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Distro Engagement | LAS 446

chris — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:34:09 +0000

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How to decided on a distro.

Ever since my upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 borked my laptop I’ve been distro hopping like crazy and after the last rebuild today I have to ask: how the devil did you decide on a distro to stick with?
I been using Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Solus, Elementary, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Antegos. But I can’t seem to pick on to stick with for more than a few weeks. Am I insane?

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Digital Signage RUNS LINUX

StreetSign is a digital signage system, originally written for the TeenStreet 2013 (Germany) youth congress. It works with a single server, and multiple client computers (for TS2013 we used Raspberry Pis) which connect over the network. It is light-weight enough that a raspberry pi can run as the server as well, for smaller installations.

Desktop App Pick

Unmark – The to do app for bookmarks.

Unmark is designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks, rather than just hoard them. A simple layout puts the focus on your task at hand and friendly reminders keep you in line. Filtering options let you find what you’re looking for.

Spotlight Karbon

Karbon is a vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible. That makes Karbon a great application for users starting to explore the world of vector graphics as well as for artists wanting to create breathtaking vector art.

Whether you want to create clipart, logos, illustrations or photorealistic vector images – look no further, Karbon is the tool for you!

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Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images

We are currently in dispute with a European cloud provider which has breached its contract and is publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu despite many months of coaxing to do it properly. The home-grown images on the cloud, VPS and bare metal services of this provider disable fundamental security mechanisms and modify the system in ways that are unsupportable. They are likely to behave unpredictably on update in weirdly creative and mysterious ways

mjg59 | Ubuntu still isn’t free software

The appropriate means to handle this kind of issue is trademark law. If someone claims that something is Ubuntu when it isn’t, that’s probably an infringement of the trademark and it’s entirely reasonable for the trademark owner to take action to protect the value associated with their trademark. But Canonical’s _IP policy_goes much further than that – it can be interpreted as meaning[1] that you can’t distribute works based on Ubuntu without paying Canonical for the privilege

Intellectual property rights policy | Terms and policies | Ubuntu

Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set out below).

Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million

The site reports that the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its products closed down over time, with Fitbit acquiring its assets, which include intellectual property and software.

Giving Thanks (along with a Shipping Update) – Mycroft

Before I blather on I’ll get to what many are most interested in — the hardware shipping update.

Plex for Kodi

A dedicated device running Kodi and the Plex for Kodi add-on gives you a slick, configurable way to play your media in your home theater. Kodi AV settings enable powerfully advanced knob twisting and lever sliding to fine tune playback for a customized viewing experience! Settings nirvana!

Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF’d in short term – post regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4.

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Name: Brad C
Subject: Cheap Linux Laptop
Message:

: My daughter’s school recently got 20 Chromebooks to share between 3 4th grade classes. As you might imagine that is not enough. They are recommending that parents buy one for their kids, but also say a PC or Mac laptop would be fine. I’ve had my daughter doing her work on an old laptop that I put Ubuntu 16.04 on (but it’s a 17 inch laptop). I’m wondering if there are any small inexpensive laptops that could run Ubuntu that you could suggest. Most of her work is with Google docs and Google classroom.

I love all the JB shows!

Thanks

Name: Barry H
Subject: Microsoft Moving to Linux?
Message:

This isnt really a question but a prediction that could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. With MS adding in support for bash etc in win 10 and then creating .net sdk etc for linux which allows powershell etc to run. Do you think as I do that MS may be looking at moving Win 10 (No Server editions of their products only their desktop/laptop/mobile OS) to a linux distro and then having MS packages like .net etc running on top. This would mean they dont have to support patch etc a desktop distro that takes up alot of their time and money but basically get the open source community to do that for them. Obviously this wont happen in next 5 years maybe not even for a while after that for a while. But I do think it may be something they looking into… PS Send my regards to Chris and the team for a great show(s). Cheers

SIP Calling – What do you use?

Hello everyone. This is my first post on the sub.

I hear Noah mention sip calling sometimes. I am wondering what he uses and what you guys use? I am looking for a good inexpensive provider. I need to be able to receive inbound calls and make outbound calls outside of SIP. I have looked around the web and I can see there are plenty of options.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!
Asterisk is probably way more than I need. I am looking for simple. I am leaning towards Local Phone. Great price and a decent user interface on their website. If call quality is good then im set!

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Throwback Thursday… On Sunday! | LAS 431

chris — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:06:54 +0000

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Winning over at LA

Following Up On Our Reviews

OwnCloud
Mint 18
Android TV box update Re: Android TV showdown : LinuxActionShow
Hue Lights poinck’s Script and Hue Tap Switch
Our current thoughts on remote desktop on Linux:

@ChrisLAS Hi, I'm interested in a remote desktop/terminal server review. Like thinlinc, x2go,ltsp etc. What's your take on these OSS. Thanks

— Sandro (@MoSandro) August 14, 2016

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425
OSS Sync vs Dropbox

@ChrisLAS given how much you use proprietary Dropbox, interested to hear your thoughts on privacy and security, – the fine line of balance.!

— Broken Canoe (@BrokenCanoe) August 14, 2016

Apollo Notebook Follow Up
Apollo: Macbook Killer | LAS 406
What is / Where is the Mumble room you guys name drop all the time?

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Desktop App Pick

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Spotlight

CumulusClips | Free Video CMS, Video Sharing Script, Video Sharing Software, YouTube Clone

CumulusClips is a video sharing script that allows you to start your own video website. It’s free and easy to use. You can build a YouTube clone where users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and much more.

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Google Is Developing A New Open Source OS Named “Fuchsia”

Codenamed Fuchsia, one can spot the new platform existing in Google’s Git repositories. However, at the moment, the repository doesn’t include any source code. This project was originally spotted on Hacker News.

If you go ahead and dig a little deeper, you’ll come across a line on Google’s Git repo that reads — “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”.

Upon further digging the GitHub repository, we came to know that Magenta is the new kernel that powers the Fushia OS. The kernel is designed to interact with the OS via object handles. The documentation from the same calls it an operating system targeting the modern phones and PCs.

Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things

Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice

The police force in Lithuania have switched to using LibreOffice. This free and open source suite of office productivity tools is implemented on over 8000 workstations. The police has started to test the use of workstations running Ubuntu Linux.

Linux malware? That’ll never happen. Ok, just this once then

The good news is that while the Trojan targets Linux systems, it doesn’t rely on a Linux flaw to run.

Simplenote Now Open Source

we are announcing today that all of the official Simplenote client apps are now Open Source Software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the previously open sourced Electron app, you’ll now find the source code for the iOS, Android, and macOS applications on our GitHub page.

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Mint 18: Convenience Over Security | LAS 426

chris — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:06:43 +0000

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We review Linux Mint 18 & our experience turns out to be a roller coaster ride from impressed glee to cautious concern. We’ve never felt more conflicted over a version of Linux Mint.

