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• High Resolution Audio Player
• Linux Compatible DAC
• Enable High Quality Audio in LInux
• Why FLAC is Important
• Best Inexpensive Headphones
• Audio Formats Explained
• What is DSD
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Linux Action News Episode 1

Canonical IPO is a go, Microsoft brings more Linux to Windows, OpenWRT, LEDE agree on Linux-for-routers peace plan & Google launches project Treble.

Linux On Windows Server: Linux Admin Scripts Will Now Run On Windows

Last week, at its developer conference Build 2017, Microsoft announced that it’s bringing Windows Subsystem for Linux to Windows Server. Apart from this, Windows Server will also be joining Windows Insider program. The other new features of Windows Server will be aligned with the next release of Windows 10.

• Windows Server for Developers: News from Microsoft Build 2017 – Hybrid Cloud Blog

I am pleased to share that we are also bringing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), commonly known as Bash on Windows, to Windows Server. This unique combination allows developer and application administrators to use the same scripts, tools, procedures and container images they have been using for Linux containers on their Windows Server container host. These containers use our Hyper-V isolation technology combined with your choice of Linux kernel to host the workload while the management scripts and tools on the host use WSL.

explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text

write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument

• ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool

finds bugs in your shell scripts.

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SELF 2017 Registration, Schedule, Hotel Rooms, Parties, Carpools, and Room Shares

T- 1 Month. We're pleased to announce registration is up, our schedule is released, and MUCH much more! #self2017 https://t.co/Cout5ZEvCi

— SouthEast LinuxFest (@SELinuxFest) May 15, 2017

LINUX Unplugged Subreddit

CasterSoundboard: A soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. (For podcasting)

audio-visualizer-python: a little GUI tool to render visualization videos of audio files

a little GUI tool to render visualization videos of audio files

Netflix confirms it is blocking rooted/unlocked devices, app itself is still working (for now)

Earlier today, Netflix started showing up as ‘incompatible’ on the Play Store for rooted and unlocked Android devices.

TING

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magic-device-tool: A simple and feature full batch tool to handle installing/replacing Operating Systems (Ubuntu Phone / Ubuntu Touch, Android, LineageOS, Maru OS, Sailfish OS and Phoenix OS) on your mobile devices.

A simple and featureful tool to handle installing/replacing Operating Systems (Ubuntu Phone / Ubuntu Touch, Android, LineageOS, Maru OS, Sailfish OS, and Phoenix OS) on your mobile devices.

I just flashed LineageOS onto a OnePlus One (Bacon) using Magic Device Tool. Made the process so much easier. https://t.co/StMdp7ixOR

— Alan Pope (@popey) May 16, 2017

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Galago Pro – Review

Galago Pro is a 13.3” machine that weighs 2.87 lbs

Galago Pro comes with one USB-C with Thunderbolt, Ethernet, HDMI, SD Card slot and DisplayPort.

It also has a slot for a nano SIM card to get cellular connectivity while on the move. But I have been told the corresponding motherboard hardware bits are not installed.

• CPU Intel Core i7-7500 @ 2.70 Ghz
• GPU Intel HD Graphics 620
• RAM 8 GB
• Disk 256GB nvme
• Battery 36.2WH

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Firefox 49 for Linux gains plugin-free support for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

Another plugin bites the dust. The Windows and macOS versions of Firefox have supported the Widevine video protocol for a little while now, and the upcoming Firefox 49 for Linux gets the same treatment.

This Theme Pack Makes GIMP Look and Work Like Photoshop

The pack includes:

• Photoshop icons for the toolbox
• Photoshop keyboard shortcuts (e.g., ‘p’ for pen, ‘c’ for crop, etc.)
• A dark grey background
• Photoshop layout
• Tool options placed on the right-hand side

Canonical Strikes Deal To Bring Ubuntu Core to Intel Gateways

Oft-neglected in talk of smart refrigerators and network-controlled lightbulbs, Gateways are intrinsic to the ‘Internet of Things’. They act as the “middleman” in the Internet-of-Things, ferrying data from sensors and equipment in the real world to and from that stored and analysed in the cloud.

TING

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Leaving Mycroft

Today I am sharing the news that I will be leaving Mycroft AI, Inc. I love my team and have thoroughly enjoyed working on the project, but have decided to pursue other ventures.

