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So, where are we with fixing the problems? Work is continuing, but the latest update of the stable Linux kernel, 4.14.2, has the current patches. Some people may experience boot problems with this release, but 4.14.13 will be out in a few days.
Patches have also been added to the 4.4 and 4.9 stable kernel trees. But, as Kroah-Hartman added, “This backport is very different from the mainline version that is in 4.14 and 4.15, there are different bugs happening.” Still, he said, “Those are the minority at the moment, and should not stop you from upgrading.”

Have you heard about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities and want to know more? Listen to the Ask Noah Show tonight at 6 PM CST where we talk with a special guest!

Can't make it? Listen to last episode with @MichaelTunnell from @TuxDigital! https://t.co/rmWVYA8yZb

— AskNoah (@asknoahshow) January 9, 2018

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Shotcut – New Release 18.01

Here are the main fixes and enhancements in this new version:

Added Audio Spectrum Visualization filter.
Added support for font size and italics to the Text filter.
Added a Mask filter.
Another important fix for accuracy of XML time values, particularly for non-integer frame rates.

QOwnNotes changelog

QOwnNotes is the open source (GPL) plain-text file notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows by Patrizio Bekerle (pbek on GitHub and IRC), that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud or Nextcloud.

Intel’s Hades Canyon NUCs with Radeon Graphics are Official: $799-$999, Shipping in Spring 2018

Unlike Skull Canyon, which has only one SKU (NUC6i7KYK) with the Core i7-6700HQ, Intel is launching Hades Canyon in two versions. The more powerful of the two is the $999 VR-ready NUC8i7HVK sporting the 100W TDP unlocked Core i7-8809G. The other SKU is the $799 NUC8i7HNK with the 65W TDP Core i7-8705G. The rest of the features are identical across the two SKUs.

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Scratch is now elementary Code

By rebranding to Code, it lets us focus on what we intended from the start: building a great native code editor for developers on elementary OS

You GNOME it: Windows and Apple devs get a compelling reason to turn to Linux

Ubuntu without Unity will continue to be a big story in the foreseeable future is that with Ubuntu using GNOME Shell, almost all the major distributions out there now ship primarily with GNOME, making GNOME Shell the de facto standard Linux desktop.

Artful Dot One | Ubuntu QA

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Next Ripple or Ethereum? Telegram to Launch Crypto Bitcoin Alternative

The “Telegram Open Network” that powers the system will be a “third generation” blockchain network, building on the work of previous cryptocurrencies to provide something groundbreaking.

The Return of Linspire?

Linspire Returns

The Linspire distribution has had a long and mixed history. Linspire (originally named Lindows) is a commercial distribution which has changed hands a few times. Linspire started as a Debian-based project designed to offer a familiar desktop environment for Windows users. Linspire was later re-based on Ubuntu and continued its beginner-friendly mission. However, the Linspire distribution was eventually purchased by Xandros and discontinued back around 2008. At the end of 2017, PC/OpenSystems LLC announced they had purchased Linspire and its community edition, Freespire, and would resume development of these two Ubuntu-based distributions. Linspire is being sold as a commercial product which can be bundled with PC/OpenSystems computers while Freespire can be downloaded free of charge. More information can be found on the PC/OpenSystems Linspire information page.

Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0 released

Linspire is a commercial release which builds on the elegant Freespire foundation. It does include a proprietary software set optimized for business users, students, researchers and developers. It is a capable solution for utilizing cloud-based web apps as well as legacy software from our Debian or Ubuntu’s repositories.

This Freespire 3.0 is supported until 2021. Linspire 7.0 is supported until 2025.

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End of the Gentoo Challenge
A Science Project: “Make the 486 Great Again!” – Modern Linux in an ancient PC | YKM’s corner on the web

The issue with modern Linux distributions like Debian/Ubuntu/Arch is that they distribute compiled binary packages. Typically this is good enough as compiling every single package you want from scratch is time consuming and most people ain’t got the time for that.
Although the 486 is theoretically supported by the modern Linux kernel, this is not true on the distribution and package level. For example, Debian has dropped support for older 586 32-bit CPUs as of 2016. Thus, the oldest supported x86 CPU by Debian is the 686. The 6th-generation x86 started with the Pentium Pro released in 1995 or its more commonly known variant Pentium 2 was released in 1997.
Therefore, it is no longer possible to directly use a typical modern distribution on a 486 PC. But on an atypical distribution like Gentoo which requires you to compile every package, this might still be possible.

