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Voice calls come to Telegram

That‘s why we’ve improved the key exchange mechanism. To make sure your call is 100% secure, you and your recipient just need to compare four emoji over the phone. No lengthy codes or complicated pictures!

Each time you make a Voice Call on Telegram, a neural network learns from your and your device‘s feedback

Explaining Containers in Pictures

An elegant vim distribution inspired by spacemacs

What is space-vim?
space-vim is a vim distribution for vim plugins and resources, compatible with Vim and NeoVim.
It is inspired by spacemacs and mimics spacemacs in a high level, especially in the whole architecture, key bindings and GUI.

• Spacemacs

Libreboot no longer opposes the GNU project or FSF. We have made peace.

Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord. After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written: the chaos needs to come to an end.

With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn’t matter. Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time, so do we. We do not need another divide.
No more “royal we”. No more notorious surprises. No more late night “typofixes”.

Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.

• [Libreboot] libreboot is not GNU Libreboot anymore
• Libreboot no longer opposes the GNU project or FSF. We have made peace.
• Libreboot, Coreboot Downstream, Becomes A GNU Project

Linux Academy

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Fedora to HN: We got what you want

Over the last few years I do feel we managed to nail down what the major pain points are and crossed them out one by one or gotten people assigned to work on them. So a lot of the items people asked for in that thread we already have in Fedora Workstation or have already in our roadmap. So I thought it would be nice to write them up and maybe encourage people to take a look at Fedora Workstation if you haven’t done so already.

• Handling of DPI scaling and HiDPI
• Multitouch gestures
• Battery life
• UEFI issues
• Something like Redshift
• Wayland

Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Research from web analytics company StatCounter found Android now accounts for a larger share of internet usage than Windows for the first time. During March 2017, Android users represented 37.93 percent of activity on StatCounter’s network versus 37.91 percent for the Microsoft operating system. It’s a small gap for sure — and it refers to usage not necessary users — but it marks a notable tipping point that has been inevitable for the past couple of years.

The wider Android-Windows trend has been evident for some time. Windows dominated, and continues to dominate, the desktop landscape, but worldwide PC sales have declined for the past five years to reach the same levels as 2008. In contrast, sales of smartphones continue to grow, and Android is the operating system for the lion’s share of internet users worldwide. Growth is highest in emerging markets like India. There, Apple has increased its sales but remains a niche player, with Android accounting for upwards of 90 percent of smartphones.

• Android overtakes Windows for first time
• Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Using Linux in the Real World

Discovering my inner curmudgeon: A Linux laptop review

Quick refresher: I’m a life-long Mac user, but I was disappointed by Apple’s latest MacBook Pro release. I researched a set of alternative computers to consider. And, as a surprise even to myself, I decided to leave the Mac platform.

If you’re in the market for a new laptop, by all means check this one out. However, I’ll be selling my Spectre x360 and going back to my mid-2012 MacBook Air. It’s not HP’s fault or because of the Linux desktop. The problem is how I value my time.

In contrast, I’ve spent the past two years learning how to play the piano. It’s required rote memorization and repeated physical exercises. By spending time practicing piano, I’ve opened myself up to ideas that I couldn’t appreciate before. I’ve learned things about music that I couldn’t comprehend in the past. My retraining efforts have expanded my horizons. I’m skeptical that adopting HP hardware and the Linux desktop could have a similar effect on me.

Other User’s Stories

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been sharing various users’ stories about their own personal migration to Linux.
This is Brian Hall’s story of switching to Linux.

• The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 1
• The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 2

Linux at work

For those of you with Linux-related jobs:
How much of it really involves Linux (and not Windows)?
(Workstations) Can you pick your own distribution?
(Servers) When new systems are being deployed, do you have any influence on > which distribution will be installed?
Are you able to do your work with a Linux-based development machine at least?

DigitalOcean

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

What makes a ‘Proper’ distribution?

• Do you have to build your own binaries?
• Does it take a large team be to taken seriously?
• What makes Ubuntu Popular?

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We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more!

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• SilentKeys: A Keyboard that Protects your Privacy & Security by Preevio — Kickstarter

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Fedora 24 released!

