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Behind Canonical’s Curtain | LINUX Unplugged 234

chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:46:26 +0000

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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

In the style introduced by the famous BarCamps of old, the agenda is totally free-form and attendee-generated. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’ll sit down and relax! There are many things planned that need tackling. Every attendee already has a long laundry list of things to work on; as a group we will move forward and check things off the list as the days go by. We are going to be covering a wide range of technologies and domains, from GUI oriented electron based applications and its development stack to robotics, with a spice and language frameworks and command line tools for the cloud would be the few to mention.

Welcome to the Red Hat family @coreos! https://t.co/DcF67Yioix

— Jim Whitehurst (@JWhitehurst) January 30, 2018

Linux 4.15: Good news and bad news about Meltdown and Spectre | ZDNet

On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds explained, “The bulk of the 4.15 work is all the regular plodding ‘boring’ stuff. And I mean that in the best possible way. It may not be glamorous and get the headlines, but it’s the bread and butter of kernel development, and is in many ways the really important stuff.”

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How a SNAP Gets Made

We’re live in downtown Seattle at the Canonical January SNAP Sprint event.
We’re joined by some big names this week
Plex
Slack
Microsoft Azure
Electron
.NET
Skype
Visual Studio Code

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All Aboard The Meson Future Hype Train

For quite a while now, the build system that we’ve endorsed at elementary has been CMake. CMake does a pretty decent job at being legible and we’ve provided a number of modules to make sure that it can do all of the things we need it to do without developers having to spend a lot of time writing build system code. Let’s face it, build system code is boring and spending time writing it is time spent away from actually making your app more awesome. That’s why I’m excited to say that the new hotness is here and it sure is new and hot.

LinuxBoot

LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.

Introducing the CSD Initiative

Unless you’re one of a very lucky few, you probably use apps with title bars. In case you’ve never come across that term, title bars are the largely empty bars at the top of some application windows. They contain only the window title and a close button, and are completely separate from the window’s content. This makes them very inflexible, as they can not contain any additional UI elements, or integrate with the application window’s content.

Server side decorations and Wayland

The situation is that GNOME Shell and Weston require CSD, but KDE Plasma and Sway do not. In fact we created a protocol (supported by GTK) that allows to negotiate with the Wayland compositor whether to use CSD or SSD.

An update on Pipewire – the multimedia revolution

The video handling we hope to enable in Fedora Workstation 28 as mentioned, while the other pieces we will work towards enabling in later releases as the components mature.

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The latest and greatest of KDE community software packaged on a rock-solid base.

Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

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Linux Action News 4

chris — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:12:39 +0000

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Plasma 5.10 Released — Simple by default, powerful when needed.
Xfce 4.14 edges closer (along with GTK 3) — Xfce 4.14 is a transitionnal release, where the main goal is to port all components to GTK+3.
Fedora 26 delayed — This latest delay pushes Fedora 26 final out to 11 July, assuming no further delays this release cycle.
Coreboot joins Conservancy — “By joining Conservancy, coreboot benefits from their project and community organization skills,”
Toyota to use Linux in its cars — The Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux project is celebrating its first big-name user, after Toyota said it will employ the OS in the 2018 Camry model it will sell in the United States.
ChrisLAS: “@autogradelinux Is it possible for car manufactures to use AGL and also offer Android Auto or Apple CarPlay on top?”
2017 CES Demonstrator – [Automotive Linux Wiki] — Hardware spec for AGL demo machine at CES 2017.
Essential’s Ambient OS will be open source — Playground CEO Andy Rubin, whose new company Essential unveiled a new premium Android smartphone and Amazon Echo competitor today, says his company’s Ambient OS smart home platform will be open source.
Essential faces trademark dispute over name — Spigen, Inc. successfully registered the trademark (Reg. No. 5014095) as early as August 2016. It’s an International Class. 9 mark, the category which relates to computers and scientific devices, including smartphones and accessories.

