Mycroft – Jupiter Broadcasting

A screen; because a picture is worth a thousand words. Who really wants to hear 6 days of temperature forecasts, when you can simply glance at a screen?

Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Nautilus, a LTS and desktop icons

If you are following closely the news of various tech websites, one of the latest hot topic in the community was about Nautilus removing desktop icons. Let’s try to clarify some points to ensure the various discussions around it have enough background information and not reacting on emotions only as it could be seen lately. You will have both downstream (mine) and upstream (Carlos) perspectives here.

Why Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Use an Older Version of Nautilus

Stick with Nautilus 3.26 and keep desktop icon support
Ship Nautilus 3.28 and Nemo to support desktop icons
Ship Nautilus 3.28 and use an extension to draw desktop icons

GNOME Photos: Happenings

Enjoy the Shadows and highlights operations fresh from the oven of GEGL’s workshop. Implementation of shadows and highlights is a port of DarkTable‘s operation.

Firefox 59+ is GTK3 only

Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282#c76

Firefox 58.0 release overview

Firefox 58 user profiles are not compatible with older versions of Firefox.

Firefox 58 features performance improvements, new WebExtensions API, and other improvements.

Firefox 58.0 download and update

TING

**Ting – mobile that makes sense

Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux

Application launcher for Linux

Docker console UI and Dashboard for quick managing and inspecting of Containers and Images

Docker console UI and Dashboard for quick managing and inspecting of Containers and Images

OBS Studio v21 Released: Lua/Python Scripting, New Audio Meters, Ducking, Multiview, and lots more

Full Changelog/Downloads: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases/tag/21.0.1

DigitalOcean

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

All Aboard The Meson Future Hype Train – elementary OS

One big difference you should notice immediately is that installing files is just an argument instead of a whole new method and Meson is generally smart about knowing where certain files (like executables) should be installed to.

MATE is Lookin Good!

MATE is landing new and improved support for HiDPI.

20 Years of LWN

Over the following years we have borne witness to a long series of events
that none of us could really have predicted. Linux got caught up in the dotcom boom and, with the VA Linux Systems IPO, came to epitomize its excesses, but when that boom went boom, Linux was still there, stronger than ever.

The SCO Group tried to steal our community’s work and turn it into its own
rent-generating machine; in the process of fending them off it was made
clear that the Linux kernel had one of the cleanest code bases around.
Companies discovered our little hobbyist system and invested billions into
it, massively accelerating development at all levels of the system.
We learned how to scale development communities from dozens of developers
up to many thousands of developers.

The security environment, which was initially defending against script
kiddies playing their own form of Capture the Flag, became a fight against
spammers, organized criminals, and nation states with vast resources.
Google bought an obscure phone operating system called Android and used it
to dominate the phone market; as a result, we got mobile devices that are
far more open than they would otherwise have been.

Linux became the base software supporting the bulk of the Internet economy;
some of our biggest contributors do not distribute Linux at all, but they
use it internally and want to help make it work better.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Is Native Linux App Development In Decline?

Once up on a time us writing about ___”yet another music player”___was a meme-like weekly occurrence.

Same goes for video players, download managers, instant messengers, torrent apps, image editors, Twitter apps, image viewers, text editors, photo uploaders, etc — you name it, we probably wrote about it! It seemed, for a long while, that app developers were out there en masse, crafting quality apps to satisfy the full gamut of end-user needs.

These days the availability of new native Linux apps which cater to users of the most popular Linux distributions seem few and far between.

The post Living Inside the Shell | LINUX Unplugged 233 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Linux Action News 9

chris — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 19:38:14 +0000

RSS Feeds:

HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 — On the UI side, there are big updates to its desktop with the re-basing process from GNOME Shell 3.8 to GNOME Shell 3.22. Moving forward, they intend to re-base their desktop changes much more often to allow for a smoother transition to using the newer GNOME code in their operating system.
Tuxedo Announces Its Own Ubuntu Flavor — “What we have done is [deliver a] desktop that is strongly adapted to the needs of our users. With [our] own theme, own icons, own boot logo and […] the latest firmware, the latest NVIDIA drivers (if necessary) and Linux kernel 4.11 preinstalled! Not to mention our configuration adjustments on the GRUB and optimizations to other system-relevant files.”
2017 Linux Laptop Survey Results — There are 30,171 responses, a lot of data to now sift through while in this article is an overview of the initial findings.
These Videos of Mycroft Are Just Too Funny — As an intended open-source alternative to Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Home, the humble Mycroft AI has an awful lot of hype to live up to.
Youyota Sailfish OS 2-in-1 Tablet — The Youyota Tablet packs Quad-Core Intel chipsets, and runs on Sailfish OS.
Mozilla launches Project Things IoT framework on Raspberry Pi — Mozilla has now announced its own Project Things framework designed to pull together existing Web of Things specifications and code under a global framework comprised of device, gateway, and cloud components. As a starting point, it released a prototype version of a Things Gateway stack that runs on a Raspberry Pi.

