Gnome Shell – Jupiter Broadcasting

A screen; because a picture is worth a thousand words. Who really wants to hear 6 days of temperature forecasts, when you can simply glance at a screen?

Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Nautilus, a LTS and desktop icons

If you are following closely the news of various tech websites, one of the latest hot topic in the community was about Nautilus removing desktop icons. Let’s try to clarify some points to ensure the various discussions around it have enough background information and not reacting on emotions only as it could be seen lately. You will have both downstream (mine) and upstream (Carlos) perspectives here.

Why Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Use an Older Version of Nautilus

Stick with Nautilus 3.26 and keep desktop icon support
Ship Nautilus 3.28 and Nemo to support desktop icons
Ship Nautilus 3.28 and use an extension to draw desktop icons

GNOME Photos: Happenings

Enjoy the Shadows and highlights operations fresh from the oven of GEGL’s workshop. Implementation of shadows and highlights is a port of DarkTable‘s operation.

Firefox 59+ is GTK3 only

Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282#c76

Firefox 58.0 release overview

Firefox 58 user profiles are not compatible with older versions of Firefox.

Firefox 58 features performance improvements, new WebExtensions API, and other improvements.

Firefox 58.0 download and update

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Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux

Application launcher for Linux

Docker console UI and Dashboard for quick managing and inspecting of Containers and Images

Docker console UI and Dashboard for quick managing and inspecting of Containers and Images

OBS Studio v21 Released: Lua/Python Scripting, New Audio Meters, Ducking, Multiview, and lots more

Full Changelog/Downloads: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases/tag/21.0.1

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All Aboard The Meson Future Hype Train – elementary OS

One big difference you should notice immediately is that installing files is just an argument instead of a whole new method and Meson is generally smart about knowing where certain files (like executables) should be installed to.

MATE is Lookin Good!

MATE is landing new and improved support for HiDPI.

20 Years of LWN

Over the following years we have borne witness to a long series of events
that none of us could really have predicted. Linux got caught up in the dotcom boom and, with the VA Linux Systems IPO, came to epitomize its excesses, but when that boom went boom, Linux was still there, stronger than ever.

The SCO Group tried to steal our community’s work and turn it into its own
rent-generating machine; in the process of fending them off it was made
clear that the Linux kernel had one of the cleanest code bases around.
Companies discovered our little hobbyist system and invested billions into
it, massively accelerating development at all levels of the system.
We learned how to scale development communities from dozens of developers
up to many thousands of developers.

The security environment, which was initially defending against script
kiddies playing their own form of Capture the Flag, became a fight against
spammers, organized criminals, and nation states with vast resources.
Google bought an obscure phone operating system called Android and used it
to dominate the phone market; as a result, we got mobile devices that are
far more open than they would otherwise have been.

Linux became the base software supporting the bulk of the Internet economy;
some of our biggest contributors do not distribute Linux at all, but they
use it internally and want to help make it work better.

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Is Native Linux App Development In Decline?

Once up on a time us writing about ___”yet another music player”___was a meme-like weekly occurrence.

Same goes for video players, download managers, instant messengers, torrent apps, image editors, Twitter apps, image viewers, text editors, photo uploaders, etc — you name it, we probably wrote about it! It seemed, for a long while, that app developers were out there en masse, crafting quality apps to satisfy the full gamut of end-user needs.

These days the availability of new native Linux apps which cater to users of the most popular Linux distributions seem few and far between.

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Ubuntu’s New Era | LINUX Unplugged 219

chris — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:19:35 +0000

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Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement

To help clarify what the majority of Linux kernel community members feel is the correct way to enforce our license, the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation_has worked together with lawyers in our community, individual developers, and many companies that participate in the development of, and rely on Linux, to draft a Kernel Enforcement Statement to help address both this specific issue we are facing today, and to help prevent any future issues like this from happening again.

As Greg always says every year, the kernel continues to change faster this year than the last, this year we were running around 8.5 changes an hour, with 10,000 lines of code added, 2,000 modified, and 2,500 lines removed every hour of every day.

Unfortunately the same processes that we use to assure fulfillment of license obligations and availability of source code can also be used unjustly in trolling activities to extract personal monetary rewards. In particular, issues have arisen as a developer from the Netfilter community, Patrick McHardy, has sought to enforce his copyright claims in secret and for large sums of money by threatening or engaging in litigation.

Some of his compliance claims are issues that should and could easily be resolved. However, he has also made claims based on ambiguities in the GPL-2.0 that no one in our community has ever considered part of compliance.