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Linux Winter Developments | LINUX Unplugged 166

chris — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:16:42 +0000

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AI War II by Chris Park/Arcen Games

A sequel to the award-winning, genre breaking, asymmetric strategy cult classic. Win against the odds in AI War 2.

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Announcing the Release of Fedora 25 Beta – Fedora Magazine

The Workstation edition of Fedora 25 Beta is going to show off its stuff, too:

GNOME 3.22: Fedora 25 includes GNOME 3.22 in its pre-release and in the Final version, coming soon. Helpful new features include multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard settings tool, and many other UI improvements across the environment. For full details, refer to the GNOME 3.22 release notes.
New Fedora media writer: The new Fedora Media Writer is a tool that downloads the latest stable Fedora for you. It then helps you write it to media such as a USB stick, so you can take Fedora for a spin on your system. If you like what you see, you can install to your system from the live environment. The Fedora Media Writer is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Wayland by default
- Wayland is the replacement for the legacy X11 display system. Wayland has been under development for several years. While like most software it still has some bugs, we believe it’s ready to serve as a default that works for many users.
- Users can still select the old X11 system if necessary to avoid a problem that affects them.
Improved Flatpak support in the Software tool: The Software tool has the ability to install, update, and remove Flatpak software where a Fedora system is configured to point to a repo that offers it.
GNOME Shell extensions are no longer checked for compatibility with the current version of the Shell. This was originally required because the GNOME interfaces were changing rapidly during the early days of GNOME 3. Now these interfaces have stabilized, and extensions can generally be expected to work with new releases. Any problems with an extension should be reported to the author through the homepage, as listed on the Extensions site.

KDE neon as a daily driver

The latest and greatest of KDE community software
packaged on a rock-solid base.

On October 20th, enter the outlandish post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max on Mac and Linux. pic.twitter.com/8Vx0qU9YpK

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) October 5, 2016

MeetBSD California 2016 – www.meetbsd.com

This year, MeetBSD will be held at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr Campus on November 11th and 12th.

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History Of Xenix — Microsoft’s Forgotten Unix-based Operating System

Turning back the pages to the late 1970’s, Microsoft entered into an agreement with AT&T Corporation to license Unix from AT&T. While the company didn’t sell the OS to public, it licensed it to other OEM vendors like Intel, SCO, and Tandy.

As Microsoft had to face legal trouble due to “Unix” name, the company renamed it and came up with its own Unix distribution. So, AT&T licensed Unix to Redmond that was passed on to other OEMs as Xenix.

Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken

Top Comment

I can’t say I’m surprised. I used to be responsible for the port and upkeep of a relatively low level product to OS X. It was far and away the most troublesome platform. We would frequently run into bugs that had been reported on openradar for years without having been addressed.

Off hand I remember spending the better part of two days trying to understand a bug that was traced to a coroutine issue — OS X was just not saving a required register, known and reported for 5 major versions.

I remember discovering that unnamed semaphores don’t work on OS X. Not that the functions aren’t implemented, just that they always return an error.

So I’m not surprised that poll() would be broken, nor am I surprised that it’s broken again.

The only thing that surprised me anymore is how many people continue to insist to me that OS X (or macOS now, I guess) is a great UNIX. It may be a great desktop OS.

Linus Torvalds says ARM just doesn’t look like beating Intel

https://youtu.be/fuAebQvFnRI?t=20m55s

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ubuntu-mate / ubuntu-mate.org / source / blog / 20161013-ubuntu-mate-yakkety-final-release.md — Bitbucket

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is, more or less, a from scratch re-working of Ubuntu MATE. Not just to accomadate GTK3+ but to also make nearly all packages shipped with Ubuntu MATE by default “Recommeneded”. This means most default applications can now be uninstalled without issue.