The post Linux Action News 9 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Linux Action News 2

chris — Sun, 21 May 2017 18:06:27 +0000

RSS Feeds:

HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

Ubuntu Desktop Team Discuss Their Plans for GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10 — “may consider a few tweaks here and there to ease our users into the new experience
The Ubuntu Desktop Team Wants YOUR Feedback — The results of this survey will help inform and shape the Ubuntu desktop team’s approach to GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10.
OMG! UBUNTU! on Twitter: 16,000+ Ubuntu users have taken the survey — 16,000+ #Ubuntu users have taken the 17.10 GNOME desktop survey
Windows Server will add the Linux subsystem, join the Insider program — Microsoft announced that WSL will be included in Server later this year.
Will Linux distros run on Windows 10 S? — Just because an “app” comes from the Windows Store does NOT automatically mean that it’s safe & suitable for running in Windows 10 S. There are some apps that are not allowed to run on Windows 10 S, including all command-line apps, shells and Consoles.
New Release: elementary OS Loki 0.4.1 — This release comes with a brand new version of AppCenter with support for apps submitted to the AppCenter Dashboard. Welcome to elementary OS, third-party developers!
Loki’s New AppCenter with Daniel Foré | Chris Interviews Daniel — Daniel Foré, elementary OS founder, joins Chris to chat about their new update to Loki, their pay what you want AppCenter, what the end of Unity means for them, and the future of the project.
Shipping Advance Prototype – Mycroft — This first version of Mark 1 is an advance prototype, perfectly suitable for developers or enthusiasts, yet it is not ready for the consumer market.
What’s New in Android: O Developer Preview 2 & More — New tools for developers to help create more performant apps, and an early preview of a project we call Android Go — a new experience that we’re building for entry-level devices.
Samsung to extend Tizen OS to nearly all home appliances by 2020 — A new report says, though, that Samsung is looking to further increase Tizen adoption by bringing Tizen (or, in this case, Tizen RT) to nearly all of its home appliances by 2020.
Samsung to announce Tizen RT for smart home appliances — Samsung intends to announce a slimmed-down Tizen OS, called Tizen RT, for its washing machines and other smart home appliances at its Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) today, according to a new report.

The post Linux Action News 2 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Celebrating Linux on Pi Day | LINUX Unplugged 188

chris — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:07:41 +0000

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Follow Up / Catch Up

MATE 1.18 released

The release is focused on completing the migration to GTK3+ and
adopting new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE
Desktop 1.16 still relied on.

Ubuntu Kylin | Ubuntu

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese government procurement regulations. It includes all the features you’ve come to expect from Ubuntu, alongside essential Chinese software and apps. The interface has been designed specifically to put Chinese users first — and with support for touch screens and HiDPI monitors, it runs beautifully on all kinds of hardware.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Syncthing Usage Reports

This is the total number of unique users with reporting enabled, per day. Area color represents the major version.

Valve have hired another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers

Yep, none other than Keith Packard, a well known name in the Linux community who worked on the X Window System. He previously worked for Intel, then HP and now he’s settling in at Valve to continue Linux development.

VR On Linux

React VR | A framework for building VR apps using React

React VR lets you build VR apps using only JavaScript.

Opening Up Virtual Reality Development with WebVR | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

WebVR — an experimental JavaScript API — seeks to address these limitations and open up development by providing interfaces to let developers build VR experiences in the browser. We spoke with Karanjai to learn more.

Magically Turn your Desktop Apps into VR Apps – CODELECTRON

I was looking at space exploration apps and thought it would have been nice to have Celestia seen through VR.

SteamVR Gets Beta Development Build with Support for Linux – Road to VR

Valve recommends using the issue tracker on the project’s GitHub page for reporting specific bugs, while general discussion and questions are handled on the Steam Community forum. In the long run, there is hope for significantly improved Linux support resulting from the recently-named OpenXR API, and industry-derived open standard for VR and AR from the Khronos Group, which aims to stem hardware and software fragmentation in as the industry continues to grow.

Resources:

Using the linux-lts package definitely works, as I’ve been using it since running into the same incompatibility that you have. You just need to figure out your specific issues.

Issues · ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux · GitHub

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

This Day in History (14-Mar-1994) – Linux 1.0.0 released

On 14 March 1994, Linux 1.0.0 was released. The Linux kernel has received contributions from nearly 12,000 programmers from more than 1,200 companies.

DigitalOcean

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

Picroft Meets Alexa

This week’s Challenge: Can Wes run Alexa and MyCroft on a Raspberry Pi 3?

How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Voice-Enabled Amazon Alexa Device | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

More Fun with the Pi

GitHub – MichMich/MagicMirror: MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.

MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.
https://magicmirror.builders

Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, Asterisk, FreePBX, and the Obihai OBi100

All you need are some simple pieces of hardware and that old landline phone that got shoved into the back of your closet years ago.

Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements – curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains

The post Celebrating Linux on Pi Day | LINUX Unplugged 188 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Happy Birthday Debian | LINUX Unplugged 158

chris — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:43:29 +0000

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

DebianDay/2016 – Debian Wiki

Follow Up / Catch Up

Firefox 49 for Linux gains plugin-free support for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

Another plugin bites the dust. The Windows and macOS versions of Firefox have supported the Widevine video protocol for a little while now, and the upcoming Firefox 49 for Linux gets the same treatment.

