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The Briggo Coffee Robot, Runs Linux

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The stories center on an Austin, Texas-based startup called Briggo, which has created a fully automated, one-stop coffee kiosk that churns out what it believes is a superior cup of joe. You can order and pay by smartphone, customize the brewing process to your precise specifications, and schedule it to be ready for pickup the minute you arrive. And it really doesn’t care if you say “venti” instead of “large.”

Desktop App Pick

• GitHub – JannikHv/gydl: gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

Gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

— NEWS —

Ubuntu’s Drops Unity for Gnome

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

We will continue to produce the most usable open source desktop in the world, to maintain the existing LTS releases, to work with our commercial partners to distribute that desktop, to support our corporate customers who rely on it, and to delight the millions of IoT and cloud developers who innovate on top of it.

Our efforts were seen fragmentation not innovation. And industry has not rallied to the possibility, instead taking a ‘better the devil you know’ approach to those form factors, or investing in home-grown platforms.

We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• Welcoming Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland | Christian Schaller

am personally happy to see this convergence of efforts happening because I have for a long time felt that the general level of investment in the Linux desktop has not been great enough to justify the plethora of Linux desktops out there, so by now having reached a position where Canonical, Endless, Red Hat and Suse again share one desktop technology stack

Canonical Elimniating Jobs

Reportedly 30 to 60% of staff could be let go depending upon what comes of these outside investments. But the headcounts are going up in areas of security, cloud, and other money-making enterprise efforts.

• Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors • The Register

In the best-case scenario, The Reg understands, departments would suffer a 30 per cent headcount reduction but in the worst it was 60 per cent. It’s not clear how many staff have gone, but Canonical is believed to have a workforce of 700.

• unity8org – A fork of unity 8

• From the Canyon Edge: ThankHN: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

• Drop MIR/Unity for Wayland/Gnome (351 weight)

• Release/GA Unity 8 (15 weight)
• Easily, the most heavily requested, major change in this thread was for Ubuntu to drop MIR/Unity in favor of Wayland/Gnome. And that’s exactly what Mark Shuttleworth announced in an Ubuntu Insights post here today. There were a healthy handful of Unity 8 fans, calling for its GA, and more than a few HackerNews comments lamenting the end of Unity in this thread.

Welcome to Gnome and Wayland

Unity will Continue as a Fork

Lightworks 14 Released

Like a sequel to the Expendables, Lightworks 14.0 is packed to the rafters with cameos from features you always knew were there, but had sort of forgotten all about.

Part of the ‘old dog, new tricks‘ vibe is thanks to the top-to-toe redesign the non-linear editor is sporting. Lightworks’ new look (called “Fixed”, funnily enough) addresses the software’s most oft cited criticism: that it’s hard to use. Thew new layout aims to offer a “more organised” workspace, and help you discover, learn, and use the editor’s various features.

Light works supports Ubuntu 16.10 or later — sorry LTS users. You won’t be able to export to MP4 or MOV; you can’t import WMV; and there’s no FX plugin-support.

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Linux Powered Christmas

• Party with Linux | LAS 368

Who doesn’t like a good party? Some folks will tell you that Linux is boring, or for geeks. This week we’ll show you how you can have a very loud and bright time with Linux.

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Peeqo – The GIF Bot

Peeqo – the GIF Bot

Peeqo is a personal desktop robotic assistant who expresses himself through GIFs. Think of him as the love child of Amazon Echo and a Disney character. He has a conversational UI, so he responds to voice commands but answers only through GIFs.

Desktop App Pick

Tixati

This is a special build of Tixati meant to run on USB flash-drives or other portable media. It is self-contained and keeps all configuration files within it’s executable folder, and stores all paths in a format relative to the executable binary file. Executable binaries for both Linux and Windows are included, and the configuration files are platform-neutral.

Spotlight

lowRISC · lowRISC

lowRISC is creating a fully open-sourced, Linux-capable, RISC-V-based SoC, that can be used either directly or as the basis for a custom design. We aim to complete our SoC design this year.

