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• Google collected location data from Android users who didn’t know — In a nutshell, the whereabouts of every active Android phone and tablet in the world were tracked even with location services disabled and no carrier SIM card inserted.
• Ubuntu want community input on Mir — However we’re also at the place where we need to reach out to the community and ask what are the aspects of your desktop that you value most, to help us figure out a direction for Mir.
• New magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – Hackspace — The first issue of HackSpace magazine is here! Join us as we explore thinking machines, build a trebuchet, learn how Arduino changed the world, see how far we can overclock a Raspberry Pi using liquid nitrogen, and much more…
• Linus gets heated about kernel security — Linux Lord fires up over proposal to secure Linux by shutting down wonky processes
• Then calmly explains his position — His long post on the matter suggested to security practitioners that “‘Do no harm’ should be your mantra for any new hardening work.”
• Others act like children — So on the day of Kees’ presentation, where he tried to drop a useless 0day on me and talk up how many upstream developers reviewed his code that did the same limitation *right*, I wrote an exploit of my own.
• Vulnerability in Intel Management Engine — Remote attackers could launch commands on a host of Intel-based computers, including laptops and desktops shipped with Intel Core processors since 2015.

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• OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise hit the Windows Store — Now OpenSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and OpenSUSE Leap 42 are available for installation from the Windows Store.
• System76 Announce Their Own Linux Distribution called Pop!_OS — System76 say their ‘operating system’ — they don’t call it a distribution — will be built and tailored to meet the needs to “professionals and makers that use their computers to create.”
• Canonical Promises Smooth and Easy Unity 7 to GNOME Shell Migration for Users — Probably the most important thing that the Ubuntu developers have worked on lately is a smooth and easy migration process from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell
• Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly — Mir 0.27 also will feature a new set of APIs to develop a “Mir platform” outside of Mir itself, which can be used for developing Mir-Wayland platform support without having to fork Mir itself.
• MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland — MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor.
• Debian Warns Of Hyper Threading Issue With Intel Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs — Intel Skylake and Kabylake (6th and 7th gen CPUs) could “dangerously misbehave” when Hyper Threading is enabled.

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Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

TL;DR: unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled. Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided fix.

Building Intel CPU Microcode Updates Directly into the Linux Kernel – DOTSLASHLINUX

To achieve our dream of booting the kernel without an initrd/initramfs we have to build our CPU’s microcode updates directly into the linux kernel (removing any need for an initrd/initramfs).

Mir Might Live on as a Wayland Compositor for the MATE Desktop – OMG! Ubuntu!

This week MATE developer Martin Wimpress has said that MATE Desktop​ developers are talking to Mir developers about how Mir might be reused as a Wayland compositor.

Wayland isn’t a display server in and of itself but a display server protocol that handles the communication between a compositor (like Mutter, Weston or KWin) and its clients.

Eternal Terminal

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here.

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digiKam 5.6 Professional Photo Management App Released with HTML Gallery Tool

digiKam 5.6 comes with a new HTML Gallery tool that lets quickly generate a web gallery from a set of albums or a selection of photos, which they can immediately upload online and show them to their friends and family. Another new tool is Video Slideshow, which lets you create a video slide from a bunch of photos or albums.

A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web. Apply Today

Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are offering a $2 million prize for big ideas that decentralize the web. And we’re accepting applications starting today.

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Dell Precision 5720 with Ubuntu Review

Performance

• Intel Xeon E3-1275
• Quad Core HT
• 3.8Ghz, 4.2GHz Turbo
• 8MB cache
• Load up to three drives

Work loads/type

• System boots in about 20 seconds from power up in big part thanks to that amazing PCIe disk I/O.

• I can build Linux Kernel 4.9 in under two minutes.

• digiKam station

• Kdenlive editor (1080p) workload
• Software development

This machine feels almost purpose built for:

• Editing / Managing Photos
• Video consumption
• 1080p video editing (4k limited by codecs)

• Development work that never feels bogged down.

• User Manual

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Thermals / Noise

• Shockingly quiet, even under load.
• Ran multiday benchmarks with very high ambient temperatures.
• Very low fan noise.

The Sound System

• Really great sound
• Amazing for gaming
• Great for editing
• Does make crappy audio sound really bad. IE some YouTube videos.

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It’s Now Possible to Use openSUSE Inside Windows 10, Here’s How to Install It

SUSE’s Senior Product Manager Hannes Kühnemund is intrigued by the fact that Microsoft chooses to enable the “wrong” Linux distribution, by default, within the Windows Subsystem for Linux used in the company’s latest Windows 10 builds, and he now has his own agenda to teach people how to used SUSE inside WSL.