This Theme Pack Makes GIMP Look and Work Like Photoshop

The pack includes:

Photoshop icons for the toolbox

Photoshop keyboard shortcuts (e.g., ‘p’ for pen, ‘c’ for crop, etc.)

A dark grey background

Photoshop layout

Tool options placed on the right-hand side

Canonical Strikes Deal To Bring Ubuntu Core to Intel Gateways

Oft-neglected in talk of smart refrigerators and network-controlled lightbulbs, Gateways are intrinsic to the ‘Internet of Things’. They act as the “middleman” in the Internet-of-Things, ferrying data from sensors and equipment in the real world to and from that stored and analysed in the cloud.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Leaving Mycroft

Today I am sharing the news that I will be leaving Mycroft AI, Inc. I love my team and have thoroughly enjoyed working on the project, but have decided to pursue other ventures.

Ryan Sipes (@ryanleesipes) | Twitter

Fake Linus Torvalds’ Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs.

Nevertheless, real attacks started in June, some developers found
their fake keys with same name, email, and even “same” fake signatures
by more fake keys in the wild, on the keyservers.

Quick comment about btrfs coverage on the latest LAS

Humble Indie Bundle 17 Goes Live With 7 Linux Games

all the games on offer in the latest Humble Indie Bundle support Linux! Hurrah! Amazing!

Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem | Patreon

DigitalOcean

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

What’s Next for Debian?

Debian turns 23!

Today is Debian’s 23rd anniversary. If you are close to any of the cities
celebrating Debian Day 2016, you’re
very welcome to join the party!

Debian Project Timeline – a timeline of the Debian Project

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Linux on the MacBook

MacBook – ArchWiki

Installing Arch Linux on a MacBook (Air/Pro) or an iMac is quite similar to installing it on any other computer. However, due to the specific hardware configuration of a Mac, there are a few deviations and special considerations which warrant a separate guide

For Chris’s Specific Model: MacBookPro11,x – ArchWiki

This wiki page should help you in getting your MacBook Pro from Late 2013 or Mid 2014 to work with Arch Linux.

Post-Show:

Convergent terminal | Ubuntu Design Blog

On the visual side, we have brought the app in line with our Suru visual language. We have also adopted the very nice Solarized palette as the default palette — though this will of course be completely customisable by the user.

The post Happy Birthday Debian | LINUX Unplugged 158 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Agile Scapegoat | CR 218

chris — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:43:20 +0000

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Hoopla

Leaving Mycroft

I'm sorry to share the news that I'm leaving Mycroft. I've written a blog post detailing my departure. https://t.co/I4lNW10kSX

— Ryan Sipes (@ryanleesipes) August 15, 2016

Organizations can learn from Apple’s bug bounty approach

The #apple bug bounty program is a big shift their previous position of "file a Radar and go to Hell." @ChrisLAS #programming #mac #iOS

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) August 12, 2016

Apple Bug Bounty: Exodus Intel Pays More Than Double for iPhone Hacks

Slack-pocalypse Now – dominickm.com

Slack is reducing my productivity and is almost certainly having a material negative effect on my day to day performance as well as my job enjoyment. Things started so well with Slack and I and I still love the vision of reducing email but something’s change, something’s been twisted….

Does virtual presence lead to burnout?

Dat Scope Creep

I am all fired up for today's show @ChrisLAS It's going to be all about that scope creeping killer, the client

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) August 8, 2016

Facebook Investor Wants Flying Cars, Not 140 Characters

Feedback:

See Mike at Release Notes : CoderRadio

The post Agile Scapegoat | CR 218 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Botpocalypse Now | CR 217

chris — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:24:32 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

Special guest Ryan Sipes from Mycroft joins us to discuss his ambitious projects & fulfilling the mission of an open source project.

Plus our thoughts on the impending Bot revolution, the “Internet of APIs” it all depends on & the massive shift that bots could cause in the industry.

We start it all off with a new Coding Challenge!

Thanks to:

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Meet Mycroft

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

Mycroft Core

Mycroft Core is the primary module that makes up the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform. Mycroft makes use of the Adapt Intent Parser, Speech-to-Text software, and Text-to-Speech. The idea behind the platform is to be able to voice enable any device and turn it into a smart personal assistant, able to perform a variety of tasks. Mycroft is often used to refer to the hardware product produced by Mycroft AI, Inc. – so to avoid confusion, the software stack is often referred to as “Mycroft Core”.

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.

OpenSTT | An Open Source Speech-To-Text Project

The OpenSTT project is aimed at creating an open source speech-to-text model that can be used by individuals and company to allow for high accuracy, low-latency conversion of speech into text.

Currently there are no open source speech-to-text models available, instead this technology is locked deep within large companies either tied to only their own proprietary products and services or behind expensive APIs that, in many cases, don’t respect user privacy.