The Fedora 24 Workstation release features GNOME 3.20, with many usability improvements such as easier input device and printer settings, a better search interface, shortcut windows for keyboard commands, and more convenient music controls.

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is another building-block feature, with Software able to track installed Flatpaks and adding more features in the future as the technology develops. The Software app has also grown features to provide a full system upgrade directly from the desktop from one Fedora release to the next, and the ability to provide labeling as well as reviews of available software.

Fedora 24 continues our work on the X replacement, Wayland, a next-generation graphics stack. Although this release will not default to Wayland, it includes many improvements and is available as an option for users to try out, and potentially will be the default stack in Fedora 25.

• Upgrading Fedora 23 Workstation to Fedora 24

Before you do anything, you will want to make sure you have the latest software for Fedora 23 before beginning the upgrade process. Additionally, make sure you back up your system before proceeding. One popular tool available in Fedora for this purpose is deja-dup. To update your software, use GNOME Software or enter the following command in a terminal.

Mycroft Core, v0.7 – Responsive Listening, 3rd Party Skills

Today marks the release of a new version of Mycroft. This moves us from the 0.6.X versioning to 0.7 – putting us closer to a 1.0 release. This is a significant update because it contains a large rethinking of the listener that Mycroft uses. The result is our new “Responsive Listening” mode.

• https://popey.com/~alan/mycroft-test.mp3

• Mycroft-Android

OnePlus 3 to Become an Unofficial Ubuntu Phone, Development Will Start Soon

We’ve had a quick chat today with Marius Gripsgård from UBports.com, a group of independent developers trying to port Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system to as many devices as possible, about an upcoming port to OnePlus 3.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

LIMBO on Steam

Solus 1.2 Shannon Released

We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.2, the second minor release in the Shannon series of releases. Solus 1.2 builds upon the groundwork of 1.1 and 1.0, with continued improvements to Budgie, a huge focus on software optimizations, in addition to laying the framework for providing a performant gaming experience. Solus 1.2 furthers us on our journey to realizing the future of home computing.

Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine

Docker 1.12, which includes all of these new features, is now available as a release candidate, with general availability planned for July. Once they have been more thoroughly tested, swarm mode and other additions to 1.12 will find their way into the company’s commercial offerings in the second half of 2016.

DigitalOcean

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maru

Maru packs a complete desktop experience on your smartphone. Your phone runs independently of your desktop so you can take a call and work on your big screen at the same time. Personal computing couldn’t be simpler.

Linux Academy

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Flatpak Released

Stockholm, Sweden – 21st June 2016 – The development team behind Flatpak is excited to announce the general availablity of their new framework for desktop applications on Linux. Previously named xdg-app, Flatpak is available on a range of major Linux distributions.

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Live from LFNW Scarlett Clark tells us about her work with KDE and Kubuntu!

