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• GitHub – diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver: ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience

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• Bill Gates now uses an Android phone – The Verge

• LineageOS Changelog #14 Brings Burn-in Protection and Changes

• Google Extends Security Support for Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X Until November 2018

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• Bad News for Users of TopIcons Plus, development has been put on a pause

• Announcing the XFree KWin project – Martin’s Blog

• “Spaceborne” Linux Supercomputer Starts Running In Space, Achieves 1 Teraflop Speed

• Atari are launching a new gaming system, the ‘Ataribox’ and it runs Linux

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• Microsoft and Facebook just laid a 160-terabits-per-second cable 4,100 miles across the Atlantic

• Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want | Ars Technica

• Canonical & Microsoft Make a Custom Linux Kernel

• The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer – Site Feedback – Caddy Community

• Synergy 2.0 goes closed source : linux

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• Start Your Engines – Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition – The Mozilla Blog

• Firefox Quantum (Beta) vs Chrome – YouTube

• Firefox Memory Usage in the Quantum Era – Eric Rahm

• Firefox with client side decorations on Linux coming soon

• Mozilla Adds Tracking Protection to Firefox for iOS, Focus Gets Multitasking

• Pale Moon 27.5.0 released! – Pale Moon forum

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• Ubuntu Rally in NYC — The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, and community contributors.
• 17.10 Beta 1 of Ubuntu flavours released — The first beta is available today for the Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” release for the flavors opting in to participate in this development milestone ahead of the official launch in October.
• Reddit closes its source — Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features “in the clear” (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing.
• Phoenix OS urged to open source their kernel — So a dedicated fan of the platform, Karol Putra, has created a Change.org petition in hopes that it will change their minds.
• Petition update * Victory! — It’s most likely really the Phoenix OS kernel as it carries slight unique modifications in comparison to Android-x86 and it’s forks
• Google mandates 4.4+ kernel for Oreo — Starting this year with smartphones which ship with Android Oreo, Google is requiring that all SoCs productized in 2017 must launch with kernel 4.4 or newer.
• Essential underdelivers — Essential — a device, marketing team, and CEO that seem to blur the lines between fact and fiction and possible and impossible
• Then Essential royally screws up — Dozens of customers replied with their personal information, but those emails didn’t just go to Essential. Instead, they went out to everybody who had received the original email.
• Blockchain is big in big business — Hundreds of projects have collectively raised more than a billion dollars through “initial coin offerings” (ICOs). There are now tokens funding every conceivable endeavor
• Linux creeps above 3% browser marketshare — According to Net Applications’ Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

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• slap-editor/slap: Sublime-like terminal-based text editor

• HP’s VR backpack PC doubles as a desktop

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Android execs get technical talking updates, Project Treble, Linux, and more

What is your thinking about the Linux Kernel? You ship a super-old one right now—it’s 3.18, from 2014.

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The Native Skype Linux App Will Stop Working July 1

“All Skype for Linux client version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux,” a notice on the Skype for Linux download page reads.

The Difference between Google Chrome and Chromium on Linux

Chromium on Linux has two general flavors: You can either get Google Chrome or chromium-browser (see Linux Chromium Packages. This page tries to describe the differences between the two.

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GNOME Fractional scaling Hackfest is running atCanonical offices in Taipei…

• Ubuntu Works with GNOME to Improve HiDPI Support on Linux Desktop – OMG! Ubuntu!

Canonical is playing host to a ‘fractional scaling hackfest‘ in its’ Taipei offices this week. Both GNOME developers and Ubuntu developers are in attendance, ready to wrestle with

The aim: improve GNOME HiDPI support.

• Fractional scaling goes east | Goings on

Some of the limitations:

• You either get 1:1 or 2:1 scaling, nothing in between
• The cut-off point that is somewhat arbitrarily chosen and you don’t get a say in it
• In multi-monitor systems, all monitors share the same scale

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New GNOME Extensions

• Arc is a New Applications Menu for GNOME Shell

Arc Menu is an alternative app launcher for GNOME Shell. It replaces the Activities button in the top bar with a traditional ‘Start Menu’ style launcher.

• Must-have GNOME extension: gTile – Fedora Magazine

Once it’s installed, you can click the tile icon in the GNOME menu up top. You’ll see a little overlay with a bunch of squares. The gTile overlay will hover over an open window, and you can click one (or more) of the squares to place the window in that area.

• Enable Nautilus Git Integration with this Open-Source Extension

• Show Git directory info
• Show the status of Git files (i.e. number of added, modified, removed)
• Option to open remote URL
• Option to select branch
• Option to compare commits

• Dash to Dock Now Supports Multi-Monitor Setups

Developer Michele G adds that “at the moment no strange combinatoins (sic) of dock position are supported: the dock is replicated on each available screen.”

