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Distro Engagement | LAS 446

chris — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:34:09 +0000

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How to decided on a distro.

Ever since my upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 borked my laptop I’ve been distro hopping like crazy and after the last rebuild today I have to ask: how the devil did you decide on a distro to stick with?
I been using Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Solus, Elementary, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Antegos. But I can’t seem to pick on to stick with for more than a few weeks. Am I insane?

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Digital Signage RUNS LINUX

StreetSign is a digital signage system, originally written for the TeenStreet 2013 (Germany) youth congress. It works with a single server, and multiple client computers (for TS2013 we used Raspberry Pis) which connect over the network. It is light-weight enough that a raspberry pi can run as the server as well, for smaller installations.

Desktop App Pick

Unmark – The to do app for bookmarks.

Unmark is designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks, rather than just hoard them. A simple layout puts the focus on your task at hand and friendly reminders keep you in line. Filtering options let you find what you’re looking for.

Spotlight Karbon

Karbon is a vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible. That makes Karbon a great application for users starting to explore the world of vector graphics as well as for artists wanting to create breathtaking vector art.

Whether you want to create clipart, logos, illustrations or photorealistic vector images – look no further, Karbon is the tool for you!

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Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images

We are currently in dispute with a European cloud provider which has breached its contract and is publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu despite many months of coaxing to do it properly. The home-grown images on the cloud, VPS and bare metal services of this provider disable fundamental security mechanisms and modify the system in ways that are unsupportable. They are likely to behave unpredictably on update in weirdly creative and mysterious ways

mjg59 | Ubuntu still isn’t free software

The appropriate means to handle this kind of issue is trademark law. If someone claims that something is Ubuntu when it isn’t, that’s probably an infringement of the trademark and it’s entirely reasonable for the trademark owner to take action to protect the value associated with their trademark. But Canonical’s _IP policy_goes much further than that – it can be interpreted as meaning[1] that you can’t distribute works based on Ubuntu without paying Canonical for the privilege

Intellectual property rights policy | Terms and policies | Ubuntu

Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set out below).

Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million

The site reports that the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its products closed down over time, with Fitbit acquiring its assets, which include intellectual property and software.

Giving Thanks (along with a Shipping Update) – Mycroft

Before I blather on I’ll get to what many are most interested in — the hardware shipping update.

Plex for Kodi

A dedicated device running Kodi and the Plex for Kodi add-on gives you a slick, configurable way to play your media in your home theater. Kodi AV settings enable powerfully advanced knob twisting and lever sliding to fine tune playback for a customized viewing experience! Settings nirvana!

Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF’d in short term – post regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4.

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: My daughter’s school recently got 20 Chromebooks to share between 3 4th grade classes. As you might imagine that is not enough. They are recommending that parents buy one for their kids, but also say a PC or Mac laptop would be fine. I’ve had my daughter doing her work on an old laptop that I put Ubuntu 16.04 on (but it’s a 17 inch laptop). I’m wondering if there are any small inexpensive laptops that could run Ubuntu that you could suggest. Most of her work is with Google docs and Google classroom.

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I hear Noah mention sip calling sometimes. I am wondering what he uses and what you guys use? I am looking for a good inexpensive provider. I need to be able to receive inbound calls and make outbound calls outside of SIP. I have looked around the web and I can see there are plenty of options.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!
Asterisk is probably way more than I need. I am looking for simple. I am leaning towards Local Phone. Great price and a decent user interface on their website. If call quality is good then im set!

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Fedora from the Cockpit | LAS 390

chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:52:02 +0000

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Fedora 23 has hit the web and we think this is the release that changes everything, forever. Find out why we think the changes made in Fedora 23 make this nearly a future proof distribution in some work cases.

Plus Linus Torvalds is under attack this week from multiple sources, we’ll break down one of the more technical assaults, Ubuntu is finally killing the software center & the biggest feature coming to systemd ever, just got delayed.

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Fedora 23 Review

What’s new in Fedora 23 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 23 Workstation is now released. It’s a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system aimed at home users, hobbyists, students, and software developers. Fedora 23 Workstation features the latest GNOME 3.18 release courtesy of the GNOME community. This release of GNOME includes updates to the Files browser, and the new Calendar and Todo applications. Fedora 23 Workstation is the first release of Fedora to include LibreOffice 5.

