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Software Defined Networking | LAS 437

chris — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 18:40:43 +0000

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Highlights of OpenDayLight Summit

OpenDaylight Summit brings together users, developers and the SDN community to discuss, debate and demonstrate the latest technologies and trends in open networking.
The OpenDayLight Summit was Hands down one of the best coordinated, decorated, and fed events. Always a winner with IT pros.
After walking the floor, we sat in on some sessions to absorb as much information as we could… Which left us a little hungry
How OpenDayLight enables little guys to compete with the big networking Enterprises, and historic collaboration in the Telco Industry that OpenDayLight is driving

Interview with Neela Jacques (Executive Director of OpenDayLight)

Neela Jacques (Executive Director) | OpenDaylight

As OpenDaylight’s executive director, Nicolas “Neela” Jacques works with the OpenDaylight community to advance SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform for products and technologies that expand the intelligence, programmability and performance of network infrastructures. He oversees and provides guidance for all aspects of the project, from governance and technology to community and marketing and reports to the OpenDaylight board of directors.

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OpenDayLight Platform

A community-led, open, industry-supported platform, consisting of code and blueprints for accelerating adoption of SDN, and fostering new innovation.

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Desktop App PickModem Manager GUI

Many people have written in and asked “how did you get your modem in your thinkpad to work” This is the software needed to activate the modem under linux

Modem Manager GUI is frontend for ModemManager daemon able to control specific modem functions.

Main features:

GTK3 interface
Send and receive SMS messages with messages concatenation
Send USSD request and receive answer in system encoding
Get modem and SIM information (Device info, Operator name, Mode, IMEI, IMSI/ESN, Signal level)
Scan available mobile networks
Control data transmission process and set session traffic and time limits
WAN Modem: Sierra EM7455

Spotlight

Ring

Talked about before, formally SFLPhone.

Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users.

Powered Linux Unplugged Last Tuesday

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Kodi boxes are now a key target in the UK government’s piracy crackdown

It’s an international racket, according to the government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) annual crime report.

Piracy fighters battle Kodi ‘epidemic’ – BBC News

“This is becoming an epidemic,” Kieron Sharp, director general of Fact, told the BBC.

“If you are not paying for Sky, BT or one of the pay-TV providers for your subscription channels, you are clearly in possession of an illegal box.”

UK IP Crime Report 2016 Reveals IPTV/Kodi Piracy as Growing Threat – TorrentFreak

The UK’s IP Crime Report 2015/16 has just been published, revealing infringement trends gathered from both governmental and private anti-piracy groups. This year in the online piracy sector IPTV/Kodi, torrent sites and stream ripping are seen as the main threats.

Meanwhile, the report reveals that pirating Internet subscribers will be receiving warning letters before the end of the year.

Sale of Kodi ‘fully-loaded’ streaming boxes faces legal test – BBC News

Middlesbrough trader Brian Thompson appeared in court, accused of selling equipment that “facilitated the circumvention” of copyright protection measures.

Add-on:Jupiter Broadcasting – Official Kodi Wiki

Purism Is Still Hoping To Build A GNU/Linux Free Software Librem Smartphone – Phoronix

Purism, the startup behind the Librem laptops with a focus on free software and user privacy/freedom, still has their minds set on coming up with a GNU/Linux smartphone.

Librem Phone preliminary survey – Purism

This phone will be based around these tenets, coherent with our philosophy:

Free Software with a bona fide GNU+Linux stack (not Android)
Protecting your privacy
Digital security
Avoiding corporate wiretapping
Freedom-respecting hardware
Starting with the essentials and evolving the product offering through its software and infrastructure
Releasing the schematics of the hardware, encouraging participation at all levels and allowing you to independently audit the integrity of your hardware
Breaking the cycle of planned obsolescence imposed by most manufacturers

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Name: Nehemiah D.

Subject: Zoho vs Zurmo

Message: Noah mentioned Zoho CRM, and I didn’t see that it was open source. Odoo is open source and beautiful. Consider it.

I didn’t reccomend Zoho I said https://zurmo.org/

Name: Gordan

Subject: Heads up on QNAP before you Dive in

Message: Hi Chris ‘n’ Noah

Just listened to this week’s LAS and my ears pricked up when I heard your enthusiasm for an upcoming QNAP device you are getting for review. Thought I would drop you a line with my experience of using their kit. We have three of their rackmount TS series NAS units (2 x 8 disk and 1 x 4 disk devices). We used them for relatively inexpensive archive storage as well as an onsite backup device and an off-site replication copy. Primary storage is on DELL iSCSI SANs.

