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An Umbrel for Everything | LINUX Unplugged 447

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Linux Action News 178

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Live Long and Floppy | TTT 228

chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:23:40 +0000

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We cover the breaking news out of CES, Ford’s new found love for the Amazon Echo, the first big LastPass release after LogmeIn & how Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks.

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Okay “NSA”, I’m Listening… | Tech Talk Today 167

chris — Wed, 06 May 2015 10:16:55 +0000

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Oculus VR gets a ship date and we discuss the devices about to hit market. Reddit gets into creating its own content & the NSA brags about transcribing your phone calls.

Plus replacing Plex with Kodi, the burdens of a hand model & much more!

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Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016 | Technology | The Guardian

The first commercial model of Facebook’s much anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will go on sale in the first quarter of 2016, the company confirmed today.

The announcement ends months of speculation that the release, which had been anticipated to happen by the end of 2015, would slip beyond Christmas. The most high profile device in the virtual reality market, Oculus Rift has been developed primarily for gaming but the technology is also being explored for occupational therapy, education and by film makers.

Reddit launches a video division to create original content | The Verge

Recently it has begun to venture into original content with a podcast and newsletter. Today it is going even further with the launch of its own video division. “Reddit’s mission is to connect people across the world through authentic conversations, collaboration, and community — video is an amazing storytelling medium and there’s no better wellspring of original stories than Reddit,” said co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Being A Hand Model (CBS News) – YouTube

How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text – The Intercept

Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.

The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago.

Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software

Kodi(tm) (formerly known as XBMC(tm)) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer. We also have helpful Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Youtube pages.

Open Source Kollaboration | LUP 91 | Jupiter Broadcasting

Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the Kolab project, open source’s genuine answer to Microsoft Exchange and other groupware solutions. We also discuss the Roundcube project’s fundraiser & possible integration with Kolab.

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Pandora’s XBox | Tech Talk Today 140

chris — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:59:51 +0000

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Microsoft begins to open up the Xbox to developers but the devil is in the details. The VR wars begin at GDC this year, with a clear split between desktop VR & mobile VR. We debate which might be the better approach.

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Microsoft launches Xbox One SDK to let any developer build apps for its console

While the software maker has had a private SDK since the console’s launch, that will start to go a lot more public today. At the Games Developer Conference (GDC) today, Xbox chief Phil Spencer revealed that Microsoft is launching its Xbox One SDK today to select testers, with plans to let any developer access the SDK in the coming months.

Oculus VR Will Go “Full Consumer” With Samsung by Year’s End | Re/code

Oculus VR’s mobile virtual reality headset, the Samsung Gear VR, will get a full-on consumer push by the end of the year, CTO John Carmack said today at the Game Developers Conference.

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Is VR Bust? | Tech Talk Today 129

chris — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:10:04 +0000

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The hype around Virtual Reality has been building steadily, hitting a new highs this week after Facebook’s earnings report. We’ll take a look back at the previous VR boom of the early 90s & ask if history is repeating itself.

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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke – ProPublica

The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive.

Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.

Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner’s website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook and the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.

Late last year, Keurig announced a new machine, the 2.0, calling it the “future of brewing” and touting its ability to make both small cups and large carafes. But another, less-publicized feature has been getting most of the attention: the brewer’s advanced scanning system that locks out any coffee pods not bearing a special mark. It’s essentially a digital rights management system, but for coffee, and it’s proving to be the brewer’s downfall.

On an _earnings call Wednesday_the company announced that brewer sales fell 12 percent last quarter, the first full quarter for which the 2.0 was on sale. “Quite simply our 2.0 launch got off to a slower start than we planned,” said CEO Brian Kelley. _He said_the company had been too slow to get 2.0-compatible cups onto retail shelves and “confusion among consumers as to whether the 2.0 would still brew all of their favorite brands.”

2 New Samsung Gear VR Ads Introduce VR to the Masses (video)

The ad uses actual content from the Gear VR headset which is a smart choice, though, curiously, no games are featured. Instead, the ad focuses on 360 video—clips from a helicopter over a city, elephants roaming in their natural habitat, a CGI Pacific Rim experience, and a moment from Cirque du Soleil.