Install archlinux as the WSL

This project provides an easy way to install a custom, minimal, arch linux distribution as the WSL host.

If you want to try it right now, clone and run the alwsl batch file from a non-admin command prompt. But I encourage you to wait for the stable version (it’s only a few days ;-))

Nylas Mail is now free!

Today I’ve got some exciting news to share with you:

1. Nylas N1 has been renamed Nylas Mail and has a new icon.
2. Today we are launching a free version of Nylas Mail called Nylas Basic.
3. We rebuilt the core Nylas sync engine and it’s 20x faster. Nylas Mail is now blazing fast at everything you do.

Community-supported development of GEGL now live

Almost every new major feature people have been asking us for, be it high bit depth support, or full CMYK support, or layer effects, would be impossible without having a robust, capable image processing core.

• Øyvind Kolås is creating digital media tools

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Mir: 2016 end of year review

2016 was a good year for Mir — it is being used in more places, it has more and better upstream support and it is easier to use by downstream projects. 2017 will be even better and will see version 1.0 released.

High Priority Free Software Projects

In 2016, after receiving feedback from about 150 free software community members, the High Priority Projects committee recommended extensive updates to the FSF High Priority Projects list.

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Liri

We are building some exciting features including atomic upgrades, powerful notifications support, and much more.
We’re leveraging the latest and greatest Linux technologies, including OSTree, Wayland, Qt 5, and much more.

Why I switched from OS X to GNU/Linux; Freedom, Community, Pride, Diversity

I think it started with some dissatisfaction about OS X, and the disire to be, at least in theory, able to change things so they would work like I want them to. This translates directly to the GPL, which is the license most of those programs I use use. Add to that the feeling of membership, because everyone at work is using Linux and also pride and curiousity, I am able to, and am doing it sometimes too look behind the scenes, direcly at the code of everything. This was not possible on OS X at all. And top it off with the fact that I can use Linux on so many different hardware, my laptop, my desktop at work, the security cam I’m running in Poland, the Raspberry Pi, embeded devices in the car (selfdriving cars anyone?), on the phone, on my router, and so on.

All this together is right now so compelling that macOS doesn’t stand a chance.

Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Want to learn how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure to support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be revealing the technologies and methods we use to global route and balance Facebook’s traffic. The Traffic team at Facebook has built several systems for managing and balancing our site traffic, including both a DNS load balancer and a software load balancer capable of handling several protocols. This talk will focus on these technologies and how they have helped improve user performance, manage capacity, and increase reliability.

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The current state of video editing on Linux 2017?

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Ubuntu 16.10 Review

• Ubuntu 16.10

• Super fast boot into Unity (set your login to auto and give it a shot, tell me that’s not crazy fast)

• For me personally I never expected to be this surprised by Ubuntu 16.10. I was expecting just another simpler interaction. And that’s exactly what I got, and I didn’t even know I wanted it.

• Unity 7 is fast, simple, and now runs are lower end hardware and VM’s a lot better.

• This is the simple, clean, modern looking desktop I’m comfortable recommending to friends and loved ones.

• But my biggest surprises came when I found myself reloading studio production machines to Ubuntu MATE 16.10.

• From a desktop environment perspective, we need our desktops to be light on the GPU, simple in their function, and steady. MATE has played that role for a while now on top of Arch in the JB studio.

• But Ubuntu 16.10’s based on Kernel 4.8 (which brings Skylake improvements, and USB capture/camera device improvements). 16.10’s MATE flavor also ships with MATE Desktop 1.16. The first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop.

• The roll out of the Unity 8 Preview is very humble. Very clear on what state this is in, and how end users can play and improve it.

Kernel 4.8 Features

• Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

The biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug

• NFS Client Sees Some Performance Improvements With Linux 4.8 – Phoronix

NFS client updates for Linux 4.8, the next major kernel release, include several performance-related features, more aggressive caching, optimized several code paths, SUNRPC updates, pNFS improvements, and various bug fixes. The performance changes for the NFS client in Linux 4.8 include removing a “performance killer.”

• Support for overclocking AMD graphic cards
• Initial NVIDIA Pascal support in Nouveau driver
• Raspberry Pi 3 SoC support
• ACPI Low-Power Idle support
• Support for the Microsoft Surface 3 touch screen
• Wider range of audio device, USB and webcam drivers

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak | Ubuntu Insights

The current experience comes with a minimal set of applications; a browser, terminal and systems settings. Here are a few things you might like to try to flesh out your Unity 8 session and get the most from it.

