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Follow Up / Catch Up

Specs for our new voice assistant device | See Mark II – Mycroft

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

1. Stick with Nautilus 3.26 and keep desktop icon support
2. Ship Nautilus 3.28 and Nemo to support desktop icons
3. 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.

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Easily share files between Windows and Linux, and we’ll solve some common network browsing challenges under Linux.

Plus a quick look at Linux Mint 17 KDE edition, the huge new features coming to OwnCloud, a new hacker event….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Easy Windows File Sharing from Linux:

Brought to you by: System76

File Manager not show your network shares?

Install Samba:

Samba is a re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, it facilitates file and printer sharing among Linux and Windows systems as an alternative to NFS. Some users say that Samba is easily configured and that operation is very straight-forward. However, many new users run into problems with its complexity and non-intuitive mechanism.

• Install Samba

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common system-config-samba python-glade2 gksu nautilus-share

• Enable your user account as a Samba user

smbpasswd -e chase

Having troubles resolving computer names?

• Check your DNS settings

• Add the following stanza to smb.conf:

name resolve order = lmhosts bcast host wins

• testparm

testparm — check an smb.conf configuration file for
internal correctness

Bonus: Going through these steps will also make your Windows network file browsing work under your file manager too!

Further Reading:

• Setup your file share in /etc/samba/smb.conf or use system-config-samba

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: File Sharing With Samba | UbuntuHandbook

• Sharing files in LAN through Samba or SSH – Ask Ubuntu
• Samba/SambaServerGuide – Community Help Wiki
• Samba – ArchWiki

— Picks —

Runs Linux

Raspberry Pi Controlled Aquaponics

This build uses the IBC method of Aquaponics, with modifications to include a Raspberry Pi for controlling a pump, solenoid drain, and temperature probes for water and air temperatures. The relays and timing is controlled with python scripting. Temperature and control data is collected every minute and sent to plot.ly for graphing, and future expansion will include sensors for water level and PH values for additional control.

All of my scripts are available at github.com

Desktop App Pick

beets: the music geek’s media organizer

The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It
catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using
the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for
manipulating and accessing your music.

Weekly Spotlight

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

— NEWS —

ownCloud 7 Community Edition Enhances, Extends and Simplifies Control of Sensitive Data

ownCloud 7 Community Edition server-to-server sharing enables users on one ownCloud instance to seamlessly share files with a user on a different ownCloud installation without using share links — enhancing sharing and collaboration while maintaining security and privacy.

ownCloud 7 Community Edition also gives end users a “Dropbox-like” experience — complementing the security and privacy on the back end — with an entirely new web interface, mobile web browser support, file notifications in email or activity stream, and significant performance improvements.

“ownCloud 7 Community Edition enables greater collaboration even across ownCloud instances, as well as greater admin control, updated user management and improved external storage control,” said Frank Karlitschek, founder and leader of the ownCloud project. “And at the same time, added or improved installation and configuration wizards, completely overhauled sharing, and a new user interface significantly simplifies the ownCloud experience.”

Russia to ditch Intel, AMD in favor of homegrown ‘Baikal’ chips; will use GNU/Linux

According to a Russian business newspaper, state departments and state-run companies have no plans to buy PCs built around Intel or AMD processors. Instead, beginning in 2015, the government will order some 700,000 personal computers annually worth $500 million and 300,000 servers worth $800 million based on the Baikal chip.

• Ъ-Газета – Минпромторг включился в процессоры

Where KDE is going – Part 1 | KDE.news

GNOME 3.13.3 | Goings on

The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” KDE released!

Dad’s computer lady and “The Linux” by Chad Seaman

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Hating on Gnome is the popular thing to do, and it’s fantastic link bait. We’ll come to the defense of this bold shell, and why 2014 could be big year for Gnome.

Plus: We’ll breakdown the major security issues plaguing X, the UK “porn” filter that’s blocking Fedora downloads, a little Enlightenment 18 talk…

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In Defense of Gnome 3:

Brought to you by: System76

• REALTALK about GNOME 3 and the Linux community

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– Chris’ Full Disclosure –

• The majority of my work week recently has been spent in KDE.
• Chris’ desktop
• The future for Qt looks bright, and like most geeks, I want to ride the wave and try to live in the future.
• Gnome Extensions concern me in the long run. Some important functionality for me in Gnome 3 is provided via extensions. The long term viability of that is quesentonalbe.
• Every time an extension works, it feels like a tiny and temporary merical.

