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Privacy Priorities| LINUX Unplugged 265

Angela Fisher — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:28:09 +0000

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Linux Action News 43

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

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

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The Risk of Happiness | User Error 17

chris — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:24:02 +0000

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Linux Action News 3

chris — Sun, 28 May 2017 17:16:28 +0000

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Nextcloud announces Global Scale architecture as part of Nextcloud 12 — Achieve several orders of magnitude greater scaling. It is hard to scale the standard architecture to instances over hundred thousand users.
Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0 — There have been no significant bug reports since Devuan Jessie RC2 was announced only three weeks ago and the list of release critical bugs is now empty. So finally Devuan Jessie Stable is ready for release!
Debian Stretch is just weeks away. — We plan to release on 2017-06-17.
SteamVR Home Now Works Under Linux — SteamVR Home is a beta feature from Valve for making a social, interactive launcher experience in virtual reality. Those unfamiliar with SteamVR Home can learn about it via this earlier announcement.
SteamOS Brewmaster_beta gets huge update — SteamOS 2.115 also implements AMD Vulkan support. Please note that this will only work if you’re using Steam Beta Client.
Solus adds experimental KDE Plasma support — For the sake of clarity, please note that the Plasma Desktop from KDE is not officially supported at this moment in time. It is however a project that Peter is working on, and slowly building up to be something useful. This in itself was enabled by the vast amount of KF5 (KDE Frameworks) software required in the repositories already for the “Big Items” (Kdenlive, etc).
Firefox is Trying… — It’s because of our newfound internal confidence with Firefox that Mozilla has started to be more aggressive externally again. Firefox’s campaign launching today, called “browse against the machine”, is a perfect example.
Chrome has won — From these graphs it’s pretty clear that Firefox is not going anywhere. That means that the esteemed Fox will be around for many many years, albeit with an ever diminishing market share. It also, unfortunately, means that a turnaround is all but impossible.
More Coreboot progress for Purism — We are now pretty confident that we should be able to have coreboot firmware ready in time for factory preloading of the new inventory we’ll be shipping from in June.

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The Many Faces of Linux | LINUX Unplugged 177

chris — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:53:03 +0000

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Forward Momentum | LAS 449

chris — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:25:40 +0000

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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.

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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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Mail Bag

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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13 Inches of Freedom | LAS 419

chris — Sun, 29 May 2016 20:05:22 +0000

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Purism has sent us the Librem 13 for review, does a laptop designed to protect your digital life make a good Linux workstation? With physical kill switches, and a well built aluminum housing, we answer if this could be your next ultimate Linux laptop.

Plus why were not so excited about Google’s recent win against Oracle, new features coming to Linux, what the heck is going on at OwnCloud & more!

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Librem 13 Review

7 Hours Battery Life
2 USB ports
Ethernet Jack
Audio Headset jack

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FixIT Leeds RUNS LINUX!

Desktop App Pick

Etcher

Sent in by Rikai….94 times

Here at resin.io we have thousands of users working through our getting started process and until recently we were embarassed about the steps that involved burning an SD card. There was a separate track for each Mac/Windows/Ubuntu and several manual and error prone steps along the way.

Validated Burning
Hard Drive Friendly
Open Source
Beautiful Interface

Spotlight

Solaar

Solaar is a Linux device manager for Logitech’s Receiver
peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for most
devices read battery status.

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An Apparent Exodus Continues At OwnCloud

Since the recent ownCloud 9.0 release, a number of high-profile individuals have been leaving the company.

Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs

There was only one question on the special verdict form, asking if Google’s use of the Java APIs was a “fair use” under copyright law. The jury unanimously answered “yes,” in Google’s favor.

Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL |

Linux 4.7 Brings A Plethora Of New Features: AMD Polaris, ARM ASpeed, SGI UV4, Schedutil

After a very exciting past two weeks, the merge window for Linux 4.7 is expected to close today. This was an action-packed merge window with a ton of new code being introduced. While I’ve already written dozens of posts on Phoronix about the changes that got me excited, here’s my usual kernel feature overview. Here’s a look at what’s coming for Linux 4.7.

Up comming OSS Community Events

The world’s premier open source event listing

Mail Bag

Getting to know Flatpak – a walktrough
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Windows Gets Bash-ed | LAS 411

chris — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:25:21 +0000

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Microsoft & Ubuntu working together to bring you Bash & the Ubuntu userland on Windows 10. Is this the ultimate Win for Linux? Or is this Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at its finest? We share our thoughts on this historic announcement.

