Noah’s back from Defcon! He shares his experience at this infamous conference, his Linux in the wild sightings & his surprising takeaway.

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Noah Visits Defcon

• Badges are more than the sum of their parts – Imgur

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Hackers Fool Tesla S’s Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles

In a series of tests they plan to detail in a talk later this week at the Defcon hacker conference, they found that they could use off-the-shelf radio-, sound- and light-emitting tools to deceive Tesla’s autopilot sensors, in some cases causing the car’s computers to perceive an object where none existed, and in others to miss a real object in the Tesla’s path.

Hacking Hotel Keys and Point of Sale Systems at DEFCON

Hecker is scheduled to talk about his research at the DEFCON security conference in a talk where he will also reveal flaws in the magnetic stripe approach used in point-of-sale (POS) systems. In an interview ahead of the talk, Hecker detailed some of his key findings and the widespread risks.

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Desktop App Pick

Lifeograph

Private offline journal, encrypted note taking.

Features

• Search and play audio/video from YouTube
• Search tracks of albums by album title
• Search and import YouTube playlists
• Create and save local playlists
• Download audio/video
• Convert to mp3 & other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv)
• View video comments
• Works with Python 3.x
• Works with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• Requires mplayer or mpv
• This project is based on mps, a terminal based program to search, stream and download music. This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio. The pafy library handles interfacing with YouTube.

Spotlight

Stellarium 0.15.0 has been released

New big features

• We introduce a major internal change with the StelProperty system.

• This allows simpler access to internal variables and therefore more ways of operation.

• Most notably this version introduces an alternative control option via RemoteControl, a new webserver interface plugin.

• We also introduce another milestone towards providing better astronomical accuracy for historical applications:

• experimental support of getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides. This feature is however not fully tested yet.

The major changes:

• Added StelProperty system
• Added new plugin for exhibitions and planetariums – Remote Control
• Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota,
  Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
• Updated code of plugins
• Added Bookmarks tool and updated AstroCalc tool
• Added new functions for Scripting Engine and new scripts
• Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
• Added updates and improvements in DSO and star catalogues (include initial
  support of The Washington Double Star Catalog)
• azimuth lines (also targeting geographic locations) in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Many fixes and improvements…

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• Ting data price drop
• Ting drops data prices to $10 GB beyond the first gig

PSA – Do not download Classic SHELL! read comments (MBR overwrite!!) mbr.rootkit

Classic Shell itself wasn’t compromised. FossHub was and some download links were replaced by another program, not signed, that do only one thing: overwrite the MBR. It’s not an infected version of Classic Shell, Audacity or whatever, it’s only a small program that targets your MBR. If at the end of the installation process nothing happens beside a short cmd window then you have downloaded the malware.

• Hacker Compromises Fosshub to Distribute MBR-Hijacking Malware

“In short, a network service with no authentication was exposed to the internet,” the hacker told Softpedia in an email. “We were able to grab data from this network service to obtain source code and passwords that led us further into the infrastructure of FOSSHub and eventually gain control of their production machines, backup and mirror locations, and FTP credentials for the caching service they use, as well as the Google Apps-hosted email.”

• FossHub serves up MBR-compromising versions of Audacity and Classic Shell

Corrupt .exe’s downloads of both Audacity and Classic Shell have been removed from FossHub.com after being found laden with a Master Boot Record-overwriting Trojan.

Never Trust a Found USB Drive, Black Hat Demo Shows Why

“Despite the dangers of hackers, viruses and other bad things, almost half of those who found one of our flash drives plugged it into a computer,” Bursztein said.

• What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic one?

Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found To Be Very Unsafe & Will Likely Require A Rewrite

“more or less fatally flawed, and a full scrap and rewrite to an entirely different raid56 mode on-disk format may be necessary to fix it. And what’s even clearer is that people /really/ shouldn’t be using raid56 mode for anything but testing with throw-away data, at this point. Anything else is simply irresponsible.”

@ahl I assume you actually tested it before shipping it though

— Allan Jude (@allanjude) August 6, 2016

• Re: [BUG] Btrfs scrub sometime recalculate wrong parity in raid5

Couldn't turn on my bedroom lights last night because there is no way to dismiss this dialog. Thank you @tweethue! pic.twitter.com/2EJUgujzLF

— Thomas Roth (@StackSmashing) July 30, 2016

• JB1 Studio Hit too

• Huemote App

• Amazon.com: CHAUVET SlimPAR 56: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: ADJ Products AC3PDMX25 25 ft 3 pin DMX Cable for lighting products: Musical Instruments
• Amazon.com: DMXking ultraDMX Micro USB DMX adapter/dongle: Musical Instruments

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Mike & Chris have very different opinions on how interview tests should be conducted & this week they try to come to some common ground. Plus the real reasons to develop software on Linux are not the ones often cited, bit more on Google’s fair use & the master plan to get Mike to move to the west coast.