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ANGELA: This is Women’s Tech Radio.
PAIGE: A show on the Jupiter Broadcasting Network, interviewing interesting women in technology. Exploring their roles and how they’re successful in technology careers. I’m Paige.
ANGELA: And I’m Angela.
PAIGE: Angela, today we’re going to interview at Linux Fest Northwest live. We’re doing an interview with Scarlett Clark. She’s a developer on the KDE project and also works for Kubuntu.
ANGELA: But, before we get into the interview, I want to tell you about Patreon.com. You can go to patreon.com/jupitersignal to support Women’s Tech Radio and all the other shows on teh Jupiter Broadcasting Network. Go to jupiterbroadcasting.com and see if there’s another show that you might want to listen to in addition to Women’s Tech Radio. Again, go to patreon.com/jupitersignal.
PAIGE: And we got started with this week’s episode by asking Scarlett what she does with KDE and Kubuntu.
SCARLETT: I am a developer for Kubuntu, so I do a lot of the packaging for the software applications for the user to be able to easily install and whatnot. And then, on the other side of the spectrum I created, wrote all the code to automate job creation and job building for KDE’s continuous integration system. Which, it builds the software packages and then test them to make sure that its functional. And then after they all turn green like they’re supposed to, they’re ready to release to distributions like Kubuntu. And I also went the extra step, and we now are testing for OS X and Windows will be coming next.
PAIGE: Oh, wow.
SCARLETT: Yeah, all the code is already in there. It’s just figuring — Windows is a little more complicated because getting dependencies, you can’t tell the continuous integration system to, hey go to this website, download this file, and use it as a dependency. So, it gets little more complicated, but once we sort that out Windows will also be supported with KDE software.
PAIGE: Wow, I had no idea you guys were going for that. That’s really awesome. Before you did this project was their not test coverage for KDE?
SCARLETT: They had a very old system and it was not reliable. And it was also — the job creation was all manual, and OS X and Windows were not supported.
PAIGE: That’s pretty deep in the weeds. Like building, testing, and all that jazz –
SCARLETT: Oh yes.
PAIGE: – for such a big, robust piece of software. Was that you just woke up one morning and decided to do? How did you end up where you are?
SCARLETT: No, actually, Valerie, the gal you just spoke to, they do this season of KDE and it generally targets students. Obviously, I’m not a student. But, this project didn’t have anybody grabbing on it and she just asked me, are you interested in Dev Ops. I’m like, I’m interested in everything. So, she introduced me to Ben Cooksy, the main sys admin guy, and got rolling. I had no idea what I was getting into when I got into it. So, I ended up learning Groovy, Python, and Java on the fly. I had taken a few classes, but that was years ago in university.
ANGELA: What had you done prior to that? Was anything prior to that technology related other than the several classes you mentioned?
SCARLETT: A long time ago I was IT.
ANGELA: Oh, okay.
SCARLETT: But I had not had any real world experience coding. So, this is my first real world experience coding and i love it.
PAIGE: So, you went from no coding to developing a new test suite for KDE?
SCARLETT: Yes, the back end.
PAIGE: So, how was that journey? How did you go through that? Because learning that many languages and that much theory on the fly –
SCARLETT: Yes. At first it was very overwhelming and I just stared at the blank sheet going, oh no. Oh no. But then, I just bits and pieces at a time and things started coming together, and then oh that makes sense. ANd then it just all came together. And then when the final result, we just went live two days ago and it was smooth.
PAIGE: How long did that project take for you?
SCARLETT: It was several months.
PAIGE: Wow, only months?
SCARLETT: Oh yeah.
PAIGE: Wow.
SCARLETT: Actually, yeah, I surprised a lot of people with how fast.
PAIGE: So, doing all that and learning all that, were there awesome resources that you were using? Was it the community? Did you have books that were –
ANGELA: Online courses?
SCARLETT: Google was good.
ANGELA: Yeah, I bet.
PAIGE: So, I have a lot of ladies who are trying to get in tech, and their biggest holdback is learning how to Google the right things. Did you find that was difficult at first., like knowing how to ask the right questions?
SCARLETT: I’ve been using Google since they were in the garage.
PAIGE: Nice, but asking the right tech question.
ANGELA: Yeah, like sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know.
SCARLETT: I know. That’s actually that you have to develop over time, because I’ve learned to figure out what to ask and how to ask it, and sometimes you don’t get it right the first time and you just have to reword it. That can be challenging. That is just it. When I first started the project I didn’t know what I was looking. So, I actually branched off in wrong directions at first. I had a few setbacks because I wanted to go be a docker, which is the new cool technology. But, it wasn’t — with the OS X and Windows, that ended up being wasted time, because you won’t get native builds, because Docker is Linux. That didn’t quite pan out, but it was fun learning.
