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Looking At Loki | LAS 434

chris — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:59:36 +0000

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elementary OS Loki Review

Loki 0.4 Stable Release!

Loki is the newest version of elementary OS, a design-oriented and open source Linux-based operating system for desktops and laptops. It succeeds Freya which was released in April of 2015.

Getting to know elementary: An interview with elementary OS UX Architect – TechRepublic

elementary OS Loki is set to launch this week. Jack Wallen chatted with UX Architect Cassidy James Blaede about one of the most elegant Linux desktop distributions to date.

Bounties – elementary – Bountysource

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Runs Linux

@ChrisLAS RUNS LINUX! pic.twitter.com/gBzU6NgDGV

— Lane Greer (@lgreer84) September 10, 2016

Desktop App Pick

Teleconsole: Command line tool to share your UNIX terminal and forward local TCP ports to people you trust.

Command line tool to share your UNIX terminal and forward local TCP ports to people you trust.

Spotlight

OpenSprinkler

Keeping your lawn and flowers beautiful doesn’t have to be stressful. OpenSprinkler unchains you from your sprinkler or irrigation control box, enabling you to program, run, or stop zones at any time from anywhere.

New Linux Show: User Error

User Error | Jupiter Broadcasting

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We’ve now issued more than 10 million certificates.

— Let's Encrypt (@letsencrypt) September 9, 2016

Solus Project Outs Budgie Desktop 10.2.7 with Applet Improvements, OSD Support

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Budgie 10.2.7, the last release in our 10.2 series that aims to resolve a multitude of issues as well as land some user experience improvements.

Budgie 10.2.7 Released

Solus MATE Edition Coming Soon, but You Can Install the MATE Desktop Right Now

“Our MATE desktop is almost completely packaged barring some minor items, and the default configuration is closing on completion, by way of mate-desktop-branding. The remaining items include setting the default panel layout and selecting a keyboard-driven menu applet, as well as fleshing out the selection of software in the default MATE ISO,” says Joshua Strobl.

Hacker Duo Selling GovRAT 2.0 Malware Used for Targeting US Government

Hackers have infected several US military and other government agencies with a stealthy malware called GovRAT, created specifically for spying on high-value targets.

World eats its 10 millionth Raspberry Pi

The Starter Kit is described as “an unashamedly premium product” and is priced at £99.

It contains:

A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
An 8GB NOOBS SD card
An official case
An official 2.5A multi-region power supply
An official 1m HDMI cable
An optical mouse and a keyboard with high-quality scissor-switch action
A copy of Adventures in Raspberry Pi Foundation Edition

check out the slick mods I did to the #Linux Action Show graphics I did for the @elementary OS live stream. pic.twitter.com/lWcXnu7UQz

— Michael Tunnell (@MichaelTunnell) September 10, 2016

Mail Bag

Goran J Writes

Subject: HiDPI Support in Linux
Message: Hi Chris and Noah…and Rikai

Today I bought a brand new 28” Samsung UHD monitor so I could enjoy its glorious 4K resolution in my Linux Mint desktop. When I turned on the monitor I was caught by surprise. The image was beautiful and everything was super sharp….and super super tiny at the same time. Searching through the Linux Mint and the nVidia settings I could not find HiDPI option so I can scale my desktop and have a more enjoyable environment. Internet search came back with results that HiDPI in Linux is still not a standard feature. With the amount of 4K display on the market I wonder why. Is there any other Linux Distro that offers HiDPI scaling or I am out of options?

Thanks!
Goran J

Dave M Writes

Subject: Contact other listeners
Message: Hi Guys/Gals!

I often hear Chris mention anecdotes of listeners getting hired into Linux jobs, and I’d like to hire some of them.

Since there’s no official forum aside from Reddit, and I’m not keen on the idea of posting job listings on Reddit, what would you suggest as a way for me to reach out to JB listeners in the New England area (or willing to move here) that might be looking for a Linux-centric tech job?

Keep up the good work!

Thanks,
Dave M

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Bodhi: Enlightened Linux | LAS 366

chris — Sun, 24 May 2015 17:28:38 +0000

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Lead developer of Bodhi Linux, Jeff Hoogland, joins us to discuss this exciting distribution that showcases the Enlightenment desktop.

Plus Canonical could be going public, but what will that mean for the desktop? We debate. Firefox OS see’s a major course change ahead & more!

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Jeff Hoogland of Bodhi Linux

Project Manager and Lead Developer

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DistroWatch.com: Bodhi Linux

Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop featuring the elegant and lightweight Enlightenment window manager. The project, which integrates and pre-configures the very latest builds of Enlightenment directly from the project’s development repository, offers modularity, high level of customisation, and choice of themes. The default Bodhi system is light — the only pre-installed applications are Midori, Terminology, EFM (Enlightenment File Manager), ePhoto and ePad — but more software is available via AppCenter, a web-based software installation tool.

Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 install and overview | the Enlightened Linux Distribution – YouTube

In this video i am going to show the installation process of Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 after that i am going to do a overview of the operating system and show some of the applications pre-installed.

Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop featuring the elegant and lightweight Enlightenment window manager. The project, which integrates and pre-configures the very latest builds of Enlightenment directly from the project’s development repository, offers modularity, high level of customisation, and choice of themes. The default Bodhi system is light — the only pre-installed applications are Midori, Terminology, EFM (Enlightenment File Manager), ePhoto and ePad — but more software is available via AppCenter, a web-based software installation tool.

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The hunt for gravitational waves, runs linux

There is an article on Guardian explaining what is the experiment about https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/feb/12/the-hunt-for-gravitational-waves-could-be-nearing-success[1] .

On the video LIGO Generations we see the lab where they analyze results and we see all the lab run Ubuntu.

The hunt for gravitational waves could be nearing success | Science | The Guardian

Here’s a date for your diary: 1 January 2017. It’s the day that physicists are predicting for a great scientific breakthrough: the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

It will be the equivalent of astronomers discovering a new sense. With telescopes, they can already see the universe. By detecting gravitational waves, they will be able to ‘listen’ to it as well. We would be able to ‘hear’ stars colliding with one another, the destruction of matter falling into black holes and the catastrophic detonation of distant massive stars.

Desktop App Pick

LanguageTool

Submitted By Rikai

LanguageTool is an Open Source proofreading program for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect and several grammar problems.

Weekly Spotlight

Server Based Music Player

Submitted by Robert S.

Run it on a server connected to some speakers in your home or office. Guests can control the music player by connecting with a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Further, you can stream your music library remotely. Groove Basin works with your personal music library; not an external music service. Groove Basin will never support DRM content.

Features

Fast, responsive UI. It feels like a desktop app, not a web app.
Dynamic playlist mode which automatically queues random songs, favoring songs that have not been queued recently.
Drag and drop upload. Drag and drop playlist editing. Rich keyboard shortcuts.

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Mark Shuttleworth considering Canonical IPO

The decision won’t be entirely his. “I need to talk it over with my Canonical team.” He also said that the idea has been being seriously kicked around internally for the last several months.

Chromium Finally Gets HiDPI Support for Linux After Being Ignored for Three Years – Softpedia

“I’m happy to notice that High DPI is now fully supported in Chromium for Linux starting in Dev Channel. If you don’t have a HighDPI screen, you can still run chromium with the –force-device-scale-factor=2 switch to see how scaling works there,” wrote François Beaufort.

Full HiDPI support in Chrome is now available in the main branch google-chrome as of version 43.0.2357.2-1 and works out of the box as tested with Gnome and Cinnamon.

Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

Mozilla has announced plans to launch a feature called “Suggested Tiles,” which will provide sponsored recommendations to visit certain websites when other websites show up in the user’s new tab page. The tiles will begin to show up for beta channel users next week, and the company is asking for feedback. For testing purposes, users will only see Suggested Tiles “promoting Firefox for Android, Firefox Marketplace, and other Mozilla causes.” It’s not yet known what websites will show up on the tiles when the feature launches later this summer. The company says, “With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users’ privacy and giving them control over their data.”

Help Test Changes to New Tab in Firefox Beta

Mozilla gives up on its dream of a $25 Firefox smartphone | The Verge

CNET reports that in an email to employees sent out on Thursday, CEO Chris Beard made it clear that the company will soon be changing its mobile strategy. “We have not seen sufficient traction for a $25 phone,” Beard wrote. He went on to say, “We will focus on efforts that provide a better user experience, rather than focusing on cost alone.”

Intel takes on CoreOS with its own container-based Linux

In a detailed article at LWN.net, Intel engineer Arjan van de Ven described Intel’s aim to build a container system “where one can use the isolation of virtual-machine technology along with the deployment benefits of containers.”

The resulting system, Clear Containers, uses Linux’s kernel-native KVM hypervisor, but runs it in such a way that it avoids most of the startup time overhead typically associated with spinning up a KVM instance. Intel also claims it can leverage systemd and a few kernel-level memory-organization tricks to slim down and speed up the process even further.

Second stretchgoal reached and new builds!

We’ve got our second stretchgoal through both Kickstarter and the Paypal donations! We hope we can get many more so that you, our users, get to choose more ways for us to improve Krita. And we have got half a third stretch goal actually implemented: modifier keys for selections!