• Pytify: Use this cli application as a Spotify remote. Including search for and start songs.

Search and start songs from the CLI.
Linux and OS X support.

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— NEWS —

5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered

Another Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2016-8655) that dates back to 2011 disclosed today could allow an unprivileged local user to gain root privileges by exploiting a race condition in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel.

Why Is Microsoft Showing So Much Interest In Linux?

So if you’re Satya Nadella and in charge of Azure a__nd Windows, what is the single best strategy for growth when AWS is a $10B business, >10x the size of Azure _[2] and growing 64% per year [3], while Windows licenses are growing in single digits? AWS, the cloud that is a platform for apps in its own right, regardless of which OS you run?_

KDE neon User LTS Edition Out Now

KDE Plasma 5.8 is designated an LTS edition with bugfixes and new releases being made for 18 months (rather than the normal four months).

At least 10 million Android users imperiled by popular AirDroid app

For six months, the remote management app has opened users to code-execution attacks.

NVIDIA’s Next Linux Driver Release To Support Vulkan Without X11

NVIDIA has confirmed that their next proprietary driver update for Linux will introduce support for Vulkan rendering outside of the X.Org Server.

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Woo Hool! My VoCore 2 arrived and it is the smallest sweetest little Linux machine which works out of the box, literally

• Name: Andrew L

• Subject: Exchange Migration

• Message:

Noah,

I about jumped out of my chair when you started talking about the Exchange migration. We are going to be moving off of our Exchange server very soon. We are moving off of a 2007 Exchange server because it is not supported after Office 2013. I’m currently trying to push my company away from O365 to something like Google. There is the obvious Linux bias, but I’ve also heard enough horror stories from friends who have already moved to O365 that I want to avoid it if at all possible.

I hope you cover this migration for show content especially the user experience after the move. The post migration user experience is one of the biggest concerns with moving to Google.

Thank you for hard work and insight you bring to the show.

Andrew L.

• Name: Max S

• Subject: QuickBooks Alternative

• Message:

Hey Chris and Noah!

I have just recently found your network and shows and have been listening to them and trying to catch up with all the previous epiisodes of Linux Action Show at the moment. I work for my father at his small business as a union plumber and system admin. I have been trying to get the okay to switch his file server from Windozes to Linux with the superior file systems and better stability, Windozes has to be restarted every week or performance goes too all hell and is utterly slow, but the only thing holding him from pulling the trigger and giving me the okay to finally switch is quickbooks. I remember Noah saying some about a quickbooks alternative in the early 400’s episodes with system 76 being its parent company. We file host the company file and he doesn’t like other people and their computers “the cloud” handling his data especially for his company. The way Noah explained it even though he has the software company do the hosting is that you could host it yourself if you wanted
and I think this might be just the thing I need to convince my father to start the switch.

Ps. keep up the amazing work guys love your show and all the content you bring!

Your loyal listener,
Max

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It started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn’t worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux!

We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they’re going to switch the class they’re teaching next semester!

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Switching People to Linux

Quick Tips

• Start them on software on their preferred platform first
• Go at their pace
• Address the problems they have not the problems you want to talk about
• Be available for questions
• Answer questions for people you’ve switched like you would for yourself – don’t be afraid to be creative

Software we installed and showed them how to use

• LibreOffice
• Crossover
• Wine
• Inkscape
• Gimp
• Simplenote
• Telegram
• VLC
• Lightworks
• Blender

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New Linux User’s Ad Blocker RUNS LINUX

Vulan switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago

Runs Ubuntu 14.04 on an intel i5 with a GTX960.

Recently installed PiHole to block ads network wide

Configured DNS on his DHCP server to point to his Pitop

Desktop App Pick

BlueCherry

• Download our bootable ISO for quick installation or simply follow our two line instructions and run apt-get install bluecherry from an existing Debian or Ubuntu LTS installation.
• Watch live and recorded videos and manage your system from our cross platform client.
• With our growing list of 2800 pre-defined IP cameras from over 30 IP manufacturers it is easy to add your IP cameras. Have a IP camera that isn’t on our pre-defined list? No problem, simply add the RTSP or MJPEG path and start streaming video!