Plus we discuss the Ubuntu Forum hack, a Fedora bug that’s bricking some laptops & why we just can’t quit FreeNAS.

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Mint 18 Review

Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period

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 Cinnamon: Quick Screenshot Tour

Linux Mint 18 improves security, but at a cost – TechRepublic

While this is a much-needed improvement, the explanation of this change on the Linux Mint website is baffling. The website claims that kernel updates “aren’t really updates, but the availability of packages for newer kernels.” Aside from the fact that this is literally the definition of an update, this appears to be an attempt at minimizing the importance of kernel updates. In Linux Mint 18, users are only notified of kernel updates, but they are not installed by default.

How to upgrade to Linux Mint 18

As excited as we are about Linux Mint 18, upgrading blindly for the sake of running the latest version does not make much sense, especially if you’re already happy and everything is working perfectly.

Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer — Simple media player based on GStreamer.

Given the history of Linux Mint with their weird view on security (Linux
Mint is the very definition of a FrankenDebian [1]) where they withhold
important security updates because their weird mixture of packages would
otherwise break too often or their hijacking of package names (mdm, for
example), I don’t really trust them to come up with a clean design for
desktop agnostic applications. Heck, the first thing they wanted to do
was naming their forked version of Pluma “xedit”.

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Desktop App Pick

recalbox.com

Recalbox allows you to re-play a variety of videogame consoles and platforms in your living room, with ease! RecalboxOS is free, open source and designed to let you create your very own recalbox in no time! Raspberry Pi.

RecalboxOS v4.0.0-beta4 release | Blog recalbox

Spotlight

Felony: Next Level PGP

Felony is an open-source pgp keychain built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Redux. Felony is the first PGP app that’s easy for anyone to use, without a tutorial. Security++ to the greatest extreme!

— NEWS —

Ubuntu Forums Hacked, 2 Million Users’ Details Stolen

Canonical CEO Jane Silber explains: “We were able to confirm there had been an exposure of data and shut down the Forums as a precautionary measure. Deeper investigation revealed that there was a known SQL injection vulnerability in the Forumrunner add-on in the Forums which had not yet been patched.”

The attacker was able to “download portions of the ‘user’ table which contained usernames, email addresses and IPs for 2 million users.”

Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums | Ubuntu Insights

Early Look at Skype for Linux and Chromebooks

Skype for Linux is no longer an afterthought for Microsoft as the company introduces new versions of Skype for Linux Chromebooks and the Chrome web browser.

GNOME Maps Hits A Dead End, Can No Longer Display Maps

As of this week the nifty desktop navigation app canno longer fetch maps tiles to display.

MapQuest, the application’s tile provider, has amended its usage policy and discontinued direct tile access. GNOME developers have the choice of paying to keep using the service or, ultimately, using a new one.

PSA: Failure to boot after kernel update on Skylake systems

So in the last couple of days a significant issue in all Fedora releases has come to our attention, affecting (so far) several systems that use the Intel ‘Skylake’ hardware platform.

CrossOver For Android Now Running On Chromebooks

CodeWeavers confirmed today that it’s possible to run CrossOver on Chromebooks now via the Android support. CodeWeavers was even able to install Steam for Windows on the Chromebooks via the CrossOver support.

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Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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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.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

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.

Interview with Matrix Dev

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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.

Help lower prices with #ubunut76 tweets! 2 days to get them in! You can get up to $350 off https://t.co/jnDUHaBFse pic.twitter.com/R3CL767ZsX

— 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

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

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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Mind on my Cloud & Cloud on my Mind | LINUX Unplugged 148

chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:06:58 +0000

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After we get through a slew of great open source project achievements, we discuss the slippery slope that online services represent to Linux users.

Plus we get all big picture, what can be learned from ownCloud’s recent troubles, what we conclude by reading between the lines & more!

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The new Control Center Shell

A demonstration of the new Control Center UI being developed

Arc Is a Gorgeous GTK Theme for Linux Desktops

It has been a veritable eon since we last highlighted a GTK theme here on this site.

Yes, the moment you’ve been waiting for is here, and you can now have all the essential Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Live CD editions into a single ISO image. Linux AIO Ubuntu 16.04 includes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS, Xubuntu 16.04 LTS, Lubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS.

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TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Trisquel is about ethics not technology or innovation

So, please, stop thinking about snappy packages and begin enjoying your LIBERTAD (FREEDOM).

Firefox 47.0

Embedded YouTube videos now play with HTML5 video if Flash is not installed.

Firefox 47 widens HTML5 video support to include DRM-protected streams

Support for Google’s Widevine CDM — which is currently limited to Windows and OS X — was first introduced to the Nightly build of Firefox two months ago, and has made a seamless transition to the stable build.

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What we can learn from ownCloud’s collapse

Another factor in ownCloud’s undoing could be venture capitalists. Jos Poortvliet, the ownCloud community manager who now works at Nextcloud told me that a lot of ownCloud features were held back because developers had to convince investors in 30 seconds. And every such conversation led to a comparison with Dropbox. Investors would refuse features on the basis that Dropbox doesn’t do that.

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Slipping Into Google

Upgrade the launcher on your Android device for a fast, clean home screen that puts Google Now just a swipe away.

Google now
Google VR – Daydream
Google Chrome continues to be my go to browser for work. Makes switching to Linux easier.
Google stuff tends to have a Linux solution

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Flavorless Mint | LINUX Unplugged 144

chris — Tue, 10 May 2016 18:41:38 +0000

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Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it.

Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta.

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Linux Running on Playstation 4 Revealed By Hacker Fail overflow, Playstation Jailbreak Could Actually Boost Sales of the Console!

Therefore, when hackers announced earlier in December that it is possible to jailbreak the PlayStation 4, it came out as quite an achievement. This step has been taken further by another group of hackers name failoverflow. They have jailbroken a PS4 and further loaded it with Linux.

Sony Orbis OS is run by the Sony console and it is based on Linux FreeBSD. It was further reported by Engadget that this hack exploits the Webkit bug in order to gain access to the kernel. It also works on Orbis version 1.74. It is also a much older version than the current 3.11 on the PS4. Moreover, the bug has since been patched.

However, it seems like the hacker group’s method can be tailored to further work on future consoles. The first thing done by the group during the jailbreak demonstration was running a Game Boy Advance emulator on the Linux PS4. At the same time, they fired up a copy of Pokemon Emerald.

Here’s A PS4 Jailbreak with Linux Support [Video]

Solus to Offer Users a Brand-New and Modern Graphical Package Manager

“There is no getting around the fact that the Software Center in Solus 1.1 sucks,” said Josh Strobl. “Software discoverability and ease-of-use for installation of software is incredibly important to us and we want to tackle it with urge__ncy. So we’re doing something about it now, this cycle, and it is going to be amazing.”

