Kodi – Jupiter Broadcasting

_The Kodi box __pitch is hard to resist. A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well. This streamer, though, offers something those others never will: Free access to practically any show or movie you can dream of. No rental fees. No subscriptions. Just type in the name of a blockbuster, and start watching a high-definition stream in seconds._

Flatpak 0.10 New Stable Series Adds Minor Improvements, 0.11 to Get New Features

“This is the first release in a new series of stable releases called 0.10.x. New features will be added to 0.11.x, and bugfixes will be backported to 0.10.x. During the early phase of the 0.10.x series we may also backport minor features, but we guarantee backwards compatibility,” said Alexander Larsson.

The State of AppCenter – elementary OS

This past May we released the major update to elementary OS that debuted the new pay-what-you-want app experience in AppCenter. In those past six months, we’ve seen over 50 apps released by developers.

AT&T is working on an open-sourced AI project with Linux Foundation

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced that is working on an open source AI project, and AT&T is one of the founding organizations. Called the Acumos Project, its goal, like many open source platforms, is to enable a free exchange of ideas and machine learning solutions using an artificial intelligence framework — and eventually become a marketplace for AI apps and services.

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Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector With NERF

NERF delivers “Linux performance and reliability in firmware” as well as eliminates all post-boot activity of UEFI and the Management Engine, rather than allowing it to run concurrently in the background.

ELCE 2017 Presentation

Appeals court keeps alive the never-ending Linux case, SCO v. IBM

SCO says IBM released a “sham” version of Monterey OS to prop up AIX for Power.

Canonical to Focus Mostly on Stability and Reliability for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

“At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from Debian,” said Will Cooke in his latest weekly report. “As you know, 18.04 will be an LTS release and so we will be focusing on stability and reliability this cycle, as well as a few new features.”

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Chat with didrocks

Didier Roche (@didrocks) | Twitter

Ubuntu core developer & archive admin @canonical

Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 16 · ~DidRocks

All good things must come to an end, however, in that particular case, it’s rather a beginning!

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Chat with Will

Will Cooke (@8none1) | Twitter

#Ubuntu Desktop Manager at Canonical. High handicap golfer. Once got 9 letters.

Desktop Weekly Newsletter – 27 October 2017 –

I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from Debian, and generally doing the groundwork to give us a clear run at 18.04. As you know, 18.04 will be an LTS release and so we will be focusing on stability and reliability this cycle, as well as a few new features. I’ll give a more detailed view into 18.04 in the coming weeks.

Unity 7 Continuation – Call for Developers and Supporters! – Desktop – Ubuntu Community Hub

This thread serves to inquire the community if there would be significant interest in the adoption and/or continuation of Unity 7. I very much welcome feedback from every member on this matter, and would be absolutely thrilled if we found a way to move forward with this!

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Linux Home Theater | Ask Noah 24

chris — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 20:54:42 +0000

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Home Sweet Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 192

chris — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:52 +0000

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Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done

Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made.

Now when I’m on the Internet, it has a purpose—it is a tool I use to enhance my life. Sure, sometimes I log on to watch some funny videos or laugh at memes, but I go to the Internet with the intention of doing these things.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Pinebook Linux laptop is ready to ship

The Pinebook is a cheap, low-power laptop with an ARM-based processor. First unveiled in November, the Pinebook comes from the makers of the Pine A64 single-board computer and it uses the same processor as that tiny desktop.

Prices start at $89 for a model with an 11.6 inch display or $99 for a 14 inch version… but shipping from Hong Kong can add as much as $37 to the price, depending on where you live.

OpenELEC 8.0 Linux OS Officially Out with Raspberry Pi Zero W Support, Kodi 17.1

Based on the latest Kodi 17.1 “Krypton” open-source and cross-platform media center software, OpenELEC 8.0 is here with a lot of updated internals, as well as support for new platforms, such as the recently launched Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer, WeTek Hub, and WeTek Play 2.

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 & 26

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up.

Why use snaps?

Among other things, snaps make packaging, distribution and updates really easy for developers and automated for users. Which means you will get the latest version of your installed apps directly from upstream, on release day, or even daily if upstream has integrated snap publication into their CI process.

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Wes’ Picks

journal-triggerd: Runs trigger on systemd’s journal messages

journal-triggerd is a small daemon that runs in the background, listening to systemd’s journal, and will run “triggers” (i.e. exec a command line) when certain messages are added.

Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface

A quick search for “how to artificially slow down a Linux networking interface” produced a number of interesting results. Folks mostly discussed 3rd party tools like Wondershaper and Dummynet. Other suggestions involved proxying all HTTP/HTTPS traffic through Apache’s mod_bw — yuck!

Fortunately, most Linux distros ship with the tc command which is used to configure Traffic Control in the Linux kernel.

HashiCorp Packer 1.0

Packer 1.0 is a significant milestone. Packer is a powerful and full-featured tool to create cloud images and application packages. Today, Packer is in use by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide to automate their image creation.

Packer was started in 2013 and was the first project started at HashiCorp. Vagrant, our earliest project, was started prior to the founding of HashiCorp. We started Packer with the goal to create one workflow to build various types of deployment images.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

News

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT ‘cowboys’ ride into sunset

The stakes are especially high for the financial industry, where an estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems. The language underpins deposit accounts, check-clearing services, card networks, ATMs, mortgage servicing, loan ledgers and other services.

Of the 20 “Cowboys” that work as part-time consultants many have reached retirement age, though there are some “youngsters,” Hinshaw said. “Well, I call them youngsters, but they’re in their 40s, early 50s.”

