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Linux Action News 100

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Linux Action News 43

chris — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:16:31 +0000

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Sailfish 3 and feature phones — Sailfish OS development never stops, not even for legacy devices. Sailfish 3 will be rolled out in phases during Q3/2018 for all licensees and customers.
Crostini – Linux App via Containers on ChromeOS — In other words, the Crostini/Terminal feature could be to Chrome OS what the Windows Subsystem for Linux is for Windows 10: a way that developers, power users, and Linux enthusiasts can run native Linux software on a device that’s not running a traditional Linux distribution.
Sailfish OS v3 will be on “feature phones” — It’s also coming to 4G-enabled feature phones.
Microsoft and Canonical collaborate on Ubuntu VMs — With only 3 mouse clicks, users will be able to get an Ubuntu VM running that offers clipboard functionality, drive redirection, and much more.
Purism makes their laptops more secure — As part of our goal to improve security we are excited to announce that we have successfully integrated Heads into our TPM-enabled coreboot-running Librem laptops.
Kernel secure boot lock down — Among the further restrictions that would be placed on the Linux kernel when running with UEFI Secure Boot enabled is blocking access to kernel module parameters that end up dealing with hardware settings, blocking access to some areas of /dev that could manipulate the kernel or hardware state, etc.
More Linux On Galaxy hype — Linux is installed as an “app” on Android, and when launched it shares the same Linux kernel powering Android.

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Linux Action News 16

chris — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:57:23 +0000

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Ubuntu Budgie machines — UK-based computer outfit Nimbusoft is gearing up to sell two laptops and an all-in-one desktop PC pre-loaded with the aforementioned nimble, GNOME-based Ubuntu spin.
Librem 5 — The Librem 5 phone will be the world’s first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication.
Jolla wants to try and sell a development ROM for €50 — Today it’s our pleasure to announce all the details for Sailfish X, aka Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia X!
Android Oreo — Android Oreo brings with it a host of new features and improvements over Android Nougat. While not all of them would be immediately visible to end users, they would surely contribute towards the end experience of a mature smartphone OS.
Chrome OS enterprise edition — The paid service will allow companies to manage multiple devices running Chrome, and includes support for Microsoft Active Directory and VMware Workspace One, as well as managed or custom storefronts in the Play service.
Microsoft and Red Hat expand alliance to containers — Red Hat and Microsoft have expanded an alliance which was first announced about two years ago, with plans to help organisations more easily adopt the use of containers.
SUSE pretends not to be butthurt — Asked where SUSE stood in view of the fact that Red Hat, whose revenue dwarfs that of the Germany company, would obviously be a preferred partner for Microsoft, a company spokesman said, pointing to the announcement of the deal: “I don’t see where it says Red Hat is ‘preferred’. Perhaps I’m missing something.”
and holds firm on Btrfs — SUSE is committed to btrfs as the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise, and beyond.

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Linux Action News 7

chris — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:57:51 +0000

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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017 — We’ve got hardware accelerated video decoding working in a Proof-Of-Concept using a GStreamer and VA-API pipeline. The result is 3% CPU usage to play an h264 4K 60FPS video on Haswell. 4K h265 HEVC is also playable but requires a Skylake or later processor.
2017 Linux Laptop Survey — So we’ve established this Linux Laptop Survey in conjunction with Linux stakeholders to hopefully gather more feedback that will be useful to many different parties — this survey isn’t just for our own benefit and enjoyment at Phoronix.
Jolla Summer 2017: CEO’s Update — It has been a while since our last update about the remaining Jolla Tablet refunds — we are committed to it and we will be progressing on it in a pace our financial situation permits us to do. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Mozilla launches Firefox Focus for Android — Like the iPhone and iPad version, the Android app is free of tabs and other visual clutter, and erasing your sessions is as easy as a simple tap.
Firefox Focus uses the default Android WebView — Firefox Focus uses the default Android WebView. Barbara Bermes, product manager for Firefox Mobile at Mozilla, told eWEEK.
Project Common Voice — Project Common Voice, a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Now you can donate your voice to help us build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web.
Opus 1.2 — Speech quality improvements especially in the 12-20 kbit/s range
Improved VBR encoding for hybrid mode
More aggressive use of wider speech bandwidth, including fullband speech starting at 14 kbit/s
Music quality improvements in the 32-48 kb/s range
Generic and SSE CELT optimizations
Support for directly encoding packets up to 120 ms
DTX support for CELT mode
SILK CBR improvements
Support for all of the fixes in draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-06 (the mono downmix and the folding fixes need –enable-update-draft)
Many bug fixes, including integer wrap-arounds discovered through fuzzing (no security implications)
Comparison between Opus versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 — Here’s a comparison between Opus versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 so you can hear for yourself how the quality has improved and how Opus now sounds in general. As an anchor (OK, and also to make us look good!), we’ve also included MP3 samples.

