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##Headlines
###The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

The sources for FreeBSD’s ZFS support are currently taken directly from Illumos with local ifdefs to support the peculiarities of FreeBSD where the Solaris Portability Layer (SPL) shims fall short. FreeBSD has regularly pulled changes from Illumos and tried to push back any bug fixes and new features done in the context of FreeBSD. In the past few years the vast majority of new development in ZFS has taken place in DelphixOS and zfsonlinux (ZoL). Earlier this year Delphix announced that they will be moving to ZoL: https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018 This shift means that there will be little to no net new development of Illumos. While working through the git history of ZoL I have also discovered that many races and locking bugs have been fixed in ZoL and never made it back to Illumos and thus FreeBSD. This state of affairs has led to a general agreement among the stakeholders that I have spoken to that it makes sense to rebase FreeBSD’s ZFS on ZoL. Brian Behlendorf has graciously encouraged me to add FreeBSD support directly to ZoL https://github.com/zfsonfreebsd/ZoF so that we might all have a single shared code base.
A port for ZoF can be found at https://github.com/miwi-fbsd/zof-port Before it can be committed some additional functionality needs to be added to the FreeBSD opencrypto framework. These can be found at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18520
This port will provide FreeBSD users with multi modifier protection, project quotas, encrypted datasets, allocation classes, vectorized raidz, vectorized checksums, and various command line improvements.

###FreeBSD Quarterly Status Update

With FreeBSD having gone all the way to 12, it is perhaps useful to take a look back at all the things that have been accomplished, in terms of many visible changes, as well as all the things that happen behind the scenes to ensure that FreeBSD continues to offer an alternative in both design, implementation, and execution.
The things you can look forward to reading about are too numerous to summarize, but cover just about everything from finalizing releases, administrative work, optimizations and depessimizations, features added and fixed, and many areas of improvement that might just surprise you a little.
Please have a cup of coffee, tea, hot cocoa, or other beverage of choice, and enjoy this culmulative set of reports covering everything that’s been done since October, 2017.
—Daniel Ebdrup

##News Roundup
###One year of flying with the Raven: Ready for the Desktop?

It has been a little over one year now that I’m with the Ravenports project. Time to reflect my involvement, my expectations and hopes.

• Ravenports

Ravenports is a universal packaging framework for *nix operating systems. For the user it provides easy access to binary packages of common software for multiple platforms. It has been the long-lasting champion on Repology’s top 10 repositories regarding package freshness (rarely dropping below 96 percent while all other projects keep below 90!).

For the porter it offers a well-designed and elegant means of writing cross-platform buildsheets that allow building the same version of the software with (completely or mostly) the same compile-time configuration on different operating systems or distributions.

And for the developer it means a real-world project that’s written in modern Ada (ravenadm) and C (pkg) – as well as some Perl for support scripts and make. Things feel very optimized and fast. Not being a programmer though, I cannot really say anything about the actual code and thus leave it to the interested reader’s judgement.

###Modern KDE on FreeBSD

New stuff in the official FreeBSD repositories! The X11 team has landed a newer version of libinput, opening up the way for KDE Plasma 5.14 in ports. That’s a pretty big update and it may frighten people with a new wallpaper.
What this means is that the graphical stack is once again on-par with what Plasma upstream expects, and we can get back to chasing releases as soon as they happen, rather than gnashing our teeth at missing dependencies. The KDE-FreeBSD CI servers are in the process of being upgraded to 12-STABLE, and we’re integrating with the new experimental CI systems as well. This means we are chasing sensibly-modern systems (13-CURRENT is out of scope).

###The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2

Talking to FreeBSD users recently, I became aware that while I’ve created a lot of tools, I haven’t done a very good job of explaining how, and more importantly when to use them. So for all of the EC2-curious FreeBSD users out there: Here are the many ways to launch and configure FreeBSD in EC2 — ranging from the simplest to the most complicated (but most powerful):

• Launch FreeBSD and SSH in
• Launch FreeBSD and provide user-data
• Use the AMI Builder to create a customized FreeBSD AMI
• Build a FreeBSD AMI from a modified FreeBSD source tree
• Build your own disk image

I hope I’ve provided tools which help you to run FreeBSD in EC2, no matter how common or unusual your needs are. If you find my work useful, please consider supporting my work in this area; while this is both something I enjoy working on and something which is useful for my day job (Tarsnap, my online backup service), having support would make it easier for me to prioritize FreeBSD/EC2 issues over other projects.

###Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD

GOG.com prefers that you use their GOG Galaxy desktop app to download, install and manage all of your GOG games. But customers always have the option to install the game on their own terms, with a platform-specific installer.
GOG offers these installers for Mac, Windows and/or Linux, depending on which platforms the game is available for.

