LUG – Jupiter Broadcasting

This project came from a need I had to be able to serve up already created deb packages without a lot of fuss. Most of the existing solutions
I found were either geared at mirroring existing “official” repos or for providing your packages to the public. My need was just something that

I could use internally to install already built deb packages via apt-get. I didn’t care about change files, signed packages, etc. Since this was
to be used in a CI pipeline it had to support remote uploads and be able to update the package list after each upload.

HardenedLinux: The way to the Ark

We are a group of free software enthusiasts, anarchists, cyber security researchers. Long live anarchy! Long live 0ld sch00l!!! A small step in security hardening –> A giant leap in Free & Open source software!!!

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GRUB 2.02 Bootloader Officially Released with ZFS LZ4 & LVM RAID1 Support, More

Prominent features of GRUB 2.02 include Big-Endian UFS1 support, experimental 64-bit EXT2 support, GPT PReP support, the ability to use LVM UUIDs if available, proper handling of partitioned LVM, CBFS (coreboot) support, ZFS LZ4 support, ZFS features support, XFS V5 format support, as well as LVM RAID1 support.

Mech combat game Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps is now in Beta for Linux, very promising | GamingOnLinux

The actual mech movement mechanics feel really good too, with the body rotating separately to the legs, with a button to quickly align yourself straight again. The wobble when you walk also looks great, it really gives the feeling of actually being in a mech unit. It feels heavy, like you’re an actual pilot and not just a fancy effect.

mp3

On April 23, 2017, Technicolor’s mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated.

What’s Chris’ 2013 Macbook Pro Setup?

It’s working fine but I remember Chris saying he’s got a flawless install with Arch and systemd boot…I’d love to know the setup! If anyone has tips on how they’re working with Hidpi on different distro’s I’d love to hear. Any tips on best ways to switch between intel graphics and nvidia would be awesome too.

Dealing With Power Drain on GNU/Linux for Intel-based machines — Dead Silence

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Meet Windows 10 S, a streamlined Windows Store-only OS for schools

Windows 10 ‘S’ will be free to all students and teachers.

Microsoft unveils $999 Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S – The Verge

__starting preorders_for the Surface Laptop today, priced starting at $999 for the Core i5 version with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD storage. The Surface Laptop will start shipping on June 15th._

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JB1 goes Open Source

2017 | LinuxFest Northwest 2017

LinuxFest Northwest is an annual OpenSource event. May 6th & 7th 2017, in Bellingham, WA USA, LFNW features presentations and exhibits on various free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions and applications. LinuxFest Northwest has something for everyone from the novice to the professional.

CasterSoundboard: A soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. (For podcasting)

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Home Sweet Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 192

chris — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:52 +0000

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Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done

Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made.

Now when I’m on the Internet, it has a purpose—it is a tool I use to enhance my life. Sure, sometimes I log on to watch some funny videos or laugh at memes, but I go to the Internet with the intention of doing these things.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Pinebook Linux laptop is ready to ship

The Pinebook is a cheap, low-power laptop with an ARM-based processor. First unveiled in November, the Pinebook comes from the makers of the Pine A64 single-board computer and it uses the same processor as that tiny desktop.

Prices start at $89 for a model with an 11.6 inch display or $99 for a 14 inch version… but shipping from Hong Kong can add as much as $37 to the price, depending on where you live.

OpenELEC 8.0 Linux OS Officially Out with Raspberry Pi Zero W Support, Kodi 17.1

Based on the latest Kodi 17.1 “Krypton” open-source and cross-platform media center software, OpenELEC 8.0 is here with a lot of updated internals, as well as support for new platforms, such as the recently launched Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer, WeTek Hub, and WeTek Play 2.

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 & 26

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up.

Why use snaps?

Among other things, snaps make packaging, distribution and updates really easy for developers and automated for users. Which means you will get the latest version of your installed apps directly from upstream, on release day, or even daily if upstream has integrated snap publication into their CI process.

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Wes’ Picks

journal-triggerd: Runs trigger on systemd’s journal messages

journal-triggerd is a small daemon that runs in the background, listening to systemd’s journal, and will run “triggers” (i.e. exec a command line) when certain messages are added.

Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface

A quick search for “how to artificially slow down a Linux networking interface” produced a number of interesting results. Folks mostly discussed 3rd party tools like Wondershaper and Dummynet. Other suggestions involved proxying all HTTP/HTTPS traffic through Apache’s mod_bw — yuck!

Fortunately, most Linux distros ship with the tc command which is used to configure Traffic Control in the Linux kernel.

HashiCorp Packer 1.0

Packer 1.0 is a significant milestone. Packer is a powerful and full-featured tool to create cloud images and application packages. Today, Packer is in use by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide to automate their image creation.

Packer was started in 2013 and was the first project started at HashiCorp. Vagrant, our earliest project, was started prior to the founding of HashiCorp. We started Packer with the goal to create one workflow to build various types of deployment images.