• Appfolders-manager-gnome-extension: A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the “applications view”.

A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the applications view. As a bonus feature, it is possible to change the number of columns (v2 only).

Linux Academy

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The Future of Gnome

GNOME Shell and Mutter Are Now Ready for the GNOME 3.25.2 Desktop Environment

GNOME 3.25.2 is the second milestone in the development cycle of the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, which is expected to launch later this year on September 13, and it should hit the streets any moment now. Therefore, both the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window and composite manager were updated with many changes.

GNOME’s Disks Utility to Add Many Feature Enhancements for GNOME 3.26 Desktop

• GTK+ 3.91 Released With Meson Build Support, API Changes, macOS Support

GTK+ 3.91 is now available as the latest test release on the road to the GTK4 tool-kit.

• Apps/Builder – GNOME Wiki!

Builder is a new IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of our platform to more developers than ever before. It is currently under heavy development and needs your help to become a success. Get excited about the future by taking a look at our planned Features.

• About Us | Endless Computers

Computing is one of the greatest revolutions in human history. Yet, it remains out of reach for half the planet. We created Endless OS — a free and robust computing solution — so people everywhere have access to relevant information and technology.

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Zurmo CRM

Zurmo is an Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application that is mobile, social, and gamified. We use a test-driven methodology for building every part of the application. This means you can create and maintain a custom-built CRM system or platform with the assurance that future updates are not going to break your installation. Head over to the forums to learn more.

Contact Management

• Full view of Contact details
• 360 view of Accounts
• Lead Management
• Quickly find info with Global Search

Activity Overview

• Meetings, Tasks, Notes, and Attachments all in one place
• Roll Up to see activities from related records
• Latest activities widget, easy view of historical information

Deal Tracking

• Sales Force Automation
• Create and Manage Opportunities
• Track Sales Pipeline
• Probability of Closure

Manual Install Guide

Bitnami Script

• Cloud Hosting – Bitnami

Open Source is No Joke

The short version: Most Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are not fully functioning CRMs because they usually lack Reporting and Workflow. CRMs without these two features are useless. We want people to get value out of Zurmo. So we’re adding functionality that is usually available only in paid, Enterprise editions. Why? The current model teases people and insults our intelligence. We want people to take Zurmo and make it better. We want there to be a tool out there that’s easy to work with and to develop. By building software so a lot of people will use it, we’ll benefit by supporting it. That’s why we’re including all these features like Reporting and Workflow for free.

The long version: If you’re looking for a joke, watch a Jim Carry movie. Dumb and Dumber fits the bill. If you are looking for Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that’s along the same lines of ineptitude, just do a Google search. You have a bunch to pick from. Call them “teasers”. Call them bait and switch. Call them whatever you’d like. Just surely don’t call them full functioning CRM systems. I am serious. And please don’t call me Shirley.

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Desktop App Pick

Flux

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun.

f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

• redshift: Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

• redshift – GNOME Shell Extensions

Spotlight

ShowTerm

It’s showtime in a terminal near you! Put on your best colours, resize to 80 columns, and let your fingers fly!

Termshows are purely text based. This makes them ideal for demoing instructions (as the user can copy-paste), making fail-safe “live-coding” sessions (plain text is very scalable), and sharing all your l33t terminal hacks.

• Each termshow gets its own link. You can add hash-fragments to customize playback,
• All shows are in plain text
• Easy to install
• Easy to use

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OpenStreetMap is the largest open geographic database in the world, the data infrastructure for multitudes of mapping projects around the globe. Your donation to the OpenStreetMap Foundation will cover our core operational expenses in supporting the OpenStreetMap project: hardware costs, legal fees, administrative assistant and other expenses of our working groups and administration.

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Hotfix Your Ubuntu Kernels with the Canonical Livepatch Service!

Today, Canonical has publicly launched the Canonical Livepatch Service — an authenticated, encrypted, signed stream of Linux livepatches that apply to the 64-bit Intel/AMD architecture of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) Linux 4.4 kernel, addressing the highest and most critical security vulnerabilities, without requiring a reboot in order to take effect. This is particularly amazing for Container hosts — Docker, LXD, etc. — as all of the containers share the same kernel, and thus all instances benefit.

• Live kernel patching from Canonical now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

The vulnerability, a variety known as a race condition, was found in the way Linux memory handles a duplication technique called copy on write. Untrusted users can exploit it to gain highly privileged write-access rights to memory mappings that would normally be read-only_

• Dirty COW — Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild

Why is the Flaw called Dirty COW?