Plus Red Hat wants to save you some money, TP-Link bans OSS firmwares, Edubuntu calls it quits, our new favorite note taking app for Linux & more!

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Ubuntu Userland on Windows 10

Ubuntu on Windows — The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Here’s let’s break it down slowly…

Windows 10 users

Can open the Windows Start menu

And type “bash” [enter]

Which opens a cmd.exe console

Running Ubuntu’s /bin/bash

With full access to all of Ubuntu user space

Yes, that means apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch…

And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives!“So maybe something like a Linux emulator?”

Now you’re getting warmer! A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of “wine” — Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their “Windows Subsystem for Linux”. (No, it’s not open source at this time.)

So as part of the engineering work, I needed to wrap the stock Ubuntu root filesystem into a Windows application package (.appx) file for suitable upload to the Windows Store. That required me to use Microsoft Visual Studio to clone a sample application, edit a few dozen XML files, create a bunch of icon .png’s of various sizes, and so on.

Mono Relicensed MIT

At Microsoft Build today, we announced that we are re-releasing Mono under the MIT license and have contributed it to the .NET Foundation. These are major news for Mono developers and contributors, and I am incredibly excited about the opportunities that this will create for the Mono project, and for other projects that will be able to benefit from this.

Red Hat Hyping .NET Support

Get a behind the scenes sneak peek of .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

There is a lot of Microsoft on Linux and LAS sub-reddit these days

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Runs Linux

ICarus – CAR PC RUNS LINUX

iCarus is provided as a fully assembled device (from December 2015). Just connect it to your car’s radio connector directly (in the case your car uses a standard ISO-10487 connector)

BONUS RUNS LINUX:

Hotel Sign Runs linux

Desktop App Pick

Simplenote

Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web.

Simplenote on Github

A Simplenote React client packaged in Electron. Learn more about Simplenote at Simplenote.com.

Weekly Spotlight

ZenyPass

Passwords are the keys to our online life, but they are painful to manage securely. We’ve all been told each account should be secured with a strong unique password, but we often fallback for the easy solution: a handful of simple memorizable passwords.

We want to make it even easier to do it right. We want to bring an end to password pain with a simple solution affordable to all: ZenyPass. Help us bridge the last mile by supporting our Kickstarter campaign. Offers start as low as 15€ per unlimited license: no recurring fees, no limitations, on all your devices.

Sent in By Arnaud V.

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No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription now available

Today, Red Hat announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer subscription, available as part of the Red Hat Developer Program. Offered as a self-supported, development-only subscription, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite provides you with a more stable development platform for building enterprise applications — across cloud, physical, virtual, and container-centric infrastructures. Red Hat SVP Craig Muzilla added some good points in his blog, too.

The future is through software developers: Red Hat is the key | Red Hat

So, why did we do this? As DevOps processes and agile software methods become the primary means for creating software, it is critical that software developers have access to the same environments and tools during their development phases as they will use when they push out their software into production. Especially as they build applications for cloud environments. And we expect Linux to be key to future success.

Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite

To download Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite, which includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server, a collection of development tools, and much more, you must have an account and need to accept the terms and conditions of the Red Hat Developer Program which provides $0 subscriptions for development use only. Read more about the Red Hat Developers Program.

Router Company Lazily Blocks Open Source Router Firmware, Still Pretends To Value ‘Creativity’

“The FCC requires all manufacturers to prevent user from having any direct ability to change RF parameters (frequency limits, output power, country codes, etc.) In order to keep our products compliant with these implemented regulations, TP-LINK is distributing devices that feature country-specific firmware. Devices sold in the United States will have firmware and wireless settings that ensure compliance with local laws and regulations related to transmission power.”

Edubuntu calling it quits

Edubuntu 16.04 and beyond

I’m announcing today that Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a
16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support
of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019.

