD. My bigger concern is that we will end up with applications shipping their own style and doing their own kind of decorations. So we end up with situations like one window has buttons on left, one on the right, one in order close, maximize, minimize, the other in close, minimize, maximize, etc.

Just look on the Microsoft Windows desktop to see what proprietary applications tend to do when they get the chance to influence the decorations.

The Wayland Reason, he disagrees with:

Get gtk+ working on Wayland: I don’t see how Wayland can be an argument for CSD. Could we consider Wayland as unimportant till it is looking like something is actually going on? I checked the commits in 2010 in the public git repository and well it looks like KWin has more commits per day. It’s nice that you think of the future, but please don’t use it for argumentation. So also not valid.

On the Gnome Wiki they state this about Wayland and Client Side Decorations:

Initiatives/Wayland/GTK+ – GNOME Wiki!

Under Wayland, it is preferred that clients render their own window decorations. Since gnome-shell will need to keep support for decorating X clients, it would be good if GTK+ and gnome-shell could share the css theming.

The comment thread on this post introducing CSD in Gnome 3.10 is quite interesting

CSDs came to stay in GNOME 3.10! | woGue

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Ubuntu 14.04 Review | LAS s31e09 (309)

chris — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:05:23 +0000

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It’s our review of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS. It’s Canonical’s latest and greatest, with five years of support. But are there storm clouds on the horizon for this major distribution?

We discuss what’s great about Ubuntu 14.04, what needs some serious work, and why we’re excited about what comes next.

Plus: TrueCrypt audit wraps up, Docker stands out at Red Hat summit…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

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TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Kylin. All other flavours will be supported for 3 years.

New Features in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop:

Linux kernel updated to version 3.13
Ability to change application menu position
Ability To click-to-minimise Application from the Launcher
Borderless windows
A wider range of launcher icons – from 16 to 64 pixels
Appearance improvements for very high-resolution displays
New language status icon in the top menu bar
Harmonised appearance for the lock screen
System Settings (GNOME Control Centre) replaced by Unity Control Center
Multi-task filtering by text input
Opening a guest session triggers a ‘changes are temporary’ warning
Since Ubuntu One is to close in June, 2014, this 14.04 will not support Ubuntu One File Services
First time for Ubuntu community flavours (Edbuntu, Kubuntu etc) to also be approved for LTS status
New Upstart — its last outing before Ubuntu switches to systemd

First Tweaks:

Settings > Appearance > Behavior [x] Enable Work Spaces and Show Menus in the Windows title bar.
10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr To Get A Near Perfect Desktop

Here\’s a list of 10 useful things to do to get a near perfect desktop.

Ubuntu Software Center Disappoints…. Still.

Steam is not well exposed or featured.
Installing Steam requires I “buy” Steam.
“Buying” Steam requires I have an Ubuntu One account.
I thought Ubuntu One was shut down?
Confusing messaging throughout the process. A bad onboarding for new XP switchers.

Chris’ Final Take

Ubuntu still impresses, I’d expected my time in ARCH to have made me jaded.
You can feel the reach of the platform when looking up guides/software/info. This can’t be understated for new users or folks short on time.
The theme feels claustrophobically dated now. I quickly added the Numix PPA and installed the full suite.
Ubuntu 14.04 feels fairly modern, with signs of age.
The top bar looks very old, as does the system menu.
In contrast to the Unity dashboard these stand out even more.
New KDE Plasma Desktop 5, the design teams new work, Gnome 3.x getting better and better are legitimate competition to the Unity desktop which does feel like it’s standing a bit a slow.. Or is at least casually walking the marathon.
On the “cloud” side this is is potentially a great, maybe the greatest LTS.
Built in Docker.
Built in btrfs
Kernel 3.13 (legitimately recent for a Enterprise distro)
Ubuntu 14.04 is standing on the edge, and we don’t know what comes next.
The developers are just discussing the start of coverages between the desktop and mobile apps. Questions are being asked as to which classic applications we’ve come to live will be replaced with in-house Qt solutions.