• Ryan Sipes (@ryanleesipes) | Twitter

Fake Linus Torvalds’ Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs.

Nevertheless, real attacks started in June, some developers found
their fake keys with same name, email, and even “same” fake signatures
by more fake keys in the wild, on the keyservers.

Quick comment about btrfs coverage on the latest LAS

Humble Indie Bundle 17 Goes Live With 7 Linux Games

all the games on offer in the latest Humble Indie Bundle support Linux! Hurrah! Amazing!

• Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem | Patreon

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What’s Next for Debian?

• Debian turns 23!

Today is Debian’s 23rd anniversary. If you are close to any of the cities
celebrating Debian Day 2016, you’re
very welcome to join the party!

• Debian Project Timeline – a timeline of the Debian Project

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Linux on the MacBook

• MacBook – ArchWiki

Installing Arch Linux on a MacBook (Air/Pro) or an iMac is quite similar to installing it on any other computer. However, due to the specific hardware configuration of a Mac, there are a few deviations and special considerations which warrant a separate guide

• For Chris’s Specific Model: MacBookPro11,x – ArchWiki

This wiki page should help you in getting your MacBook Pro from Late 2013 or Mid 2014 to work with Arch Linux.

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• Convergent terminal | Ubuntu Design Blog

On the visual side, we have brought the app in line with our Suru visual language. We have also adopted the very nice Solarized palette as the default palette — though this will of course be completely customisable by the user.

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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

• GitHub – ynsta/steamcontroller: Standalone Steam Controller Driver
• Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

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Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

• All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
• Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
• Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
• Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
• Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

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Leo Laprote Tries out Arch Linux

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The LFNW is So Nigh

• Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) – Meetup
• Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
• Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
• Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
• Turkey Feed

Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

• Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
• Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
• Install unzip on Ubuntu
• unzip the package
• Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
• Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
• Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
• Quick Start – Traccar
• guest access / embedding? – Traccar
• Public/View-only-Webinterface (no login required) · Issue #96 · tananaev/traccar-web · GitHub

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Based on Debian GNU/Linux fast, lightweight and stable XFCE desktop environment.
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This week we dive into what the community thinks about putting a server in their pocket, show you some smart tricks with Gimp & some Windows nightmares. Plus some router chat & more!

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Smart Gimp Tricks

The Quickmask for adjusting selections: I’m a born-again Quickmask evangelist, because I went so long without realizing that it was there, and it makes selections so much easier.

Decomposing an image and using the components as a mask to select part of an image—that’s an easy way to select skies and get rid of a drab overcast sky, or to change or enhance the color of the sky.

Using the Dodge/Burn tool to make a background really white, for when you want an object to stand out and make the background go away. It can be a lot easier than selecting or erasing.

Feedback:

Noah Hit Something on the Head

“I wish Ubuntu would just use GNOME, and go back to trying to contribute useful bits.”

Now, I have a few extensions installed, but the way I use GNOME isn’t much different from how someone would use Unity; I keep the Dash up at all times, I have those pesky tray apps up in the corner, and so on. This is so close to how I used to work in Unity, OS X, etc., that I’m puzzled at why GNOME gets treated like the red-headed stepchild sometimes.

Now, I know that once in a while the GNOME dev team decides to go off the deep end (Let’s make the filemanager work like old-school Finder and do that by default! Hell, let’s override users’ pre-existing settings, that’s how good it is!) but overall GNOME just keeps getting better.

Windows Secureboot Causes a Mess

I just made a potentially costly mistake: we nuked and repaved my friend’s brand new Lenovo Yoga 500 with Linux… without booting into Windows to disable SecureBoot explicitly. He didn’t want to accept the EULA; and we successfully booted into USB key (Ubuntu MATE 15.10, Ubuntu w/Unity 15.04) so we thought we would just go ahead.

I thought Ubuntu would have been candidate, but apparently not. Is this the correct way? Which distros would work? We tried installing and booting into Ubuntu Unity 15.04 (which is supposed to have the appropriate signature) but after install and reboot, we get the above. Given that Windows has been obliterated at this point, what options do I have?

Unfortunately, he’s leaving in just over a week, so if the conclusion ends up being “install Windows to do this” I’ll take it….. but I’d rather not!

