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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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• SilentKeys: A Keyboard that Protects your Privacy & Security by Preevio — Kickstarter

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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.

• https://popey.com/~alan/mycroft-test.mp3

• Mycroft-Android

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.

• Snap-ception: Editing the Geany snapcraft.yaml from the snapped package of…

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We discuss the official release of Vulkan, look at who has shipping code & why this is much bigger than you might realize.

Plus Chris share’s his first hands on impressions of Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, some big Ubuntu Mobile noise, the Linux security bug you need to patch for right away & more!

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Ubuntu Phone To Gain Biometric Security Features

Ubuntu Phones running secure biometric identity tools will be demoed at next week’s Mobile World Congress.

Canonical has partnered with ConsenSYS and BlockApps to provide “web wallet and biometric identity tools on Ubuntu devices” using Ethereum, the decentralized public blockchain protocol.

Maru is open source! – Maru Blog

_I’ve gotta say, the open source community never ceases to amaze me. I’ve had emails from people asking if they can help test Maru on other devices ___on a Sunday___. How many normal people do you know that willingly want to give up their Sundays to help test software?

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Google Online Security Blog: CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

• Carlos O’Donell – [PATCH] CVE-2015-7547 — glibc getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflo
• glibc Linux remote code execution vulnerability | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

FFmpeg 3.0 Released, Supports VP9 VA-API Acceleration

There are many changes to FFmpeg 3.0 and among them are:

• Extensive native AAC encoder improvements
• VA-API VP9 hardware acceleration.
• Zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding.
• Cineform HD decoder

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Vulkan 1.0 Released: What You Need To Know About This Cross-Platform, High-Performance Graphics API

• AMD Simplified: Vulkan API – YouTube

• Vulkan – Industry Forged

• https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs

• https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers
• https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-CTS

Open-source Vulkan drivers for Intel hardware

The Intel Open Source Technology 3D Graphics Team is excited to announce the availability of our Vulkan driver for fifth and sixth generation Intel(r) Core(tm) processors (Broadwell and Skylake). The driver passes the Vulkan 1.0 Conformance Test Suite on these platforms and have experimental support for older platforms.

AMD state they will support Vulkan on Linux in an upcoming amdgpu driver, not ready yet

AMD has been participating in Vulkan’s development since its inception and providing builds of our Vulkan-enabled driver to game developers for many months. As we transition into the public phase, our initial driver release enables Vulkan support for select Radeon(tm) GPUs on Windows(r) 7, Windows(r) 8.1, and Windows(r) 10. An upcoming release of the amdgpu Linux driver will also feature Vulkan support.

• Gaming: Radeon GPUs are ready for the Vulkan API

Today is an exciting day for PC gaming enthusiasts: the Khronos Group has announced immediate public release of the open standard Vulkan(tm) 1.0 graphics API! To mark the occasion, we’ve posted a Radeon Software beta for Vulkan. This graphics driver is primarily intended to enable a wider audience of game developers to work with Vulkan on Radeon(tm) graphics.

Vulkan Driver Support | NVIDIA Developer

Windows driver version 356.39 and Linux driver version 355.00.26 provide beta support for Vulkan.

• Nvidia release Linux beta driver with Vulkan

Vulkan demo running on ARM Mali GPU

Demo to show ARM’s implementation of Vulkan, the new graphics API from Khronos, running on a Mali GPU. You can read how we did it here

• ARM Mali Graphics: Porting a Graphics Engine to…

Here Are Your Vulkan Download Links

Qt Company Joins Khronos, Working On Vulkan Support In Qt

The Qt Company confirmed in this blog post that they are working on implementing already Qt support for Vulkan.

• Talos and Vulkan Q & A

Ok, first, in GPU-bound scenarios (ultra settings, resolution higher than full HD), you’ll see lower performance, 20 to 30% lower. This is work in progress, and we (both Croteam and IHVs) are analyzing and optimizing the performance. We’ll get to the bottom of this!