SSL Certificate Expired – Manjaro Linux

Our SSL certificate has once again expired. We are waiting for a new one to be issued (while also looking at more sustainable alternatives, i.e. Let’s Encrypt). If you’re having problems accessing any of the sites please use a different browser profile, or Private/Incognito Browsing. You will then be able to add a temporary exception.

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Dogfooding Unity 8

Fedora 24 Beta released!

This new release also features GNOME 3.20. There have been changes to the theming API in GTK+ 3. At this time the API is under heavy development and will not remain stable. As a result, applications that use custom CSS theming for example, may have rendering issues. This could include default applications that come with Fedora 24 Beta Workstation. We request that users try out their favorite GTK+ 3 based applications and report bugs to the upstream developers so they can be fixed in time for the final release.

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Linux Mint: Too Big to Fail?

Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system. “OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations. This will reduce our release cycle to 4 separate events and the production and testing of 12 ISO images. Multimedia codecs can be installed easily: From the welcome screen, by clicking on “Multimedia Codecs”, or from the main menu, by clicking on “Menu”->”Sound and Video”->”Install Multimedia Codecs”, or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option.” Additional information on the upcoming release of Linux Mint 18 can be found in the project’s monthly newsletter.

Why Mint? We checked the Internet and….

When I reflect on why I’ve chosen Mint over Ubuntu in recent years, it came down to:

Seriously disliking Unity. (But now I can install Cinnamon packages on Ubuntu easily.)
Easy ability to play DVD’s. (But it just got a tiny bit harder; not significantly.)
Wanting to give Shuttleworth the middle finger regarding forcing Unity down people’s throats. (But I think my finger has now been extended long enough.)
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – April 2016

As part of the “xapps” initiative, which aims to produce cross-desktop and cross-distribution software, we also released the following applications:

A media player based on totem, called xplayer.
A text editor based on pluma, called xed.
A picture viewer based on eog, called xviewer.
A document reader based on atril, called xreader.

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Getting Inside the Oryx Pro | LAS 416

chris — Sun, 08 May 2016 19:55:58 +0000

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The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet.

If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out!

Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

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Desktop App Pick

Fade In

Extensive formatting capabilities
Autocomplete typing
Organization and navigation
No distractions
Support for multiple file formats
Powerful writing (and rewriting) tools
Revisions
Breakdowns and reports

Spotlight

Ghetto-skype: Web Skype + Tray Icon + Notifications

Are you tired of a buggy 32 bit official Skype client? Then Ghetto Skype is for you!

Open Source Photography Course

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The Open Source Photography Course is a collection of video tutorials that teach you a RAW photography workflow using only free, open source software. The software taught runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and PC-BSD

The course is suitable for beginners, as well as experience photographers. The lessons range from basic file management to advanced editing using layers and masks. A full list of the topics covered can be found here.

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Pyra accepting PreOrders

Pyra is the vastly improved successor of the OpenPandora.
TI Cortex A15 1.5 Ghz
2GB RAM
720P Display
The CPU and display PCB is socketed!
This means: No need to buy a new device each few years – you can simply update it with a new CPU board when it’s available. This is a lot cheaper and also takes care of the environment!

Red Hat Doates Servers to GNOME

Each donated server has 128GB of RAM, 48 cores and comes with an Enterprise SSD made for high throughput. This will greatly improve the running of services like build.gnome.org and sdk.gnome.org.

Major Security Flaws Found in ImageMagick

There are multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, a package commonly used by web services to process images. One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images. The exploit for this vulnerability is being used in the wild.

If you use ImageMagick or an affected library, we recommend you mitigate the known vulnerabilities by doing at least one of these two things (but preferably both!):

Verify that all image files begin with the expected “magic bytes” corresponding to the image file types you support before sending them to ImageMagick for processing. (see FAQ for more info)
Use a policy file to disable the vulnerable ImageMagick coders. The global policy for ImageMagick is usually found in “/etc/ImageMagick”. The below policy.xml example will disable the coders EPHEMERAL, URL, MVG, and MSL.

FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demanding She Meet With Them, But Refusing To Explain Why

Isis Agora Lovecruft is a lead software developer for Tor and has worked on Tor for many years, as well as on a variety of other security and encryption products, including Open Whisper Systems and the LEAP Encryption Access Project. And, apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won’t tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why

Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10

Today, May 5, 2016, is the last day of the Ubuntu Online Summit 2016, and we’ve just attended a very exciting session where the Ubuntu developers have discussed the future of the Ubuntu Desktop after Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be GTK3 only | Ubuntu MATE on Patreon

As the most committed supporters of Ubuntu MATE it is important that you get insight to this significant change before anyone else. Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be a GTK3 build only. This is both good and bad news.

Cinnamon 3.0 released!

Here’s a quick overview of some of the changes in this new version:

Window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows
Improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)
New accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)
Battery powered devices can be renamed
Different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files
Panel launchers now include application actions
Animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus
Favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet
The photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories
Improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Reaper Audio Software Is Coming To Linux

If Audacity and Ardour aren’t cutting it for your audio editing needs on Linux, there’s another Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) option coming to Linux: Reaper.

Reaper is a high-end audio production software suite developed by Cockos Software. Reaper has been supported under Windows and OS X for this software that’s been around since 2005. With the current development version, native Linux support is coming.

The Reaper 5.20 Beta 10 release brings a native Linux build for the first time. There’s an x86_64 binary along with an ARMv6t2 build for use on the newer Raspberry Pi devices.

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Apollo Has Landed | LINUX Unplugged 133

chris — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:20:40 +0000

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Entroware’s Apollo laptop has arrived, and we share our first hands on impressions of their ultra Linux laptop, how does it compare to the Purism, and a quick chat with Entroware’s co-founder.

Plus we discuss the Mint hack, and solutions we could create as a community to solve the bigger problems, updates from some of our favorite open source projects, and chat about Beep Beep Yarr, and more!

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<< Silk Guardian >> is an anti-forensic kill-switch

Silk Guardian is an anti-forensic LKM kill-switch that waits for a change on your usb ports and then wipes your ram and turns off your computer.

MUTINY! — Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Adds Unity-Style Desktop Layout

“There’s a Mutiny coming!,” the Ubuntu MATE team teases. “Yes, that is a top menu. Yes, this is Ubuntu MATE. See you Thursday for the Beta 1 release!”.

Cnchi v0.14 Moves Into Stable Branch

The most notable change in Cnchi 0.14 is beta support for ZFS (in Automatic Installation Mode). It is now possible to install Antergos with ZFS as your chosen filesystem. You simply tell Cnchi which drive to use and it will take care of formatting the drive and configuring ZFS for you.