We used them with 6TB WD Reds until recently after losing data on them for around the 20th time
Quite regularly the volumes would drop offline despite the disks showing as healthy. Typically QNAP support would log into the devices and run an FSCK repair which would take several days. Sometimes this would work and sometimes it wouldn’t, requiring us to completely rebuild the units and restore data to them.
Earlier this year we replaced the first unit with a thrown together FreeNas box. We noticed an instant improvement in performance and it hasn’t faltered once. We have since replaced the other two backup devices with similar improvements and have just replaced one of the Dell iSCSI SANs with a FreeNas box which out-performs the Dell with much cheaper disks.
My current project I have just built a Proxmox cluster with a full SSD FreeNas and 10Gbe iSCSI interconnects. It boots to a Windows 2012 server desktop in 2 seconds! (Not my choice of OS but obviously it does Linux really well too).

Hope my experience of QNAP will encourage you to be cautious with any data you trust them with.

Keep up the sterling work!
Gordon

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CoreOS: Future of Servers | LAS 315

chris — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:38:01 +0000

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The CTO of CoreOS joins us to go into detail about how CoreOS deploys applications in Docker Containers, allows for automatic server updates, and might just finally fix security on the web.

Plus: We’ll wrap up the TrueCrypt upset, and discuss our prefered Linux TrueCrypt replacements, a quick look at Mint 17…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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CoreOS:

Brought to you by: System76

Guest: Brandon Philips is CTO at CoreOS.

Brandon Philips (BrandonPhilips) on Twitter

CTO @ CoreOS. Worked on Luvit and Cloud Monitoring at Rackspace and was a Linux Kernel Guy at SUSE.

Worked at SUSE: June 2007 – June 2011 (4 years 1 month).
Brandon Philips Personal Site

CoreOS Details:

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Google Cloud Platform Blog: Official CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine

CoreOS integrates easily with Google load balancers and replica pools to easily scale your applications across regions and zones. Using replica groups with CoreOS is easy; configure the project-level metadata to include a discovery URL and add as many machines as you need. CoreOS will automatically cluster new machines and fleet will begin utilizing them. If a single machine requires more specific configuration, additional cloud-config parameters can be specified during boot.

The Companies That Support Linux: CoreOS | Linux.com

On May 19, CoreOS joined the Linux Foundation as a corporate member

Run Services with Docker
Service Discovery with etcd
Cluster Management with fleet

CoreOS Interview:

Q: I would really like to hear about the motivation behind that project (maybe a little story how and why it was started).
Q: I’ve read “based on ChromeOS” quite a bit. We assume that means its a fork, could you give us the details?
Q: How Does CoreOS differ from a traditional “Linux distro”?
Q: systemd in CoreOS? How critical is it, and can you give us some examples?
Example: Fleet presents the cluster as a distributed init system by aggregating systemd running on each machine.
Q: Can you go into more detail about how applications are deployed in Docker?
Ex: I want to install nginx, would that process be similar to installing a package via apt, but the software is deployed inside a Docker Container?
Q: Can you talk about etcd is used for distributed config managment?
Q: If a node fails, how does another node pick up the work if the data is stored in a container? Is central shared storage an important component to a full CoreOS deployment?
Q: It seems likely that the web would be a lot safer if we all used CoreOS. Do you personally believe that’s true? And why?
Q: You recently wrote about btrfs features that could benefit servers, and specifically Docker containers. Could you talk a bit about that?
- Q: MANY More! Catch this week’s episode for answers and more questions!

Find out more about CoreOS:

Inaugural CoreOS Meetup – San Francisco CoreOS Meetup (San Francisco, CA)

First CoreOS meetup in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. RSVP!

CoreOS Linux (coreoslinux) on Twitter

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Runs Linux

Jimmy Research Humanoid Robot, Runs Linux

Intel NUC D54250WYK, which features an Intel Core i5-4250U 4th Generation Haswell
4GB of DDR3 RAM (up to 16gb expansion)
32GB SSD for internal storage.
Wifi 802.11AC, and Bluetooth.
4x USB 3.0 & 2x USB 2.0 ports
HDMI & Display Port video output
Gigabit Ethernet
SATA port
Up to 8-channel audio.
The robot is offered in two flavors of Linux- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for developers who wish to take advantage of a full-featured desktop OS, or Yocto Project Poky distribution OpenEmbedded Linux which has a custom 21C Robots layer to allow for unified support across many different CPU configurations and hardware.

Sent by Jimmy TheRobot.

Desktop App Pick

Gnome Encfs Manager

The Gnome Encfs Manager (or short GEncfsM) is an easy to use manager and mounter for encfs stashes featuring per-stash configuration, Gnome Keyring support, a tray menu inspired by Cryptkeeper and lots of unique features. Whether you want to let it do things as simple as mounting a stash at startup, which is often used in conjunction with cloud-synced folders on services like Dropbox & Co., or whether you want to let it automatically mount and unmount your stashes on removeable drives such as USB-disks, SD-cards or even network-resources, GEncfsM is designed to do all the work for you.