OpenSTT is being led by members of the Mycroft A.I. team as they strive to create a powerful voice interface and artificial intelligence platform. Our goal is to make this technology available to as many people as possible. We do this by leading development of open source projects, OpenSTT is one of these initiatives.

The post Botpocalypse Now | CR 217 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425

chris — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:46:06 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

This week we take a look at what Noah’s using at Altispeed to provide remote assistance to his clients. We ponder over what Microsoft might have planned for Skype on Linux, cover why Android’s full disk encryption might not be as secure as you think, Mycroft’s collaboration with Canonical, the picks, your feedback & more!

Thanks to:

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Brought to you by: Linux Academy

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

Tim Hortan’s Runs LINUX

Tim Hortons dougnut shop – RUNS LINUX!

Desktop App Pick

pinger-indicator

Ping Indicator is an app that shows the ping speed of various services or addresses.

The application “pings” a given set of hosts (with configurable ping interval) and monitors the response time with logarithmic scale, displaying the results in the indicator menu.

For each host, the app shows the response time as a graph in the AppIndicator icon. On packet losses, the graph turns red, as you can see in the screenshot above, for the latest entry, which doesn’t exist.

Ping Indicator is useful in many situations, including to track your latency in various areas (by adding hosts from certain areas), monitor your website latency, track when a website that went down goes back up and so on.

According to its developer, Ping Indicator still has some rough edges and unimplemented parts from the old Link Monitor Applet, and asks its users to star and watch the project on GitHub, to encourage further improvements.

Spotlight

Open Broadcaster Software

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

OBS Studio (formerly known as OBS Multiplatform) is a complete rewrite of the original OBS from the ground up, with the main goals being multiplatform support, a more thorough feature set, and a much more powerful API. While still in its early stages, releases are currently available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

OBS Studio will eventually support many of the advanced requested features not present in the original OBS, such as multiple stream outputs and scene previewing, the latter of which is now available in the current release.

— NEWS —

Skype May Be Back on Linux

If you’re a GNU/Linux user, then you’ll be very aware at just how horrible Skype is on the platform. Not only has it not been updated since June 2014, but the Skype team at Microsoft – perhaps when they were bored – added extra hoops and complications as time went on.

Exciting news for Linux users

Encryption on Android just got weaker

Privacy advocates take note: Android’s full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks to new research that reveals several methods to extract crypto keys off of a locked handset. Those methods include publicly available attack code that works against an estimated 37 percent of enterprise users.

A blog post published Thursday revealed that in stark contrast to the iPhone’s iOS, Qualcomm-powered Android devices store the disk encryption keys in software. That leaves the keys vulnerable to a variety of attacks that can pull a key off a device. From there, the key can be loaded onto a server cluster, field-programmable gate array, or supercomputer that has been optimized for super-fast password cracking.

The independent researcher that published the post included exploit code that extracts the disk encryption keys by exploiting two vulnerabilities in TrustZone. TrustZone is a collection of security features within the ARM processors Qualcomm sells to handset manufacturers. By stitching together the exploits, the attack code is able to execute code within the TrustZone kernel, which is an enclave dedicated for sensitive operations such as managing cryptographic keys and protecting hardware.
A third of enterprise Android phones exploitable

Both Google and Qualcomm are quick to note that both of the vulnerabilities involved—indexed as CVE-2015-6639 and CVE-2016-2431—have since been patched. The first was patched in January while the second was patched in May. Google also pointed out that it paid the researcher for his work through the company’s bug bounty program.

But researchers from two-factor authentication service Duo Security told Ars that an estimated 37 percent of all the Android phones that use the Duo app remain susceptible to the attack because they have yet to receive the patches. The lack of updates is the result of restrictions imposed by manufacturers or carriers that prevent end users from installing updates released by Google.

Mycroft: The Open Source Answer to Natrual Language

We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to deliver their software to Mycroft hardware, as well as Snaps to enable desktop users to install the software regardless of the Linux distribution they are using! CEO of Mycroft, Joshua Montgomery, explains more within his piece below.

Mail Bag

https://slexy.org/view/s2mb9BXVeZ
https://slexy.org/view/s2WJ5IRiRm

Call Box

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

Catch the show LIVE SUNDAY:

— CHRIS’ STASH —

Chris’s Twitter account has changed, you’ll need to follow!

Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) | Twitter

Hang in our chat room:

irc.geekshed.net #jupiterbroadcasting

— NOAH’S STASH —

Noah’s Day Job

Altispeed Technologies

Contact Noah

noah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com

Find us on Google+

Find us on Twitter

Follow us on Facebook

The post Remotely Helpful | LAS 425 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

To .NET or to .NOT? | LINUX Unplugged 152

chris — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:40:03 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

Noah joins Wes for the second time this week to talk with the mumble room. Package management for Bash takes it one step too far, Nvidia starts putting GPUs in your containers, we learn some surprising things about open source at Comcast & discuss just what “Microsoft Linux” really means.

