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Linux in Mint Condition | LAS 394

chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:14:13 +0000

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Linux Mint 17.3 proves you can based a Linux desktop on a stable core (Ubuntu 14.04) & still deliver an innovative and polished desktop. We take back some of our concerns about Linux Mint & discuss the areas where they are pushing user experience forward.

Plus Mozilla plans to dump Thunderbird, the big release that completely ignores Windows & more!

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New features in Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 17.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.

Linux Mint 17.3 available for download.

Simplify Command-Line Package Management with APT instead of apt-get

APT, the Advanced Package Tool from the Debian project, is for managing packages by using a lot of separate tools to accomplish various tasks. In the past, users needed to know multiple command structures like apt-get, apt-cache, apt-config, and many more to utilize the full feature-set of APT.

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Desktop App Pick

Free Astronomical Observatory Software

Alexander Wolf has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of Stellarium 0.14, the best free and open-source astronomical observatory software.

According to the internal release notes, which we’ve attached at the end of the article for reference, Stellarium 0.14.1 is mostly a bugfix update that resolves some of the issues reported by users since the previous release of the software, Stellarium 0.14.

Stellarium

Weekly Spotlight

$276.00 worth of Raspberry Pi / Arduino

Humble Books Bundle: Learn Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Treat yourself to Raspberry Pi (and Arduino too)! Have an appetite for making? Satisfy your craving with these Make: books and magazines while serving up support for Maker Ed too!

Pay what you want for Make: Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects, MintDuino: Building an Arduino-compatible Breadboard Microcontroller, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA, Make: Making Simple Robots, and Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets.

Pay more than the average price to also receive Make: A Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot; MAKE 38: High-Tech DIY; MAKE 36: Boards and Microcontrollers; Make: The Maker’s Manual; Make: JavaScript Robotics; Make: Getting Started with Sensors; Make: Getting Started with Arduino, 3rd Edition; Make: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition; and Make: AVR Programming.

Pay $15 or more for all of that plus Making Things Talk and Make: Sensors.

Plus, everyone who buys the bundle receives $10 off a print and $5 off a digital Make: Magazine subscription

Choose the price. Together, these books cost up to $276. Here at Humble Bundle, though, you choose the price!

Read them anywhere. These books are available in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats, meaning you can read them anywhere at anytime. Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.

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LAS Jacket Returns!

LAS Jacket Returns! | US

Celebrate your new year with Linux on your mind and on your body!

LAS Jacket in the EU!

We are excited to offer this LAS zip up hooded jacket that will ship from the
EU!

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Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo

“I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in some cases, Mozilla technology,” Baker wrote in her open memo, posted on Mozilla’s public governance forum. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled.”

Mozilla’s conundrum: What to do about Thunderbird?

Baker, who says she uses Thunderbird to organize vast parts of her life, now believes that the email client will thrive best if it does not rely on Mozilla for development resources and, in some cases, on Mozilla technology. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled,” she wrote in Mozilla’s public governance forum on Monday.

Mozilla ends the advertisements in Firefox new tab tiles

Apple’s Swift programming language is now open source

As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects.

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What’s New MATE | LINUX Unplugged 116

chris — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:47:02 +0000

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Behind the scenes on Ubuntu MATE’s new features pushing the Ubuntu platform forward for traditional desktops, why Apple’s latest court case proves Richard Stallman was right about owning your own software & there is real debate about Xiaomi’s new Linux laptop.

Plus the big EFF win that’s great for Linux users, the big problems facing x86 that are a wake up call to distro makers & more!

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Intel x86 considered harmful (new paper)

So, today I’m releasing this first paper, finally. You can get the PDF
_here, and also the EPUB version
here._

_As mentioned, the paper is mostly a (hopefully systematic) survey of the various
problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 year_s.

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DOJ dismisses Apple’s arguments against decrypting iOS communications

Federal courts should require Apple to unlock encrypted data because the operating system is “licensed, not sold,” to customers, the Justice Department argued in a reply brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Richard Stallman is the hero the internet needs

But suddenly he doesn’t seem crazy anymore. After the Snowden revelations, and all the other major and minor privacy breaches of the past few years, his paranoia now seems justified — even rational:

He warned of the growing danger of DRM in his great short story The Right to Read (1997).
He refuses to own a cellphone, on the grounds that it might be used as a tracking or covert listening device. This still sounds slightly paranoid, but looks increasingly possible.
Stallman considers cloud computing dangerous. In 2008 I thought this was alarmist; now nobody trusts the cloud.
He’s always held that proprietary software cannot be trusted. Windows 10’s shady behaviour proves that he has a point.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Xiaomi’s Linux Laptop To Enter Production ‘Early Next Year’

The model with a 12.5-inch screen will be manufactured by Inventec (who make laptops for Acer, Toshiba and HP), with an initial order of 250,000 units.