AUR (en) – gnome-encfs-manager

Linux Mint 15 Review: Arch’s Nemesis?

What\’s your TrueCrypt replacement?

Weekly Spotlight

Mozilla Labs : TogetherJS

TogetherJS is a free, open source JavaScript library by Mozilla that adds collaboration features and tools to your website. By adding TogetherJS to your site, your users can help each other out on a website in real time!

— NEWS —

TrueCrypt Must Not Die – organizing a future

This is not a fork (yet), we just coordinate, a fork will probably have a new name. Combining efforts is most important for now.

First priority: Making the product available again.
Second priority: finding interested and capable persons volunteering to help. Identify and solve legal issues. Identify Security Threats.
Additionally: we will wait for the result of the Open Crypto Audit
Third priority: Fork the project and solve security threats. Found a support association for continued development.

4000+ Downloads in the first 24 hours: There is still demand for a product like TrueCrypt!

Tales from the TrueCrypt | TechSNAP 164

The TrueCrypt project has shut down, and we\’ll run down what we think is the most likely answer to this sudden mystery is.

#TrueCrypt users on Arch https://t.co/CJpDYSHT3H and Gentoo https://t.co/1dsk1rRnpQ your #TrueCrypt has not been updated yet. Keep an eye out

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) May 28, 2014

Linux Mint 17 Released!

Linux Mint 17 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features in Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon

The Update Manager was hugely improved.

It shows more information, it looks better, it feels faster, and it gets less in your way. It no longer needs to reload itself in root mode when you click on it. It no longer checks for an Internet connection or waits for the network manager and it no longer locks the APT cache at session startup.

The UI was improved, the icons were modified a bit and the changelog retrieval is now much faster and more reliable.

A new \”type\” column was added to differentiate between traditional updates, security updates, backports and romeo updates.

Security updates can now bypass safety levels and two new options were added for you to decide if they should always be visible and if they should be selected. By default these options are respectively set to True and to False.

Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” MATE released!

Linus Torvalds Reads Mean Tweets

Taking a page from Jimmy Kimmel\’s Mean Tweets series, The Linux Foundation asked Linux creator Linus Torvalds to read some of the community\’s more colorful tweets. Of course, Linus adds his very own commentary.

Linus Torvalds Reads Your Mean Tweets – YouTube

Leadwerks Game Engine: Indie Edition on Steam

The company today announced that its engine tools have launched on the Ubuntu Software Center — and Leadwerks now plans to focus on Ubunty as its primary supported platform, even over its Windows engine.

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Client Side Drama | LINUX Unplugged 37

chris — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:02:19 +0000

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The GTK camp is pushing hard for Client Side Decorations, but there are some major drawbacks on non-Gnome desktops. We discuss the pros and cons, and if this is going to lead to a new kind of desktop Linux fragmentation.

Plus our thoughts on the best password managers, your follow up, and more!

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Client Side Diva

Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

That’s why I decided to CC the Ayatana mailinglist and publish this letter as an open letter on my blog. CSD is a topic that is important for every user and nothing we should discuss in a small group.

Consistent window decorations: This in fact is my greatest doubt. The current situation is that all windows have the same window decoration. For CSD to work applications have to be changed to support them. This will render the changed applications using CSD while all other applications are decorated by the window manager. I think it is impossible to have the same behavior for both CSD and wm decos. I think there are lots of legacy applications which cannot be changed, for example Amarok 1.4 which is still used by many users even in GNOME. I doubt you will be able to change Qt 3 to use CSD. My bigger concern is that we will end up with applications shipping their own style and doing their own kind of decorations. So we end up with situations like one window has buttons on left, one on the right, one in order close, maximize, minimize, the other in close, minimize, maximize, etc.

Just look on the Microsoft Windows desktop to see what proprietary applications tend to do when they get the chance to influence the decorations.

The Wayland Reason, he disagrees with:

Get gtk+ working on Wayland: I don’t see how Wayland can be an argument for CSD. Could we consider Wayland as unimportant till it is looking like something is actually going on? I checked the commits in 2010 in the public git repository and well it looks like KWin has more commits per day. It’s nice that you think of the future, but please don’t use it for argumentation. So also not valid.

On the Gnome Wiki they state this about Wayland and Client Side Decorations:

Initiatives/Wayland/GTK+ – GNOME Wiki!

Under Wayland, it is preferred that clients render their own window decorations. Since gnome-shell will need to keep support for decorating X clients, it would be good if GTK+ and gnome-shell could share the css theming.

The comment thread on this post introducing CSD in Gnome 3.10 is quite interesting

CSDs came to stay in GNOME 3.10! | woGue

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