The bug, marked as “High” priority, gets its name from the copy-on-write (COW) mechanism in the Linux kernel, which is so broken that any application or malicious program can tamper with read-only root-owned executable files and setuid executables.

“A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings,” reads the website dedicated to Dirty COW.

“An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.”

The Dirty COW vulnerability has been present in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.22 in 2007, and is also believed to be present in Android, which is powered by the Linux kernel.

• Kernel Local Privilege Escalation – CVE-2016-5195 – Red Hat Customer Portal

• Bug 1384344 – CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage

• VulnerabilityDetails · dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io Wiki · GitHub

There are proof of concept available here.

Impact

• An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
• This flaw allows an attacker with a local system account to modify on-disk binaries, bypassing the standard permission mechanisms that would prevent modification without an appropriate permission set.

How

• The In The Wild exploit relied on writing to /proc/self/mem on one side of the race.
• The In The Wild exploit relied on using ptrace.
• The attack relies on racing the madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) system call while having the page of the executable mmapped in memory.

IOT Targeted in Recent DDOS attacks of DNS

DNS, the internet traffic management company hit by DDoS attacks Friday which affected more than 80 popular websites, says it believes that smart devices such as webcams and thermostats were infiltrated to carry out the attacks.

Scores of websites including PayPal, Reddit, Amazon, Spotify and Twitter were unavailable Friday as three separate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks disrupted the New Hampshire based server’s operations.

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Subject: System 76 Same As Clevo?

Message: Hello Chris and Noah,

Would i be able to use the system 76 PPA on a generic Clevo laptop of the same model that the Oryx Pro is built upon. I have an opportunity to purchase one second hand from a Windows user, and I’m sure i could get everything working under Ubuntu 16.10 (except for crappy wireless) .

The model is NP8152-S

Thank you both,
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Name: LJ

Subject: Ubuntu 16.04 / 16.10 Followup

Message: Message: Hi Noah,

Regarding the wifi problems you have been facing with ubuntu 16.04 (and probably 16.10), please check the instructions/script in the file attached.

It may be a dirty solution but in the end it works and it it completely transparent to the user.

Keep the good work

Regards
LJ from Portugal

• Script To Fix Wifi

• Open a terminal and type the following:

• sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/wifi-resume.service
• Copy/Paste the script in there with a right click.
• Exit with ctrl + o and ctrl + x
• Now to activate it:

sudo systemctl enable wifi-resume.service

Script:

#/etc/systemd/system/wifi-resume.service
#sudo systemctl enable wifi-resume.service
[Unit]
Description=Restart networkmanager at resume
After=suspend.target
After=hibernate.target
After=hybrid-sleep.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/systemctl restart network-manager.service

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target
WantedBy=hibernate.target
WantedBy=hybrid-sleep.target

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Ubuntu 17.04 to Be Dubbed “Zesty Zapus,” Will Launch on April 2017

That’s right, we’re talking about Ubuntu 17.04, whose codename will be “Zesty Zapus.” While some of you are enjoying their brand new Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) installations, the Ubuntu development team has started working on Ubuntu 17.04, which will be yet another normal release of the Linux-based operating system that will receive 9 months of support.

• All Aboard Ubuntu 16.10 | LAS 439

Has Ubuntu fallen behind, or setting a new bar of refinement? We load up our hardware with Ubuntu 16.10, walk away with some big surprises & two totally different experiences.

The VeraCrypt Audit Results – OSTIF.org

VeraCrypt 1.18 and its bootloaders were evaluated. This release included a number of new features including non-western developed encryption options, a boot loader that supports UEFI (modern BIOSes), and more.

QuarksLab found:

• 8 Critical Vulnerabilities
• 3 Medium Vulnerabilities
• 15 Low or Informational Vulnerabilities / Concerns

This public disclosure of these vulnerabilities coincides with the release of VeraCrypt 1.19 which fixes the vast majority of these high priority concerns. Some of these issues have not been fixed due to high complexity for the proposed fixes, but workarounds have been presented in the documentation for VeraCrypt.

• VeraCrypt download
• VeraCrypt Audit

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Plasma’s road ahead

Our general direction points towards professional use-cases. We want Plasma to be a solid tool, a reliable work-horse that gets out of the way, allowing to get the job done quickly and elegantly. We want it to be faster and of better quality than the competition.

Hotfix Your Ubuntu Kernels with the Canonical Livepatch Service!

_Today, Canonical has _publicly launched_the Canonical Livepatch Service— an authenticated, encrypted, signed stream of Linux livepatches that apply to the 64-bit Intel/AMD architecture of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) Linux 4.4 kernel, addressing the highest and most critical security vulnerabilities, without requiring a reboot in order to take effect.

_ This is particularly amazing for Container hosts — Docker, LXD, etc. — as all of the containers share the same kernel, and thus all instances benefit.

New Tool Lets You Easily Install the Ubuntu Touch OS on Your Mobile Devices

• MariusQuabeck/magic-device-tool

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• LG Tribute 5 – Mobile phone | Ting

BUG_ON oh Come on!

• Linus Torvalds admits ‘buggy crap’ made it into Linux 4.8 • The Register

Devs have ‘NO F*CKING EXCUSE to knowingly kill the kernel’, says Linux lord

• Big no no to BUG_ON(), Beware of this Linux 4.8 Bug

This BUG_ON() is triggered when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled. Some distributions such as the standard Fedora Kernel config enable it by default. Linus Torvalds has discovered that once this BUG_ON() triggers, the machine will have problems handling kernel paging requests and report that a reboot is required to fix a recursive fault from which the machine will never recover!

Fixing this bug is number one priority for Linus and he asked Johannes Weiner to work on it. Measures are being taken to avoid having it end up in a stable release, but please check your kernel config to make sure CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is disabled until the bug is fixed.

Linus re-emphasized and warned to not use BUG_ON() for debugging, but rather use WARN_ON() which is a safer alternative to BUG_ON().

• LKML: Linus Torvalds: BUG_ON() in workingset_node_shadows_dec() triggers

Return of the Cantrill | BSD Now 163

• Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent.
• Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill)

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The role of Free Software in a world that doesn’t care

The Free Software movement is about personal and social
liberties. Giving the owner and user of a computer control
over it. But most people don’t see the problem with a small
number of multinational mega-corporations having control over
everyone’s computers. They think: “Apple and Microsoft know
what they’re doing, and they do a good job, so why would I
need Free Software?”

Accepting that most people reject the Free Software message,
what can the Free Software movement contribute to the world?

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Ubuntu 16.10 Review

• Ubuntu 16.10

• Super fast boot into Unity (set your login to auto and give it a shot, tell me that’s not crazy fast)

• For me personally I never expected to be this surprised by Ubuntu 16.10. I was expecting just another simpler interaction. And that’s exactly what I got, and I didn’t even know I wanted it.

• Unity 7 is fast, simple, and now runs are lower end hardware and VM’s a lot better.

• This is the simple, clean, modern looking desktop I’m comfortable recommending to friends and loved ones.

• But my biggest surprises came when I found myself reloading studio production machines to Ubuntu MATE 16.10.

• From a desktop environment perspective, we need our desktops to be light on the GPU, simple in their function, and steady. MATE has played that role for a while now on top of Arch in the JB studio.

• But Ubuntu 16.10’s based on Kernel 4.8 (which brings Skylake improvements, and USB capture/camera device improvements). 16.10’s MATE flavor also ships with MATE Desktop 1.16. The first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop.

• The roll out of the Unity 8 Preview is very humble. Very clear on what state this is in, and how end users can play and improve it.

Kernel 4.8 Features

• Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

The biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug

• NFS Client Sees Some Performance Improvements With Linux 4.8 – Phoronix

NFS client updates for Linux 4.8, the next major kernel release, include several performance-related features, more aggressive caching, optimized several code paths, SUNRPC updates, pNFS improvements, and various bug fixes. The performance changes for the NFS client in Linux 4.8 include removing a “performance killer.”

• Support for overclocking AMD graphic cards
• Initial NVIDIA Pascal support in Nouveau driver
• Raspberry Pi 3 SoC support
• ACPI Low-Power Idle support
• Support for the Microsoft Surface 3 touch screen
• Wider range of audio device, USB and webcam drivers

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak | Ubuntu Insights

The current experience comes with a minimal set of applications; a browser, terminal and systems settings. Here are a few things you might like to try to flesh out your Unity 8 session and get the most from it.

• What to do with Unity 8 now – whizzy.org

The main driver for getting Unity 8 in to 16.10 was the chance to get it in the hands of users so we can get feedback and bug reports. If you find something doesn’t work, please, log a bug. We don’t monitor every forum or comments section on the web so the absolute best way to provide your feedback to people who can act on it is a bug report with clear steps on how to reproduce the issue (in the case of crashes) or an explanation of why you think a particular behaviour is wrong. This is how you get things changed or fixed.