Deployments | Edubuntu

DebianEdu

DebianEdu/Skolelinux is an operating system intended for educational use and a Debian Pure Blend . As skole [skuːlə] is the Norwegian word for school, Skolelinux’s literal translation is “school linux”. It has been created as an overall free software computer solution designed to fit on school’s resources and needs and is currently being internationally developed by a large international and growing community.
It is an advanced network solution that provides a terminal server environment suitable to most educational scenarios and it comes with most of its services pre-configured out-of-the-box. It allows both a technical and non-technical installation process depending on the user needs and expertise and highly simplifies middle to large system deployments and configurations.

ubermix Home

The ubermix is an all-free, specially built, Linux-based operating system designed from the ground up with the needs of education in mind. Built by educators with an eye towards student and teacher empowerment, ubermix takes all the complexity out of student devices by making them as reliable and easy-to-use as a cell phone, without sacrificing the power and capabilities of a full operating system. With a turn-key, 5 minute installation, 20 second quick recovery mechanism, and more than 60 free applications pre-installed, ubermix turns whatever hardware you have into a powerful device for learning. Learn more…

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Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

Noah vs Emma Card
Can not already be running Linux.
Must agree to install Linux, or have Linux installed
Will take place Sat during Linux Fest NW (Location TBD)
Come find Noah let him switch you to Linux and get a free SSD installed.

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The High Price of Purism | LAS 405

chris — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:30:25 +0000

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Is the Librem 15 the ultimate Linux laptop? We review Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, crowd funded and pitched as “the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” Does it live up to the promise? Have we found the true Linux powered MacBook killer?

Plus Linux Mint gets attacked, Ubuntu Touch on hardware you really want, why real ZFS support on Linux is near….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Librem 15 Review

Chris announces his backing of the Librem 15

Chris Introduces the Librem 15 for the first time on Nov 23, 2014

Todd from Purism Interviewed: Perfect Linux Laptop | LUP 69

The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

Original Specs

Librem 15: A Laptop That Respects Your Rights | Crowd Supply
15.6″ diagonal LED backlit 1920×1080 FHD (Full High Definition) pixel display
4 Core (8 Threads) 2.3GHz Intel i7-4712MQ
Intel 4600 HD Graphics, and
nVidia GT840M Graphics
375mm x 244mm x 22mm, 2.0Kg
14″ x 9.6″ x 0.86″, 4.4lbs
4GB memory (up to 8GB)
500GB HD (up to 1TB HD or 250GB SSD)
CD/DVD ROM Drive
48 Wh lithium polymer battery
65W power adapter
Up to 8 hours usage
Three USB ports
One HDMI port
One Pop-Down RJ45 Network port
802.11n WiFi
720p camera
Full-size backlit keyboard
SDXC card slot
Purism 64bit GNU/Linux Operating System (Trisquel based)

Upgrades I added

Librem Laptop – Earliest Bird

Memory: 8GB +$100
Storage: 500GB SSD +$275
Drive Bay: CD/DVD ROM
Screen: Full HD (1920×1080)
Keyboard: English (US)
AC Adapter Power Plug: US

Crowdfunding pledge, expected to ship April 2015

Qty 1 $1,824.00 ea.

Backed on Nov 22, 2014 Shipped on Feb 10, 2016 Shipped 286 days late! Originally expected to ship on April 2015

What I Got (different from what I ordered)

CPU Core i7-5557U CPU (2 Core, not 4 Core, but Broadwell instead of Haswell. Should be Skylake by now)
GPU Intel Iris 6100 (Not an Nvidia GPU)
No “Pop-Down RJ45 Network port”

The Fan Noise

Enemy #1 the Librem 15 is really loud. Too loud to use when on mic, and too loud to focus when working. It had to be solved.

Things attempted:

Power management under Pure OS
Re-Load the system to Ubuntu 16.04 and check for drivers/firmware
On suggestion from the IRC, installed Windows 10.
Installed Arch, tried messing with an Intel_pstate controller.
Unplugged Fan!

No Ethernet

Media production sucks over Wifi. For me, a high-end laptop needs to have Ethernet, my workflow basically requires it. So I had compensated by buying a USB-C adapter.

Amazon.com: Anker USB-C to 3-Port USB 3.0 Hub with Ethernet Adapter

Pros

It is well built, compares with any other well built PC laptop very well.
When plugged in, speed feels very responsive.
Easy to hold, feels good in the hand.
LG screen is high-end, has some side address challenges.
USB-C is kinda cool, want to play with that more.
Very easy to nuke and pave. Did not have trouble loading any distro, or even Windows.
It is undeniably unique, and rare. That’s sorta special, and feels a bit like a kit car at the same time.
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Endless

Desktop App Pick

.clayo – osmo

Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks
manager, address book and notes modules. It was designed to be a small, easy
to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information.
In its current state the organizer is quite convenient to use – for
example, the user can perform nearly all operations using the keyboard.
Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet the user’s
preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which uses
a plain XML database to store all personal data.