• What to do with Unity 8 now – whizzy.org

The main driver for getting Unity 8 in to 16.10 was the chance to get it in the hands of users so we can get feedback and bug reports. If you find something doesn’t work, please, log a bug. We don’t monitor every forum or comments section on the web so the absolute best way to provide your feedback to people who can act on it is a bug report with clear steps on how to reproduce the issue (in the case of crashes) or an explanation of why you think a particular behaviour is wrong. This is how you get things changed or fixed.

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 | Ubuntu MATE

The work to port MATE Desktop to GTK3+ has been ongoing for a couple
of years and Ubuntu MATE is the first major distribution to ship a
full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop. And the absolute latest
release too, MATE Desktop 1.16! Firefox and LibreOffice are also GTK3+
only in Yakkety.

This has been no small undertaking, we’ve changed toolkits twice this
cycle. First from GTK 2.24.x to GTK 3.18, and then again to GTK 3.20. The
themes required two significant upgrades during this process.
We’ve also upgraded through three MATE Desktop versions this cycle,
starting from 1.12 to 1.14, to 1.15 and finally to 1.16.

We originally planned to complete the migration to GTK3+ for the
Ubuntu MATE 17.04 release, but thanks to those of you who have generously
supported the Ubuntu MATE crowd-funding we’ve achieved that
objective well ahead of schedule!

• Ubuntu MATE 16.10 Hits the Streets with MATE 1.16 Desktop and GTK+ 3 Goodness

newest _MATE 1.16 desktop environment_based on the latest GTK+ 3.20 technologies, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is probably the most important milestone of the official Ubuntu flavor built around the MATE Desktop

Being re-worked from scratch, more or less, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 ships with the ability for users to uninstall default applications without issues.

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Internet DJ Console

Ability to broadcast LIVE audio through icecast. Internet DJ Console is a project started in March 2005 to provide a powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.
Because of the large number of streaming applications that already existed but did little more than stream a pair of audio channels or a fixed playlist, it was decided that IDJC would be the opposite and simulate audio hardware to cut down the expense of creating a home studio.

Unlike Mixxx is designed to stream live audio not just pre-recorded MP3s

Spotlight [Ben F Switched to Linux for Good] (Video in Dropbox)

Ben gives us a little show and tell.

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Devs Mark KDE’s 20th Birthday By Re-Releasing KDE 1!

Yup, it’s the KDE project’s 20th birthday. And to help mark the mammoth milestone the KDE Restoration Project is re-releasing KDE 1!

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

So many Linux nerds are happy right now #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/UlV4ZVXVzz

— Kevin Lee (@infinite_lee) October 12, 2016

As mentioned before, SteamVR on Linux will use Vulkan and not OpenGL. This is probably one of the main things that held up SteamVR/HTC Vive support on Linux.

• Collabora Has Been Working On A Fully-Open HTC Vive Driver – Phoronix

While we found out today Valve is finally expected to show a VR Linux demo likely using the HTC Vive, it turns out Collabora has been working on their own Linux VR effort with a focus on a fully open-source driver for the HTC Vive for the OSVR platform.

FreeBSD Takes Open Source to 11 with Latest Release

New architecture support, performance improvements, toolchain enhancements and support for contemporary wireless chipsets.

Mad Max to release on 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, being ported by Feral Interactive

Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.

The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.

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Name: Sam S

Subject: Barebones Linux Follow Up

Message: Hi guys, I’m writing in about the LAS438 question regarding a “barebones” distro. I’d like to give a shameless plug to my set of “GeckoLinux” spins based on openSUSE. Among the 8 spins, I actually have one called “BareBones”, which is basically an openbox desktop with Firefox, rxvt, and the YaST configuration tools, nothing else. There’s a BareBones based on openSUSE Leap (long-term fixed-release cycle) and another for Tumbleweed (super-stable rolling release). You can download it at geckolinux.github.io or clone it on SuseStudio.

Name: Ghislain A.

Subject: Ghislain is looking for a distro to do the following three things

1. Full Disk Encryption
2. Installation on RAID 1
3. Support multi screen three by default

Full Message: Hi Noah !

I still have my windows machine but i go rid of the last windows software necessary to run my business bu going webbased for my billing. For my workstation as my main working PC at my company i wanted to run a linux KDE desktop ( i love the layout of the plasma 5 desktop) but gnome would do also, i do not like at all the ubuntu unity one so i prefer to avoid it but i can live with it if i have raid and encryption.

On my research i had quite a lot of issue as most distro i tried to install do not support the basic i need “out of the box”. Those “basics” are:

• full disk encryption ( i use truecrypt on windows)
• installation on a raid 1
• support multi screen (3) by default

For now i do not find any distro that support the raid 1 thing in the installer.