PAIGE: Yeah, it’s always good to add new stack to your brain.
SCARLETT: Oh yeah. Yeah.
ANGELA: Yeah. Something will resonate and help you learn something else.
SCARLETT: Absolutely. Yelah.
PAIGE: So, tell me the story of why you were in IT before, and then you weren’t, and now you are again.
SCARLETT: That’s a story of — I had to give up my career to follow my husband to another state and I could not recover.
ANGELA: That’s too bad. Well, you have now.
SCARLETT: I have. Well, yes.
PAIGE: Was it really difficult for you diving back in afterwards, or did it just kind of re-spark that? We had a guest who talks about kind of the mental stimulation of being in this technical field.
SCARLETT: Yeah, I’ve been a Linux advocate/user since 1998. I have my big stack of Red Hat floppy disc. But I have always wanted to contribute, and I could never really find my way in. It’s a tight knit community. But I finally found my way in with Kubuntu and Jonathan Riddell. He just stepped up and, you want to learn how to package? I’m like, sure. He just showed me the ropes and I’ve just been riding the cloud since.
PAIGE: How did you get in touch with Jonathan? What was that?
SCARLETT: I knew Valerie from several mailing groups and stuff. She saw that I was doing documentation for KDE. Actually, an easy way in is doing documentation. And then she introduced me to Jonathan.
PAIGE: I think we have some people who are just getting started. What does doing documentation mean? What does that look like?
SCARLETT: The easiest way is to start with, like Wiki. It’s much simpler than Doc Books. You pretty much well have to know XML and the layout and everything. But Wiki is pretty much just plain text. You just find an app that you really love and just use it, and figure out — use cases of, well somebody might want to do this, and then you just instruct them how to do that and just build on it. That’s the easiest way to really get your food in the door, and it’s pretty simple because you figure out ways that you use the application and then just write about it.
PAIGE: I think, especially as a newer user of an application, sometimes you have an even more valuable input for that.
SCARLETT: Oh yeah.
PAIGE: Because you have just learned it. You know where the pain points are.
ANGELA: Yes. That is, in my current conversion to Linux, it’s very refreshing for the Linux Action Show audience to hear this new user perspective.
SCARLETT: Yes, absolutely. And a lot of times, developers don’t even think of things that a user would try or want to do with their application, so it’s a good way to also give feedback to the developers. I worked on KMail documentation and there was a lot of things that I ran into. I would talk to the developer, how do you do this. And they’re like, oh, well I need to fix that. Thank you.
PAIGE: Did you find being primarily in open source that reaching out to the developer, that was actually a welcomed thing?
SCARLETT: Not generally, but with KDE the are surprisingly very open and very, very nice. I’ve just felt really at home with KDE. It’s been a nice breath of fresh air.
PAIGE: So, you know, don’t give up looking for the right community.
SCARLETT: You’ll find it. Yeah. I’ve been looking for a long time and I just stumbled into it and didn’t expect it.
ANGELA: So, are you from around here?
SCARLETT: I live in Portland, Oregon.
ANGELA: Okay. Do you always come to Linux Fest? And are there any other festivals that you go to?
SCARLETT: This is my first one, but I will be from now on coming to Linux Fest.
ANGELA: I know, isn’t it great?
SCARLETT: Yes, but I go to Academy each year, which is in various places in Europe. This year we’re going to Spain. And then in September I’ll be going into a Random meeting which is in Switzerland for KDE.
ANGELA: Great.
PAIGE: Awesome.
SCARLETT: Yeah, fun and exciting.
PAIGE: So, you’re in Portland. Is the rest of the KDE team in Portland?
SCARLETT: No, KDE is all around the world.
PAIGE: How do you guys work together? What kind of tools do you use to keep in touch?
SCARLETT: IRC.
PAIGE: IRC?
SCARLETT: Yeah, I live in IRC.
PAIGE: Do you use version control to work together?
SCARLETT: Git.
PAIGE: Git, which is, of course of Linux. Linus, thank you. What’s your stack of tools look like right now. I always like to find out what other developers are using.
SCARLETT: I use Eclipse because it’s the only good Groovy plugin that I could find. And I use KDevelop for the Python work.
PAIGE: And do you have a favorite hardware, like laptop, tablet that you’re into? Or because KDE is so nice and friendly it works on just about everything?
SCARLETT: Yeah, I have Kubuntu on my desktop, my laptop, and then my phone has, you know, Android.
ANGELA: Nice.
PAIGE: Very cool. So, I guess last question, what are you the most excited about, about what’s coming down the pipe for technology? Either with Linux or just with general stuff.
SCARLETT: We are going to be porting our apps on to Android, so that’s kind of big.
PAIGE: Oh wow, that’s exciting.
SCARLETT: That’s what the whole Switzerland trip is about.
PAIGE: Oh nice. Very cool. We’ll have to keep an eye on that. That will be great. KDE on your Android.
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Fedora’s project lead joins us to discuss today’s Fedora 21 release, the possibility of the project switching to an Intel style Tick-Tock release & what Fedora 22 might look like.