Gnome Software can update Firmware

This means that if your hardware supports it and your vendor uploads the needed firmware to lvfs you can update your system firmware through GNOME Software. So no more struggling with proprietary tools or bootable DVDs.

Files

The Files browser, also known as Nautilus, now gives progress feedback when copying or moving large files. A button in the header bar allows you to see progress at a glance. Searching and renaming files in the file browser is now also quicker and easier to use.

There’s now better support for your Google Drive contents, too. If you’ve set up a Google online account in the Control Center, you’ll see your Google Drive contents in Files, with a shortcut to Drive in the sidebar.

LibreOffice 5 w/beta GTK3 support

Fedora 23 Workstation ships with LibreOffice 5, the newest version of the widely used productivity suite. LibreOffice features LibreOffice Writer for creating documents, LibreOffice Calc for spreadsheets, and LibreOffice Impress for presentations. LibreOffice 5 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

Style previews in the sidebar

Built-in image crop

UI for data bars in Calc

Support for Time-Stamp Protocol in PDF export

Improved import and export to a variety of different types of files

Improved support for HiDPI screens

…and more!

xdg-app Tech Preview

Testing rawhide apps using xdg-app

xdg-app is our new technology for packaging desktop applications. While still early stage it provides a way for software developers to package their software in a way that is both usable across multiple distributions and with improved security through the use of the LXC container technology.

I know that a lot of people don’t agree with me about this, and I always see a number of moans and groans about Anaconda when a new Fedora release comes along. But I believe that Linux installation is not a simple task, and installers which try to treat it as if it were will eventually either come up short, or get into trouble. In the simplest cases, Anaconda can get you through the installation with something like six or seven mouse clicks. But when the going gets tough, or complicated, Anaconda has the wherewithal to handle that as well.

Fedora Workstation 23 and LibreOffice

Another major piece of engineering that I have covered that we did for Fedora Workstation 23 is the GTK3 port of LibreOffice. Those of you who follow Caolán McNamaras blog are probably aware of the details. The motivation for the port wasn’t improved look and feel integration, there was easier ways to achieve that, but to help us have LibreOffice deal well with a range of new technologies we are supporting in Fedora Workstation namely: Touch support, Wayland support and HiDPI.

DNF system upgrade – FedoraProject

Shift to DNF for system upgrades

One important new change is the shift to DNF for system upgrades. Fedora’s old fedup tool for upgrading from one release of Fedora to another is gone. Operating system upgrades are now handled by DNF, Fedora’s new package management tool that replaced yum back in Fedora 22 . This uses systemd‘s support for offline system updates and can roll them back if necessary. If you’re upgrading from one version of Fedora to another, you’ll need to use the DNF tools instead.

What is DNF system upgrade?

dnf-plugin-system-upgrade is a plugin for the Dnf package manager which handles system upgrades. It is the recommended upgrade method for Fedora since the release of Fedora 23 Beta. The Changes/DNF_System_Upgrades page documents the initial introduction of this mechanism.

What does DNF system upgrade do?

DNF system upgrade can upgrade your system to a newer release of Fedora, using a mechanism similar to that used for offline package updates. The updated packages are downloaded while the system is running normally, then the system reboots to a special environment (implemented as a systemd target) to install them. Once installation of the updated packages is complete, the system reboots again to the new Fedora release.

How do I use it?

Update your system using the standard updater for your desktop or pkcon or dnf:
- sudo dnf update
- It is wise to reboot the computer, especially if you’ve just installed a new kernel.
- Please note that there is an issue if you use a non-default plymouth boot theme. If you do, please follow the issue description to make sure your upgrade will not be affected.
Install the [![Package-x-generic-16.png](https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/a/a4/Package-x-generic-16.png)][4][dnf-plugin-system-upgrade][5] package:
- sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade --best
Download the updated packages:
- sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=24
- If some of your packages would have unsatisfied dependencies, the upgrade will refuse to continue until you run it again with an extra –allowerasing option. This often happens with packages installed from third-party repositories for which an updated repositories hasn’t been yet published. Please study very careful the output and examine which packages are going to be removed. None of them should be essential for system functionality, but some of them might be important for your productivity.
- In case of unsatisfied dependencies, you can see more details if you add –best option to the command line.
Trigger the upgrade process:
- sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
Wait for the upgrade process to complete.

