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• OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections?

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Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta Makes Your Desktop Smoother and Speedier

Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta is the second long term support release from the Plasma 5 team. We have been working hard focusing on speed and stability for this release. Boot time to desktop has been improved by reviewing the code for anything which blocks execution. The team has been triaging and fixing bugs in every aspect of the codebase, tidying up artwork, removing corner cases and ensuring cross desktop integration. For the first time we offer our Wayland integration on long term support so you can be sure we will continue to fix bugs over the coming releases.

KDE’s KWin Now Considers Its X11 Code To Be Under An “Eternal Feature Freeze”

With KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS, the KWin window manager / compositor’s X11/X.Org code will now be under an “eternal feature freeze” as development will focus more on Wayland.
KWin maintainer Martin Flöser has confirmed the KWin/X11 code is now considered feature frozen as for Plasma 5.13 and the future they will be focused on Wayland. Features may get added for the KWin on X11, but only when it’s in common code-paths and not writing any new X11-specific feature code.
+ KDE’s KWin Now Considers Its X11 Code To Be Under An “Eternal Feature Freeze” – Phoronix

City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source

Brief: Barcelona city administration has prepared the roadmap to migrate its existing system from Microsoft and proprietary software to Linux and Open Source software.
A Spanish newspaper, El País, has reported that the City of Barcelona is in the process of migrating its computer system to Open Source technologies.
Barcelona will go open source by Spring 2019 The City has plans for 70% of its software budget to be invested in open source software in the coming year.

Upcoming Community Events

DevConf.cz | January 26-28, 2018 – Brno, Czechia

DevConf.cz 2018 is the 10th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contibutors to open source technologies such as Linux, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud and mobile where FLOSS communities sync, share, and hack on upstream projects together in the beautiful city of Brno, Czech Republic.
When: Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2018
Venue: Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT – Božetěchova 2, Brno)

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

LinuxFest is celebrating 19 years of service to the Free and Open Source community and we want you to be a part of it! Please join us by being a presenter at one of the largest, technically diverse, educational, and fun open source conferences here in the Pacific Northwest.
We are encouraging (but not requiring) that presenters touch on our theme “Message in a Bottle”: Security, Containerization, and Personal Data. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at present@linuxfestnorthwest.org.

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SCALE 16x

SCaLE 16X – the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place on March. 8-11, 2018, at the Pasadena Convention Center. SCaLE 16X expects to host 150 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials and special events.
+ Libre Graphicas track at SCaLE 16x!

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New XPS 13 Developer/Ubuntu Laptops from Dell

8th Generation Intel® Quad Core, i5 (US and Canada only) and i7 versions
Guest: Barton George
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+ Systems Developed by and for Developers | Dell

Linus prefers the XPS 13

Right now the XPS13 stands out due to the thin bezel, which really does maximize the screen size for the size of machine. That was really what made me pick it for Daniela in the first place. It just ends up hitting my two primary goals very well: small and portable, but with the biggest screen you can cram into that size.
+ Linus bought two. One for him, and one for his daughter.

9370 Specifications

• 8th Generation Intel® Quad Core, i5 (US and Canada only) and i7 versions
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Ubuntu MATE is creating a retrospective desktop operating system, for everyone

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Plex vs Emby

Using Kodi Directly vs Plex/Emby

• Plex and Emby are not as fast as just basic Kodi pointing at some files on a local disk.
• Requires fairly reliable networking.
• Much better media identification.
• Real, easy to use for you and family streaming.
• Plex sharing.
  • Share your PLEX server

Plex and Emby Licensing

Plex

• Plex on GitHub
• Official Plex addon for Kodi
• All of Plex’s License Information : Support

Emby

• Emby on GitHub
• Emby add-on for Kodi

Emby with the premium Emby Premiere features unlocked.

At some point, the developers of Emby added a nasty nag screen before playback. Worse, you need to wait a few seconds before being able to dismiss it. They refuse to address removing it as seen here.
This is bullshit for a GPLv2 licensed product. Of course someone is going to fork Emby to remove it.
So while my main motivation was to remove the nag screen, unlocking all the premium features proved the simplest way.

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

Follow Up / Catch Up

• 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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Fedora 25 released!