• The installers truly are platform-specific:
• macOS games are distributed in a standard .pkg
• Windows games are distributed in a setup wizard .exe
• Linux games are distributed in a goofy shell archive

Of course, none of those are NetBSD. So, if I wanted to even attempt to play a game distributed by GOG.com on NetBSD, which one should I pick? The obvious choice is the Linux installer, since Linux is the most similar to NetBSD, right? Au contraire! In practice, I found that it is easier to download the Windows installer.

Here’s what I mean. For example, I ported the open source version of Aquaria to pkgsrc, but that package is only the game’s engine, not the multimedia data. The multimedia data is still copyrighted. Therefore, you need to get it from somewhere else. GOG is usually a good choice, because they distribute their games without DRM. And as mentioned earlier, picking the Linux installer seemed like a natural choice.

Now, actually PLAYING the games on NetBSD is a separate matter entirely. The game I’ve got here, though, my current obsession Pyre, is built with MonoGame and therefore could theoretically work on NetBSD, too, with the help of a library called FNA and a script for OpenBSD called fnaify. I do hope to create a pkgsrc package for FNA and port the fnaify script to NetBSD at some point.

##Beastie Bits

• Software as a Reflection of Values With Bryan Cantrill
• Collection of bmc talks, updated 2018
• wump: incorrect wumpus movement probability
• Debugging Rust with VSCode on FreeBSD
• SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD
• BSD Tattoo
• pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement
• toying with wireguard on openbsd
• new USB audio class v2.0 driver
• Todd Mortimer Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD EuroBSDCon 2018
• OpenBSD 6.5 release page is online
• shell access to historical Unix versions in your browser

##Feedback/Questions

• Brad – ZFS Features and Upgrades
• Andre – Splitting ZFS array
• Michael – Priority/nice value for Jails?

• Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

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Dropbox receives a major storage and functionally update, is this enough to overlook the services glaring issues? Twitch.tv is now bigger than CNN & Red Hat sees a major executive abruptly leave.

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Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month

Many Dropbox users start out as Basic users, but the company increasingly has been trying to get customers to upgrade and pay for storage. In 2011, the company launched Dropbox for Business, which has seen a fair amount of success in the years since. Dropbox says that it’s used within 4 million companies and 97 percent of Fortune 500 businesses, although not all of those companies are paying customers.

Until today, those so-called “prosumers” were paying $10 a month for 100 GB of storage, but they had a feature set that was pretty similar to the company’s Basic offering.

Dropbox is looking to offer Pro users a lot more storage and a lot more features than their Basic brethren, which it hopes will give a lot more people a reason to upgrade.

Dropbox Pro now offers 10x the storage that users previously got, boosting available capacity for each of its users to 1 TB for $10 a month. By doing so, Dropbox is matching pricing for Google Drive, which lowered its prices for a TB of storage earlier in the spring.

Another feature that is now available to Pro users is the ability to remotely wipe files from your Dropbox folder if your laptop happens to get lost or stolen. By doing so, any Dropbox files or folders that were connected to that device will no longer be accessible the next time that the computer, phone, or other device comes online. And if the device is recovered, users can easily reconnect it to their account.

Dropbox previously offered 200 GB for $20 a month and 500 GB for $50 a month, but with the increase in storage to 1 TB, it’s decided to drop those tiers. As a result, in the short term it could make slightly less money from users who paid a premium for their storage plans.

However, the company could easily make up the difference by increasing the number of Pro users who sign up.

BitTorrent Sync Gets New Interface, Links for Sharing

Version 1.4 is designed to fundamentally change the way users interact with the app by simplifying the sharing process. In that vein, Sync for Windows and OS X have a redesigned user interface to make it easier for sharing via a new workflow and customizable folder list for folders.

You can now right-click on a folder, select “Share with BitTorrent Sync” and then choose either Email (a preformatted message will show up and you’ll need to input the email addresses), Copy (the link will be put in your clipboard), or QR code (for mobile scanning).

The sender can set a given link to expire after a number of days or after a certain number of times it is used, and can also require confirmation to ensure that only the receiver can sync the data in question (this is on by default but can be turned off for less important transfers). If the receiver doesn’t have Sync version 1.4, the webpage will prompt them to install it.

Twitch is now bigger than CNN, MSNBC, and MTV during prime time | The Verge

The New York Times had a great data-driven article this morning about just how big Twitch has become. One year ago the video game live-streaming platform wasn’t even equal to HLN in size. Fast-forward to this summer and Twitch is bigger during prime-time hours than CNN, E!, or MSNBC, with occasional spikes that put it above MTV as well.