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Hoopla

Hiring a programmer? Ditch the coding interview and get back to basics

So before we go any further, let’s establish one very simple truth: coding interviews are worthless.

Why Develop Software On Linux

From my point of view, Linux is indeed a superior platform for developers, and that is becoming increasingly so due to a number of critical factors that have improved in the last ten years. Every year, our toolset srengthens, and does so at an exponential rate in comparison to the relatively stagnant Apple and Microsoft ecosystems.

Flatpak is gaining momentum

The Xdg App project has been renamed to Flatpak to get an easy-to-remember name and reflect that after almost two years of development it’s finally ready for broader adoption.

Google’s fair use victory is good for open source

Hurst is wrong in asserting that Google’s fair use victory means that anyone can freely appropriate whatever they want from open source and other programs. All that the jury verdict means is that Google made fair use of the Java API packages. Anyone else who appropriates elements from another firm’s software would have to defend a legal challenge on much the same grounds that Google did: either by claiming that the elements appropriated were not within the scope of protection that copyright law provides to software developers or that the appropriation of those elements was fair use.

The Google/Oracle decision was bad for copyright and bad for software

Though Android shares important elements with Java, Android is not a Java platform; it does not pass the tests that Sun and Oracle developed, and it is not designed to do so. Google deliberately chose to reject elements of Java’s design that it didn’t like, leaving a hodge-podge that is Java in some places but not-Java in others.

That lack of interest in interoperability means, in my view, that Google’s use of the Java APIs should not qualify as fair use.

Mike Moves to the West?

• Software for the marijuana industry set to yield high returns

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Noah & Emma set out to switch as many users to Linux as possible. Our team documents their competition to switch the most people to Linux within two hours in the Pacific Northwest!

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• Rover controlling software from the ESA, Runs Linux – Starts at 5:09s

• The Time the UI is up on screen

ESA astronaut Tim Peake will take part in an experiment dubbed ‘SUPVIS-M’ (Supervisory Control of Mars Yard Rover) in which he will operate, from the International Space Station (ISS), a UK-built rover – Bridget – located in the Airbus Mars Yard in Stevenage, UK.

• Source: [Runs Linux] Rover controlling software – ESA – Starts at 5:09s : LinuxActionShow

Getting started with Linux:

1. Obtain the Ubuntu Install image from ubuntu.com

2. Write the Ubuntu installation image to a USB flash media device. On PC use Etcher or Rufus & on a mac, use Etcher. Be careful to make sure the flash drive is chosen in this step.

3. Once that is finished, eject the drive and insert the drive into your PC/Mac

4. When booting the PC/Mac press F2 (or your computer’s hotkey to access the boot menu), or if you’re running a newer version of Windows such as 8 or 10 boot into Windows, press start, go to advanced start options, choose UEFI Settings, Disable secureboot. Boot back into Windows repeat the steps to get back into UEFI and choose to boot off of the USB device.

5. Play around with the live demo system and if you enjoy it, follow the on screen instructions to install Ubuntu either as a secondary option to MacOS X or Windows, or as the only option, whichever you prefer.

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Our biggest live event yet, from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2016. We chat about the future of Linux desktop software, old friends from the past stop by & the switch competition is on!

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS brings big changes to the Linux desktop

The Ubuntu desktop has seen very little change since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was released two years ago. That’s about to change with today’s launch of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS—code-named “Xenial Xerus”—which brings big changes and welcome polish to the classic Unity 7 desktop.

• Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS Officially Released with GNOME 3.18, Snappy Support

Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS launches today with the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment.

• Xubuntu 16.04 LTS and Lubuntu 16.04 LTS Released, Get Three Years of Support

According to the announcement, release highlights include new community wallpapers, and the replacement of the Ubuntu Software Centre app with the GNOME Software graphical package manager.

• Ubuntu Studio 16.04 LTS Released with a Warning, New Project Leader

A new project leader has been elected, Set Hallström, which took over the project on April 21, 2016, the day of the official release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• Mythbuntu 16.04 LTS Out Now as a Point Release for 14.04 LTS, Gets MythTV 0.28

“Mythbuntu 16.04 has been released. This is a point release on our 14.04 LTS release. If you are already on 14.04, you can get these same updates via the normal update process. This is our third LTS release and will be supported until shortly after the 18.04 release.,” reads the announcement.

• Canonical Releases LXD 2.0 Next-Generation Container Hypervisor for Ubuntu 16.04

“After a year and a half of intense work by the LXD team, LXD 2.0 has been released today! LXD 2.0 is our first production-ready release and also a Long Term Support release, meaning that we will be supporting it with frequent bugfix releases until the 1st of June 2021,” said Stéphane Graber, technical lead for LXD, Canonical.

Is This Really The Ubuntu 16.10 Codename? (Answer: It Is)

“Y is for …Yakkety yakkety yakkety yakkety yakkety yakkety yakkety yakkety yak. Naturally.”

