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

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS brings big changes to the Linux desktop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Google Summer of Code 2016 Projects Announced

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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

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• pusto.org: The alpha is here

Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail.

It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features.

• Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick

The $85 Chromebit is a 75 gram (or 2.6 ounces) stick that you can plug into any HDMI port — whether that’s a regular computer screen or that large TV in your living room. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage (in the form of relatively cheap and slow eMMC storage) and 2GB of RAM.

• UUMATE Is a Respin of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 That Aims to Be Better

Highlights of UUMATE include the Google Chrome web browser, Kdenlive video editor, PeerGuardian privacy-oriented firewall application, Steam for Linux, Syncthing file sync utility, TeamViewer remote control software, Wine 1.7, Compiz for beautiful desktop effects, as well as numerous sound events enabled by default.

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Have we gone too far with containers?

Engineers are now coming up with crazy solutions to a typical problem. Vulnerable software that’s spreading around the web in containers.

CoreOS says over 80 percent of Docker images stored in its Quay service are still vulnerable to the infamous Heartbleed bug, for example.

Clair can scan containers for known vulnerabilities and then alert developers of potential issues. CoreOS is getting this data from the vulnerability databases of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian.

• Docker Doubles Down on Security With Nautilus, Hardware Encryption

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SteamOS Getting off to a rocky start…

SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows

Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.

Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Watch out for the old school shill: Dean Takahashi has authored very Microsoft focused books, and writes a lot about MS, such as – Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution

“We met with Valve about our reservations concerning the limitations of SteamOS with high-end PC builds, and they agreed they were not issues that could be overcome in time for us to launch a Steam Machine this year,” said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon. “But they were genuinely interested in working to address them in future SteamOS builds. So the option for us to produce a Steam Machine is still open, and our Tiki PCs have been in production for years as Windows systems and are always ready. But for now, we’ve put our plans to offer a Steam Machine on hold.”

Fedora/gstreamer dev comments on the importance of gaming on Linux and SteamOS

Time to get a Steam Machine – https://t.co/O7owod66BT

— Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) November 11, 2015

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Leap / Tumbleweed Users — Check in!

Just checked out the latest episode of Linux Unplugged and was stoked to see it had a segment on my distro of choice.

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New versions of openSUSE leap and Fedora have hit the web. The chairmen of openSUSE joins us to answer our hard questions & we follow up on Fedora 23.

Plus the big upset with Debian this week, ransomware that targets Linux systems & way more than we can fit into this description!

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• DDoS, botnet, and fiber cut fail to stop Twitchers crowd-installing Linux

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• HELP Server’s down, what do I do?

• Happy birthday Firefox!

• Thunderclap: Glucosio for #DiabetesMonth

Glucosio is trying to drum up support for it’s free and open source app for Android that helps people with diabetes manage their diabetes and support diabetes research.

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Fedora 23 Wrap Up

• Fedora Cinnamon Desktop

Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2.

• What’s New in Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop features Plasma 5.4.0, KDE Frameworks 5.15, and KDE Applications 15.08. Plasma 5.4 includes a new audio applet, Application Dashboard, updated breeze icon theme, KRunner autocompletion, and Networks applet with graphs. Notable changes in KDE Applications 15.08 are Frameworks 5 based Kontact suite app and file manager Dolphin. Additionally, Firefox is now the default web browser.

• Introducing the Fedora Community Blog – Fedora Magazine

Today, the Fedora Project is proud to announce the launch of a new publication platform for Fedora contributors: the Fedora Community Blog. The Fedora Community Blog intends to better connect the different projects, groups, and efforts going on in the community every day. Teams are encouraged to share their goals, achievements, and calls for assistance on this blog to help improve the overall interconnectedness of the community.

• Fedora 24 release dates and schedule –

Fedora 24 schedule with a current release date of May 17, 2016. Fedora 24 Alpha is slated for release on March 1st, 2016, and the Beta has a release date of April 12th, 2016.

These dates may change as development on Fedora 24 progresses, so always check the schedule for the most accurate version of the Fedora 24 schedule.

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New encryption ransomware targets Linux systems

Many of the systems that have been affected by the malware were infected when attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Magento CMS. A critical vulnerability patch for Magneto, which is used to power a number of e-commerce sites, was published on October 31. Doctor Web researchers currently place the number of victims in the “at least tens” range, but attacks on other vulnerable content management systems could increase the number of victims dramatically.

In order to run, the malware has to be executed with administrator-level privileges. Using 128-bit AES crypto, the malware encrypts the contents of all users’ home directories and any files associated with websites running on the systems. It then goes through the whole directory structure of mounted volumes, encrypting a variety of file types. In each directory it encrypts, it drops a text file called README_FOR_DECRYPT.txt. This demands payment and provides a link to a Tor “hidden service” site via a Tor gateway.