The slightly larger device is to be made by Compal Electronics (known for manufacturing Apple devices, and various PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo games consoles), with Xiaomi placing an order for 300,000 units.

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Wolfing Down Ubuntu 15.10 | LAS 388

chris — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 07:15:43 +0000

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

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

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Ubuntu 15.10 Review

Linux kernel 4.2
Stateless persistent network interface names are now being used
GNOME packages have been upgraded to version 3.16.X
Upstream GNOME scrollbars are now being used.
GCC 5 and Python 3.x
Support for the Steam Controller when you install Steam from the repo.The Steam installer package takes care of setting requisite udev and uinput rules and permissions.
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

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

Ubuntu 15.10 Flavors Now Available for Download

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

Unity 7.3.3 Features

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

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

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

Other changes in Unity 7.3.3:

You can now drag and drop apps from the Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts

Page up/down keyboard navigation works as scroll in the Dash

Dash title & BFB tooltip is updated based on your privacy settings

Session exit buttons now have a click effect

Fix to prevent ‘shutdown’ of computer when screen is locked

Active app icons now show unfolded when launcher accordion triggered

Fix for full screen menubar

Fixes issues with ‘show desktop’ that caused window decoration for two windows of same app to vanish

Dash: Non-expandable category headers skipped in keyboard navigation

Dash: Non-expandable category headers are no longer highlighted on mouse over

Dash: screenreader and KeyNav fixes

New setting to control the show-now delay (when pressing Alt key)

Logic tweak to stop adjacent menu opening when moving from an indicator icon to its menu

Ubuntu Make

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

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

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

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

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

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2

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

10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 15.10

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

Trying out Unity 8 in LXC

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

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

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

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released for Desktop, Server, and Cloud

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

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Desktop App Pick

BlueProximity

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

Weekly Spotlight

Hawaii – The QtQuick and Wayland system

Hawaii is a lightweight Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. It uses the Hawaii Shell desktop workspace. You can use the Hawaii operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows(tm) or Mac OS X(tm) although it’s not currently considered as stable as other operating systems, if you feel brave enough you can be an early adopter and let us know of glitches and bugs and help us make a great product.

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

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

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

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Kubuntu’s Release Manager Calls It Quits

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

Kubuntu Release Manager Steps Down, Says Canonical Defrauded Donors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alienware Steam Machine Up for Pre-Order

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

Starting at $449.99

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

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

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

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Rooting Noah’s House | LAS 384

chris — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:31:02 +0000

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Home automation can make you feel like you’re living in the future. This week we dig into the technology, advantages & disadvantages to fully automating all aspects of your home or office. We share our hard learned lessons!

Plus Valve’s huge milestone, what’s great about Gnome 3.18, Ubuntu powered Drones, the creepy Windows 10 feature that’s pushing people to adopt Linux & more!

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Noah’s House tour

Automation starts by designing around something

Automation Controller ie: Crestron
Peer to Peer Automation ie: Insteon
Science Project based automation ie: X10
Security System based automation ie: HAI

Consider the the following

How can I interface to other systems?
What I/O does the system offer? ie: prop protocol? CC/OC?
How does the system communicate? ie: wifi, network

Light Solutions Considered

Instead
X10
Crestron
Lutron

Advantages of Lutron

Able to interface to multiple devices

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Z-Wave Plus home automation hub runs Linux on Raspberry Pi

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Z-Wave Europe and Popp & Co. have launched a “Popp Hub” home automation gateway that runs Linux on a Raspberry Pi, and supports Z-Wave and IP smart devices.

Desktop App Pick

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Weekly Spotlight

App Grid – your alternative to the Ubuntu Software Center

App Grid is an alternative to the Software Center.

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GNOME 3.18 Release Notes

GNOME 3.18 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorporates 25112 changes, made by approximately 772 contributors.

Qualcomm Goes Ubuntu for Drone Reference Platform | Linux.com

Ubuntu got a big boost as a competitive operating system for drones with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) reference platform announced by Qualcomm last week called Snapdragon Flight. The Snapdragon 801 based development platform supports Linaro’s version of Ubuntu, as well as OpenCV, according to an email to Linux.com from a Qualcomm representative. The rep went on the call it “an open platform for companies to port their own existing drone software.”

Valve hits a Linux landmark—1,500 games available on Steam

But this weekend there’s an even bigger numeric milestone to celebrate according to the Linux site Phoronix—1,500 Linux titles are currently available through Steam.

Steam Crosses 1,500 Games Natively Available For Linux – Phoronix

Today marks a huge milestone for Steam on Linux: 1,500 games are natively available! This is quite significant while Windows is at 6,464 and OS X is at 2,323.

Windows ‘outs’ you to your parents

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Get Tracked with Windows 10 | TTT 198

chris — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:19:01 +0000

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Windows 10 is released to the public, but the devil is in the details. Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used, we share the details.