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The most powerful Ubuntu phone is still not good enough

The Meizu Pro 5 has the Galaxy S6’s processor, but not its performance

100,000,000 Monthly Active Users

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“The Mint Hack”

Hacker explains how he put “backdoor” in hundreds of Linux Mint downloads | ZDNet

The hacker responsible, who goes by the name “Peace,” told me in an encrypted chat on Sunday that a “few hundred” Linux Mint installs were under their control — a significant portion of the thousand-plus downloads during the day.

How can a server that hosts a high-profile website like linuxmint.com be so low on security

Backdoored Linux Mint, and the Perils of Checksums

But it’s also important to note that comparing the checksum of a file you downloaded with what you see on the website you downloaded it from isn’t secure either, even if you are using SHA256. If a hacker can hack the website to modify the download link, they can modify the checksum at the same time to match their malicious download.

The only solution to this problem is to use public key cryptography.

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The High Price of Purism | LAS 405

chris — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:30:25 +0000

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Is the Librem 15 the ultimate Linux laptop? We review Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, crowd funded and pitched as “the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” Does it live up to the promise? Have we found the true Linux powered MacBook killer?

Plus Linux Mint gets attacked, Ubuntu Touch on hardware you really want, why real ZFS support on Linux is near….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Chris announces his backing of the Librem 15

Chris Introduces the Librem 15 for the first time on Nov 23, 2014

Todd from Purism Interviewed: Perfect Linux Laptop | LUP 69

The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

Original Specs

Librem 15: A Laptop That Respects Your Rights | Crowd Supply
15.6″ diagonal LED backlit 1920×1080 FHD (Full High Definition) pixel display
4 Core (8 Threads) 2.3GHz Intel i7-4712MQ
Intel 4600 HD Graphics, and
nVidia GT840M Graphics
375mm x 244mm x 22mm, 2.0Kg
14″ x 9.6″ x 0.86″, 4.4lbs
4GB memory (up to 8GB)
500GB HD (up to 1TB HD or 250GB SSD)
CD/DVD ROM Drive
48 Wh lithium polymer battery
65W power adapter
Up to 8 hours usage
Three USB ports
One HDMI port
One Pop-Down RJ45 Network port
802.11n WiFi
720p camera
Full-size backlit keyboard
SDXC card slot
Purism 64bit GNU/Linux Operating System (Trisquel based)

Upgrades I added

Librem Laptop – Earliest Bird

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

Crowdfunding pledge, expected to ship April 2015

Qty 1 $1,824.00 ea.

Backed on Nov 22, 2014 Shipped on Feb 10, 2016 Shipped 286 days late! Originally expected to ship on April 2015

What I Got (different from what I ordered)

CPU Core i7-5557U CPU (2 Core, not 4 Core, but Broadwell instead of Haswell. Should be Skylake by now)
GPU Intel Iris 6100 (Not an Nvidia GPU)
No “Pop-Down RJ45 Network port”

The Fan Noise

Enemy #1 the Librem 15 is really loud. Too loud to use when on mic, and too loud to focus when working. It had to be solved.

Things attempted:

Power management under Pure OS
Re-Load the system to Ubuntu 16.04 and check for drivers/firmware
On suggestion from the IRC, installed Windows 10.
Installed Arch, tried messing with an Intel_pstate controller.
Unplugged Fan!

No Ethernet

Media production sucks over Wifi. For me, a high-end laptop needs to have Ethernet, my workflow basically requires it. So I had compensated by buying a USB-C adapter.

Amazon.com: Anker USB-C to 3-Port USB 3.0 Hub with Ethernet Adapter

Pros

It is well built, compares with any other well built PC laptop very well.
When plugged in, speed feels very responsive.
Easy to hold, feels good in the hand.
LG screen is high-end, has some side address challenges.
USB-C is kinda cool, want to play with that more.
Very easy to nuke and pave. Did not have trouble loading any distro, or even Windows.
It is undeniably unique, and rare. That’s sorta special, and feels a bit like a kit car at the same time.
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Desktop App Pick

.clayo – osmo

Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks
manager, address book and notes modules. It was designed to be a small, easy
to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information.
In its current state the organizer is quite convenient to use – for
example, the user can perform nearly all operations using the keyboard.
Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet the user’s
preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which uses
a plain XML database to store all personal data.

Weekly Spotlight

Log.io – Real-time log monitoring in your browser

Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration.

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MINT Hacked: Beware of hacked ISOs. Reset Forum Passwords

We were exposed to an intrusion today. It was brief and it shouldn’t impact many people, but if it impacts you, it’s very important you read the information below.

What happened?

Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it.

It seems compromised @linuxmint forum data is already for sale on darknet markets. The seller is quite interesting. pic.twitter.com/7yZl2SR9KT

— Yonathan Klijnsma (@ydklijnsma) February 21, 2016

Check your ISO

Once in the live session, if there is a file in /var/lib/man.cy, then this is an infected ISO

Bad version of linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso is :

7d590864618866c225ede058f1ba61f0 / CD6DEF080EC08BC0D6159A7168F2F85800EB93C1

Clean version of linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso is

E71A2AAD8B58605E906DBEA444DC4983 / EA7C906066D2D8E63FC6C0175482196F13AEF8DE

Another story of Unix Trojan: Tsunami (IRC/Bot)

This case is actually a same old flaw’s story: looks like the system was exploited via web admin panel abuse by HTTP access (sorry, can not tell you which web panel right now) using the tools that can send rapid packet fetch/wget requests (later on we know that the malware discussed here also have that function), the root privilege was gained via crontab UID (root, indeed), and practically overall server’s security was compromised from that hole. And the bad guys was compiling nasty downloader/IRC Bot backdoor (known previously named as TSUNAMI) with deleting all source traces+logs related, thus run & hide its service using the fake bash process (ever see a BSD system with bash shell process before? *smile*).

man.cy from malicious Linux Mint iso

man.cy from malicious Linux Mint iso

All forums users should change their passwords.

It was confirmed that the forums database was compromised during the attack led against us yesterday and that the attackers acquired a copy of it. If you have an account on forums.linuxmint.com, please change your password on all sensitive websites as soon as possible.

The database contains the following sensitive information:

Your forums username
An encrypted copy of your forums password
Your email address
Any personal information you might have put in your signature/profile/etc…
Any personal information you might written on the forums (including private topics and private messages)

ZFS filesystem will be built into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default

A new long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is coming out in April, and Canonical just announced a major addition that will please anyone interested in file storage. Ubuntu 16.04 will include the ZFS filesystem module by default, and the OpenZFS-based implementation will get official support from Canonical.

What Does Support REALLY mean?

You’ll find zfs.ko automatically built and installed on your Ubuntu systems. No more DKMS-built modules!