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

LuaRadio

LuaRadio can be used to rapidly prototype software radios, modulation/demodulation utilities, and signal processing experiments. It can also be embedded into existing radio applications to serve as a user scriptable engine for processing samples

Follow Up / Catch Up

Nvidia plugin makes GPU acceleration possible in Docker containers

Nvidia’s new approach — an open source Docker plugin named nvidia-docker — provides a set of driver-agnostic CUDA images for a container’s contents, along with a command-line wrapper that mounts the user-mode components of CUDA when the container is launched.
+ nvidia-docker plugin

Surf

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+

Mycroft AI Integration Now Available on KDE Plasma 5 Desktops

It took him about a month since the release of the Mycroft AI application for the GNOME Shell interface of the GNOME desktop environment, but developer Aditya Mehra managed to get it running on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop as well.

Qt5 Frontend for Mycroft Aihttps://github.com/AIIX

Snappy in Arch moved to community repo

That’s right, snapd and snap-confine have now moved to the official community repository. This means that the barrier to entry is now significantly lower and that installation is even faster than before. You still want to read the snapd wiki page to know the details about various post-install activities.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

bpkg is a bash package manager

JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg!

With bpkg you can easily install and manage Bash packages. It takes care of installing/uninstalling, execution permissions and everything.

Besides installing shell scripts globally you can use them on a per-project basis.

Packages by name

DigitalOcean

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

How Linux and Open Source Are Powering Comcast’s Massive Infrastructure

Comcast is a heavy user of Linux, and it touches everything: from back-end servers to customer facing devices like X1 products. Muehl said. “Comcast, like so many others, is a very Linux-heavy operating system company.”

Comcast has been involved with OpenStack since 2012. “We did a lot of early work around networking because we needed to get IPv6 working. We needed to do some traffic shaping and marking capabilities within the OpenStack infrastructure. All of those have now been upstreamed,” said Muehl.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Howto: Setup .NET Core on Ubuntu

.NET Core 1.0 is here and it’s a great, great opportunity to start playing with it not only on Windows platform but also on Linux.

.NET Core Github

Running i3 Window Manager on Bash For Windows

Imagine my surprise when I installed Bash for Windows on this build and pretty much everything worked. I cloned my dotfiles and ran the post-install scripts that install i3 window manager, neovim, zsh, Go, and all the requisite development tools that I’m used to. Nothing failed.

…Returning to bash, I typed i3 again. Gloriously, the famililar i3 session appeared. I’m able to install and run Linux GUI applications like Firefox. I have terminator running as my terminal emulator. I’m running zsh as my shell. Neovim just works, as does Go. All of them think they’re running on a Linux computer, because for all intents and purposes they are. It just happens to have a Windows NT kernel at its core.

Strange, strange times we live in. 20 years ago Microsoft called Linux a cancer and did everything they could to make it die. Today they’re embracing Linux – and by extension me – and I have to say I’m really impressed with the outcome.

Support Jupiter Broadcasting on Patreon

The post To .NET or to .NOT? | LINUX Unplugged 152 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

War of the Packages | LINUX Unplugged 150

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:17:51 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more!

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

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

Follow Up / Catch Up

Fedora 24 released!

The Fedora 24 Workstation release features GNOME 3.20, with many usability improvements such as easier input device and printer settings, a better search interface, shortcut windows for keyboard commands, and more convenient music controls.

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is another building-block feature, with Software able to track installed Flatpaks and adding more features in the future as the technology develops. The Software app has also grown features to provide a full system upgrade directly from the desktop from one Fedora release to the next, and the ability to provide labeling as well as reviews of available software.

Fedora 24 continues our work on the X replacement, Wayland, a next-generation graphics stack. Although this release will not default to Wayland, it includes many improvements and is available as an option for users to try out, and potentially will be the default stack in Fedora 25.

Upgrading Fedora 23 Workstation to Fedora 24

Before you do anything, you will want to make sure you have the latest software for Fedora 23 before beginning the upgrade process. Additionally, make sure you back up your system before proceeding. One popular tool available in Fedora for this purpose is deja-dup. To update your software, use GNOME Software or enter the following command in a terminal.

Mycroft Core, v0.7 – Responsive Listening, 3rd Party Skills

Today marks the release of a new version of Mycroft. This moves us from the 0.6.X versioning to 0.7 – putting us closer to a 1.0 release. This is a significant update because it contains a large rethinking of the listener that Mycroft uses. The result is our new “Responsive Listening” mode.

OnePlus 3 to Become an Unofficial Ubuntu Phone, Development Will Start Soon

We’ve had a quick chat today with Marius Gripsgård from UBports.com, a group of independent developers trying to port Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system to as many devices as possible, about an upcoming port to OnePlus 3.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

LIMBO on Steam

Solus 1.2 Shannon Released

We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.2, the second minor release in the Shannon series of releases. Solus 1.2 builds upon the groundwork of 1.1 and 1.0, with continued improvements to Budgie, a huge focus on software optimizations, in addition to laying the framework for providing a performant gaming experience. Solus 1.2 furthers us on our journey to realizing the future of home computing.

Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine

Docker 1.12, which includes all of these new features, is now available as a release candidate, with general availability planned for July. Once they have been more thoroughly tested, swarm mode and other additions to 1.12 will find their way into the company’s commercial offerings in the second half of 2016.