Google Summer of Code 2016 Projects Announced

Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

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Some of our very favorite moments from 2015. Witness as Chris attempts to slam a whole bunch of big show into one big show.

Our favorite interview, our biggest rant & our most popular howto. Plus a look back at classic on-location moments from the year.

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Looking back at 2015

• Greg KH: The Interview | LAS 346
  • Interview with Greg KH
• Rockin 2015 LinuxFest NW | LAS 362
  • Rockin LFNW Debian/MS Interview

• Experience LinuxCon 2015 | LAS 379

• Windows 10 vs Linux | LAS 376
  • LAS brings the hype cure to the Windows 10 launch rash
  • Not on YouTube, thanks Google

• SSH Authentication with YubiKey | LAS 373

• Live From System76 | LAS 391

• The Linux WiFI Tower | LAS 389

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We take you to LinuxCon like never before. The container trend goes big and community leaders are taking bold stands & the quiet debate that’s brewing.

Plus a super thin Linux laptop, Google’s Linux router the OnHub, Munich to ditch Linux for Windows & more!

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LinuxCon’s surprise keynote speaker ​Linus Torvalds muses about open-source software | ZDNet

In a broad-ranging question and answer session, Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder, shared his thoughts on the current state of open source and Linux.

Linus Torvalds: Security is never going to be perfect

Linus seemed as excited about containers as a fish would be about a bicycle. “I am so happy that the kernel tends to be fairly far removed from all these issues, all the buzzwords and all the new technologies,” he said. “We end up being in a situation where we only care about us working on and how people use the kernel. I am so focused on the kernel that I don’t even care very much. We see when people need technologies from us to implement all of this, obviously there is c-groups and virtualization, if you do it that way. So we see that side of it. But at the same time, I don’t get involved in politics between all the different groups and all the stuff that goes on top of the kernel. And I am really happy I don’t have to.”

Torvalds: Don’t talk to me about containers and other buzzwords

“I am a very plodding, pedestrian kind of person,” Torvalds said during a Q&A session with Linux Foundation boss Jim Zemlin at LinuxCon in Seattle on Wednesday. “I look six months ahead. I look ahead at this release and I know what’s coming up in the next one.

“I don’t think planning 10 years ahead is necessarily very sane. Because if you think about Linux ten years back and where Linux was ten years ago, trying to plan for where we are now would have been completely insane.”

Mark Shuttleworth says Snappy was born long before CoreOS and the Atomic Project | ITworld

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, made a surprise visit at LinuxCon. I sat down with him for a video interview and talked about Ubuntu on IBM’s new LinuxONE systems, Canonical’s plans for containers, open source in the enterprise space and much more.

LinuxCon: Core Infrastructure Initiative Boosts Security Efforts

The Linux Foundation announced the new badging effort in a press conference with media and analysts. She said the program is akin to the badges used on the popular Github code-development and -sharing site.

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Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago – RUNS LINUX

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I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago recently and one of the exhibits was about robotics. I spotted one robot that recognizes faces and appears to be controlled by a Linux box.

I would also like to share my recent first experience with System76. I purchased a Meerkat to replace my HTPC that just died. The day after I made the purchase, the Meerkat went on sale. System76 called to notify me that because of the sale, I could either get my money back for the amount of the sale, or I could get a free memory upgrade and still get some money back!
Frankly, I’m astounded at that level of customer service. I’ve never experienced anything like it before and I thought it deserved a mention.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla 3.13.0 released

FileZilla is a free and open source FTP client. It’s available for all major operating systems including Windows, Mac and obviously Linux. The latest version includes couple of new features and few bug fixes that make it more stable.

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There are couple of new features and bug fixes in this release.
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• Display home directory instead of root directory if the last used directory does not exist
• Larger initial size of main window if there is no stored size
• Slightly increased size of page selection box in settings dialog

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix assertion in directory listing parser
• Fix drag&drop of remote files which broke in 3.13.0-rc1

Weekly Spotlight

GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative | GitLab

We’re very excited to announce that we’ll ship GitLab Mattermost, an open source, on-premises messaging app (like Slack) along with GitLab.

GitLab Mattermost will first be included with the Omnibus packages of GitLab 7.14 (due August 22nd).
We think GitLab Mattermost will be a great addition for GitLab users that need all software on-premises.

— NEWS —

Super Thin Asus Zenbook

• 13.3-Inch FHD (1920×1080) anti-glare matte display with an ultra-wide 170-degree viewing angle
• Latest Intel Core M-5Y10 (turbo up to 2GHz) processor
• Fanless design that is quiet, clean, and energy efficient
• 8GB RAM
• 256GB Solid State Drive
• 10-Hours Battery Life (vendor claim)
• Dual-band 802.11AGN Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 4.0
• 3 USB 3.0 ports
• HDMI port

ZenBook UX305 is even slimmer than the new Macbook. It's also about half the price. #Incredible pic.twitter.com/ATSENGVMIi

— ASUS North America (@ASUSUSA) March 11, 2015

Google’s Linux Router

Google and TP-Link unveiled a Gentoo Linux based “OnHub” WiFi-ac router for consumers with 13 antennas, Bluetooth, and ZigBee, controlled by a mobile app.