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News

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT ‘cowboys’ ride into sunset

The stakes are especially high for the financial industry, where an estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems. The language underpins deposit accounts, check-clearing services, card networks, ATMs, mortgage servicing, loan ledgers and other services.

Of the 20 “Cowboys” that work as part-time consultants many have reached retirement age, though there are some “youngsters,” Hinshaw said. “Well, I call them youngsters, but they’re in their 40s, early 50s.”

The Companies That Support Linux and Open Source: Pinterest | Linux.com

Pinterest — “the world’s catalog of ideas” — is built on open source, according to Jon Parise, technical architecture lead and open source program lead at the company. In this interview, Parise explains how adopting open source has changed the company and helped the company’s engineers design software that is more modular, reusable, and well-documented from the outset.

Pinterest is built on open source. From our first lines of Django code over six years ago to the release of Rocksplicator, our latest open source project, we’ve directly benefited from open source projects and the supportive communities surrounding them. In turn, we’ve made significant contributions to the open source technologies we use and have pushed the limits of technologies like HBase. Internally, open source is part of a product cycle. We frequently open source the technologies we build as both a way to give back to communities and because it’s the right thing to do.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

In the context of an open source project, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, etc, provide a forum for advocacy, gossip, informal discussion, and support. My complaints start when Slack and friends are promoted as the recommended way to communicate with the project.

Slack, et al, are paid services with closed memberships.
Slack, et al, are based on synchronous communication, which discriminate against those who do not or can not take part of the conversation in real time.

Instead of closed, synchronous, systems I recommend open source projects stick to asynchronous communication tools that leave a publicly linkable, searchable, url. The tools that fit this requirement best are; mailing list, issue trackers, and forums.

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

Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.

“Work on the phone and tablet is also ending, the whole convergence story, really,” Hall said. “The desktop will continue, but like it was in the pre-Unity days where we took what upstream [developers] designed and developed.”

By switching to GNOME, Canonical is also giving up on Mir and moving to the Wayland display server, another contender for replacing the X window system. Given the separate development paths of Mir and Wayland, “we have no real choice but to use Wayland when Ubuntu switches to GNOME by default,” Hall told Ars. “Using Mir simply isn’t an option we have.”

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System76 Isn’t Giving Up On Ubuntu, Plans to Put its Own Spin on GNOME

“The Ubuntu Desktop team have always produced an incredible operating system, whether it be with GNOME or Unity. We’re excited to see their thoughtfulness, effort, and innovation added into the GNOME community,” – Carl Richell, System76 CEO

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In OpenDaylight | LINUX Unplugged 165

chris — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:40:50 +0000

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Dial Up Linux | LUP 164

In this special edition of Unplugged we do away with the traditional format & take calls LIVE on the air for free. Some say the advice is worth what you pay for it!

KDE – KDE at 20: Plasma 5.8 LTS. Here for the Long Term.

Tuesday, 4 October 2016. Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.

Neon ISO Images

Tor Users Might Soon Have a Way to Avoid Those Annoying CAPTCHAs

“In essence, the protocol allows a user to solve a single CAPTCHA and in return learn a specified number of tokens that are blindly signed that can be used for redemption instead of witnessing CAPTCHA challenges in the future,”

Introducing PIXEL – Raspberry Pi

“Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight”.

The Raspbian + PIXEL image is available from the Downloads page on our website now.

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Jahshaka VR alpha release | Jahshaka

We have finally managed to release the alpha version of the Jahshaka VR authoring toolkit under the GPL and wanted to invite people to jump in, look at the code and help out. We have been working on it for 6 months now and its starting to stabilize.

Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink

“That’s not acceptable anymore,” he added, “and in a similar fashion the Linux kernel needs to deal with attacks in a manner where it actually is expecting them and actually handles gracefully in some fashion the fact that it’s being attacked.”

What are the things that you would change about Linux?

GitHub Audio

This website tracks events happening across GitHub and converts them to music notes based on certain parameters.

There are three types of sounds(bell, string pluck and string swell) based on four types of events(PushEvent, PullRequestEvent, IssuesEvent and IssueCommentEvent).
Bells represent PushEvents, string plucks represent IssuesEvents and IssueCommentEvents whereas string swells represent PullRequestEvents.

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What is OpenFlow? Definition and how it relates to SDN

An SDN Controller in SDN is the “brains” of the SDN network, relaying information to switches/routers ‘below’ (via southbound APIs) and the applications and business logic ‘above’ (via northbound APIs). Recently, as organizations deploy more SDN networks, SDN Controllers have been tasked with federating between SDN Controller domains, using common application interfaces, like OpenFlow and open virtual switch database (OVSDB).