Plus how the mainstream is reacting to the new release, the sliding market share of the iPad & the teleportation breakthrough scientists are reporting.

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Hackception | TTT 194

chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:26:00 +0000

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A slick talking, high rolling hacking group “Hacking Team” gets hacked. Some of the details in the data dump expose issues in SELinux, Android & iOS. We share the details.

Big changes are coming to Firefox, 2TB SSDs coming to a desktop near you, Prime Day is near & more!

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DuckDuckGoing Up | Tech Talk Today 185

chris — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:16:33 +0000

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DuckDuckGo sees 600% user growth since the Edward Snowden leaks, we’ll play highlights of an interview with their CEO. Uber has a mess in California, Apple Watch sales numbers are in & solving a major sleep issue for many.

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Chrome Took My Memory! | CR 154

chris — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:35:25 +0000

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Mike shares his recent experience developing Chrome apps & we debate if Chrome platform tax is costing users a decent browser. Is Chrome becoming the next Windows?

Plus what we’d like to see announced next for Android and iOS & the big problems those features would solve for developers.

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Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

When Chrome debuted for the first time in 2008 it was the fastest browser on the block. It was light, nimble, extensible and easy to use compared to Firefox, which had become slow and cumbersome.

In the past few years, I’ve stuck with it, even as it became a memory hog, unstable and a major drain on battery life.

I was in denial. But now I have to admit it — the stable, snappy Chrome is a distant memory. As it has grown in popularity, it’s steadily got worse.

Google Lobbying Spending Reached New High in Early 2015

What we’d like to see in iOS 9 at WWDC next month | Ars Technica

We’ve assembled a small wishlist of features for iOS 9, with a focus on the smaller tweaks we hope Apple can focus on now that it’s not pulling up all the carpets and replacing all the fixtures. Some of these are more likely to be incorporated than others. Some have been on our wishlist for literally years. But all of them would be welcome improvements.

A Google Now Open API is in the Works

Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use. Expanding on the current pilot program that works with 40 third-party services, the plan is to offer an open API in the future, that anyone can build into their apps.

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VirtualBox on the Ropes | Tech Talk Today 125

chris — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:14:45 +0000

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Special guest Noah is in studio & We look at Android’s huge 2014, and recent Bitcoin volatility. Then, as long time VirtualBox users, we discuss the future of the project.

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Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014

According to the latest research from our WSS (Smartphones) service, global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android accounted for 81 percent of all smartphones last year and shipped over 1 billion units worldwide for the first time ever.

Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen – Digits – WSJ

People familiar with the matter say Microsoft is putting money into Cyanogen, which is building a version of the Android mobile-operating system outside of Google’s auspices.

Microsoft would be a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing that values Cyanogen in the high hundreds of millions, one of the people said. The person said the financing round could grow with other strategic investors that have expressed interest in Cyanogen because they’re also eager to diminish Google’s control over Android. The identity of the other potential investors couldn’t be learned.

Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht’s Laptop

In Ulbricht’s trial Thursday, former FBI special agent Ilhwan Yum described how he traced 3,760 bitcoin transactions over 12 months ending in late August 2013 from servers seized in the Silk Road investigation to Ross Ulbricht’s Samsung 700z laptop, which the FBI seized at the time of his arrest in October of that year. In all, he followed more than 700,000 bitcoins along the public ledger of bitcoin transactions, known as the blockchain, from the marketplace to what seemed to be Ulbricht’s personal wallets. Based on exchange rates at the time of each transaction, Yum calculated that the transferred coins were worth a total of $13.4 million.

Does VirtualBox VM Have Much A Future Left? – Phoronix

It’s been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the VM software managed by Oracle since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox?

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Deploy Like an Animal | CR 138

chris — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:59:32 +0000

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It’s a tip show edition of Coder Radio. Mike shares a great way to get some Heroku features without the bill.

Plus the annoying honeymoon period, your feedback & more!

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Android Monetization
You’re doing it all wrong
Another Open Your Mouth Web Interface.

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Apple shutting down legacy TestFlight next month following iTunes Connect integration | 9to5Mac

Apple bought the popular software testing distribution service through its acquisition of Burstly almost a year ago, and announced plans at WWDC 2014 to roll out its own version of the service in the future. service in the future. Since then, Apple has integrated TestFlight beta testing for app developers with iTunes Connect.

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The Cost of Unlimited | Tech Talk Today 82

chris — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:26:45 +0000

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The FBI creates a fake Seattle Times website to trap a bad guy, but does this cross the line? We debate. The FTC goes after AT&T’s claims of “unlimited” data.

Plus more details surface in the NFC payments “war”, Windows 10 “borrows” more features, our kickstarter of the week & more!

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FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to nab bomb-threat suspect

The FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Lacey’s Timberline High School in 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco.

The deception was publicized Monday when Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., revealed it on Twitter.