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The Evolution of Solus | LAS 392

chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:08:54 +0000

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We review Solus OS, a new distribution from scratch with it’s own GTK-based desktop called Budgie. Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus Operating System & we give you our first impressions.

Plus projects like Jolla & Canonical’s convergence have been doomed from the start, the big changes coming to GTK, the Plasma desktop gets another great release, highlights from the 2015 kernel summit & more!

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Pitivi 0.95

Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work.

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Nmap 7 Release Notes

The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 7.00 from https://nmap.org/. It is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6 release in May 2012. Nmap turned 18 years old in September this year and celebrates its birthday

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Jolla files for debt restructuring

Jolla Ltd, the mobile company from Finland today announced that its latest financing round which aimed to end in November, has been postponed and the company needs to adjust its operations accordingly. At the same time the company has filed for a debt restructuring program in Finland, to ensure the continuity of its business. Jolla will also temporarily lay off a big part of its personnel.

Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring

Months after the smartphone company Jolla announced its split and intent to focus on Sailfish OS licensing, its financial situation has not improved. Jolla’s latest financing round has been delayed and so they have had to file for debt restructuring in Finland. As part of that, the company is temporarily laying off a big part of its personnel (Google translation of Finnish original). Jolla co-founder Antti Saarnio said, “Our operating system Sailfish OS is in great shape currently and it is commercially ready. Unfortunately the development until this point has required quite a lot of time and money (PDF). To get out of this death valley we need to move from a development phase into a growth phase. At the same time we need to adapt our cost levels to the new situation. One of the main actions is to tailor the operating system to fit the needs of different clients. We have several major and smaller potential clients who are interested in using Sailfish OS in their projects.”

A GTK+ update

You may have noticed that GTK+ master has a large number of changes in the CSS area. As some like to put it:

Oh NO! they’re breaking themes again!

GTK+ 3.19.2, More CSS Changes For The Toolkit

KDE Ships Plasma 5.5 Beta Release

In response to feedback, we’ve rewritten support for legacy applications not using the StatusNotifier standard for system tray icons.

The 2015 Kernel Summit Highlights

Power-management knobs

Rafael Wysocki started off his 2015 Kernel Summit session by noting that
every generation of hardware promises to be more power-efficient than its
predecessor. But that efficiency is not always experienced by users. In
an ideal world, systems should run in the most power-efficient mode
whenever possible and only employ the less-efficient modes when performance
requirements demand it. Real-world systems, though, tend not to run as
efficiently as they can. Rafael came with a proposal that, he thought,
might improve the situation, but it’s not clear that the idea will be
implemented.

Benchmarking and performance trends

Mel took over to say that, from his point of view (watching
over performance for SUSE), there have not been that many scheduler
problems. His biggest complaint, instead, was with the Intel “pstate”
driver, which handles CPU frequency and voltage management on Intel
processors. This driver, he said, is making poor decisions. CPUs never
seem to go above the minimum frequency on lightly-loaded machines, with
results that look like a 10-20% scheduler performance regression,
but are really due to pstate. This is, he said, a serious issue; we are at
a point where we are extremely efficient at doing nothing, but not so good
at actually doing work. As a result, a lot of users are disabling pstate
altogether.