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Dial Up Linux | LINUX Unplugged 164

chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:14:42 +0000

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File Server with dedicated controller

2U rackmount design, 8 x hot-swappable SATA/SAS drive bays, 1 x slim CD-ROM bay, 1 x FDD bay, 4 x 80mm middle fans,
Switch: Power ON/OFF x 1, System reset x 1 ,Indicator: Power ON/OFF x 1, HDD x 1, NETWORK X 2, Connector: One front accessible USB port
Motherboard Compatibility: Support EEB (12″x13″), CEB(12″x10.5″), ATX (12″x9.6″), Micro ATX (9.6″ x 9.6″)
Power Supply Options: Standard 2U ATX power supply, Dimensions ( W x D x H ):19″ x 25.5″ x 3.5″ (483mm x 650mm x 88mm)

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Getting Started with Arch / Antergergos

Yubikey on Arch
Install packer and then do this: Install or Remove a Package in Antergos
Manually Install a Package on Arch without Packer

Feedback on this?

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Links to other things we talked about this episode

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— LinuxAcademy.com (@linuxacademyCOM) September 20, 2016

Altispeed Technologies

Altispeed Technologies, the current employer of Noah is dedicated to providing creative solutions in an evolving world of technology by leveraging Linux and open source. If you’re looking for managed services such as networking, wireless, or Voip give us a call or click today!

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Games of Linux Future | LINUX Unplugged 163

chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:20:02 +0000

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Professional Colorist Rob Bessette | Color Suite Tour – YouTube

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Microsoft shuts down Skype office in London as it develops yet another client

Microsoft’s solution is to develop yet another client, codenamed “Skype for Life.” This one client will be cross-platform, covering not just Windows but Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Looking forward GNOME 3.22

Between backend reworks, Summer of Code projects and spontaneous contributions from awsome random contributors, here are the things that I’m looking forward with GNOME 3.22 release.

Plasma 5.8 LTS Beta. Here for the Long Term.

Thursday, 15 September 2016. Today KDE releases a beta of its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.

Riot wants to be like Slack, but with the flexibility of an underlying open source platform

Riot is built on _Matrix, an open standard for decentralized persistent communication._

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Is your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server?

Teleport: Modern SSH server for clusters and teams.

Gravitational Teleport is a modern SSH server for remotely accessing clusters of Linux servers via SSH or HTTPS. It is intended to be used instead of sshd. Teleport enables teams to easily adopt the best SSH practices like:

No need to distribute keys: Teleport uses certificate-based access with automatic expiration time.
Enforcement of 2nd factor authentication.
Cluster introspection: every Teleport node becomes a part of a cluster and is visible on the Web UI.
Record and replay SSH sessions for knowledge sharing and auditing purposes.
Collaboratively troubleshoot issues through session sharing.
Connect to clusters located behind firewalls without direct Internet access via SSH bastions.
Ability to integrate SSH credentials with your organization identities via OAuth (Google Apps, Github).

Teleport is built on top of the high-quality Golang SSH implementation and it is fully compatible with OpenSSH.

GitHub – Netflix/bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function

Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function

Scalable and secure access with SSH at Facebook

At Facebook, we take advantage of those features to use SSH in a way that is reliable, secure, and manageable. SSH, more specifically OpenSSH, has a great way to provide both the security and reliability we require: signed certificates with principals.

Nextcloud Box

The Nextcloud box consists of the following parts:

1 TB USB3 hard drive from WDLabs
Nextcloud case with room for the drive and a compute board
microUSB charger, cables and adapters, a screw driver and screws
microSD card with Snappy Ubuntu Core as OS
Apache, MySQL and the latest Nextcloud 10 pre-installed and ready to go

The Box is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 2, which you need to supply yourself. The Box can also fit the Raspberry Pi 3 and the oDroid C2. These will be supported by the software in a future release.

Snapcraft GUI Makes Snap Packaging a Breeze, Install It Now in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

The application uses a sleek dark theme by default, it’s written in C++ and Qt (yes, no GTK+ version at the moment), and it includes quite a lot of features, such as the ability to search the Snappy store for Snaps and install them, the ability to load an example Snap for newcomers, and support for plugins, and many more.

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The Linux Gamer

The Linux Gamer (@thelinuxgamer) | Twitter

Hi! My name’s Gardiner. I create reviews, let’s plays, and explanatory videos about #Linux, #SteamOS, and #Ubuntu games for YouTube!

The Linux Gamer is creating a YouTube Channel for us! | Patreon

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New Games coming to Linux

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming to Mac and Linux this year. Embrace what you've become. pic.twitter.com/0AS5HCQpaI

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) September 15, 2016

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Steam

Now an experienced covert operative, Adam Jensen is forced to operate in a world that has grown to despise his kind. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

Space Shooter ‘Everspace’ To Hit Linux Later This Month

“Linux support under OpenGL 4.0 will be added with the first patch planned for the end of the month,” a press release stuffed in our inbox reads.

Lutris – Open Gaming Platform

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Linux Flying High | LINUX Unplugged 162

chris — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:58:45 +0000

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xkcd: xkcd Phone 4

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MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise

“The vulnerability affects all MySQL servers in default configuration in all version branches (5.7, 5.6, and 5.5) including the latest versions, and could be exploited by both local and remote attackers,” Golunski has explained in an advisory published on Monday.