Weekly Spotlight

Lightworks

Lightworks is EditShare’s Academy and Emmy award-winning, professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K as well as video in SD and HD formats. In the last 25 years Lightworks has been used to edit some of the finest films in cinema history

One of the most powerful professional NLE’s on Linux

Whether you are running on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, the power of Lightworks will be right at your fingertips. Now you can use your operating system of choice without impacting on the work you need to get done. No other editing software out there runs on all three platforms.

Lightworks has the widest native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in realtime. Check out the detailed Tech Specs for a full list of supported formats.

Hollywood Movies Cut on Lightworks

Background Import, Rendering and Export. We believe that users should be able to import, render or export without delay. Lightworks allows you to continue editing whilst you are importing a batch of material, rendering your complicated third party FX or exporting two files at the same time to your favourite format. With time saving elements like this Lightworks might just be the fastest editing application available. World class Trimming for fast, precision editing!

• The King’s Speach
• Centurion
• Bruce Almighty
• Pulp Fiction
• Aviator
• Mission Impossible I
• The Nutty Professor
• The Departed

Version 12.6 released on February 4th

• Added Export to Vimeo at up to 1080p in the Free version.
• Added ability to right click a Group within the Content Manager and Copy/Move it to
  another project.
• Added new keyboard .prefs file compatible with Contour Shuttle Pro drivers.
• Added full compatibility support for Ubuntu 15.10.
• Fixed potential crash browsing to a location containing a corrupt JPEG file.
• Fixed segmentation Fault with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (caused a crash on sign in to the
  application).
• Fixed PNG image sequence exports being incorrect from an edit containing an image
  key.
• Behind the GNOME 3.20 Release Video

It’s a little more than two weeks since GNOME made yet another release. Having a release video to go alongside with it is almost a tradition by now. I’m slightly frightened and super excited about it at the same time. (-:

Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 Meetup

Join the Jupiter Broadcasting crew as they cover one of the largest Linux Community Events in the Great Pacific Northwest. Plus join us as we have one of the biggest Linux Conversion showdowns in all of Linux History. Will Noah Chelliah, Co-Host of the Linux Action Show and businessman man, become self proclaim supreme Linux converter he claims to be? Or will the Closer known as Emma Marshall from System 76 put the money where the mouth is and take the crown. Stashes and beards are on the line on this epic weekend.

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Ubuntu Tablet Pushed Back

Bq has quietly pushed back the shipping estimate of the world’s first true Ubuntu tablet by one week.

Updating shipping information for both HD and FHD models of tablet on its website, Bq say “Deliveries will take place starting from the second half of April“.

It previously read: “Deliveries will take place starting from the second week of April” (emphasis ours).

Not a huge delay but a delay nonetheless.

If you pre-ordered the tablet on the assumption of getting it this week this is us telling why you may be waiting a little longer for a dispatch notice.

The delay was pointed out to us by reader Jack F., who explained in his e-mail

“I pre-ordered the BQ tablet thinking that deliveries would take place second week of April. BQ have changed this to second half on their site without notifying via email it would be delayed. Would be good for other customers to know.”

Researchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines

Known as Mumblehard, the botnet was the _product of highly skilled developers. It used a custom “packer” to conceal the P__erl-based source code that made it run, a backdoor that gave attackers persistent access, and a mail daemon that was able to send large volumes of spam._

itch.io Open Market Place trying to get App on Steam

Itch.io is an open marketplace for indie games. According to their About page, if you’ve made a game you can easily upload it, set the price, and sell your game through Itch.io, and “It’s never necessary to get votes, likes, or follows to get your content approved…”

Speaking of which, the creators of Itch.io have a desktop client called Itch, and while it’s already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, they’re going a step further by putting Itch on Steam Greenlight, where they hope to get enough votes, likes, or follows to make it onto Steam proper. Which sounds a bit strange, trying to launch an app for a games marketplace on another games marketplace. As one commenter puts it: “storefrontception.”