Google’s embedded and IoT horizons appear to be expanding beyond its own Nest subsidiary. The company, which is now technically just another company in the new Alphabet umbrella organization, has partnered with router-maker TP-Link to launch a $200 WiFi router, and potentially, a home automation router. Later this year, Google says it will announce other OnHub branded devices, including an Asus-made device.

The OnHub is available for pre-order at $200 at a variety of locations including the Google Store. Retail availability is set for Aug. 31. More information may be found in the Google OnHub announcement, the Google OnHub page, and the TP-Link OnHub page.

Specifications listed for the OnHub include:

• Processor — Qualcomm Atheros IPQ8064 (2x ARM/Krait cores @ 1.4GHz)
• Memory:
  • 1GB DDR3L RAM
  • 4GB eMMC flash
  • 8MB NOR flash
• Wireless networking:
  • 6x 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n 3×3 antennas
  • 6x 5GHz 802.11b/g/n /ac 3×3 antennas
  • AUX 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1×1 antenna
  • Bluetooth 4.0 with Smart Ready
  • 802.15.4 (ZigBee and Thread)
  • WPA2-PSK security
• Wired networking:
  • Gigabit Ethernet LAN port
  • Gigabit Ethernet WAN port
  • QCA8337 gigabit switch
  • Other I/O — USB 3.0 port
• Other features — 3W speaker; ambient light sensor; 6x tri-color LED arrays; TPN (Infineon SLB 961); built-in diagnostics; removable outer shell; blue and black colors
• Power — <12V/3A DC in; 100~240V 50~60Hz AC in
• Operating temperature — 0 to 40°C
• Weight — 1.9 lb
• Dimensions — 10.8 x 5.0 x 5.0 in.
• Operating system — Gentoo Linux

Germany to Ditch Linux for Windows

Two influential politicians in a German city that ditched Microsoft in favour of Linux are agitating for a switch back to Windows.

The councillors from Munich’s conservative CSU party have called the custom version of Ubuntu installed on their laptops “cumbersome to use” and “of very limited use”.

The letter from the two senior members of the city’s IT committee asks mayor Dieter Reiter to consider removing the Linux-based OS and to install Windows with Microsoft Office.

The city spent years migrating about 15,000 staff to Limux, a custom-version of Ubuntu, and other open source software – a move the city said had saved it more than €10m ($11m).

GOG Now Has Nice and Friendly Linux Installer – Softpedia

The GOG distribution platform started to release Linux games less than a year ago, but it’s made great progress in the meantime. Now, the developers are working on a new installation for Linux games that should be much easier to use.

• Linux Installer for GOG Games

Jolla Tablet available for PreOrder

Secure your Jolla Tablet from the next limited production batch. The Jolla Tablet pre-ordered now will start shipping in the end of October. Act fast, availability is limited. Pre-orders are open for everyone in EU, Norway, Switzerland, United States, Canada, Australia, India and Hong Kong.

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Live from the floor of LinuxCon 2015 we capture Bruce Schneier’s take on hacking attribution, how HP enthusiastically supports Linux internally & our impressions of the big convention.

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What makes the Linux awesome? Community. This week we’ve got exclusive clips from SouthEast LinuxFest 2015 & an on the ground report from OpenTech 2015.

Plus why open source needs to follow the Apple model and get started with students, creating value around open source & how Red Hat stays connected to the community.

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Hack of cloud-based LastPass exposes hashed master passwords

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OpenTech 2015

The usual mix of technology, experience and everything else. Book your place now, while we firm up the schedule.

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Bryan Behrenshausen is semioticrobotic.

I’m Bryan Behrenshausen, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where I work on cultural studies of informatic technologies. I try to think conjuncturally about how the concept of information gets articulated differently across multiple discourses and domains.

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Exclusive interviews and coverage from one of the show’s favorite events, SouthEast LinuxFest, aka SELF 2015. Find out the latest with the Ubuntu project, a humble approach to Linux advocacy & how the boundaries of science are being pushed by Linux.

Plus the new MATE release, HP kills The Machine, a quick update on Ubuntu’s Unity 8 & more!

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SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. It is part educational conference and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips and ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux and Open Source Software. SELF is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

• Build a botnet?: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2015 in Portland, OR

This talk will introduce you to the concepts behind botnets, and also show a live demonstration of a botnet on a sandboxed network.