This drone kit doubles as a Ubuntu Linux PC

A development kit from Parrot is designed to create drones that can avoid obstacles

Ubuntu Torrent Removed from Google for ‘Infringing’ Transformers Movie

Cited in a DMCA takedown request filed against Google on behalf of Paramount Pictures, and spotted by TorrentFreak (and tipped to us by reader ~nonanonymous) is an innocuous link to a 32-bit alternate install image Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS.

Look what happened today. #unity3d #linux #Vulkan pic.twitter.com/Q2vwfsUr4B

— Na'Tosha Bard (@natosha_bard) September 12, 2016

BTRFS status on Linux 4.7 https://t.co/ihpJpkd6Dq The world is already moving to ZFS on both Linux and Unix. pic.twitter.com/OGfyYKnsS0

— nixCraft # (@nixcraft) September 13, 2016

Nextcloud Conference Program Live | Nextcloud

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Kimchi: An HTML5 management interface for KVM

Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as
easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230

Fixing a broken or forgotten Gnome Keyring

GNOME/Keyring – ArchWiki

If you get a password prompt every time you login, and you find that passwords are not saved, you might need to create/set a default keyring.

Ensure that the seahorse package is installed, open it (“Passwords and Keys” in system settings) and select View > By Keyring If there is no keyring in the left column (it will be marked with a lock icon), go to File > New > Password Keyring and give it a name. You will be asked to enter a password. If you do not give the keyring a password it will be unlocked automatically, even when using autologin, but passwords will not be stored securely. Finally, right-click on the keyring you just created and select “Set as default”.

USB/IP Project

The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network.

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Difficulty or Ease of Making Linux Pretty

Looking At Loki | LAS 434

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Mail Sack

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Sengi IT – Big Brother needs to be stopped! | Indiegogo

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Happy Birthday Debian | LINUX Unplugged 158

chris — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:43:29 +0000

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DebianDay/2016 – Debian Wiki

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Firefox 49 for Linux gains plugin-free support for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

Another plugin bites the dust. The Windows and macOS versions of Firefox have supported the Widevine video protocol for a little while now, and the upcoming Firefox 49 for Linux gets the same treatment.

This Theme Pack Makes GIMP Look and Work Like Photoshop

The pack includes:

Photoshop icons for the toolbox

Photoshop keyboard shortcuts (e.g., ‘p’ for pen, ‘c’ for crop, etc.)

A dark grey background

Photoshop layout

Tool options placed on the right-hand side

Canonical Strikes Deal To Bring Ubuntu Core to Intel Gateways

Oft-neglected in talk of smart refrigerators and network-controlled lightbulbs, Gateways are intrinsic to the ‘Internet of Things’. They act as the “middleman” in the Internet-of-Things, ferrying data from sensors and equipment in the real world to and from that stored and analysed in the cloud.

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Leaving Mycroft

Today I am sharing the news that I will be leaving Mycroft AI, Inc. I love my team and have thoroughly enjoyed working on the project, but have decided to pursue other ventures.

Ryan Sipes (@ryanleesipes) | Twitter

Fake Linus Torvalds’ Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs.

Nevertheless, real attacks started in June, some developers found
their fake keys with same name, email, and even “same” fake signatures
by more fake keys in the wild, on the keyservers.

Quick comment about btrfs coverage on the latest LAS

Humble Indie Bundle 17 Goes Live With 7 Linux Games

all the games on offer in the latest Humble Indie Bundle support Linux! Hurrah! Amazing!

Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem | Patreon

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What’s Next for Debian?

Debian turns 23!

Today is Debian’s 23rd anniversary. If you are close to any of the cities
celebrating Debian Day 2016, you’re
very welcome to join the party!

Debian Project Timeline – a timeline of the Debian Project

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Linux on the MacBook

MacBook – ArchWiki

Installing Arch Linux on a MacBook (Air/Pro) or an iMac is quite similar to installing it on any other computer. However, due to the specific hardware configuration of a Mac, there are a few deviations and special considerations which warrant a separate guide

For Chris’s Specific Model: MacBookPro11,x – ArchWiki

This wiki page should help you in getting your MacBook Pro from Late 2013 or Mid 2014 to work with Arch Linux.

Post-Show:

Convergent terminal | Ubuntu Design Blog

On the visual side, we have brought the app in line with our Suru visual language. We have also adopted the very nice Solarized palette as the default palette — though this will of course be completely customisable by the user.

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SSH: Heaven or Shell | LINUX Unplugged 157

chris — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:14:45 +0000

Our favorite tricks & hacks for SSH, debunking the Linux botnet rampage myth, the new challenges Solus is taking on & the inside track on how FOSS Talk Live went.

Plus getting Ubuntu MATE on the BQ Tablet, benchmarking Ubuntu on Windows & our quick takes on using Zim Wiki and TagSpaces to manage your local, secure notes.

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Omega2: $5 Linux Computer with Wi-Fi, Made for IoT by Onion — Kickstarter

Follow Up / Catch Up

Linux Botnets on a Rampage

“That makes them prime targets for hackers, especially those that leverage C&C servers to centrally manage and carry out DDoS attacks,” he told LinuxInsider. “Deploying leading security solutions, as well as utilizing and updating established Linux distros, can go a long way to protecting against these issues.”