Canonical Presents Sony Xperia Z1 and OnePlus One as Ubuntu Phones

“Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1, you will soon be able to download an image to turn it into an Ubuntu phone and PC! Alternatively, if you’re the owner of a OnePlus One you will be able to flash and use Ubuntu on your phone,” Thibaut Rouffineau explained.

Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones | Ubuntu Insights

We owe a big thank to the Ubuntu community for porting Ubuntu to these devices and especially Marius Gripsgard for his work on the OnePlus One! More widely, this is a meeting of the minds with phone vendors who have been pushing open source in their devices and their developer community for a while. The Sony open source efforts in particular have been essential to this work. Similarly OnePlus’ commitment to open source has helped tremendously towards this port becoming available.

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally

Getting Started | Mimic by Mycroft and VocaliD

Mimic is a fast, lightweight Text-to-speech engine developed by Mycroft A.I. and VocaliD, based on Carnegie Mellon University’s FLITE software. Mimic takes in text and reads it out loud to create a high quality voice. Mimic’s low-latency, small resource footprint, and good quality voices set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

mimic on GitHub

Mimic is a lightweight run-time speech synthesis engine, based on
Flite (Festival-Lite). The Flite project website can be found
here: https://www.festvox.org/flite/ – further information can be found
in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file in the Mimic repo.

Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure

Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat.

Red Hat Cloud Access now available on Azure! | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Being recognized as a Red Hat CCSP means Microsoft Azure is a trusted destination for customers to move their Red Hat subscriptions, as part of the Red Hat Cloud Access program. Red Hat products enabled for Cloud Access include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and above and 7.1 and above, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat and Red Hat Gluster Storage.

Microsoft Azure Now Offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Not for China and US Gov

In the announcement made on February 17, 2016, Microsoft brags with the fact that it loves Linux and that more than 60 percent of their Azure cloud images are based on Linux.

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The Six Rings of Ubuntu | LINUX Unplugged 130

chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:46:13 +0000

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Why Linux Mint’s X-Apps are a bigger shakeup then you might realize, bricking your laptop with a Linux command & Dell’s new Linux distro.

Plus we celebrate 15 years of VLC, a quick look at Tails 2.0 & more!

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Shout — The self-hosted web IRC client

The self-hosted web IRC client

Follow Up / Catch Up

15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

Pacman-5.0 Released | Allan McRae

As is becoming tradition, I need to make a blog post to accompany a pacman release! This is a big release with a long awaited feature so it needed a major version bump (and, most importantly, we now are back ahead of the Linux kernel in version numbers).

Here’s What’s New in Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.0 Package Manager

Tails – Tails 2.0 is out

We are especially proud to present you Tails 2.0, the first version of Tails
based on:

GNOME Shell, with lots of changes in the desktop environment.
Debian 8 (Jessie), which upgrades most included software and improves
many things under the hood.

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Your laptop could be bricked with a single Linux command

The directory that destroyed the system, which is at __/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/__stores information and scripts that the computer uses to boot using the more _modern EFI standard, which is a replacement for the decades-old BIOS._

Canonical Is Looking for Participants to a “Ubuntu Apps in Unity 8” Research Study

The research study is lead by Ting-Ray Chang, a user experience researcher at Canonical, and it is targeted mainly at Ubuntu or Fedora user in the London (United Kingdom) area. Why Fedora? That we don’t know!

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X-Apps… The Hell?

Has Mint gone crazy with success?
Linux Mint Is Getting Its Own Apps Starting with the 18.x Branch

“X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. In Mint 18, the ‘X apps’ will allow us to maintain a native look and a good level of integration because they will be used in replacement of GNOME applications which now look foreign (using headerbars and a distinctive layout),” Clement Lefebvre, the leader or the Linux Mint project explained.

The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – January 2016

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Dell serves up its own disaggregated OS

OS10 is based on a native, “unmodified” Linux kernel that can support a broad range of applications and services from the Linux ecosystem, Dell officials say. Dell claims this differentiates it from Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux and HP’s OpenSwitch effort for disaggregated and “open” network operating systems.

Dell to ship XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop with Skylake | Computerworld

The next XPS 13 Developer Edition is “closer” to shipping and so discounts are being offered on older models, George Barton, a senior technologist at Dell, said in a Google+ post. Older models are powered by Broadwell chips, which preceded Skylake.

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The Stories of SCALE14x | LAS 402

chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:15:26 +0000

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We share our best stories from 2016’s SCALE14x. From the highlights to the bar fights we talk about what it’s like to attend one of the largest community driven Linux events in the world.

Plus the Linux Trojan that’s snapping screenshots & recording audio, Linux Mint is building their own X-Apps, your live calls & more!

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SCALE 14x Report

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote and UbuCon

Free Software in the age of App Stores: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=22m50s
The case for snap packages: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=37m17s
Demo of Snap Packages was great
AT&T’s latest Linux choice may profoundly shape Ubuntu

AT&T has struck a deal with Canonical that could shape the future of the platform currently “owning” the cloud…

Cory Doctorow Keynote

Why Cory Doctorow refuses to predict the future (like, seriously) | Opensource.com

SCALE 14x Floor

Huge floor, lots of great exhibitors

LAS 400 Meetup

Crazy big meetup, thanks everyone!

ScALE Pictures

Expo Hall 1
Expo Hall 2
Expo Hall 3
Expo Hall 4
Ham Radio Presence at ScALE
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Anyone know what kind of car Linus Torvalds Rives?
Indian Dinner Friday Night
Dinner Sat Night at Mongolian Grill
Key Signing Party
Sat Night Ham Radio Dinner

Some Great sessions to watch

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Nintendo 64 RUNS LINUX!

Uploaded Linux kernel to N64 memory using GameShark Pro with parallel port interface in about 2 minutes. Modified kernel in approx. 1 week of work. Immediately runs out of memory, but could probably be fixed with further modifications.

Home – mupen64plus

Desktop App Pick

My recommended GNOME Extension

Chris’ Gnome Work Desktop

This is a listing of twenty extensions for GNOME that I personally use and recommend.
As of this post all them work flawlessly on the latest release of GNOME which is 3.18.2.

Weekly Spotlight

Yarock – Linux music player

Yarock is a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment.
Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
Yarock is easy to build with a minimal set of dependancies, and offers the choose of differents audio back-end.

Lollypop

A GNOME music player.

— NEWS —

Snap-Happy Trojan Targets Linux Servers

Researchers at Dr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers.

The Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2016

X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

Release OBS Multiplatform 0.13.0

This project is a rewrite of what was formerly known as “Open Broadcaster
Software”, software originally designed for recording and streaming live
video content, efficiently.

