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• Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Alpha 2 — We’re not happy, proud, pleased or ambivalent to announce this alpha. No, not us. The is our most “Super” alpha ever and we’re ecstatic to present this fine release for your distro delectation. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 is brimming with new toys to play with.
• Uptake of Fedora 26 is really strong — It’s already surpassed F24 and those of you still on F23.
• Boltron preview — Fedora’s Modularity Working Group (and others) have been working for a while on a Fedora Objective.
• openSUSE Leap 42.3 — “By avoiding major version updates in the base system as well as the desktops, the upgrade to Leap 42.3 is a rather unadventurous matter,” said Ludwig Nussel, openSUSE Leap release manager.
• The death of Flash — Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
• Some people don’t want it to die — Open sourcing Flash spec would be a good solution to keep Flash projects alive safely for archive reasons.
• Update on Debian Reproducible Builds Project — At the start of 2015 it was safe to say that Debian was fairly alone in the quest for reproducible builds, and a relevant number of developers were unconvinced by the effort’s goals. Thankfully, this is not true anymore.
• More on Mozilla’s Project Common Voice — Today’s speech recognition technologies are largely tied up in a few companies that have invested heavily in them.

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Follow Up / Catch Up

Ubuntu Devs Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default in 17.10

Ubuntu Desktop team lead Will Cooke remarks that: “my gut feeling is that wayland (sic) isn’t ready yet,” and Didier Roche says the distro will ‘default to xorg until we take a decision’.

Warning: Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk for customers

It is inseparable from Linux and can not work without it. it would fail a fair-use test (obviously, ask offline if you don’t understand). Because of its strongly derivative nature of the kernel, it must be under the GPL version 2 license, or a license compatible with the GPL and with terms no more restrictive than the GPL. Earlier versions were distributed under GPL version 2.

iWant

A commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server.

Linux Academy

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  Check out the Valve presentation from Unite Europe, major Steam Client redesign to come

• Unite Europe 2017 – Steam platform overview and upcoming store updates – YouTube

Benchmarking nftables

Basically, my idea was to find out how much certain firewall setups affect performance.

It clearly shows how performance suffers as the number of rules increases. Interestingly, the decrease in throughput is not linear with rule count, so the overhead introduced with adding rules becomes less and less significant the more rules there are already. In practical boundaries though, one can assume a linear regression. Also worth noting is that iptables performs slightly better.

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Fedora 26 is here!

• @mattdm

  Matthew Miller / Fedora Project Leader

• Thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate

• New development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6.
• We’ve added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer)
• F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements
• better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information.

• DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5)

• Torrent Server for the Fedora Project

• Upgrading Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 – Fedora Magazine

What’s New in Fedora 26 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

• Linux 4.11.8
• GNOME 3.24
• LibreOffice 5.3
• Fedora Media Writer gains ARM support
• Builder now features improved support for systems like Flatpak, CMake, Meson, and Rust.
• Qt Adwaita theme contains many improvements and looks closer to its GTK counterpart than ever.

What is Fedora Boltron?

Boltron is an upcoming prototype of Fedora Modularity. A formal description is documented in Changes/Modular Server Preview on the Fedora wiki. This page tracks the progress of the release.

Changes/NoMoreAlpha – FedoraProject

By gating Rawhide builds from landing in the compose and gating the publication of composes on automated test results we will ensure Rawhide will always be at Alpha quality. This will make it more generally useful to people as a daily driver and development platform, and mean we no longer need to go through the process of building, testing and shipping Alpha releases.

• openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.

openQA is a testing framework that allows you to test GUI applications on one hand and bootloader and kernel on the other. In both cases, it is difficult to script tests and verify the output. Output can be a popup window or it can be an error in early boot even before init is executed.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Fedora 26 Review

I've got a #Fedora server I've upgraded release after release since F24. Upgrading to 26 now, is this the release it finally breaks? pic.twitter.com/uCHq0NeGec

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) July 11, 2017

• How the upgrade of Chris’ Fedora server went
• Trying out the KDE Spin of Fedora

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Ubuntu Reveal Results of GNOME Desktop Survey

A massive 18,330 people took part in the survey. All 8 questions in the survey were optional, and all bar one asked participants to rate how ‘useful’ they consider various GNOME extensions to be on a scale of 1 (not useful) to 5 (very useful).

Release of openmediavault 3 (Erasmus)

After a long development phase i am happy to announce the release of openmediavault 3 (Erasmus).

vLUG BBQ – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) | Meetup

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TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Snappy Is Finally Doing Something About Super Large App Sizes

__the GNOME platform within their package.

I'm doing a mini-fundraiser today to get a server for Flathub & make many @FlatpakApps available later in summer. https://t.co/BGCWxwlKoe

— Robert McQueen (@ramcq) June 13, 2017

• flathub update / mini infrastructure fundraiser

Announcing the Release of Fedora 26 Beta

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26 Beta, the next big step on our journey to the exciting Fedora 26 release in July.

Is Cockpit Secure?

Here’s info about Cockpit’s security, to help
you make those choices. You’ll find not only has Cockpit got a solid security
story, but you can use it in all sorts of different ways depending on what
kind of security your systems need.

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Ikey To Become Full-Time Solus Developer!

We’re also really excited to announce that Ikey will become a full-time Solus developer.

• Solus is creating a 100% independent desktop operating system optimized for you | Patreon | Patreon

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Moonlight Game Streaming

formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. We implemented the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and wrote a set of 3rd party clients.

• Setup Guide · moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs Wiki · GitHub

PC Requirements

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600+ series GPU (GT-series and AMD GPUs aren’t supported by NVIDIA GameStream)
• NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) 2.1.1 or higher
• 720p or higher display connected to the PC

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