DigitalOcean

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

maru

Maru packs a complete desktop experience on your smartphone. Your phone runs independently of your desktop so you can take a call and work on your big screen at the same time. Personal computing couldn’t be simpler.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Flatpak Released

Stockholm, Sweden – 21st June 2016 – The development team behind Flatpak is excited to announce the general availablity of their new framework for desktop applications on Linux. Previously named xdg-app, Flatpak is available on a range of major Linux distributions.

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

Support Jupiter Broadcasting on Patreon

The post War of the Packages | LINUX Unplugged 150 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

The Talking Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 147

chris — Tue, 31 May 2016 21:52:49 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

Open Source artificial intelligence in all the things? Ryan from Mycroft joins us to update us on their recent hard work.

Is YubiKey going to hell in a handbasket? The latest from openSUSE, our first impressions of Remix OS & more!

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

The Anatomy of a Linux User

Nicky isn’t outwardly remarkable in any way. She’s a thirtysomething who decided to go back to school later in life than most. She spent six years in the Navy until she decided a job offer from an old friend would be a better bet than a career in the armed forces. That happens a lot in any of the post-war military service branches. It was at that job where I met her. She was the regional manager for an eight state trucking broker and I was driving for a meat packing outfit in Dallas.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Arch Assault

SLES 12 SP2 Beta and openQA: status of QA Automation – SUSE Blog | SUSE Communities

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Nitrokey | Secure your digital life

Krita 3.0 Released | Krita

Today the Krita team releases Krita 3.0, the Animation Release. Wrapping up a year of work, this is a really big release: animation support integrated into Krita’s core, Instant Preview for better performance painting and drawing with big brushes on big canvases, ported to the latest version of the Qt platform and too many bigger and smaller new features and improvements to mention!

Gentoo Linux “Choice Edition” Live DVD Released with Kernel 4.5, ZFS on Linux

However, it appears that the Gentoo Linux “Choice Edition” Live DVD contains some special features that have not yet been available in previous releases of the ISO image of the operating system, such as support for modern UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) machines, as well as ZFS on Linux.

DigitalOcean

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

Mycroft Ai Gnome Shell Extension Release

Releasing the first alpha build v0.1 for Gnome Shell Desktop

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Remix OS for PC – Android Re-engineered for PC Productivity

Support Jupiter Broadcasting on Patreon

The post The Talking Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 147 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Go Go Golang | CR 203

chris — Mon, 02 May 2016 14:29:39 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

A little reflective & contemplative after a successful human forking, our hosts reflect on a well stated OO vs Functional rant, the bot frameworks that impress & the surprisingly great use case for Go.

Plus the 800 pound snake in the room, a quick Linux switch update for Mike & more!

Thanks to:

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Feedback

Programming Rant: OO V Functional

Hoopla

This Tech Bubble Is Bursting

Bot Framework Follow Up

Microsoft Bot Framework First Impressions

C# / NodeJS is great
Workable via command line on MacOS / Linux
*NIX Compatibility via Mono
Visual Studio / Windows Still Ideal Environment

Mike’s Homework

Facebook’s Messenger Platform
Getting Started
Wit.ai
ITsABot

Go Lang

General Notes
Plugin Ecosystem
Strong for Microsoft, Facebook, and ItsABot
One of these things is not like the others…

Make My Monster Go!

The 800LB Snake in the room….

Linux Trails

Michael Dominick on Twitter: “Giving Antegros a shot. Let’s see if that solves my Skylake issues. If not it’s bye #Linux and back to the #Mac @ChrisLAS”

The post Go Go Golang | CR 203 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

There’s a Snap for That | LINUX Unplugged 136

chris — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:57:34 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

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.

Plus that awkward moment when a traditional desktop environment adopts a controversial UI modern element, the new generation of “perfect” Linux laptops & more!

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Follow Up / Catch Up

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

DigitalOcean

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

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)

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

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.

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.

Support Jupiter Broadcasting on Patreon

The post There's a Snap for That | LINUX Unplugged 136 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

3rd Slice of Pi with Extra Mycroft | LAS 407

chris — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:47:04 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

In special Raspberry Pi 3 edition of the show we look at the new hardware, review & chat with Mycroft CTO Ryan Sipes on how important the Raspberry Pi is for development of their open artificial intelligence platform & get the latest news.

Plus replacing Spotify on Linux, the new Microsoft lock-in, our hosts face a moral quandary & more!