Fedora Server

Fedora Server Roles

A Featured Server role is an installable component of Fedora Server that provides a well-integrated service on top of the Fedora Server platform. These prepared roles simplify deployment and management of a service compared to setting up an upstream server from scratch; their use is recommended but optional;

Domain Controller Server Role

Fedora Server can deploy a domain controller powered by FreeIPA. The role greatly simplifies configuration of a primary domain controller.

Database Server Role

Rapidly deploy instances of the powerful postgresql database server using the new Database Server Role for rolekit.

Cockpit Management Console

The Cockpit Management Console (the Cockpit package) is available by default in Fedora Server. This tool provides a powerful, easy to use, web-based graphical interface for managing multiple Linux servers. Features include:

systemd service management
Journal log viewer
Storage configuration including LVM
Docker container management
Basic network configuration
Adding and removing local users

Any user known to the server can log in to the Cockpit console by opening https://_server-ip-address_:9090.

New features for Cockpit in Fedora 23 include:

Secondary Server Authentication via SSH keys

A single Cockpit instance can be used to manage many devices by connecting to them over ssh. Cockpit can now manage SSH keys to implement this securely. Read more at https://files.Cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/authentication.html

Manage User SSH keys

Cockpit’s user management interface can also manage a user’s authorized keys.

Kubernetes dashboard

Cockpit has grown a basic dashboard for managing container deployments with Kubernetes.

Time Zone management

You now can use Cockpit to adjust the system time zone.

Other Fedora 23 Reviews

Review of Fedora 23 | Unixmen

Fedora 23 is great for small business who are looking at options for cutting down on IT costs related to software. If Fedora doesn’t suit the task at hand, we remind our readers not to forget about CentOS 7.0. Sure, Ubuntu is also an equal potential option with solid and reliable performance. But it’s difficult to look past Fedora’s fine polish and overall friendly take on a server operating system. Additionally, the simple fact that Cockpit is so well equipped and installed by default with the core system, makes Fedora 23 that little bit more tempting.

Fedora 23 lands with GNOME 3.18, Wayland progress, and a new upgrade system | PCWorld

Wayland is a new graphical server technology designed to replace X.org. Almost all Linux distributions—except for Ubuntu, which is forging its own path with Mir—plan on using it. Fedora 23 has an optional Wayland session you can enable and play with today, and developers are hopeful Fedora 24 can switch to Wayland by default. This will also bring mixed high-DPI support, so you can use a laptop with a high-DPI display and connect it to a low-DPI external monitor. Each display will be able to have its own DPI settings. Work is also ongoing to make LibreOffice and Firefox run normally under Wayland.

Fedora 23 Now Available, Highlights Fedora.next Successes – MarketWatch

Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader

“Two years ago, the
Fedora Project started the Fedora.next initiative, which helped us look
at what the Fedora Project needed to accomplish in the next 10 years to
adapt to a changing technology landscape, one where open source
development and cloud computing are becoming more prevalent across the
IT landscape. The Fedora operating system needed to be both more
flexible and more targeted, and last year, we released the first Fedora
distribution with three separate editions for users in the cloud, for
those in the server room, and for users looking for a desktop platform.
The release of Fedora 23 highlights the important successes of this
initiative, including the delivery of these three distinct editions as
well as infrastructure improvements to help our community continue
Fedora’s role as a leader within the open source operating system world.”

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When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that’s exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013. Faced with CenturyLink service that was slow and outage-prone, residents gathered at a community potluck and lamented their current connectivity.

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Desktop App Pick

Trine 3 Released For Linux

Trine 3 is currently on sale for 50% off ($10) via the Steam Store. Trine 3 on Linux requires OpenGL 4.1 support and the developers explicitly recommend using the proprietary drivers over the open-source drivers for best results.

Weekly Spotlight

Architect Linux

Architect Linux – the successor to “Evo/Lution Linux” – provides a powerful, user-friendly, and flexible installer for Arch Linux.

The net-based Architect Installation Framework will download the latest packages from the Arch repositories to build the most up-to-date system possible. It can be used to provide just the Arch base alone, or also to provide a large choice of full desktop environments, window managers, display managers, and network managers.