Right now Twitch has about 715,000 concurrent viewers during prime time, but will quickly eclipse that if its growth continues apace.

Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch doesn’t need a phone to get online or make calls

The Gear S (not Solo) has a twist: there’s a 3G modem inside.

That means that even when outside the range of a Bluetooth-connected phone or WiFi, it can still send and receive messages or make calls.

It has a 2-inch AMOLED screen plus a dual-core 1GHz CPU inside along with GPS, heart rate and motion sensors, all powered by a 300mAh battery Samsung says can last up to two days.

It runs Tizen instead of Android Wear.

In the run up to IFA next week Samsung is also introducing the Gear Circle headset.

The Gear Circle has a magnetic clasp so it fits around your neck while not in use, a touch sensor and battery with up to 11 hours of talk time.

Pairs with a phone over Bluetooth, letting users hear notifications, use voice commands or listen to music through the earbuds.

Both devices will go on sale in October, although there’s no word on a price for either.

Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens has resigned.

In a short press release, the company announced: “Brian Stevens will step down as CTO.”

Stevens, whose Red Hat page was taken down minutes after the news was released, had been with Red Hat since 2001. Before that he had been the CTO at Mission Critical Linux, and a senior architect at Digital Equipment Company (DEC), where he worked on Digital’s Unix operating system, Digital Unix. Today it lives on as HP’s Tru64. In technical circles, he’s perhaps best known for his work on the X Window System

Some Red Hat employees speculated that Stevens may have left because friction between Stevens and Cormier.

Paul Cormier is Red Hat’s president of products and technologies.

They observed that CTO office had been moved out from underneath Cormier’s control some time back. However, no one said that was any kind of current feud that might have lead to this move.

Others suggested that perhaps Steven wanted to move up to a CEO slot and that would never happen within the company.

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We’re back from OSCON 2014 with some great interviews with Christian Heilmann from the Mozilla Developer Evangelist, Karen Sandler from the Software Freedom Conservancy, and Chris DiBona the director of open source at Google.

Plus the UK Government adopts ODF, CoreOS gets a huge boost and a new release, making your Linux installers faster and easier than ever….

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About: OSCON 2014 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 20 – 24, 2014, Portland, OR

Now in its 16th year:

OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. In the early days, this trailblazing O’Reilly event was focused on changing mainstream business thinking and practices; today OSCON is about real-world practices and how to successfully implement open source in your workflow or projects. While the open source community has always been viewed as building the future—that future is here, and it’s everywhere you look.

Christian Heilmann (codepo8) on Twitter

Mozilla Developer Evangelist – all things open web, HTML5, writing and working together. #nofilter

• Christian Heilmann

Karen Sandler – Software Freedom Conservancy

Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org.

Donations – Software Freedom Conservancy

Chris DiBona (cdibona) on Twitter

Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In his former work on Google’s public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results.

Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science from George Mason University and a M.S. in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.

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Robot soccer team Tech United Eindhoven, runs Linux

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• RoboCup 2014 – Highlights soccer day 1 – YouTube

Desktop Ap Pick

Attic – Deduplicating Archiver

• Attic: Deduplicating archiver that can mount your offsite encrypted backups over ssh

Submitted by kleptoz in the LAS Subreddit

Attic is a secure backup program for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Attic is designed for efficient data storage where only new or modified data is stored.
Features

Space efficient storage Variable block size deduplication is used to reduce the number of bytes stored by detecting redundant data. Each file is split into a number of variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are compressed and added to the repository.

Optional data encryption All data can be protected using 256-bit AES encryption and data integrity and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256. Off-site backups Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as Attic is installed. Backups mountable as filesystems Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy backup verification and restores.

Weekly Spotlight

ZM-VE300-B

VE300 supports Virtual ODD which can be used as CD-ROM, DVD, and Blu-ray Drive for convenient booting.

• Zalman ZM-VE300-B Black External Enclosure – Newegg.com
• Amazon.com: ZM-VE300-B 2.5″ SATA USB 3.0 External HDD Enclosure

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GOG.com Now Supports Linux!

So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we’ve have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we’ve got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That’s over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like FlatOut&Flatout 2, , Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we’ve personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That’s already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon

“OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com” – you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn’t have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Major win for open document format in the UK

The UK government declared that all official office suites must support Open Document Format (ODF).