We’ll start off by discussing the implications of running a botnet and the horrifying effect of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. I’ll demonstrate how bots behave on infected hosts, and give attendees a look at a command and control (C&C) system, which ultimately gives the bots their orders.

At the end of the discussion attendees will be encouraged to share their horror stories of botnet attacks on networks and systems that they’ve administered.

There are a lot of resources available online for those who’d like to research botnets. I’ll share some of these with attendees, but please realize that this talk is for research purposes only.

• Speaker: Bryan Smith: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2014 in Portland, OR

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• Linux powers DARPA Robotics Challenge winne

A Xenomai Linux based robot from Korea’s Team KAIST called the DRC-Hubo won the $2 million DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, one of only three bots to complete the course on time.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla – FTP Client

FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Weekly Spotlight

• Emby for Kodi – a headless media server for Kodi. (Transcoding, Open Source, Web GUI, and more)

An addon for Kodi that’ll let you automatically sync with Emby media server.

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MATE 1.10 released

After 15 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce
the release of MATE Desktop 1.10. We would like to thank every MATE contributor
and user.

Ubuntu’s Unity 8 and Mir Get Another Massive, Exciting New Update

After announcing last week that both the next-generation Unity 8 user interface and Mir display server of the Ubuntu Linux operating system received a massive update with numerous new features, Kevin Gunn dropped an email on June 12 informing us about an exciting new update for said technologies.

HP kills The Machine, repurposes design around conventional technologies

Last year, HP announced it was building The Machine — a computer meant to leap as far above conventional modern systems as a high-end Xeon workstation is above an IBM mainframe from the 1960s. The entire system was designed to work with special-purpose cores and to use memristors as a universal memory architecture. The entire system would be tied together through extensive use of silicon photonics. It was bold, ambitious, and cutting-edge. And now, it’s pretty much dead.

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Live from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest​ 2015, we chat with Microsoft about their embrace of Linux and open source inside and outside, enjoy some familiar friends & take the pulse of the community.

Plus an overview of the new Debian and Ubuntu releases!

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Join the Microsoft Openness team to celebrate Debian 8 at LinuxFest Northwest

In the sugar-fueled session, Welcome Debian 8: Aptly Cloud Aptitude, Jose Miguel will discuss what’s new with Debian 8 and how the Microsoft Azure cloud can help bring Debian projects to hyperscale.

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The Linux Action Show Live Video Production, Runs Linux

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Supported features include:

• Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
• Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
• Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
• Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
• File output to MP4 or FLV.
• GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
• DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
• Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
• Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.

Desktop App Pick

Irssi – The client of the future

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also
supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

Weekly Spotlight

OpenRA – Release 20150424

New Spring 2015 release of OpenRA, the Open Source classic Command & Conquer game engine

OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy project that recreates the classic Command & Conquer titles.

We include recreations of C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000. These are not intended to be perfect copies, but instead combine the classic gameplay of the originals with modern improvements such as unit veterancy and the fog of war.

OpenRA’s primary focus is cross-platform multiplayer between Windows, OS X, and Linux; however, we include a number of single-player missions, and also support skirmish games against AI bots.

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Debian 8.0 Jessie Released – Phoronix

As expected, Debian 8.0 “Jessie” was officially released today after being in development for two years.
Over at Debian.org you can read the official release announcement for Jessie. Among the changes in Debian 8.0 are improved UEFI support, defaulting to systemd as the init system, and a whole ton of package updates.

Ubuntu 15.04 Flavors Now Available for Download

Arriving with the final stable release of Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet are downloads for a colorful array of official community flavors.

And this year there’s an extra spin in motion.

Ubuntu MATE (pronounced Maah-tay) wasformally welcomed into the official Ubuntu flavors club earlier this year.

Ubuntu MATE ships with a fork of the older GNOME 2 desktop called MATE and is well suited to both lower-end hardware.

• VividVervet/ReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki

• Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Released, First Version As An Official Ubuntu Flavor ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Ubuntu MATE 15.04 was released today, this being the first version as an official member of the Ubuntu family. Compared to the previous releases, when the distro was an unofficial flavor, there are numerous changes, including new default applications, a built-in panel layout switcher, new default theme and much more.

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We round out our SCALE13x coverage with a few more exclusive interviews, then get an update on the fast growing Ubuntu MATE project.

Plus a look back at Gnome 1.0’s release, Firefox OS on a pocket watch, the great wearable debate & much more!

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• GNOME 1.0 Released – Slashdot

• Pocket-watch style smartphone runs Firefox OS · LinuxGizmos.com

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

• Sync, BitTorrent’s Free File Sharing Service, Exits Beta With A $40 Pro Tier

• Peerio

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

SCALE13x Interviews

SCALE 13x | 13x

• Speaker Interview: Michael Dexter | SCALE 13x

Michael Dexter will be giving the talk, “FreeBSD Virtualization Options” on SCALE 13x Saturday at 4:30. A long-time BSD user, Michael comes down from Portland to speak, and the SCALE Team caught up with Michael to ask him a few questions about his presentation.