The work to port MATE Desktop to GTK3+ has been ongoing for a couple of years and Ubuntu MATE is the first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop. And the absolute latest release too, MATE Desktop 1.16!

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Inocybe Technologies – Pure Play OpenDaylight

We turned to OpenDaylight one month after its inception in April 2013, we had been involved in Software Defined Networking (SDN) to simplify IT and like many we started creating value-add. However we saw that the majority of the members were building products out of OpenDaylight and the project itself was lacking in usability. We are committed to improving SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) innovation around OpenDaylight and help vendors, service providers and enterprises leverage OpenDaylight as part of their products or solutions.

Andy Salo – OpenDaylight Summit 2016

Charged with driving product strategy, marketing and alliances for Inocybe, Andy brings over 20 years experience with successful high-tech companies in product management, sales, and engineering. Prior to Inocybe, Andy was Vice President of Product and Marketing for Nimboxx, a leader in Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI). Mr. Salo has spoken at many industry events including the OpenStack Summit, NAB, and SCTE/Cable-Tec.

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Flavorless Mint | LINUX Unplugged 144

chris — Tue, 10 May 2016 18:41:38 +0000

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Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it.

Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta.

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Linux Running on Playstation 4 Revealed By Hacker Fail overflow, Playstation Jailbreak Could Actually Boost Sales of the Console!

Therefore, when hackers announced earlier in December that it is possible to jailbreak the PlayStation 4, it came out as quite an achievement. This step has been taken further by another group of hackers name failoverflow. They have jailbroken a PS4 and further loaded it with Linux.

Sony Orbis OS is run by the Sony console and it is based on Linux FreeBSD. It was further reported by Engadget that this hack exploits the Webkit bug in order to gain access to the kernel. It also works on Orbis version 1.74. It is also a much older version than the current 3.11 on the PS4. Moreover, the bug has since been patched.

However, it seems like the hacker group’s method can be tailored to further work on future consoles. The first thing done by the group during the jailbreak demonstration was running a Game Boy Advance emulator on the Linux PS4. At the same time, they fired up a copy of Pokemon Emerald.

Here’s A PS4 Jailbreak with Linux Support [Video]

Solus to Offer Users a Brand-New and Modern Graphical Package Manager

“There is no getting around the fact that the Software Center in Solus 1.1 sucks,” said Josh Strobl. “Software discoverability and ease-of-use for installation of software is incredibly important to us and we want to tackle it with urge__ncy. So we’re doing something about it now, this cycle, and it is going to be amazing.”

SSL Certificate Expired – Manjaro Linux

Our SSL certificate has once again expired. We are waiting for a new one to be issued (while also looking at more sustainable alternatives, i.e. Let’s Encrypt). If you’re having problems accessing any of the sites please use a different browser profile, or Private/Incognito Browsing. You will then be able to add a temporary exception.

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Fedora 24 Beta released!

This new release also features GNOME 3.20. There have been changes to the theming API in GTK+ 3. At this time the API is under heavy development and will not remain stable. As a result, applications that use custom CSS theming for example, may have rendering issues. This could include default applications that come with Fedora 24 Beta Workstation. We request that users try out their favorite GTK+ 3 based applications and report bugs to the upstream developers so they can be fixed in time for the final release.

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Linux Mint: Too Big to Fail?

Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system. “OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations. This will reduce our release cycle to 4 separate events and the production and testing of 12 ISO images. Multimedia codecs can be installed easily: From the welcome screen, by clicking on “Multimedia Codecs”, or from the main menu, by clicking on “Menu”->”Sound and Video”->”Install Multimedia Codecs”, or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option.” Additional information on the upcoming release of Linux Mint 18 can be found in the project’s monthly newsletter.

Why Mint? We checked the Internet and….