Ever Heard of FriendOS?

I heard yesterday about Friendos. It looks like this: https://youtu.be/Y5n0f5DSbSM?t=16m14s , so it’s like Amiga Workbench in the browser powered by a Linux backend. They releasing public beta as open source this week.It will be able to run both thml5 and native applications. Their website is a little enigmatic right now:

• FriendOS

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A Server in Your Pocket

Ocean is a mobile server, a device that combines the portability of a mobile phone with the flexibility of a Linux web server.

Want a portable Linux-powered web server that will fit into your pocket? Look no further than Ocean.

Ocean has been designed from the ground up for portability, and features an integrated battery that allows you to run web and Bluetooth applications in places where direct power is limited.

The device is approximately the size of an iPhone 6, and can easily fit in your pocket.

This bundle costs $149 and ships in February. Higher capacity versions are slated to ship later in the year.

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Numbers don’t lie—it’s time to build your own router

I’ve noticed a trend lately. Rather than replacing a router when it literally stops working, I’ve needed to act earlier—swapping in new gear because an old router could no longer keep up with increasing Internet speeds available in the area. (Note, I am duly thankful for this problem.) As the latest example, a whole bunch of Netgear ProSafe 318G routers failed me for the last time as small businesses have upgraded from 1.5-9mbps traditional T1 connections to 50mbps coax (cable).

A lot of you are probably muttering, “right, pfSense, sure.” Some of you might even be thinking about smoothwall or untangle NG. I played with most of the firewall distros out there, but I decided to go more basic, more old school: a plain, CLI-only install of Ubuntu Server and a few iptables rules.

Admittedly, this likely isn’t the most practical approach for every reader, but it made sense for me. I have quite a bit of experience finessing iptables and the Linux kernel itself for high throughput at Internet scale, and the fewer shiny features and graphics and clicky things that are put between me and the firewall table, the less fluff I have to get out of the way and the fewer new not-applicable-in-the-rest-of-my-work things I have to learn. Any rule I already know how to create in iptables to manage access to my servers, I also know how to apply to my firewall—if my firewall’s running the same distro as my servers are.

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Cumulus Networks is a system software company founded with the principle of enabling high capacity networks that are easy to deploy and affordable. Led by networking experts and innovators from Cisco and VMware, we provide great networking for layer 2, layer 3 and overlay architectures supported by improved economics and a robust ecosystem — a modern alternative to proprietary vendor-locked stacks that constrain IT innovation.

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Gnome Core Apps

It would appear that the GNOME developers are currently in the process of revisiting the desktop environment’s moduleset and defining a clear set of core apps, which should form the default user experience in upcoming releases of the GNOME desktop (most probably starting with GNOME 3.20, which should be available in spring 2016).

At the moment of writing this article, the GNOME developers have only managed to announce that the Cheese webcam viewer app has been integrated as a core GNOME app as it is required by the GNOME Control Center, GNOME Initial Setup and GNOME Contacts components. They are also in talks with the developers of the Gedit text editor to make it a core app too.

Furthermore, the GNOME Color Manager component will also be pushed to the core apps moduleset, as the GNOME Control Center software requires it. However, the GNOME developers will also define a set of non-core apps, which they don’t recommend GNU/Linux OS vendors to include in their distributions when using the GNOME desktop environment by default.

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Phoenix OS

Google Android may have been developed as a smartphone operating system (and later ported to tablets, TVs, watches, and other platforms), but over the past few years we’ve seen a number of attempts to turn it into a desktop operating system.

One of the most successful has been Remix OS, which gives Android a taskbar, start menu, and an excellent window management system. The Remix OS team has also generated a lot of buzz over the past year, and this week the operating system gained a lot of new alpha testers thanks to a downloadable version of Remix OS that you can run on many recent desktop or notebook computers.

But Remix OS isn’t the only game in town. Phoenix OS is another Android-as-desktop operating system, and while it’s still pretty rough around the edges, there are a few features that could make it a better option for some testers.

• Phoenix OS is (another) Android-as-a-desktop

• Peppermint OS

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A member of the Vivaldi browser project joins to discuss their new release. The man behind Solus comes on to follow up on our review, discuss the big plans for the future, creating a custom distribution & the problem with derivatives.