What Facebook’s Oculus Rift movies means for ads | The Drum

Facebook is out to prove that virtual reality is more real than its detractors think, erecting an in-house studio to create fully immersive films on its Oculus Rift platform. If the medium is to be widely accepted by advertisers then the social network needs to show how the learnings can convey a more tangible form of the brand experience.

Virtual Reality : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Virtual reality started out as a science fiction concept in the early 1950s. Now, VR has become a kind of holy grail – lots of promises and claims, few results delivered. This program looks at the state of virtual reality. Demonstrations include the Talking Glove, AutoDesk’s Cyberspace project, the Virtual Hand, GestureGlove, CyberGlove, CyberCAD, Virtus Corporation’s WalkThrough. Also a visit to the Virtual Reality Showcase at the Software Development Conference in Santa Clara, California. Originally broadcast in 1992.

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Microsoft Holo Promises | Tech Talk Today 120

chris — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:19:21 +0000

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Microsoft unveils it’s HoloLens product, their take on augmented reality that demonstrates real vision. We’ll discuss the possibilities of a product like this & how likely it will ship.

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Microsoft Reveals Windows Holographic, An Augmented Reality User Interface For The World

HoloLens is completely wireless, and features see-through lenses, spatial sound and advanced sensors. It’s designed to be a self-contained unit, and it has its own custom CPU and new Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) to work. It doesn’t even require a phone or computer to connect to wirelessly to work, and is meant to be completely independent.

HoloLens is Microsoft’s take on augmented reality

According to Redmond’s Alex Kipman, Holographic applications are Windows 10 universal apps so developers will be able to release them across a wide range of devices. The platform works in concert with the newly unveiled HoloLens headset that allows interaction between the physical and digital worlds. The outfit showed this all off with a live demo of an app dubbed HoloStudio wherein an employee built a quadrocopter onstage by pointing her finger and issuing voice commands like “mirror” and “copy.” It all seemed pretty natural, actually. Kipman likened it to “print preview for 3D printing” and then pulled a 3D-printed version of the UFO-like quadrocopter seemingly out of his back pocket to show that it’s more than just a concept — it’s a reality.

Windows 10 hands-on: Microsoft got it right this time

It’s snappy and fast in a way that some doubters don’t believe Windows can be — but more importantly, everything feels faster because there are just fewer concepts to juggle in your head when you are navigating around.

Microsoft has essentially made the distinction between desktop apps and “Modern” apps (or whatever we’re calling them these days) invisible to the end user. You can switch between them seamlessly and manage them either snapped to half or full screen or windowed. Basically, everything is just a window, and it’s great.

Then there’s Cortana, which is still not fully complete on the build that we say but nevertheless worked quickly to launch apps and search the computer. Microsoft really wants you to use it (her?), dedicating a big spot on the status bar for a button or a text entry field (depending on the mode you’re in). We were only able to get Cortana’s voice search to work haltingly, about one out of every five tries.

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Predicting 2015 | LINUX Unplugged 73

chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:09:35 +0000

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Our bold predictions for Linux & open source over 2015. Thought provoking, sometimes a bit inspired or maybe just plain wrong, this edition of Unplugged promises to entertain.

Plus what goes into making a great & secure messaging system & more!

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Being good at going full Salesman on things comes with a certain responsibility if you care about your audience. Touting the security of Telegram should be avoided. By all means, use it if it fits your needs but please don’t portrait Telegram as something vetted and secure, that’s doing the audience a disservice.

Only half of the equation (the client) is open source and the protocol is full of weirdness and outright flaws. I believe their crypto contest charade was even featured and scoffed at on one of the network’s channels a while ago.

Its encryption score in the following table should be taken with a grain of salt since it’s vulnerable to ‘hostile server’ attacks, which are sadly just a subpoena away:

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

Why isn’t Debian as popular as Ubuntu on LAS

I have been loving LAS for some time now, but it always bothers me that Debian (the mother of so many great Linux distros) isn’t discussed as a primary Linux distro option as Arch/OpenSUSE/Ubuntu and so on. What is the deal with that? // Thanks for a great year, keep up the good work LAS!