Weekly Spotlight

Log.io – Real-time log monitoring in your browser

Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration.

Monitor Server Logs in Real-Time with “Log.io” Tool on RHEL/CentOS 7/6 Howto

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MINT Hacked: Beware of hacked ISOs. Reset Forum Passwords

We were exposed to an intrusion today. It was brief and it shouldn’t impact many people, but if it impacts you, it’s very important you read the information below.

What happened?

Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it.

It seems compromised @linuxmint forum data is already for sale on darknet markets. The seller is quite interesting. pic.twitter.com/7yZl2SR9KT

— Yonathan Klijnsma (@ydklijnsma) February 21, 2016

Check your ISO

Once in the live session, if there is a file in /var/lib/man.cy, then this is an infected ISO

Bad version of linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso is :

7d590864618866c225ede058f1ba61f0 / CD6DEF080EC08BC0D6159A7168F2F85800EB93C1

Clean version of linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso is

E71A2AAD8B58605E906DBEA444DC4983 / EA7C906066D2D8E63FC6C0175482196F13AEF8DE

Another story of Unix Trojan: Tsunami (IRC/Bot)

This case is actually a same old flaw’s story: looks like the system was exploited via web admin panel abuse by HTTP access (sorry, can not tell you which web panel right now) using the tools that can send rapid packet fetch/wget requests (later on we know that the malware discussed here also have that function), the root privilege was gained via crontab UID (root, indeed), and practically overall server’s security was compromised from that hole. And the bad guys was compiling nasty downloader/IRC Bot backdoor (known previously named as TSUNAMI) with deleting all source traces+logs related, thus run & hide its service using the fake bash process (ever see a BSD system with bash shell process before? *smile*).

man.cy from malicious Linux Mint iso

man.cy from malicious Linux Mint iso

All forums users should change their passwords.

It was confirmed that the forums database was compromised during the attack led against us yesterday and that the attackers acquired a copy of it. If you have an account on forums.linuxmint.com, please change your password on all sensitive websites as soon as possible.

The database contains the following sensitive information:

Your forums username
An encrypted copy of your forums password
Your email address
Any personal information you might have put in your signature/profile/etc…
Any personal information you might written on the forums (including private topics and private messages)

ZFS filesystem will be built into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default

A new long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is coming out in April, and Canonical just announced a major addition that will please anyone interested in file storage. Ubuntu 16.04 will include the ZFS filesystem module by default, and the OpenZFS-based implementation will get official support from Canonical.

What Does Support REALLY mean?

You’ll find zfs.ko automatically built and installed on your Ubuntu systems. No more DKMS-built modules!

Canonical Presents Sony Xperia Z1 and OnePlus One as Ubuntu Phones

“Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1, you will soon be able to download an image to turn it into an Ubuntu phone and PC! Alternatively, if you’re the owner of a OnePlus One you will be able to flash and use Ubuntu on your phone,” Thibaut Rouffineau explained.

Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones | Ubuntu Insights

We owe a big thank to the Ubuntu community for porting Ubuntu to these devices and especially Marius Gripsgard for his work on the OnePlus One! More widely, this is a meeting of the minds with phone vendors who have been pushing open source in their devices and their developer community for a while. The Sony open source efforts in particular have been essential to this work. Similarly OnePlus’ commitment to open source has helped tremendously towards this port becoming available.

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally

Getting Started | Mimic by Mycroft and VocaliD

Mimic is a fast, lightweight Text-to-speech engine developed by Mycroft A.I. and VocaliD, based on Carnegie Mellon University’s FLITE software. Mimic takes in text and reads it out loud to create a high quality voice. Mimic’s low-latency, small resource footprint, and good quality voices set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

mimic on GitHub

Mimic is a lightweight run-time speech synthesis engine, based on
Flite (Festival-Lite). The Flite project website can be found
here: https://www.festvox.org/flite/ – further information can be found
in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file in the Mimic repo.

Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure

Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat.

Red Hat Cloud Access now available on Azure! | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Being recognized as a Red Hat CCSP means Microsoft Azure is a trusted destination for customers to move their Red Hat subscriptions, as part of the Red Hat Cloud Access program. Red Hat products enabled for Cloud Access include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and above and 7.1 and above, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat and Red Hat Gluster Storage.

Microsoft Azure Now Offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Not for China and US Gov

In the announcement made on February 17, 2016, Microsoft brags with the fact that it loves Linux and that more than 60 percent of their Azure cloud images are based on Linux.