Solus Upgraded to the GNOME 3.20 Stack, Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.7

Humble Survive This Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)

3 Linux games

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Ubuntu on Windows! How Fast Is It? n

We’ll first run each test in Ubuntu running natively on the hardware, and then reboot, and run the same benchmarks on the same machine running Ubuntu on Windows.

We’ll use the utilities sysbench, dd and iperf, as well as compile the Linux kernel to do our benchmarking.

Snapcraft 2.13 and Snapd 2.11 Land with Support for Downgrading Installed Snaps

podpublish

Canonical Plans to Unify and Clean Up Networking Configuration in Ubuntu Linux

Currently supported versions of the Ubuntu OS for desktop and server automatically generate ifupdown /etc/network/interfaces during installation. On the other hand, Ubuntu Cloud uses a YAML-based format.

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SSH Hacks and Tricks

OpenSSH 7.3 released

Add a ProxyJump option and corresponding -J command-line
flag to allow simplified indirection through a one or more SSH
bastions or “jump hosts”.

How To Use A Jumphost in your SSH Client Configurations

Jumphosts are used as intermediate hops between your actual SSH target and yourself. Instead of using something like “unsecure” SSH agent forwarding, you can use ProxyCommand to proxy all your commands through your jumphost

Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo)

Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.

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TagSpaces – Your Hackable File Organizer

TagSpaces is an open source personal data manager.
It helps you organize and browse your files on every platform.

Evernote alternative for note taking and management

You can create and edit notes in plain text, MARKDOWN and HTML file formats.
You can organize webpages saved in for example MHT or MHTML format.
You use TagSpaces to organize you e-book library, containing for example PDF or EPUB books.
You can create a personal “wiki” for tracking of your projects, ideas or memories.
- Hosted Edition utilizing WebDAV – TagSpaces
- Products Overview – TagSpaces

Zim – a desktop wiki

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.

Wikitten

Wikitten is a small, fast, PHP wiki that I made because I really needed a place to store my notes, snippets, ideas, and so on. I’ve tried a lot of personal wikis and note-taking applications in the past, but since I have peculiar needs, none of them really suited me, so I rolled my own.

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Snappy Collaboration | LINUX Unplugged 155

chris — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:37:37 +0000

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The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip.

And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, we ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they’d audit if given the means & why.

Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge!

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Surround 360 is now open source

Today we officially open-sourced the specs for Surround 360, our high-quality 3D-360 hardware and software video capture system. The open source project includes the hardware camera design and software stitching code that makes end-to-end 3D-360 video capture possible in one system — from shooting to video processing.

We believe making the camera design and stitching code freely available on GitHub will accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem — developers will be able to leverage the code, and content creators can use the camera in their productions. Anyone will be able to contribute to, build on top of, improve, or distribute the camera based on these specs.

The fall of Open Source

The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement. It is no longer an ideology. It is no longer about fairness, freedom, equality, rights, or the greater good.

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ArchStrike Ethical Hacking Linux Operating System Gets Its First ISO Builds

_The ArchStrike 20__16.07.21__ISOs are __available for download today, distributed for 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures, and are the first of their kind,_

OpenBSD 6.0 tightens security by losing Linux compatibility

ost significant among the latest security-related changes for OpenBSD is the removal of Linux emulation support. Prior versions of OpenBSD made it possible to run Linux applications via a compatibility layer, but the release notes for OpenBSD 6.0 indicate the Linux subsystem was removed as a “security improvement.”

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GNOME Software 3.22 Will Support Installation of Snaps, Flatpak Repository Files

it looks like GNOME Software now supports installation of Flatpak repository files in the .flatpakrepo format, launching of apps using the appstream:// URL, as well as installation of universal binary apps as Snaps.

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KeePass Password Manager is getting a code audit – gHacks Tech News

In light of KeePass and Apache Web server getting an audit, we ask our virtual LUG which projects they’d audit if given the means.

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Pragmatic Idealism | LINUX Unplugged 154

chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:19:16 +0000

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Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist.

Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome.

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Microsoft blocks Linux installations

Microsoft has closed a backdoor left open in Windows RT even though the OS is pretty much dead in the water as Vole can’t be bothered with it any more.

Linux demo of the System Shock remake is now available on GOG

System Shock by Nightdive Studios — Kickstarter

System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994 built by a team of industry veterans.
Remember Citadel.

System Shock Demo on GOG.com

After two decades, Nightdive Studios is rebooting and re-imagining the original System Shock. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved while giving today’s gamers the modern look and feel expected from a AAA title.

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kernel-4.6.4-301.fc24 – Fedora Updates System

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4

For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-kernel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware update before installing the kernel.

You Can Now Use Netflix on Vivaldi and Other Chromium-Based Web Browsers

In other news, your #Chrome browsing data will soon be used for ad tailoring. Time to act surprised, I guess. pic.twitter.com/kd2sgaKtYy

— Philipp Sackl (@phlsa) July 16, 2016

How are they acquiring this browsing data? Is it one of the following?

