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We go hands on with Linux Mint 18, then discuss the latest batch of desktop killers & Wimpy’s new rig. Plus what makes Mattermost really great, a new new universal package format, the confusing things Red Hat says & we get to know WireGuard!

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A New Ubuntu Phone Is In Development

Midori is the name of a nimble WebKit-based web browser — but might it also be the codename for a new Ubuntu Phone?

Reader Richard S — and big thanks to you Richard! — pointed us to bug #1551811. This bug mentions the device codename ‘Midori’ with regards to a ‘trust prompt’ issue that causes a reboot on the MX4 and the mystery new handset.

A quick Google shows that the codename ‘Midori’ is in keeping with the codenames of previous Ubuntu devices, as it is, is once again, based on a character from the Dragon Ball franchise

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Next-Generation Secure Network Tunnel Announced For The Linux Kernel

It’s much simpler than anything before it, with peers exchanging short Curve25519 public keys just like in SSH. Secure network interfaces can be added and removed using the usual ‘ip-link’ and ‘ip-address’ tools. From there, everything is easily taken care of by the kernel, and secure tunnels are made quite simple. Not only that, but the performance is in fact better than IPsec, which is quite the accomplishment.”

Disclosure, I’ve reviewed various versions of the kernel code, over the past few months, and it seems sane, but note I am not a kernel networking developer :)

What is subuser?

Docker provides an isolated and consistent environment for your programs to run in. Subuser gives your desktop programs access to the resources they need in order to function normally.

Microsoft Announces Open .NET Core 1.0 at Red Hat Summit

Microsoft announced the moves at, of all places, Red Hat Summit. Why would that happen? One of the motivations in open sourcing .NET and other platform tools is to build bridges between .NET infrastructure tools and Linux

Microsoft: Nearly One In Three Azure Virtual Machines Now Are Running Linux

Russinovich said, Microsoft has gone from one in four of its Azure virtual machines running Linux to nearly one in three. The other two-thirds of Azure customers are running Windows Server in their virtual machines.

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Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and MATE Editions Are Now Available for Download

Thanks to one of our regular readers who constantly monitored the development progress of the Linux Mint 18 operating systems, we’ve been informed that the final ISO images are now available for download for both Cinnamon and MATE editions.

New features in Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 18 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.

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Is The Linux Desktop Dead?

All hail our new overlords the mobile, the portable, and slim. With high-end devices like the NUC redefining what it means to be a desktop computer, and mobiles massive market share, and now the latest crop of “desktop killer” laptops make us question how many of us will be running Linux on a “traditional desktop” in 10 years?

Entroware will soon be announcing a new laptop and I had the privilege of na…

Entroware will soon be announcing a new laptop and I had the privilege of naming her! The Entroware Athena will soon be available for purchase, pre-installed with either Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS.

Athena

Athena is available now, with either 15“ or 17″ screen, two Intel i7 CPU options, nvidia 970M or 980M GPU, upto 64GB RAM, 2x M.2, 2x SATA and comes pre-installed with either Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE

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Entroware Apollo: Linux Macbook Killer | LAS 406

chris — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:41:51 +0000

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Has Entroware built the ultimate 13 inch Linux laptop? We put their Apollo through our battery of tests & review this good looking Skylake powered Linux portable.

Plus Microsoft buys the folks behind Mono, Canonical might have a ZFS fight on their hands & more!

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Apollo by Entroware

Core I/O Details:

1 x HDMI
1 x USB 3.0 Port
1 x USB 3.1C Port
1 x USB 2.0 Port
1 x 2-in-1 Card Reader
1 x Audio Output

Dimensions (W x D x H):
325mm x 219mm x 18mm

Weight:
1.42Kg (inc. battery)

Battery:
4 Cell Lithium-Ion (6300mAh)

My research shows it’s built on top of the Topstar U931 kit.