The Companies That Support Linux and Open Source: Pinterest | Linux.com

Pinterest — “the world’s catalog of ideas” — is built on open source, according to Jon Parise, technical architecture lead and open source program lead at the company. In this interview, Parise explains how adopting open source has changed the company and helped the company’s engineers design software that is more modular, reusable, and well-documented from the outset.

Pinterest is built on open source. From our first lines of Django code over six years ago to the release of Rocksplicator, our latest open source project, we’ve directly benefited from open source projects and the supportive communities surrounding them. In turn, we’ve made significant contributions to the open source technologies we use and have pushed the limits of technologies like HBase. Internally, open source is part of a product cycle. We frequently open source the technologies we build as both a way to give back to communities and because it’s the right thing to do.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

In the context of an open source project, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, etc, provide a forum for advocacy, gossip, informal discussion, and support. My complaints start when Slack and friends are promoted as the recommended way to communicate with the project.

Slack, et al, are paid services with closed memberships.
Slack, et al, are based on synchronous communication, which discriminate against those who do not or can not take part of the conversation in real time.

Instead of closed, synchronous, systems I recommend open source projects stick to asynchronous communication tools that leave a publicly linkable, searchable, url. The tools that fit this requirement best are; mailing list, issue trackers, and forums.

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Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.

“Work on the phone and tablet is also ending, the whole convergence story, really,” Hall said. “The desktop will continue, but like it was in the pre-Unity days where we took what upstream [developers] designed and developed.”

By switching to GNOME, Canonical is also giving up on Mir and moving to the Wayland display server, another contender for replacing the X window system. Given the separate development paths of Mir and Wayland, “we have no real choice but to use Wayland when Ubuntu switches to GNOME by default,” Hall told Ars. “Using Mir simply isn’t an option we have.”

Post-Show

System76 Isn’t Giving Up On Ubuntu, Plans to Put its Own Spin on GNOME

“The Ubuntu Desktop team have always produced an incredible operating system, whether it be with GNOME or Unity. We’re excited to see their thoughtfulness, effort, and innovation added into the GNOME community,” – Carl Richell, System76 CEO

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Das Boot Manager | LINUX Unplugged 189

chris — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:06:16 +0000

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Kodi Is Getting A Proper Netflix Plugin

The anonymous news tipster wrote in to explain, “After years and years of users having to use workaround that relied on launchers of third-party external players or streaming transcoded video from other software there is now actually a real ‘Kodi native’ Netflix plugin/addon being developed for Kodi, and it is being developed as open source and has the potential of supporting multiple operating-system and different computer architecture platforms.

GitHub – asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

This plugin is not officially commisioned/supported by Netflix.

Star Trek Themed Kirk Ransomware Brings us Monero and a Spock Decryptor!

Discovered today by Avast malware researcher Jakub Kroustek, the Kirk Ransomware is written in Python and may be the first ransomware to utilize Monero as the ransom payment of choice.

A simple command allows the CIA to commandeer 318 models of Cisco switches | Ars Technica

Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the CIA to use a simple command to remotely execute malicious code that takes full control of the devices. There currently is no fix.

Bcachefs – encryption, fsck, and more [LWN.net]

We now have whole filesystem encryption

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Solus Users Get MATE 1.18 and Linux Kernel 4.9.16, Budgie 10.3 Coming Very Soon

According to the developer, it would appear that the feature-rich MATE 1.18 desktop environment released last week is now available for installation from the official stable Solus repositories for users of the Solus MATE edition, along with the long-term supported Linux 4.9.16 kernel and numerous other up-to-date components.

Clear Boot Manager

Plasma Team Discusses Web-browser integration, Bundled Apps and new Features | KDE.news

KDE is experimenting with new ways to deploy applications. Under consideration are technologies such as Flatpak, Snap and AppImage, which all have their distinct advantages.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Media and Games

Obsidian has been published as a possible proposal for WebGL-Next. As we reported a few days ago, The Khronos Group now has a staging area for WebGL-Next proposals and just a few minutes ago was the first proposal submitted.

The Last AC-3 Patent Expired on March 20, 2017

AC-3 is a compressed digital audio format like MP3. It made its public debut in 1992. AC-3 has become the most common format for audio in film and television.

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Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web appssum

Then I wrote a script, nativefier-freedesktop, that takes *.webapp file as input, build the app with Nativefier and install it, so you can launch it from your app menu. It can include custom CSS style and JavaScript code to be injected during the building. The icon can be themed by icon themes.

GitHub – jiahaog/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application

Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Desktop Linux’ future growth might depend on Electron/Web apps.

Many of which are closed source
Some have pervasive backend tracking
Performance/Overhead compares poorly to native apps.

Pro

We’ll never agree on a universal packaging format, so why not just bypass all of that with web applications
Larger industrial vendors.
More developers and applications. Some of which will be game changes for switches.
Are the benefits of having an open source platform demented if the bulk of critical user apps are closed source?
Build a Music Player with React & Electron I: Setup & Basic Concepts | Scotch
Overall speed of electron based products · Issue #5672 · electron/electron · GitHub
GitHub – sindresorhus/awesome-electron: Useful resources for creating apps with Electron
Is Electron (Atom) a good way to create offline js apps? : javascript
So refreshing to see a nice desktop app built without Electron. A well defined … | Hacker News
4 must-know tips for building cross platform Electron apps
Electron considered harmful – Drew DeVault’s Blog
Ask HN: Why / Why Not Use Electron? | Hacker News

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Distro Engagement | LAS 446

chris — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:34:09 +0000

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How to decided on a distro.

