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• Packed Pixels – Additional portable monitors for your laptop
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• Samsung’s new luxurious smart flip phone has the widest aperture camera lens yet – The Verge
• Ravencoin – A digital peer to peer network for the facilitation of asset transfers

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• OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise hit the Windows Store — Now OpenSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and OpenSUSE Leap 42 are available for installation from the Windows Store.
• System76 Announce Their Own Linux Distribution called Pop!_OS — System76 say their ‘operating system’ — they don’t call it a distribution — will be built and tailored to meet the needs to “professionals and makers that use their computers to create.”
• Canonical Promises Smooth and Easy Unity 7 to GNOME Shell Migration for Users — Probably the most important thing that the Ubuntu developers have worked on lately is a smooth and easy migration process from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell
• Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly — Mir 0.27 also will feature a new set of APIs to develop a “Mir platform” outside of Mir itself, which can be used for developing Mir-Wayland platform support without having to fork Mir itself.
• MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland — MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor.
• Debian Warns Of Hyper Threading Issue With Intel Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs — Intel Skylake and Kabylake (6th and 7th gen CPUs) could “dangerously misbehave” when Hyper Threading is enabled.

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• hyper-pokemon: Wondrous, tailor-made Pokémon themes for your Hyper terminal

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KMail’s ‘Send Later’ caused PGP encrypted private emails to be sent in plain-text

KMail, an email client from the KDE Project, introduced a new feature in version 4.11 that lets users delay sending of emails until a scheduled later time. Unfortunately, this new feature wasn’t compatible with KMail’s existing OpenPGP implementation.

Fedora Workstation 26 and beyond

Below is a sampling of the things we are working on.

• Having that in place should allow us to create a solution where you only use the NVidia driver when you want the extra graphics power which will of course require significant work from Nvidia to enable it on their side so I can’t give a definite timeline for when all the puzzle pieces are in place. Just be assured we are working on it and talking regularly to NVidia about it. I will let you know here as soon as things come together.

• Another major project we been working on for a long time in Fleet Commander. Fleet Commander is a tool to allow you to manage Fedora and RHEL desktops centrally.

• All this features can be set and controlled on either a user level or a group level or organization wide due to the close integration we have with FreeIPA suite of tools. The data is stored inside your organizations LDAP server alongside other user information so you don’t need to have the clients connect to a new service for this, and while it is not there in this initial release we will in the future also support Active Directory.

• PipeWire now aims at unifying linux Audio and Video. The long term the goal is for PipeWire to not only provide handling of video streams, but also handle all kings of audio. Due to this Wim has been spending a lot of time making sure PipeWire can handle audio in a way that not only address the PulseAudio usecases, but also the ones handled by Jack today. A big part of the motivation for this is that we want to make Fedora Workstation the best place to create content and we want the pro-audio crowd to be first class citizens of our desktop.
  Fedora Workstation has been leading the charge in supporting HiDPI on Linux and we hope to build on that with the current work to enable fractional scaling support.
  Carlos Garnacho has been doing some great work recently improving the general performance of GNOME Shell.

• Essentially what we are doing is making it very simple for a Fedora maintainer to build a Flatpak of the application they maintain through the Fedora package building infrastructure and push that Flatpak into a central Flatpak registry.
  While playback these days have moved to streaming where locally installed codecs are of less importance for the consumption usecase

• Luckily we are at a crossroads now where a lot of widely used codecs have their essential patents expire (mp3, ac3 and more) while at the same time the industry focus seems to have moved to royalty free codec development moving forward (Opus, VP9, Alliance for Open Media). We have been spending a lot of time with the Red Hat legal team trying to clear these codecs, which resulted in mp3 and AC3 now shipping in Fedora Workstation.
  We been looking at this for a while now and hope to be able to start sharing information with users on which laptops they should get that will have good battery life under Fedora.

casync — A tool for distributing file system images

It combines the idea of the rsync algorithm with the idea of git-style content-addressable file systems, and creates a new system for efficiently storing and delivering file system images, optimized for high-frequency update cycles over the Internet.

Canonical Updates Snapcraft on Ubuntu with Support for Resuming Snap Downloads

The biggest change in the Snapcraft 2.31 release appears to be support for resuming the download of the core Snap when building classic Snaps when an error occurs because the package can’t be fetched. This could come in handy during tests and in CI when you package your apps as Snaps.