Semaphor to Give Team Collaboration Privacy

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KDE neon Website Now Live

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Serving the freshest packages of KDE software. Developers’ archive with packages built from KDE Git available now, stable archive with packages built from released tars coming soon.

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This initial release of KDE neon is based on the current standard release of Ubuntu 15.10 to better prepare this new project for the upcoming 16.04 long-term release.
Currently we only have packages built for the developer edition of KDE neon from the KDE Git archives. Packages and installation media for the user edition of KDE neon will be proudly offered shortly.
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Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background for the Linux Action

Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.

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Thunderclouds around Thunderbird | LINUX Unplugged 122

chris — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:27:53 +0000

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Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates.

Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google.

Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it’s not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more!

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“Yeah, we ditched Google.”

For the past five years, we had been using Google Analytics for monitoring our web traffic. Innocent enough decision, right? Then we asked ourselves, “are we contributing to the mass surveillance of the web by using a feature-rich, yet free service that tracks web visitors?” Sadly. we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.”

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What’s Happening with Thunderbird and Mozilla?

Ideas for the integration of Thunderbird with LibreOffice

Concrete ideas of further integration of LibreOffice and Thunderbird

Changes in LibreOffice:

Access to multiple Thunderbird address books (tdf#57873).

Changes/extensions for Thunderbird:

Provide a theme for Thunderbird to make look and feel more similar to LibreOffice.
Thunderbird currently does not provide a preview of documents (except for .txt and .html). A preview of ODF (and all other supported file types) could be possible via the integration of LibreOffice Kit into Thunderbird. This could be a joint Thunderbird & LibreOffice project for GSOC 2016.
Possibility to use LibreOffice Writer as email editor in Thunderbird.
Enable Contact Notes to supports complex formatting and pictures. Notes for a Contact in an Address Book could use LibreOffice Writer/Kit. Notes could be saved in OpenDocument format

Libreoffice Does Not Want Thunderbird

One of the reasons behind the success of the LibreOffice project is the

sharp focus on a single application, which is not going to change

anytime soon. We are already working on the Android and the Cloud

versions of LibreOffice, and this is more than enough – in term of

global effort – for a community based project. So, please avoid any

speculation based on rumors, as they might be intentionally created by

our competitors.

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Firefox OS Comes to an End.. Where is Mozilla going?

Goodbye most popular desktop email client, Thunderbird. Hello IOS ad blocker. Uh, okay. https://t.co/L4Vbp3Dxqd https://t.co/7nxGBdofEx

— Alan Pope (@popey) December 8, 2015

Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch

Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices and Internet of Things networks.

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CrossOver 15 Review

CrossOver 15 Released

Linux Improvements:

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CrossOver has a completely redone User Interface on
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- General Improvements:
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compatibility with Windows applications.
Dual screen Linux setups will run Microsoft Office
better than before.
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Linux in Mint Condition | LAS 394

chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:14:13 +0000

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Linux Mint 17.3 proves you can based a Linux desktop on a stable core (Ubuntu 14.04) & still deliver an innovative and polished desktop. We take back some of our concerns about Linux Mint & discuss the areas where they are pushing user experience forward.

Plus Mozilla plans to dump Thunderbird, the big release that completely ignores Windows & more!

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New features in Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon

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Simplify Command-Line Package Management with APT instead of apt-get

APT, the Advanced Package Tool from the Debian project, is for managing packages by using a lot of separate tools to accomplish various tasks. In the past, users needed to know multiple command structures like apt-get, apt-cache, apt-config, and many more to utilize the full feature-set of APT.

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Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo

“I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in some cases, Mozilla technology,” Baker wrote in her open memo, posted on Mozilla’s public governance forum. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled.”

Mozilla’s conundrum: What to do about Thunderbird?

Baker, who says she uses Thunderbird to organize vast parts of her life, now believes that the email client will thrive best if it does not rely on Mozilla for development resources and, in some cases, on Mozilla technology. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled,” she wrote in Mozilla’s public governance forum on Monday.

Mozilla ends the advertisements in Firefox new tab tiles

Apple’s Swift programming language is now open source

As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects.

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Will Flash Be Trashed? | LINUX Unplugged 101

chris — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:01:37 +0000

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A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on.

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Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.

I spent the first five days of my week logging into Gnome manually– not turning on automatic login. On night of the fifth day I got annoyed with having to login by hand and so I went into the User Manager and turned on automatic login. The next time I logged in I got a prompt: “Your keychain was not unlocked. Please enter your password to unlock your keychain.” That was when I realized something… Gnome had been automatically unlocking my keychain—my wallet in KDE speak– every time I logged in via GDM. It was only when I bypassed GDM’s login that Gnome had to step in and make me do it manually.
- it was at that moment that I realized it was such a simple thing that made the desktop feel so much more like it was working WITH ME. When I log into KDE via SDDM? Before the splash screen is even finished loading there is a window popping up over top the splash animation– thereby disrupting the splash screen– prompting me to unlock my KDE wallet or GPG keyring.
- Software Managers! Something that has seen a lot of push in recent years and will likely only see a bigger push in the months to come. Unfortunately, it’s another area where KDE was so close… and then fell on its face right at the finish line.
- Gnome Software is probably my new favorite software center, minus one gripe which I will get to in a bit. Muon, I wanted to like you. I really did. But you are a design nightmare. When the VDG was drawing up plans for you (mockup below), you looked pretty slick.
- Then someone got around to coding you and doing your actual UI, and I can only guess they were drunk while they did it.

Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.
KDE doesn’t feel like cohesive experience. KDE doesn’t feel like it has a direction its moving in, it doesn’t feel like a full experience. KDE feels like its a bunch of pieces that are moving in a bunch of different directions, that just happen to have a shared toolkit beneath them.
I know the KDE developers know design matters, that is WHY the Visual Design Group exists, but it feels like they aren’t using the VDG to their fullest.
Will I still use Gnome after this week? Probably not, no. Gnome still trying to force a work flow on me that I don’t want to follow or abide by, I feel less productive when I’m using it because it doesn’t follow my paradigm.

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I don’t get why Noah and Chris are puzzled by what SuSE and OpenSuSE intend to do. The new distro will be to SLE what CentOS is to RHEL.
There will be Tumbleweed, the bleeding edge, always rolling distro that will be in much better shape than Rawhide because OpenSuSE actually expects people to use it as a desktop OS as opposed to “it’s rawhide so it’s borked”.

Then there will be OpenSUSE 42, based on the SLE sources. People will be able to use it such as others do with CentOS and I would be amazed if OpenSuSE and SuSE don’t make it extremely easy to switch from 42 to the enterprise version where they can sell people support on a subscription basis.

To me, it looks like a very smart move.

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Still Minty Fresh | LINUX Unplugged 100

chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:23:11 +0000

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We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.