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Linus’s Thoughts on Linux Security

The Washington Post has a lengthy article on Linus Torvalds and his thoughts on Linux security. Quoting: “…while Linux is fast, flexible and free, a growing chorus of critics warn that it has security weaknesses that could be fixed but haven’t been. Worse, as Internet security has surged as a subject of international concern, Torvalds has engaged in an occasionally profane standoff with experts on the subject. …

His broader message was this: Security of any system can never be perfect. So it always must be weighed against other priorities — such as speed, flexibility and ease of use — in a series of inherently nuanced trade-offs. This is a process, Torvalds suggested, poorly understood by his critics. ‘The people who care most about this stuff are completely crazy. They are very black and white,’ he said … ‘Security in itself is useless. The upside is always somewhere else. The security is never the thing that you really care about.'”

Of course, contradictory points of view are presented, too: “While I don’t think that the Linux kernel has a terrible track record, it’s certainly much worse than a lot of people would like it to be,” said Matthew Garrett, principal security engineer for CoreOS, a San Francisco company that produces an operating system based on Linux. At a time when research into protecting software has grown increasingly sophisticated, Garrett said, “very little of that research has been incorporated into Linux.”

Linus Torvalds fires off angry ‘compiler-masturbation’ rant

Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has unloaded as only he can in a post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux to become officially supported on Azure (at last)

Azure will become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Services Provider. In the coming months, Red Hat system images will become available to buy on a pay-as-you-go basis through the Azure Marketplace. In the meantime, Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to provide their own virtual machine images for running in Azure.

What’s behind the odd couple Microsoft-Red Hat partnership | Network World

There’s more to the Microsoft-Red Hat deal though. Both Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Red Hat Executive Vice President of Products Paul Cormier said that this is one of the deepest partnerships that their companies have signed. Microsoft and Red Hat are organizing a team of engineers from both companies in Redmond (where Microsoft is headquartered) that will provide joint support to common customers. “There’ll be no finger pointing,” Cormier said.

Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises | Red Hat Developer Blog

What was announced —

Developers will be able build .NET applications and deploy them on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
Red Hat and Microsoft engineers are engaged in building and certifying .NET with Red Hat technologies for enterprise use.
Red Hat will ship Microsoft .NET certified for Red Hat environments through Red Hat Software Collections — aimed at developers.
Red Hat will provide direct support for installation, configuration, and environmental issues related .NET and Red Hat technologies.

Ubuntu Software Centre To Be Replaced in 16.04 LTS

GNOME’sSoftware application will — according to current plans — take its place as the default and package management utility on the Unity 7-based desktop.

MATE 1.12 released

The headline changes in MATE 1.12 are:

Fixes and improvements for GTK3 support across the entire MATE Desktop including GTK 3.18 support.
Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
MATE now listens to the org.gnome.SessionManager namespace.
Extended systemd support.
Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
For example, panel applets are no longer reordered when changing screen resolutions.
Translations updated and a number of components now retrieve strings directly from gschema (requires intltool 0.50.1).
Dropped support for win32 and osx.

KDBUS Is Being Removed From Fedora, Could Be A While Before Being Mainlined

In somewhat of an embarrassing move and indicating that KDBUS likely won’t be proposed for Linux 4.4, this in-kernel IPC mechanism is being temporarily stripped out of Fedora.

Videos Begin From The First-Ever Systemd Conference

The first-ever systemd conference began today in Berlin and runs through Saturday.

If you are interested in systemd but weren’t able to attend, the session videos are already being uploaded to the Internet.

You can see the systemd 2015 conference videos via this YouTube channel. Stay tuned for more coverage over the next two days.

Systemd conference: “kdbus is not dead”

The systemd maintainer Lennart Poettering reaffirmed a developer conference that kdbus will continue hand and “not dead”. The implementation in the kernel and userspace will however rebuilt. How long that will take, is not yet clear.

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Rolling with Netrunner | LAS 386

chris — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:45:30 +0000

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Some say it’s the best Plasma 5 Desktop experience to be had, we review Netrunner Rolling & take a walk on the KDE side of things for the week. Find out what makes this unique distribution stands out & why you might want to give it a try yourself.

Then we put the great Ubuntu Conspiracy to bed, our best LastPass alternatives, a quick look at Slackel & more!