2015 VLUG Linux Predictions

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Secuirty? Audits? Shellshock 2.0?
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The first batch of Steam Machines reach the general public?
Ubuntu Touch?
Firefox OS?

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Best of Ohio LinuxFest | Linux Action Show 336

chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:10:15 +0000

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Our interviews, stories, and adventures from Ohio LinuxFest 2014. The big show traveled to Columbus Ohio for one of the best Linux events on the East coast of the US, and we came away with some great stories, friends, and interviews. We’ll feature some of the best in today’s episode.

Plus the big news for openSUSE, Oculus Linux users get some love…

And so much more!

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Ohio LinuxFest 2014

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Closing Address: Ken Starks | Ohio LinuxFest 2014 – The Future of Free

Many of us who work with Linux in the private and government sectors may share a jaded perception. A perception that Linux on the desktop isn’t relevant any more or it never was. I want to talk to you about that. I’ll show you a side you rarely see.

Official PC-BSD Blog » Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ

I am seeing lots of interest and questions about Lumina since it was mentioned in the PC-BSD weekly update last week, so I am just going to try and answer some of the big questions that I have been seeing.

Gqrx SDR | A software defined radio powered by GNU-Radio and Qt

Gqrx supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices. See supported devices for a complete list.

SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

Jupiter Broadcasting at Ohio LinuxFest Photo Album

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Runs Linux

Behind the Scenes of Lords of War Runs Linux (Blizzard?)

Desktop App Pick

Memo – Unix-style note taking software

Memo is a command line, Unix-style note-taking software written in C99. It’s
very flexible and works well with standard Unix tools.

Weekly Spotlight

SparkleShare – Self hosted, instant, secure file sync

SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or “projects”) to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file.

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Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a single openSUSE rolling release under the name ‘Tumbleweed’

Factory will remain the name of the development process where openSUSE’s new developments are integrated, with the tested, user-ready rolling release assuming the name Tumbleweed from Nov. 4.

Oculus Rift SDK 0.4.3 with support for Linux released

This Is What We Learnt From the Ubuntu at 10 Reader Survey

ownCloud Asks Canonical to Remove Their Software from Ubuntu Repos, Sparks Fly

One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular “universe,” is that they’re full of old and unmaintained versions. This is a repository where anyone care be a maintainer and it’s mainly used for applications that are not supported officially.

LAS jacket just 1 away from second relaunch

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Windows 10 Includes a Linux-Style Package Manager Named “OneGet”

(I’m batching up my answers, I’m post-limited because I don’t post on Reddit much at all)

FAQs:

OneGet is open source — https://github.com/oneget/oneget[1]

we post bleeding edge/experimental builds often and the latest is always https://oneget.org/oneget.zip[2] (this contains the chocolatey provider again!)

Following @PSOneGet on twitter will keep you in the loop when new builds arrive.

We also actively take community input and design ideas; anyone can participate during our online weekly meetings (Friday mornings at 10AM PDT) — https://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html[3]

@ANUSBLASTER_MKII — Package Provider can provider their own default repositories, but you have a point, feed discovery is an important concept. I have a few ideas about it, I think we’ll have to talk about that in the weekly meeting this week.

@blackout24 — I hear ya. I do make cmdline stuff all the time, but the PowerShell way of doing things strongly encourages use down a particular set of patterns. I’d tend to go a bit simpler too, but once you’ve learned the “PowerShell” patterns, everything that follows those is easy to use.

As well, OneGet will be exposing the APIs to talk to the package providers, so it’s entirely possible to build standalone cmdline tools that just use the APIs and make things easy.

CSB: I had a rather senior director at MS ask me if we couldn’t just make an exe called RPM (and/or apt-get) that had the same syntax as the linux tools so that those who were well versed in one could just use OneGet that way. I told him sure, but we’re scrambling for time, so I don’t know when we’d get to it

@Tireseas – what would you like it to do differently for interactive use? I’m going to great lengths to make the tab-completion as functional as I can (way more than PowerShell normally would let me). Additionally, the APIs will let someone make a GUI around it and bypass the whole powershell interface.