Ever since my upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 borked my laptop I’ve been distro hopping like crazy and after the last rebuild today I have to ask: how the devil did you decide on a distro to stick with?
I been using Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Solus, Elementary, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Antegos. But I can’t seem to pick on to stick with for more than a few weeks. Am I insane?

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Digital Signage RUNS LINUX

StreetSign is a digital signage system, originally written for the TeenStreet 2013 (Germany) youth congress. It works with a single server, and multiple client computers (for TS2013 we used Raspberry Pis) which connect over the network. It is light-weight enough that a raspberry pi can run as the server as well, for smaller installations.

Desktop App Pick

Unmark – The to do app for bookmarks.

Unmark is designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks, rather than just hoard them. A simple layout puts the focus on your task at hand and friendly reminders keep you in line. Filtering options let you find what you’re looking for.

Spotlight Karbon

Karbon is a vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible. That makes Karbon a great application for users starting to explore the world of vector graphics as well as for artists wanting to create breathtaking vector art.

Whether you want to create clipart, logos, illustrations or photorealistic vector images – look no further, Karbon is the tool for you!

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Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images

We are currently in dispute with a European cloud provider which has breached its contract and is publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu despite many months of coaxing to do it properly. The home-grown images on the cloud, VPS and bare metal services of this provider disable fundamental security mechanisms and modify the system in ways that are unsupportable. They are likely to behave unpredictably on update in weirdly creative and mysterious ways

mjg59 | Ubuntu still isn’t free software

The appropriate means to handle this kind of issue is trademark law. If someone claims that something is Ubuntu when it isn’t, that’s probably an infringement of the trademark and it’s entirely reasonable for the trademark owner to take action to protect the value associated with their trademark. But Canonical’s _IP policy_goes much further than that – it can be interpreted as meaning[1] that you can’t distribute works based on Ubuntu without paying Canonical for the privilege

Intellectual property rights policy | Terms and policies | Ubuntu

Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set out below).

Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million

The site reports that the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its products closed down over time, with Fitbit acquiring its assets, which include intellectual property and software.

Giving Thanks (along with a Shipping Update) – Mycroft

Before I blather on I’ll get to what many are most interested in — the hardware shipping update.

Plex for Kodi

A dedicated device running Kodi and the Plex for Kodi add-on gives you a slick, configurable way to play your media in your home theater. Kodi AV settings enable powerfully advanced knob twisting and lever sliding to fine tune playback for a customized viewing experience! Settings nirvana!

Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF’d in short term – post regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4.

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Mail Bag

Name: Brad C
Subject: Cheap Linux Laptop
Message:

: My daughter’s school recently got 20 Chromebooks to share between 3 4th grade classes. As you might imagine that is not enough. They are recommending that parents buy one for their kids, but also say a PC or Mac laptop would be fine. I’ve had my daughter doing her work on an old laptop that I put Ubuntu 16.04 on (but it’s a 17 inch laptop). I’m wondering if there are any small inexpensive laptops that could run Ubuntu that you could suggest. Most of her work is with Google docs and Google classroom.

I love all the JB shows!

Thanks

Name: Barry H
Subject: Microsoft Moving to Linux?
Message:

This isnt really a question but a prediction that could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. With MS adding in support for bash etc in win 10 and then creating .net sdk etc for linux which allows powershell etc to run. Do you think as I do that MS may be looking at moving Win 10 (No Server editions of their products only their desktop/laptop/mobile OS) to a linux distro and then having MS packages like .net etc running on top. This would mean they dont have to support patch etc a desktop distro that takes up alot of their time and money but basically get the open source community to do that for them. Obviously this wont happen in next 5 years maybe not even for a while after that for a while. But I do think it may be something they looking into… PS Send my regards to Chris and the team for a great show(s). Cheers

SIP Calling – What do you use?

Hello everyone. This is my first post on the sub.

I hear Noah mention sip calling sometimes. I am wondering what he uses and what you guys use? I am looking for a good inexpensive provider. I need to be able to receive inbound calls and make outbound calls outside of SIP. I have looked around the web and I can see there are plenty of options.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!
Asterisk is probably way more than I need. I am looking for simple. I am leaning towards Local Phone. Great price and a decent user interface on their website. If call quality is good then im set!

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Qnap’s Thick NAS | LAS 443

chris — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 08:57:21 +0000

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QNAP TS-453A 8G First Hands On

TS-453A :: QNAP

Supports the Linux(r) OS with direct output via HDMI
Dual HDMI output for switching between duplicated and extended desktop options
AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption for efficient cryptographic performance up to 412 MB/s
Supports 4K hardware decoding and transcodes 4K H.264 videos on-the-fly or offline
Quickly find files using a real-time, natural search with Qsirch 2.1
NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution for virtualization
Supports VMware(r), Citrix(r), Microsoft(r) Hyper-V and advanced virtualization features
A hybrid approach to virtualization in one NAS: Virtualization Station & Container Station
Build a personal karaoke system with high-quality audio output with the new OceanKTV app

QNAP TS-453A 8G Virtualization

Virtualization Station allows you to host virtual machines (VM) on the TS-453A, and access them via a web browser or VNC. Virtualization Station supports multiple operating systems, fast VM creation, VM backup & restoration, VM import/export, snapshot, and Device Management for centrally managing VM. Virtualization Station uses SDN (Software-defined Networks) and allows the TS-453A and VMs to share the same LAN port. No longer constrained by physical network performance, high-speed Virtual Switches greatly increases data transfer between VMs as well as between VMs and NAS through the internal interface. You can also download VMs on demand from online VM markets and import them to the TS-453A without any complex procedures.