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Netrunner Rolling 2015.09 Released With New Plasma 5 And Apps Updates

Netrunner is a Linux distribution that comes into two versions – Main version and Rolling release. Main version is based on Kubuntu and the Rolling release is based on Manjaro Linux. The new Netrunner 2015.09 has been released with a completely different look – KDE4 has been transformed to Plasma 5.2 desktop. Let’s look at the complete changes in the Netrunner 2015.09 release.

Netrunner comes with two versions, Main version that is based on Kubuntu and that gets released in sync with Kubuntu new release and the Rolling version is based on Manjaro Linux. Both the desktops have been customized and so makes its own new look & feel.

Calamares Is Default Installer

The default installer in this rolling release has been changed to Calamares installer. If you read my last post, Manjaro has adopted Calamares installer which is easy to use and makes Manjaro to install easily. The release is based on Majaro so this also has Calamares installer.

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VLA New Mexico, Runs Linux

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

he Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico. It comprises 27, 25-meter radio telescopes in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to focus on particular bands of wavelength.[2] Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way’s center, probed the Universe’s cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission.

Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array – YouTube

Created in 2013 as the new interpretive film for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) public Visitor Center, this 24-minute production explores the synergies of technology and human curiosity that power the world’s most productive radio telescope.

Desktop App Pick

KeepassC

KeePassC is a password manager fully compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX. That is, your
password database is fully encrypted with AES.

KeePassC is written in Python 3 and comes with a curses-interface. It is completely controlled
with the keyboard (vim-like keys are supported).

Some features are:

AES encryption of the database with password and/or keyfile
Included customizable password generator
KeePassX and KeePass v.1.x compatible (KeePass v2.x planned)
Database entries are sorted in alphabetically sorted groups
Subgroups of groups
Entries are identified by a title
Search entries by this title and show matches in an own group
Set expiration dates to remind you that a new password is needed
Unicode support
Copy username and password to clipboard
Auto-locking workspace and self-deleting clipboard with adjustable delays
Options to remember last database and last keyfile
Open URLs directly in your standard browser
Optional use of vim/ranger-like keys
Simple command line interface
Network functionality including multiuser support
The last can be used to omit password entering, too
kpcli – A command line interface for KeePass

A command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files. This program was inspired by my use of the CLI of the Ked Password Manager (“kedpm -c”) combined with my need to migrate to KeePass.

Weekly Spotlight

Open Source GPS Tracking System – Traccar

Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system for various GPS tracking devices. System supports more than 80 different communication protocols from popular vendors. It includes web interface to manage tracking devices online.

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The Ubuntu Conspiracy

If Microsoft bought Canonical, millions of users would have to jump ship or accept life
under the Microsoft banner.

Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A “Standard” Offering

Through the wonderful ZFS On Linux project there is a native port of the ZFS file-system driver to Linux natively (unlike the ZFS FUSE implementation) but due to the GPL vs. CDDL licensing issue it can’t be mainlined into the Linux kernel.

Mark Shuttleworth sent out a brief mailing list message today responding to a user interested in making ZFS Snappy support for Ubuntu. Mark wrote, “If it’s ZFS you’re after, it will be included in Ubuntu as standard in due course.”

By “standard” he presumably means that Ubuntu will maintain a DKMS kernel package for it in the official Ubuntu archive and perhaps we’ll see that package installed by default for Ubuntu Server, but that it wouldn’t be directly patched into their kernel. That’s what I’d assume at least given the license issues. Ubuntu wouldn’t support ZFS for the root file-system, but could be useful on Ubuntu Server for some secondary drives with RAID-Z.

LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family

It’s a big day here at LastPass. We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joining LogMeIn. As one of the world’s leading SaaS companies, we can’t imagine a better team to align with our values and product-driven mission. With their experience in growing successful brands like join.me, we’re excited to join LogMeIn in delivering the next generation of identity and access management for individuals, teams and companies, with LastPass at the forefront.

Slackel Linux: Not Your Father’s Slackware

For a Slackware-based distro, one of Slackel’s strong points is the systems tool collection from Salix Linux. Slackel uses the Gslapt Package Manager for access to Slackware, Salix and Slackel package repositories.

Gnome Builder Dev Joins Red Hat

The real news, however, is that I’ve accepted a wonderful role at Red Hat. I’ll be focusing on the Xdg-App developer story, and Builder is an important part of that. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to create and deploy software that users can trust.