Thanks to:

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Brought to you by: Linux Academy

The headlining feature of the Pi 3 is the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, but it doesn’t stop there. Here’s the complete specs for the Pi 3:

SoC: Broadcom BCM2837 (roughly 50% faster than the Pi 2)
CPU: 1.2 GHZ quad-core ARM Cortex A53 (ARMv8 Instruction Set)
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV @ 400 MHz
Memory: 1 GB LPDDR2-900 SDRAM
USB ports: 4
Network: 10/100 MBPS Ethernet, 802.11n Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.0
MagPi 43

Lots of Raspberry Pi Accessories

Raspberry Pi 3 Is Looking Towards Upstream Kernel Support

Today on his blog Anholt wrote, “I spent most of [the month] working on the Raspberry Pi 3 support so I could have a working branch for upstream day 1. That involved cleaning up the SDHOST driver for submission, cleaning up pinctrl DT, writing an I2C GPIO expander driver, debugging the I2C controller, fixing HDMI hotplug handling, debugging EMMC (not quite done!), scraping together some wireless firmware, and a bunch of work trying to get BT working on the UART. I’m happy to say that on day 1 I published a branch that worked the same as a RPi2, and by the end of the day I had wireless working. Some of the patches are now out for review, and I’ll be working on cleaning up the rest in the near future.”

New Generations of Products Powered by Pi

The Raspberry Pi 3 Is Here! – Mycroft

We are testing Mycroft with the Pi 3 and if all goes as planned we will be shipping our backers Mycroft units with a Raspberry Pi 3 at its core. We’d like to thank the Raspberry Pi foundation for all of the work they do to bring makers, hackers and students such a great platform.

Ryan Sipes Mycroft CTO

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3

We have done what we can to optimise the build for the Raspberry Pi 2
and Raspberry Pi 3, you can comfortably use applications such as
LibreOffice, which in fact is a joy to use But the microSDHC I/O
throughput is a bottleneck so we recommend that you use a Class 6 or
Class 10 microSDHC card.

Other 64bit Kits of Awesome

The Odroid-C2 already has 2GB of RAM, which is also available on the $29 “Plus” version of Pine64’s Pine A64, a quad-core, Cortex-A53 Allwinner A64 SBC with a 40-pin Pi-compatible connector. The PineA64 will soon start shipping to Kickstarter backers, and Pine64 is processing new orders for shipment starting in May.

The $15 version of the Pine A64 with 512MB RAM is sold out, but there’s also a $19 version with 1GB RAM that also moves up to Gigabit Ethernet. As with the Odroid-C2, wireless is an extra-cost option, and despite the Pine A64’s larger dimensions, even the top models are limited to dual USB host ports instead of four on the C2 and Raspberry Pi.

The only other 64-bit ARM hacker boards currently shipping are more expensive 96Boards-compatible SBCs, both of which have onboard wireless. These include Qualcomm’s quad-core, $75 DragonBoard 410c and the octa-core, $99 to $129 HiKey.

RPi Laptop Dock

NexDock is a revolutionary laptop that harnesses the productivity of smartphones, tablets and mini PCs by adding a bluetooth keyboard, a capable battery and a 14-inch screen

Imagine a computer that one day you can use as Chromebook, and the next day as an Ubuntu developer laptop. Imagine a longer lasting computer that you can easily upgrade and customize to become a powerful Windows gamer laptop.
We envision a world where we carry only our mini PCs, which connect to any screen in the world to turn them into tablets, laptops and PCs.

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

Indian Driverless car RUNS LINUX

Long Time Jupiter Broadcasting fan here from India. I was reading an article about a Driver-less car made ingeniously by a team of 5 here in India. The article mentioned how this automatic driving system was much cheaper and simpler to implement on any car in production.

Linux love from India.
Regards,
Jayant M.

Desktop App Pick

Google Play Music Desktop Player
Media Keys support (Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next)
Last.FM Scrobbling and Now Playing support!
Desktop notifications on track change
A simplistic mini player
Customizable Dark theme
Task bar media controls (media controls embedded into the taskbar) Windows only
HTML5 Audio Support – No more Adobe Flash Player
Built in audio equalizer – Make it sounds how you like it
Background music playing, minimize to the task bar
Customizable hotkeys, no worries if you don’t have media keys. Choose your own shortcuts
Choose your audio output device from within the player
Interface for external applications such as Rainmeter
GitHub – MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL
Upload music – Google Play Music

Weekly Spotlight

VideoLAN – VLMC, open source video editor

VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! It is free software distributed under the terms of the GPLv2.

— NEWS —

DROWN Attack

DROWN is a serious vulnerability that affects HTTPS and
other services that rely on SSL and TLS, some of the essential
cryptographic protocols for Internet security. These protocols
allow everyone on the Internet to browse the web, use email,
shop online, and send instant messages without third-parties
being able to read the communication.

Fedora’s not DROWNing

Spotify for Linux Sucks, But At Least We Now Know Why

In a post to the Spotify community forum,company rep ‘Jooon’ reveals that: “…since after September, we have had no developers working on the linux client”.

Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it

In my view, this is the most aggressive move Microsoft has ever made. While the company has been convicted of violating antitrust law in the past, its wrongful actions were limited to fights with specific competitors and contracts with certain PC manufacturers.

T-Platforms launches a Linux-based, MIPS-powered all-in-one PC (in Russia)

Most modern desktop and notebook computers ship with Intel or AMD processors and Windows or OS X software. A few companies are positioning products with ARM-based chips as desktop computers. But the Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT is something different.

The computer is made by Russian company T-Platforms, which also offers an SF-BT1 processor module for those that want to build their own hardware.