Do any of you plan to switch from other distributions to Ubuntu LTS 14.04

donniezazen writes :

I am thinking about switching from Fedora 20 KDE to Kubuntu and stick with it for a long time.

Doing more with your Unity8 preview session in Ubuntu 14.04

The Unity 8/Desktop preview primarily is not a resurrection of Windows 8 – what you are looking at is the Ubuntu for Mobile UI running on your Desktop/Laptop. Changes to the user experience to move this UI to a Desktop/Laptop environment are coming in the next cycles.

It also is not at a quality level you’d expect from a LTS (hence it’s living in Universe), although it works fairly well on my 2 test machines. Due to limitations discussed in a previous post you might not be able to bring up Unity 8 on NVidia or ATI GPUs. We have not spent a lot of time on Hardware compatibility testing for this release and will focus on that as we march towards Ubuntu 14.10.

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Linux-Based Autonomous Sub Leads Malaysia Airlines Flight Search

It could take 60 more days for the Bluefin-21 to completely search the area \”lawnmower\” style. On one of its first dives to the floor of the Indian Ocean, the unmanned submarine reached the limit of its 2.8-mile depth range

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Variety

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TrueCrypt audit finds “no evidence of backdoors” or malicious code

On Monday, after seven months of discussion and planning, the first phase of a two-part audit of TrueCrypt was released.

The results? iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Windows kernel driver for any backdoor or related security issue, concluded (PDF) that TrueCrypt has: “no evidence of backdoors or otherwise intentionally malicious code in the assessed areas.”

While the team did find some minor vulnerabilities in the code itself, iSEC labeled them as appearing to be “unintentional, introduced as the result of bugs rather than malice.”

Matthew Green, a Johns Hopkins cryptography professor who has been one of the people leading this effort, told Ars. “I think the code quality is not as high as it should be, but on the other hand, nothing terrible is in there, so that\’s reassuring.”

Overall, the source code for both the bootloader and the Windows kernel driver did not meet expected standards for secure code. This includes issues such as lack of comments, use of insecure or deprecated functions, inconsistent variable types, and so forth.

The team also found a potential weakness in the Volume Header integrity checks.
“It did not seem extremely important, but I think it\’s good to know about,” Green noted. “But I think it\’s good that we didn\’t find anything super critical.”

Cinnamon 2.2 Released With System Settings Improvements, HiDPI support And Mor

With Cinnamon 2.2, the System Settings UI was refined, making it look more consistent and also, the settings are better categorized, this allowing the Cinnamon developers to remove the switch between normal and advanced settings modules.

Another interesting improvement added with Cinnamon 2.2 is the way applets work: each applet is now able to register \”roles\” which tell Cinnamon which functionality they provide and this is used to allow Cinnamon to automatically hide systay icons for which the functionality is already present in an applet.

Here\’s an example from the Cinnamon 2.2 release announcement: \”Say you remove the network applet, well… you’ll see the Network Manager GTK systray icon appear. Say you put the network applet back in the panel, the Network Manager systray icon will then disappear.\”

Better systemd/logind support;

New Gnome style CSD seems a bit odd:

Same problem with XFCE, more of a CSD issue:

Red Hat Summit’s 10th Year: Docker Shines

April 14th-17th 2014

A lot of the buzz is around containerization in general and Docker in particular. Docker is set to ship with the latest version of RHEL (RHEL 7.0). Also, Docker will integrate with Red Hat\’s Open Shift PaaS. This is in addition to the earlier announcement that Red Hat is launching certification of applications delivered in the Docker container format.

Besides Red Hat, Docker already ran on the Amazon AWS version of Linux, as well as several other Linux distros. Also, sources tell me that we can expect to see more announcements in the weeks ahead about Docker being included by default in several other of the major Linux distros.

Docker is becoming synonymous with containers in Linux. By the time any other project or competitor look up they will have this one sewn up.

Docker in Ubuntu, Ubuntu in Docker

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There’s a Snap for That | LINUX Unplugged 136

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OSCON Behind The Story | LINUX Unplugged 51

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Mint 17: Fresh or Stagnant? | LINUX Unplugged 43

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Ubuntu 14.04 Review | LAS s31e09 (309)

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