The EFF documents reveal that the FBI dummied up a story with an Associated Press byline about the Thurston County bomb threats with an email link “in the style of The Seattle Times,” including details about subscriber and advertiser information.

The link was sent to the suspect’s MySpace account. When the suspect clicked on the link, the hidden FBI software sent his location and Internet Protocol information to the agents. A juvenile suspect was identified and arrested June 14.

The revelation brought a sharp response from the newspaper.

“We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect,” said Seattle Times Editor Kathy Best.

“Not only does that cross a line, it erases it,” she said.

“Our reputation and our ability to do our job as a government watchdog are based on trust. Nothing is more fundamental to that trust than our independence — from law enforcement, from government, from corporations and from all other special interests,” Best said. “The FBI’s actions, taken without our knowledge, traded on our reputation and put it at peril.”

MCX Confirms Retailer Exclusivity for CurrentC Mobile Payments, but No Fines for Leaving Consortium

Much of the Apple news in recent days has centered around Apple Pay and what Tim Cook referred to on Monday as a “skirmish” in which several retailers backing a competing mobile payments initiative known as CurrentC have shut down NFC payment functionality in their stores to prevent customer use of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and other similar services.

Numerous sources have indicated that retailers backing CurrentC are contractually prohibited from accepting alternative forms of mobile payments, and sources told The New York Times that retailers breaking those contracts would “face steep fines.”

Importantly, if a merchant decides to stop working with MCX, there are no fines.

FTC sues AT&T over ‘deceptive’ throttling of unlimited data customers | The Verge

The Federal Trade Commission is suing AT&T because the second-largest US carrier throttles speeds of its unlimited data customers, a policy that the FTC describes as “deceptive” and “unfair.” In a press release, the FTC said AT&T has “misled millions of its smartphone customers” by slowing down their data speeds after they’ve used up a certain amount of data in a single month. AT&T has failed to make its throttling policies clear enough, according to the complaint. “The issue here is simple: ‘unlimited’ means unlimited,” said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.

Update 11:15 AM PT: AT&T has given a statement to MacRumors in response to the FTC’s “baffling” complaint, stating that the allegations are “baseless” and that it has been “completely transparent” with customers.

“The FTC’s allegations are baseless and have nothing to do with the substance of our network management program. It’s baffling as to why the FTC would choose to take this action against a company that, like all major wireless providers, manages its network resources to provide the best possible service to all customers, and does it in a way that is fully transparent and consistent with the law and our contracts.

“We have been completely transparent with customers since the very beginning. We informed all unlimited data-plan customers via bill notices and a national press release that resulted in nearly 2,000 news stories, well before the program was implemented. In addition, this program has affected only about 3% of our customers, and before any customer is affected, they are also notified by text message.”

Microsoft borrows Mac trackpad gestures for Windows 10 | The Verge

n a keynote speech at TechEd Europe today, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore demonstrated new trackpad features that will soon be available to Windows 10 testers. “In the past touch pads on Windows have really been done very differently because OEMs do them,” explained Belfiore. Microsoft introduced precision trackpads with the help of Intel in Windows 8 to improve the hardware situation, and now the focus is on gestures in software. “With Windows 10 we’re adding support for power users in a touch pad, where multiple finger gestures — which all of you power users learn — can make you really efficient.”

The new gestures include a three finger swipe down action to minimize all active Windows and three finger swipe up to bring them back. An interesting addition is the ability to use a three finger swipe up gesture to activate the new Task View feature of Windows 10. Not only does Task View look like OS X’s Mission Control (Exposé) feature, the three finger swipe up is the same gesture. Microsoft is also borrowing the three finger swipe left and right to activate switching between apps, something Apple uses to move between fullscreen Mac applications.

Kickstarter of the week: The Undress

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Painless Plex Migration | Linux Action Show 334

chris — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:58:02 +0000

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Our guide to moving your Plex, btsync, SmokePing, and others to a new Linux server. And our take on how the Intel NUC performs as a home server with heavy Plex usage.

Plus the big features coming to a distro near you & has Netflix coming to Linux shown us how Linux users are now “all-in with DRM”? We debate.

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NUC Linux Server

Intel Nuc D54250WYKH

The Intel NUC D54250WYKH has many useful features, including four USB 3.0 ports, an infrared sensor, a headphone/microphone jack, Mini HDMI*, and Mini DisplayPort* video interfaces, and extra space to accommodate 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives to support a variety of home or small office usages.

The chubby NUC has room for a 2.5 Inch SSD which was great for my OS and still has the standard PCI Mini storage slot

Low noise profile, not silent. But very quiet, about three feet away I can’t hear it.

Performance of the NUC

AnandTech | Intel D54250WYKH Haswell NUC Kit with 2.5″ Drive Slot Mini-Review*
Inital tesiting shows a busy btsync and 1080p Plex stream can nearly max the 4 core i5 out.