I have to manually do some magic mojo to have a simple install in raid1 in the installer.

The second challenge is that allmost all the non KDE 5+ distro i tried did not support the 3 screen i have with my 2 low power AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series cards. The others would see 2 screen and not the third or see it but do not allow to move the mouse to it.

So right now i have kubuntu and antegros that is working , the last one was installed but i had to do some mojo to install it with raid and i do not have encryption so i must restart my install.

This is where you can help Do you know of a distro you think can support those simple business need (raid1, encryption, multi screen) without the need to manually tweak many thing by hand and pray no error was made ? Hope you do

Ghislain.

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Announcing the Release of Fedora 25 Beta – Fedora Magazine

The Workstation edition of Fedora 25 Beta is going to show off its stuff, too:

• GNOME 3.22: Fedora 25 includes GNOME 3.22 in its pre-release and in the Final version, coming soon. Helpful new features include multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard settings tool, and many other UI improvements across the environment. For full details, refer to the GNOME 3.22 release notes.

• New Fedora media writer: The new Fedora Media Writer is a tool that downloads the latest stable Fedora for you. It then helps you write it to media such as a USB stick, so you can take Fedora for a spin on your system. If you like what you see, you can install to your system from the live environment. The Fedora Media Writer is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

• Wayland by default

  • Wayland is the replacement for the legacy X11 display system. Wayland has been under development for several years. While like most software it still has some bugs, we believe it’s ready to serve as a default that works for many users.
  • Users can still select the old X11 system if necessary to avoid a problem that affects them.

• Improved Flatpak support in the Software tool: The Software tool has the ability to install, update, and remove Flatpak software where a Fedora system is configured to point to a repo that offers it.

• GNOME Shell extensions are no longer checked for compatibility with the current version of the Shell. This was originally required because the GNOME interfaces were changing rapidly during the early days of GNOME 3. Now these interfaces have stabilized, and extensions can generally be expected to work with new releases. Any problems with an extension should be reported to the author through the homepage, as listed on the Extensions site.

KDE neon as a daily driver

The latest and greatest of KDE community software
packaged on a rock-solid base.

On October 20th, enter the outlandish post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max on Mac and Linux. pic.twitter.com/8Vx0qU9YpK

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) October 5, 2016

MeetBSD California 2016 – www.meetbsd.com

This year, MeetBSD will be held at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr Campus on November 11th and 12th.

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History Of Xenix — Microsoft’s Forgotten Unix-based Operating System

Turning back the pages to the late 1970’s, Microsoft entered into an agreement with AT&T Corporation to license Unix from AT&T. While the company didn’t sell the OS to public, it licensed it to other OEM vendors like Intel, SCO, and Tandy.

As Microsoft had to face legal trouble due to “Unix” name, the company renamed it and came up with its own Unix distribution. So, AT&T licensed Unix to Redmond that was passed on to other OEMs as Xenix.

Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken

Top Comment

I can’t say I’m surprised. I used to be responsible for the port and upkeep of a relatively low level product to OS X. It was far and away the most troublesome platform. We would frequently run into bugs that had been reported on openradar for years without having been addressed.

Off hand I remember spending the better part of two days trying to understand a bug that was traced to a coroutine issue — OS X was just not saving a required register, known and reported for 5 major versions.

I remember discovering that unnamed semaphores don’t work on OS X. Not that the functions aren’t implemented, just that they always return an error.

So I’m not surprised that poll() would be broken, nor am I surprised that it’s broken again.

The only thing that surprised me anymore is how many people continue to insist to me that OS X (or macOS now, I guess) is a great UNIX. It may be a great desktop OS.

Linus Torvalds says ARM just doesn’t look like beating Intel

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MATE’s Next Level

• ubuntu-mate / ubuntu-mate.org / source / blog / 20161013-ubuntu-mate-yakkety-final-release.md — Bitbucket

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is, more or less, a from scratch re-working of Ubuntu MATE. Not just to accomadate GTK3+ but to also make nearly all packages shipped with Ubuntu MATE by default “Recommeneded”. This means most default applications can now be uninstalled without issue.

The work to port MATE Desktop to GTK3+ has been ongoing for a couple of years and Ubuntu MATE is the first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop. And the absolute latest release too, MATE Desktop 1.16!

• Ubuntu MATE 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Daily Build

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Daily Build

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We turned to OpenDaylight one month after its inception in April 2013, we had been involved in Software Defined Networking (SDN) to simplify IT and like many we started creating value-add. However we saw that the majority of the members were building products out of OpenDaylight and the project itself was lacking in usability. We are committed to improving SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) innovation around OpenDaylight and help vendors, service providers and enterprises leverage OpenDaylight as part of their products or solutions.