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Peer Pressure | LINUX Unplugged 227

chris — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 01:29:46 +0000

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Netflix US on Twitter: “To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?”

Follow Up / Catch Up

Does Systemd Makes Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable?

We are a small team at _ungleich_and we simply don’t have the time to fix problems caused by systemd on a daily basis. This is even without calculating the security risks that come with systemd. Our objective is to create a great, easy-to-use platform for VM hosting, not to walk a tightrope.

Context on Conservancy’s Filing for Summary Judgment with the TTAB

Therefore we’ve proceeded today with the most expedient defense available to us:
a summary judgment motion which can be read on the USPTO’s website. As a
non-lawyer, I explain in this blog post some details of that motion and its
supporting documents in more mundane, non-legal terms.

We filed a motion for summary judgment today against SFLC's motion to dismiss our trademark. https://t.co/z64bOLCBjW

— Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) December 12, 2017

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Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped development. Mailspring has more than 10k active users on Linux, and will offer the snap as the preferred install method beginning from this week.

“The vision for Canonical is to provide the platform that you see everywhere other than the personal domain. We won’t make a dent in phone or PCs. But pretty much your entire data center runs Linux and every other thing in the room is running Linux,” Shuttleworth said. “Can we help deliver that innovation and do it in a format that is secure, reliable and very, very cheap? That’s an interesting set of challenges.”

Spaceman Shuttleworth Finds Earthly Riches With Ubuntu Software

“Afronaut” Mark Shuttleworth has become as billionaire from his bet on Ubuntu Linux software https://t.co/8CBiRBcOnF pic.twitter.com/ANp5ahIvLu

— Bloomberg (@business) December 12, 2017

Steam now lets developers know how many users want their game on Mac and Linux

Valve has made a change to the developer side of Steam that gives developers a breakdown of the different platforms people choose when adding a game to their wishlist.

This is helpful because it also shows platforms that the game does not currently support, letting the developer know how much interest there is for ports on platforms other than Windows. This is obviously only limited to PC operating systems, so Mac, Linux, and SteamOS.

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event in Bellingham, WA USA, features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!

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Open Source Replacements for Centralized Services and Platforms

It’s all about the platform, building the biggest platform, with the most engaged users, with the most control.

YouTube is a platform, Patreon is also a platform. It feels like the walls are closing in tighter and tighter than ever. 

Early Linux users watched this as Microsoft used the position of their platform to keep Linux off the desktop. 

But now these platform wars happen at an exponential rate across every tech category. Recently Google started blocking YouTube on Echo Show's because Amazon doesn't sell Nest cams and Chromecasts (amongst others). 

It's always the users that lose these platform wars, and the large corporations don't care about the collateral damage.

But are we starting to see the cracks in these platform's grip?

YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks + Secret YouTube Meeting

Open Source YouTube Replacement

PeerTube

Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.

We can’t build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo… with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server.

So we need to have a decentralized network (as Diaspora for example).

But it’s not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
It’s the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
Thanks to WebTorrent, we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.

Open Source Patreon Replacement

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform.

Dash Crypto Currency — Dash

At Dash’s core is a unique fully-incentivized peer-to-peer network. Miners are rewarded for securing the blockchain and masternodes are rewarded for validating, storing and serving the blockchain to users.

Masternodes represent a new layer of network servers that work in highly secure clusters called quorums to provide a variety of decentralized services, like instant transactions, privacy and governance, while eliminating the threat of low-cost network attacks.

Open Source Twitter Replacement

Mastodon

The world’s largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network

Matrix

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

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Gentoo Challenge Check-In

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Hacking the Community | LINUX Unplugged 225

chris — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:14:47 +0000

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A Raspberry Pi robot that helps people make their grocery list.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Technology Industry Leaders Join Forces to Increase Predictability in Open Source Licensing

To provide greater predictability to users of open source software, Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM today each committed to extending the GPLv3 approach for license compliance errors to the software code that each licenses under GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 and v2.

As I say in the article, I'm seriously thrilled that companies are participating in this dialog and upping their commitment to enforce in a way that is friendly to the long term success of #freesoftware https://t.co/rRVbEOvug5

— karen sandler (@o0karen0o) November 28, 2017

Facebook, Google, IBM, Red Hat give GPL code scofflaws 60 days to behave – or else

In a blog post, Re7d Hat explained that legal proceedings generally produce poor results in the free software and open-source community and that litigation should almost always be avoided.