When I reflect on why I’ve chosen Mint over Ubuntu in recent years, it came down to:

Seriously disliking Unity. (But now I can install Cinnamon packages on Ubuntu easily.)
Easy ability to play DVD’s. (But it just got a tiny bit harder; not significantly.)
Wanting to give Shuttleworth the middle finger regarding forcing Unity down people’s throats. (But I think my finger has now been extended long enough.)
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – April 2016

As part of the “xapps” initiative, which aims to produce cross-desktop and cross-distribution software, we also released the following applications:

A media player based on totem, called xplayer.
A text editor based on pluma, called xed.
A picture viewer based on eog, called xviewer.
A document reader based on atril, called xreader.

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Krita is the free and open source painting application used by artists all over the world. Let’s create awesome text and vector tools!

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Getting Inside the Oryx Pro | LAS 416

chris — Sun, 08 May 2016 19:55:58 +0000

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The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet.

If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out!

Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

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Starbucks Coffee Runs LINUX!

Nick B. – ” Ok, so longtime follower of the show. Found out today that when booting our 1 cup in-office Starbucks coffee maker, the boot screen looked familiar in that it is running Slax Linux. Found this amusing, however unsettling since the OS boots fine, but there is a control board issue that halts the coffee making process. Maybe more QA on the Printed Circuit Board QA process! Thanks guys, and love the show.”

Desktop App Pick

Fade In

Extensive formatting capabilities
Autocomplete typing
Organization and navigation
No distractions
Support for multiple file formats
Powerful writing (and rewriting) tools
Revisions
Breakdowns and reports

Spotlight

Ghetto-skype: Web Skype + Tray Icon + Notifications

Are you tired of a buggy 32 bit official Skype client? Then Ghetto Skype is for you!

Open Source Photography Course

Sent in by: Martin de B

The Open Source Photography Course is a collection of video tutorials that teach you a RAW photography workflow using only free, open source software. The software taught runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and PC-BSD

The course is suitable for beginners, as well as experience photographers. The lessons range from basic file management to advanced editing using layers and masks. A full list of the topics covered can be found here.

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Pyra accepting PreOrders

Pyra is the vastly improved successor of the OpenPandora.
TI Cortex A15 1.5 Ghz
2GB RAM
720P Display
The CPU and display PCB is socketed!
This means: No need to buy a new device each few years – you can simply update it with a new CPU board when it’s available. This is a lot cheaper and also takes care of the environment!

Red Hat Doates Servers to GNOME

Each donated server has 128GB of RAM, 48 cores and comes with an Enterprise SSD made for high throughput. This will greatly improve the running of services like build.gnome.org and sdk.gnome.org.

Major Security Flaws Found in ImageMagick

There are multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, a package commonly used by web services to process images. One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images. The exploit for this vulnerability is being used in the wild.

If you use ImageMagick or an affected library, we recommend you mitigate the known vulnerabilities by doing at least one of these two things (but preferably both!):

Verify that all image files begin with the expected “magic bytes” corresponding to the image file types you support before sending them to ImageMagick for processing. (see FAQ for more info)
Use a policy file to disable the vulnerable ImageMagick coders. The global policy for ImageMagick is usually found in “/etc/ImageMagick”. The below policy.xml example will disable the coders EPHEMERAL, URL, MVG, and MSL.

FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demanding She Meet With Them, But Refusing To Explain Why

Isis Agora Lovecruft is a lead software developer for Tor and has worked on Tor for many years, as well as on a variety of other security and encryption products, including Open Whisper Systems and the LEAP Encryption Access Project. And, apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won’t tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why

Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10

Today, May 5, 2016, is the last day of the Ubuntu Online Summit 2016, and we’ve just attended a very exciting session where the Ubuntu developers have discussed the future of the Ubuntu Desktop after Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be GTK3 only | Ubuntu MATE on Patreon

As the most committed supporters of Ubuntu MATE it is important that you get insight to this significant change before anyone else. Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be a GTK3 build only. This is both good and bad news.

Cinnamon 3.0 released!