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Librem 15 is FAN-tastic! | LINUX Unplugged 132

chris — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:56:42 +0000

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We discuss the official release of Vulkan, look at who has shipping code & why this is much bigger than you might realize.

Plus Chris share’s his first hands on impressions of Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, some big Ubuntu Mobile noise, the Linux security bug you need to patch for right away & more!

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Ubuntu Phone To Gain Biometric Security Features

Ubuntu Phones running secure biometric identity tools will be demoed at next week’s Mobile World Congress.

Canonical has partnered with ConsenSYS and BlockApps to provide “web wallet and biometric identity tools on Ubuntu devices” using Ethereum, the decentralized public blockchain protocol.

Maru is open source! – Maru Blog

_I’ve gotta say, the open source community never ceases to amaze me. I’ve had emails from people asking if they can help test Maru on other devices ___on a Sunday___. How many normal people do you know that willingly want to give up their Sundays to help test software?

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Google Online Security Blog: CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

FFmpeg 3.0 Released, Supports VP9 VA-API Acceleration

There are many changes to FFmpeg 3.0 and among them are:

Extensive native AAC encoder improvements
VA-API VP9 hardware acceleration.
Zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding.
Cineform HD decoder

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Vulkan 1.0 Released: What You Need To Know About This Cross-Platform, High-Performance Graphics API

AMD Simplified: Vulkan API – YouTube
Vulkan – Industry Forged
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs
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https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-CTS

Open-source Vulkan drivers for Intel hardware

The Intel Open Source Technology 3D Graphics Team is excited to announce the availability of our Vulkan driver for fifth and sixth generation Intel(r) Core(tm) processors (Broadwell and Skylake). The driver passes the Vulkan 1.0 Conformance Test Suite on these platforms and have experimental support for older platforms.

AMD state they will support Vulkan on Linux in an upcoming amdgpu driver, not ready yet

AMD has been participating in Vulkan’s development since its inception and providing builds of our Vulkan-enabled driver to game developers for many months. As we transition into the public phase, our initial driver release enables Vulkan support for select Radeon(tm) GPUs on Windows(r) 7, Windows(r) 8.1, and Windows(r) 10. An upcoming release of the amdgpu Linux driver will also feature Vulkan support.

Gaming: Radeon GPUs are ready for the Vulkan API

Today is an exciting day for PC gaming enthusiasts: the Khronos Group has announced immediate public release of the open standard Vulkan(tm) 1.0 graphics API! To mark the occasion, we’ve posted a Radeon Software beta for Vulkan. This graphics driver is primarily intended to enable a wider audience of game developers to work with Vulkan on Radeon(tm) graphics.

Vulkan Driver Support | NVIDIA Developer

Windows driver version 356.39 and Linux driver version 355.00.26 provide beta support for Vulkan.

Nvidia release Linux beta driver with Vulkan

Vulkan demo running on ARM Mali GPU

Demo to show ARM’s implementation of Vulkan, the new graphics API from Khronos, running on a Mali GPU. You can read how we did it here

ARM Mali Graphics: Porting a Graphics Engine to…

Here Are Your Vulkan Download Links

Qt Company Joins Khronos, Working On Vulkan Support In Qt

The Qt Company confirmed in this blog post that they are working on implementing already Qt support for Vulkan.

Talos and Vulkan Q & A

Ok, first, in GPU-bound scenarios (ultra settings, resolution higher than full HD), you’ll see lower performance, 20 to 30% lower. This is work in progress, and we (both Croteam and IHVs) are analyzing and optimizing the performance. We’ll get to the bottom of this!

Vulkan Webinar – Khronos Group Events, Seminars and Presentations

Date: Feb 18, 2016, 9:00am (PT)
Location: Online Webinar

What’s Vulkan all about? Learn more about this upcoming new graphics and compute API directly from Khronos, the people who have been creating it. In this 1-hour session, we will talk about the API, and also go into details about the Vulkan SDK from LunarG, and much more. We’ll of course end with a Q&A session, and a recording of the session will be available here.

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Librem 15 – IS HERE!

Librem Laptop – Earliest Bird

Librem 15: A Laptop That Respects Your Rights

Memory: 8GB +$100
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Keyboard: English (US)
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How Not to Install Discourse | LAS 404

chris — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:16:01 +0000

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This week we talk about how you can have a working web forum in 10 minutes or less & all open source! Last week we talked about team collaboration software, but what about when you need a wider approach?