GIMP turns 20 this week and we ask if it’s just time to accept that some OSS projects will never topple their commercial competitor & why that’s just fine by us. We’re still thankful for the GIMP.

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• Chapeau 23 Beta 2 is out! | Chapeau

This build is a feature-complete release of the next major version of Chapeau built from Fedora Workstation 23 and includes the latest packages from the RPMFusion testing repos and the Chapeau 23 repo.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Open-Source AMDGPU Linux Driver Released, Supports the Latest AMD GPUs

The announcement has been made on the X.Org Announce mailing list of the X.Org Foundation, and according to Mr. Dänzer, the brand new xf86-video-amdgpu 1.0.0 driver has been forked from the open-source xf86-video-ati AMD Radeon graphics driver to support the AMDGPU kernel driver introduced in Linux kernel 4.2.

Help Fedora test Wayland!

Before GNOME on Wayland becomes default in Fedora, we need to ensure the transition is smooth and the user won’t recognize a difference. So we need reports on deficiencies that occur on Wayland but not X11. Kamil Páral of the Fedora QA team has written a comprehensive guide how to debug Wayland-related problems.

• the-art-of-command-line/README.md at master · jlevy/the-art-of-command-line · GitHub

Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we’ve found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

Antergos Linux Close to ZFS Support

ZFS kernel modules were added in preparation for ZFS support in Cnchi v0.14

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A New Web Browser for Our Friends Vivaldi – For Linux

Vivaldi launches its first beta

After 50 snapshots and 4 Technical previews, Vivaldi has now reached Beta.

We cannot thank you enough for all the support we have gotten from our community. We couldn’t have done it without you. Special thanks goes to the Sopranos (our volunteer test team) for always being willing to test our internal builds and give us valuable feedback.

Download Vivaldi Beta from here and spread the word for us

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This Week in Solus #11 | Solus Project

We are also planning on rolling out Budgie Next this week.

Christmas

Many of you have been curious when Solus 1.0 will be out. It was announced by Ikey that, assuming Murphy doesn’t interfere again, we will have Solus 1.0 out before Christmas!

VeltOS

VeltOS is sporting the beautiful and easy-to-use Budgie Desktop, themed with Numix. Budgie is built to stay out of the way of you and your programs, allowing you to focus on the task at hand.

VeltOS does not come with bloatware—only what you need. If there is anything we forgot, chances are one of the thousands of applications available for Arch Linux will suit your needs.

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Is it time to accept sometimes OSS tools won’t ever be good enough?

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next?

This week GIMP celebrates its 20th anniversary. There has been a lot of excitement, but there are also some concerns about project’s future. Some reasonable, difficult questions have to be addressed.

LibreOffice getting ready for the next 1,000 hackers

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Tired of the 1990s look of LibreOffice? Here’s how you can contribute.

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Mike shares his excitement for Ionic, an advanced HTML5 hybrid mobile app Framework. Then Chris asks if the tools used to make the product, as long as the end result is good, really matter?

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Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework

• Getting Started with Ionic – Ionic Framework
• Ionic app showcase – Ionic Framework

AngularJS — Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework

• AngularJS Tutorial

Epic Games releases $3 million in art and sound assets for free | Ars Technica

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• Why still use Photoshop?

• Book PDF’s for those wanting to start a new language

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Fedora 22 builds on top of the great Fedora 21 release. With big changes like the new DNF package manager, Gnome 3.16, and more there is a lot to talk about and a few bumps. We’ll share our experience with Fedora’s latest and greatest!

Plus why Mandriva shutdown, SourceForge messes with GIMP, the Kubuntu drama we don’t want to talk about, great feedback, some helpful app picks & more!

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Fedora’s FedUp Upgrade Utility to be Redesigned for Fedora 23

Steam Repo for Fedora 22

This repository contains the latest steam package for connecting to the Steam network from Valve. This package cannot be included in the main Fedora repository as it’s not free and is not shipped in source form. Since the Steam license allows package redistribution with a specific note for repacking in Linux distributions; the package is now available in RPMFusion.

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

• Project Soli, Runs Linux

Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.

Desktop App Pick

• fallocate

fallocate allows the caller to directly manipulate the allocated disk space for the file referred to by fd for the byte range starting at offset and continuing for len bytes.