People who sign into Chrome
People who use opt-out services, like:
“Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”
“Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar or the app launcher search box”
“Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”
“Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google”
“Protect you and your device from dangerous sites”
“Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google”

Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard has managed to create a handy script that would allow you to watch Netflix movies on Vivaldi as well as any other Chromium-based web browser.

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below. · GitHub

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below.

The best Linux laptop: The 2016 Dell XPS 13

Make no mistake about it. The 2016 Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is wonderful. It’s fast, its display is gorgeous, and, at less than three pounds, you can carry and code with it anywhere. But, oh, that price tag!

Hands-on with the Linux-ready Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition | Opensource.com

Canonical Announces Snappy Sprint Event in Germany to Shape Up Universal Snaps

Today, July 5, Canonical’s David Planella has informed Softpedia about an upcoming event that aims to gather together developers and contributors from various well-known projects to work on shaping up the universal Snaps.

Just finished the first cross distro session on Day 2 of the Snappy Sprint. Sitting in this room are representatives from Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementary and Ubuntu. All working together to make sure that Snappy is well integrated into the various distro CI systems and provides a consistent experience everywhere.

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubunt…

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubuntu, who’ve been invited to represent their distro or project. Around this table are AppStream, Arch Linux, Debian, elementary, Fedora, openWRT, openSUSE, KDE and (me behind the camera) MATE. And some +Ubuntu of course

GitHub – ubuntu/snappy-playpen: A place to test, learn creating snaps and share best practices.

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Chris’ VPN Follow Up

AirVPN – The air to breathe the real Internet

A VPN based on OpenVPN and operated by activists and hacktivists in defence of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship.

Would I finally surrender to Intuit and start using Quicken? Was a Google Docs spreadsheet enough to get me through? I experimented with GNU Cash for a bit and found it very powerful but somewhat difficult to use. A search for other open source tools randomly led me to ledger and my interest was peaked.

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One NAT to Rule Them | LINUX Unplugged 153

chris — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:33:48 +0000

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Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit?

Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product.

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Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period | ZDNet

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the leading desktop front-end was Bash. Things have changed in those 25 years. Today, the best Linux desktop is the latest version of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 18 Sarah with the Cinnamon 3.0 interface.

Linux Mint 18 reviews roundup | InfoWorld

Latest Vivaldi Browser Snapshot Improves Tab Hibernation on GNU/Linux Distros

“Good news for Linux users! You can now hibernate tabs while the browser is running,” said Magnus Peter Langeland. “Choose Hibernate Tab to hibernate the selected tab or Hibernate Background Tabs to hibernate all other tabs in the window. Oh and remember, you cannot hibernate a tab while you are viewing its contents.”

ICSI Netalyzr — Command-line Client

Debug your Internet.

Any good Linux friendly VPN providers?

3G and 4G LTE Cell Coverage Map – OpenSignal

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You Can Now Run Ubuntu Linux with the Unity Desktop on Top of Windows 10 – Updated

After doing all sorts of tricks in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CSSM) GUI configuration tool for Compiz, and using a combination of VcXsrv and XLaunch, two applications for configuring and setting up a Windows X server, he has managed to run Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with the Unity desktop environment on top of Windows 10.

Linux’s AV Stack Adding Awesome Features

Beamforming in PulseAudio | Arun Raghavan

Beamforming as a concept is used in various aspects of signal processing including radio waves, but I’m going to be talking about it only as applied to audio. The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a mic array) in some known arrangement, it is possible to “point” or steer the array in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction are made louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer (attenuated).

Practically speaking, it should be easy to see the value of this on a laptop, for example, where you might want to focus a mic array to point in front of the laptop, where the user probably is, and suppress sounds that might be coming from other locations. You can see an example of this in the webcam below. Notice the grilles on either side of the camera — there is a microphone behind each of these.

Introducing GStreamer VR Plug-ins and SPHVR – Lubosz’s Blog

Pronounced sphere, SPHVR is a python video player using gst-plugins-vr. Currently it is capable of opening a URL of an equirectangular mapped spherical video.

CopperheadOS – Secure Android

CopperheadOS currently supports the Nexus 5, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.

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Nylas N1

Nylas Pro

But right now, Nylas N1 is also free as in free beer, and that’s a problem. Due to its popularity, the API traffic for N1 users has dramatically eclipsed the combined volume of all other apps built on the Nylas Cloud APIs. We already sync several hundred terabytes of data for our users and are adding tens of thousands of new users each month. It’s costing us real dollars.

Does anyone here use Nylas?

Dekko Is Shaping Up Nicely for Desktop Convergence

Dekko developer Dan Chapman shared some images of a new, converged Dekko for the desktop on Google+, under the title “An all new Dekko is coming!”.

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What’s Going on with Matrix.org?

Ruma – A Matrix homeserver written in Rust.

