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A clock designed to run for 10,000 years is an hubristic project, of course, but also a quite fascinating one – you can watch the installation video as well as find out more about the clock, and its chances of running for about as long as human civilization has existed, at LongNow.org.

Sneak Peek: Taking a Spin with Enhanced Linux VMs

Ubuntu 18.04 shipping with the 4.15 linux kernel (which already carries the hv_sock bits), we won’t need to apply the linux-azure kernel. The version of XRDP that ships as available in 18.04 is already compiled with hv_sock feature turned on, so there’s no more need to build xrdp/xorgxrdp—a simple “apt install” will bring in all the feature goodness!

Sneak Peek: Taking a Spin with Enhanced Linux VMs

Now you can download and install Kali Linux directly from the Microsoft App Store on Windows 10 just like any other application.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Enters Feature Freeze, First Beta Lands March 8

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Our morning view on the road. Sunrise behind Mount Shasta

A post shared by Chris Fisher (@instachrislas) on Mar 6, 2018 at 1:03pm PST

Slack client for your terminal

A Slack client for your terminal.

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Good-bye JEE, hello Jakarta EE

If Jakarta sounds familiar, it’s because it is not the first time that name has been applied to a JEE server. From 1999 to 2011, the Apache Software Foundation ran Apache Jakarta, which covered all of Apache’s open-source Java efforts.

Juno Progress for January & February

As you may know, elementary operates on a task-based rather than time-based system for releases. This means before we can release Juno, there’s a lot of work to do! So far, there are a little over 350 closed issue reports associated with the first Juno beta. Here are some highlights of the things you’ll see in the next version of elementary OS:

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What Microsoft understands about open source that your company does not

Microsoft understands that its future depends upon contributing to open source, not just using it. Here’s why your company needs the same strategy.

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Atomic Neon Kool-Aid | LINUX Unplugged 235

chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:27:45 +0000

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Back from the SNAP Sprint

snap install –classic skype

Firmware Telemetry for Vendors

We’ve shipped nearly 1.2 MILLION firmware updates out to Linux users since we started the LVFS project.

Phoning home after updating firmware? – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

Some key points:

We don’t share the IP address with the vendor, in fact it’s not even saved in the MySQL database
The MachineId is a salted hash of your actual /etc/machine-id
The LVFS doesn’t store reports for firmware that it did not sign itself, i.e. locally built firmware archives will be ignored and not logged
You can disable the reporting functionality in all applications by editing /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/*.conf
We have an official GDPR document too — we’ll probably link to that from the Privacy panel in GNOME

Beta Released

This latest update in our continuous innovation stream delivers many new features and enhancements to help secure your data, simplify the system and application lifecycle, and streamline your cloud journey

The Open Brand Project

@Kernellinux @ChrisLAS red hat logo change is in the works. Feedback welcomed from all. Can you mention this in a show or two?https://t.co/ZPUEGaRi1K

— Alex Kretzschmar (@IronicBadger) February 5, 2018

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Fedora Atomic

Fedora Atomic provides the best platform for your Linux-Docker-Kubernetes (LDK) application stack.

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Atomic OpenShift Engineer for Red Hat. Fedora Atomic WG member. Passionate about open source.

Fedora 27 Atomic Released
An Introduction to Fedora Atomic Workstation

Features:
Multi-Architecture Support: Fedora 27 Atomic Host is available for 64-bit ARM and Power8 processor architectures as well as 64-bit Intel (i.e. AArch64, ppc64le and x86_64). Not only are we distributing ISOs and cloud images for all three architectures, we will also be providing two-week OSTree updates for them as well.
Containerized Kubernetes: As planned, the Kubernetes binaries have been removed from the base image for Atomic Host. This change both shrinks the base image size, and allows users to install the container orchestration platform and version of their choice, whether it’s Kubernetes, OpenShift, or something else. Look for a blog post tommorrow on how to migrate your Kubernetes install.
Atomic Workstation Updates: For over a year, Fedora contributors have been experimenting with an RPM-OStree build of Fedora Workstation, with all of their applications running in containers or Flatpaks. This build, now called “Atomic Workstation”, will be receiving regular updates starting with this release.
One Big OverlayFS2 Volume: New Atomic Host systems will now get a single filesystem volume by default, which will share binaries, system containers, and OCI/docker containers using OverlayFS2. Users who need to partition container images and storage onto a separate volume can still do so using kickstart options and container-storage-setup configuration.
OSTree Package Layering Improvements: RPM-OStree has added two capabilities supporting modifying individula systems: remove and replace overrides, and LiveFS layering.
Project Atomic

Use immutable infrastructure to deploy and scale your containerized
applications. Project Atomic builds OSes, tools, and containers for
cloud native platforms.

