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Sam from the Moka project stops by to chat about the business of making Linux look better. Then we get into the role open source plays in self driving cars.

Plus we bust some of the FUD around Munich’s much reported plan to abandon Linux and switch back to Windows.

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• BTRFS Wiki
• XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem
• OpenZFS

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• Apples and elementaries

• Tell Noah that he can put those Chromeboxes into production

• Flash drive distros

• Digital Ocean Server in 36 seconds!

• Announcing NYC3 With IPv6 Support | DigitalOcean

Moka Project

Joined by “snwh” aka Sam Hewitt

Moka started as a single Linux desktop icon theme, but over time it has gradually evolved into an entire project & brand identity that provides quality designs to people.

Moka is about personalization and its goal is to provide an assortment of style options to allow you to customize your experience. Moka’s suite of themes is a “style layer” for your favourite OS – you can use your favourites and layer Moka right on top.

Robocars | Erich Eickmeyer

Munich Disappointed with Linux, Plans to Switch Back to Windows [Updated]

German media is reporting that city officials were looking into productivity figures of local departments and acknowledged that many employees actually experienced issues with Linux. That wasn’t the case before 2004, when Windows was powering all PCs, a local source said.

• Linux in Munich: City Council defends LiMux against mayor | The H Open Source

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The battle lines have been drawn and the assault against upstart is in full force. We’ll discuss the heat being put on Canonical, the CLA, and upstart with our virtual LUG.

Then we’ll bust some Linux switching FUD that’s been popping up with more and more Windows users fleeing the sinking ship.

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FU

• Linux Desktops…sigh

• Google/Nest

• Why Google Bought Nest: A Theory

Nest always thought of itself as a robotics company; the robot is just hidden inside this sleek Appleish case.

Look at who the company brought in as its VP of technology: Yoky Matsuoka, a roboticist and artificial intelligence expert from the University of Washington.

• The Innovative Little Guy Results

The War Against Upstart

• Linus Torvalds: Any CLA is fundamentally broken

\”To be fair, people just like hating on Canonical. The FSF and Apache Foundation CLA\’s are pretty much equally broken. And they may not be broken because of any relicencing, but because the copyright assignment paperwork ends up basically killing the community. Basically, with a CLA, you don\’t get the kind of \”long tail\” that the kernel has of random drive-by patches. And since that\’s how lots of people try the waters, any CLA at all — changing the license or not — is fundamentally broken.\”

• Matthew Garrett: Not all CLAs are equal

So why do people object so much when Canonical do it? I\’ve written about this in the context of Mir before, but it\’s worth expanding on the general case. The FSF\’s copyright assignment ensures that contributions to GPLed software will only be distributed under GPL-style licenses. The Apache CLA permits the ASF to relicense a contribution under a proprietary license, but the Apache license allows anyone to do that anyway.

In contrast, Canonical ship software under the GPLv3 family of licenses (GPL, AGPL and LGPL) but require that contributors sign an agreement that permits Canonical to relicense their contributions under a proprietary license. This is a fundamentally different situation to almost all widely accepted CLAs, and it\’s disingenuous for Canonical to defend their CLA by pointing out the broad community uptake of, for instance, the Apache CLA.

• Lennart Poettering – Google+ – Shutting down is hard.

Shutting down is hard.

I am sorry for piling on, but here\’s an interesting aspect of Upstart I\’d like to shed some light on. Not necessarily because it is hard to fix, but simply because it is quite interesting.

Upstart (as it stands now) will eat your file system.

• Lennart Poettering – Google+ – So it appears that the Debian ctte discussions are now…

The existance of mountall on Upstart, and the non-integration of /etc/fstab into the Upstart rule set, results in a lot of additional shortcomings: mountall is a one-time thing for the boot process, all context of file systems, devices and mounts is lost, after it ran, and the file system state is henceforth assumed static. Which of course is not how systems work these days…

This design flaw is one of the things we noticed when we looked into Upstart in detail before we decided to start systemd. 4 years later, nothing has changed, the Upstart design still cannot cover this…

FUD Busting:

• fm87 comments on Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’

Linux is not a replacement for Windows for 99.999% of users

• Blame FUD for Microsoft\’s Dominance in Schools

\”It might even be illegal for us to remove Microsoft Office or Windows from previously purchased computers, due to the vendor agreement the school district signed with Microsoft.\”

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This week on The Linux Action Show!

We give the FSF a ribbing over their comments about the Amazon Kindle, one of the best companies in IT to work for, is a MAJOR Linux Player, and we tell you how Nvidia is going to turn your machine up to ELEVEN!

THEN –

In a style, only found on this Fathers day edition of The Linux Action Show, we tell you why the Mono issue is all just a big distraction!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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PopcornHour’s C200, Runs Linux

Red Hat among ‘100 Best Places to Work in IT’

VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1

Amazon Kindle powered by Linux, FSF not impressed

NVIDIA Privately Releases OpenCL Linux Driver

Fedora 12 Release Schedule and Goals

McIntyre: Mono Decision “Under Discussion”

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