The power consumption at the wall was measured with the display being driven through the mini-HDMI port. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the D54250WYK with other low power PCs evaluated before. For load power consumption, we ran Furmark 1.12.0 and Prime95 v27.9 together.

Moving Plex Media Server to another server

1 . Set up coming UID and GIDs between your NFS and app server.
2. When migrating, try to keep the same file paths. IE: /mnt/nfs was where I had the media nfs mount on the previous box.
3. Setup your fstab, when possible use systemd to mount so the mount is network aware.

Mount using /etc/fstab with systemd

Another method is using the systemd automount service. This is a better option than _netdev, because it remounts the network device quickly when the connection is broken and restored. As well, it solves the problem from autofs, see the example below:

/etc/fstab

servername:/home   /mountpoint/on/client  nfs  users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,noatime 0 0

**Tip: **noauto above will not mount the NFS share until it is accessed: use auto for it to be available immediately.
If you have any issues with the mount failing due to the network not being up/available, enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service: this will ensure that network.target has all the links available prior to being active.

Stop Plex on your current server.
Copy your old Plex Media Server configs to the new server:

In general, the location for the various Linux versions of Plex Media Server will be found under:
$PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

Make sure that the directories and contents are all owned by plex:plex.

Move an Install to Another System – Plex

SickRage

FEATURES:

XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
configurable episode renaming
available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are available
specials and double episode support
Automatic XEM Scene Numbering/Naming for seasons/episodes
Episode Status Manager now allows for mass failing seasons/episodes to force retrying.
DVD Order numbering for returning the results in DVD order instead of Air-By-Date order.
Improved Failed handling code for shows.
DupeKey/DupeScore for NZBGet 12+
Searches both TheTVDB.com, TVRage.com and AniDB.net for shows, seasons, episodes
Importing of existing video files now allows you to choose which indexer you wish to have SickBeard search its show info from.
Your tvshow.nfo files are now tagged with a indexer key so that SickBeard can easily tell if the shows info comes from TheTVDB or TVRage.
Sports shows are now able to be searched for..

Moving btsync between servers

Copy down your paths and keys
Shutdown btsync on your old system
Depending on your version you need to remove the .sync folder, or the .Sync folders. Newest versionf of btsync will asking you if you want “take owner ship”.
“Add Folder” and put your folder path in.
Edit the sync listing and click “view key” then click update key.
Post your orginal key you copied down early in. Now btsync will connect up to your peers.

Easy SmokePing Install and Setup

Smoke Ping is a challange to setup on Arch

How to use this image

Install Docker
- Docker – ArchWiki
- Docker Documentation

A. Pull down the SmokePing Docker image: mokeping Docker Image | Docker Hub Registry

docker pull dperson/smokeping

B. Start the Docker image

sudo docker run --name smokeping -p 8000:80 -d dperson/smokeping

C. Visit https://localhost:8000/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

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BitHammer : LinuxActionShow

Hey Chris and Matt, I thought I’d share this cool program BitHammer if you haven’t already heard of it. If you haven’t BitHammer searches out and bans BitTorrent users on your local sub-net. That means if you travel and work (Ohio LinuxFest), often using shared Wi-Fi. This is nice because many people have been plagued by rogue BitTorrent users who’ve crept onto these public hostpots either with a stolen/cracked password, or who lie (and the Wi-Fi owners) about it.

https://github.com/MichaelJCole/bithammer

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Pocket-sized mobile touchscreen web server runs Tizen

The Egg is available in packages starting at $199 with 64GB through Nov. 6, with devices shipping in July 2015. The Egg is billed as a personal web server, and a way to cut the cord on social networking sites that sell information based on your data.

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Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Many Great Features

Linux 3.17 is a big improvement and brings a ton of great features like working AMD Radeon R9 290 support, Xbox One controller support, DMA-BUF cross-device synchronization, a lot of ARM hardware improvements, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, Intel Braswell and Cherry Trail enablement work, EFI Xen Dom0 boot support, file-system improvements, and much more. Linux 3.17 is a very exciting update!

At Last! Netflix Now Works On Ubuntu, No Hacks Required

Netflix now works on Ubuntu out of the box — no hacks, plugins or user-agent switching workaround required.

ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards. Only fully supported filesystems are FAT and NTFS.

let’s drop support for ext2/3/4. Unnecessary features like this make it difficult to implement a feature that matter

AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver

Basically converging the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver and closed-source AMD Catalyst driver to run off the same kernel driver

NVIDIA Presents Its Driver Plans To Support Mir/Wayland & KMS On Linux

No firm time table was provided when NVIDIA’s Unix driver team hope to have their Linux proprietary driver fully running with Wayland/Mir and available to the public, but based upon how things are looking right now, it would likely be a safe bet for 2015.