• Andy Salo – OpenDaylight Summit 2016

Charged with driving product strategy, marketing and alliances for Inocybe, Andy brings over 20 years experience with successful high-tech companies in product management, sales, and engineering. Prior to Inocybe, Andy was Vice President of Product and Marketing for Nimboxx, a leader in Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI). Mr. Salo has spoken at many industry events including the OpenStack Summit, NAB, and SCTE/Cable-Tec.

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The future of Linux package management is here & there’s a lot of ideas on how to solve it. We discuss some of the more popular ones & how they might be impacting your Linux desktop much sooner than you expect.

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Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi

The 314GB drive, which will normally cost $45.81 but is currently available for $31.42, is a 7mm-high drive based on the basic Western Digital Blue drives that still ship in many budget and mid-end laptops and PCs. The difference is the interface, which has been changed from SATA to USB and is designed to connect to the Pi directly without drastically increasing the footprint of the device.

Mozilla’s super speedy new browser will be available for testing in June

Servo is a browser engine that was built from the ground up in the Rust language to specialize in performance, security, modularity and parallelism.

Mycroft Announces The OpenSTT Project – YouTube

Mycroft is announcing that we are going after the Watson AI XPrize, and our first project aimed at achieving this goal is OpenSTT, an initiative to create an open source speech-to-text model that products and services, the world over, will be able to make use of.

• https://youtu.be/cDRDZng92Bs?t=41s

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MATE in 16.04 to support Client Side Decoration (CSD) and Header Bars

The attached screenshot shows a number of applications that use Client Side Decoration and Header Bars. They are pictured here running on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 daily using the Marco window manager with software compositing enabled.

You may not be a fan of CSD applications, but there are a good number of them and undoubtedly there will be many more released over the coming years. It would be remiss of the Ubuntu MATE team to not provide first class CSD application support for the upcoming LTS release. With these changes, Ubuntu MATE can finally bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary applications.

• [What is Client Side Decoration?]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28650646/what-is-client-side-decoration)

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Is the Future Snappy?

Snappy are repackaged .deb packages, which bring its own libraries and therefore might be a bit bigger than usual debs.

• Advantages
• Developers can choose which version of libraries they want you to use
• If an update failed you can reverse to the last working one without any problems
• Apps are sandboxed and cannot modify or read files that they aren’t supposed to
• Cons
• Bigger files
• Developers have to update snaps if there is a security hole in a library
• Snaps are Ubuntu exclusive, afaik

The questions we have:

Its approach is nothing new: just bundled libs, as Windows does. This is a security nightmare.

• Could this lead to a security nightmare? All those linked libs?
• Why not bundle dependencies – Gentoo Wiki

How to create local repository for Ubuntu Snappy – Ask Ubuntu

You can “snappy install” a snap directly on a machine, but there isn’t an equivalent to the idea of a local repository.

Other Solutions:

• GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager — GuixSD

Dependable. The GNU Guix package manager, in addition to standard package management features, supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and more.

• Nix:The Purely Functional Package Manage
• Limba Project – Home

Limba provides developers with a way to easily create software bundles for their applications which run
on multiple Linux distributions.
It provides atomic upgrades of software, simultaneous installation of multiple
software versions and a simple way to obtain and upgrade software.

• Projects/SandboxedApps – GNOME Wiki!

The sandboxing is done with a set of technologies, including:

• cgroups
• namespaces
• selinux (not currently used)
• kdbus (interesting for the future, currently uses userspace filtering)
• wayland (because X11 is inherently insecure)
• However, sandboxing requires a lot of changes to application and new APIs for sandboxed access to resources. So, in the short term we will focus on the first goal.
• AppImage | Linux apps that run anywhere

Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

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Skylake-based Dell XPS 13 with Linux arrives in the US

The fifth-generation XPS 13 developer edition ships with a Core i7 processor, up to 16 GB of memory, and Ubuntu Linux.

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Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out.

Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more!

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Ubuntu 15.10 Review

• Linux kernel 4.2

• Stateless persistent network interface names are now being used

• GNOME packages have been upgraded to version 3.16.X

• Upstream GNOME scrollbars are now being used.

• GCC 5 and Python 3.x

• Support for the Steam Controller when you install Steam from the repo.The Steam installer package takes care of setting requisite udev and uinput rules and permissions.

• Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Since the Linux Kernel version used in the previous Ubuntu release (3.19 in Ubuntu 15.04), there are quite a few changes, including a new AMDGPU kernel driver for supporting recent and near-term Radeon GPUs, Intel Broxton support, F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) encryption support, support for Ext4 encryption, experimental support for managing clustered raid arrays, live patching the kernel code (aimed at applying security fixes without rebooting), dm-crypt CPU scalability improvements and more.