• UK makes ODF its official documents format standard | ZDNet

The world’s most secure OS may have a serious problem

The Tails operating system is one of the most trusted platforms in cryptography, favored by Edward Snowden and booted up more than 11,000 times per day in May. But according to the security firm Exodus Intelligence, the program may not be as secure as many thought. The company says they’ve discovered an undisclosed vulnerability that will let attackers deanonymize Tails computers and even execute code remotely, potentially exposing users to malware attacks. Exodus is currently working with Tails to patch the bug, and expects to hand over a full report on the exploit next week.

We're happy to see that TAILS 1.1 is being released tomorrow. Our multiple RCE/de-anonymization zero-days are still effective. #tails #tor

— Exodus Intelligence (@ExodusIntel) July 21, 2014

CoreOS Stable Release

CoreOS 367.1.0, our first version on the stable channel, includes the following:

• Linux 3.15.2
• Docker 1.0.1
• Support on all major cloud providers, including Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2 (including HVM), and Google Compute Engine
• Commercial support via CoreOS Managed Linux

The CoreOS developers have announced the release of version 367.1.0 of the CoreOS distribution; this is the first version deemed to be stable and ready for production. “Please note: The stable release is not including etcd and fleet as stable, this release is only targeted at the base OS and Docker 1.0. etcd/fleet stable support will be in subsequent releases.”

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

• ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

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It’s been one year and we pay up on the Monkey Suit Mir Bet. We chat with Kevin Gunn Engineering Manager for Display Server & Unity UI at Canonical about how closed drivers will work with Mir, how new devices like the Oculus Rift might work, Wayland, and much more.

Plus: Unreal 4 and GOG.com announce incoming Linux support, AMD could be planning some major video driver changes, Ubuntu Tablet rumors…

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MIr Chat: Kevin Gunn

Engineering Manager for Display Server & Unity UI at Canonical

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• KevinGunn – Ubuntu Wiki

• What is your involvement with the MIR Project?

• DO you like my hair?

• How do you feel that MIR will hold up to time? We’ve seen how initial decisions with X have impacted its ability to preform as our computing needs have changed. Is MIR being designed with as much forward compatibility as possible?

• Does or will MIR have the ability to be expanded/extended upon with regard to future devices/platforms? Is it monolithic in that it will exist as a single unit, or can it be altered easily for different systems with different goals in mind?

• One of the concerns we’ve heard is that ‘;eventually’ applications will need to be written for MIR, Obviously there is the XMir compatibility layer, but are there plans for a wayland compatibility layer to deal with future Wayland/MIR differences which may creep up over time.

• How do you feel MIR will perform as a display server over the next, say, 10 years? Do you believe it will fair better than X has over the past 10 years?

• Can you give me a better picture of how closed source drivers will work with Mir?

• Will I be able to do ssh with x forwarding from a computer running Mir. Will I be able to do something like ssh -X to a computer running Mir from a computer running X? From a computer running Mir?

• And much more!

2013 Followup: our milestones effectively match this line of thought

• Launching Mir & UnityNext

• Its like a 3 stage rocket for Mir & Unity Next…

• First target is integration of Unity Next & Mir (we’ll be discussing this at the upcoming UDS)….

• second is actually creating our Ubuntu for Phone with Unity Next + Mir sometime in 4Q13. Lastly we should hit full convergence in 2Q 2014.

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Desktop App Pick

• Viber – Free calls, Free text messages, photo and location sharing

• AUR (en) – viber

• Viber – Google Play

• Viber on the App Store

• On February 13, 2014, Rakuten announced they had acquired Viber for $900 million

• Viber – Privacy Policy

• Viber founder: ‘People should be concerned about privacy’ | Technology | theguardian.com

Viber’s policy is that if it receives a proper subpoena, it will provide records of who made and received calls, and when, but that no content from those conversations will be shared.

He says Viber does not “have the capability to listen to conversations”. Messages are stored, for two weeks or until they are opened by the recipient, whichever is shorter. Around 80% are deleted in less than a second.

Weekly Spotlight

• If Mir fails within one year from now, I’ll wear this on the show (Matt)

• Matt Makes the Bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTQc0ME1eo&feature=youtu.be&t=24m56s

— NEWS —

First Ubuntu Tablets To Launch This Autumn

“[Tablets] will arrive pretty much simultaneously with phones. Q3, middle of this year we’ll see both phones and tablets running Ubuntu on the market.”

GOG.com Soon On More Platforms

No, don’t duck. This is actually good news. We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, **we’ve decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux.

We’re initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint.

Getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play.

This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we’ll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

Unreal Engine 4 to Support Linux with Monthly Sub for Devs

For $19/month you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development.

We’re working to build a company that succeeds when UE4 developers succeed. Anyone can ship a commercial product with UE4 by paying 5% of gross revenue resulting from sales to users. If your game makes $1,000,000, then we make $50,000. We realize that’s a lot to ask, and that it would be a crazy proposition unless UE4 enables you to build way better games way more productively than otherwise!