Then we’ll discuss an exciting new form factor for x86 based Ubuntu PCs & the exciting use cases for them.

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Finger on the Pulse of Video | LINUX Unplugged 99

chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:52:52 +0000

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Will Pinos bring to Linux Video What PulseAudio did for audio? We discuss this major development that breaks during the show.

Also, a great discussion about the new Linux Mint release that leads to a heated debate about the long-term usefulness of boring distributions & why we Linux advocates might think they are more useful than they truly are.

Plus some big follow up, the Mumble room gets unplugged & much more!

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Valve says ‘get it early’ pre-orders for Steam Machine hardware, controller are sold out

Early allocations of Valve’s Steam Machine hardware — including the Steam Machine controller and Steam Link streaming hub — are sold out via pre-order, Valve said in a release today. If you wanted a Steam Machine a few weeks early, the time has passed, the company says.

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“PulseVideo” Coming To Complement PulseAudio?

Prolific open-source contributor at Red Hat, Christian Schaller, who has worked on GStreamer as well as the Transmageddon GNOME video transcoding app and other multimedia projects, seems poised to announce PulseVideo.

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Customize Your Desktop | FauxShow 211

chris — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:19:50 +0000

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Angela and Chris discuss different organization, widgets, and tools to help your desktop be customized to the way you want it!

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Chatroom Wallpaper suggestions

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Angela, Space Wallpapers https://psiupuxa.com/
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Chatroom Desktop Customizations

https://i.imgur.com/H4J1oJM.jpg what links?
ChrisLAS, there’s a black bar on the bottom of the screen. Should it be there? https://imgur.com/yTphYvj
ChrisLAS, screen shot album of Ubuntu Mate 15.04 Beta 1: https://imgur.com/a/HzO7B
Antergos with nubix on laptop https://imgur.com/fQIoMdS
ChrisLAS: Arch Linux running XMonad https://i.imgur.com/UoWsO7N.png
ChrisLAS: Arch Linux Gnome Numix Theme https://imgur.com/a/QIJRC
ChrisLAS: I’m chatting on my laptop so here’s an old desktop screenshot pic that you have seen before but maybe it will be fresh for some of the guys in the chatroom… https://transfer.sh/sdgaz/countzero-desktop.jpg
ChrisLAS: Arch Linux with Mate https://i.imgur.com/JP0ItMw.png
Angela: ChrisLAS: both awesome wm, compton compositor, sakura term, quassel irc client; I get my wallpaper from minitokyo.net; FreeBSD: https://whynot.click/images/screenshot4faux.png Mint: https://whynot.click/images/screenshot4faux2.png
arch gnome numix https://tinypic.com/r/28j9us7/8
Mint, with MATE desktop. 2 monitors, the second for video editing only: https://goatslive.com/tmp/desktop.png
Angela: ChrisLAS; https://imgur.com/a/Foujd< an album showing the desktops of my main desktop and my Thinkpad. Go Cats!
Arch Linux KDE https://i.imgur.com/p1IzeWD.png
Arch, Enlightenment, and lots of conky: https://bsflowers.net/desktop.png
ChrisLAS: Mostly OzonOS, but with work in progress new Numix icon theme on which I’m working. The icon theme in incomplete, so you can’t have it just yet. https://i.imgur.com/5NVjeTD.png https://i.imgur.com/gVxwWvu.png https://i.imgur.com/FlBZpCc.png
NO SCREENCAST. If it is possible, please check it before you show it in the show. DESCRIPTION: a video (16:9) about my Linux PC and my Laptop and my Hardware, all running Ubuntu Gnome : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yhhy4Lfhi0
Arch Linux, a custom desktop environment I’m working on (far from finished): https://i.imgur.com/jogEAuS.png
ChrisLAS, screen shot album of Ubuntu Mate 15.04 Beta 1: https://imgur.com/a/HzO7B
ChrisLAS: heres my Desktop, https://owncloud.apdigitaltech.com/public.php?service=files&t=c70a8674e18010ec8e2877b7fb60c7e0 Running Arch with Mate and Compiz.
Simple KDE/Arch https://i.imgur.com/H4J1oJM.jpg
Recent XFCE setup with Slingscold: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PaulHinchbergerIII/posts/CnWSgpMjC1L?pid=6123138462930387954&oid=108939121673543785910
Just simple Ubuntu 14.10 with Numix… https://imgur.com/9Bo5a0V
Mint 17.1 Cinnamon with Eleganse theme and lots of Conky goodness: https://transfer.sh/sdgaz/countzero-desktop.jpg
ChrisLAS, https://i.imgur.com/4kA0mV2.png yet another KDE desktop
ChrisLAS: my KDE to GNOME system = https://imgur.com/a/9viMg
ChrisLAS: Arch Linux, a custom flat desktop environment I’m working on (far from finished): https://i.imgur.com/jogEAuS.png
mint 17 with Cinnamon docky & conky https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=809701792442763&set=a.809701755776100.1073741826.100002088484802&type=3&theater
ChrisLAS: Pretty simple Arch Linux and Mate https://i.imgur.com/JP0ItMw.png
ChrisLAS: My work computer, Arch Linux, Spectrwm (tiling window manager, basically a C version of Xmonad) https://i.imgur.com/qRNrvtX.png
Arch – KDE4 – Numix Icons – https://imgur.com/a/ah1mV
https://i.imgur.com/4kA0mV2.png ChrisLAS
ChrisLAS: Fedora 21 Workstation. Vanilla Gnome 3 desktop: https://www.dodaj.rs/f/2R/Ex/sS8yLcB/—2015-03-15-195530.png
Arch Mate running some scientific computing https://imgur.com/0bIS1Ev
ChrisLAS: I have a single customization for the JB editing system install because it makes things much less jarring to me when editing to not have a bright bar across the top, and thats Obsidian Menu Bar ( https://www.obsidianmenubar.com/ ). Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/1KY0T8j.jpg
ChrisLAS https://i.imgur.com/9P45vHT.jpg – Arch | Gnome 3.14 | Faenza Azure icons | Zukitwo theme
ChrisLAS, NO SCREENCAST. If it is possible, please check it before you show it in the show. DESCRIPTION: a video (16:9) about my Linux PC and my Laptop and my Hardware, all running Ubuntu Gnome : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yhhy4Lfhi0
Enlightenment, Arch, 3k+ lines of conky and bash…and no icons https://bsflowers.net/desktop.png
ChrisLAS: https://i.imgur.com/H4J1oJM.jpg simple KDE/Arch nothing too special, but everything I need
https://i.imgur.com/BzwApFE.jpg personal favorite background. has been my background on 3 different builds
muh wallpapers https://whynot.click/images/wallpapurz.png
ChrisLAS: https://imgur.com/a/9viMg | KDE4 looks like GNOME | Arch
Arch: https://imgur.com/BjXXsEd
ARM_ Ubuntu SoC MK808 – https://imgur.com/a/24TgU
https://imgur.com/a/CXvcq
ChrisLAS: Arch, Cinnamon, Conky, Tint2 https://imgur.com/W56ZZt5
ChrisLAS: Here is an ARM System desktop -> https://imgur.com/a/24TgU
foreverAnEnd-user: Here is what happens when you click on the applications icon. As I mentioned, this is far from finished. https://i.imgur.com/Zk2WvUT.png

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Mark Shuttleworth Interview | LAS 341

chris — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:15:45 +0000

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Mark Shuttleworth sits down with the big show to reflect on 10 years of Ubuntu, the state of the Debian community, their efforts with Mir & the switch to systemd. Plus he’ll give us some insights to his competitive advantage when dealing with a contentious market.