Each edition is built from a common set of base packages, which form the foundation of the Fedora operating system. As with all new versions of Fedora, Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:

• Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
• Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine
• Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language

• Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython

• Upgrading Fedora 24 to Fedora 25

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Microsoft: don’t edit Linux files in Windows

Microsoft warns users of Windows 10 not to edit any Linux files that are part of the Linux subsystem using Windows apps, scripts, console commands or other means.

gmvault: gmail backup software

Gmvault is a tool for backing up your gmail account and never lose email correspondence.
Gmvault is open source and under GNU-AGPL-3.0.

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Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn, subject of a massive DDoS attack in October | TechCrunch

Oracle and Dyn didn’t disclose the price of the deal but we are trying to find out. Dan Primack reports that it’s north of__ $600 million.__We’ve also asked for a comment from Oracle about Dyn’s cyberattack, and whether the wheels were set in motion for this deal before or after the Mirai botnet took down a series of sites in October. Our guess is that it was likely before.

Finally, Our Own OS – Oh Yes! | Nota Bene: Eugene Kaspersky’s Official Blog

So, I’m hoping it’s obvious by now how protecting the IoT and, of course, critical infrastructure (industry, transport, telecoms, etc.) from IT threats is simply _mandatory. _I also hope it’s clear that it’s better — no matter how difficult — to build IoT/infrastructure devices from the very beginning in such a way that hacking them is practically impossible. Indeed, that is a fundamental goal with Kaspersky OS.

bitwarden – Open Source, Cross Platform Password Manager by 8bit Solutions

bitwarden is an easy-to-use, open source password manager that syncs to all of your devices, helping keep you safe online.

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A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on.

Plus your take on openSUSE’s big changes & follow up to our take on it.

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A Week With GNOME As My Linux Desktop: What They Get Right & Wrong

Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.

• I spent the first five days of my week logging into Gnome manually– not turning on automatic login. On night of the fifth day I got annoyed with having to login by hand and so I went into the User Manager and turned on automatic login. The next time I logged in I got a prompt: “Your keychain was not unlocked. Please enter your password to unlock your keychain.” That was when I realized something… Gnome had been automatically unlocking my keychain—my wallet in KDE speak– every time I logged in via GDM. It was only when I bypassed GDM’s login that Gnome had to step in and make me do it manually.

  • it was at that moment that I realized it was such a simple thing that made the desktop feel so much more like it was working WITH ME. When I log into KDE via SDDM? Before the splash screen is even finished loading there is a window popping up over top the splash animation– thereby disrupting the splash screen– prompting me to unlock my KDE wallet or GPG keyring.

  • Software Managers! Something that has seen a lot of push in recent years and will likely only see a bigger push in the months to come. Unfortunately, it’s another area where KDE was so close… and then fell on its face right at the finish line.

  • Gnome Software is probably my new favorite software center, minus one gripe which I will get to in a bit. Muon, I wanted to like you. I really did. But you are a design nightmare. When the VDG was drawing up plans for you (mockup below), you looked pretty slick.

  • Then someone got around to coding you and doing your actual UI, and I can only guess they were drunk while they did it.

• Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.

• KDE doesn’t feel like cohesive experience. KDE doesn’t feel like it has a direction its moving in, it doesn’t feel like a full experience. KDE feels like its a bunch of pieces that are moving in a bunch of different directions, that just happen to have a shared toolkit beneath them.

• I know the KDE developers know design matters, that is WHY the Visual Design Group exists, but it feels like they aren’t using the VDG to their fullest.

• Will I still use Gnome after this week? Probably not, no. Gnome still trying to force a work flow on me that I don’t want to follow or abide by, I feel less productive when I’m using it because it doesn’t follow my paradigm.

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openSUSE Follow Up

onelostuser writes:

I don’t get why Noah and Chris are puzzled by what SuSE and OpenSuSE intend to do. The new distro will be to SLE what CentOS is to RHEL.
There will be Tumbleweed, the bleeding edge, always rolling distro that will be in much better shape than Rawhide because OpenSuSE actually expects people to use it as a desktop OS as opposed to “it’s rawhide so it’s borked”.