QEMU 2.5-RC0 Released, Supports VirtIO-GPU 3D Mode

QEMU-side of the work for supporting 3D with VirtIO-GPU. With the Linux 4.4 kernel there is now the new DRM driver for supporting VirtIO GPU DRM with 3D support.

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Level Up Your LAN | LAS 377

chris — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:01:02 +0000

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We take a deep dive into the basics of getting a home network up and running. It you’ve lived with whatever the ISP has given you have no fear, not only are we going to show you how to do it, it’s going to be all done from Linux!

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Overview

Default configurations are less secure and limited
Ability to setup VPN
Ability to setup DNS
Most consumer equipment is a modem/router/switch/access point all in one (Spork Syndrome)

Default Settings on Mikrotik

IP 192.168.88.1
username: admin
no password

Default Settings on (most) Linksys

IP 192.168.0.1
username: admin
password: admin

DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Useful to push information to the clients about the network.
Can be setup on most routers
Comes setup by default
Linksys limits you to /24 meaning a maximum of 254 clients.

DNS – Domain Name Service

Phonebook of the internet
Useful to point non-registered hostnames to IP addresses
Can be used (somewhat) to block access to websites.

Firewall

Used to block traffic
Can be used on enterprise routers to separate switchports

Static IP (If your ISP allows it)

What is and Setting static IP
What is and Setting net mask
What is and Setting Default Gateway

Setting up an Access Point

Enable wireless on Mikrotik or Linksys
Purchase separate access point and use WebUI
Proper Channeling
Proper Power
POE

Easy Linux Networking

IPFire

From a technical point of view, IPFire is a minimalistic, hardened firewall system which comes with an integrated package manager called Pakfire. The primary task of Pakfire is to update the system with only a single click.

It is very easy to install security patches, bugfixes and feature enhancements, which make IPFire safer and faster – or simply, better.

Another task of Pakfire is to install additional software that adds new functionality to the IPFire system.
Some useful of them are:

File sharing services such as Samba and vsftpd
Communications server using Asterisk
Various command-line tools as tcpdump, nmap, traceroute & many more.

Smoothwall.org

The goals of the project can be summed up as:

Be simple enough to be installed by home users with no knowledge of Linux
Support a wide variety of network cards, modems and other hardware
Work with many different connection methods and ISPs from across the world
Manage and configure the software using a web browser
Run efficiently on older, cheaper hardware
Develop a supportive user community
Use sponsorship from Smoothwall Limited to further these goals

The Smoothwall Open Source Project is funded and supported by Smoothwall Limited.

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Desktop App Pick

Zoiper

Our VoIP softphone will look everywhere for your contacts and will display them in a combined list for easy access. Outlook, windows/mac, LDAP, XMPP, XCAP, android, iOs. You name it, we got it and we will lookup incoming calls as well so you know who calls before you answer.

Weekly Spotlight

SeaFile

Organize files into libraries. A library can be selectively synced into any device. Reliable and efficient file syncing improves your productivity.

A library can be encrypted by a password chosen by you. Files are encrypted before syncing to the server. Even the system admin can’t view the files.

Sharing into groups and collaboration around files. Permission control, versioning and activity notification make collaboration easy and reliable.

The core of Seafile server is written in C programming language. It is small and has a fantastic performance.

Upgrade can be done via running a simple script within a few seconds. Seafile records very few items in database. No huge database upgrade is needed.

AD/LDAP integration, group syncing, fine-grained permission control make the tool easily applied to your enterprise environment.