Linus Torvalds Gives TED Talk

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system and the Git source code management system, opened the “Code Power” session at the recent TED2016 conference, speaking in an interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson.

In the talk, Torvalds, whose blunt approach in dealing with people is well known, stated, “I’m actually not a people person. I don’t really love other people, but I do love other people who get involved in my project.”

In the TED talk, Torvalds admitted that he is sometimes “myopic, when it comes to other people’s feelings…” However, he said, “What I love about open source is that it really allows different people to work together.”

Nonetheless, typically self-deprecating Torvalds doesn’t see himself as a visionary. Instead, he says: “I’m an engineer. I’m happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.”

• Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop

I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That’s why, to me, it’s not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it’s a really hard area to enter. I’m still working on it. It’s been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I’ll wear them down.”

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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.

Call Box

• Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been doubling down on production on Linux. We go over the tips, tricks & hardware we use to make the show now with more Linux.

Plus the really big news for Linux gaming & the big new feature for Linux 4.0…

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Software:

• ocenaudio

ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.

• FFmpeg

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

• ownCloud.org

Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.

• Best VOIP Clients for Linux (That Aren’t Skype) | Linux.com

So if you’re looking to connect with other SIP users, give any one of these apps a try and see if they can’t serve as a perfect drop-in replacement for Skype.

Hardware:

• Wild Dog Performance – System76

• Amazon.com: PreSonus AudioBox USB 2×2 USB Recording Interface

• Amazon.com: M-Audio 2-Channel Portable USB Audio and MIDI Interface: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI HDMI to USB 3.0 Video Capture Dongle: Electronics

• Atomos Ninja-2 camera-mounted recorder, monitor & deck for HDMI cameras and DSLRs : Camera And Photography Products

• BeachTek

Microphones

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE320 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE20 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: AKG Perception 220 Professional Studio Microphone

• Amazon.com: Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Studio Microphone: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: ART Pro-VLA II Two Channel Vactrol-based Compressor: Musical Instruments

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This programmable, six screen, water proof cube called the Cuberox, runs Linux

• Linux-powered programmable cube gets touchy-feely · LinuxGizmos.com

The Cuberox runs Arch Linux on an ARM9-based Freescale iMX233 SoC, backed up with 64MB RAM. There’s an SD slot with a 4GB data card capable of holding 8,000 of the device’s minimalist apps. A separate Qi wireless charging station includes surround sound speakers.

Specifications listed for the Cuberox include:

• Processor — Freescale iMX233 (1x ARM926J @ 454MHz)
• Memory — 64MB RAM, SD slot with 4GB data card
• Display — 6x 256-pixel sides with accelerometer-based touch input and backlighting
• Wireless — WiFi; Bluetooth
• Sensors — Accelerometers; gyroscope; vibration feedback
• Other features — dustproof, waterproof, polycarbonate construction
• Battery — 7800mAh with wireless charging
• Charging station:
  • Qi wireless charging
  • Micro-USB port for power (DC 5V 2A)
  • Speakers with surround sound
  • Bottom backlight
• Dimensions — 100 x 100 x 100mm (3.94 x 3.94 x 3.94 in.) .
• Operating system — Arch Linux ARM (3.16 kernel); Node.js with Cuberox API

Desktop App Pick

Save 80% on Torchlight II on Steam

The award-winning action RPG is back, bigger and better than ever! Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets – and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands!

• Snowmix

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Live and recorded video feeds can be fed to the mixer via GStreamer pipelines. Output can be accessed through GStreamer pipelines.

• Rtorrent

rTorrent is a quick and efficient BitTorrent client that uses, and is in development alongside, the libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent-rasterbar) library. It is written in C++ and uses the ncurses programming library, which means it uses a text user interface. When combined with a terminal multiplexer (e.g. GNU Screen or Tmux) and Secure Shell, it becomes a convenient remote BitTorrent client.