• Keynote Interview: Ruth Suehle | SCALE 13x

The odyssey that brought Ruth Suehle to the keynoter’s post for SCALE 13x is . . how can we put this? . . . unique. But we’ll let her tell the tale while we inform you that Ruth is keynoting on Sunday at SCALE 13x. The SCALE Team caught up with Ruth to talk to her about Sunday’s keynote.

• Speaker Interview: Matt Davis | SCALE 13x

Matt Davis will be giving his presentation on Measuring Distributed Databased Across the Globe on SCALE 13x Sunday at 11:30. The SCALE Team caught up with Matt to ask him about his talk.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Ubuntu MATE February 2015 supporters | Ubuntu MATE

Many thanks to everyone who donated to the Ubuntu MATE community this
month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet all
the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project and the
community site. In fact, this month we are able to reward some other
projects that Ubuntu MATE benefits from.

• Ubuntu MATE Donates Money to a Project That Helped Them with Features

• DistroWatch.com: Ubuntu MATE

• Support Ubuntu MATE creating the sequel you’ve all been waiting for

• First peek at the next Ubuntu 15.04 nester line-up • The Register

If the torrent I downloaded is any indication — it had almost triple the number of seeders compared to the rest of the flavors — Ubuntu MATE is going to be a very popular release. That said, I’d wait for the second beta at least before jumping in with both feet.

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Exclusive interviews from the Southern California Linux Expo. We chat with elementary OS, VLC, Firefox, System76 & many more.

Plus the big news for Ubuntu MATE, XFCE, Gnome & others.

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SCALE Coverage

• SCALE 13x

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Runescape, Runs Linux

Jagex, makers of the smash hit Runescape, deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000e to speed up its big data analytics platform and improve gamers’ experience.

Desktop App Pick

Brasero

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Weekly Spotlight

Krita 2.9: The Kickstarter Release

The culmination of over eight months of work, Krita 2.9, is the biggest Krita release until now!

• Krita Feedback

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Ubuntu MATE Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor

The Ubuntu MATE Linux distribution is now an official Ubuntu flavor, joining the likes of Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Kylin.

Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft — Backchannel — Medium

Dan Gillmor

Meanwhile, I’ll keep encouraging as many people as possible to find ways to take control for themselves. Liberty takes some work, but it’s worth the effort. I hope you’ll consider embarking on this journey with me.

Xfce 4.12 released

Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce
the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that
supersedes Xfce 4.10.

• Xfce 4.12 tour – Xfce

GNOME 3.16 Might Just Be The Best Version Yet

Next month’s GNOME 3.16 release due March 25, shows no sign of being any different. GNOME developer Matthias Clasen recently shared GNOME 3.16screenshots on his blog to show off some of the progress made this cycle.

• GNOME 3.16 sightings

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Raw from our Sunday SCALE13x extravaganza. The video starts a bit slow, but after a bit it’s a full on event.

Interviews, gadgets, discussion, and floor coverage.

Enjoy every unedited, and unscripted moment!

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Our interviews from SeaGL 2014, a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source. Special guest Angela Fisher joins us to discuss getting women involved with Linux and technology general.

Plus our fun stories from Ohio LinuxFest 2014, a few closing thoughts, your feedback & much more!

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Pre-Show:

• AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don’t Have To

• Openage: Making Age of Empires II Open-Source

FU:

• How do you find out what has changed?

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 is out

• Freedom & Flames

SeaGL 2014

• SeaGL: https://seagl.org
• Presentations (Video or Audio only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm0HuuKPWBglv-qPC8kkUw

• Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeaGL

• Pogo Linux: https://pogolinux.com

• Ada Initiative: https://adainitiative.org/

• Libreoffice: https://libreoffice.org

• FreeGeek Seattle: https://freegeekseattle.org
• Seattle Meshnet: https://www.seattlemesh.net/
• Seattle Attic Community Workshop: https://www.seattleattic.com/
• Emily Dunham:
• https://talks.edunham.net
• https://osuosl.org/

“I’d recommend https://usfirst.org to any middle school or high school students who want to get involved with robotics.”

• SeaGL 2014 Talks Audio Recording on Archive.org

Audio recordings from talks held at SeaGL 2014

The Rest of Ohio LinuxFest 2014

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We’ve got exclusive interviews from LinuxCon 2014, learn about Linux in big networking, what the future holds for SUSE & much more.

Feeling a bit down? Maybe it’s because Linux users are being told to shut up about Desktop Linux & move on. We’ll discuss why this an absurdly short sighted idea.

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• Choose your side on the Linux divide

FU:

• Switching to Mac controversy.