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Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers

Online tracking has become a pervasive invisible reality of the modern web. Most sites you load are likely to be full of ads, tracking pixels, social media share buttons, and other invisible trackers all harvesting data about your web browsing. These trackers use cookies and other methods to read unique IDs associated with your browser, the result being that they record all the sites you visit as you browse around the internet. This sort of tracking is invisible to most web users, meaning they never get the option to agree to or opt-out of it. Today the EFF has launched the 1.0 version of Privacy Badger, an extension designed to prevent these trackers from accessing unique info about you and your browsing.

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Firefox exploit found in the wild | Mozilla Security Blog

Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine. This morning Mozilla released security updates that fix the vulnerability. All Firefox users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3. The fix has also been shipped in Firefox ESR 38.1.1.

LibreOffice 5.0 Released!

It is also the first version to come in 64 bits for Windows. As such LibreOffice 5 serves as the foundation of our current developments and is a great platform to extend, innovate and collaborate with!

LibreOffice 5.0 ships an impressive number of new features for its spreadsheet module, Calc: complex formulae image cropping, new functions, more powerful conditional formatting, table addressing and much more. Calc’s blend of performance and features makes it an enterprise-ready, heavy duty spreadsheet application capable of handling all kinds of workload for an impressive range of use cases.

New icons, major improvements to menus and sidebar : no other LibreOffice version has looked that good and helped you be creative and get things done the right way. In addition, style management is now more intuitive thanks to the visualization of styles right in the interface.

LibreOffice 5 ships with numerous improvements to document import and export filters for MS Office, PDF, RTF, and more. You can now timestamp PDF documents generated with LibreOffice and enjoy enhanced document conversion fidelity all around.

LibreOffice 5 combines innovative features and long term efforts towards enhanced stability. As a result, expect both improvements in performance and in stability over the lifetime of the 5.0.x series.

LibreOffice under the hood: progress to 5.0

Gtk3 backend: Wayland

An very rough, initial gtk3 port was hacked together long ago by yours truly to prototype LibreOffice online via gdk-broadway.
However thanks to Caolán McNamara (RedHat) who has done the 80% of the hard work to finish this, giving us a polished and complete VCL backend for gtk3.
His blog entry focuses on the importance of this for running LibreOffice natively under wayland – the previous gtk2 backend was heavily tied to raw X11 rendering, while the new gtk3 backend uses CPU rendering via the VCL headless backend, of which more below.

OpenGL rendering improvements

The OpenGL rendering backend also significantly matured in this version, allowing us to talk directly to the hardware to accelerate
much of our rendering, with large numbers of bug fixes and improvements.
Many thanks to Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne (Collabora), Markus Mohrhard, Luboš Luňák (Collabora), Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora), Jan Holesovsky (Collabora), Tor Lillqvist (Collabora), Chris Sherlock & others.
It is hoped that with the ongoing bug-fixing here, that this can be enabled by default as a late feature, after suitable review, for LibreOffice 5.0.1 or at the outside 5.0.2.

LibreOffice 5.0 Is a Milestone Release for Ubuntu Touch

LibreOffice will land on Ubuntu Touch

The developers from The Document Foundation haven’t gone into much detail about their plans, but they have said that the office suite is coming to Android. Coupled with the things we already know about Ubuntu Touch, we can safely say that LibreOffice 5.0 will bring some very interesting changes to the mobile platform from Canonical.

“A new version for new endeavours: LibreOffice 5.0 is the cornerstone of the mobile clients on Android and Ubuntu Touch, as well as the upcoming cloud version. As such, LibreOffice 5.0 serves as the foundation of current developments and is a great platform to extend, innovate and collaborate!” reads the announcement from The Document Foundation.

Jolla Tablet – First Batch out of Factory

Last week was very busy for Jolla, but few issues delaying the process by couple of days were catch up during the weekend by hard working Sailors. The first batch of Jolla Tablets is now complete and is told to look great! This batch is pre-production batch delivered to selected developers and internal test personnel

July 27th all the components were ready to be mounted on the circuit boards in China. All that was missing was the circuit boards themselves, as the flight delivering them was delayed by couple of hours. This delay was short, and assembling the boards was started as planned without major issues.