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– Summation of Common Gnome 3 Complaints –

• The problem with GNOME 3

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– Gnome Developers Step Into the Spotlight –

William Jon McCann, Files developer:

Someone smart once said “Linux is just a kernel”. I couldn’t agree more. But in this age, it is going to take more than adding on a few tools to make a compelling operating system. It is going to take thinking seriously about the end result and making hard decisions to get there. A result that I believe the world needs more now than ever. A real choice for freedom. A choice for everyone. Time to step out of the dark ages. We, the technological elite, have been holding on to freedom too long. Effectively preventing others from enjoying it. Perpetuated by hostile dogma like the “unix way”. We need to be clear. Those days are over. And it is time to share.

• source

Sri Ramkrishna, Tizen dev, long time Gnome Contributor:

Changes to Nautilus have been met with universal unhappiness – the changes that have been made have made a lot of people unhappy. There just hasn’t been anybody I’ve met both who are fans of GNOME 3 and critics alike who like what the current nautilus have become. People have either been silent or have encouraged the use of the 3.6 fork of Nautilus.

People have really been down on GNOME designers. While they have made some great community outreach, specifically Allen Day and Jakub Steiner have always been available to talk about their designs. Regardless, there is always this sense that whatever feedback is given will be ignored that everything is inevitable.

It’s very important that we are up front on regressions. The gnome-terminal incident is a good example of this. There is no doubt that transparency is a popular feature in terminals.

I will ask module maintainers to be upfront to the release team when there is a significant regression like this. In turn, release team needs to tell the engagement team as well so that we are also ready to talk about it when it comes up.

The conclusion is, we are creating a product. But we need to act like we are creating a product. That will require closer teamwork between the various teams that we have before. I’ll talk about this in another post. But we don’t have everything set up for that. We have gaps, and they should be addressed.

• Strip the Soul « Sri Ramkrishna
• Sriram Ramkrishna (sri) – Google+

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– New Generation of Desktop Apps Inspired by Gnome Design –

• Corebird

• Polari A new IRC Client for GNOME

• Gnome Software

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– Making Gnome Work for You –

• Gnome Extensions really help

• GnomeTweakTool

• dconf

• GNOME Theme + HTitle = native-looking Firefox in GNOME Shell!

• Changing Gnome 3 Icons

• How To: Install GNOME 3.10 on Ubuntu 13.10 Without Stuff Breaking

• Using Marlin File Manager As Your Nautilus Alternative

• Marlin FIle manager

The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.

• QuickLook Function called Globulos Preview

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– Favorite Gnome Extensions –

• Dash to Dock – GNOME Shell Extensions
• Caffeine – GNOME Shell Extensions
• NetSpeed – GNOME Shell Extensions
• Skype Integration – GNOME Shell Extensions
• Media player indicator – GNOME Shell Extensions
• SystemMonitor – GNOME Shell Extensions
• Bitcoin Markets – GNOME Shell Extensions

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– Community Reaction –

• Gnome and Gnome Shell Defence / Rant

• Gnome 3.10 and the importance of touch support

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Runs Linux:

• RUNS LINUX: NSA’s Sparrow mobile Access Point.

Desktop App Pick

• gdiskdump

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• XServer XSDL

Best of Linux and more at 2014 International CES:

• Annual best of Linux @ 2014 International CES, January 7–10
• Chase from Unfilter joins Matt and Chris next week for CES Coverage.
• On our January 12th episode LAS s30e05

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• One of the UK porn filters block Fedora download-page, and linuxtracker.org

• Jolla outsells iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s at Finnish carrier DNA

• KDE On Wayland To Be Focus For Next Few Months

• X Security – It’s worse than it looks [30c3] – YouTube

Ilja van Sprundel, Professional Pen Tester

• Talk at 30th Chaos Communication Congress [30c3]

• Spent a year researching X.org code and bugs.

• Found trivial memory corruption bugs with many opportunities to insert random/malicious data.