• Switching to Arch Linux, disappointed with gnome due to geoclue

• Open Source In Schools

• Kickstarter Platformer right up your alley

LinuxCon 2014

• LinuxCon North America | Linux Conferences and Linux Events | The Linux Foundation

Is Desktop Linux Dead? Everyone seems to think so.

• Can we please stop talking about the Linux desktop? – TechRepublic

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LinuxCon 2014 just wrapped up and we have five great interviews from the floor, cover some of the best talks, and more.

Plus the big guy who’s still pulling for Desktop Linux, the greatly exaggerated Munich situation…

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LinuxCon 2014 Coverage

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LinuxCon North America | Linux Conferences and Linux Events | The Linux Foundation

LinuxCon is the place to learn from the best and the brightest, delivering content from the leading maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community and from around the world. There’s simply no other event in North America where developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent gather together under one roof for education, collaboration and problem-solving to further the Linux platform.

LinuxCon Day 1: Open Source is Eating the World | Open Source Today

Wednesday was the first day of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America 2014 in Chicago. The event began with a keynote speech from Jim Zemlin on the State of Linux where he touched on a wide range of new developments and issues in the Linux Industry. He opened his keynote by stating “Linux Represents one of the greatest shared technology investments in the history of computing.” A testament to the adoption of Linux in nearly every single modern industry.

Interviews

• Cumulus Networks | Linux Network OS

The first full-featured Linux distribution for networking hardware. Customers to break free of proprietary, integrated networking gear, and realize the advantages of the software defined data center.

• IUS Community Project 0.1 documentation

The IUS Community Project is a brain child of the RPM Development Team at
Rackspace Hosting. Since 2006, we have provided and maintain packages for
the latest versions of PHP/MySQL and other common software on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, because a lot of our customers strongly demand it. Internally
we maintain a number of package sets for an audience of thousands of production
servers. Until now, these packages have only been available internally to
Rackspace customers. After a while we started thinking: Why not make this
available publicly for everyone to benefit?

Good Coverage

• Linux Performance

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• LinuxCon Wraps Up In Chicago

• (1) Twitter / Search – #linuxcon

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The STACK Box – A Smart Home Controller by Cloud Media — Kickstarter

A smart home controller that speaks to all your smart devices and stacks all your apps.

• Home automation hub runs Linux, offers cloud services

The 110 x 110mm cube runs on an ARM11 Cavium processor clocked at 640MHz, probably one of Cavium’s Econa SoCs. The Stack Box also provides 256MB DDR3 RAM, 512MB flash, and an SD slot.

Desktop Ap Pick

Shutter 0.93 released

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website — apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.

• Shutter Dropbox Integration Improved in Latest Release

Shutter 0.93 — which comes just over a week after the previous update — comes with an all-new plugin for popular cloud storage service Dropbox — one that improves authentication and fixes issues with public link creation.

Weekly Spotlight

HandBrake Converter 0.10 (Beta) Available For Ubuntu

• Updated to GTK3
• VP8 Support (Available in MKV files only.)
• Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.

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• Ting FTW

Linux Founder Linus Torvalds ‘Still Wants the Desktop’

• Linus asked where Linux has left to go, now that it’s won so much

Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman moderated the discussion and commented that Linux already runs everywhere. He asked Torvalds where he thinks Linux should go next. “I still want the desktop,” Torvalds said as the audience erupted into boisterous applause.

The challenge on the desktop is not a kernel problem, Torvalds said. “It’s a whole infrastructure problem. I think we’ll get there one day.”

Ditching Linux for Windows? The truth isn’t that simple, says Munich

No says the council, in spite of numerous reports to the contrary. Suggestions the council has decided to back away from Linux are wrong, according to council spokesman Stefan Hauf.

He said the council’s recently elected mayor Dieter Reiter has instead simply commissioned a report into the future IT system for the council.

“The new mayor has asked the administration to gather the facts so we can decide and make a proposal for the city council how to proceed in future,” he said.

“Not only for Limux but for all of IT. It’s about the organisation, the costs, performance and the useability and satisfaction of the users.”

The study, being conducted by internal IT staff at the council, will consider which operating systems and software packages – both proprietary and open source – would best satisfy this criteria. The study is not, as has been reported, solely focused around the question of whether to drop Limux and move back to Windows, he said.

Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access to Free Software

Fresh on the heels of the entire Munich and Linux debacle, another story involving Microsoft and free software has popped up across the world, in Chile. A prolific magazine from the South American country says that the powerful Microsoft lobby managed to turn around a law that would allow the authorities to use free software.

• Microsoft, Chile y el poder del dinero

Linux Foundation Debuts Linux Certification Effort

The Linux Foundation announced today its first Linux certifications for IT professionals. The new certifications were announced at the LinuxCon conference.

The two new designations are the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE).

The new certifications mark the first time the Linux Foundation itself has offered formal certification.

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We’re back from OSCON 2014 with some great interviews with Christian Heilmann from the Mozilla Developer Evangelist, Karen Sandler from the Software Freedom Conservancy, and Chris DiBona the director of open source at Google.