Earlier delays with material preparation and board delivery forced Jolla to agree on a new schedule with the assembly factory. July 30th, circuit boards were tested and the batch was sent to factory to be assembled on the next day. Surprise came with a glue machine, display assembly wasn’t possible

Jolla Tablet

White House Petition to use FOSS whenever possible

We believe that the federal government, for the security of the information it manages and the efficient allocation of the public’s funds, should divest itself of costly proprietary software contracts wherever possible.

Healthcare.gov’s initial failings had much to do with the old, proprietary infrastructure that government contracting details required the application be built on. The US Navy recently spent considerable amounts of taxpayer money to extend support for Windows XP and Office 2003, both inherently obsolete and insecure.

Use of proprietary software costs our taxpayers needless money. It’s become clear that governments such as those of the UK and much of the European Union can adopt open source software and be better off for it. We should join them.

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Rooting for the Kids | LAS 340

chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:51:07 +0000

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Charlie Reisinger the pioneer of an extremely forward looking program to give every student a Linux laptop joins us. Find out how they integrate the students into the IT program, why they give their students root access & much more. It’s a truly inspiring story of how Linux can make a difference in education.

Plus the Jolla tablet is real, and boy is it funded! Ubuntu Phone rumors get white hot, our picks of the week…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Many large Commercial software vendors are transitioning to a subscription model. Does this create an even great lockin for schools?
One-to-One programs are very expensive, and the argument I’ve always heard was: Must use Windows, must use Office. Have get the kids ready for the “real world” that uses those tools. Is there a sound argument to that “concern”?
Linux and open source give students the ability to go very deep into how the computer works, if they are motivated and want to embrace their inquisitive nature. How far down the rabbit hole are your young Linux users permitted to go? How much can they explore?
Can you tell us how the Fast Linux Deployment Toolkit was created, and what it does?
What are some of the most useful open source software and tools you, or the students use?
What is the biggest road block others should expect?

Charlie Reisinger of Penn Manor gives talk at All Things Open 2014 | Opensource.com

Charlie Reisinger from the Penn Manor School District talked to us next about open source at his school. This talk was an expanded version of his lightning talk from the previous night.

Penn Manor has nine IT team members which is a very lean staff for 4500 devices. They also do a lot of their technology in house. But, before we talk about open source, Charlie took a tangent into the nature of education today. He says that school districts are so stuck on the model they’re using and have used for centuries, but today kids can learn anything they would like with a simple connection to the Internet. You can be connected to the most brilliant minds that you’d like, so teachers are no longer the fountains of all knowledge. A glaring gap in this evolution is that the classroom hasn’t been transformed by technology; if you walked into a classroom 60 years ago, it would look pretty much like a classroom today.

Enabling students in a digital age: Charlie Reisinger at TEDxLancaster – YouTube

Charlie Reisinger, an innovative IT Director for Penn Manor school district in Lancaster County, shows how to provide affordable, new digital technologies to high school students. The answer is not only a cost-effective way to improve the quality of education, it is opening students’ minds.

1:1 Laptop Program | PM Technology Blog

During the 2012-2013 school year, a committee comprised of faculty, administrators and a school board liaison worked to evaluate the viability of a district 1:1 computing program. After several months of internal discussion and public board presentations, a recommendation to proceed with a 1:1 laptop program at Penn Manor High School was unanimously approved at the April 1, 2013 school board meeting. The recommendation called for the program to commence with a pilot during the Fall of 2013. The full building implementation began in January 2014. At that time, each full-time high school student was provided with a personal laptop computer for use throughout the school day and at home.

Parents: We encourage you to read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document: 1to1ParentFAQ.pdf.

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Desktop App Pick

MOC – music on console

Sent in by Kyle on Twitter

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create playlists as in other players.

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Corebird

Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop

Corebird is a modern, easy and fun Twitter client, just what you were looking for, right?