Plus Mint 17.1 is out and we’ll dig into what’s great, the Debian fork is looking for funds, FreeBSD’s plans to compete with systemd…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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MenuLibre

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An advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface. All without GNOME dependencies, so even lightweight systems can benefit from the sanity that MenuLibre offers. MenuLibre is your one-stop shop for menus in Linux, whether you use Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, or Unity.

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Weekly Spotlight

urlwatch – a tool for monitoring webpages for updates

This script is intended to help you watch URLs and get notified (via
email or in your terminal) of any changes. The change notification will
include the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed.

NetMauMau

A server for the popular card game Mau Mau.
There is also a proof of concept Qt client available:
https://github.com/velnias75/NetMauMau-Qt-Client

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Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon released!

Linux Mint 17.1 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.

They’re going to fork Debian.

Dear Init-Freedom lovers, the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you!

Our project is called “Devuan”.

Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like “DevOne” in English.

Devuan – the GNU/Linux by Veteran Unix Admins.

HandBrake 0.10.0 Released With Support For New Encoders

added VP8 encoder (using libvpx)
updated libraries: x264 r2479-dd79a61, Libav v10.1 and libbluray 0.5.0
Linux only: improvements to Auto-Naming feature
Linux only: requires GTK3.

Syncthing is still syncthing

This is to announce and explain that we’re slightly modifying the relationship between syncthing and Ind.ie. You may recall that I announced that syncthing was going to be renamed Pulse and live under the stewardship of Ind.ie, almost exactly a month ago. This isn’t happening, at least not right now and not exactly in this manner. Syncthing is going to remain syncthing.

FreeBSD Plans For The Next Ten Years

Jordan Hubbard – FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years – YouTube

FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years (MeetBSD 2014) from iXsystems

Jordan Hubbard, the co-founder of FreeBSD and CTO of iXsystems, gave a talk at this month’s MeetBSD California 2014 conference about the next ten years of FreeBSD.

Besides recapping the twenty-one year history of FreeBSD with some remarks, Hubbard focused on the future of FreeBSD and goals he hopes to see realized for this popular BSD distribution. Among the project ideas Jordan hopes will be tackled for FreeBSD in the next decade include a single/unified configuration data interface for FreeBSD and all services/applications, a centralized event notification system, and service start-up and wrangling improvements.

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Electronics are popular gifts for the holidays, but people often overlook the restrictions that manufacturers slip under the wrapping paper. From remote deletion of files to harsh rules about copying and sharing, some gifts take more
than they give. The good news is that there are ethical companies making better devices that your loved ones can enjoy with freedom and privacy. This is the Free Software Foundation (FSF) guide to smarter gifts, compared with their restrictive
counterparts.

Ask Lennart Poettering a question
SmokePing Alternative?

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Making Linux Beautiful | LAS 339

chris — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:54:53 +0000

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We chat with three developers that are working to make the Linux desktop look even better. From building hardware to working with upstream we dig into the process at the ground level, with some exciting announcements.

Plus why Linux makes Docker relevant, a quick tour of some new Ubuntu MATE features, some great picks…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Numix Update

Brought to you by: System76

An exciting new operating system from the developers of Numix & Nitrux.

Ozon OS Ozon OS “Hydrogen” alpha is based on Fedora 20 and it uses GNOME Shell and Gnome apps by default, customized with various extensions.

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Runs Linux

Runs Linux, Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds Technobabble – Her GUI is mindblowing! – YouTube

Desktop App Pick

Meld

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld
helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled
projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files
and directories, and has support for many popular version control
systems.

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Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon RC released!

Linux Mint 17.1 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.

Linux Mint 17.1 Release Candidate Out

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Ubuntu MATE 14.04 Released

This release is unusual in that it is based on Ubuntu MATE 14.04
but adds a number of new features and fixes many bugs. Although
this is a 14.04 release you can consider it a newer version than
14.10 but many of the changes outlined below have already been
released to Ubuntu MATE 14.10 via updates.

Install MATE on openSUSE using a script

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Preconfigured Docker Platform

The ‘Preconfigured Docker’ platforms are delivered as Docker containers allowing you to develop and test your applications locally using the same container that your application will be deployed to on Elastic Beanstalk.

AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service

In order to help you to realize these benefits, we are announcing a preview of our new
container management service, EC2 Container Service (or ECS for short).

This service will make it easy for you to run any number of Docker_containers across a managed cluster of _Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances using powerful APIs and other tools. You do not
have to install cluster management software, purchase and maintain the cluster hardware, or match your hardware
inventory to your software needs when you use ECS. You simply launch some instances in
a cluster, define some tasks, and start them. ECS is built around a scalable,
fault-tolerant,
multi-tenant base that takes care of all of the details of cluster management on your
behalf.

AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service | ZDNet

The Switch To Systemd Will Likely Occur For Ubuntu 15.04

Among the bugs that need to be addressed for the switch to happen is needing some AppArmor fixes, support for Ubuntu working in a LXC container with systemd, working cryptsetup integration with systemd during the boot process, and other changes. Some of the other work needed includes bringing up the network enablement in a good manner, NFS improvements, improving Plymouth integration, validating behavior for various packages, etc. While there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to clear it for integration, the consensus expressed during today’s Ubuntu Online Summit was, “generally we are ready to switch now.”

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Flat GIMP icon Theme v 1.0.0 by android272 on deviantART

The Flat GIMP icon Theme was created to modernize GIMP and keep people focused on their art. I have heard it all over the web that GIMP is ugly and I wanted to change that.

Andrew Pullins on Twitter
Any experience with the Surface 3 and Linux out there?
New Surface Pro 3 Tablet
Invite to participate in the 4th Annual HPR New Year 26 Hour show
Frozen Synapse Prime devs: “Despite engine being cross platform, releasing for Linux/OSX would lose us money” – how is that possible?
Rough Estimates put Steam’s Linux users base at around 500K give or take.

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