Examples of these claims have been distributing over-the-air firmware, requiring a cell phone maker to deliver a paper copy of source code offer letter; claiming the source code server must be setup with a download speed as fast as the binary server based on the “equivalent access” language of Section 3; requiring the GPL-2.0 to be delivered in a local language; and many others.

Because of this, and to help clarify what the majority of Linux kernel community members feel is the correct way to enforce our license, the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation has worked together with lawyers in our community, individual developers, and many companies that participate in the development of, and rely on Linux, to draft a Kernel Enforcement Statement to help address both this specific issue we are facing today, and to help prevent any future issues like this from happening again.

It adopts the same termination provisions we are all familiar with from GPL-3.0 as an Additional Permission giving companies confidence that they will have time to come into compliance if a failure is identified. Their ability to rely on this Additional Permission will hopefully re-establish user confidence and help direct enforcement activity back to the original purpose we have all sought over the years – actual compliance.

Further Reading:

Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement FAQ – Linux Kernel Monkey Log

Based on the recent Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement and the article describing the background and what it means, here are some Questions/Answers to help clear things up. These are based on questions that came up when the statement was discussed among the initial round of over 200 different kernel developers.

Patrick McHardy and copyright profiteering | Opensource.com

Many developers in the Linux community have concerns about the activities of Patrick McHardy. Here are answers to common questions.

Conservancy Applauds Linux Community’s Promotion of Principled Copyleft Enforcement – Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates the Linux community for taking steps today to promote principled, community-minded copyleft enforcement by publishing the Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement. The Statement includes an additional permission under Linux’s license, the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 (GPLv2).

WPA2: Broken with KRACK. What now?

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Shaking the tin for LVFS: Asking for donations!

tl;dr: If you feel like you want to donate to the LVFS, you can now do so here.

As of snapd 2.28 – “base” snaps are a new thing. After talking with the +Snap…

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Ubuntu 17.10 Review

Do You Plan to Upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10?

The poll embed below asks about Ubuntu 17.10 (including flavors) specifically.

Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful

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The Flavors of Ubuntu 17.10

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Gnome in the Shell | LINUX Unplugged 200

chris — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:24:46 +0000

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Android execs get technical talking updates, Project Treble, Linux, and more

What is your thinking about the Linux Kernel? You ship a super-old one right now—it’s 3.18, from 2014.

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The Native Skype Linux App Will Stop Working July 1

“All Skype for Linux client version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux,” a notice on the Skype for Linux download page reads.

The Difference between Google Chrome and Chromium on Linux

Chromium on Linux has two general flavors: You can either get Google Chrome or chromium-browser (see Linux Chromium Packages. This page tries to describe the differences between the two.

AI War: Fleet Command -80% on GOG.com

GNOME Fractional scaling Hackfest is running atCanonical offices in Taipei…

Ubuntu Works with GNOME to Improve HiDPI Support on Linux Desktop – OMG! Ubuntu!

Canonical is playing host to a ‘fractional scaling hackfest‘ in its’ Taipei offices this week. Both GNOME developers and Ubuntu developers are in attendance, ready to wrestle with

The aim: improve GNOME HiDPI support.

Fractional scaling goes east | Goings on

Some of the limitations:

You either get 1:1 or 2:1 scaling, nothing in between
The cut-off point that is somewhat arbitrarily chosen and you don’t get a say in it
In multi-monitor systems, all monitors share the same scale

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New GNOME Extensions

Arc is a New Applications Menu for GNOME Shell

Arc Menu is an alternative app launcher for GNOME Shell. It replaces the Activities button in the top bar with a traditional ‘Start Menu’ style launcher.

Must-have GNOME extension: gTile – Fedora Magazine

Once it’s installed, you can click the tile icon in the GNOME menu up top. You’ll see a little overlay with a bunch of squares. The gTile overlay will hover over an open window, and you can click one (or more) of the squares to place the window in that area.

Enable Nautilus Git Integration with this Open-Source Extension

Show Git directory info

Show the status of Git files (i.e. number of added, modified, removed)

Option to open remote URL

Option to select branch

Option to compare commits

Dash to Dock Now Supports Multi-Monitor Setups

Developer Michele G adds that “at the moment no strange combinatoins (sic) of dock position are supported: the dock is replicated on each available screen.”

Appfolders-manager-gnome-extension: A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the “applications view”.

A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the applications view. As a bonus feature, it is possible to change the number of columns (v2 only).