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Jolla Tablet

Be a part of making the world’s first truly crowdsourced tablet, powered by Sailfish OS 2.0.

To celebrate #JollaTablet's #PeoplePowered $1M success, we're offering Jolla at a crazy price! https://t.co/xlHXYTEvfB pic.twitter.com/uSfDxFkw9Q

— Jolla (@JollaHQ) November 21, 2014

Mozilla ends Google relationship, Firefox will now default to Yahoo in the US

Mozilla and Yahoo have signed a five-year deal. As part of the deal, Yahoo is going to start honoring the Do Not Track feature when used by Firefox users to limit Yahoo’s ability to track user activity across the Web through advertisements. Yahoo is also going to roll out a new search interface for American Firefox users, starting in December.

Crowdfunding project promises a “laptop that respects essential freedoms”

Based on the Intel i7-4712MQ processor, the 15.6-inch Librem 15’s base configuration will come with an Nvidia GT840M, 4GB of RAM, a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and an actual CD/DVD drive. The Librem will have three USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and a “pop-down” RJ-45 Ethernet port, in addition to an Atheros-based 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter, a 720p built-in camera, HD audio, and a backlit keyboard.

Ubuntu Phone Partner ‘Bq’ Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event next week, November 25, 2014, to announce three new products.

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Holla For Jolla! | Tech Talk Today 94

chris — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:05:43 +0000

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The Jolla Tablet goes up for funding & rocks it. We discuss what excites us about the initiative. The EFF and Mozilla want SSL Certificates to get easier, a new Lighting adapter is on the way, Netflix goes down under & more!

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Jolla Crowdfunds $380K+ To Build An iPad Alternative | TechCrunch

Jolla’s Indiegogo campaign to build an open source iPad alternative — taking its Sailfish OS onto the tablet form factor — has passed its initial funding target of $380,000 with around 2,450 backers putting in cash. And it did so in double-quick time, taking just over two hours from the campaign’s launch. There’s still another 21 days left on the campaign so expect Jolla to flesh out some stretch goals.

Mostly a pitch for pre-orders right now, with the price-tag starting at $189 for the first 2,000 pledgers, and stepping up thereafter to $199 for another thousand backers.

EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates | PCWorld

A new organization supported by Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others is working to set up a new certificate authority (CA) that will provide website owners with free SSL/TLS certificates.

The new CA will be called Let’s Encrypt and is expected to become operational in the second quarter of next year. It will be run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a new California public-benefit corporation.

The goal of this effort is to get as many people as possible to use the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol—the more secure successor of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)—said Josh Aas, executive director of ISRG. Aas is also a senior technology strategist at Mozilla.

The new CA will not only provide certificates for free, but will also automate the certificate issuance, configuration and renewal processes in order to encourage widespread TLS adoption.

The goal is to make getting a certificate as easy as possible

Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories

Apple unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs for Lightning receptacles that will soon be available for implementation in MFi accessories. The new Lightning receptacle, scheduled to start shipping next year, will allow accessory makers to build new types of accessories that include a port for Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector previously reserved for its own iOS devices (pictured above).

The Lightning receptacle will arrive alongside a new Lightning connector (C68) that accessory makers say is a slimmed down, low profile version of previous implementations that can be used in a wide range of accessories from docks to form fitting cases. Apple has several variations of its Lightning connectors for use in accessories. The only one consumers ever see is the C48 connector (pictured right), which is only available for use in cables. For other accessories, however, Apple previously required a much bulkier solution than the C48 that paired with other components to provide more than just power to an accessory. The new connector will provide features other than just power in a much tighter package (around the same size as C48) than previous solutions. The result will be an easier implementation of Lightning connectors into accessories with a slimmer overall design, but no change for consumers in terms of compatibility since it’s just the housing and not the actual tip of the connector that is changing.

Apple plans to begin shipping the new Lightning connector and receptacle to accessory makers in early 2015.

Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015

Netflix the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service, is heading down under, announcing today it will expand into Australia and New Zealand in March 2015.