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Ever Shifting Google | Tech Talk Today 62

chris — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:01:16 +0000

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The Oculus Platform has been announced, and promises to deliver an app store for VR games and experiences. But will this lead to watered down cheap VR games that doom the Oculus to triviality?

And Our jury weighs if we are seeing another nail in the coffin for Google+ or just a new perspective from Google.

Then DuckDuckGo gets a setback in China, Apple sells an unbelievable amount if iPhones over the weekend & much more!

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The “Oculus Platform” Marketplace For Virtual Reality App Launches This Fall | TechCrunch

Oculus announced the “Oculus Platform” store for developers to distribute their virtual reality apps and experiences today at the Oculus Connect conference. Starting this fall on the Samsung Gear VR made by Oculus, this revamp of the Oculus Share marketplace will let users browse the Oculus Platform within virtual reality and download apps, games, and entertainment experiences.

Eventually, there will be versions of the Oculus Platform for the Rift, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Oculus Platform could become one of the first ways for developers to sell the VR experiences they build, and by creating this marketplace, Oculus could rally the ecosystem to its mobile and PC-based VR headsets.

Oculus open-sources original Rift developer kit’s firmware, schematics, and mechanics | PCWorld

Kicking off the Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles this weekend, Oculus’s Nirav Patel announced that the original Oculus Rift developer kit (DK1) is now fully open-source, with the exception of the pieces that aren’t actually in production anymore—for instance, the display, which is no longer manufactured.

“We don’t want everyone to have to take the same risks we took. We just want to share the things we learned so you don’t have to do that. We’re all in this to build virtual reality together,” said Patel.

Mandatory Google+ Gmail Integration Quietly Shelved | WordStream

Google has gone to valiant lengths to convince us that rumors of Google+’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, but Google is no longer forcing new Gmail users to connect their account to a Google+ profile — yet another move that could signal the end for Google’s troubled social network.

DuckDuckGo joins Google in being blocked in China

Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is now blocked in China. We noticed this over the weekend, and on Sunday DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to Tech in Asia that the team has noticed the blockage in China:

GreatFire index of blocked sites suggest that DuckDuckGo got whacked on September 4).

Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

“Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn’t be happier,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We would like to thank all of our customers for making this our best launch ever, shattering all previous sell-through records by a large margin.

Currently, shipping estimates for new iPhone 6 orders remains at 7-10 business days, while the iPhone 6 Plus is still showing a shipping delay of 3-4 weeks.

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Corner of Shame | CR 113

chris — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:52:04 +0000

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Mike and Chris record a bonus episode of Coder Radio for you this week. We discuss the possibility of Steam selling productivity apps for Desktop Linux, how Overcast.fm could set the trend for future mobile apps, and Chris shares his thoughts about his new Oculus Rift DK2.

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ownCloud Powered Freedom

How To Install OwnCloud and Configure OwnCloud Apps on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS | DigitalOcean

In this guide, we will install and configure an ownCloud instance on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS. We will then discuss how to mount the ownCloud share to another VPS using WebDAV. We will also cover some other exciting options.

iOS – Synchronize iPhone/iPad — ownCloud User Manual 6.0 documentation

Amtrak on the App Store

Discover the convenience of traveling with Amtrak. With the Amtrak app you can you can get simple and intuitive access to all the travel information you need, whenever you need it.

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Overcast

Smart Speed

Pick up extra speed without distortion with Smart Speed, which dynamically shortens silences in talk shows.

Conversations still sound so natural that you’ll forget it’s on — until you see how much extra time you’ve saved.

Voice Boost

Boost and normalize volume so every show is loud, clear, and at the same volume.

Listen in more places, such as noisy cars, and still hear what everyone says without cranking the volume so high for quiet people that the loud ones blow your ears out.