Lemonade-stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source

“I do open source work, how do I find funding?”

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Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the GNOME

In light of the GNOME switch, this release seems like more of a homecoming than an entirely new voyage.

Lynis Follow Up from Founder of CISOfy

Few additions you might find useful to know:
– Lynis celebrated its 10 year birthday this month
– Lynis can also run as non-privileged user. In that case, the log/report is stored in /tmp.

— Michael Boelen (@mboelen) November 23, 2017

Texas Linux Fest Call for Papers

We are proud to officially announce Texas Linux Fest 2018, scheduled for June 8 and 9 at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas.

Fedora 25 enters End of Life status in a little over 2 weeks. Upgrade to Fedora 26 or Fedora 27 to ensure your system is updated and secure https://t.co/FTl9EFwZd8

— Fedora Project (@fedora) November 27, 2017

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Is the Front line of the Web Firefox?

Do Linux users need to boycott Chrome?

DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next | Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME standard and many other skirmishes, battles and even wars over the years. With that long history behind us, there are two things we want you to know about DRM:

Everybody on the inside secretly knows that DRM technology is irrelevant, but DRM law is everything; and
The reason companies want DRM has nothing to do with copyright

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Gentoo Challenge Check In

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No Escape from Google | LINUX Unplugged 224

chris — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:10:50 +0000

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An update on the Android problem [LWN.net]

Android has been a great boon to the kernel community, having brought a
great deal of growth in both the user and the development communities. But
Android has also been a problem in that devices running it ship with
kernels containing large amounts (often millions of lines) of out-of-tree
code. That fragments the development community and makes it impossible to
run mainline kernels on this hardware.

The problematic side of Android was discussed at the 2017 Maintainer Summit; the picture that resulted is
surprisingly optimistic.

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Even devices that had been reset to factory default settings and apps, with location services disabled, were observed by Quartz sending nearby cell-tower addresses to Google. Devices with a cellular data or WiFi connection appear to send the data to Google each time they come within range of a new cell tower. When Android devices are connected to a WiFi network, they will send the tower addresses to Google even if they don’t have SIM cards installed.

Intel Does an Audit of ME, finds some Problems

As a result, Intel has identified several security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. Systems using ME Firmware versions 11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20, SPS Firmware version 4.0, and TXE version 3.0 are impacted.

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Linux 4.14 arrives and Linus says it should have fewer 0-days

Said robot is an automated vulnerability-checker that scours kernel code for issues. With version 4.14 slated to be the next kernel version to receive Long Term Support, and that support now running for six years instead of two, a more secure release will be widely welcome._

0-Day Test Service | 01.org

If there is any failure during the build stage, 0-Day will bisect the failure to the first code patch that introduces the failure. That patch author is then notified with the failure information and the steps to reproduce the problem. This allows developers to reproduce the problem in their local environments and to verify their fixes.

bcache destroys filesystems

Using bcache can destroy the filesystem. Mine was gone after 3rd non sucesfull try to mount the rootfs. It was not possible to recover any file.

Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.

VidCutter 5.0 Released With Improved UI, Frame Accurate Cutting

If you want split video, trim video, or join video clips into a single montage then Vidcutter is ideal. The app lets you perform these tasks, as well as many more, quickly and easily.

VidCutter is a Qt5 application that uses the open-source FFMpeg media engine.

Parlatype

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favourite text application.

DigitalOcean

Audit your Linux box with Lynis

Lynis – Security auditing tool for Unix/Linux systems – CISOfy

Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Used by system administrators, security professionals, and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux and Unix-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it performs more extensive security scans than vulnerability scanners.

How to Perform Security Audits With Lynis on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean

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Kicking off the Gentoo Challenge. For REAL.

Stage tarball – Gentoo Wiki

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Low Security Pillow Storage | TechSNAP 343

chris — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:00:02 +0000

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OpenSSH CLI escape sequences

Notes from when Dan was experimenting with this: Only work if ~ is the first character you type; typing something, then backspace, then ~ will not invoke the escape sequence. Must be the first character after ENTER.

Kaspersky Confirms It Downloaded Classified Docs, Blames NSA Contractor’s Dumb Mistake

According to Kaspersky, the fault rests of the shoulders of the NSA contractor, who allegedly brought home government surveillance tools and then decided to activate their consumer antivirus software
The analyst’s computer was infected with malware while Kaspersky’s product was disabled
When Kaspersky’s product was re-enabled, the user apparently scanned their system multiple times
A 7-zip archive of documents was retrieved for analysis because the user had set the software to send reports of malicious detections.

‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin

Spent $3,000 to buy 7.4 bitcoins. Saved them to Trezor hardware wallet. Wrote down a 24-word recovery key. Saved a PIN.
Paper went missing
Could not remember PIN
Tried many times.
Tried an exploit…..

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Round Up:

grafana – Datasources as configuration
curl statistics made simple: davecheney/httpstat (written in GO) refers to reorx/httpstat (written in Python) which is in FreeBSD Ports as net/py-httpstat – Dan tweeted his test case
Gentoo system ransomware’d
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017
A flaw in Google’s bug database exposed private security vulnerability reports – original blog post
Staging Best Practices
Protocol standards not publicly available
Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux – sounds like Oracle wants to get ZFS into Linux
Things You Can Do on the Dark Web That Aren’t Illegal

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The Talking Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 147

chris — Tue, 31 May 2016 21:52:49 +0000

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Open Source artificial intelligence in all the things? Ryan from Mycroft joins us to update us on their recent hard work.

Is YubiKey going to hell in a handbasket? The latest from openSUSE, our first impressions of Remix OS & more!

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The Anatomy of a Linux User

Nicky isn’t outwardly remarkable in any way. She’s a thirtysomething who decided to go back to school later in life than most. She spent six years in the Navy until she decided a job offer from an old friend would be a better bet than a career in the armed forces. That happens a lot in any of the post-war military service branches. It was at that job where I met her. She was the regional manager for an eight state trucking broker and I was driving for a meat packing outfit in Dallas.

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SLES 12 SP2 Beta and openQA: status of QA Automation – SUSE Blog | SUSE Communities

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Nitrokey | Secure your digital life

Krita 3.0 Released | Krita

Today the Krita team releases Krita 3.0, the Animation Release. Wrapping up a year of work, this is a really big release: animation support integrated into Krita’s core, Instant Preview for better performance painting and drawing with big brushes on big canvases, ported to the latest version of the Qt platform and too many bigger and smaller new features and improvements to mention!

Gentoo Linux “Choice Edition” Live DVD Released with Kernel 4.5, ZFS on Linux

However, it appears that the Gentoo Linux “Choice Edition” Live DVD contains some special features that have not yet been available in previous releases of the ISO image of the operating system, such as support for modern UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) machines, as well as ZFS on Linux.

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Mycroft Ai Gnome Shell Extension Release

Releasing the first alpha build v0.1 for Gnome Shell Desktop

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Remix OS for PC – Android Re-engineered for PC Productivity

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Sanction IT | Tech Talk Today 151

chris — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:16:51 +0000

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The White house announces and executive order allowing sanctions against cyber war threats, some downsides of the Galaxy S6 Edge, an April Fools roundup & more!

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A New Tool Against Cyber Threats — Medium

It’s one of the great paradoxes of our Information Age — the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used by adversaries to inflict great harm. The same technologies that help keep our military strong are used by hackers in China and Russia to target our defense contractors and systems that support our troops. Networks that control much of our critical infrastructure — including our financial systems and power grids — are probed for vulnerabilities by foreign governments and criminals.

Cyber intrusions and attacks — many of them originating overseas — are targeting our businesses, stealing trade secrets, and costing American jobs. Iranian hackers have targeted American banks. The North Korean cyber attack on Sony Pictures destroyed data and disabled thousands of computers. In other recent breaches that have made headlines, more than 100 million Americans had their personal data compromised, including credit card and medical information.

Living life on the S6 Edge | The Verge

The Galaxy S6 Edge also doesn’t play too nicely with Google’s Material Design. Samsung has my eternal appreciation for following Google’s lead in moving to a cleaner, more minimalist interface, but Material Design emphasizes flatness and geometric regularity, which the Edge’s warping side screens disturb. They create a sort of vignette effect on white pages and are a hindrance rather than a help when editing photos.

Meet the Asus Chromebook Flip, a $249 Chrome OS tablet with a 360-degree hinge | PCWorld

The Chromebook Flip squeezed an adequate supply of connectivity into its slender profile. On one side, you’ll see two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, HDMI, and an audio jack. On the other, you’ll see power and volume buttons, plus the DC power port.

Under the hood you’ll find 2GB of RAM and the Rockchip 3288 CPU. Rockchip, a new partner for Google, brings less expensive, more power-efficient CPUs to the Chromebook lineup. Google also announced new Chromebooks from Haier and Hisense with the same chip. Benchmarks from our hands-on with the new Hisense Chromebook indicate that this processor holds up well compared to older ARM chips.