Vulkan Webinar – Khronos Group Events, Seminars and Presentations

Date: Feb 18, 2016, 9:00am (PT)
Location: Online Webinar

What’s Vulkan all about? Learn more about this upcoming new graphics and compute API directly from Khronos, the people who have been creating it. In this 1-hour session, we will talk about the API, and also go into details about the Vulkan SDK from LunarG, and much more. We’ll of course end with a Q&A session, and a recording of the session will be available here.

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Librem 15 – IS HERE!

Librem Laptop – Earliest Bird

Librem 15: A Laptop That Respects Your Rights

• Memory: 8GB +$100
• Storage: 500GB SSD +$275
• Drive Bay: CD/DVD ROM
• Screen: Full HD (1920×1080)
• Keyboard: English (US)
• AC Adapter Power Plug: US

Qty 1 $1,824.00 ea.

• Shipped 286 days late! Originally expected to ship on April 2015

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Upgrade your terminal with Fish & the new Fishery plugin market. We chat about one of the really neat bash replacements on Linux. Then we take a look at Maru, a Debian based image for Nexus 5 devices that sounds a lot like Ubuntu Touch.

Plus a quick look at a new app that combines Plex with Popcorn Time & the awesome new features we just all got as Linux users!

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Lumberyard + Amazon GameLift + Twitch for Games on AWS | AWS Official Blog

Today I would like to tell you about a pair of new AWS products that are designed for use by professional game developers building cloud-connected, cross-platform games.

• Amazon Lumberyard

WOW, Wayland Over Wire! – Samsung Open Source Group Blog

A common complaint about Wayland is that it isn’t network transparent.

Fish: A Better Alternative to Bash That Many Are Not Aware of – Make Tech Easier

Replacing Bash with Fish is as simple as a single command.

• Fisherman

A blazing fast, modern plugin manager for Fish

• Fishery

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Maru is a new kind of computing experience. It gives you a single, context-aware device that makes personal computing really simple. And guess what? That device is your smartphone.

Korora 23 Screencast and Screenshots

The Korora Project has released version 23 (codename “Coral”) which is now available for download.

Existing 23 beta users do not need to re-install, just keep installing regular updates.

For the last three months we have been waiting for the RPMFusion repositories to be declared stable before releasing Korora 23. These community packages provide support for things that Fedora doesn’t normally ship, like multi-media codecs and proprietary kernel drivers. Normally, the stable RPMFusion repositories are available a few weeks after a Fedora release, however the community has moved to new infrastructure and this has caused some delays.

The First Ubuntu Tablet: The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet

Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Table will have the following specs:

• 10.1 inch touchscreen with 1080p video
• MediaTek quad-core MT8163A 1.5GHz processor
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB internal storage, approximately 11GBs is available for use
• MicroSD slot (up to 64GB)
• 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, FM Radio
• 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual flash
• Front mounted speakers
• Micro HDMI port
• 7,280mAh Li-Po battery

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Virgil 3D GPU project by virgil3d

The project entails creating a virtual 3D capable graphics card for virtual machines running inside qemu. The design of this card is based around the concepts of Gallium3D to make writing Mesa and (eventually) Direct3D drivers for it easy.

• LinuxChanges – Linux Kernel Newbies

virtio-gpu is a driver for virtualization guests that allows to use the host graphics card efficiently. In this release, it allows the virtualization guest to use the capabilities of the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. In practice, this means that a virtualized linux guest can run a opengl game while using the GPU acceleration capabilities of the host, as show in this or this video. This also requires running QEMU 2.5.

• Virgil project page

• 44m linux.conf talk about the project

• Code: commit

• Why trying to base your 3D Supporter on an openGL implementation is a bit insane: https://youtu.be/rPeMrmeLTig?t=2m58s

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Stremio – Watch instantly

Stremio is an app that helps you organize and instantly watch your favorite videos, movies, TV series and TV channels.

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