Plus what the Ubuntu Snappy Core announcement means, why it’s a big deal & why it could be amazing for the desktop one day.

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• Yes, This Trojan Infects Linux. No, It’s Not The Tuxpocalypse

“The Linux Turla module is a C/C++ executable statically linked against multiple libraries, greatly increasing its file size. It was stripped of symbol information, more likely intended to increase analysis effort than to decrease file size. Its functionality includes hidden network communications, arbitrary remote command execution, and remote management. Much of its code is based on public sources.”

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• Runs Linux

• Action Shot

• Was 2014 the year Roku killed the XMBC dream for Matt and Chris?

• Roku 3 is 5x faster and has a motion controller for games

• Docker vs Rocket – A short comment

• Endless sea of Window Managers/DE’s
• MoonLight Desktop Environment, Modular and Lightweight.

This project aims to create a desktop environment for GNU/Linux systems, mainly for those that runs in low performance devices such as old PCs, Raspberry Pi, embedded devices and others.

It is focused in modularity in order to be lightweight and adaptable, also there will not be fancy graphics. Another important aspect of this solution is the integration with the rest of the system. We aim to provide a desktop environment capable of integrate the different applications in your system.

• Audacious music player. Winamp like player.

Fedora 21 is OUT!

Guest

MatthewMiller – FedoraProject

Fedora Project Leader

• It’s here and it is awesome. Announcing Fedora 21!

It’s Here! Announcing Fedora 21! | Fedora Magazine

As part of the Fedora.next initiative, Fedora 21 comes in three flavors: Cloud, Server, and Workstation — whether you’re using Linux on your laptop, using Linux on your servers, or spinning up containers or images in the cloud, we have what you need to be successful.

First Look: Fedora 21 has something for everyone | ITworld

There is something for everyone

Even though Gnome is the default DE of Fedora there are many official spins of Fedora including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE, etc.

The only difference, that I noticed, is that Gnome seems to get more love. Fedora picked popular, and more feature-rich applications over the default Gnome apps for the Workstation. For example, instead of shipping Epiphany it pre-installed Firefox.

Other spins offer a more vanilla experience of that desktop. In the case of KDE Spin you will get the entire stack of KDE software, such as Kmail, Konqueror web browser and Calligra Office instead of widely used apps like LibreOffice, Thunderbird or Firefox.

I have been using Fedora 21 RC on a test machine for over a week and I am quite impressed with it. If you are aspiring to become a software developer, Fedora would be a great distro to start with.

Need more motivation? Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, runs Fedora on all of his machines.

Now go ahead and download Fedora from the official page.

Announcing Snappy Ubuntu | Cloud | Ubuntu

Ubuntu Core is a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security guarantees for apps and users — that’s why we call them “snappy” applications.

Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core itself can be upgraded atomically and rolled back if needed — a bulletproof approach to systems management that is perfect for container deployments. It’s called “transactional” or “image-based” systems management, and we’re delighted to make it available on every Ubuntu certified cloud.

• Dustin Kirkland – Google+

Dustin Kirkland is Canonical’s Cloud Solutions Product Manager, leading the technical product strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud commercial offerings.

• It’s a Snap!

Snappy introduces transactional updates and atomic, image based workflows — old ideas implemented in databases for decades — adapted to Ubuntu cloud and server ecosystems for the emerging cloud design patterns known as microservice architectures.

• Mark Shuttleworth » Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

This is in a sense the biggest break with tradition in 10 years of Ubuntu, because Ubuntu Core doesn’t use debs or apt-get. We call it “snappy” because that’s the new bullet-proof mechanism for app delivery and system updates; it’s completely different to the traditional package-based Ubuntu server and desktop. The snappy system keeps each part of Ubuntu in a separate, read-only file, and does the same for each application.

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• QEMU Advent Calendar 2014

• Look What you Made Chris Do!

Documented for all, the very moment Chris jumped the shark. In a sacrifice so great, it could only be made for his art, a shocking revelation is made.

• GOgroove FlexSMART X2 Bluetooth Wireless In-Car FM Transmitter with USB Charging , Music Control and Hands-Free Calling – Works with Apple , Samsung , HTC , LG , Sony & More Smartphones , Tablets , MP3 Players: Car Electronics

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Has Docker’s wild success caused it grow too big & too corporate? In light of the CoreOS project’s announcement of Rocket we’ll reflect on the big problem both projects needs to solve.