Ubuntu 15.10 Flavors Now Available for Download

Yep, downloads for Ubuntu’s colorful array of community flavors, including perennially popular Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu GNOME, are now live.

Unity 7.3.3 Features

Unity, the default desktop shell, has been handed a batch of small fixes and usability improvements for Ubuntu 15.10.

For example, you can now drag and drop apps from the Unity Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts, and navigate through Dash results using keyboard navigation keys.

The Unity Dash search box text and BFB tooltip no longer make mention of ‘online sources’ when you have online source searching set to ‘disabled’ under System Settings > Privacy.

Other changes in Unity 7.3.3:

• You can now drag and drop apps from the Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts
• Page up/down keyboard navigation works as scroll in the Dash
• Dash title & BFB tooltip is updated based on your privacy settings
• Session exit buttons now have a click effect
• Fix to prevent ‘shutdown’ of computer when screen is locked
• Active app icons now show unfolded when launcher accordion triggered
• Fix for full screen menubar
• Fixes issues with ‘show desktop’ that caused window decoration for two windows of same app to vanish
• Dash: Non-expandable category headers skipped in keyboard navigation
• Dash: Non-expandable category headers are no longer highlighted on mouse over
• Dash: screenreader and KeyNav fixes
• New setting to control the show-now delay (when pressing Alt key)
• Logic tweak to stop adjacent menu opening when moving from an indicator icon to its menu

Ubuntu Make

Ubuntu Make, a command-line utility that makes installing popular developer tools easier on Ubuntu, now supports even more platforms, frameworks and services, including a full Android development environment.

Ubuntu 15.10: Wily Werewolf – not too hairy, not too scary •

What you won’t find in this release are any major changes. It used to be that the x.10 releases were the time when things got experimental, sometimes for the better, as in the case of the Unity shell, which became the only option in 11.10 (technically Unity first showed up in 11.04, but that version still offered a GNOME fallback) and sometimes for the worse, as in the case of Amazon search results which first showed up in 12.10. This release has nothing like that.

What’s new in 6 Ubuntu 15.10 offshoot ‘flavors,’ from Kubuntu to Ubuntu GNOME

Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, and other Ubuntu “flavors” with different desktops all saw their own changes and improvements.

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2

Martin Wimpress and Rohith Madhavan have made an Ubuntu MATE image
for the Raspberry Pi 2 which you can download or build yourself.

• 10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 15.10

Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf may lack the bite of its namesake but there is still some nifty new changes shipping inside it.

• Trying out Unity 8 in LXC

The Unity 8 Desktop Preview in LXC is the new Unity 8 desktop shell running on the Mir display technology using an LXC container so users of released Ubuntu versions can use the latest versions of Unity 8 and Mir. The idea is that the LXC will be the latest development version of Ubuntu with the latest packages. Also, a user can log in to the Unity 8 LXC session from LightDM just as they would any normal session.

• [Ubuntu 15.10 Screenshot Tour](https://www.linuxscreenshots.org/?release=Ubuntu 15.10)

Codenamed ‘Wily Werewolf’, 15.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.

• Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released for Desktop, Server, and Cloud

“In 15.10, Unity8 is demonstrating Canonical’s convergence vision as a tech preview. Users can log into a Unity8 session on the desktop, experience the new features, and cleanly revert to the default Unity7 experience. The feature set of Unity8 now includes the important windowed mode for Desktop users, which allows users to multi-task between multiple running apps. Mobile apps such as the Music player and the Deko email client have added support to cover small form-factor devices and large screen Desktops. Ubuntu 15.10 also has improved supports for developers of traditional apps that want to bring these apps into Unity8,” say the Ubuntu developers.

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DAQRI Smart Helmet, Runs Linux

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Desktop App Pick

BlueProximity

Add security to your desktop by automatically locking and unlocking the screen when you and your phone leave/enter the desk. Think of a proximity detector for your mobile phone via bluetooth.

Weekly Spotlight

Hawaii – The QtQuick and Wayland system

Hawaii is a lightweight Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. It uses the Hawaii Shell desktop workspace. You can use the Hawaii operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows(tm) or Mac OS X(tm) although it’s not currently considered as stable as other operating systems, if you feel brave enough you can be an early adopter and let us know of glitches and bugs and help us make a great product.

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

The 2015 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is scheduled
for October 23rd and 24th
at Seattle Central College (Maps).

SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading
awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and
free/libre/open-source software/hardware.