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About AppCenter Payments

One of the primary goals of developing AppCenter Dashboard was to build a sustainable app ecosystem. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that although the AppCenter ecosystem is growing, nobody can make a living on it yet. That’s what we mean when we say “sustainable”. Writing apps is a real, hard, full-time job. If we want to see more high-quality, Open Source apps then we need to prioritize getting third-party app developers paid.

Linux Kernel Release Model – Linux Kernel Monkey Log

This post describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, how the kernel developer’s approach security bugs, and why all systems that use Linux should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches.

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KDE neon

KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository. Most users will want to use the packages built from released software which make up our User Edition. KDE contributors and testers can use the packages built from KDE Git in the Developer Editions. It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04).

KDE Plasma 5.12.0 LTS, Speed. Stability. Simplicity. – KDE.org

Tuesday, 06 February 2018. Today KDE releases a Feature update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.12.0.

Plasma 5.12 LTS 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 provide bug fixes and improvements to the Wayland experience.

The list of new features in Plasma 5.12 LTS doesn’t stop with improved performance. You can also look forward to the following:

Wayland-only Night Color feature that lets you adjust the screen color temperature to reduce eye strain
Usability improvement for the global menu: adding a global menu panel or window decoration button enables it without needing an extra configuration step
KRunner can now be completely used with on-screen readers such as Orca
Notification text is selectable again and allows you to copy links from notifications
The weather applet can now show the temperature next to the weather status icon on the panel
Clock widget’s text is now sized more appropriately
System Activity and System Monitor display per-process graphs for the CPU usage
Windows shadows are horizontally centered and larger by default
The Properties dialog now shows file metadata
The Icon applet now uses favicons for website shortcuts
The Kickoff application menu has an optimized layout

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A Community Divided | LINUX Unplugged 222

chris — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:45:26 +0000

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Meet Gladys, a Raspberry Pi-Powered Intelligent, Open-Source Home Assistant

Meet Gladys, an open-source program designed to become the only intelligent home assistant you’ll ever need, backed by the tiny and powerful Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

Standalone Signal Desktop

The new desktop version of Signal runs independently of your browser. If you’re a Firefox or Safari user, you don’t need to install Chrome to send and receive Signal messages on your computer. If you’re a Chrome user, having your browser open will no longer be synonymous with having Signal Desktop open.

Skype’s big redesign publicly launches to desktop users

Today, the company is publicly launching the new version of Skype to the desktop, including on Mac, Windows 10 (November 2016 update and lower), Windows 8, Windows 7, and Linux.

New Features in Enlightenment 22

The E22 development cycle has been underway for over a year, and it has included over 1,500 patches to address nearly 200 tickets on our issue tracker. With this has come a number of new features and improvements.

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Pinta: Painting Made Simple!

Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.

Blizzard releases headless StarCraft2 build for Linux

StarCraft II Client – protocol definitions used to communicate with StarCraft II.

What distro to use with High-dpi laptops?

I’ve been having trouble with finding a distro to install on a new Dell xps 15 I bought and I’m hating this windows that it came with.

Granite 0.5 Is Here! – elementary OS

If you’re not familiar with Granite, it’s a companion library for Gtk+ and GLib, the foundational app building libraries on our platform. Granite provides additional widgets and APIs that contain design patterns that are specific to elementary OS. Think of it as a shortcut to help you build killer apps.

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The Spat Heard Around the Community

A New Era for Free Software Non-Profits – Software Freedom Law Center

At SFLC, we have been more than watching these developments. By careful repeated experimentation with the new procedures, we have built confidence in our ability to interact favorably and reliably with the Service’s new application types and review procedures. We can now confidently take a free software project from scratch through state incorporation, governance formation, application for federal tax deductibility, to complete legal and fiscal independent self-governance, with the right to receive tax-deductible contributions, in 90 to 120 days, or even less.