Weekly Spotlight

• Yubico Yubikey

One key. Two form factors. The Standard and Nano deliver a one-time passcode (OTP) with a simple touch of a button. No SMS-like passcodes to retype from one device to another. Our most basic YubiKey identifies itself as an external keyboard, which eliminates the need for client software or drivers. The nearly indestructible key holds tight onto its secrets, and its design ensures it will never be a vector for viruses or malware, just like the rest of our YubiKeys.

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These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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CEO: Employee lawsuits killed Mandriva

The company had generated a mere €553,000 in revenue in 2013 (at today’s exchange rate, that’s about $607,000), with revenue falling for years, according to a notice posted by the company. Croset confirmed that to Business Insider. That wasn’t enough revenue, so he had to dismiss some people, particularly sales staff.

In 2014 revenues were climbing again, up by 40%, he told us. Costs were down by 60%. The company wasn’t yet profitable, but it had just broken even. Croset — who is Swiss, not French — blames the legal system in France for Mandriva’s demise.

That’s because the laid-off workers sued the company and won just, he says, as Mandriva was breaking even. (The details of the suits, including names of employees involved, are confidential, he told us, and he declined to offer details.)

The company was ordered to pay these employees hundreds of thousands of euros and ordered to pay “provisory execution,” meaning immediately, even though the appeals process was not complete, Croset tells us.

SourceForge grabs GIMP for Windows’ account, wraps installer in bundle-pushing adware

The GIMP project is not officially distributed through SourceForge—approved releases are only posted on the GIMP project’s own Web page. But Jernej Simončič, the developer who has been responsible for building Windows versions of GIMP for some time, has maintained an account on SourceForge to act as a distribution mirror. That is, he had until today, when he discovered he was locked out of the Gimp-Win account, and the project’s ownership “byline” had been changed to “sf-editor1″—a SourceForge staff account. Additionally, the site now provided Gimp in an executable installer that has in-installer advertising enabled.

In a blog post issued shortly after this story posted, an unidentified member of SourceForge’s community team wrote that, in fact, “this project was actually abandoned over 18 months ago, and SourceForge has stepped-in to keep this project current.” That runs counter to claims by members of the GIMP development community.

• Goodbye, Sourceforge!

Kubuntu Project Lead Asked To Step Down by Ubuntu Community Council

In a spat that reads more like a plot from Game of Thrones, Jonathan Riddell has been told that his leadership of the Kubuntu community is ‘no longer recognised’ by the council — a decision that has left the Kubuntu community up in arms.

Mark Shuttleworth does back the decision, saying that the “UCC is entitled to choose who they will recognise as their counterparts and representatives in sub-communities like Kubuntu”.

A stalemate between two stable mates. Where this goes next remains to be seen.

• Canonical’s IPRights Policy incompatible with Ubuntu licence policy

• Kubuntu: Statement from a not so important Kubuntu Developer. | Home of Scarlett Gately Clark

Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub

At his blog, Chris Ball announces “GitTorrent,” his new project designed to let developers host Git repositories on BitTorrent. The system takes advantage of Git’s ability to run over arbitrary network protocols. “We ask for the commit we want and connect to a node with BitTorrent, but once connected we conduct this Smart Protocol negotiation in an overlay connection on top of the BitTorrent wire protocol, in what’s called a BitTorrent Extension. Then the remote node makes us a packfile and tells us the hash of that packfile, and then we start downloading that packfile from it and any other nodes who are seeding it using Standard BitTorrent. We can authenticate the packfile we receive, because after we uncompress it we know which Git commit our graph is supposed to end up at; if we don’t end up there, the other node lied to us, and we should try talking to someone else instead.” The project is, obviously, a new one that still has important ground to cover—such as dealing with comments or pull requests—but there are interesting ideas to consider already.

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We chat with three developers that are working to make the Linux desktop look even better. From building hardware to working with upstream we dig into the process at the ground level, with some exciting announcements.

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Numix Update

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Numix – Not just yet another theme suite

Numix – Android Apps on Google Play

Croma | Firefox Marketplace

Ozon OS

An exciting new operating system from the developers of Numix & Nitrux.