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

Firefox OS is now available on three continents with 12 smartphones offered by 13 operators in 24 countries. As the only truly open mobile operating system, Firefox OS demonstrates the versatility of the Web as a platform, free of the limits and restrictions associated with proprietary mobile operating systems.

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The Privacy Premium | Tech Talk Today 60

chris — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:36:44 +0000

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Amazon announces new Kindle hardware with some compelling features. Apple calls out Google and proclaims they are the ones who take your privacy seriously, but can we trust them?

Plus a look at some of the innovative features of FireOS, the new world wide hacking powers the DOJ wants to grant to the FBI & much more.

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Amazon announces massive Kindle refresh including new ‘Kindle Voyage’ and $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet | 9to5Google

Following a big day of Apple news, Kindle has unleashed a massive refresh of its Kindle lines, including three refreshed Kindles and—interestingly—one completely new Kindle model. The lineup includes the company’s new flagship e-reader dubbed Kindle Voyage, a new entry-level Kindle that now packs a touch screen, an updated Kindle Fire HDX, and a new Kindle Fire HD, which is starting at just $99.

The Kindle Voyage, which now sits at the top of the lineup, sports a brand new 6-inch e-ink display and what the company is calling “Pagepress,” which replaces the previous hardware buttons and allows you to change pages by simply squeezing on the bezel around the screen. In terms of dimensions, the device comes in at an impressive 7.6 mm thin and weighs in at right around 6.4 ounces. The device starts at $199, and that’s the version that ships with ads and lacks 3G.

Additionally, Amazon also announced the new bottom-of-the-line Kindle, which now comes standard with a touch screen as well as a processor that’s supposedly around 20 percent faster than the previous entry level model. This device will be the most affordable of the bunch, coming in at $79 and up ($99 if you want to ditch the “special offers”).

Kindle Voyage hands-on – YouTube

Amazon releases Fire OS 4: Adds Firefly to tablets, integrates cloud | ZDNet

Fire OS 4 lands with deeper cloud integration, an updated user interface, and profiles for multiple accounts — including individualized preferences for email, social, and settings.
Based on Android 4.4 KitKat, Amazon built Fire OS 4 on top us. (Just in time for L to ship soon)
Better battery life with Smart Suspend: Amazon touted Smart Suspend as the new way to save battery life. It sets up a device-specific profile over time to proactively turn off wireless functionality, delivering up to 25 percent more battery life, Amazon says.
Advanced Streaming and Prediction: Dubbed “ASAP,” devices running Fire OS 4 can now predict which movies and TV content you may want to watch next, while caching them in the background.
Free cloud-based photo storage: Amazon said Fire OS 4 users now have free and “unlimited” photo storage — including full-resolution snaps — in Amazon’s cloud. Photos are uploaded wirelessly.

Apple Confirms HealthKit Bug, Promises Fix by End of September – Mac Rumors

While details on the issue are still unknown, Apple has confirmed to Tim Bradshaw of Financial Times that it has discovered a “bug” in HealthKit that will require a software update to fix. Unfortunately, Apple is not necessarily promising an immediate turnaround on the fix, saying only that the company is aiming to “have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month”.

Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants – The Washington Post

The key is the encryption that Apple mobile devices automatically put in place when a user selects a passcode, making it difficult for anyone who lacks that passcode to access the information within, including photos, e-mails and recordings. Apple once kept possession of encryption keys that unlocked devices for legally binding police requests, but will no longer do so for iOS 8, it said in a new guide for law enforcement.

“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple said on its Web site. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

Digia spins off Qt as subsidiary · LinuxGizmos.com

Digia has spun off a subsidiary called “The Qt Company” to unify Qt’s commercial and open source efforts, and debuted a low-cost plan for mobile developers.

Now Qt is its own company, or at least a wholly owned subsidiary under Digia. Finland-based Digia has largely been involved with the commercial versions of Qt since it acquired the platform from Nokia in 2012, but it has also sponsored the community Qt Project as a relatively separate project. Now, both efforts are being unified “under one roof” at The Qt Company and the new QT.io website, says Digia. Meanwhile, Digia will focus on its larger enterprise software business.

According to Qt, the number of Qt developers has grown “exponentially” to about 800,000, spurred on by the 2013 Qt 5.2 release, which added Qt for Android and iOS ports. Within six weeks, Qt 5.2 was downloaded 500,000 times, and it reached one million downloads only four months after the release. Another one million downloads have occurred since the July release of Qt 5.3, says the company.

DOJ Proposal Would Let FBI Hack Into Computers Overseas With Little Oversight | Techdirt

JustSecurity, alerts us to a rather frightening proposal from the Justice Department that would enable law enforcement to hack into the computers of people who are trying to be anonymous online. At issue is that current rules basically would extend the powers granted for terrorism investigations to everyday criminal investigations, concerning specifically the DOJ/FBI’s ability to hack into computers. In the past, judges could issue warrants for such computer hacking if the target was known to be located in the same district. But the proposed change would wipe out that limitation, and basically give the DOJ/FBI the power to get approval for hacking into a much broader range of computers. Without the geographical limitation, there’s concern about just how broadly this new power would be (ab)used.

