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

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Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta Makes Your Desktop Smoother and Speedier

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

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

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

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

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

Upcoming Community Events

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

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

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

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

FOSS Talk

• FOSS Talk (@FOSS_Talk) | Twitter
  > 9th June 2018

SCALE 16x

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

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New XPS 13 Developer/Ubuntu Laptops from Dell

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

Linus prefers the XPS 13

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

9370 Specifications

• 8th Generation Intel® Quad Core, i5 (US and Canada only) and i7 versions
• Memory options: 4GB, 8GB or 16GB Dual Channel SDRAM
• Storage options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1TB
• 2x Thunderbolt 3
• Headset jack
• DC-In & DisplayPort 1x USB-C 3.1
• MicroSD card reader
• UltraSharp 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160) InfinityEdge touch display
  • FHD (1920 x 1080) InfinityEdge display
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded
• 1 year ProSupport
• XPS 13 Coil Whine through headphones – Dell Community
  

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Ubuntu MATE is creating a retrospective desktop operating system, for everyone

• MATE Desktop Environment

Plex vs Emby

Using Kodi Directly vs Plex/Emby

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

Plex and Emby Licensing

Plex

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

Emby

• Emby on GitHub
• Emby add-on for Kodi

Emby with the premium Emby Premiere features unlocked.

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

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• Re: Configuration Management

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Firefox 57 “Quantum” Web Browser Now Available to Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox Quantum is roughly 2X faster than Firefox 49 on the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark, thanks to its new CSS engine, its “just right” multi-process architecture, the way it prioritizes your active tab, and much more,” reads the preliminary release notes for Firefox 57.0 beta.

#Firefox 57 "Quantum" Web Browser Now Available to Download, Here's What's New and a Quick Screenshot Tour https://t.co/9k1KYUwlB7 #mozilla #opensource #FirefoxQuantum pic.twitter.com/Z91OT7CVL6

— Softpedia Linux (@softpedialinux) November 13, 2017

Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster

Over the past seven months, we’ve been rapidly replacing major parts of the engine, introducing Rust and parts of Servo to Firefox. Plus, we’ve had a browser performance strike force scouring the codebase for performance issues, both obvious and non-obvious.

We call this Project Quantum, and the first general release of the reborn Firefox Quantum comes out tomorrow.

RedHat Enterprise Linux Announces ARM Support

Today marks a milestone for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of a new architecture to our list of fully supported platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM is a part of our multi-architecture strategy and the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with the upstream community and our silicon and hardware partners.

Red Hat took a pragmatic approach to Arm servers by helping to drive open standards and develop communities of customers, partners and a broad ecosystem. Our goal was to develop a single operating platform across multiple 64-bit ARMv8-A server-class SoCs from various suppliers while using the same sources to build user functionality and consistent feature set that enables customers to deploy across a range of server implementations while maintaining application compatibility.
In 2015, we introduced a Development Preview of the operating system to silicon partners, such as Cavium and Qualcomm, and OEM partners, like HPE, that designed and built systems based on a 64-bit Arm architecture. A great example of this collaboration was the advanced technology demonstration by HPE, Cavium, and Red Hat at the International Supercomputing conference in June 2017. That prototype solution became part of HPE’s Apollo 70 system, announced today. If you are attending SuperComputing17 this week, please stop by Red Hat’s booth (#1763) to learn more about this new system.

Qualcomm Launches 48-core Centriq for $1995: Arm Servers for Cloud Native Applications

The cores are 64-bit only, and are grouped into duplexes – pairs of cores with a shared 512KB of L2 cache, and the top end design will also have 60 MB of L3 cache. The full design has 6 channels of DDR4 (Supporting up to 768 GB) with 32 PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes, support for Arm Trustzone, and all within a TDP of 120W and for $1995.

• Seattle’s Cray jumps on Arm server train with new XC50 supercomputer – GeekWire

Cray will use Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors in a version of its XC50 supercomputer scheduled to arrive in the second quarter of 2018, Cray said in a press release Monday. I

Kernel 4.14 Released

Linux 4.14 features a number of new features and changes, and is set to become the next long term support (LTS) release backed by several years of ongoing maintenance and support.

• New Realtek Wi-Fi driver (RTL8822BE)
• Btrfs Zstd compression support
• HDMI CEC support for Raspberry Pi
• Secure memory encryption for AMD EPYC processors
• ASUS T100 touchpad support
• Heterogeneous Memory Management
• AMDGPU DRM Vega improvements
• Better support for Ryzen processors

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OpenShot 2.4 Released

Among the big changes OpenShot 2.4.1 features is improved image quality. You should now see sharper images in the preview window when editing thanks to an “improved image processing pipeline”.

There’s also improved playback smoothness when working with high frame-rate videos at 50fps, 60fps, and 120fps.

GNOME Shell 4 Proposal Published To Be More Wayland-Focused

Jonas Adahl of Red Hat has volleyed his initial proposals for how a “future” GNOME Shell could be architected on a page entitled GNOME Shell 4. This GNOME Shell 4 would potentially break compatibility with GNOME Shell 3 extensions while being more designed around Wayland rather than X11.