• First Linux ransomware program cracked, for now | ITworld

Bitdefender researchers discovered that when it generates the AES keys, the malicious program uses a weak source of random data — the time and date at the moment of encryption.

This time stamp is easy to determine by looking at when the AES key files were created on disk. Therefore, researchers are able to reverse the process and recover the AES keys without needing to decrypt them, making the RSA public and private keys pointless.

The tool created and released by Bitdefender is a script written in Python that determines the initialization vectors and AES encryption keys by analyzing the files encrypted by the ransomware program. It then decrypts the files and fixes their permissions on the system.

“If you can boot your compromised operating system, download the script and run it under the root user,” the Bitdefender researchers said in a blog post that also contains detailed instructions on how to use the tool.

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An abrupt End to Debian Live

Therefore, after having founded Debian Live back in 2006 and having by now almost 10 years continuously worked on it, without further ado:

Debian Live is dead, hijacked by the debian-cd and the debian-installer Teams

The live.debian.net server will be shut down end of month, the Git repositories are read-only as of now and mirrored to GitHub for archival

• lykwydchykyn comments on An abrupt End to Debian Live

No, the story is more like this:

• Debian live is created, widely used including by debian, but perhaps in some way not “officially” Debian (though this is unclear).
• Debian CD team has some outstanding bugs with debian-live, which some members (but apparently not the lead dev) are aware of (or at least, not aware that they are major problems for debian-cd).
• Someone creates a “successor” project called debian-live-ng that fixes these bugs, rather than fixing them in debian-live.
• Debian CD is going to use this new project.
• Lead developer of debian-live finds out about this scenario only when someone tries to push a package with the name live-build-ng (which conflicts with the live-* namespace used by debian-live), only to encounter a Debian CD team already dead-set on replacing and deprecating his project and overloading the package namespace with their new project without further discussion.

Or, in short, diplomacy, courtesy, and basic communication were neglected, and the inevitable happened.

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Noah hosts again while Chris is in the land of no service, also known as Utah! We talk about LibreOffice, Ubuntu’s new Setup wizard, OpenSUSE’s leap & more!

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Five years of LibreOffice

LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community project leaders. At the time it was a brave — although necessary — decision, because it was rather clear to everyone that OpenOffice.org was not going to survive for a long time under Oracle stewardship.

In fact, the group of 16 founders launched an independent free software project under the stewardship of The Document Foundation, to fulfil the promise made by Sun ten years before — at the time of the first announcement of OpenOffice.org — of an independent free software foundation capable of pushing forward the free office suite to the next level.

In five years, LibreOffice developers have not missed a single time based release, with major announcements in late January and late July, and minor announcements on a monthly basis.

LibreOffice 5.0, launched in early August, has been the most successful major release ever, triggering an unprecedented 8,000 donations in 30 days.

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A Slick New Set-Up Wizard Is Coming To Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch – OMG! Ubuntu!

The Ubuntu installer is set to undergo a dramatic makeover.

Ubuntu will modernise its out-of-the-box experience (OOBE) to be easier and quicker to complete, look more ‘seductive’ to new users, and better present the Ubuntu brand through its design.

The current Ubuntu installer, Ubiquity, was introduced back in 2010 and has undergone only minor design changes since then.

Crownstone – Open Source Power Outlets

The Crownstone is a Bluetooth Low-Energy switching block that can be embedded everywhere in a building. Not only can people use their smartphones to control every wire in the building, but also the building knows where the people are.

The Crownstone embedded software is open source and already placed online at Github!

For the maker community who wants to use Crownstones to create their own smart building, we provide a full-featured API you can access through Bluetooth.

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openSUSE Releases Beta of Leap 42.1

Today openSUSE released the Beta of Leap 42.1, providing an all new look that deviates from previous versions.

The newest regular release from openSUSE has changes to Grub and Plymouth, which provides an impressive introduction to users setting up and using Leap on their hardware or virtual machines.

Users wanting a long-term, stable Linux system can expect Leap to use the most advanced long-term supported branch of the Linux kernel, 4.1 series, which provides significant improvements to ARM hardware architecture.

Anyone who wants to be a tester should download the Beta and test it on their hardware or virtualbox. Testers who do download and try the Beta are encouraged to try their favorite application or simply use it until the scheduled release of Leap’s RC1 on Oct. 15. Testing and reporting bugs will help improve the RC1 release as well as the official release of openSUSE Leap, which is scheduled for release Nov. 4 during SUSECon in Amsterdam.

• There are about 7,200 packages in the Beta.

Leap is developed using core source code from SUSE Linux Enterprise

https://www.zdnet.com/article/looking-forward-to-opensuse-leap/

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