Under the DOJ’s proposal, unilateral state action will be the rule, not the exception, in the event an anonymous target “prove[s] to be outside the United States.” The reason is simple: without knowing the target location before the fact, there is no way to provide notice (or obtain consent from) a host country until after its sovereignty has been encroached.

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YaCy Creator Interview | LAS s30e09

chris — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:50:07 +0000

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Michael Christen the creator and maintainer of YaCy search joins us to discuss his free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet using a unique Peer-to-peer technology.

Plus who’s building Linux, the big Docker news, a look ahead at the next big Gnome release…

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YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.

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How does YaCy help combat censorship?
Can I use YaCy on my school/work network to index all of the material on our intranet?
I want to run YaCy on a VPS, can it be configured to crawl faster than my home PC since it has a faster connection?
How would I know that some YaCy machine in the globe does not collect all the requests it gets?
Could YaCy be used to index the TOR network?
And more in show, not documented here.

Installing YaCY

q5ys’s Kickstarter

YaCyPi – Turnkey Raspberry Pi based Internet Search Engine by Obsidian Security Services

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About once a year, the Linux Foundation analyzes the online repository that holds the source code of the kernel, or core, of the Linux operating system.

As well as tracking the increasing complexity of the ever-evolving kernel over a series of releases from versions 3.0 to 3.10

The report also reveals who is contributing code, and the dominant role corporations now play in what began as an all-volunteer project in 1991.

Over 80 percent of code is contributed by people who are paid for their work

The Linux Foundation notes that contributions have been increasing from companies that make mobile and embedded systems, such as Linaro, Samsung, and Texas Instruments.
Contributions from individual developers must have sign-offs before being incorporated into the official kernel code.

Corporate employees truly dominate, with just over 5 percent of approvals by volunteers.

The increasing size of the Linux kernel is due to the incorporation of significant new features, including a file system optimized for solid-state drives and support for the 64-bit ARM microprocessors used in embedded and mobile devices.

That’s evident in today’s news that the company has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Greylock Partners, with minority participation from Insight Venture Partners and existing investors Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Also participating is Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang, who has participated in previous

Docker will use the funding to push toward the general availability of the Docker environment, develop commercial services that pair with the open-source technology and build a team to support the growing community.

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openSUSE 13.1 Review | LAS 29e07

chris — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:58:20 +0000

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openSUSE 13.1 hits the web this week, and it’s our review of this serious contender. With a focus on stability and polish, can this Linux for adults have a lot of fun?

We look at some of the tools, features, and advantages that set openSUSE apart, and a few areas that could use some work.

Plus: Linus’ dad kicks of an Internet storm, news of the week…

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Install:

Nice to have a straight to install, and an installer that gives you room to get technical, but has sane defaults.
Live CDs for Gnome and KDE are also available.
Had trouble getting my bootloader to install on an alternative drive.

Desktop:

Updater integration/plasma widget is bad ass
Display configuration now handled through KDE settings, not YaST.
YaST once again looks at home under KDE or Gnome.
Update alert info does not seem to be integrated into the XFCE desktop, but brilliantly integrated into KDE and supports Gnome Notifications too.

Steam Test:

A couple games did not work. But some of my favorites did.

Overall:

This really is an Enterprise grade release, specifically the KDE desktop. A couple-year deployment would be totally reasonable.
I’d like the long-term use case to look more exciting. Intergration of software.opensuse.org into the YaST tools.
- Search of software.opensuse.org from within the package manager zypper, or YaST tools, ala packer for Arch.
- Install from the zypper CLI/YaST tools from software.opensuse.org
Jos on openSUSE’s importance to SUSE
Live From SUSECon: OpenSUSE’s openQA Distro Tester is the Coolest, Plus OpenSUSE 13.1

Fun fact: openSUSE has a new release every eight months, and there are only three per version: .1, .2 and .3. So a .1 release comes out every other November. openSUSE 13.1 promises greater stability

Round-Up:

Linux 3.11
Work done on 64bit ARM support.
32bit ARM support has been heavily improved and a special Raspberry Pi build for openSUSE is available.
End users can now mount Amazon s3 buckets as local file system.
Samba 4.1
systemd 208
YaST has been ported to Ruby
This release has been selected for Evergreen support extending its life cycle to 3 years.

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Cinnamon 2 Review | LAS s29e04

chris — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:51:10 +0000

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Cinnamon 2.0 is a serious desktop contender, but not for the reasons you might think. Has this desktop environment come into its own?

Plus: Linus says the desktop is his big goal for Linux in the next few years, a fantastic new game for Linux…

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Cinnamon 2.0 released!