In the news we talk about an open source router; Russia dumping Windows, more updates to video editing on Linux, a super special live unboxing & more!

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Pros of Hosting Your Own Forum

Advantages:

Not subject to rules of hosting site eg: reddit
Completely Open Source
Customized and branded for your community
Complete control over your community

Discourse – Civilized Discussion

100% Open Source
Incorporate Discourse into your site with complete confidence, the code belongs to everyone.
Mobile and Tablet
Designed for touch devices from day one. Automatic mobile and touch layouts that scale to fit your device.
Optimized for Reading
To keep reading, just keep scrolling. When you reach the bottom, suggested topics keep you reading.
Single Sign On
Seamlessly integrate Discourse with your existing site’s login system with easy, robust single sign on.
CDN Support
Easily plug in any CDN provider to speed up global access to your site.

Step by Step Guide

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The default is 1GB, but 2GB is recommended
Choose Distro of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Pick your SSH Keys
Log INto your Droplet
If you’re running with 1GB or less setup a swap file

Execute the Following Commands to Setup Discourse

wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

mkdir /var/discourse

git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse

cd /var/discourse

cp samples/standalone.yml containers/app.yml

nano containers/app.yml

Set the developer email to YOUR email
Set the hostname to the hostname of the machine
Set the SMTP address
Set the SMTP Port
Set the SMTP User
Set the SMTP Password

./launcher bootstrap app

./launcher start app

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The East Carolina Geology department takes The East Carolinian inside its building and reveals an interesting new tool that will be used to teach students more about the topography landscapes of land and water.

After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples

The room Giaime had walked me into contained the hardware guts of the observatory’s active damping system. The lab’s seismic isolation sensors detect environmental vibrations ar__ound the observatory at all different frequencies, and then the compu__ter systems in this room drive servos that act to dampen those vibrations.

Desktop App Pick

CopyQ

Sent in by Rikai

CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application.

Items can be:

edited with internal editor or with preferred text editor,
moved to other tabs
drag’n’dropped to applications,
marked with tag or a note,
passed to or changed by custom commands,
simply removed.

Weekly Spotlight

Stremio

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Stremio is an app that helps you organize and instantly watch your favorite videos, movies, TV series and TV channels.

Click and play your favourite movies, TV Shows, videos and TV channels.
Stremio automatically picks synced subtitles for your language.
Cast to AppleTV, Chromecast, Smart TV (DLNA/UPnP) and mobile devices.

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Russia to Ban Windows from Government PCs

Another radical change that German Klimenko wants to achieve is replacing Windows on all government PCs with a Linux-based operating system developed by Russia. Klimenko also stated that there are already 22,000 municipal authorities ready to replace Windows with their own operating system.

Open Source WiFi Router with Open Source Code

Our goal is to let Geek Force Board with all popular open source systems and every one can use free open source codes, including OPENWRT, Android, Ubuntu Snappy to make their own Roboto Multimedia WiFi Router Gateway Board.

3 Mini PCIe Slots
WiFi
BLE
LTE
Quad Cortex A7 1.3Ghz

Geek Force Board is designed for IoT Home Multimedia and Home Automation. With powerful Quad-core ARM Cotex-A7 1.3MHz made by Mediatek MT7623, could reach below applications (including TOR, VPN functions).

We are engaged in WiFi field for long time and would like to go with IoT trend. More and more IoT devices need a powerful gateway to link together and with media content bandwidth need.

With those interfaces, you can contribute your own roboto multimedia router.

Hardware is difficult, and we also would like to provide good Open Source firmwares (OPENWRT, Android, Ubuntu Snappy core) tuned for more people to implement their own systems.

WiTi Board | mqmaker

OpenShot 2.0 Beta Now Available

OpenShot 2.0 has a new beta build available for testing.

The update is the third full beta release of the revamped video editor but only the first to made available for public testing.

Among the features, fixes and improvements that are new in OpenShot 2.0.6: –

Smoother animations (zooming, panning, rotation)
Audio improvements
Autosave engine automatically saves your project at set intervals
Automatic project back-up and recovery
Support for importing/exporting Openshot projects across OSes
New Audio preview settings
Prompt when the application needs to “restart” for an option to take effect
Anonymous metric and error reporting enabled by default (can be disabled)
3 Years In The Making: OpenShot 2.0 Finally Hits Beta

It’s the first major release of the non-linear video editing tool in three years, and the first to arrive since the project successfully met its funding goal in the OpenShot Kickstarter campaign held in 2013.