Apollo as Configured

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lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2f (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d31 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3a (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d03 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d14 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d21 (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 9d23 (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)

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Desktop App Pick

N1 – The extensible, open source mail client.

Weekly Spotlight

Password Generation on Linux

apg generates several random passwords. It uses several password generation algorithms (currently two) and a built-in pseudo random number generator.
Default algorithm is pronounceable password generation algorithm designed by Morrie Gasser and described in A Random Word Generator For Pronounceable Passwords National Technical Information Service (NTIS) AD-A-017676. The original paper is very old and had never been put online, so I have to use NIST implementation described in FIPS-181.

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Microsoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base.

Linux users campaign after Microsoft ‘neglects’ Skype with a week of downtime-

The _open letter to Microsoft_said: “It was a shitty move to not update the client for three years, which resulted in this, mostly. It was annoying that you ignored almost every tweet to @SkypeSupport about issues with Skype for Linux. But it is absolutely disgraceful that you dropped the Linux client BEFORE any alternatives are available and without telling your users.”

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux

However, our conclusion is simple: Conservancy and the Linux copyright
holders in the GPL Compliance Project for
Linux Developers believe that distribution of ZFS binaries is a GPL
violation and infringes Linux’s copyright. We are also concerned that it may
infringe Oracle’s copyrights in ZFS. As such, we again ask Oracle to respect
community norms against license proliferation and simply relicense its
copyrights in ZFS under a GPLv2-compatible license.

TechSNAP Take on SFC ZFS Finding

Canonical accused of violating GPL with ZFS-in-Ubuntu 16.04 plan

Canonical’s counter-argument is that “The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system.”

Report from the VMware GPL court hearing | LaForge’s home page

VMware is using parts of the Linux kernel in their proprietary ESXi
product, including the entire SCSI mid-layer, USB support, radix tree
and many, many device drivers.

as is generally known, Linux is licensed under GNU GPLv2, a
copyleft-style license.

VMware has modified all the code they took from the Linux kernel and
integrated them into something they call vmklinux.

VMware has modified their proprietary virtualization OS kernel
vmkernel with specific API/symbol to interact with vmklinux

at least in earlier versions of ESXi, virtually any block device
access has to go through vmklinux and thus the portions of Linux
they took

vmklinux and vmkernel are dynamically linked object files that are
linked together at run-time

the Linux code they took runs in the same execution context (address
space, stack, control flow) like the vmkernel.

The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues – Software Freedom Law Center

When, in this mode of employment, the CDDL-licensed code implementing the filesystem is combined with the module-specific translation layer and the result is then statically or dynamically linked into the Linux kernel, the resulting binary is licensed to all users under the terms of GPLv2, and only GPLv2, as the license requires. This happens because CDDL gives permission for binary forms of the code it licenses to be released under any license, and the license terms in effect are those of GPLv2. The making of the binary itself does not result in infringement of the kernel copyrights, or a violation of GPLv2’s terms.

Debian Devs Realized They Were Shipping Pre-Built Nvidia Module, Breaking GPL

“The Nvidia-graphics-modules provides pre-compiled non-free kernel modules. Several lawyers and people believe this to be a violation of the GPL license used by the kernel. This interpretation is consistent with our position on ZFS modules, which we also ship in source code only. As such, the work is not distributable and should be removed from the archive in all suites, ASAP,” Julian Andres Klode said.

#815060 – RM: nvidia-graphics-modules — RoQA; Violates kernel license – Debian Bug report logs

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Apollo Has Landed | LINUX Unplugged 133

chris — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:20:40 +0000

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Entroware’s Apollo laptop has arrived, and we share our first hands on impressions of their ultra Linux laptop, how does it compare to the Purism, and a quick chat with Entroware’s co-founder.

Plus we discuss the Mint hack, and solutions we could create as a community to solve the bigger problems, updates from some of our favorite open source projects, and chat about Beep Beep Yarr, and more!