Then there will be OpenSUSE 42, based on the SLE sources. People will be able to use it such as others do with CentOS and I would be amazed if OpenSuSE and SuSE don’t make it extremely easy to switch from 42 to the enterprise version where they can sell people support on a subscription basis.

To me, it looks like a very smart move.

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The GTK camp is pushing hard for Client Side Decorations, but there are some major drawbacks on non-Gnome desktops. We discuss the pros and cons, and if this is going to lead to a new kind of desktop Linux fragmentation.

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Client Side Diva

• Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

That’s why I decided to CC the Ayatana mailinglist and publish this letter as an open letter on my blog. CSD is a topic that is important for every user and nothing we should discuss in a small group.

Consistent window decorations: This in fact is my greatest doubt. The current situation is that all windows have the same window decoration. For CSD to work applications have to be changed to support them. This will render the changed applications using CSD while all other applications are decorated by the window manager. I think it is impossible to have the same behavior for both CSD and wm decos. I think there are lots of legacy applications which cannot be changed, for example Amarok 1.4 which is still used by many users even in GNOME. I doubt you will be able to change Qt 3 to use CSD. My bigger concern is that we will end up with applications shipping their own style and doing their own kind of decorations. So we end up with situations like one window has buttons on left, one on the right, one in order close, maximize, minimize, the other in close, minimize, maximize, etc.

Just look on the Microsoft Windows desktop to see what proprietary applications tend to do when they get the chance to influence the decorations.

The Wayland Reason, he disagrees with:

Get gtk+ working on Wayland: I don’t see how Wayland can be an argument for CSD. Could we consider Wayland as unimportant till it is looking like something is actually going on? I checked the commits in 2010 in the public git repository and well it looks like KWin has more commits per day. It’s nice that you think of the future, but please don’t use it for argumentation. So also not valid.

On the Gnome Wiki they state this about Wayland and Client Side Decorations:

• Initiatives/Wayland/GTK+ – GNOME Wiki!

Under Wayland, it is preferred that clients render their own window decorations. Since gnome-shell will need to keep support for decorating X clients, it would be good if GTK+ and gnome-shell could share the css theming.

The comment thread on this post introducing CSD in Gnome 3.10 is quite interesting

• CSDs came to stay in GNOME 3.10! | woGue

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Is devastating fragmentation going to doom Desktop Linux, can a case for multiple display servers?

Don’t care about the display server? We’ll make the case why you need to care, and why the biggest community confrontation could be brewing.

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• Use Docker NOT PPAs in Debian

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• Straw Poll: Should LAS Drop Seasons?

Does the Display Server Matter? Depends Who you Ask…

Bob\’s development blog: Why the display server doesn\’t matter

Display servers are the component in the display stack that seems to hog a lot of the limelight. I think this is a bit of a mistake, as it\’s actually probably the least important component, at least to a user.

Why the Display Server DOES matter

Now I don’t know how to put it, the best description is that I’m shocked that Canonical is still not seeing the problems they created by having multiple display servers.

more on why the display server does matter

Does this effect users? It means that some desktop environments will not be available on all operating systems, depending on what display systems are supported. Currently, people can usually pick whatever desktop environment they wish to run on any of the more popular Linux distributions. This will no longer be the case as shells segregate along display system lines.

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Feedback Kickoff: Linux Mint Might Use The Same LTS Base For Linux Mint 17, 18, 19 and 20

• Linux Mint Might Use The Same LTS Base For Linux Mint 17, 18, 19 and 20

Linux Mint might use the same LTS base for Linux Mint 17 (to be released at the end of May 2014) as well as the next 3 releases.

That means that Linux Mint 17, 18, 19 and 20 might all use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a base instead of being based on newer Ubuntu releases.

If that happens, Linux Mint would have a more stable base and it would allow the Mint team to \”push innovation on Cinnamon, be more active in the development of MATE, better support Mint tools and engage in projects we\’ve postponed for years\”.

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Wayland and Mir are now under heavy development, but the community seems more divided than ever. We’ll explain why the developers want to replace X11 so badly, the big challenges facing Mir, and the long term division that desktop Linux is facing.

Plus our quick review of Fedora 19, the solar powered Linux laptop generating so much buzz…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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