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• Ozon OS “Hydrogen” Alpha Available For Testing ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Ozon OS Ozon OS “Hydrogen” alpha is based on Fedora 20 and it uses GNOME Shell and Gnome apps by default, customized with various extensions.

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Desktop App Pick

Meld

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld
helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled
projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files
and directories, and has support for many popular version control
systems.

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Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon RC released!

Linux Mint 17.1 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 even more comfortable to use.

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Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Released

This release is unusual in that it is based on Ubuntu MATE 14.04
but adds a number of new features and fixes many bugs. Although
this is a 14.04 release you can consider it a newer version than
14.10 but many of the changes outlined below have already been
released to Ubuntu MATE 14.10 via updates.

• Install MATE on openSUSE using a script

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Preconfigured Docker Platform

The ‘Preconfigured Docker’ platforms are delivered as Docker containers allowing you to develop and test your applications locally using the same container that your application will be deployed to on Elastic Beanstalk.

• AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service

In order to help you to realize these benefits, we are announcing a preview of our new
container management service, EC2 Container Service (or ECS for short).

This service will make it easy for you to run any number of Docker_containers across a managed cluster of _Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances using powerful APIs and other tools. You do not
have to install cluster management software, purchase and maintain the cluster hardware, or match your hardware
inventory to your software needs when you use ECS. You simply launch some instances in
a cluster, define some tasks, and start them. ECS is built around a scalable,
fault-tolerant,
multi-tenant base that takes care of all of the details of cluster management on your
behalf.

• AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service | ZDNet

The Switch To Systemd Will Likely Occur For Ubuntu 15.04

Among the bugs that need to be addressed for the switch to happen is needing some AppArmor fixes, support for Ubuntu working in a LXC container with systemd, working cryptsetup integration with systemd during the boot process, and other changes. Some of the other work needed includes bringing up the network enablement in a good manner, NFS improvements, improving Plymouth integration, validating behavior for various packages, etc. While there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to clear it for integration, the consensus expressed during today’s Ubuntu Online Summit was, “generally we are ready to switch now.”

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Flat GIMP icon Theme v 1.0.0 by android272 on deviantART

The Flat GIMP icon Theme was created to modernize GIMP and keep people focused on their art. I have heard it all over the web that GIMP is ugly and I wanted to change that.

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• Any experience with the Surface 3 and Linux out there?

• New Surface Pro 3 Tablet

• Invite to participate in the 4th Annual HPR New Year 26 Hour show

• Frozen Synapse Prime devs: “Despite engine being cross platform, releasing for Linux/OSX would lose us money” – how is that possible?

• Rough Estimates put Steam’s Linux users base at around 500K give or take.

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Ian Hex a talented photographer whose workflow is completely under Linux, joins us to discuss his must have open source photo management tools for Linux, how he creates his amazing HDR images, and his thoughts on strengths and weakness of using Linux for photography.

PLUS: Spotify gets in on the recent Debian debate, Ubuntu scores high marks in the UK, Steam Dev Days Highlights…

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1) Plugin the iPod to your computer, close any software or dialogs that appear.
2) Assuming you have gparted already installed, run the program.
3) Don’t worry about deleting your active partitions, as they will be locked. But if you run a dual-boot PC, be mindful before deleting anything.
4) Look to the upper right, select the /dev/ pull down menu. You will be selecting the dev device with the least amount of space. In my case, it was 1.89 GiB.
5) You will see either two or three partitions available, one of them is FAT32. Ignoring the others, select the FAT32 partition.
6) With the FAT32 partition right clicked and selected, choose unmount. This frees up the partition for changes.
7) Right click the partition again, and select format to> FAT32.
8) Click the apply button - aka the green checkmark at the top of the menu. Then click apply.
9) Disconnect the iPod, then allow the iPod to reboot itself. When completed, it will appear with a dialog asking you to choose your default language.
10) Now plug the iPod back into the PC.
11) Choose to open the iPod with Banshee.
12) On the bottom left, you will see the device has appeared. As per the segment, you can right click it and give it a better name if you like.
13) Left clicking on the device, the main screen dialog presents you with the option of setting up how the sync preferences work. 
I recommend keeping things set to manual. This simply means the checkbox for Sync when first plugged in, remains unchecked.
14) Select the music sync preference, then choose one of the following: