Mark Shuttleworth – Jupiter Broadcasting

We are a small team at _ungleich_and we simply don’t have the time to fix problems caused by systemd on a daily basis. This is even without calculating the security risks that come with systemd. Our objective is to create a great, easy-to-use platform for VM hosting, not to walk a tightrope.

Context on Conservancy’s Filing for Summary Judgment with the TTAB

Therefore we’ve proceeded today with the most expedient defense available to us:
a summary judgment motion which can be read on the USPTO’s website. As a
non-lawyer, I explain in this blog post some details of that motion and its
supporting documents in more mundane, non-legal terms.

We filed a motion for summary judgment today against SFLC's motion to dismiss our trademark. https://t.co/z64bOLCBjW

— Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) December 12, 2017

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Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped development. Mailspring has more than 10k active users on Linux, and will offer the snap as the preferred install method beginning from this week.

“The vision for Canonical is to provide the platform that you see everywhere other than the personal domain. We won’t make a dent in phone or PCs. But pretty much your entire data center runs Linux and every other thing in the room is running Linux,” Shuttleworth said. “Can we help deliver that innovation and do it in a format that is secure, reliable and very, very cheap? That’s an interesting set of challenges.”

Spaceman Shuttleworth Finds Earthly Riches With Ubuntu Software

“Afronaut” Mark Shuttleworth has become as billionaire from his bet on Ubuntu Linux software https://t.co/8CBiRBcOnF pic.twitter.com/ANp5ahIvLu

— Bloomberg (@business) December 12, 2017

Steam now lets developers know how many users want their game on Mac and Linux

Valve has made a change to the developer side of Steam that gives developers a breakdown of the different platforms people choose when adding a game to their wishlist.

This is helpful because it also shows platforms that the game does not currently support, letting the developer know how much interest there is for ports on platforms other than Windows. This is obviously only limited to PC operating systems, so Mac, Linux, and SteamOS.

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event in Bellingham, WA USA, features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!

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Open Source Replacements for Centralized Services and Platforms

It’s all about the platform, building the biggest platform, with the most engaged users, with the most control.

YouTube is a platform, Patreon is also a platform. It feels like the walls are closing in tighter and tighter than ever. 

Early Linux users watched this as Microsoft used the position of their platform to keep Linux off the desktop. 

But now these platform wars happen at an exponential rate across every tech category. Recently Google started blocking YouTube on Echo Show's because Amazon doesn't sell Nest cams and Chromecasts (amongst others). 

It's always the users that lose these platform wars, and the large corporations don't care about the collateral damage.

But are we starting to see the cracks in these platform's grip?

YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks + Secret YouTube Meeting

Open Source YouTube Replacement

PeerTube

Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.

We can’t build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo… with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server.

So we need to have a decentralized network (as Diaspora for example).

But it’s not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
It’s the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
Thanks to WebTorrent, we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.

Open Source Patreon Replacement

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform.

Dash Crypto Currency — Dash

At Dash’s core is a unique fully-incentivized peer-to-peer network. Miners are rewarded for securing the blockchain and masternodes are rewarded for validating, storing and serving the blockchain to users.

Masternodes represent a new layer of network servers that work in highly secure clusters called quorums to provide a variety of decentralized services, like instant transactions, privacy and governance, while eliminating the threat of low-cost network attacks.

Open Source Twitter Replacement

Mastodon

The world’s largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network

Matrix

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

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Gentoo Challenge Check-In

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Remotely Useful | LINUX Unplugged 220

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

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Pre-Show

Mirrors Status Ubuntu

Follow Up / Catch Up

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

Altispeed Tech Portal

Get Going with X2Go | LAS 374 | Jupiter Broadcasting

The best remote desktop experience has never been easier, we’ll show you the power of X2Go with the security of SSH!

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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Orange is the new Red (Hat) | LINUX Unplugged 196

chris — Tue, 09 May 2017 19:13:36 +0000

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Chuwi LapBook 12.3 is a 2K Ubuntu Laptop for $329

The standout feature is the 12.3-inch IPS display which has a 2K resolution (2736×1824) and 3:2 aspect ratio. I’ve never used Ubuntu (or any OS, for that matter) on HiDPI so I’m blissfully unaware to the current state of things!

mimipenguin: A tool to dump the login password from the current linux user

A tool to dump the login password from the current linux desktop user. Adapted from the idea behind the popular Windows tool mimikatz.

Thunderbird’s Future Home

The investigations on Thunderbird’s future home have concluded. The Mozilla Foundation has agreed to serve as the legal and fiscal home for the Thunderbird project, but Thunderbird will migrate off Mozilla Corporation infrastructure, separating the operational aspects of the project.

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Apricity OS

Like all good things, Apricity OS must come to an end. It has been our privilege to develop the operating system, and to be a part of a community as great as our own. But unfortunately, we no longer have time for its required upkeep.

Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI | Ars Technica

Unlike Android and Chrome OS, Fuchsia is not based on Linux—it uses a new, Google-developed microkernel called “Magenta.”

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

Transitioning to LINUX Unplugged, wrapping up this Sub.

We’ve had a secret skunk-works project all long, and after years of careful crafting, organic sourcing, small batch thinking, and industrialized scaling potential, we are ready to unveil the next big thing in subreddits

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Canonical starts IPO path | ZDNet

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth reveals the reason for recent changes with the powerhouse Ubuntu Linux company were to prepare it for an IPO.

Where we failed, and I feel responsible for miscalculating effectively, was our push into personal computing: phones, tablets, PCs.

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DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Galago Pro – First Hands On

Take advantage of ports like USB-C with Thunderbolt, Ethernet, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort… with an SD card slot for good measure. No dongles necessary!

System76 Blog — GNOME!

Home sweet GNOME. It’s been a while but we’re excited to be back. We’ve been playing with our new toy the last few weeks. Our Slack channels were fiery fast but the geek debates have subsided. We’ve now gathered our thoughts and laid out our plan.

Post-Show

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The Linux Action Show! Season 10 Episode 2

chris — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:00:34 +0000

This week on, The Linux Action Show!

We rock your ears and eyes with so much awesome! Want to know what Mark Shuttleworth thinks about Windows 7, we’ll tell ya! What happened with TomTom and Microsoft’s ultimate smack down – WE GIVE YOU THE UPDATE! The Red Hat CEO shares his thoughts about the future of the Linux Desktop and we don’t think you’re gonna like it! And we give you a round up of the up coming Linux distribution releases and share our thoughts!

THEN – We chat with our in studio guest on how his company makes money off open source software, in Microsoft’s own backyard!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

All This week, on The Linux Action Show!

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