Matrix is an open specification for an online communication protocol. It includes all the features you’d expect from a modern chat platform including instant messaging, group chats, audio and video calls, searchable message history, synchronization across all your devices, and end-to-end encryption. Matrix is federated, so no single company controls the system or your data. You can use an existing server you trust or run your own, and the servers synchronize messages seamlessly. Learn more in the Introduction to Matrix.

Say Hello To Vector! — Medium

This week, we’re officially launching Vector, a forward-looking open source collaboration app, and the very first production-ready application built on top of the Matrix open standard. In fact Vector Web has been around for a bit, growing and being polished with the help of a passionate community of pioneers and they’ve done a great job of supporting us with useful feedback! And now the mobile apps are out! So today Vector is ready to be shared more widely as a proper beta.

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To .NET or to .NOT? | LINUX Unplugged 152

chris — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:40:03 +0000

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Noah joins Wes for the second time this week to talk with the mumble room. Package management for Bash takes it one step too far, Nvidia starts putting GPUs in your containers, we learn some surprising things about open source at Comcast & discuss just what “Microsoft Linux” really means.

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LuaRadio can be used to rapidly prototype software radios, modulation/demodulation utilities, and signal processing experiments. It can also be embedded into existing radio applications to serve as a user scriptable engine for processing samples

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Nvidia plugin makes GPU acceleration possible in Docker containers

Nvidia’s new approach — an open source Docker plugin named nvidia-docker — provides a set of driver-agnostic CUDA images for a container’s contents, along with a command-line wrapper that mounts the user-mode components of CUDA when the container is launched.
+ nvidia-docker plugin

Surf

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+

Mycroft AI Integration Now Available on KDE Plasma 5 Desktops

It took him about a month since the release of the Mycroft AI application for the GNOME Shell interface of the GNOME desktop environment, but developer Aditya Mehra managed to get it running on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop as well.

Qt5 Frontend for Mycroft Aihttps://github.com/AIIX

Snappy in Arch moved to community repo

That’s right, snapd and snap-confine have now moved to the official community repository. This means that the barrier to entry is now significantly lower and that installation is even faster than before. You still want to read the snapd wiki page to know the details about various post-install activities.

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bpkg is a bash package manager

JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg!

With bpkg you can easily install and manage Bash packages. It takes care of installing/uninstalling, execution permissions and everything.

Besides installing shell scripts globally you can use them on a per-project basis.

Packages by name

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How Linux and Open Source Are Powering Comcast’s Massive Infrastructure

Comcast is a heavy user of Linux, and it touches everything: from back-end servers to customer facing devices like X1 products. Muehl said. “Comcast, like so many others, is a very Linux-heavy operating system company.”

Comcast has been involved with OpenStack since 2012. “We did a lot of early work around networking because we needed to get IPv6 working. We needed to do some traffic shaping and marking capabilities within the OpenStack infrastructure. All of those have now been upstreamed,” said Muehl.

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Howto: Setup .NET Core on Ubuntu

.NET Core 1.0 is here and it’s a great, great opportunity to start playing with it not only on Windows platform but also on Linux.

.NET Core Github

Running i3 Window Manager on Bash For Windows

Imagine my surprise when I installed Bash for Windows on this build and pretty much everything worked. I cloned my dotfiles and ran the post-install scripts that install i3 window manager, neovim, zsh, Go, and all the requisite development tools that I’m used to. Nothing failed.

…Returning to bash, I typed i3 again. Gloriously, the famililar i3 session appeared. I’m able to install and run Linux GUI applications like Firefox. I have terminator running as my terminal emulator. I’m running zsh as my shell. Neovim just works, as does Go. All of them think they’re running on a Linux computer, because for all intents and purposes they are. It just happens to have a Windows NT kernel at its core.

Strange, strange times we live in. 20 years ago Microsoft called Linux a cancer and did everything they could to make it die. Today they’re embracing Linux – and by extension me – and I have to say I’m really impressed with the outcome.

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Universal Divide | LINUX Unplugged 151

chris — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:27:24 +0000

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We go hands on with Linux Mint 18, then discuss the latest batch of desktop killers & Wimpy’s new rig. Plus what makes Mattermost really great, a new new universal package format, the confusing things Red Hat says & we get to know WireGuard!

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Mattermost does open source the right way.

Mattermost is doing it the right way: designing and building a beautiful user experience, and backing it up with the awesomeness of open source. Now you can make your users happy, and benefit from the four freedoms… that’s the way to do it.

Sean Fennell / mmsetup · GitLab

This script will take a clean Ubuntu 14.04 server on Digital Ocean and set it up to be used as a Mattermost server. It also takes care of securing the server.

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— System76 (@system76) June 28, 2016

A New Ubuntu Phone Is In Development

Midori is the name of a nimble WebKit-based web browser — but might it also be the codename for a new Ubuntu Phone?

Reader Richard S — and big thanks to you Richard! — pointed us to bug #1551811. This bug mentions the device codename ‘Midori’ with regards to a ‘trust prompt’ issue that causes a reboot on the MX4 and the mystery new handset.