Plus the UK Government adopts ODF, CoreOS gets a huge boost and a new release, making your Linux installers faster and easier than ever….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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OSCON 2014:

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About: OSCON 2014 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 20 – 24, 2014, Portland, OR

Now in its 16th year:

OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. In the early days, this trailblazing O’Reilly event was focused on changing mainstream business thinking and practices; today OSCON is about real-world practices and how to successfully implement open source in your workflow or projects. While the open source community has always been viewed as building the future—that future is here, and it’s everywhere you look.

Christian Heilmann (codepo8) on Twitter

Mozilla Developer Evangelist – all things open web, HTML5, writing and working together. #nofilter

• Christian Heilmann

Karen Sandler – Software Freedom Conservancy

Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org.

Donations – Software Freedom Conservancy

Chris DiBona (cdibona) on Twitter

Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In his former work on Google’s public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results.

Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science from George Mason University and a M.S. in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.

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Robot soccer team Tech United Eindhoven, runs Linux

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• RoboCup 2014 – Highlights soccer day 1 – YouTube

Desktop Ap Pick

Attic – Deduplicating Archiver

• Attic: Deduplicating archiver that can mount your offsite encrypted backups over ssh

Submitted by kleptoz in the LAS Subreddit

Attic is a secure backup program for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Attic is designed for efficient data storage where only new or modified data is stored.
Features

Space efficient storage Variable block size deduplication is used to reduce the number of bytes stored by detecting redundant data. Each file is split into a number of variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are compressed and added to the repository.

Optional data encryption All data can be protected using 256-bit AES encryption and data integrity and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256. Off-site backups Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as Attic is installed. Backups mountable as filesystems Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy backup verification and restores.

Weekly Spotlight

ZM-VE300-B

VE300 supports Virtual ODD which can be used as CD-ROM, DVD, and Blu-ray Drive for convenient booting.

• Zalman ZM-VE300-B Black External Enclosure – Newegg.com
• Amazon.com: ZM-VE300-B 2.5″ SATA USB 3.0 External HDD Enclosure

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GOG.com Now Supports Linux!

So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we’ve have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we’ve got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That’s over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like FlatOut&Flatout 2, , Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we’ve personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That’s already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon

“OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com” – you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn’t have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Major win for open document format in the UK

The UK government declared that all official office suites must support Open Document Format (ODF).

• UK makes ODF its official documents format standard | ZDNet

The world’s most secure OS may have a serious problem

The Tails operating system is one of the most trusted platforms in cryptography, favored by Edward Snowden and booted up more than 11,000 times per day in May. But according to the security firm Exodus Intelligence, the program may not be as secure as many thought. The company says they’ve discovered an undisclosed vulnerability that will let attackers deanonymize Tails computers and even execute code remotely, potentially exposing users to malware attacks. Exodus is currently working with Tails to patch the bug, and expects to hand over a full report on the exploit next week.

We're happy to see that TAILS 1.1 is being released tomorrow. Our multiple RCE/de-anonymization zero-days are still effective. #tails #tor

— Exodus Intelligence (@ExodusIntel) July 21, 2014

CoreOS Stable Release

CoreOS 367.1.0, our first version on the stable channel, includes the following:

• Linux 3.15.2
• Docker 1.0.1
• Support on all major cloud providers, including Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2 (including HVM), and Google Compute Engine
• Commercial support via CoreOS Managed Linux

The CoreOS developers have announced the release of version 367.1.0 of the CoreOS distribution; this is the first version deemed to be stable and ready for production. “Please note: The stable release is not including etcd and fleet as stable, this release is only targeted at the base OS and Docker 1.0. etcd/fleet stable support will be in subsequent releases.”

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

• ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

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We’ve got another round of great exclusive interviews from the floor of SouthEast LinuxFest 2014.

Find out why Slackware is still going strong, the BSD kindness brigade & more!

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We had a chance to chat with folks from Firefox, the EFF, SUSE, and more. Plus we discuss the real benefits to Linux conventions like LinuxFest Northwest.

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• dnschneid/crouton · GitHub

crouton is a set of scripts that bundle up into an easy-to-use, Chromium OS-centric chroot generator. Currently Ubuntu and Debian are supported (using debootstrap behind the scenes), but \”Chromium OS Debian, Ubuntu, and Probably Other Distros Eventually Chroot Environment\” doesn\’t acronymize as well (crodupodece is admittedly pretty fun to say, though).

• Firefox OS — The Adaptive Phone — Great Smartphone Features, Apps and More — Mozilla

Your needs change from one moment to the next. That\’s why Firefox OS does the same. It gives you the power to live every moment to its fullest and participate in a better world.

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Defending your rights in the digital world

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Interviews from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest. We chat with the open source industry players who are getting the word out about their efforts.
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