The All New Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) Virtual Reality Headset | Oculus Rift – Virtual Reality Headset for 3D Gaming

DK2 is the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift that allows developers to build
amazing games and experiences for the consumer Oculus Rift.

The Oculus Rift is paired with the publicly available Oculus SDK which includes source code, documentation, and samples to help you hit the ground running. The Oculus Rift and the Oculus SDK currently support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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The Blame Game | CR 95

chris — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:38:56 +0000

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Are your projects cursed with knowledge of the present? Mike and Chris discuss the tendency to blame the last guy, and in some cases even scapegoat the absent. And why its only human to see all the mistakes of those who came before you.

Plus our thoughts on Facebook buying Oculus VR, your feedback, and more!

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Why your previous developer was terrible

Don’t worry — your situation is far from unique. I’ve seen it time and time again that a new developer comes in and seems to change everything almost overnight. She or he suggests new tools, new processes, new languages and new everything. All of this while badmouthing the previous developer or team. I’ve been on all sides of this fine play. I’ve been the “previous developer” who got badmouthed by the new guy. I’ve been the new guy that used the previous guy as my scapegoat. I’ve hired developers that have been in both positions. I’ve worked for companies that couldn’t see what was plain to me: this happens all the time.
Oculus VR employees got death threats after Facebook sale

\”We expected a negative reaction from people in the short term, we did not expect to be getting so many death threats and harassing phone calls that extended to our families,\” Luckey said. \”We know we will prove ourselves with actions and not words, but that kind of sh** is unwarranted, especially since it is impacting people who have nothing to do with Oculus.\”

Facebook buys Oculus VR. What do you owe early users?
John Carmack speaks up about Facebook buying Oculus VR

It is Carmack\’s first comment on the deal since it was announced Tuesday. \”I wasn\’t personally involved in any of the negotiations — I spent an afternoon talking technology with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg, and the next week I find out that he bought Oculus.\”

Book Pick:

Ready Player One Audiobook

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

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Gentoo’s Jeff Horelick | LAS s31e06

chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:21:32 +0000

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Gentoo’s leader of the x86 Team, and jack of all trades Jeff Horelick joins us to discuss all things Gentoo. We’ve got a batch of questions you’ve submitted, and Jeff’s the man to answer them!

Plus: Facebook buys Oculus VR, Red Hat’s CentOS plans, a first look at Gnome 3.12…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Desktop App Pick

NCurses Disk Usage

ncdu: A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface,aimed to be run on a remote server where you don’t have an entire graphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection.
ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

Weekly Spotlight

Race The Sun – An Infinite Speed Experience

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GNOME 3.12 Released

Automatic rating of applications indicate their quality and help you select the best ones.
Packages containing software repositories can be installed, and you can now review and remove third party repositories that are in use.

GNOME 3.12 includes a reimagined Videos application. Modern in style, the new version allows you to browse videos that are on your computer, as well as online video channels. Channels in this release include Rai.tv, The Guardian Videos channel, Blip.tv and Apple Movie Trailers. Developers can easily add their own video channels, and we expect the list of channels to grow in the future. Additionally, integration with the popular Pocket service provides an easy way to watch videos that you have saved for later.

The gedit text editor has had a major update for this release. The new design incorporates all of gedit’s previous features into a more compact interface, which gives more space for your work. Use of popovers for selecting the document format and tab width is more efficient than the previous use of dialogs and menus, and consolidated sidebar controls also give more space for content while retaining the original functionality.

High-resolution display support was first introduced in 3.10. This provided high-resolution display support for much of GNOME 3. Since then, this feature has been extended to include all the key aspects of the core GNOME 3 experience, including the Activities Overview, top bar, lock screen and system dialogs.

GNOME 3.12: Pixel perfect … but homeless

If you dismissed GNOME 3 when it arrived, I can’t blame you, but I suggest taking another look. GNOME 3 has finally arrived, with the newly released 3.12. The only problem with GNOME 3.12? It’s a desktop in search of a Linux distro.