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Debian 9 “Stretch” released

Debian 9 is dedicated to the project’s founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 December 2015.

elementary + GitHub – elementary OS – Medium

on GitHub!

Revolutionist76 – System76

Need some more RAM? Have another SSD to throw in? NO PROBLEM. We're not going to tell you what to do with YOUR PC! A revolution is coming… pic.twitter.com/b7ZJBy4q9G

— Not a Robot (@system76) June 19, 2017

Want cross-play with macOS or Linux? Vote for suggestions on feedback.minecraft.net!

Unfortunately, MCBC/MCPE/C++ Edition is currently only available on one desktop platform: Windows 10. Well, almost. Education Edition (an education-specialized port of Bedrock Codebase) runs on macOS, and I guess that a macOS Edition is quite likely to come in the future.

Another huge deal is that there is no Xbox Live for Android yet (surprisingly!) and Linux has no store, no update mechanism for closed source stuff etc, so we would need to make our own store and launcher just to sell there. That’s a massive amount of work, probably more than just porting issues.

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Michael Hall Joins Us

Community Manager at endlessos.com

• Endless Community

• OSTree

The core OSTree model is like git in that it checksums individual files and has
a content-addressed-object store. It’s unlike git in that it “checks out” the
files via hardlinks, and they should thus be immutable. Therefore, another way
to think of OSTree is that it’s just a more polished version
Of Linux VServer hardlinks.

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aldyr comments on Moonlight

Linux can only be for the masses if you take up arms and make it for them. #revolutionist76 https://t.co/NvSALg4z1C pic.twitter.com/PaI6QcsbtV

— Christian Hergert (@hergertme) June 19, 2017

@ChrisLAS you can use moonlight on the entire desktop by pointing it at explorer.exe. and doesn't work on Grid cloud, requires a GTX,no aws

— Paul Demers (@PaulMDemers) June 15, 2017

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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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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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Enjade Desktop

The Enjade desktop environment is a community project to recreate and continue the Unity desktop environment. From the versatile Dash down to the global menu, Enjade promises to provide the familiar experience Ubuntu users love while adding new features to keep it up with the latest trends.

• GitHub – p-e-w/plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

Have you used Sublime Text’s or Atom’s “Command Palette”? It’s a list of everything those editors can do that opens at the press of a key and finds the action you are looking for just by typing a few letters. It’s raw power at your fingertips.

Ubuntu-based All-in-One joins the brawn brothers

Today we are happy to announce, that the Dell Precision 5720, a 27″ All-in-One workstation class machine is available for purchase. The system can be ordered preloaded with either Ubuntu 16.04, RHEL 7.3 or Windows 10.

Projects that got our attention this week

• torrent-peek: Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

• Audio editing images

Audio Shop is a simple script
that I cobbled together that gets you started with mangling image data as
if it was audio data.

• GitHub – nvbn/thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command

• linuxlifecycle.com | Linux Support Life Cycles for Enterprise Linux Distributions

• GitHub – notwaldorf/tiny-care-terminal: A little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal.

This is a little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal.
It tells you cute, self care things, and tries not to stress you out.

All Good Things T-Shirt

The time has come. Linux Action Show is ending and we want to celebrate its 11 years of Linux content with this bearded and dated LAS logo. We thank everyone for your support and hope you will continue to watch Jupiter Broadcasting for the exciting future.

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Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement – Docker Blog

• Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement – Docker Blog

The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement and help the ecosystem take containers mainstream.

It provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas.

FreeNAS Corral Canned Development

FreeNAS Corral launched about a month ago. Since then, Jordan Hubbard the lead on the project departed the company. It seems like that vacuum has had some consequence. The FreeNAS team after over a year of development on FreeNAS Corral decided to essentially call it quits on the new release.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Ubuntu 17.04

Ubuntu Gnome – no longer separate flavor

The development teams from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will be merging resources and focusing on a single combined release, that provides the best of both GNOME and Ubuntu. We are currently liaising with the Canonical teams on how this will work out and more details will be announced in due course as we work out the specifics.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will ship GNOME (including GNOME Shell) with ‘minimal Ubuntu customization’, rendering the community suggestions for refreshed designs, theming, and extension bundling are potentially moot.