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<< Silk Guardian >> is an anti-forensic kill-switch

Silk Guardian is an anti-forensic LKM kill-switch that waits for a change on your usb ports and then wipes your ram and turns off your computer.

MUTINY! — Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Adds Unity-Style Desktop Layout

“There’s a Mutiny coming!,” the Ubuntu MATE team teases. “Yes, that is a top menu. Yes, this is Ubuntu MATE. See you Thursday for the Beta 1 release!”.

Cnchi v0.14 Moves Into Stable Branch

The most notable change in Cnchi 0.14 is beta support for ZFS (in Automatic Installation Mode). It is now possible to install Antergos with ZFS as your chosen filesystem. You simply tell Cnchi which drive to use and it will take care of formatting the drive and configuring ZFS for you.

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The most powerful Ubuntu phone is still not good enough

The Meizu Pro 5 has the Galaxy S6’s processor, but not its performance

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“The Mint Hack”

Hacker explains how he put “backdoor” in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads | ZDNet

The hacker responsible, who goes by the name “Peace,” told me in an encrypted chat on Sunday that a “few hundred” Linux Mint installs were under their control — a significant portion of the thousand-plus downloads during the day.

How can a server that hosts a high-profile website like linuxmint.com be so low on security

Backdoored Linux Mint, and the Perils of Checksums

But it’s also important to note that comparing the checksum of a file you downloaded with what you see on the website you downloaded it from isn’t secure either, even if you are using SHA256. If a hacker can hack the website to modify the download link, they can modify the checksum at the same time to match their malicious download.

The only solution to this problem is to use public key cryptography.

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Churning Over Btrfs | LINUX Unplugged 88

chris — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:03:35 +0000

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Our discussion of Linux filesystems goes in depth this week as our LUG sorts out the best filesystem for your Linux desktop, server, laptop & mobile. Plus a few corrections from last week & lots of follow up.

We also look at the release of Linux 4.0, some of the more humorous press coverage it’s received & the “big feature” Linus could care less about.

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Linux 4.0 released

4.0 doesn’t have all that much special. Much have been
made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically,
that not only wasn’t the reason for the version number change, we’ve
had much bigger changes in other versions. So this is very much a
“solid code progress” release

Latest Antergos Live CD Includes GNOME 3.16, Based on Arch Linux

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Easy rollback after update (btrfs and grub).

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The Death of Chris’ #1 Rig

Why I think btrfs remains the future for those who want it

Chris on the latest episode of Unplugged took the time to vent his latest frustration with btrfs. The issue in question is a bug that causes arch not to boot on 3.19.1-3, 3.18.9 and 3.14.35. I and quite a few others have experienced this on our Arch btrfs setups and I enjoyed fixing this issue for the same reason I enjoyed fixing libxcursor and radeon bugs that caused my system not to boot.

Easy rollback after update (btrfs and grub).

Hope anyone can find this useful when dealing with bleeding edge breakage

OS Backups…

How PC-BSD Does it…

Another btrfs snafu… glad I am sitting this one out

Stable kernel version 3.19.1+ can cause a deadlock at mount time

workaround: boot with older kernel, or run btrfs-zero-log to clear the log (beware of the consequences)

fix: scheduled for 3.19.4, or apply 9c4f61f01d269815bb7c37.

also affected: 3.14.35+, 3.18.9+

Versions from 3.15 up to 3.16.1 suffer from a deadlock that was observed during heavy rsync workloads with compression on, it’s recommended to use 3.16.2 and newer

Fedora Server 22 Is Using The XFS File-System By Default

The server edition of Fedora 22 is using the XFS file-system by default rather than EXT4.

Using the XFS file-system as the default within an LVM has been part of the Fedora Server technical spec while with Fedora 22 it’s finally happened. The default layout for Fedora Server 22 installations is using XFS atop LVM while /boot is outside the LVM setup.

XFS: There and back … and there again?

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