This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 16 “Petra” planned for the end of November and will then be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS.

Cinnamon 2.0 represents 5 months of development and 856 commits from 28 developers. It features a lot of bug fixes but also brand new features and many improvements.

Edge-Snapping

Edge-Snapping was inspired by the Snap functionality of Xbox One. It is similar to Edge-Tiling (the window sticks to the edge or corner of the screen, occupies half of the screen and can be resized) but with one key difference: Maximized windows do not cover snapped windows.

The New User Applet

A new user applet is introduced in Cinnamon 2.0 to let you easily perform most session/account related tasks (leaving, switching users, disabling notifications, accessing settings…etc).

Better User Management

System administrators now have access to the “Users and Groups” configuration tool which allows them not only to administrate users but also groups.

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Glare

Glare is a side-scrolling action platforming game coming October 10th from Phobic Studios to Windows, Mac and Linux. Summoned from starlight to defeat the infectious creatures called the Ramora, you play as the Shiner, a being of pure light given shape by an ancient suit of armor. Equipped with nothing but the power of your Glare and Gauntlet you must progress through fantastic alien worlds, tackling satisfying platforming challenges and engaging in fast-paced combat. Glare is a game about discovery, new powers and challenges await you on every world.

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Relatively Laid Out | CR 72

chris — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:34:53 +0000

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With big Google and Apple events on the horizon we look at how Google’s early investment in relative UI layouts will be paying dividends in Android 4.4 KitKat.

Plus: Your emails, our php follow up, a few near-term predictions, and even an RMS rap.

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Nexus 5, 10 2 release date October 24: Android 4.4 KitKat OS to launch at NYC Google event with new devices | Christian News on Christian Today

Google has sent out invitation to its press event to release the Nexus 5 and Nexus 10 2 on October 28, 2013.

How long will Google keep burning money on Motorola?

losses at Google\’s Motorola Mobility have accelerated despite three rounds of layoffs that slashed around 6,000 workers. The division is now on pace to bleed $1 billion a year out of the search giant\’s bank account. And yet Google\’s stock topped a record high $1,000 a share today as investors showed renewed confidence in the company\’s future.

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The Ubuntu Situation | LINUX Unplugged 9

chris — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:53:45 +0000

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Is the traditional release model failing Ubuntu? Perhaps there is a better way to harness the rapid progress of Linux then static releases. With their focus on mobile, and a rather lackluster release around the corner, we debate if Ubuntu’s switch to Unity is costing them now.

Plus we chat about Linux usage among kids, and tools to learn more about Linux and technology, and more.

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— Ubuntu is Getting Boring, is that Bad? —

Is 13.10 the best case for a rolling distro yet?

Ubuntu 13.10 could be the most boring Ubuntu release ever. But is that a bad thing?
Boring helped Windows XP become the widest deployed Windows desktop OS in history, and is still used today more than 31% of Windows users, according to the book of knowledge.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8? ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

the focus for the Ubuntu Desktop team is likely to continue to be Ubuntu Touch/phone next cycle;

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Too Much Choice | LU1

chris — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:49:25 +0000

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Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.

Plus we read a ton of feedback, chat with our live hangout, some tablet troubleshooting, and more!

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Lavabit suspend operations. : LinuxActionShow

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I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit…\”

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openSUSE: Ubuntu Killer? | LAS | s26e02

chris — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:32:09 +0000

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It’s our review of openSUSE 12.3. Is this powerful distribution an island of refuge for Ubuntu defectors? And we’ll discuss how openSUSE stands on it’s own, as a distribution with a rich legacy that’s following it’s own path to the future. But are there a few bumps along this journey?

Plus: Some desktop replacements for Google Reader, support for Wayland builds, your emails…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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openSUSE 12.3 Review:

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The Power of the Build Service

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Rolling, the Right Way

Portal:Tumbleweed – openSUSE

Top Tier Messaging – Can it attract new users?

Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users

A Traditional Distro

A DVD install only disk, with all the DE choices.
Release notes full of info.
Feels very much like the best traditional aspects of a grand release, in sensible delivery and context.

Bumps and Bruises

Wifi No Worky After Install
I was not too impressed with the XFCE implementation, LXDE was about what I expected.

Other

openSUSE 12.3 installer should play nice with UEFI and Secure Boot.
jumping ship from Mint 13 KDE to openSuse 12.3…hmm : LinuxActionShow

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One major piece I will be tackling is making sure we in the Red Hat desktop team work even closer with the Fedora community to bring forth some great improvements to Fedora and created an even more integrated and seamless experience for those wanting to use the Fedora desktop. This ranges from working with the Fedora team on a new software installer to working on getting Wayland ready for deployment in Fedora.

Taking on a new job at Red Hat
May the best code WIN!
openSUSE 12..3 Released!
Back to their usual eight month cycle (12.2 was delayed by two months).

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