Weekly Spotlight

Imcomptech

The cost for me to share music is low, and the benefits are high. There are a lot of schools with no money, and plenty of film makers who want to have music – but can’t afford to clear copyrights from the existing systems that are set up. I believe that copyright is badly broken , so I chose a license that allows me to to give away the rights I wish to surrender.

Linux Action Show at LFNW | Offical LAS 2015 Shirt

We are releasing another set of LAS shirts in preparation for LinuxFest Northwest which is at the end of April 2015! We hope to color Bellingham Technical College with LAS supporters donning their favorite Linux podcast!

Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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PC gaming is expanding, Valve’s GDC 2015 announcements recap

Valve attended GDC in full force this year and talked about a lot of stuff. Here’s everything they talked about it in one post.

• Gabe Newell talks Steam Machines, Free Source 2.0 Engine, the growth of PCs and Steam Controller – YouTube

• Steam launches massive Linux game sale to celebrate Steam Machine unveiling

More than 50 titles are highlighted, including three of PCWorld’s favorite games of 2014—The Talos Principle, Transistor, _and our Game of the Year, _Wasteland 2—and a slew of other spectacular titles like Metro Redux, The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Civilization: Beyond Earth, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, _and _Goat Simulator, among many others.

• Reported Steam Linux Usage Battles To Stay Above 1.0% – Phoronix

This drop to just over 1.0% is the lowest numbers we’ve seen for Linux’s representation on Steam in quite a number of months. However, it’s not a huge surprise.

• Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver – Phoronix

With the Vulkan API still in flux and not finalized until later this year, Valve has been developing their own Intel GPU reference driver for Vulkan to help early adopters boot-strap their code. Valve said during their presentation today at GDC2015 that this Intel Linux driver will be open-sourced, but they haven’t provided a time-frame for doing so.

VMware alleged to have violated Linux’s open source license for years

Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig filed the suit in the district court of Hamburg, Germany with funding from the nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy, which works to “promote, improve, develop, and defend” free and open source software. The case centers on “a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (‘vmkernel’) with portions of Linux’s code, which was licensed only under GPLv2,” _the group said in an FAQ describing the lawsuit._

• Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Lawsuit

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy’s ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware’s ESXi products.

​No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in October 2014, the two groups got together and started work on a way to _patch Linux without rebooting that combines the best of both programs. Essentially, what they ended up doing was putting both kpatch and kGraft in the 4.0 Linux kernel._

New App Brings Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop

The new project is called ‘Nuntius’ and lets notifications received on an Android phone appear on the GNOME desktop.

• holylobster/nuntius-linux · GitHub

Nuntius delivers notifications from your phone or tablet to your computer over Bluetooth.

Nuntius is an Open Source project from HolyLobster.

To use Nuntius you will need to install a companion tool on your phone or table and pair it via Bluetooth.

• HolyLobster · GitHub

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We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest.

Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager.

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• VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt — and It’s Better – Slashdot

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• What is the bash helper you use

• systemd hate

Ubuntu Next Gen apps on Ubuntu 14.10 – YouTube

A Lightworks developer talks about the kind of issue you meet when coding for an NLE on Linux

In recent weeks, some of Lightworks’ Linux users started to report reduced performance in both new and old versions of the software. After some investigation, it appeared that the slow-down was only affecting systems with a Linux kernel newer than 3.13. In tests, kernel performance in 3.14 did seem to be slightly worse than earlier versions, but nothing that could explain the symptoms being experienced by users. So what could possibly explain the sudden change in behaviour?

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In the not too distant future the Linux desktop will face a landscape comprised of users running Wayland, Mir, and X11. Ubuntu will be rolling out their first generation Qt based desktop environment, and developers are crying fragmentation.

But how would we shape the future if we could wave a magic wand? And is fragmentation a real problem in practice?

Plus: Our thoughts on Magea, producing video content on Linux, and much more!

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Show Notes:

FU:

• Mageia

• Yearly recap/ Idea for show

• Replace Ubuntu One with DO

Fragmentation Challenges

• Two big ways to look at this, the core, and the desktop.