The TS-453A also features the game-changing container technology for server virtualization. QNAP Container Station exclusively integrates LXC and Docker(r) lightweight virtualization technologies, allowing you to operate multiple isolated Linux(r) systems on the TS-453A as well as download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry(r)

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Runs Linux

DIY ELECTRIC SKATEBOARD, Runs Linux – RASPBERRY PI POWERED – YouTube

Thanks to veritanuda for submitting this Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…

A free, self-hostable aggregator… probably the best!

Spotlight

Flatdoc

Flatdoc is a small JavaScript file that fetches Markdown files and renders them
as full pages. Essentially, it’s the easiest way to make open source documentation from Readme files.

No server-side components
No build process needed
Deployable via GitHub Pages
Can fetch GitHub Readme files
Gorgeous default theme (and it’s responsive)
Just create an HTML file and deploy!

Stickers – Super Key Sticker with Any LAS Sticker While They Last!

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Some Disappointed Apple Fans Are Moving To Ubuntu Linux

Thanks to technology enthusiasts’ underwhelming response to Apple’s October event, a big flock of users turned to the famed Ubuntu laptop seller System76 whose website witnessed about 4-times more traffic than usual. As a result, System76 needed to upgrade the servers to keep up. It could be seen as a sign that users are looking at Linux machines as Mac-alternatives.

MacBook Pro (2016) disappointment pushes some Apple loyalists to Ubuntu Linux

Another fun one to write. I work alongside designers every day, and have next to zero… https://t.co/ojFTfFEYnU pic.twitter.com/SMkgqOiBR3

— Cassidy James (@CassidyJames) November 4, 2016

Ubuntu Core 16 delivers foundation for secure IoT

Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 16 for the Internet of Things (IoT), with regular and reliable security updates, and app stores for intelligent connected devices.

During this year’s Steam Dev Days, Valve was demoing SteamVR on Linux on Vulkan

Another talk about Unity on Linux
Chris’ Favorite part: https://youtu.be/WYdOQ_k6YvI?t=10m38s

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Name: Name: David L
Subject: New Linux Computer

As my father is soon looking at retirement he is going to lose access his work provided laptop. He has asked me for recommendations on a new machine. I’m considering the possibility of moving him over to Linux. He is technologically competent and not afraid of trying something new but is still more comfortable going with a well-known manufacturer. Immediately my first thought was the Dell XPS 13 as he is familiar with them and they also offer Linux support out of the box which is a huge plus as I can purchase the Windows version so that knows he has the option to fallback to Windows if he ends up not liking Linux. However, after looking into the device it appears that these machines are still affected by Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) that can’t be disabled and coil whine issues. Outside of System76 machines is the XPS 13 still the go-to Linux laptop? Do you have any better recommendations? Thanks.

David

Name: Name: James S
Subject: Set GDM Orientation

I was able to resolve my GDM issue by doing the following: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Rotate_login_screen

Let me know if this works.

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Slaying the Arch Zombie | LAS 441

chris — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:59:17 +0000

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Replacing a Dead Arch Box with OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault – The open network attached storage solution

openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.

Wed Mar 18 2015: I’m announcing the release of the 3.19.2 kernel.

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21K FPS Camera RUNS LINUX!

1:43 – talks about Linux
Sent in by: Big T

Desktop App Pick

Wire

End to end encryption, open source through and through communication

Timed Messages
Audio message with filters
Voice and video calls
Group calls and chats
Apps for desktop
Multiple Devices

Spotlight

Easystroke

Application that allows you to define a mouse gesture for opening an application, executing a command, or even linking to a key such as the Superkey or shift key

OpenYourMouth: Open Source Recipes from the Jupiter Broadcasting community

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Dirty COW was Livepatched in Ubuntu within Hours of Publication

Coincidentally, just before the vulnerability was published, we released the Canonical Livepatch Service for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The thousands of users who enabled canonical-livepatch on their Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems with those first few hours received and applied the fix to Dirty COW, automatically, in the background, and without rebooting!

New Legislation to Tackle Pirate Kodi Box Sellers Rejected

Modified Kodi and other IPTV devices allow users to access valuable content for free. Members of Parliament and industry players say they want to clamp down on such devices, by closing loopholes in copyright law to target sellers. This week, however, their suggestions to change the law in the UK were withdrawn.

DTrace for Linux 2016

Without DTrace on Linux, I began by using what was built in to the Linux kernel, ftrace and perf_events, and from them made a toolkit of tracing tools (_perf-tools). They have been invaluable. But I couldn’t do some tasks, particularly latency histograms and stack trace counting. We needed kernel tracing to be programmatic._

A Quantum Leap for the Web – Mozilla Tech

Project Quantum is about developing a next-generation engine that will meet the demands of tomorrow’s web by taking full advantage of all the processing power in your modern devices. Quantum starts from Gecko, and replaces major engine components that will benefit most from parallelization, or from offloading to the GPU.

(Linux Only) BIOS Update for Windows 10 (64-bit) – Yoga 900-13ISK2 – Lenovo Support

Feedback:

Had website issues due to all the traffic following the #AppleEvent. This year rocks! #Linux #Ubuntu #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop

— System76 (@system76) October 30, 2016

Mail Bag

Name: Name: Dout H

thanks for the great idea!

Subject: JB Suerkey

Message: I’ve heard you talk about the new super key stickers for linux. When can we buy these from JB, I would love to get some!

Name: Andrew L
Subject: CRM Review

Message: This was a great segment. I would like to see more business solution type segments on LAS or even a more business centric show for Noah. As a person that works primarily in a Windows environment, I like to see open source solutions that are business ready so that I can pitch them at work. The only way we will go from a Microsoft shop to a Linux shop is by finding open source applications that can meet the needs of the business. We will be looking to replace our CRM next year so I’ll be setting up a Zurmo server for people to try.

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Plasma 5.8 Shines Bright | LAS 438

chris — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:19:33 +0000

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Plasma 5.8 Review

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Released, This Is What’s New

Plasma 5.8 LTS “marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users,” project lead Jonathan Riddell says.

KDE Turning 20, Launches Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop To Celebrate Its Birthday

Modifier-only shortcuts, a highly requested functionality for the Plasma desktop, has been added. This allows you to launch an application by pressing a Meta key. The inclusion of Wayland to the Plasma desktop has facilitated the addition of this feature which has also been backported the X11.

Another notable feature is the support for right-to-left scripts like Urdu, Hebrew, etc. The widget explorer, window switcher, activity manager can be seen on the right side of the screen for such languages.

Wayland debuted on Plasma with 5.4 release. Since then, it has been continuously improved for stability and features. In the Plasma 5.8 LTS, a lot of work has been done on Wayland which now supports the GTK+ toolkit. The support for multitouch gestures and touchscreen devices has been enhanced, although, no default gestures are actually present as of now. The X11 and Wayland-based applications can now have a shared clipboard.

Review Notes

Now if you don’t recall KDE Neon is not a distro per sey, rather it’s a great way to play with KDE. Basically you get the Ubuntu base and the KDE Plasma Desktop and that’s it! Everything NOT KDE related is maintained by Canonical/Ubuntu. KDE Neon only cares about KDE’s stack.
They provide downloads to make initial setup easier for users. You could just do minimal install of Ubuntu and then install Neon PPA to essentially get the same thing.
They did however fix the wifi bug that some users experienced with Kubuntu so neon WILL fix other things if they need to but basically they “just care about KDE”
If you need more infomation go back and take a look at LAS409 where Chris and I deep dive into what exactly is Neon
The project leaders have said “If your last dalliance with a KDE desktop was somewhere south of now it may be time to ‘re+assess’, the team say. “Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.“ Well as it turns out my last experience with KDE was somewhere south of now so it’s high time we take a looksee.
Neon makes sure that KDE’s entire stack is compatible with Ubuntu including updates. Every new release of KDE’s stack will be managed in Neon so if someone wants Ubuntu + KDE then Neon will always be up to date where as Kubuntu has the whole 6 months hold back still.
5.7 to 5.8 is mostly a polish release but a few things stand out for improvements
5.8 offers a very cohesive design, their tag line is “everything is designed to match the KDE experience, from startup to shutdown.” The breeze theme makes sure that everything looks amazing
Right off the bat the fact that it’s an 18 month support cycle has me hooked.
The nice thing I noticed about Plasma does colour scheme independent of theme. As such you can have any theme with any color scheme. As of the most recent versions of plasma this includes the colours in Icon’s of the default icon theme.
I’ve always said there are a few things that make or break a distro for me. Firefox, Thunderbird, Telegram a terminal application and the ability to launch applications with the super key. Up until now we’ve had to rely on the super+space to launch an application. I was pleased to learn that launching Telegram is now as simple as superkey and typing it. Additionally unlike Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity I can launch Telegram immediately after installing it. I don’t need to reboot.
Their package manager formally Moo On but now branded as Discover is a great package manager. Muon or Discover is an advanced program with a graphical program that as it’s name obviously implies will allow you to install and remove software. Additionally It will automatically notify you for updates (in the lower right hand corner), but you can use it at anytime to install new package
Michael Tunnel our producer who uses this distro as his daily driver and has been invaluable to my review is pretty excited about something that seems like it’s just a minor improvement. The virtual desktop switcher applet now has an option to show only the current screen in multi+screen setups. This seemingly small improvement is great for him because it makes it easier to create the GNOME workflow in Plasma”
Last thing to note is the improved global shortcuts. Global shortcuts configuration has been simplified and global shortcuts can now be configured to jump to specific tasks within an application via jump list functionality.

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Desktop App Pick

PDFtk

PDFtk Server is our command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs.
It is also used by OEMs and ISVs to give their products the ability to manipulate PDFs. A commercial license is required to distribute PDFtk with your commercial product.

pdftk contract.pdf cat 1-9 output firstnine.pdf
pdftk firstnine.pdf lastpage.pdf output signedcontract.pdf

Spotlight

Paperwork by twostairs

Paperwork – OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep

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X crash during Fedora update when system has hybrid graphics and systemd-udev is in update

Here’s the short version: especially if your system has hybrid graphics (that is, it has an Intel video adapter and also an AMD or NVIDIA one, and it’s supposed to switch to the most appropriate one for what you’re currently doing — NVIDIA calls this ‘Optimus’), DON’T UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM BY RUNNING DNF FROM THE DESKTOP. (Also if you have multiple graphics adapters that aren’t strictly ‘hybrid graphics’; the bug affects any case with multiple graphics adapters).

elementary blog — We’ve Joined the Snap Format TOB!

Yesterday, Jamie Bennett had the pleasure of announcing the members of the new Snap Format Technical Oversight Board. This board has been formed to guide the shaping of the Snap package format and ensure that it remains useful for everyone. We’re very excited to have Cody Garver sit on this board as a representative of elementary!

Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.19 Snap Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical’s Sergio Schvezov announced recently the release and immediate availability of the Snapcraft 2.19 tool for creating Snap universal packages, in the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos.

Flatpak 0.6.12 Linux Application Sandboxing Makes Kernel Keyring Non-Containable

New features in Flatpak 0.6.12 include support for the “–device=kvm” option to be able to access /dev/kvm, support for the “–allow=multiarch” parameter to allow running 32-bit (i686) code in a 64-bit (x86_64) application, better error messages, robustness fixes for the build-commit-from command, and partial revert in application ID rules.

Pirate Kodi Add-Ons Gain Massive Popularity

Streaming piracy is on the rise with the popular media center Kodi at the center of attention. While Kodi itself is a neutral platform, millions of people use third-party add-ons to turn it into the ultimate pirate machine. In less than a year, the leading add-on repository has seen the number of unique users double, which may be just the beginning.

Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel

“I’m really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew just before doing the 4.8 release, because they cause problems, and now it is in 4.8 (and that buggy crap is marked for stable too),” he wrote in a message to the Linux kernel mailing list. “In particular, I just got this — kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swap.h:276 — and the end result was a dead kernel.”

KDE Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with the Release of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS will be supported until the year 2018

and it shall receive no less than nine point releases. The first one, KDE Plasma 5.8.1, will come next week, on October 11, followed one week later by the second one, KDE Plasma 5.8.2. On November 1, KDE Plasma 5.8.3 will arrive with more improvements, and KDE Plasma 5.8.4 should see the light of day three weeks later, on November 22, 2016._

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Behind the Scenes: Engineering with David – YouTube

Product Engineer David Jordan shares what he’s working on in this behind the scenes video from the System76 office.

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Audio Hardware: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface

Mail Bag

Name: Joe H

Subject: Exploring Linux

Message: Hi Noah and Chris I was wondering if at some point on the LAS or the LUP you could cover some more bare-bones-like distros. I am not sure about the right name for these type of distros. I don’t believe that I am looking to roll my own distro, that is if I truly understand what that would entail.

Name: Eric W

Subject: Wanting to Switch Video Production to Linux

Message:: Hello Chris and Noah!

I am a small time video editor and for years have been using the Adobe CC Suite for editing video and creating graphics etc. I know there are Linux alternatives for Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, but I don’t know of anything that is similar to After Effects and that is the one really important application I need. Any Advice on this would be much appreciated! Love the show and keep up the good work!

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Software Defined Networking | LAS 437

chris — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 18:40:43 +0000

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Highlights of OpenDayLight Summit

OpenDaylight Summit brings together users, developers and the SDN community to discuss, debate and demonstrate the latest technologies and trends in open networking.
The OpenDayLight Summit was Hands down one of the best coordinated, decorated, and fed events. Always a winner with IT pros.
After walking the floor, we sat in on some sessions to absorb as much information as we could… Which left us a little hungry
How OpenDayLight enables little guys to compete with the big networking Enterprises, and historic collaboration in the Telco Industry that OpenDayLight is driving

Interview with Neela Jacques (Executive Director of OpenDayLight)

Neela Jacques (Executive Director) | OpenDaylight

As OpenDaylight’s executive director, Nicolas “Neela” Jacques works with the OpenDaylight community to advance SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform for products and technologies that expand the intelligence, programmability and performance of network infrastructures. He oversees and provides guidance for all aspects of the project, from governance and technology to community and marketing and reports to the OpenDaylight board of directors.

Part 2

Tweets by NeelaJacques

OpenDayLight Platform

A community-led, open, industry-supported platform, consisting of code and blueprints for accelerating adoption of SDN, and fostering new innovation.

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Desktop App PickModem Manager GUI

Many people have written in and asked “how did you get your modem in your thinkpad to work” This is the software needed to activate the modem under linux

Modem Manager GUI is frontend for ModemManager daemon able to control specific modem functions.

Main features:

GTK3 interface
Send and receive SMS messages with messages concatenation
Send USSD request and receive answer in system encoding
Get modem and SIM information (Device info, Operator name, Mode, IMEI, IMSI/ESN, Signal level)
Scan available mobile networks
Control data transmission process and set session traffic and time limits
WAN Modem: Sierra EM7455

Spotlight

Ring

Talked about before, formally SFLPhone.

Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users.

Powered Linux Unplugged Last Tuesday

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Kodi boxes are now a key target in the UK government’s piracy crackdown

It’s an international racket, according to the government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) annual crime report.

Piracy fighters battle Kodi ‘epidemic’ – BBC News

“This is becoming an epidemic,” Kieron Sharp, director general of Fact, told the BBC.

“If you are not paying for Sky, BT or one of the pay-TV providers for your subscription channels, you are clearly in possession of an illegal box.”

UK IP Crime Report 2016 Reveals IPTV/Kodi Piracy as Growing Threat – TorrentFreak

The UK’s IP Crime Report 2015/16 has just been published, revealing infringement trends gathered from both governmental and private anti-piracy groups. This year in the online piracy sector IPTV/Kodi, torrent sites and stream ripping are seen as the main threats.

Meanwhile, the report reveals that pirating Internet subscribers will be receiving warning letters before the end of the year.

Sale of Kodi ‘fully-loaded’ streaming boxes faces legal test – BBC News

Middlesbrough trader Brian Thompson appeared in court, accused of selling equipment that “facilitated the circumvention” of copyright protection measures.

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Purism Is Still Hoping To Build A GNU/Linux Free Software Librem Smartphone – Phoronix

Purism, the startup behind the Librem laptops with a focus on free software and user privacy/freedom, still has their minds set on coming up with a GNU/Linux smartphone.

Librem Phone preliminary survey – Purism

This phone will be based around these tenets, coherent with our philosophy:

Free Software with a bona fide GNU+Linux stack (not Android)
Protecting your privacy
Digital security
Avoiding corporate wiretapping
Freedom-respecting hardware
Starting with the essentials and evolving the product offering through its software and infrastructure
Releasing the schematics of the hardware, encouraging participation at all levels and allowing you to independently audit the integrity of your hardware
Breaking the cycle of planned obsolescence imposed by most manufacturers

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Name: Nehemiah D.

Subject: Zoho vs Zurmo

Message: Noah mentioned Zoho CRM, and I didn’t see that it was open source. Odoo is open source and beautiful. Consider it.

I didn’t reccomend Zoho I said https://zurmo.org/

Name: Gordan

Subject: Heads up on QNAP before you Dive in

Message: Hi Chris ‘n’ Noah

Just listened to this week’s LAS and my ears pricked up when I heard your enthusiasm for an upcoming QNAP device you are getting for review. Thought I would drop you a line with my experience of using their kit. We have three of their rackmount TS series NAS units (2 x 8 disk and 1 x 4 disk devices). We used them for relatively inexpensive archive storage as well as an onsite backup device and an off-site replication copy. Primary storage is on DELL iSCSI SANs.

We used them with 6TB WD Reds until recently after losing data on them for around the 20th time
Quite regularly the volumes would drop offline despite the disks showing as healthy. Typically QNAP support would log into the devices and run an FSCK repair which would take several days. Sometimes this would work and sometimes it wouldn’t, requiring us to completely rebuild the units and restore data to them.
Earlier this year we replaced the first unit with a thrown together FreeNas box. We noticed an instant improvement in performance and it hasn’t faltered once. We have since replaced the other two backup devices with similar improvements and have just replaced one of the Dell iSCSI SANs with a FreeNas box which out-performs the Dell with much cheaper disks.
My current project I have just built a Proxmox cluster with a full SSD FreeNas and 10Gbe iSCSI interconnects. It boots to a Windows 2012 server desktop in 2 seconds! (Not my choice of OS but obviously it does Linux really well too).

Hope my experience of QNAP will encourage you to be cautious with any data you trust them with.

Keep up the sterling work!
Gordon

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Throwback Thursday… On Sunday! | LAS 431

chris — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:06:54 +0000

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Winning over at LA

Following Up On Our Reviews

OwnCloud
Mint 18
Android TV box update Re: Android TV showdown : LinuxActionShow
Hue Lights poinck’s Script and Hue Tap Switch
Our current thoughts on remote desktop on Linux:

@ChrisLAS Hi, I'm interested in a remote desktop/terminal server review. Like thinlinc, x2go,ltsp etc. What's your take on these OSS. Thanks

— Sandro (@MoSandro) August 14, 2016

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425
OSS Sync vs Dropbox

@ChrisLAS given how much you use proprietary Dropbox, interested to hear your thoughts on privacy and security, – the fine line of balance.!

— Broken Canoe (@BrokenCanoe) August 14, 2016

Apollo Notebook Follow Up
Apollo: Macbook Killer | LAS 406
What is / Where is the Mumble room you guys name drop all the time?

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Desktop App Pick

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Spotlight

CumulusClips | Free Video CMS, Video Sharing Script, Video Sharing Software, YouTube Clone

CumulusClips is a video sharing script that allows you to start your own video website. It’s free and easy to use. You can build a YouTube clone where users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and much more.

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Google Is Developing A New Open Source OS Named “Fuchsia”

Codenamed Fuchsia, one can spot the new platform existing in Google’s Git repositories. However, at the moment, the repository doesn’t include any source code. This project was originally spotted on Hacker News.

If you go ahead and dig a little deeper, you’ll come across a line on Google’s Git repo that reads — “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”.

Upon further digging the GitHub repository, we came to know that Magenta is the new kernel that powers the Fushia OS. The kernel is designed to interact with the OS via object handles. The documentation from the same calls it an operating system targeting the modern phones and PCs.

Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things

Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice

The police force in Lithuania have switched to using LibreOffice. This free and open source suite of office productivity tools is implemented on over 8000 workstations. The police has started to test the use of workstations running Ubuntu Linux.

Linux malware? That’ll never happen. Ok, just this once then

The good news is that while the Trojan targets Linux systems, it doesn’t rely on a Linux flaw to run.

Simplenote Now Open Source

we are announcing today that all of the official Simplenote client apps are now Open Source Software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the previously open sourced Electron app, you’ll now find the source code for the iOS, Android, and macOS applications on our GitHub page.

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Your Media Just Got Served | LINUX Unplugged 156

chris — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:26:40 +0000

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Take advantage of the Chromecast without Google, extend Kodi with awesome new backends & cast media around your network with free Linux tools. Our panel covers great tips to fully trick out your Linux media setup.

Plus our thoughts on the FCC forcing TP-Link to support open source firmwares, reverse tethering for Android, a quick look at Mint 18 XFCE edition & a lot more!

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Bring Linux apps to the Mac Desktop with Docker

Here are a few reasons why you may want to use Docker to run Linux applications on macOS:

To access to newer versions of software
To test various versions of the same software simultaneously
To use tools which may not be ported to macOS yet
For sandboxing an application:
- To tighten up on security
- or to isolate and/or spy on network traffic
Docker for Mac and Windows is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production | Docker Blog
Docker Containers on the Desktop

Home Netgear GS116 stopped passing packets. Suspecting this (middle) slightly bulging 820uF cap. Plausible? pic.twitter.com/RVHTYWrVft

— Alan Pope (@popey) August 2, 2016

FCC forces TP-Link to support open source firmware on routers

TP-Link agreed to pay a $200,000 fine, comply with the rules going forward, and to let customers install open source firmware on routers.

SimpleRT: Simple Reverse Tethering for Android

Reverse Tethering utility for Android.

Allows you to share your computer’s internet connection with your Android device via a USB cable.

Development is still in progress, bugs and errors can occur.

No root, no adb required!

Linux & OSX are supported! Windows is not, and unlikely to be in the future (ok, maybe in some day).

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Win an Ubuntu Linux laptop in the System76 ‘Pop Quiz’ giveaway

System76 is giving away one of its most popular Linux-based laptops — the Lemur.

Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Xfce released!

Linux Mint 18 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features in Linux Mint 18 Xfce – Linux Mint

GNOME Maps Is Back On Track Thanks to Mapbox

“With this [3.20.4] release we switch from using the MapQuest open API for fetching tiles. And instead we start using Mapbox API. Using an community API key from Mapbox,” writes Maps dev Jonas Danielsson in the change-log to accompany the release.

DigitalOcean

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

Chromecast Without Google

Google has sold 30 million Chromecasts, 5 million in the past 2 months

Pichai revealed that the company has shipped 30 million Chromecast units since the release of the device back in 2013.

Videostream for Google Chromecast – Chrome Web Store

Play your own local videos on your Chromecast or Android TV directly from your computer (PC, Mac, Linux) – Subtitles supported!

castnow: commandline chromecast player

castnow is a command-line utility that can be used to play back media files on
your Chromecast device. It supports playback of local video files, videos on the web and torrents.

You can also re-attach a running playback session (this sentence should belong somewhere else).

Stream Videos To Chromecast From The Command Line Using Stream2Chromecast ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Stream2Chromecast is a command line Chromecast media streamer for Linux. The tool can transcode unsupported formats in real time and play them on the Chromecast.

Stream2Chromecast features:

cast audio and video to a Chromecast device;
can transcode any formats not supported by the Chromecast in real time (using FFmpeg or Libav), so you don’t have to convert any video manually;
provides basic control commands: pause / unpause / stop playback (currently this only works when not transcoding), set or mute volume;
allows specifying a device when multiple Chromecasts are connected on the same network;
supports passing custom custom transcoder parameters to ffmpeg or avconv (thanks to this, you can set the quality, add subtitles even though Stream2Chromecast doesn’t directly support it, etc.);
supports specifying the port to use for streaming media.
GitHub – Pat-Carter/stream2chromecast: Chromecast media streamer for Linux

dlnacast: Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA

Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA.
Based on thibauts node-upnp-mediarenderer-client.

Kast for Kodi

A bash script tool for casting media to the Kodi entertainment center using a Linux desktop/laptop.

https://github.com/MichaelTunnell/Kast

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Home Netgear GS116 stopped passing packets. Suspecting this (middle) slightly bulging 820uF cap. Plausible? pic.twitter.com/RVHTYWrVft

— Alan Pope (@popey) August 2, 2016

Making Kodi Great Again

Naming video files/TV shows

Kodi requires each TV show to be in its own folder, and for each file to contain a pattern from which Kodi can determine the season and episode number (e.g. “S01E01”).

tinyMediaManager

tinyMediaManager is a full featured media manager to organize and clean up your media library.

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Flirc: Use any remote with your media center

Backend Options

PlexKodiConnect: let Kodi talk to your Plex — Plex Forums

PKC synchronizes your media from your Plex server to the native Kodi database. Because PKC uses the native Kodi database, the above limitations are gone!

You can browse your media full speed, images are cached
All other Kodi addons will be able to “see” your media, thinking it’s normal Kodi stuff
Use any Kodi skin you want!
PlexKodiConnect: Plex add-on for Kodi

PKC combines the best of Kodi – ultra smooth navigation, beautiful and highly customizable user interfaces and playback of any file under the sun, and the Plex Media Server to manage all your media without lifting a finger.

Have a look at some screenshots to see what’s possible.

What is currently supported?

PKC currently provides the following features:

All Plex library types
- Movies and Home Videos
- TV Shows
- Music
- Pictures and Photos
Different PKC interface languages:
- English
- German
- More coming up
Plex Watch Later / Plex It!
Plex Companion: fling Plex media (or anything else) from other Plex devices to PlexKodiConnect
Plex Transcoding
Automatically download more artwork from Fanart.tv, just like the Kodi addon Artwork Downloader
- Banners
- Disc art
- Clear logos
- Landscapes
- Clear art
- Extra fanart backgrounds
Automatically group movies into movie sets
Direct play from network paths (e.g. “\\server\Plex\movie.mkv”) instead of streaming from slow HTTP (e.g. “192.168.1.1:32400”). You have to setup all your Plex libraries to point to such network paths. Do have a look at the wiki here

Add-on:Emby for Kodi – Official Kodi Wiki

Emby is a media management server that allows you to synchronize media libraries, watched status, and watch progress between compatible devices. Emby for Kodi allows Kodi to use an Emby as a media management backend. This add-on effectively replaces the Kodi built-in media database with Emby. Currently supported media includes Movies, TV Episodes, & Music.

A quick intro video from one of the dev’s: https://youtu.be/IaecDPcXI3I?t=119

Post-Show: What if Apple is intentionally slowing down the Mac platform, to spur iPad adoption?

iPad Pro — What’s a Computer? – YouTube

You think you know what a computer is, but then you see this one. Meet iPad Pro.

Apple’s new ad really wants you to believe the iPad Pro is a full computer | The Verge

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