This first release of Unreal Engine 4 is just the beginning. In the C++ code, you can see many new initiatives underway, for example to support Oculus VR, Linux, Valve’s Steamworks and Steam Box efforts, and deployment of games to web browsers via HTML5.

The All New Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) Virtual Reality Headset to Ship with Linux Support

The Oculus Rift and the Oculus SDK currently support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Debian Project Leader canidate proposes PPA system

It’s again that time of the year for the Debian Project: the elections of its Project Leader! Starting on March 31st, and during the following two weeks, the Debian Developers will vote to choose the person who will guide the project for one year.

Among this year’s candidates there is the current DPL, Lucas Nussbaum, who admits that “the workload involved in being the DPL is just huge,”

In his platform, Lucas speaks of technical and social steps to improve the project: from reproducible builds for a more secure archive to a renewed effort to run Debian on new platforms (especially smartphone and tablets); from a more welcoming approach to prospective contributors to an easier collaboration with organizations.

Neil McGovern. Neil’s platform focuses mainly on the need to “ensure that we cater to our users, and there’s millions of them. From those running the latest software in unstable, to people who simply want a rock solid core release.”

In his opinion “the size of Debian is increasing, and will reach a point where we’re unable to guarantee basic compatibility with other packages, or the length of time it takes to do so becomes exponentially longer, unless something changes.” To fix this problem, Neil proposes the implementation of PPAs (Personal Package Archives), the modernisation of the current build and infrastructure system as well as generally supporting the various teams.

AMD Is Exploring A Very Interesting, More-Open Linux Driver Strategy .

The short answer of what AMD’s trying to do is seeing about leveraging the existing (with modifications) open-source Radeon (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel driver underneath the closed-source Catalyst driver.

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We break down what has Linus so upset, and the Internet in an NSA induced fever. Plus GOG makes a public statement about Linux that has us scratching our heads, and your feedback.

Then if we had a format, we’d be breaking it with our review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s first episode, Emissary.

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• Linus Torvalds Responds To Petition To Remove RdRand From /dev/random : LinuxActionShow

• N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

• No Linux support for GOG\’s \’foreseeable future\’

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• Emissary (episode) – Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

• Star Trek Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Emissary (Pilot), Part 1

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We chat with Jonathan Thomas of OpenShot, why he started the project, and what the future looks like for OpenShot.

Plus: Is the best fix for Ubuntu’s NSFW Amazon results really disabling all online integration altogether? Is this an overreaction, or just a simple fix?

And we’ll talk about a new hackable tablet, the good news for gamers, a new file system, some interesting rumors…

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The guys are back in full force this week with a run down of TV news you’re going to want to hear, a top 10 Sci-Fi movie list count-down, and a FULL review of the BBC Sherlock series!

Plus the guys share their thoughts on the state of retro gaming, and why old-school games might be a better entertainment than most current game releases!

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TV:

Stargate’ TV films ‘scrapped for finance reasons’ – TV News – Digital Spy
What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See
Hasselhoff turns porn star for “Sons of Anarchy”
Fall Dates for Chuck, Playboy Club, Parks
Netflix recently added X-men, X-men Evolution and Spider-Man (both 60s and 90s versions) to Instant watch

BOOKS:
George RR Martin’s “A Dance With Dragons” releases next Tuesday (Fifth book in “Game of Thrones” series)

MOVIES:
Blade Runner beats Star Wars to top sci-fi film poll
Marvel is making short films about their C-list superheroes
A couple superVILLAIN movies that could rival the Avengers’ team-up
New trailer for Mamoa’s Conan
Thor 2 in 2013… withough Branagh

Google+:
FaceBook like accurate ads, but everywhere.

GAMES:
Star Trek: New Video Game Has Ties to New Movie
GOG.com is awesome, older games are better.

WTF:
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Goes Digital, Searchable, and Free
Critical question: Should I start my kids on the original Star Trek series, or should I start them on TNG and let them go back to see the original when they get older? : scifi

MOVING PICTURE HAPPY FUN MUTUAL TIME:

Sherlock – a modern adaptation

• Created by : Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss [both Dr Who writers]
  • Both Moffat & Gatiss are big Sherlock Holmes fans
• Spoke to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
• Matt Smith was the first person to unsuccessfully audition for the role of Watson but was too “barmy”, and the producers required someone “straighter” for Watson. Shortly after, Moffat cast Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who.
• Series 2 confirmed : based on the stories “A Scandal in Bohemia”, The Hound of the Baskervilles and “The Final Problem”

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