This transformation gives us and our clients the best of both worlds.

SFLC Files Bizarre Legal Action Against Its Former Client, Software Freedom Conservancy – Conservancy Blog – Software Freedom Conservancy

About a month ago, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), _the not-for-profit law firm _which
launched Conservancy in 2006 and served as Conservancy’s law firm until July 2011, took the bizarre and frivolous _step of filing a legal action in the United States Patent and Trademark Office seeking cancellation of Conservancy’s trademark for our name, “Software Freedom
Conservancy”.
_

Current Projects – Software Freedom Conservancy

Conservancy is currently home to forty-six member projects.

Concerning a Statement by the Conservancy – Software Freedom Law Center

On Friday, while we were putting on our _annual conference_at Columbia Law School, a puff of near-apocalyptic rhetoric about us was _published_by SFLC’s former employees, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn, who now manage the Conservancy, which was originally established and wholly funded by SFLC, and still bears our name. We were busy with our conference when this happened, which seems to have been the point. We are glad to have the chance now, after a little much-needed rest, to help everyone avoid unnecessary hyperventilation.

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Easily Monitor CPU Utilization in Linux Terminal With Stress Terminal UI

Stress Terminal UI offers the following features:

Visualize CPU Frequency, Utilization, Temperature & Power Usage
Displays performance dips caused by thermal throttling
Lightweight & uses minimal resources
Requires no display server (i.e. X-server for most Linux distros)
Stress Operation mode for stress testing the CPU

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Remotely Useful | LINUX Unplugged 220

chris — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:10:38 +0000

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Librem 5 Linux-based smartphone finishes its campaign at $2,125,570 raised

Note: This was an “all-or-nothing” campaign, but we crossed well over the $1.5m goal, and will be delivering on the Librem 5 phone. If you would like a Librem 5 you can simply pre-order one of the appropriate rewards now, and we will add you to the shipping queue!

Looking back at Fedora Workstation so far

Well I thought as we putting the finishing touches on Fedora Workstation 27 I should try to look back at everything we have achieved since Fedora Workstation was launched with Fedora 21.

Pirates are now packing Windows games with Flatpak and spreading them that way

Manipulating Maintainers

There’s an old “ha ha, only serious” joke. If you go to a Linux forum and ask for help fixing your WiFi driver, everyone will ignore you. If, instead, you say “Linux sucks, you can’t even get a f*&$ing WiFi driver working!” thousands of people will solve the problem for you.

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Why Mark Shuttleworth Dumped Ubuntu Unity Linux Desktop

“What you’ll see at some stage soon is that we have broken even on all the pieces that we do commercially without Unity,” Shuttleworth said. “At some stage after that, we will take a round of investment which will be a growth round and that will be aimed at helping us to become a public company in due course.”

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Beavering away at the brilliantly bionic 18.04 LTS

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you 18.04 LTS, the Bionic Beaver.

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High Performance Remote Linux Desktop

I’ve recently setup two remote desktop systems running Ubuntu 17.10. One I call Orbital, up in the cloud, and one I call sub.orbital, which is a local box on the studio LAN.

I can remote into both of these using x2go, which rides on top of SSH.

X2Go

x2go uses the nx library that was developed by NoMachine. All of the latency intensive parts of X forwarding was worked around by creating a nx proxy on each side of the network connection and sending compressed updates between the two proxies.

Basic features of X2Go

Graphical Remote Desktop that works well over both low bandwidth and high bandwidth connections
The ability to disconnect and reconnect to a session, even from another client
Support for sound
Support for as many simultaneous users as the computer’s resources will support (NX3 free edition limited you to 2.)
Traffic is securely tunneled over SSH
File Sharing from client to server
Printer Sharing from client to server
Easily select from multiple desktop environments (e.g., MATE, GNOME, KDE)
Remote support possible via Desktop Sharing
The ability to access single applications by specifying the name of the desired executable in the client configuration or selecting one of the pre-defined common applications

How to install X2Go

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My Current Setup

Ubuntu MATE 17.10
Low hardware requirements, keeps cost down.
Great workflow
MATE does not require a GPU powered compositor.
Considering XFCE for future testing

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Demo of remote Linux Desktop.