A quick Google shows that the codename ‘Midori’ is in keeping with the codenames of previous Ubuntu devices, as it is, is once again, based on a character from the Dragon Ball franchise

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Next-Generation Secure Network Tunnel Announced For The Linux Kernel

It’s much simpler than anything before it, with peers exchanging short Curve25519 public keys just like in SSH. Secure network interfaces can be added and removed using the usual ‘ip-link’ and ‘ip-address’ tools. From there, everything is easily taken care of by the kernel, and secure tunnels are made quite simple. Not only that, but the performance is in fact better than IPsec, which is quite the accomplishment.”

Disclosure, I’ve reviewed various versions of the kernel code, over the past few months, and it seems sane, but note I am not a kernel networking developer :)

What is subuser?

Docker provides an isolated and consistent environment for your programs to run in. Subuser gives your desktop programs access to the resources they need in order to function normally.

Microsoft Announces Open .NET Core 1.0 at Red Hat Summit

Microsoft announced the moves at, of all places, Red Hat Summit. Why would that happen? One of the motivations in open sourcing .NET and other platform tools is to build bridges between .NET infrastructure tools and Linux

Microsoft: Nearly One In Three Azure Virtual Machines Now Are Running Linux

Russinovich said, Microsoft has gone from one in four of its Azure virtual machines running Linux to nearly one in three. The other two-thirds of Azure customers are running Windows Server in their virtual machines.

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Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and MATE Editions Are Now Available for Download

Thanks to one of our regular readers who constantly monitored the development progress of the Linux Mint 18 operating systems, we’ve been informed that the final ISO images are now available for download for both Cinnamon and MATE editions.

New features in Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 18 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.

ISO Downloads

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Is The Linux Desktop Dead?

All hail our new overlords the mobile, the portable, and slim. With high-end devices like the NUC redefining what it means to be a desktop computer, and mobiles massive market share, and now the latest crop of “desktop killer” laptops make us question how many of us will be running Linux on a “traditional desktop” in 10 years?

Entroware will soon be announcing a new laptop and I had the privilege of na…

Entroware will soon be announcing a new laptop and I had the privilege of naming her! The Entroware Athena will soon be available for purchase, pre-installed with either Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS.

Athena

Athena is available now, with either 15“ or 17″ screen, two Intel i7 CPU options, nvidia 970M or 980M GPU, upto 64GB RAM, 2x M.2, 2x SATA and comes pre-installed with either Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE

Oryx Pro – System76

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War of the Packages | LINUX Unplugged 150

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:17:51 +0000

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We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more!

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Fedora 24 released!

The Fedora 24 Workstation release features GNOME 3.20, with many usability improvements such as easier input device and printer settings, a better search interface, shortcut windows for keyboard commands, and more convenient music controls.

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is another building-block feature, with Software able to track installed Flatpaks and adding more features in the future as the technology develops. The Software app has also grown features to provide a full system upgrade directly from the desktop from one Fedora release to the next, and the ability to provide labeling as well as reviews of available software.

Fedora 24 continues our work on the X replacement, Wayland, a next-generation graphics stack. Although this release will not default to Wayland, it includes many improvements and is available as an option for users to try out, and potentially will be the default stack in Fedora 25.

Upgrading Fedora 23 Workstation to Fedora 24

Before you do anything, you will want to make sure you have the latest software for Fedora 23 before beginning the upgrade process. Additionally, make sure you back up your system before proceeding. One popular tool available in Fedora for this purpose is deja-dup. To update your software, use GNOME Software or enter the following command in a terminal.

Mycroft Core, v0.7 – Responsive Listening, 3rd Party Skills

Today marks the release of a new version of Mycroft. This moves us from the 0.6.X versioning to 0.7 – putting us closer to a 1.0 release. This is a significant update because it contains a large rethinking of the listener that Mycroft uses. The result is our new “Responsive Listening” mode.

OnePlus 3 to Become an Unofficial Ubuntu Phone, Development Will Start Soon

We’ve had a quick chat today with Marius Gripsgård from UBports.com, a group of independent developers trying to port Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system to as many devices as possible, about an upcoming port to OnePlus 3.

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Solus 1.2 Shannon Released

We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.2, the second minor release in the Shannon series of releases. Solus 1.2 builds upon the groundwork of 1.1 and 1.0, with continued improvements to Budgie, a huge focus on software optimizations, in addition to laying the framework for providing a performant gaming experience. Solus 1.2 furthers us on our journey to realizing the future of home computing.

Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine

Docker 1.12, which includes all of these new features, is now available as a release candidate, with general availability planned for July. Once they have been more thoroughly tested, swarm mode and other additions to 1.12 will find their way into the company’s commercial offerings in the second half of 2016.

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maru

Maru packs a complete desktop experience on your smartphone. Your phone runs independently of your desktop so you can take a call and work on your big screen at the same time. Personal computing couldn’t be simpler.

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Flatpak Released

Stockholm, Sweden – 21st June 2016 – The development team behind Flatpak is excited to announce the general availablity of their new framework for desktop applications on Linux. Previously named xdg-app, Flatpak is available on a range of major Linux distributions.

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