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

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

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

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

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

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

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

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

Spaceman Shuttleworth Finds Earthly Riches With Ubuntu Software

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

— Bloomberg (@business) December 12, 2017

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

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

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

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

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

DigitalOcean

Open Source Replacements for Centralized Services and Platforms

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

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

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

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

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

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

YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks + Secret YouTube Meeting

Open Source YouTube Replacement

PeerTube

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

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

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

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

Open Source Patreon Replacement

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform.

Dash Crypto Currency — Dash

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

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

Open Source Twitter Replacement

Mastodon

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

Matrix

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Gentoo Challenge Check-In

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Linux Action News 27

chris — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:29:57 +0000

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SegWit2x Bitcoin fork called off — “Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together,” Belshe said. “Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth.”
Eco friendly Bitcoin competitor announced — Cohen has just started a new company called Chia Network that will launch a cryptocurrency based on proofs of time and storage rather than bitcoin’s electricity-burning proofs of work. Essentially, Chia will harness cheap and abundant unused storage space on hard drives to verify its blockchain.
More Linux On Galaxy details — Described as a “Concept Demo”, the vid has a couple of interesting moments.
CrossOver enables Windows apps on ChromeOS — CodeWeavers has now announced the availability of their Wine-powered CrossOver software for Chrome OS.
Canonical wants volunteers to create art for Ubuntu — A new theme based on Adwaita, the default GNOME GTK theme.
Steam Linux client turns 5 — It was on 6 November 2012 when the Steam Linux beta roll-out began and gained more steam as the year came to a close.
Munich votes to return to Windows — That means, that Munich will transition to Microsoft Windows 10 in a 2 year phase (till 2020) on 29,000 pcs. The cost for this transition is actually confidential, but is estimated to be more than 100 million euros (more than 116 million US dollars).
Apple relicenses CUPS — The CUPS Common UNIX Printing System up to now had been developed under the GPLv2 license while now Apple will be switching it to the Apache 2.0 software license.

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Toxic Licensing | CR 264

chris — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:13:58 +0000

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Hoopla

Update on Mike’s Move

Part of me really wants to jump on a skateboard or BMX bike, pump the Blink-182 / Greenday and try to capture my mispent youth.

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) July 6, 2017

Jody wrote in asking :

I’d like to hear how you’re transitioning your software business to FL?

Mike’s Special Project in FL

If you’re near the Tampa / Plant City FL area are a student or recent grad looking to get into the development space, drop me a line. I am looking for some interns / entry level folks for a new venture in the bot space. I need developers, QA, and BizDev.

System 76 PopOS Conversation Cont.

Botched Sega Forever launch blighted by poor emulation

Sega’s performance issues stem from the use of a new emulator based in Unity. Older mobile versions of retro Sega games were either direct ports—as in the case of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic CD—or used a native emulator, instead of one passed through Unity.

Outside of AI, Companies are doing less Research and more Dev

RD for Developers

Is there value in trying purely speculative technologies?
What does a longshot really offer?
How do you balance the benefits of experimentation with the need for focus

Feedback

Should one get punished for working more effectively than his co-workers?

I had terrible RSI

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Get Swifty | CR 223

chris — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:50:20 +0000

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Microsoft is #1 on GitHub open source

And Microsoft weighs in at #1, with 16,419 contributors, edging out Facebook with 15,682.

GitHub Octoverse 2016

The Fall of Eclipse

Eclipse felt less like an IDE and more like a collection of plugins you somehow hobble together to form your own.

Thimble by Mozilla – An online code editor for learners & educators.

Thimble is an online code editor that makes it easy to create and publish your own web pages while learning HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

[Vapor.codes] (https://vapor.codes)

Swift3

Migrating to #swift3 is proving to be a nightmare #iOSDev #swift #programming

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) September 18, 2016

Swift.org – Migrating to Swift 2.3 or Swift 3 from Swift 2.2

iPhone 7 Train Leaves the Station

Back on the #iphone train @ChrisLAS @Xaccary

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) September 16, 2016

iOS wide password manager
Intense App installation performance, literally unbelievable.
No headphone jack bites ironically.
Speaker(s) are a lot better. Much better for listening to Podcasts. (Nearly as good as Nexus 6p)
New sounds (lock, type, etc).
Widget Screen, like your own custom Google Now. Reminder widget, combined with Siri = win

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13 Inches of Freedom | LAS 419

chris — Sun, 29 May 2016 20:05:22 +0000

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Purism has sent us the Librem 13 for review, does a laptop designed to protect your digital life make a good Linux workstation? With physical kill switches, and a well built aluminum housing, we answer if this could be your next ultimate Linux laptop.

Plus why were not so excited about Google’s recent win against Oracle, new features coming to Linux, what the heck is going on at OwnCloud & more!

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Librem 13 Review

7 Hours Battery Life
2 USB ports
Ethernet Jack
Audio Headset jack

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FixIT Leeds RUNS LINUX!

Desktop App Pick

Etcher

Sent in by Rikai….94 times

Here at resin.io we have thousands of users working through our getting started process and until recently we were embarassed about the steps that involved burning an SD card. There was a separate track for each Mac/Windows/Ubuntu and several manual and error prone steps along the way.

Validated Burning
Hard Drive Friendly
Open Source
Beautiful Interface

Spotlight

Solaar

Solaar is a Linux device manager for Logitech’s Receiver
peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for most
devices read battery status.

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An Apparent Exodus Continues At OwnCloud

Since the recent ownCloud 9.0 release, a number of high-profile individuals have been leaving the company.

Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs

There was only one question on the special verdict form, asking if Google’s use of the Java APIs was a “fair use” under copyright law. The jury unanimously answered “yes,” in Google’s favor.

Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL |

Linux 4.7 Brings A Plethora Of New Features: AMD Polaris, ARM ASpeed, SGI UV4, Schedutil

After a very exciting past two weeks, the merge window for Linux 4.7 is expected to close today. This was an action-packed merge window with a ton of new code being introduced. While I’ve already written dozens of posts on Phoronix about the changes that got me excited, here’s my usual kernel feature overview. Here’s a look at what’s coming for Linux 4.7.

Up comming OSS Community Events

The world’s premier open source event listing

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Getting to know Flatpak – a walktrough
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Entroware Apollo: Linux Macbook Killer | LAS 406

chris — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:41:51 +0000

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Has Entroware built the ultimate 13 inch Linux laptop? We put their Apollo through our battery of tests & review this good looking Skylake powered Linux portable.

Plus Microsoft buys the folks behind Mono, Canonical might have a ZFS fight on their hands & more!

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Apollo by Entroware

Core I/O Details:

1 x HDMI
1 x USB 3.0 Port
1 x USB 3.1C Port
1 x USB 2.0 Port
1 x 2-in-1 Card Reader
1 x Audio Output

Dimensions (W x D x H):
325mm x 219mm x 18mm

Weight:
1.42Kg (inc. battery)

Battery:
4 Cell Lithium-Ion (6300mAh)

My research shows it’s built on top of the Topstar U931 kit.

Apollo as Configured

$991.29 US Dollars

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2f (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d31 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3a (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d03 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d14 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d21 (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 9d23 (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)

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Soda Can Solar Collector

The SolarAir is a solar heat collector made DIY, with very low cost materials, mainly Soda Cans.
The hot air is used to to heat the house, everyday when there is some sun, even if it is freezing outside, thus lowering utility bills, and lowering CO2 footprint.

Sent in By: gigaoochelaar

Desktop App Pick

N1 – The extensible, open source mail client.

Weekly Spotlight

Password Generation on Linux

apg generates several random passwords. It uses several password generation algorithms (currently two) and a built-in pseudo random number generator.
Default algorithm is pronounceable password generation algorithm designed by Morrie Gasser and described in A Random Word Generator For Pronounceable Passwords National Technical Information Service (NTIS) AD-A-017676. The original paper is very old and had never been put online, so I have to use NIST implementation described in FIPS-181.

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Microsoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base.

Linux users campaign after Microsoft ‘neglects’ Skype with a week of downtime-

The _open letter to Microsoft_said: “It was a shitty move to not update the client for three years, which resulted in this, mostly. It was annoying that you ignored almost every tweet to @SkypeSupport about issues with Skype for Linux. But it is absolutely disgraceful that you dropped the Linux client BEFORE any alternatives are available and without telling your users.”

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux

However, our conclusion is simple: Conservancy and the Linux copyright
holders in the GPL Compliance Project for
Linux Developers believe that distribution of ZFS binaries is a GPL
violation and infringes Linux’s copyright. We are also concerned that it may
infringe Oracle’s copyrights in ZFS. As such, we again ask Oracle to respect
community norms against license proliferation and simply relicense its
copyrights in ZFS under a GPLv2-compatible license.

TechSNAP Take on SFC ZFS Finding

Canonical accused of violating GPL with ZFS-in-Ubuntu 16.04 plan

Canonical’s counter-argument is that “The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system.”

Report from the VMware GPL court hearing | LaForge’s home page

VMware is using parts of the Linux kernel in their proprietary ESXi
product, including the entire SCSI mid-layer, USB support, radix tree
and many, many device drivers.

as is generally known, Linux is licensed under GNU GPLv2, a
copyleft-style license.

VMware has modified all the code they took from the Linux kernel and
integrated them into something they call vmklinux.

VMware has modified their proprietary virtualization OS kernel
vmkernel with specific API/symbol to interact with vmklinux

at least in earlier versions of ESXi, virtually any block device
access has to go through vmklinux and thus the portions of Linux
they took

vmklinux and vmkernel are dynamically linked object files that are
linked together at run-time

the Linux code they took runs in the same execution context (address
space, stack, control flow) like the vmkernel.

The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues – Software Freedom Law Center

When, in this mode of employment, the CDDL-licensed code implementing the filesystem is combined with the module-specific translation layer and the result is then statically or dynamically linked into the Linux kernel, the resulting binary is licensed to all users under the terms of GPLv2, and only GPLv2, as the license requires. This happens because CDDL gives permission for binary forms of the code it licenses to be released under any license, and the license terms in effect are those of GPLv2. The making of the binary itself does not result in infringement of the kernel copyrights, or a violation of GPLv2’s terms.

Debian Devs Realized They Were Shipping Pre-Built Nvidia Module, Breaking GPL

“The Nvidia-graphics-modules provides pre-compiled non-free kernel modules. Several lawyers and people believe this to be a violation of the GPL license used by the kernel. This interpretation is consistent with our position on ZFS modules, which we also ship in source code only. As such, the work is not distributable and should be removed from the archive in all suites, ASAP,” Julian Andres Klode said.

#815060 – RM: nvidia-graphics-modules — RoQA; Violates kernel license – Debian Bug report logs

Parse Shutdown Savings

If the Parse platform is still appropriate or your app, then the migration process is very doable and something we’d be happy to help with. In fact we are running a promotion from now until April 15th, 2016 to migrate your app for iOS and/or Android to a Parse-powered server for a flat one time fee of $500.

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A Look Back On Feedback | TechSNAP 251

chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:02:40 +0000

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Since Allan is off being fancy at FOSDEM, we decided that now would be a good time to celebrate the audience & feature some of the best feedback we’ve had over the years!

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