We’ve seen the launch of professional-grade and pseudo-open source Lightworks video editor, huge improvements made to Qt-based Kdenlive, and even user-friendly Pitivi hasn’t been shy in pushing forward.

No one app suits everyone, and for this reason if no other it is great to see OpenShot back.

To install OpenShot 2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 or later run the following two commands in a new Terminal window

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/libopenshot-daily

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

Android Phone Makers will Switch to Linux

Factory and deliver devices powered by Ubuntu.

The Linux shop has received commitments from Android smartphone and tablet makers to ship devices using its Linux with devices “later this year.”

Chief executive Jane Silber told The Register: “We are talking to them [Android OEM partners] regularly and many will be shipping Ubuntu phones. There’s a lot of interest from these folks in supporting another platform.”

The company announced the Ubuntu variant of BQ’s M10 Aquarius tablet last week. BQ, an Ubuntu partner of two years, also ships M10 on Android. BQ was already selling two handsets running Ubuntu.

Canonical is also partnering with Android partner Meizu, which is shipping the MX4.

Mozilla said last week it’s stopping production of Firefox OS for smartphones, having had enough of trying to play catch up despite having had the muscle of Telefonica to help push it. Firefox OS was a Linux-based operating system that ran HTML5. Firefox OS will now go on “things” – starting with UHD TVs from Panasonic.

She would not say which of Google’s partners, currently making and selling Android phones and tablets, that Canonical has talked to, or which of those will embrace Ubuntu. However, Samsung – the biggest single beneficiary of Android on smartphones since the Galaxy – has made repeated noises about need for an alternative.

To date, Samsung has backed Tizen, which started as LiMo and received Intel’s backing in 2011 when the project was given the Tizen rebrand.

Silber is also dismissive of the suggestion Canonical and Ubuntu haven’t exactly triumphed in their various efforts to flip Mac or Windows loyalists. The goal in 2011 was for 200 million Ubuntu users by the end of that year – but today that figure, according to Canonical, is just 30 million desktops.

“Five years ago people said, why do you need another Linux distro?”

SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans

Our first order of business was to terminate the “DevShare” program. As of last week, the DevShare program was completely eliminated. The DevShare program delivered installer bundles as part of the download for participating projects. We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that.

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OSCON 2015 | LAS 375

chris — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:42:16 +0000

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It was a huge OSCON this year, and we have a bunch of great interviews from the floor. We’ll feature some amazing Linux powered gadgets, exciting hardware, and our massive interview with Todd Weaver, the man behind Purism Librem 13 and the Librem 15 Linux laptops.

Plus our thoughts on the Plasma Phone, the Linux distro adding secret watermarks to files & more!

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Desktop App Pick

Unified Remote – Remote Control App for your Computer

Turn your smartphone into a universal remote control.

Weekly Spotlight

Jitsi Meet

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Plasma Mobile, a Free Mobile Platform

Plasma Mobile offers a Free (as in freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling, customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile is Free software, and is now developed via an open process. Plasma Mobile is currently under development with a prototype available providing basic functions to run on a smartphone.

Plasma Phone and KWin | Martin’s Blog

Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files

ERNW security analyst Florian Grunow says that North Korea’s Red Star Linux operating system is tracking users by tagging content with unique hidden tags. He particularizes that files including Word documents and JPEG images connected to but not necessarily executed in Red Star will have a tag introduced into its code that includes a number based on hardware serial numbers. Red Star’s development team seems to have created some quite interesting custom additions to Linux kernel and userspace, based on which Grunow has written a technical analysis.

RedStar OS Watermarking – Insinuator

Knights of the Old Republic Sequel Comes to Mac and Linux

The story of KOTOR 2 is set five years after the first game. The Sith Lords have all but eradicated the Jedi Knights in the galaxy, save one: you. As you take on the role of the last remaining Jedi Knight, struggling to connect with the Force, you’ll decide whether to follow the light side or embrace the dark and determine the fate of the galaxy in the process.

Terraria For Linux

we have decided that we will conduct our first ever Open Beta around the Mac and Linux versions of Terraria!

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Still Minty Fresh | LINUX Unplugged 100

chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:23:11 +0000

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We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.

Then we’ll discuss an exciting new form factor for x86 based Ubuntu PCs & the exciting use cases for them.