Tweets by @seagl

• SeaGL 2015 Schedule | Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

Kubuntu’s Release Manager Calls It Quits

Now that Kubuntu 15.10 shipped yesterday, he’s moving on and will no longer be serving as the Kubuntu release manager. Instead, Riddell is just going to get involved with upstream KDE development more as he no longer wants to be involved under the Ubuntu/Canonical umbrella.

• Kubuntu Release Manager Steps Down, Says Canonical Defrauded Donors

The release manager of the Kubuntu project has stepped down after the launch of Kubuntu 15.10. The information was made public by Jonathan Riddell himself on the official Kubuntu website.

• jriddell comments on Jonathan Riddell Stands Down as Release Manager of Kubuntu

• Community donations tracked and reported on a quarterly basis here

Below are links to the past reports detailing the donations and disbursements from this program.

Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS

This week, Ubuntu developer Michael Hall posted proof of Canonical’s progress toward full Ubuntu convergence in the form of a screenshot from an Ubuntu-based Nexus 4 running desktop apps, including GIMP and Firefox.

Hall emphasized that the software in the image remains very much under development. “Lots of work still to do to make these useful, but it’s great to be able to show visible progress,” he wrote.

After Hall posted the screenshot, Softpedia confirmed with him that Canonical’s plan is indeed to make it possible to run any Linux application on Ubuntu.

Alienware Steam Machine Up for Pre-Order

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The Alienware Steam Machine opens up a new way to play, with the endless possibilities of SteamOS. It’s designed for your living room and built for fun. Ready? Let’s game.

Starting at $449.99

Valve Steam Controller hands-on: Opening a new world of PC gaming possibilities

It took three long, intense days of swearing and messing around in menus and playing Portal 2, but it’s official—we love the Steam Controller.

• Pre-order Steam Controller on Steam

• How do I get a Steam Controller working? – Ask Ubuntu

If you have 15.10 and newer you do not need to do anything except plug in the dongle and pair the controller when you launch steam big picture mode. 14.04 fix is in progress.

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• Going “off the grid” with no internet at home

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Debian aims for reproducible builds of all packages. We’ll explain what that means & why other distributions might be jumping onboard with the idea.

Plus impressive early performance results under Mir & Gnome’s 3.18’s best features you’re not hearing about.

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• Cards Against IT

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• System XVI

System XVI is a modern take on service management. It aims to incorporate useful functionality while maintaining a modular design in the UNIX tradition.

Jose Macbook Linux feedback

From: Sean
RE: Jose Macbook Linux feedback

I’ve been running Linux on my macbook pro for about 4 years now, I just switched back to Fedora 22 from OpenSuse (been rocking Suse since 2007) and my macbook has never worked better.

The newer kernel 4.1+ finally has good hardware support for the keyboard backlight, thermal/fan controls, cpu scaling (yes Apple does their own crap for this) so battery life is still good.

One other thing that I’ve done to extend battery life is buy the Fluendo codec suite and switch to a gstreamer based video player, the fluendo codecs have much better video acceleration for video decoding, taking much of the load off the cpu.

Also, not all gstreamer video players are created equal; totem is still pretty heavy on the cpu, 24% on 1080p h.264 video, but something lightweight like MPV sits around 12%, and this is on a Sandy Bridge i5.

I haven’t tried Arch on here but I imagine getting a similar setup wouldn’t be too hard. I wish Jose the best of luck, don’t give up on Linux.

Name for the road show

From: Zek the Penguin
RE: Name for the road show

Hi Chris!

Was listening to Unplugged today and figured I’d make suggestions for the road show.

How about ‘Nation Migration’? ‘March of the Penguin’? ‘Roll Your Own’?

Just a few ideas. Hope it helps.

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Ubuntu Convergence Demo: X Apps Running on Mir Display Server

The video was filmed by Canonical at a recent developer sprint. The video was distributed internally to better demonstrate the progress made on the X.org compatability layer for Mir.

DigitalOcean

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How Debian Is Trying to Shut Down the CIA and Make Software Trustworthy Again

In response to the Snowden revelation that the CIA compromised Apple developers’ build process, thus enabling the government to insert backdoors at compile time without developers realizing, Debian, the world’s largest free software project, has embarked on a campaign to to prevent just such attacks. Debian’s solution? Reproducible builds.

Reproducible builds, as the name suggests, make it possible for others to reproduce the build process. “The idea is to get reasonable confidence that a given binary was indeed produced by the source,” Lunar said. “We want anyone to be able to produce identical binaries from a given source.”

A software package reproducibly built should be byte for byte identical to the publicly-available package. Any difference would be evidence of tampering.