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Numix your Linux | LAS s31e01

chris — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:54:33 +0000

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Georgi Karavasilev from the Numix project joins us to discuss their vision for pushing the look of the Linux desktop to the next level, and the efforts they’re willing to take to make that vision happen.

Plus: Ubuntu Touch gets two hardware partners, Microsoft is up to it;s old tricks again…

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Numix is all about making a difference in theming. We aim to prove that “difference” and “usability” are two words combined, that can make sense. You get a modern and stylish desktop, spiced up with a pinch of warmth just enough to make you feel like laying in your favourite comfy armchair, with a beverage of your choice in hand.

Numix Project on Google+

Georgi Karavasilev

Works on the icon themes and is the unofficial PR guy.

Georgi is the guy behind the design of Kazam, Unity Tweak Tool, Smuxi, XNoise, Athena and a bundle of more community and third party apps. He is also an Ubuntu member. He writes on omgubuntu.co.uk and his personal blog mechoslav.wordpress.com.

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Yeah, we’re doing a custom desktop shell built on top of Gnome-Shell.
More details are to come tomorrow.
For now just have this little teaser.

Desktop Shots

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Project Tango, Runs Linux!

Project Tango is a phone which uses complex array of sensors that track motion in closed environments, and can build a visual 3D of rooms and other indoor areas. The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.

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Google’s Project Tango Struts Into the Spotlight

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Stikked · GitHub

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YaCy Creator Interview | LAS s30e09

chris — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:50:07 +0000

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Michael Christen the creator and maintainer of YaCy search joins us to discuss his free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet using a unique Peer-to-peer technology.

Plus who’s building Linux, the big Docker news, a look ahead at the next big Gnome release…

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Michael Christen YaCy Maintainer:

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YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.

YaCy – The Peer to Peer Search Engine: AWESOME Visualization

Questions

What’s the key reason you believe decentralized search is important?
How does YaCy help combat censorship?
Can I use YaCy on my school/work network to index all of the material on our intranet?
I want to run YaCy on a VPS, can it be configured to crawl faster than my home PC since it has a faster connection?
How would I know that some YaCy machine in the globe does not collect all the requests it gets?
Could YaCy be used to index the TOR network?
And more in show, not documented here.

Installing YaCY

q5ys’s Kickstarter

YaCyPi – Turnkey Raspberry Pi based Internet Search Engine by Obsidian Security Services

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Runs Linux:

About once a year, the Linux Foundation analyzes the online repository that holds the source code of the kernel, or core, of the Linux operating system.

As well as tracking the increasing complexity of the ever-evolving kernel over a series of releases from versions 3.0 to 3.10

The report also reveals who is contributing code, and the dominant role corporations now play in what began as an all-volunteer project in 1991.

Over 80 percent of code is contributed by people who are paid for their work

The Linux Foundation notes that contributions have been increasing from companies that make mobile and embedded systems, such as Linaro, Samsung, and Texas Instruments.
Contributions from individual developers must have sign-offs before being incorporated into the official kernel code.

Corporate employees truly dominate, with just over 5 percent of approvals by volunteers.

The increasing size of the Linux kernel is due to the incorporation of significant new features, including a file system optimized for solid-state drives and support for the 64-bit ARM microprocessors used in embedded and mobile devices.

That’s evident in today’s news that the company has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Greylock Partners, with minority participation from Insight Venture Partners and existing investors Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Also participating is Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang, who has participated in previous

Docker will use the funding to push toward the general availability of the Docker environment, develop commercial services that pair with the open-source technology and build a team to support the growing community.

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Fidel Chromecastro | LINUX Unplugged 20

chris — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:22:27 +0000

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Chromecast has been called the gadget of the year, but are the better options? Or is a simple, low cost, Linux powered gadget the ultimate living room solution? We’ll debate where it stacks up compared to XMBC, Plex, and others.

Plus: Some insights into why Canonical might be looking to License their Binary repos to the Mint projects, your feedback, and more!