Initiatives/Wayland/GnomeShell/GnomeShell4 – GNOME Wiki!

To sum it up, there are a number of problem areas that needs new solutions.

1. Low latency input forwarding
2. Low latency visual input event feedback (pointer cursor movement)
3. Low latency & zero copy client content forwarding (scan-out of client buffer)
4. Input methods in the shell UI
5. Stalls on the main thread stalls compositor frame redraws

James Nugent

This week we interview James Nugent, a software developer from Bath, England. He currently works in engineering at Joyent, an open source public cloud company recently acquired by Samsung Electronics. Previously, James was a core contributor at HashiCorp building operations tooling, and Event Store LLP, which produces an open source stream database with a built in projections system. For a comprehensive breakdown of the episode and showlinks take a look at the shownotes below or by clicking the episode title.

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Fedora 27

New Fedora 27 Workstation Features

• End of the Alpha release of Fedora

• Gnome 3.26. This brings a new and improved Builder IDE to bear for developers, providing a new interface, contextual popups, improved search functions and a new debugger.

• GNOME 3.26 adds support for fractional scaling for high DPI screens.
• Both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement.

• Also the antiquated system tray has been removed to reduce visual clutter and confusion

• TRIM support for encrypted disks which enhances the performance of Fedora Workstation on solid-state drives (SSDs).

Other Fedora 27 Changes

• Fedora Atomic: changed the way of setting up containers. Kubernetes is now containerized and Cockpit includes Dashboard installation on Atomic Host via rpm package layering

• Pipewire. Our new media handling deamon. It will be used in Fedora Workstation 27 to handle screen sharing and screen capture under GNOME Shell.

• Fedora KDE Switched to the version 5.9.1 of QT5

• What’s New in Fedora 27 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 27 Workstation is the latest release of our free, leading-edge operating system. You can download it from the official website here right now. There are several new and noteworthy changes in Fedora Workstation.

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Encryption Another Point of View

We’ve all seen it plastered on the national news these last two years. The encryption debate between tech companies and civilians wanting to keep their data private is being weighed against the government’s desire to gain access to anything and everything they can in the hunt to stop terrorists. Anyone besides me ever notice it’s always “terrorists,” not just criminals? Anyway, the thought occurred to me late last night to look at the argument another way and see what I’d feel about it. It’s not a hard decision for me, personally. I’m firmly ensconced on the side of a person’s right to privacy over some government’s desire to monitor its citizens. Still, maybe it’s worth trying to have the conversation another way. Let’s take the technology out of it and consider the idea as it would relate to the rights of privacy of the individual.

The government argues that the kinds of data being hidden behind encryption provides important clues they need to stop terrorists. The data able to be retrieved from a cell phone or tablet, or encrypted text messaging, can be viewed in very simple terms, and I think I can probably give you an inclusive list. Let’s see:

• Where they have been (using the GPS tracking)
• When they were there, when they communicated, etc. (using time stamps from apps)
• What they’ve read online (using browser/app histories)
• Who they’ve talked to (using messenger/email contact lists)
• How they’ve communicated (analyzing what apps they use to talk to other people)
• The contents of any textual conversations/emails (reading the message history)
• What files they might have downloaded, saved, or deleted. (using information within the device)

I didn’t intend it this way, but the list above shows you can literally tell Who, What, When and Where some suspect was doing something. The only thing you can’t definitively tell is the “why” of it all. We assume the why factor is able to be extrapolated from the other four to provide a complete picture of the terror suspect’s life.

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Mazda and Toyota join forces on Linux-based connected car platform

Mazda and Toyota are working together on a Linux-based connected car navigation and entertainment system, according to reports.

Burger King Ushers in the Cyber Dystopia we’ve all been waiting for

Russians will be able to buy a Whopper with the virtual cash, once they have amassed 1,700 whoppercoins.

Wimpy was Right

At this year’s E3 — aka the biggest date in the gaming industry calendar, known under its full title as the Electronic Entertainment Expo — there was an Oculus-shaped rift where the Oculus-shaped Rift should have been showing off its vision of the future of electronic gaming and entertainment.

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sshync aka Auto-sync

Auto-sync files or directories over SSH.

• wshax was surpised we did not mention SpiderOak

• surfrock66 does the math, and sticks with CrashPlan Pro

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Purism’s Phone Campaign Getting Serious AF

Enabling the next generation of cable-cutters, we are making the Librem 5 the first ever Matrix-powered smartphone, natively using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication in its dialer and messaging app. We will also offer regular baseband functionality separated off from the CPU, and work towards the goal of freeing all components.

TING

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Librem 15 Re-Review: The Replacening

The Librem 15 is the first ultra-portable workstation laptop that was designed chip-by-chip, line-by-line, to respect your rights to privacy, security, and freedom. Every hardware and software component—and everything we do—is in line with our belief in respecting your rights to privacy, security, and freedom. We know you will be happy with the results.

• Librem line of Systems

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