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Evolve Your OS | LINUX Unplugged 86

chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:13:18 +0000

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The proprietor of Evolve OS stops by to discuss what makes Evolve OS a unique Linux desktop & the challenges smaller projects face getting coverage and attention.

Plus a look at tiny powerful Linux hardware gadget that we think might be worth backing, a debate about “the look” of Linux apps & more!

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Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter
- Ridiculous Ruling In Ireland Requires ISP To Kick Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of File Sharing Off The Internet | Techdirt

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The award for the best open source photo management application went to digiKam.

Official GNOME SDK runtime builds are out | Alexander Larsson

This repository contains the gnome 3.16 runtimes, org.gnome.Platform, as well as a smaller one that is useful for less integrated apps (like games) called org.freedesktop.Platform. It also has corresponding develoment runtimes (org.gnome.Sdk and org.freedesktop.Sdk) that you can use to create applications for the platforms.

Linux Academy

Right, this has been stopping me from sleeping from a while because it has wound me up quite a lot. (slightly sarcastic)

On a certain episode of L.U.P Chris questioned how Ubuntu applications (made with the Ubuntu SDK) would look on non Ubuntu desktop environments, and quite rightly so came to the conclusion of “well, they would look out of place”. Fine.

Lets stop right now and talk about something else, Gnome “Apps”. Gnome Apps are fucking shit under anything that isn’t Gnome, however nobody is giving Gnome a hard time over this. Gnome is shitting all over everyone else with their poorly designed applications and the Ubuntu Desktop and other desktops are suffering because of it.

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

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I created a Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup group. I was inspired by the idea of how nice it would be to have a rough idea of how many folks will be making it out to LFNW. Just to help with planning.

But I realized my long-term plans are a bit more ambitious. As the weather gets nice in the Seattle area, I’d like to hold semi-frequent meetups with Jupiter Colony members that are in the area. Maybe once a month, record them, or stream them. Eat, chat, maybe even create show content.

Also as we travel to other fests, or hit the road, I’d like to have a tool to suss out interest in your area.

So after LFNW I’d like to use the group for that kind of stuff, which sounds like a lot of fun to me!

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter

Tiny but powerful Linux + WiFi development board. With Cloud Integration & App Store, making hardware is as easy as installing apps!

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Show distro coverage criteria: what do you suggest? Here are my thoughts.

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China’s new Apple | Tech Talk Today 44

chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:32:39 +0000

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A leak reveals the specs, price, and other details about the new Moto 360 smartwatch & is Xiaomi’s new MIUI 6 OS release a iOS rip off?

Plus the market share numbers you won’t believe, and if Linux distros were superheroes, which hero would they be? We debate!

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Moto 360 Shows Up at Best Buy for $249, Outs List of Features | Droid Life

We are expecting to get official Moto 360 launch details when Motorola hosts press at a September 4 event in Chicago, but Best Buy may have gone ahead and let us in on all sorts of details early. According to a listing on Best Buy’s site for the Moto 360, we could end up paying $249.

MIUI 6 Full Review: Visually Stunning, Stunningly Simple – Xiaomi Mi 4 – MIUI Official Community

MIUI 6

I’m not sure who should be more upset. Apple, because this is such a preposterously shameless ripoff of iOS. Or Samsung, because Xiaomi is so much better at ripping off Apple than they are.

Update: Keep in mind, too, that Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra keeps insisting they don’t copy designs from Apple. Even Thom Holwerda agrees that this is just shameless.

Android, iOS gobble up even more global smartphone share | PCWorld

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According to IDC, the total combined market share of Android and iOS swelled to 96.4 percent during the second quarter, up from 92.6 percent a year ago. That left just 2.5 percent of the market to Windows Phone, down from 3.4 percent in a year’s time.

Unfortunately for Microsoft’s Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS devices dominated the high end of the market, while Android—with 84.7-percent global share in smartphone operating systems—tended to dominate the low-end, sub-$200 market. That left precious little room for Windows Phone, even though recent efforts to lower the platform’s licensing costs should have helped propel it in the market.

“With many of its OEM partners focusing on the sub-$200 segments, Android has been reaping huge gains within emerging markets,” said Ramon Llamas, a research manager with IDC’s mobile phone team, in a statement. “During the second quarter, 58.6 percent of all Android smartphone shipments worldwide cost less than $200 off contract, making them very attractive compared to other devices. With the recent introduction of Android One, in which Google offers reference designs below $100 to Android OEMs, the proportion of sub-$200 volumes will climb even higher.”