Linux distributions are also unified at the core library level. In addition to the kernel, you have projects like X.org, glibc, gstreamer, Gnome, QT, webkit, CUPS, clutter, etc. These are all example of core libraries that generally are included in almost every variant of mobile Linux; Chrome, Android, MeeGo, WebOS, LiMo, etc. They all use these same “base” components.

• The core is fairly predictable, not perfect, but not the wild west some might have you believe.

• Linux and the Internet of Things [LWN.net]

Bird gave a thought-provoking talk with a conclusion that will probably surprise some: he thinks a \”good\” fork of the kernel is the right approach to meld Linux and the \”Internet of Things\”.

Ubuntu Challange:

• Ubuntu Challenge Annoucment

• Ubuntu Challenge: Week 1

• Ubuntu Challenge: Week 2

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Interviews from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest. We chat with the open source industry players who are getting the word out about their efforts.
Plus making podcasting accessible to the community, a quick look at Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux, a fond look at the new Debian Wheezy release, our thoughts on why Geary failed to reach funding…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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LinuxFest Northwest Interviews:

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2013 – Google+ Event

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• University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory, Runs Linux

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• ServeStream

• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

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• Shotcut

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• Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” released

• Valve Release Portal Beta For Linux

• Left 4 Dead 2

• Open Build Service 2.4 understands Arch Linux packaging

• Open Build Service now supports Arch’s PKGBUILD

• Lightworks Linux Public Beta Is Now Available To Download

• Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 released

• Geary crowdfunding: What went wrong? | Yorba Blog

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• Pear OS on Indie GoGo

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/35331/linuxs-wirecast-problem-las-s26e06/ Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:46:15 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=35331 This week we come clean on why the world’s #1 Linux podcast is edited on a Hackintosh. And what it's going to take for things to get any better.

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Even we have to admit Linux has a few important weak spots that remain. This week we come clean on why the world’s #1 Linux podcast is edited on a Hackintosh. Why we feel it’s going to require a radical technology leap for the situation to get any better, and some near term hopes.

Plus: SSH Tunnels vs VPNs, how to quickly use an SSH tunnel for an application specific need, details on a lightweight KDE based desktop coming soon, Nvidia’s answer to Linus’ F&#CK YOU…

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— Show Notes: —

Linux’s Wirecast Problem:

Brought to you by: System76

Video:

• Telestream Wirecast

• ProRes 422 – Wikipedia

• Avid DNxHD vs. Apple ProRes vs. GoPro Cineform: Recompression Generation Loss

Encoding:

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• Squared 5 – MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

• HandBrake

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• NVIDIA Has Major New Linux Driver: Optimus, RandR 1.4

• Benchmarks Of NVIDIA’s New Linux GPU Driver

• Nvidia’s 3D Tegra driver now open sourced

• Arch Linux – Gnome 3.8 ready for [testing], might cause Cinnamon to be dropped

• Cinnarch drops Cinnamon for GNOME

• KLyDE: A New Lightweight KDE Project Started

• COSCUP 2012 Lightweight KDE – Will Stephenson – YouTube

• Razor-qt

• Jochen Leopold – Google+ – Five days into working on the Jedi Outcast Linux port I’m…

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/28901/linux-hits-the-fan-las-s24e10/ Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:55:11 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=28901 We’ll show you how easy it can be to setup fully automated monitoring using Nagios and some easy to use front-end tools.

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Monitor the end of the world from your Linux box. This week, we’ll show you how easy it can be to setup fully automated monitoring using Nagios and some easy to use front-end tools.

Plus Mozilla’s big online gaming play, XBMC on Android, and Microsoft’s real market share.

And so much more!

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Fully Automated Monitoring:

Brought to you by: System76

• FAN « Fully Automated Nagios

• Centreon

• Install and configure SNMP on RHEL or CentOS

• Setup is very easy Screenshot at 08:01:08 ScreenCloud: FAN Setup 08:01:51

Runs Linux:

• A “off-the-shelf” satellite runs, Linux

Android Pick:

• Android XBMC with Jupiter Broadcasting
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Geeknote – Evernote console client for Linux, FreeBSD, OS X
  Thanks to: jasonjohnwells

• Picks so far

• Madjo

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• Thanks to sakuramboo!

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News:

• Goldman Sachs: Windows’ true market share is just 20%
• RedShark News – Important breaking news about Lightworks for Linux
• Samba 4 Released
  • Samba4 – SambaWiki
• A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux
• Steam Linux to Launch Open Beta Next Week!
• Readers’ Choice Awards 2012
• Mozilla announces Game On Competition
  • Mozilla Gameon

Feedback:

• Your 2013 Linux Predictions Thread

• Could it be that Canonical and Valve are working much closer together than it seems at first sight?

• Cygwin is great

• Memtest86 is WONKY

• Parker has a few questions

• Midnight Commander vs VIM

• If Apple or Microsoft had implemented this, would you have been so forgiving?

• ScreenCloud Dev Writes In

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• HTML4++ | Coder Radio

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• Consequences of Dell Embracing Ubuntu
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• Offering newbie centric advice, in my articles

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/26941/lightworks-preview-las-s24e04/ Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:15:57 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=26941 We’ve got an exclusive look at Lightworks, one of the most anticipated software launches in desktop Linux history. We’ll share our first thoughts!

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We’ve got an exclusive look at Lightworks, one of the most anticipated software launches in desktop Linux history. We’ll share our first thoughts on how this award winning video editor is shaping up.

Plus some good news for those of you not running Ubuntu but still want some Steam, and some highlight clips from the Ubuntu Developer Summit that just wrapped up.

You’ll hear straight from the horse’s mouth why Valve is supporting Linux, how closely Canonical is working with Valve, and why Ubuntu is dropping Alpha’s and a beta!

Then we top that off with some gaming news, Fedora’s challenges, and the climax of the EXT4 corruption drama.

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Lightworks for Linux Preview:

Brought to you by: System76

• Editshare Admit ‘Communication Issues’ Over Lightworks Linux Alpha

Runs Linux:

• The UbiCast, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

• AndroVid Video Trimmer
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Everpad 2.1
• Picks so far
• Madjo

Distro Of The Day

• Pear Linux 6

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• Thanks to sakuramboo!

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• Quick Update to the Jupiter Broadcasting Android App

News:

• Valve Talk ‘Steam for Linux’, Give Beta Access to Attendees

• Steam Linux Beta will have Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Serious Sam 3: BFE

• Valve: Linux More Viable Than Windows 8 for Gaming

• Valve’s Drew Bliss at UDS-R: “Ubuntu was the very obvious choice”

• Drew Bliss from Valve:
  • Status of Steam: https://youtu.be/vNrrpnPlBrk?t=17m2s – 17:18
  • Why Linux & Why Ubuntu: https://youtu.be/vNrrpnPlBrk?t=17m46s – 19:16
  • Valve will not block other distros: https://youtu.be/vNrrpnPlBrk?t=28m35s – 29:18
• Jason Warner Ubuntu Desktop Manager:
  • How is the Ubuntu Desktop team working with Valve? https://youtu.be/Sp4E5iuGJl4?t=2m55s – 4:22

• Jupiter Broadcasting Steam Group

• Ubuntu To Drop Alpha Releases, Promises More Stable Development

• The Reason Ubuntu is Droping Betas: https://youtu.be/iQl6qR9yJzk?t=12m9s

• Ubuntu Contributor Channel – YouTube

• Ext4 bug patched

• Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 and other stable branches?

• Theodore Ts’o – Google+ – UPDATE: See update below; it now looks like this was caused…

• Theodore Ts’o – “Phoronix, alas, has perpetrated another example of irresponsible journalism.”

+Fedora 18 Is Challenged By Yet Another Delay
+ he Top Features Of Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow”

• Kickstarter and Game Development: Highlighting Games Coming to Linux Part 1
• Kickstarter and Game Development: Highlighting Games Coming to Linux Part 2
• Kickstarter and Game Development: Highlighting Games Coming to Linux Part 3

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