• Support Life Cycle for ZestyZapus – Ubuntu Wiki

Ubuntu 17.04 will be supported for 9 months until January 2018. If you need Long Term Support, it is recommended you use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instead.

Ubuntu 17.04 Available to Download Now, This is What’s New

This is no normal release of Ubuntu. It’s potentially the last version of the distribution that will come with the Unity 7 desktop by default. That’s not a certainty, of course, but we know that Ubuntu will switch to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS next year. It’s reasonable to expect developers to want to kick a few tyres on that switch ahead of time, in the next interim release.

I made some notes about what I did to fettle my Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME desktop to look & feel more familiar. https://t.co/erq1mvWzi7 pic.twitter.com/InNzGj7dIw

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 15, 2017

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 | Ubuntu MATE

We’re totally over the bloody moon to announce Ubuntu MATE 17.04.
This is our favourite release of Ubuntu MATE so far and, we believe, a
real return to form. Ubuntu MATE 16.10 was a transitional release, in
every sense, and 17.04 concludes the upheaval of migrating to GTK3+.
This has been a release focused on refining the distro and sweating the
details. As always, we’re never finished and eager to start work on
17.10 to bring you futher improvements and refinement. But for now, we
hope you enjoy Ubuntu MATE 17.04 as much as we’ve enjoyed making it
for you.

• You Can Sync GNOME Extensions Between Desktops using Google Chrome – OMG! Ubuntu!

Do you love using GNOME Shell Extensions on your desktop, but don’t love having to manually install them each time you reinstall or switch machine?

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Solus Releases ISO Snapshot 2017.04.18.0 | Solus

We’re proud to announce our second ISO snapshot, 2017.04.18.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions, as well as our new GNOME edition!

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Kodi Is Getting A Proper Netflix Plugin

The anonymous news tipster wrote in to explain, “After years and years of users having to use workaround that relied on launchers of third-party external players or streaming transcoded video from other software there is now actually a real ‘Kodi native’ Netflix plugin/addon being developed for Kodi, and it is being developed as open source and has the potential of supporting multiple operating-system and different computer architecture platforms.

• GitHub – asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

This plugin is not officially commisioned/supported by Netflix.

Star Trek Themed Kirk Ransomware Brings us Monero and a Spock Decryptor!

Discovered today by Avast malware researcher Jakub Kroustek, the Kirk Ransomware is written in Python and may be the first ransomware to utilize Monero as the ransom payment of choice.

• A simple command allows the CIA to commandeer 318 models of Cisco switches | Ars Technica

Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the CIA to use a simple command to remotely execute malicious code that takes full control of the devices. There currently is no fix.

Bcachefs – encryption, fsck, and more [LWN.net]

We now have whole filesystem encryption

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Solus Users Get MATE 1.18 and Linux Kernel 4.9.16, Budgie 10.3 Coming Very Soon

According to the developer, it would appear that the feature-rich MATE 1.18 desktop environment released last week is now available for installation from the official stable Solus repositories for users of the Solus MATE edition, along with the long-term supported Linux 4.9.16 kernel and numerous other up-to-date components.

• Clear Boot Manager

Plasma Team Discusses Web-browser integration, Bundled Apps and new Features | KDE.news

KDE is experimenting with new ways to deploy applications. Under consideration are technologies such as Flatpak, Snap and AppImage, which all have their distinct advantages.

TING

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Media and Games

• Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Rolls Into Public Beta – Phoronix
• Croteam Bringing Vulkan & Linux Support To More Of Their Games – Phoronix
• Mozilla Proposes “Obsidian” Low-Level Graphics API For The Web, Based On Vulkan – Phoronix

Obsidian has been published as a possible proposal for WebGL-Next. As we reported a few days ago, The Khronos Group now has a staging area for WebGL-Next proposals and just a few minutes ago was the first proposal submitted.

• The Last AC-3 Patent Expired on March 20, 2017

AC-3 is a compressed digital audio format like MP3. It made its public debut in 1992. AC-3 has become the most common format for audio in film and television.

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Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web appssum

Then I wrote a script, nativefier-freedesktop, that takes *.webapp file as input, build the app with Nativefier and install it, so you can launch it from your app menu. It can include custom CSS style and JavaScript code to be injected during the building. The icon can be themed by icon themes.