Reproducible builds rely in part on David A. Wheeler’s solution to this problem, Diverse Double-Compiling.

“You need two compilers,” Lunar explained, “with one that you somehow trust. Then you build the compiler under test twice, once with each compiler, and then you use the compilers that you just built to build the compiler under test again.

“If the output is the same, then no backdoors,” he added. “But for this scheme to work, you need to be able to compare that both build outputs are the same. And that’s exactly what we are enabling when having reproducible builds.”

According to Lunar, 83 percent of Debian packages are now built reproducibly, and more join the party every day.

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TING

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Gnome 3.18’s Best new Features

• Gnome Terminal 3.18 comes two new great features! The first one is the…

• Quick testing on Wayland This is the standard user testing, trying both…

• Gnome Files 318 will disable recursive search on network locations, because of…

• GNOME 3.18 Will Feature Google Drive Support

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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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Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Cinnamon released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Cinnamon.

Cisco To Buy Cloud Security Company OpenDNS for $635M In Cash

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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.

• SMACH Zero, A SteamOS Handheld Official Specifications Revealed | GamingOnLinux

• Distance Is The Racing Game I Never Knew I Wanted On Linux, Some Thoughts & Video | GamingOnLinux

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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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Exclusive interviews and coverage from one of the show’s favorite events, SouthEast LinuxFest, aka SELF 2015. Find out the latest with the Ubuntu project, a humble approach to Linux advocacy & how the boundaries of science are being pushed by Linux.

Plus the new MATE release, HP kills The Machine, a quick update on Ubuntu’s Unity 8 & more!

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Southeast LinuxFest 2015

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SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. It is part educational conference and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips and ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux and Open Source Software. SELF is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

• Build a botnet?: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2015 in Portland, OR

This talk will introduce you to the concepts behind botnets, and also show a live demonstration of a botnet on a sandboxed network.

We’ll start off by discussing the implications of running a botnet and the horrifying effect of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. I’ll demonstrate how bots behave on infected hosts, and give attendees a look at a command and control (C&C) system, which ultimately gives the bots their orders.

At the end of the discussion attendees will be encouraged to share their horror stories of botnet attacks on networks and systems that they’ve administered.

There are a lot of resources available online for those who’d like to research botnets. I’ll share some of these with attendees, but please realize that this talk is for research purposes only.

• Speaker: Bryan Smith: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2014 in Portland, OR

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• Linux powers DARPA Robotics Challenge winne

A Xenomai Linux based robot from Korea’s Team KAIST called the DRC-Hubo won the $2 million DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, one of only three bots to complete the course on time.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla – FTP Client

FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Weekly Spotlight

• Emby for Kodi – a headless media server for Kodi. (Transcoding, Open Source, Web GUI, and more)

An addon for Kodi that’ll let you automatically sync with Emby media server.

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MATE 1.10 released

After 15 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce
the release of MATE Desktop 1.10. We would like to thank every MATE contributor
and user.

Ubuntu’s Unity 8 and Mir Get Another Massive, Exciting New Update

After announcing last week that both the next-generation Unity 8 user interface and Mir display server of the Ubuntu Linux operating system received a massive update with numerous new features, Kevin Gunn dropped an email on June 12 informing us about an exciting new update for said technologies.

HP kills The Machine, repurposes design around conventional technologies

Last year, HP announced it was building The Machine — a computer meant to leap as far above conventional modern systems as a high-end Xeon workstation is above an IBM mainframe from the 1960s. The entire system was designed to work with special-purpose cores and to use memristors as a universal memory architecture. The entire system would be tied together through extensive use of silicon photonics. It was bold, ambitious, and cutting-edge. And now, it’s pretty much dead.

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We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Whether it’s systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year!

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• Episode 30 – Talkin’ Tox
• Episode 60 – Calm Before the Storm
• Episode 66 – Firefox gets Unplugged
• Episode 33 – Graphical Civil War

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We take a look back at the history of the Linux Action Show along with the audience and pick out some of our best moments plus a few bits of JB News.

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Look Back on 2014

• Episode 310 – A Chat with Maddog

• Episode 307 – Linus Q&A at Portland Linux Users Group
  
  

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• Episode 325 – Noah Reviews Ubuntu 14.10

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• Episode 299 – The Cew of Despicable Me 2, Run Linux
• Episode 333 – Weta Digital Runs Linux
• Episode 306 – Disney’s Frozen Runs Linux
• Episode 297 – Tim Hortons Runs Linux
• Episode 298 – Corvette C7.R Runs Linux
• Episode 335 – Formula 1 Runs Linux

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• Episode 325 – Native Netflix appears on Linux

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