Has the Linux Foundation made moves to cut out the individual from having their voice heard? We discuss the latest controversy brewing this week & the foundations response.

Plus why if you’re still waiting for Wayland to ship, your doing it wrong, AMD’s plans for the open future, some updates from some of our favorite projects, stories from SCALE14x & more!

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OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: OpenShot 2.0 – Beta Released!

I am proud to release the first beta of OpenShot 2.0 (details below), and start a much wider testing effort. For all you supporters with early access, I will be sending a separate update with links to installers. For everyone else, the source code has been published and is available online, but I would recommend waiting just a tad longer, until I post the installers for everyone.

Solus 1.1 to Land Really Soon, Users Needed to Test AMD GPU Drivers

The launch of Solus 1.1 is not tied to the bug hunt that’s going on right now in the project, and that means that we’ll have the first point release soon, with the fixes that have been taken care of until now.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Where the Heck is Wayland?

• A Wayland status update | Goings on

Peter argues that the question “Is Wayland ready yet?” is not the best question to ask. Then maybe this is a better question:

Is GNOME on Wayland ready yet ?

• Who-T: Is Wayland ready yet?

This is why the question “is wayland ready yet” does not make a lot of sense. Wayland is the communication protocol and says very little about the implementation of the two sides that you want to communicate.

• Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11. It will work with your existing i3 configuration file, and adds a few extra features on top of that.

• i3 configuration compatibility
• i3 IPC compatibility
• Multi-head support
• Airblader gaps support

• Touchscreen input bindings

• How will the introduction of Vulkan impact the open source drivers?

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​Linux Foundation leadership controversy eruptst

A debate has sprung up in Linux circles over whether the Linux Foundation is serving individual open-source users or its corporate sponsors.

• Linux Foundation Update

Since last Saturday, I have been engaged in meetings on behalf of The Linux Foundation in China, with limited access to email and/or Internet. As a result, I have only recently become aware of a situation playing out over the last 24-48 hours in social media that demands an immediate response.

• Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

The by-laws were amended to drop the clause that permitted individual members to elect any directors. Section 3.3(a) now says that no affiliate members may be involved in the election of directors, and section 5.3(d) still permits at-large directors but does not require them[2]. The old version of the bylaws are here – the only non-whitespace differences are in sections 3.3(a) and 5.3(d).

• Has the Linux Foundation Sold out to VMware? Probably Not | Open Source Application Software Companies content from The VAR Guy

But Garrett speculates that the change was made to prevent Karen Sandler, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy and a staunch supporter of software freedom, from succeeding in her recently announced election bid for the Linux Foundation board. Sandler’s organization is currently enmeshed in a legal battle against VMware over claims that the company violated the terms of the GPL, the license that governs the open source code of Linux and many other major open source projects.

DigitalOcean

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It’s Time to Open up the GPU – GPUOpen

GPUOpen is composed of two areas: Games & CGI for game graphics and content creation (which is the area I am involved with), and Professional Compute for high-performance GPU computing in professional applications.

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UbuCon is just around the corner, we’re joined by Ubuntu’s community manager & the team on the ground to share the inside scoop on how this Ubuntu conference came to be & how you can get in free.

Ryan from Mycroft stops by to give us an update on their open source artificial intelligence project, their new official partnership with Ubuntu & more.

Then we discuss the major partnership between LibreOffice & OwnCloud, the cool OwnCloud hardware that could develop into a consumer device.

Plus some major project updates, community feedback & more!

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• LINUX Unplugged SWAG for the Holidays

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• World Without Linux Episode #5: Space Exploration

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Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop | Ars Technica

Qubes OS, the security-focused operating system that Edward Snowden said in November he was “really excited” about, announced this week that laptop maker Purism will ship their privacy-focused Librem 13 notebook with Qubes pre-installed.

AMD Announces GPUOpen Initiative, New Compiler And Drivers For Lunix And HPC

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In a nutshell, AMD is releasing a slew of open-source software and tools to give developers of games, heterogeneous applications, and HPC applications deeper access to the GPU and GPU resources.

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AMD GPUOpen also introduces a new Linux driver model and runtime targeted at HPC Cluster-Class Computing. The new headless Linux driver addresses core high-performance computing needs, including low latency compute dispatch and PCI Express data transfers, peer-to-peer GPU support, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) from InfiniBand that interconnects directly to GPU memory and Large Single Memory Allocation support.

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• Introducing NVIDIA GameWorks | NVIDIA Developer

Streamy

Streamy connects all your media devices like never before.

KDE – Plasma 5.5.1 complete changelog

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.5.1. Plasma 5.5 was released in last week with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

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UbuCon Summit US

Join us at the UbuCon Summit for two days of Ubuntu talks by the best experts in the community and to discuss and shape the future of Ubuntu.

The Summit is the evolution of UbuCon as a bigger a multi-track, multi-day event to learn, share and collaborate around Ubuntu as a project.

In Pasadena, CA, on 21-22 January 2016

• UbuCon portal

Taking UbuCons to the next level: multi-day and multi-track. Join us in Pasadena, CA, on the 21-22 January 2016

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Mycroft Update: Design Breakdown and Ubuntu Partnership

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Mycroft has continued to deeper its ties with Canonical by becoming an official Ubuntu partner for IoT. We are continually grateful for Canonical and team’s commitment to this technology, and their support and guidance as we continue to grow as a project. We look forward to what this partnership will bring in terms of innovation and community engagement, and have the highest hopes for a bright future in this respect.

The team finished another feature video this week. These feature videos will appear periodically through mid 2016. Each video highlights one or more Mycroft feature and shows it in every day use. Our first feature? Netflix, and the ability to “set a scene” using IoT integration.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

ownCloud and Collabora Announce LibreOffice Online for ownCloud Server

Today, December 15, ownCloud, Inc. and Collabora have just announced a partnership to bring a new tool for LibreOffice and ownCloud users, based on the LibreOffice Online project and the robust, open-source ownCloud Server self-hosting cloud storage solution.

• Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users | ownCloud.org

The Western Digital Labs team contacted us looking to work together with the ownCloud community on offering a self hosted device running ownCloud pre-installed out of the box. Our end goal is to provide a solution for non-technical end users, something which requires few skills to set up.

They provided us with 10 early prototypes to get started with. We’d like to give them out to community members who are serious about helping home users run their ownCloud server.

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• Intel NUC5i7RYH with Ubuntu | Flexion.Org

I’ve just bought my first brand new computer since 2008. Thanks to
the Black Friday
and Cyber Monday sales on
Amazon.co.uk and Scan.co.uk
this year I was able to put together a pretty sweet Intel NUC which is
now running Ubuntu MATE 15.10.

I spoke about this new system on LINUX Unplugged Episode 122
and have been contacted by people wanting more details ever since.
Hopefully this blog post will answer any outstanding questions. Press
play below to hear to what I said on the podcast.

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