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Linux Action News 112

Wes Payne — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 15:00:52 +0000

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Apple’s Out Of Touch Bar | LINUX Unplugged 169

chris — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:22:10 +0000

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6 Ways Mr. Robot Is Putting Linux in the Public Eye

Whether you’re a novice, seasoned Linux pro, or something in between, here are six awesome times Linux appeared on the show.

Search & Rescue: SD Card Recovery

My old camera, a Canon EOS 300D is an old digital SLR camera, and it works really well and still takes a good picture. But last night I turned the camera on while on the train, and to my horror the camera crashed and became unresponsive.

Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

Linux Marketshare Is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row – OMG! Ubuntu!

Net Market Share bases its data on the number of visitors to a mere 40,000 websites globally. While 40,000 is a fairly big sample on one hand, it’s also minute compared to the number of actual websites that are out there.

Wine 1.9.22 Lets Linux Users Play Star Trek Borg

and the Star Trek: Borg interactive movie/computer game and audiobook.

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Google Online Security Blog: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users

After 7 days, per our published policy for actively exploited critical vulnerabilities, we are today disclosing the existence of a remaining critical vulnerability in Windows for which no advisory or fix has yet been released. This vulnerability is particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited.

Aspyr + Linux Gamers = Cookies

So… this came in the mail this morning. Thank you, you lovely Linux people you. The guilt trip has been accepted. ;D #NomNomNom pic.twitter.com/c4VaOOIXWJ

— Aspyr Media (@AspyrMedia) October 25, 2016

This has led more answers on the same thread on the linux_gaming subreddit, where folks got together to order a delivery of delicious cookies to motivate Aspyr to support Linux’s Civ6 port. They come from Tiff’s Treats in Austin, in case you want to make sure you get excellent cookies if you pass by the area.

New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

The new MacBook Pro has a premium price for a Mac that’s still limited to 16 GB of RAM, has CPU performance that is likely lackluster because Apple didn’t talk about it in the keynote, and apparently doesn’t have such a great GPU, either. Apple prioritized thinness and lightness, which I care about hardly at all. I would rather have better performance, a good keyboard, more storage, a larger display, more ports so I don’t have to carry dongles, an SD card slot, etc. Double the weight and half the battery life would be fine with me. I’m not saying Apple shouldn’t make thin and light notebooks, but why do they all have to be that way?

Had website issues due to all the traffic following the #AppleEvent. This year rocks! #Linux #Ubuntu #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop

— System76 (@system76) October 30, 2016

Daring Fireball: Apples vs. Oranges — Thick, Heavy Oranges

There is a catch. The 15-inch Oryx Pro is 1-inch thick and weighs 5.5 pounds. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is 0.6 inches thick and weighs 4 pounds. I’m not slamming the Oryx here — there are plenty of performance-hungry Mac users who wish that Apple made a MacBook this thick and heavy if it meant they could install up to 64 GB of RAM and had all the ports they wanted built-in.

The true reason the MBP doesn’t come with ddr4 or 32gb of ram, more technical then you think.

The true reason behind the lack of 32 GB or DDR4 is Intel. Skylake does not support LPDDR4 (LP for low power) RAM. Kabylake is set to include support, but only for the U category of chips. So no LPDDR4 support for mobile until 2018 I think.

One example is the Dell XPS 13. On the Dell XPS 13 version, you cannot go for 32 GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the 15 inches does give you that option, but you have to sacrifice battery life for it.

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, in an email to MacRumors reader David, explained that for Apple to make a notebook with support for more than 16GB of RAM, it would have to use a memory system that consumes too much power. Regarding price, Schiller said in an interview that affordability is “absolutely something we care about” but that the company designs for experience rather than price.