Both devices use a Baikal-T1 processor which is a 32-bit dual-core MIPS P5600 processor. Like the computers, the chip was designed in Russia, although it’s based on work from Imagination Technologies (the company behind the MIPS architecture)

Thunderbolt Comes to Linux

Already compatible with Windows PCs and Macs, the super-fast Thunderbolt 3 connector technology will soon also work with Linux PCs. The technology will be featured in a new model of Dell’s upcoming XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux. Thunderbolt 3 will be available via a USB Type-C port.

The PC maker is building driver support for Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C into the XPS 13 Developer Edition, wrote a Dell employee in a company forum.

Thunderbolt 3 is a connector technology that can hook up PCs to external peripherals like storage and monitors. It’s like USB, but four times faster. A 4K movie could be transferred from an external storage device to a PC in 30 seconds.

Linux PCs will be a lot more capable with Thunderbolt 3. Users will be able to connect two 4K monitors simultaneously, connect to external graphics cards and establish a peer-to-peer network with other Linux PCs.

Feedback:

Brought to you by: System76

Mail Bag

https://slexy.org/view/s217DbCjqY
https://slexy.org/view/s2x1S8bUGT
https://slexy.org/view/s20bQgbbRH

Emma v. Noah Who: Switching People to Linux

Can not already be running Linux.
Must agree to install Linux, or have Linux installed
Will take place Sat during Linux Fest NW (Location TBD)
Come find Noah let him switch you to Linux and get a free SSD installed.

Call Box

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

Catch the show LIVE SUNDAY:

— CHRIS’ STASH —

Chris’s Twitter account has changed, you’ll need to follow!

Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) | Twitter

Hang in our chat room:

irc.geekshed.net #jupiterbroadcasting

— NOAH’S STASH —

Noah’s Day Job

Altispeed Technologies

Contact Noah

noah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com

Find us on Google+

Find us on Twitter

Follow us on Facebook

The post 3rd Slice of Pi with Extra Mycroft | LAS 407 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Mycroft Action Show | LINUX Unplugged 126

chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:35:05 +0000

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

Straight from the horse’s mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA’s Linux powered CES demo.

Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more!

Thanks to:

Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show:

View post on imgur.com

With the Drive PX2, NVIDIA is doubling-down on the vision it had last year: Instead of just enabling high-end PC gaming, NVIDIA’s GPUs can also be used to perform the crazy levels of computation necessary for self-driving cars.

Follow Up / Catch Up

World Without Linux Final Episode: Free Burger

In 1991, Linus Torvalds starting working on Linux “just for fun” as a “hobby, nothing professional.” Today, Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It powers the Internet, the cloud, the world’s stock exchanges, supercomputers, embedded devices and more.

Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

Tentative Breakfast Friday morning (per LAS398)? Let me know. There are tons of restaurants in the area.

Linux Action Show POWER Brunch

Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page

UbuCon portal

On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Mycroft

Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence | Indiegogo
Mycroft Community
Mycroft update from Ryan
Here comes the source!

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2016 edition

In this regularly updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and deficiencies (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes: excellent package management, multiple platforms and architectures support out of the box, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses or malware, complete system reinstallation is almost never required, besides Linux is extremely customizable, easily scripted and it’s free as in beer.

Again, let me reiterate it, this article is primarily about Linux distributions, however many issues listed below affect the Linux kernel as well.

DigitalOcean

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

Chris Owns up to his 2015 Predictions

2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345

With 2015 around the corner we own up to our predictions for 2014, we admit to what we got wrong, and what we got right. Then we look forward to 2015 and go on the record for the big developments we expect to see.

Support Jupiter Broadcasting on Patreon

The post Mycroft Action Show | LINUX Unplugged 126 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Mycroft – Jupiter Broadcasting

In-Flight Changes | Self-Hosted 75

And the Answer is… | LINUX Unplugged 407

Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge | Jupiter Extras 65

Linux Action News 144

Linux Action News 58

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links: linuxactionnews.com/58

Living Inside the Shell | LINUX Unplugged 233

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Follow Up / Catch Up

Firefox 58.0 download and update

Linux Action News 9

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

Linux Action News 2

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

Celebrating Linux on Pi Day | LINUX Unplugged 188

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Follow Up / Catch Up

VR On Linux

Resources:

Picroft Meets Alexa

More Fun with the Pi

Happy Birthday Debian | LINUX Unplugged 158

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

Follow Up / Catch Up

What’s Next for Debian?

Linux on the MacBook

Post-Show:

Agile Scapegoat | CR 218

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Hoopla

Dat Scope Creep

Feedback:

Botpocalypse Now | CR 217

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

Meet Mycroft

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Spotlight

— NEWS —

Mail Bag

Call Box

Catch the show LIVE SUNDAY:

— CHRIS’ STASH —

Chris’s Twitter account has changed, you’ll need to follow!

— NOAH’S STASH —

Find us on Google+

Find us on Twitter

Follow us on Facebook

To .NET or to .NOT? | LINUX Unplugged 152

Direct Download:

RSS Feeds:

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

Follow Up / Catch Up

Episode Links:

linuxactionnews.com/58