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SIPing on some Linux | LAS 371

chris — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:34:42 +0000

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Find out about the best software and hardware to make and take amazingly good sounding calls. From the best open source solutions, to turnkey solutions today’s episode has something from the beginner to the expert.

Plus Google removes “always listening” code from Chromium, The Linux Foundation invests some serious cash, why Red Hat’s CEO thinks Linux has “won” the datacenter & more!

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The PARTNER® Advanced Communications System processor module supports five incoming lines and nine extensions with a maximum configuration of 21 lines and 44 extensions, or 31 lines and eight extensions. The processor module can operate on its own or can be used with a 2- or 5-slot carrier and additional expansion modules. Expansion modules can be used to add lines and extensions to the system, or additional capabilities such as voice messaging and fractional T1 support.

Asterisk IP based PBX

Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centers, carriers and governments worldwide.

Cisco SPA303

The Cisco SPA 303 can be used with such productivity-enhancing features as VoiceView Express and Cisco XML applications when used with the Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series in SPCP mode. Cisco VoiceView Express allows users to interact with their Cisco Unity Express voicemail box using the phone’s LCD and soft keys. This makes it much easier to manage personal mailbox options and notifications as well as send, listen to, record, and manage voicemail messages. Managing voice calls and communications more quickly and effectively makes employees more productive and frees up time to strengthen customer relationships.

For doing SIP on a real budget take a look at the Nortel 6812. They are available on Ebay for as low as $15.00. You can even buy them in sets if you need to do an entire office building.

CSip

CSip is a basic SIP client for Android, but with enough features to make is usable for business.

GetOnSip

Integrate SIP-based voice and video into your applications for powerful HD communications on any device with our developer services. Best of all, it’s all built on a robust, industry-leading SIP platform that handles all the scaling for you

RingCentral

RingCentral delivers the high quality, reliability, and value expected by enterprise
businesses with RingCentral Office—an all-inclusive cloud phone system featuring
HD video meetings, unified voice, fax, text, and audio conferencing. Plans & Pricing

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Desktop App Pick

Ring

Ring (formerly SFLphone) is an open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone for Linux. Ring is free software released under the GNU General Public License. Packages are available for all major distributions including Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and the latest Ubuntu releases.

Ring is one of the few softphones under Linux to support PulseAudio out of the box. The Ubuntu documentation recommends it for enterprise use because of features like conferencing and attended call transfer. It has been named by CIO magazine among the 5 open source VoIP softphones to watch.

Weekly Spotlight

Librem 13″ Laptop Announced

Introducing the Librem 13 by Purism, a 13.3” laptop computer, built chip-by-chip to respect and protect your privacy, security, and freedom. Right now you are vulnerable to adversaries stealing your personal data for their gain. Thieves stealing your identity, credit cards, and banking logins, scammers taking over your email, criminals watching you through your web cam, marketers profiling your personal data from websites, and, ISPs wholesale gathering of all your insecure communication. You can stop them all.

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Google removes “always listening” code from Chromium

The code in question will no longer be included, starting with Chromium build r335874. Prior builds automatically downloaded an extension that could tap a microphone for the purpose of hearing voice commands.

On the surface that doesn’t sound nefarious when you consider that Google’s Chrome browser — which includes proprietary Google code — has had a similar function for months.

Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon And Others Come Together To Develop Common Container Standard

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat and VMware — that is, virtually everybody who has a stake in building a thriving container ecosystem.

The Open Container Project (OCP), which will be housed under the Linux Foundation.

Linux Foundation Invests $452,000 in Open-Source Security Projects

Red Hat: ‘Linux Has Won The Data Center’

“Linux has won in the data center — [it is] one of two in the data center. Think about that,” Cormier said to an applauding crowd.

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The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) today announced that it is investing $452,000 in new grants for three open-source projects, as part of CII’s continuing mission to improve open-source code security.

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Perfect Linux Laptop | LINUX Unplugged 69

chris — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:46:39 +0000

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The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

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Librem 15: A Free/Libre Software Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms | Crowd Supply

The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. Every other consumer-grade laptop you can purchase comes with an operating system that includes suspect, proprietary software, and there’s no way for you to know what that software does.

The reality is that unless every aspect of your kernel, operating system, and software applications are free/libre and open source, there is no way to know that your computer is truly working in your best interest. Purism is the first to solve this problem.

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:1 Laptop Program | PM Technology Blog

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

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

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

Crowdfunding project promises a “laptop that respects essential freedoms”

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

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

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