New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

I was really disappointed with today’s Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) its customers want, or that it simply doesn’t care about those customers. Developers are a captive audience, and creative professionals can switch to Windows, I guess. Apple no longer considers them core.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with what Apple announced. I like Thunderbolt 3. The display looks good. I’m not crazy about Touch Bar, but it does seem potentially useful. The problem is that the MacBook Pro is not a true Pro notebook.

hungtruong/TouchFart: A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar

A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar. I’m usually the first one to make a fart app when the opportunity presents itself, so why not?

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Remix IO – A 4K, Nougat-powered, All-in-One device

An Android Nougat-powered device exclusive on Kickstarter for $99. Engineered to be a 4K TV set-top box, gaming console, and PC in one.

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A Fireside Chat with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux maintainer @gregkh talks #opensource compliance, the benefit of experience, and more: https://t.co/39XbpQ6gFR #LFelc pic.twitter.com/FjAngilLvV

— Linux.com (@LinuxDotCom) November 1, 2016

Fireside Chat: GKH Talks Licensing, Email, and Aging Maintainers

The Keynote Fireside Chat at ELC Europe, held Oct, 11-13 in Berlin, focused primarily on two issues: whether older kernel maintainers should hand their jobs over to younger developers, and how to best bring open source scofflaws into compliance (see below). Meanwhile, here are a few other edited quick takes from GKH about issues ranging from patch review technologies to the role of Linux on microcontrollers.

200 New People a month, lots from MS: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=7m37s
Greg’s thoughts on licensing enforcement: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=10m10s
Why the Kernel Team still uses email for everything: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=2m15s
More in-depth LWN article about email usage: https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/

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BuzzwordFS | LINUX Unplugged 145

chris — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:13:42 +0000

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You’re insecure unless you’re running one of Greg’s Kernels & we think he’s right! Plus openSUSE chairman Richard Brown stops by to follow up on not shipping ZFS in openSUSE which leads to a passionate discussion.

And the simple thing we could all be doing to improve open source, but maybe we’re all feeling a little too entitled!

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Pi 2 Design is excited to introduce the first Tube Amp specifically designed for any of the 40-pin versions of the Raspberry Pi SBC Family. The 503HTA Hybrid Tube Amp HAT, designed and manufactured by Pi2Media (a division of PI 2 Design), is a High Quality I/O Shield designed to bring “Sweet Tube Sound” to the Raspberry PI ® family of Single Board Computers. This HAT allows the Raspberry Pi ® SBC to drive Headphones from 32 – 300 ohm with ease and fidelity.

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Linus Torvalds Talks IoT, Smart Devices, Security Concerns, and More

IoT was the main topic at ELC, which included an OpenIoT Summit track, and the chief topic in the Torvalds interview.

Linux 4.6

This release adds support for USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus (10 Gbps), the new distributed file system OrangeFS, a more reliable out-of-memory handling, support for Intel memory protection keys, a facility to make easier and faster implementations of application layer protocols, support for 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec), support for the version V of the BATMAN protocol, a OCFS2 online inode checker, support for cgroup namespaces, support for the pNFS SCSI layout, and many other improvements and new drivers.

The FBI and the Mozilla Foundation Lock Horns over Known Security Hole

When the FBI brings its case to trial, it will have to hand its evidence over to the court and the defendant.

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Linux can’t keep you safe if you don’t update it

He took it one step further, saying that ”…your machine is insecure unless you’re running my kernel, or based on my kernel, or based on another one. If you’re not taking these fixes, then it is insecure.”

Sudden increase in Teamviewer account compromises. Turn on 2 factor authentication or remove Teamviewer ASAP

HOW TO Turn on 2FA for Teamviewer: https://www.turnon2fa.com/tutorials/how-to-turn-on-2fa-for-teamviewer

Ubuntu 16.04 NetworkManager Fixed?

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Entitlement in Open Source

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openSUSE won’t be shipping ZFS

Our great discussion on this topic, which reflects many aspects of an important topic.

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A serious look at chromebook as the linux desktop (blog/rant)

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