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The Future of Gnome

GNOME Shell and Mutter Are Now Ready for the GNOME 3.25.2 Desktop Environment

GNOME 3.25.2 is the second milestone in the development cycle of the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, which is expected to launch later this year on September 13, and it should hit the streets any moment now. Therefore, both the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window and composite manager were updated with many changes.

GNOME’s Disks Utility to Add Many Feature Enhancements for GNOME 3.26 Desktop

GTK+ 3.91 Released With Meson Build Support, API Changes, macOS Support

GTK+ 3.91 is now available as the latest test release on the road to the GTK4 tool-kit.

Apps/Builder – GNOME Wiki!

Builder is a new IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of our platform to more developers than ever before. It is currently under heavy development and needs your help to become a success. Get excited about the future by taking a look at our planned Features.

About Us | Endless Computers

Computing is one of the greatest revolutions in human history. Yet, it remains out of reach for half the planet. We created Endless OS — a free and robust computing solution — so people everywhere have access to relevant information and technology.

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BSD Gnow | BSD Now 99

chris — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:28:31 +0000

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This week we’ll be talking with Ryan Lortie and Baptiste Daroussin about GNOME on BSD. Upstream development is finally treating the BSDs as a first class citizen, so we’ll hear about how the recent porting efforts have been since.

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OpenBSD presents tame

Theo de Raadt sent out an email detailing OpenBSD’s new “tame” subsystem, written by Nicholas Marriott and himself, for restricting what processes can and can’t do
When using tame, programs will switch to a “restricted-service operating mode,” limiting them to only the things they actually need to do
As for the background: “Generally there are two models of operation. The first model requires a major rewrite of application software for effective use (ie. capsicum). The other model in common use lacks granularity, and allows or denies an operation throughout the entire lifetime of a process. As a result, they lack differentiation between program ‘initialization’ versus ‘main servicing loop.’ systrace had the same problem. My observation is that programs need a large variety of calls during initialization, but few in their main loops.”
Some initial categories of operation include: computation, memory management, read-write operations on file descriptors, opening of files and, of course, networking
Restrictions can also be stacked further into the lifespan of the process, but removed abilities can never be regained (obviously)
Anything that tries to access resources outside of its in-place limits gets terminated with a SIGKILL or, optionally, a SIGABRT (which can produce useful core dumps for investigation)
Also included are 29 examples of userland programs that get additional protection with very minimal changes to the source – only 2 or 3 lines needing changed in the case of binaries like cat, ps, dmesg, etc.
This is an initial work-in-progress version of tame, so there may be more improvements or further control options added before it hits a release (very specific access policies can sometimes backfire, however)
The man page, also included in the mail, provides some specifics about how to integrate tame properly into your code (which, by design, was made very easy to do – making it simple means third party programs are more likely to actually use it)
Kernel bits are in the tree now, with userland changes starting to trickle in too
Combined with a myriad of memory protections, tight privilege separation and (above all else) good coding practices, tame should further harden the OpenBSD security fortress
Further discussion can be found in the usual places you’d expect

Using Docker on FreeBSD

With the experimental Docker port landing in FreeBSD a few weeks ago, some initial docs are starting to show up
This docker is “the real thing,” and isn’t using a virtual machine as the backend – as such, it has some limitations
The FreeBSD wiki has a page detailing how it works in general, as well as more info about those limitations
When running Linux containers, it will only work as well as the Linux ABI compat layer for your version of FreeBSD (11.0, or -CURRENT when we’re recording this, is where all the action is for 64bit support)
For users on 10.X, there’s also a FreeBSD container available, which allows you to use Docker as a fancy jail manager (it uses the jail subsystem internally)
Give it a try, let us know how you find it to be compared to other solutions

OpenBSD imports doas, removes sudo

OpenBSD has included the ubiquitous “sudo” utility for many years now, and the current maintainer of sudo (Todd C. Miller) is also a long-time OpenBSD dev
The version included in the base system was much smaller than the latest current version used elsewhere, but was based on older code
Some internal discussion lead to the decision that sudo should probably be moved to ports now, where it can be updated easily and offer all the extra features that were missing in base (LDAP and whatnot)
Ted Unangst conjured up with a rewritten utility to replace it in the base system, dubbed “do as,” with the aim of being more simple and compact
There were concerns that sudo was too big and too complicated, and a quick ‘n’ dirty check reveals that doas is around 350 lines of code, while sudo is around 10,000 – which would you rather have as a setuid root binary?
After the initial import, a number of developers began reviewing and improving various bits here and there
You can check out the code now if you’re interested
Command usage and config syntax seem pretty straightforward
More discussion on HN