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 | Ubuntu MATE

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

This has been no small undertaking, we’ve changed toolkits twice this
cycle. First from GTK 2.24.x to GTK 3.18, and then again to GTK 3.20. The
themes required two significant upgrades during this process.
We’ve also upgraded through three MATE Desktop versions this cycle,
starting from 1.12 to 1.14, to 1.15 and finally to 1.16.

We originally planned to complete the migration to GTK3+ for the
Ubuntu MATE 17.04 release, but thanks to those of you who have generously
supported the Ubuntu MATE crowd-funding we’ve achieved that
objective well ahead of schedule!

• Ubuntu MATE 16.10 Hits the Streets with MATE 1.16 Desktop and GTK+ 3 Goodness

newest _MATE 1.16 desktop environment_based on the latest GTK+ 3.20 technologies, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is probably the most important milestone of the official Ubuntu flavor built around the MATE Desktop

Being re-worked from scratch, more or less, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 ships with the ability for users to uninstall default applications without issues.

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Desktop App Pick

Internet DJ Console

Ability to broadcast LIVE audio through icecast. Internet DJ Console is a project started in March 2005 to provide a powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.
Because of the large number of streaming applications that already existed but did little more than stream a pair of audio channels or a fixed playlist, it was decided that IDJC would be the opposite and simulate audio hardware to cut down the expense of creating a home studio.

Unlike Mixxx is designed to stream live audio not just pre-recorded MP3s

Spotlight [Ben F Switched to Linux for Good] (Video in Dropbox)

Ben gives us a little show and tell.

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Devs Mark KDE’s 20th Birthday By Re-Releasing KDE 1!

Yup, it’s the KDE project’s 20th birthday. And to help mark the mammoth milestone the KDE Restoration Project is re-releasing KDE 1!

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

So many Linux nerds are happy right now #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/UlV4ZVXVzz

— Kevin Lee (@infinite_lee) October 12, 2016

As mentioned before, SteamVR on Linux will use Vulkan and not OpenGL. This is probably one of the main things that held up SteamVR/HTC Vive support on Linux.

• Collabora Has Been Working On A Fully-Open HTC Vive Driver – Phoronix

While we found out today Valve is finally expected to show a VR Linux demo likely using the HTC Vive, it turns out Collabora has been working on their own Linux VR effort with a focus on a fully open-source driver for the HTC Vive for the OSVR platform.

FreeBSD Takes Open Source to 11 with Latest Release

New architecture support, performance improvements, toolchain enhancements and support for contemporary wireless chipsets.

Mad Max to release on 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, being ported by Feral Interactive

Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.

The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.

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Nov. 11-12. #MeetBSDCA

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Name: Sam S

Subject: Barebones Linux Follow Up

Message: Hi guys, I’m writing in about the LAS438 question regarding a “barebones” distro. I’d like to give a shameless plug to my set of “GeckoLinux” spins based on openSUSE. Among the 8 spins, I actually have one called “BareBones”, which is basically an openbox desktop with Firefox, rxvt, and the YaST configuration tools, nothing else. There’s a BareBones based on openSUSE Leap (long-term fixed-release cycle) and another for Tumbleweed (super-stable rolling release). You can download it at geckolinux.github.io or clone it on SuseStudio.

Name: Ghislain A.

Subject: Ghislain is looking for a distro to do the following three things

1. Full Disk Encryption
2. Installation on RAID 1
3. Support multi screen three by default

Full Message: Hi Noah !

I still have my windows machine but i go rid of the last windows software necessary to run my business bu going webbased for my billing. For my workstation as my main working PC at my company i wanted to run a linux KDE desktop ( i love the layout of the plasma 5 desktop) but gnome would do also, i do not like at all the ubuntu unity one so i prefer to avoid it but i can live with it if i have raid and encryption.

On my research i had quite a lot of issue as most distro i tried to install do not support the basic i need “out of the box”. Those “basics” are:

• full disk encryption ( i use truecrypt on windows)
• installation on a raid 1
• support multi screen (3) by default

For now i do not find any distro that support the raid 1 thing in the installer.

I have to manually do some magic mojo to have a simple install in raid1 in the installer.

The second challenge is that allmost all the non KDE 5+ distro i tried did not support the 3 screen i have with my 2 low power AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series cards. The others would see 2 screen and not the third or see it but do not allow to move the mouse to it.

So right now i have kubuntu and antegros that is working , the last one was installed but i had to do some mojo to install it with raid and i do not have encryption so i must restart my install.

This is where you can help Do you know of a distro you think can support those simple business need (raid1, encryption, multi screen) without the need to manually tweak many thing by hand and pray no error was made ? Hope you do

Ghislain.

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