Plus our plans to involve community around building an API for Jupiter Broadcasting, your feedback & more!

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• End-to-end encryption for the rest of us

• I.CX: Secure messaging for the rest of us.

Dev Hoopla:

GUI building

At 4 minutes in you get to see an old interface designer in action, which seems very simple and better than many even now! Nice to see a glimpse of Xcode’s history.

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Ewww, You Use PHP? | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

Lately here at MailChimp we’ve been trying to bring in more developers to help us keep the innovation coming fast and furious as the application grows in scope and scale. It’s always been difficult for us to hire really good developers, just because of where we are. Our office is here in Atlanta GA, not exactly a hotbed of cool startups in the last few years. On top of that we’re fundamentally an email company, which is far from a sexy problem for geeks to sink their teeth into. But the biggest negative reaction we get when hiring new developers is when we mention the programming language we use.

Ewww, you use PHP? I thought you were cool!

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Are boutique distributions a bag of hurt for new users?

We love a good underdog, but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us and we recommend something that’s not appropriate for a switcher to land on.

Plus some quick thoughts on the beating open source is taking as fallout from the Heartbleed bug.

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• KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #11 – Go time!

• Is anyone else having problems with Gnome Terminal 3.12?

• On The Subject of Linux UX

• Linux Learners – LUP35

• Terminal v/s GUI // Slexy 2.0

• The big point for technical switchers everyone missed

• Steam Controller comes out this fall

Underdog Syndrome

• Recent discussions on LUP about switching
• End of XP brings this to front of mind.

• Ubuntu 14.04 this Sunday on LAS. The big dog on the desktop.

• These smaller, boutique distros are great for experienced enthusiasts.

• Sending users from the worlds most deployed desktop operating system to a niche distribution of a niche desktop operating system is a recipe for failure.

• Support community is always smaller.
• Random poorly crafted Google searches are less likely to show distro relevant results.

• Long term viability of really small teams is always questionable. Larger distros even if corporate backers or the large community dropped it – the code would go on. Smaller distros that’s not always the case.

• Do these concerns apply to the more esoteric desktops, ie Cinnamon, MATE?

Heartbleed Butt Hurt

• OSS name getting dragged through the mud.
• Why are we not focused on the patch turn around time?

• Ability to audit future code.

• Heartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It\’s Not What You Think

A week after the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability wreaked havoc across the web, the conversation is shifting from reaction to reflection. The discussion is no longer about what to do now, but what can be done to prevent another Heartbleed from happening in the future. In other words, we\’re entering the blame game chapter in this saga.

• Heartbleed: Open source\’s worst hour | ZDNet

Everyone just assumed that OpenSSL must be perfectly safe because, well OpenSSL has a reputation for being safe, therefore it was safe. Developers, website developers, security experts, one and all, it seems no one ever thought to actually use those eyeballs that successful open source relies upon to check the code to see if it really was safe.

• Did open source matter for Heartbleed? | ZDNet

Open source does not provide a meaningful inherent security benefit for OpenSSL and it may actually discourage some important testing techniques. Also, panhandling is not a good business model for important software like OpenSSL.

• Stop laying the blame for Heartbleed on open source | Open Source Software – InfoWorld

Security experts acknowledge that open source is the best model for crypto, so how do we drive improvements to the model for creating security-critical infrastructure?

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XP support ends today and we’ll celebrate the occasion by debating what prevents technical users switching to Linux, address some common myths, and set a course for our new howto show.

Plus why Chase and Matt are wrong about DS9, blaming choice, your feedback, and more!

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How Hard Is It to Switch to Linux?

I was tired of things breaking from nowhere, or being frustrated with certain second-rate apps, and even though I learned a lot—and I LOVED the command line and package management—it just was too much trouble for me day-to-day. I never thought I\’d see Windows as an OS that \”just works,\” but compared to Linux, it really fit that bill in my experience.

What does a beginner need to know before switching to Ubuntu? – Ask Ubuntu

What are the first things I have to do when I completed the installation?

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When the Linux Action Show thinks outside the box, we think WAAAY OUT! Find out about a complete open source implementation of AmigaOS!

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