• Very awesome response from xsecuirty@xorg developer, 80 of the bugs fixed asap. He was very responsive and worked super hard.

• Some of these bugs exist because hard drives were so tiny when X was created, they never thought about some of the interesting ways folks could load/inject data into memory.

• LWN comment from OG X dev: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=11m29s – 12:41

• X Client Summary: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=25m57s

• One major issue on the X client side is so many X apps run with setuid to root. Making it trivial for a client side X application to abuse X flaws.

• SUID (Set owner User ID up on execution) is a special type of file permissions given to a file.

• Normally in Linux/Unix when a program runs, it inherits access permissions from the logged in user. SUID is defined as giving temporary permissions to a user to run a program/file with the permissions of the file owner rather that the user who runs it.

• Users will get file owner’s permissions as well as owner UID and GID when executing a file/program/command.

• X server is in good shape, and the X11 protocol.

• GLX is broken “beyond repair”. (OpenGL Extension to the X Window System)

• X extensions have quite a few bugs too, but not all systems have the same extensions. Trickier.

• tl;dr: 80 bugs in xlib, most of them fixed. 120 bugs in the server, going to be fixed but not disclosed yet to avoid 0-day exploits. Tons of stinky code in extension modules, potentially full of bugs, but no investigations have been done, yet.

• Aksed about Wayland: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=55m17s – 56:00

• YaCyPi – Turnkey Raspberry Pi based Internet Search Engine by Obsidian Security Services — Kickstarter

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It’s our review of Ubuntu 12.10, we explain our love hate relationship with Canonical’s latest release. Plus the new tricks under the hood introduced in Quantal Quetzal, and if this a “must” upgrade, or a must pass. Tune in to find out!

Plus: We’ll explain Kernel team’s Brew HaHa! with Nvidia this week, the Linux Foundations workaround for SecureBoot, some big changes for Arch users…

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Ubuntu 12.10 Review:

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• I still find myself finding a lot of time tweaking my Ubuntu 12.10 install. However I am now tweaking different things. Less theme stuff, and more changing defaults and adding my preferred apps over Ubuntu’s default choices (Chrome, Geary, Dropbox, Pidgin, etc). None of this is hard to do, in fact Ubuntu feels almost as well supported as Windows these days from the software vendors I follow.

• As Ubuntu gets more and more polished, I would love to see a day when only simple user preferences need to be tweaked.

• Quantal includes the 3.5.0–15.23 Ubuntu Linux kernel which was based on the v3.5.4 upstream Linux kernel.

• Unity Previews

• Revamped Update Manager

• Online account and Web service desktop integration.

• Unity Previews

• Unity Shopping Lens
  • This needs to be user selectable. Maybe I’d rather have my “More suggestions” search be Google, or twitter. They should allow the user to select which “More suggestions” search is used in the home lens.

• Nautilus 3.4.2 file manager. This is not the newest version of Nautilus.

• Amazon inclusion in Unity.

• Unity 2D Removed from Ubuntu 12.10

• Ubuntu 12.10 Drops Unity 2D Desktop

• 10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Runs Linux:

• Ben Nanonote Runs Linux
• Thanks to Justin for emailing this to the show!

Android Pick:

• Pocket Casts
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Gamecaster
• Picks so far
• Madjo

Distro Of The Day

• lubuntu

Search our past picks:

• Linux Action Show Lookup
• Thanks to sakuramboo!

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• Arch Linux News: systemd is now the default on new installations

• Linux Foundation Comes Up With SecureBoot Plan

• NVIDIA wants to remove GPL marker from Linux interface

• Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can’t Use DMA-BUF

• Ubuntu Website Adds New ‘Donations’ Page

• Better gaming on Ubuntu 12.04

• An Attempt To Push Ubuntu As A Gaming Platform

• Project Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment

• Kickstarter and Game Development: Highlighting Games Coming to Linux Part 1

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  • Less focus on distros?

  • Compiz Crashing Work Around

  • Working with RARs on Linux
    • Install the rar packages for your distro (ubuntu: unrar or unrar-free package)
      , and your favorite GUI archive manager will likely start supporting rar files.
    • You can also try: PeaZip for Linux

  • Brazilian schools, Runs Linux

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