What would you like to see in FreeBSD

Adrian Chadd started a reddit thread about areas in which FreeBSD could be improved, asking the community what they’d like to see
There are over 200 comments that span a wide range of topics, so we’ll just cover a few of the more popular requests – check the very long thread if you’re interested in more
The top comment says things don’t “just work,” citing failover link aggregation of LACP laggs, PPPoE issues, disorganized jail configuration options, unclear CARP configuration and userland dtrace being unstable
Another common one was that there are three firewalls in the base system, with ipfilter and pf being kinda dead now – should they be removed, and more focus put into ipfw?
Video drivers also came up frequently, with users hoping for better OpenGL support and support for newer graphics cards from Intel and AMD – similar comments were made about wireless chipsets as well
Some other replies included more clarity with pkgng output, paying more attention to security issues, updating PF to match the one in OpenBSD, improved laptop support, a graphical installer, LibreSSL in base, more focus on embedded MIPS devices, binary packages with different config options, steam support and lots more
At least one user suggested better “marketing” for FreeBSD, with more advocacy and (hopefully) more business adoption
That one really applies to all the BSDs, and regular users (that’s you listening to this) can help make it happen for whichever ones you use right now
Maybe Adrian can singlehandedly do all the work and make all the users happy

Interview – Ryan Lortie & Baptiste Daroussin

Porting the latest GNOME code to the BSDs

News Roundup

Introducing resflash

If you haven’t heard of resflash before, it’s “a tool for building OpenBSD images for embedded and cloud environments in a programmatic, reproducible way”
One of the major benefits to images like this is the read-only filesystem, so there’s no possibility of filesystem corruption if power is lost
There’s an optional read-write partition as well, used for any persistent changes you want to make
You can check out the source code on Github or read the main site for more info

Jails with iocage

There are a growing number of FreeBSD jail management utilities: ezjail, cbsd, warden and a few others
After looking at all the different choices, the author of this blog post eventually settled on iocage for the job
The post walks you through the basic configuration and usage of iocage for creating managing jails
If you’ve been unhappy with ezjail or some of the others, iocage might be worth giving a try instead (it also has really good ZFS integration)

DragonFly GPU improvements

DragonFlyBSD continues to up their graphics game, this time with Intel’s ValleyView series of CPUs
These GPUs are primarily used in the newer Atom CPUs and offer much better performance than the older ones
A git branch was created to hold the fixes for now while the last remaining bugs get fixed
Fully-accelerated Broadwell support and an update to newer DRM code are also available in the git branch, and will be merged to the main tree after some testing

Branchless development

Ted Unangst has a new blog post up, talking about software branches and the effects of having (or not having) them
He covers integrating and merging code, and the versioning problems that can happen with multiple people contributing at once
“For an open source project, branching is counter intuitively antisocial. For instance, I usually tell people I’m running OpenBSD, but that’s kind of a lie. I’m actually running teduBSD, which is like OpenBSD but has some changes to make it even better. Of course, you can’t have teduBSD because I’m selfish. I’m also lazy, and only inclined to make my changes work for me, not everyone else.”
The solution, according to him, is bringing all the code the developers are using closer together
One big benefit is that WIP code gets tested much faster (and bugs get fixed early on)

Feedback/Questions

There were a lot of links in today’s news – mailing list posts, wiki pages, discussion, source code commits and more – so hit up bsdnow.tv for all the show notes as usual
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
We’re always looking for new interviews – get in touch if you’re doing anything cool with BSD that you’d like to talk about (or feel free to volunteer someone else)
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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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Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

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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

Feedback/Questions

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Port Authority | BSD Now 26

chris — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:34:25 +0000

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On today\’s show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU
Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it!
This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device
He goes through the trial and error of \”compile, break it, rebuild, try again\”
After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working

pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

pkgsrccon is \”a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure\”
This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
BSDCan\’s schedule was also announced
We\’ll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
Kris\’ presentation was accepted!
Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully!

Two factor auth with pushover

A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
Pushover is \”a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway\” – you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh!

The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

It\’s no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they\’re finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us – it\’s a beautiful thing
This goes right along with our interview today!

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The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

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The FreeBSD Ports Collection

News Roundup

DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they\’d like to get done before then
In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes

NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

We\’ve got a nice wrap-up titled \”NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend\”
The author also interviews GNN about the conference
There\’s even a little \”beginner introduction\” to BSD segment
Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event

FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

GNN in yet another story – he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs \”distros,\” development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends

PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
How dare Kris be \”unimpressed with\” freebsd-update and pkgng!?
Various updates and fixes

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