XPRA

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Hacking Devices with Kali Linux | LINUX Unplugged 214

chris — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:23:15 +0000

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Equifax blames open-source software for its record-breaking security breach

It’s far more likely that — if the problem was indeed with Struts — it was with a separate but equally serious security problem in Struts, first patched in March.

A critical Apache Struts security flaw makes it ‘easy’ to hack Fortune 100 firms

Linus Torvalds Wants Hackers to Join Linux Before They Attack Linux

Torvalds also noted that as a technical person he is impressed by the ingenuity of the people who attack Linux code.

“There are smart people doing bad things. I wish they were on our side, and they could help us,” Torvalds said. “Where I want us to go is to get as many smart people as we can before they turn to the dark side.

“We would improve security that way and get those who are interested in security to come to us before they attack us,” he added.

GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance – Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming

Wayland loads the desktop slightly faster
no real significant difference in memory and battery consumption
On benchmarks that can use Wayland directory there is no significant difference between Mutter using Wayland or Xorg
On benchmarks forced to use XWayland Xorg is like 5 times more frames per second.

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Mailspring – The best free email app

A fast and maintained fork of Nylas Mail – the best free email app for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Hi there! My name is Ben Gotow, and I’m one of the original authors of Nylas Mail. My company, Foundry 376, is re-launching Nylas Mail because I believe it can be—and should have been—the best new mail client in a decade.

Manjaro Linux has a Laptop

Powered with 7th Generation Intel Core Processors, up to 32GB RAM and dual drive bays, the Spitfire can take whatever you can throw at it. And keep going.

With a super-light all-aluminum chassis, and a killer 1080p IPS display, the Spitfire can run Manjaro at blazing speed.

Key features are:

7th Gen Intel® Core CPUs (i5-7200u or i7-7500u)
INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 610/620
Backlit Keyboard
Silver Aluminium Chassis
DDR4 Memory Support up to 32 GB of RAM
Ultra thin: just 17.8mm!
Full HD IPS 1920 x 1080
SuperFast SSDs (up to 500 GB)
SuperSpeed USB 3.0
HDMI Output Connection
Mini Display Port
1.0MP Webcam
Wireless Fitted as Standard

Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 11

However, as I mentioned when talking about our new Ubuntu Shell theme, GDM, as being a system-wide component, will keep using our Ubuntu style with no easy way to change it. The theme name is indeed hardcoded in the Shell for good reasons (for instance, there is the fear that user themes, changing the css, may end up being outdated, and potentially can break the Shell and GDM, leaving the user with no UI at all). We were distro-patching this by changing gnome-shell.css by our ubuntu.css style.

It would mean as well people switching to the vanilla session or GNOME classic had no way (apart from recompiling) to change the current GDM theme.

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Hacking IoT Devices with Kali Linux

Remember BackTrack Linux?

The BackTrack distribution originated from the merger of two formerly competing distributions which focused on penetration testing:

WHAX: a Slax-based Linux distribution developed by Mati Aharoni, a security consultant. Earlier versions of WHAX were called _Whoppix_[6] and were based on Knoppix.
Auditor Security Collection: a Live CD based on Knoppix developed by Max Moser which included over 300 tools organized in a user-friendly hierarchy.

The overlap with Auditor and WHAX in purpose and in collection of tools partly led to the merger.

Note: BackTrack Linux is no longer being maintained. Please check www.kali.org

Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services. In addition to Kali Linux, Offensive Security also maintains the Exploit Database and the free online course, Metasploit Unleashed.

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Official Kali Linux Downloads

We generate fresh Kali Linux image files every few months, which we make available for download. This page provides the links to download Kali Linux in its latest official release. For a release history, check our Kali Linux Releases page. Please note: You can find unofficial, untested weekly releases at https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-weekly/.

netdiscover: netdiscover

To discover the IP’s on an internal network, we will usually want to scan a range of IP addresses. In netdiscover, we can use the -r switch (for range) and then in CIDR notation provide it the network range we want it to scan. In the command below, we are asking netdiscover to find all the live hosts with IP addresses between 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255. We do this by typing;

netdiscover -r 192.168.1.0/24

OpenVAS – OpenVAS – Open Vulnerability Assessment System

OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

Metasploit Framework | Kali Linux

In keeping with the Kali Linux Network Services Policy, no network services, including database services, run on boot as a default, so there are a couple of steps that need to be taken in order to get Metasploit up and running with database support.

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