If Linux Distros Were Superheroes Ubuntu Would Be Superman

If Ubuntu-based Linux distributions were comic book superheroes, who would be what and why? That’s the question I’ve been mulling over for the last half hour.

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SouthEast LinuxFest Highlights | LAS 318

chris — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:54:02 +0000

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Interviews and awesome gear from the floor of SouthEast LinuxFest 2014. We round up the highlights of Linux from the south!

Plus some Firefox news we’re stoked about, and we take another step closer to becoming a commandline ninja…

And so much more!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

June 20-22, 2014
Sheraton Charlotte Airport
Charlotte, NC

Foundstone – A division of McAfee

Our Foundstone practice is one of the world’s foremost authorities on information security. Whether through strategic consulting, technology consulting, education, or a combination of all three, McAfee Foundstone delivers strategic solutions to security challenges, going well beyond a short-term fix. Our security experts make sure you have the right processes and procedures in place, the most effective tools to support those processes and procedures, and the education to make it all work together effectively and seamlessly.

Alan Hicks (AlanHicks) on Twitter

Slackware Linux Essentials, 2nd Edition: David Cantrell, Logan Johnson, Alan Hicks Chris Lumens: 9781571763389: Amazon.com: Books

This Book in designed to get you started with Slackware Linux operating system. It`s not meant to cover every single aspect of the distribution, but rather to show what it is capable of and give you a basic working knowledge of the system.

A few of the better-known users of SQLite are shown below in alphabetical order. There is no complete list of projects and companies that use SQLite. SQLite is in the public domain and so many groups use SQLite in their projects without ever telling us.

Dwayne Richard Hipp (born April 9, 1961) is the architect and primary author of SQLite as well as Fossil SCM.

Tweets from the floor:

Lots of neat looking toys at the archlinux ARM table #self2014 pic.twitter.com/WTb051XaYr

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Docker(.io) #self2014 pic.twitter.com/ki04aXxVjV

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

ZFS 101 #self2014 pic.twitter.com/TT39FRv1q0

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

And there was much rejoicing #self2014 pic.twitter.com/yBrtRAekhj

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

icculus.org/self2014

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Runs Linux

Goofy-looking security guard robot runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The autojump -s command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable

Weekly Spotlight

ArchAssault

The ArchAssault Project is an Arch Linux derivative for penetration testers, security professionals and all-around Linux enthusiasts. This means we import the vast majority of the official upstream Arch Linux packages, these packages are unmodified from their upstream source. While our Arch Linux base is primarily untouched, there are times were we have to fork a package to be able to better support our vast selection of tools. All of our packages strive to maintain the Arch Linux standards, methods and philosophies.

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This Firefox OS-powered streaming stick is Mozilla’s answer to Chromecast

Google\’s Chromecast streaming stick could soon get competition from an unexpected source: Mozilla has secretly been working with a partner on a Chromecast-like streaming stick that is powered by Firefox OS. The project was supposed to be under wraps for at least a few more weeks, but Thursday, news started to leak out when a Mozilla evangelist tweeted a photo of a prototype of the device.

A fully open TV casting prototype device running #FirefoxOS. Open boot loader and all. pic.twitter.com/bZ0Uz8P0Zs

— Christian Heilmann (@codepo8) June 19, 2014

Maynard is a Wayland based Lightweight Desktop Environment Designed for the Raspberry Pi and Lower-end Hardware

This Wayland implementation is based on Weston + GTK, and is using the hardware video scaler (HVS) found in Broadcom BCM2835 to make everything nice and smooth. Although this is still work in progress, you can to try it on your Raspberry Pi

AMD Planning Open Source GameWorks Competitor, Mantle for Linux

(51:45) _When asked about AMD input on SteamOS and its commitment to the gamers that see that as the future, Huddy mentioned that AMD was considering, but not promising, bringing the Mantle API to Linux. If the opportunity exists, says Huddy, to give the gamer a better experience on that platform with the help of Mantle, and developers ask for the support for AMD, then AMD will at the very least \”listen to that.\” It would incredibly interesting to see a competitor API in the landscape of Linux where OpenGL is essentially the only game in town.

XCOM: Enemy Unkown Released For Linux

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