Google pushes Chrome OS software, with or without Chromebooks – CNET

To that end, one of Google’s newest additions to the lineup of devices, the Chomebit, hawks Chrome OS without even trying to sell a Chromebook laptop.

RadioShack co-branding of stores with Sprint wins court approval | Reuters

A plan to salvage RadioShack Corp’s RSHCQ.PK business by co-branding most of its 1,740 surviving stores with cellular phone provider Sprint Corp (S.N) earned U.S. bankruptcy court approval on Tuesday, ending four days of contested court hearings.

The stores are what survived of more than 4,000 outlets after RadioShack went bankrupt in February. Founded in 1921, the chain was a go-to retailer for electronics before becoming increasingly irrelevant in the digital age.

Gentoo announces total website makeover – Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux today announced the launch of its new totally revamped and more inclusive website which was built to conform to the CGA Web(tm) graphics standards.

Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today – YouTube

We’re excited to introduce Smartbox—a better, smarter mailbox that fuses physical mail with everything you love about the electronic kind.

Smartbox is currently in field trial—stuck in the ground, in a field—for Inbox by Gmail customers. If you’re not yet using Inbox, simply email inbox@google.com any time before April 2 to be invited, and to reserve your spot on the Smartbox waitlist.

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Sabayon Revisited | LAS s31e07

chris — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:54:34 +0000

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We revisit Sabayon Linux, a Gentoo based rolling distribution. Find out the how this distribution has leapfrogged the competition, and where we feel it could use some extra work.

Plus highlights from Linus recent Q&A, Ubuntu One shuts down, XP’s death is near…

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Sabayon Linux Review

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Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon follows the “out of the box” philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.

Sabayon Linux features a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon is available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there is support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.

The installer feels a bit dated.

Uses systemd not OpenRC
Does not assume a tone of big and corporate. Dialogs are clear, and honest. Even a little fun.
Install and Download Process feels dates, download is not user friendly.

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Runs Linux:

The Man who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins, Runs Linux

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The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

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Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has switched to Google Chromebooks to migrate from Windows XP, which Microsoft will no longer support after 8 April.

The council is working with Google enterprise partner, Ancoris, and its joint venture outsourcing provider, Elevate East London, to roll out 1,500 Chromebooks and 500 Chromeboxes.

Ubuntu One falls from the clouds

But as of June 1st, 2014, syncing will stop. On July 31st, 2014, all data will be wiped. Ubuntu One will be no more.

Ubuntu One storage and music service shut down by Canonical

“As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store,” Canonical CEO Jane Silber wrote. “The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted.”

“Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB–50GB free storage,” Silber wrote. “If we offer a service, we want it to compete on a global scale, and for Ubuntu One to continue to do that would require more investment than we are willing to make.”

Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

The shutdown will not affect the Ubuntu One single sign on service, the Ubuntu One payment service, or the backend U1DB database service.

Linus Torvalds not happy with systemd author Kay Sievers

Linus Q&A at Portland Linux Users Group

Audio MP3 of the Q&A

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Edgy BSD Users | BSD Now 31

chris — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:02:03 +0000

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This week we\’ll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we\’ll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now – the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder
We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book
\”For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD\’s internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11\”
OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now
You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it\’s available publicly
5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these – tell Austin we sent you!

pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

This year\’s pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd
There\’s a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks
Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it\’s pretty informal
Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

BSDMag issue for March 2014

The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue
Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article
The Linux article trend seems to continue… hmm

Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

We\’ve gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS
Here we\’ve got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build
The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it\’s not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it\’s more expensive
Regular RAM also has \”special\” issues with ZFS and pool corruption
Long post, so check out the whole thing if you\’ve been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits
While we\’re on the topic of FreeNAS…

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Interview – Pierre Pronchery – khorben@edgebsd.org / @khorben

EdgeBSD (slides)

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@
Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team
\”FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how
organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with
the for-profit companies I work for\”
We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

NetBSD on the Playstation 2

Who doesn\’t want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?
The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived
It\’s using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn\’t have much GCC support
Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

The FreeBSD Challenge update

Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey
This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren\’t working because of his clock being way off
After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases
Maybe he should\’ve just read our NTP tutorial!

PCBSD weekly digest

The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes
The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and… destroyed
New language localization project is in progress
Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

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