• GitHub – jiahaog/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application

Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web apps.

• Many of which are closed source
• Some have pervasive backend tracking
• Performance/Overhead compares poorly to native apps.

Pro

• We’ll never agree on a universal packaging format, so why not just bypass all of that with web applications
• Larger industrial vendors.
• More developers and applications. Some of which will be game changes for switches.

• Are the benefits of having an open source platform demented if the bulk of critical user apps are closed source?

• Build a Music Player with React & Electron I: Setup & Basic Concepts | Scotch

• Overall speed of electron based products · Issue #5672 · electron/electron · GitHub

• GitHub – sindresorhus/awesome-electron: Useful resources for creating apps with Electron

• Is Electron (Atom) a good way to create offline js apps? : javascript

• So refreshing to see a nice desktop app built without Electron. A well defined … | Hacker News

• 4 must-know tips for building cross platform Electron apps

• Electron considered harmful – Drew DeVault’s Blog

• Ask HN: Why / Why Not Use Electron? | Hacker News

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• Live-streaming YouTube Drone – Raspberry Pi

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Oracle lays off more than 1,000 employees

According to the Mercury News, Oracle is laying off approximately 450 employees in its Santa Clara hardware systems division. Reports at The Layoff, a discussion board for technology business firings, claim about 1,800 employees company-wide are being pink-slipped.

Cinnamon Spices

Modify your Cinnamon desktop environment and extend its features with Cinnamon Spices.
Cinnamon supports the following types of spices: Themes, applets, desklets and extensions.

LineageOS Download Portal Goes Live, Builds For 80+ Android Devices Coming

Cyanogen-forked LineageOS builds have started surfacing in the Android ecosystem. The development team has announced the support for 80 devices for which the LineageOS build will be pushed on a weekly basis. Also, there is an EXPERIMENTAL build for upgrading CM devices to LineageOS.

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Chrome 56 Will Aggressively Throttle Background Tabs

Chrome 56 introduces a commendable optimization to throttle background tabs’ timers. From the Intent to Implement, the gist is:

Mongaz comments on Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453

I have the feeling that containerization is not the solution for you /u/ChrisLAS

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Adopting Flatpak To Reassemble Third Party Applications | Solus

Why Flatpak is our choice

Firstly, and very importantly to us, the so-called “chrome distribution issue” has already been conquered
by Endless OS, utilizing Flatpak. On the other hand, this is still
(to the best of my knowledge) at the prototype stage with Snaps.

OK, let’s not get hung up completely on a single example. From the perspective of integration,
Snap (snapd and snapcraft) represents the biggest integration challenge. To correctly and
fully integrate it would require modification of the build system (which disables networking by
default for security!) to provide a full set of builds for the packages and their dependencies.

Additionally, AppArmor (not used by Solus) is also required.

On the other hand, integrating Flatpak into Solus was as trivial as packaging ostree and flatpak,
barring some minor changes which we’re already upstreaming.

You may rightly argue that I’m being lazy. To counter those points, we must look to the future uses of Flatpak within Solus.

• Currently having fun integrating clr-boot-manager into +Solus https://githu…

• GitHub – ikeydoherty/clr-boot-manager: Boot Loader Management

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Progress

This is just a quick post to let you know how Ubuntu MATE 17.04 is progressing. But before we get into that, here’s some news about Ubuntu MATE 16.04.

UbuCon Summit at SCALE 15x to Take Place March 2-3 in Pasadena, California

Ubuntu project member Nathan Haines is announcing that the next UbuCon Summit conference takes place this spring, between March 2 and March 3, in Pasadena, California, USA, during the SCALE 15x event.

Kali Linux certification, first official Kali book on the horizon – Help Net Security

announced today that its new Kali Linux Certified Professional (KLCP) will debut in Black Hat USA 2017. The KLCP is the first and only official certification program that validates one’s proficiency with the Kali Linux distribution.

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systemd Sucks, Long Live systemd

systemd seems to be a dividing force in the Linux community. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground to
systemd, polarizing opinions suggest that you must either love it or want to kill it with fire. I aim to provide a
middle ground. First, let’s discuss the awful things about systemd.

• Systemd Sucks, Long Live Systemd

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