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Top 10 Gadgets of 2013 | Top 10 Everything of 2013 – Technology | TIME.com

Instead of trying to do everything — like Google\’s famously ambitious and unsuccessful Google TV — this thumb-sized gizmo does one thing, does it as simply as possible and does it for the impulse-purchase price of $35. Plug it into one of your TV\’s HDMI ports, and you can fling videos and other content from your laptop, tablet or phone to the big screen, no wires involved. Lots of companies have built devices to do this; Chromecast is the first one that gets it right.

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Swap It Outta Here | LINUX Unplugged 17

chris — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:56:49 +0000

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Do you run without swap? This week we reach into the topic grab bag and debate to swap or not to swap, the reasons long timer Linux users are switching to BSD, and what’s wrong with our Sailfish OS coverage.

Plus we’ll some perspective from a new Linux user on what she ran into, your emails, and more!

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Linux Mint 15 Review: Arch’s Nemesis? | LAS s27e02

chris — Sun, 26 May 2013 14:27:37 +0000

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Linux Mint 15 is about to hit the web. Is this the distro for the disenfranchised Ubuntu user? We’ll demo of some of Mint 15’s best new features, look at MATE vs Cinnamon. And why Mint’s real competition might be Arch Linux, and the Arch challenge is announced!

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Linux Mint 15 Review:

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8 Month support cycle or so (depends on release). Mint releases not built off Ubuntu LTS will be subject to the shorter support window non-LTS Ubuntu releases now have.
No upgrade path from Mint 14, or to Mint 16 in the future.
MATE and Cinnamon are at their best, current releases really starting to shine.
Tools built by the Mint team are top rate, and fill holes missing on Ubuntu.
Linux Distro Timeline
Linux MintRoadmap · GitHub

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“This is not about us against new, emerging platforms,” Saarnio said. “This is about new platforms against Android. I think that’s the game.”

Latest Tizen sightings: Samsung phone, Intel laptop demo · LinuxGizmos.com

On May 23, the second day of a three-day Tizen Developers Conference in San Francisco, TechTastic reported confirmation of a rumored debut Tizen smartphone called the GT-I8805 in Samsung’s UAPROF systems. The GT-I8805 (“Redwood”) is listed as running Tizen 2.1 on an ARM Cortex-A9 SoC and offering 1280 x 720 resolution and LTE support.

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Dungeon Defenders on Steam

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four distinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning defenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat!

X3: Terran Conflict on Steam

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Don’t Starve on Steam

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.

Shank 2 on Steam

The fan-favorite 2D brawler is back as ex-mob hit man Shank returns to action in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is once again forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plus all-new weaponry.

Minetest

Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. It has been in development and use since October 2010.

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Mint 14 Review | LAS | s24e07

chris — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:51:11 +0000

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Fresh off the mirrors we review Linux Mint 14. We challenge your assumptions about this Ubuntu derivative, focus on its differences, and come away with a few concerns.

PLUS: Control your Linux box from your Android device, one city saves millions with open source, while another runs back to Microsoft, and the Secure Boot upset of the week.

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Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Edition Review:

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Desktops are outgrowing me, and I’m worried
The Cinnamon 1.6 desktop environment has been overhauled with more than 800 changes, according to the changelog.
One of the main changes in the 1.6 release is the inclusion of a new GUI file browser called Nemo built specifically for Cinnamon.
Linux Mint 14 includes all of the upstream software changes made to Ubuntu 12.10, including the 3.5 Linux kernel, Python 3, gcc 4.7.2, and LibreOffice 3.6.
New features in Linux Mint 14
Cinnarch: Arch Linux with Mint’s Cinnamon desktop

Runs Linux:

Home-built “Bio Computer” runs Linux, grows wheatgrass

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Ubuntu Remote Control
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Desktop App Pick:

FreetuxTV Lets You Watch and Record Live TV Shows on Linux
FreetuxTV WebTV Manager
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