Here’s a quick overview of some of the changes in this new version:

Window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows
Improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)
New accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)
Battery powered devices can be renamed
Different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files
Panel launchers now include application actions
Animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus
Favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet
The photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories
Improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Reaper Audio Software Is Coming To Linux

If Audacity and Ardour aren’t cutting it for your audio editing needs on Linux, there’s another Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) option coming to Linux: Reaper.

Reaper is a high-end audio production software suite developed by Cockos Software. Reaper has been supported under Windows and OS X for this software that’s been around since 2005. With the current development version, native Linux support is coming.

The Reaper 5.20 Beta 10 release brings a native Linux build for the first time. There’s an x86_64 binary along with an ARMv6t2 build for use on the newer Raspberry Pi devices.

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Blame Popey for ZFS | LINUX Unplugged 140

chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:38:28 +0000

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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

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Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

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Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
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Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
Install unzip on Ubuntu
unzip the package
Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
Quick Start – Traccar
guest access / embedding? – Traccar
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Obviously Linux’s Fault | LINUX Unplugged 75

chris — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:40:03 +0000

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It’s a new year & a new round of Linux bashing. But are some of the criticism corrects? Can we handle a little tough love as a community for the collective good? We debate.

Plus the 4 best new Linux distributions to watch in 2015, a MATE love story & an Arch victory.

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Every year new Linux distributions pop up and promise something new and game changing. I believe this time around, the claims certainly have a chance of changing the way Linux is seen by a number of user groups. Whether you’re an average user, a gamer, a power user, or some hybrid user in need of a desktop to perfectly suit your needs, I believe 2015 will bring to light some projects that will be right up your alley.

Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2015 edition

In this regularly updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and deficiencies (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes: excellent package management, multiple platforms and architectures support out of the box, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses or malware, complete system reinstallation is almost never required, besides Linux is extremely customizable, easily scripted and it’s free as a beer.

I want to make one thing crystal clear – Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it’s definitely not ready for the desktop either. Off the top of my head I want to name the following quite devastating issues with Windows:

devastating Windows rot

no enforced file system and registry hierarchy (I have yet to find a single serious application which can uninstall itself cleanly and fully)

svchost.exe

no true safe mode

no clean state

the user as a system administrator (thus viruses/malware – most users don’t and won’t understand UAC warnings)

no good packaging mechanism (MSI is a fragile abomination)

no system wide update mechanism (which includes third party software)

Windows is extremely difficult to debug

Windows boot problems are often fatal and unsolvable unless you reinstall from scratch

Windows is hardware dependent (especially when running from UEFI)

Windows updates are unreliable and they also waste disk space

there’s no way to cleanly upgrade your system (there will be thousands of leftovers), etc.

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Meet MATE’s Mastermind | LAS 347

chris — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:57:36 +0000

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Developer of the MATE desktop & more, Stefano Karapetsas joins us to discuss the projects transition to GTK3, balancing traditional desktop design with new features & the big challenges facing MATE.

Plus a huge announcement, news, picks…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Qtractor – An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written
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(JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
(ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

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MATE Mythbusting | LINUX Unplugged 26

chris — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:53:48 +0000

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The MATE Desktop is about to see some big improvements, we bring on Martin Wimpress from the MATE project to discuss his new MATE Live CD, and what the future holds for MATE.

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I also want to make it clear none of these small form-factor dev boards/devices based on ARM have no Gigabit bandwidth capability. Not even on media boxes sold directly from China.

If you want real Gigabit bandwidth or 10Gbps bandwidth you can look elsewhere because you won\’t find it in ARM except in higher-end stuff like Calxeda or AMD.

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Reasons why I sometimes hate the openness of free software. We are not able to discuss anything without the media reporting about it on the same day. sigh

Dear free software media: you can leave the internal discussions as internal till there is a public statement. Thank you!

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Mainstream?

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OpenShot Founder Interview | LAS | s23e10

chris — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:45:27 +0000

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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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