GNOME 3.12 Puts The X.Org Log In The Systemd Journal

A useful tip shared by X.Org input expert Peter Hutterer is that with today’s GNOME 3.12 release the GNOME Display Manager is no longer writing X.Org Server logs to the file but is being stored within systemd’s journal.

A GNOME Logs Utility Comes in GNOME 3.12

Logs is a utility for viewing detailed event logs for the system, scheduled for GNOME 3.12. What it basically does is to read logs from Systemd-Journal and categorize them.

GNOME 3.12 Live CD is Now Available!

It is based on Fedora 20 using GNOME 3.12 from Copr

Facebook To Trial Btrfs Deployments

A few months ago the Linux kernel block maintainer joined Facebook along with the lead Btrfs file-system developers. Chris Mason and the other developers are continuing to work on the upstream Btrfs file-system support while at Facebook.

Chris Mason said this morning during a storage/file-system talk at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit from Napa Valley that Facebook will indeed be trying out Btrfs in some deployments at his new employer. At some time going forward, they will first be trying out the Btrfs file-system within their “web tier” at Facebook, which is the tier that’s easiest to recover from in case of any issues with their initial roll-out.

Facebook buys Oculus VR

Facebook has acquired Oculus VR, the company building the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion. Oculus will keep its headquarters in Irvine, California.

“We are excited to work with Mark and the Facebook team to deliver the very best virtual reality platform in the world,” Oculus co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe said in a press release. “We believe virtual reality will be heavily defined by social experiences that connect people in magical, new ways. It is a transformative and disruptive technology, that enables the world to experience the impossible, and it’s only just the beginning.”

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that he views the Oculus Rift as a new communication platform. Posting on Facebook:

Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this. But this is just the start. After games, we’re going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face – just by putting on goggles in your home."

“We’re going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus team lists its reasons for entering into this seemingly odd partnership: "At first glance, it might not seem obvious why Oculus is partnering with Facebook, a company focused on connecting people, investing in internet access for the world and pushing an open computing platform. But when you consider it more carefully, we’re culturally aligned with a focus on innovating and hiring the best and brightest; we believe communication drives new platforms; we want to contribute to a more open, connected world; and we both see virtual reality as the next step.

Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientis

Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible for leading Valve’s recent charge into Virtual Reality — has just joined Oculus as its Chief Scientist.

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

Intel Pushes XenGT For GPU Access To Virtual Machines

XenGT is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through and on the VM side runs the system’s native graphics driver for the targeted hardware. When it comes to Intel hardware, Haswell’s Iris Graphics is their main focus along with next-generation Broadwell processors.

XenGT is designed just not for 3D graphics acceleration within guest instances but also for media acceleration and GPGPU compute acceleration.

There is sharing support – multiple VMs can access the same graphics processor due to its full virtualization.

XenGT: PDF

Red Hat reveals CentOS plans

So what the newly united Red Hat and CentOS is planning on are multiple CentOS releases. This will be something like Fedora Spins. Instead of Spins, these will be called Special Interest Group (SIG) releases.

First, there will be the CentOS Core SIG. This will be the closest to the CentOS that many of you are using now on your own servers, Web hosting site. or data center. The other official SIGS are CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and CentOS Virtualization.

All these start with the CentOS Core distribution. This will be built using the most recent RHEL release. However, there’s a firewall between RHEL and CentOS developers. The net effect is that CentOS will continue to lag a bit behind RHEL in releases. Even so, CentOS releases will be coming out on RHEL heels rather than weeks or months behind.

On top of that RHEL base, each CentOS SIG will decide what cutting edge software it will use.
For example, CentOS Cloud will probably include the latest OpenStack build. CentOS Virtualization will offer a variety of hypervisors, not just KVM.

There’s more than a dozen SIGs in progress. Under consideration are desktop, Web hosting, and a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) servers. Other SIGs will be considered depending on the amount of developer interest.

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Mir Monkey Business | LAS s31e05

chris — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:32:09 +0000

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It’s been one year and we pay up on the Monkey Suit Mir Bet. We chat with Kevin Gunn Engineering Manager for Display Server & Unity UI at Canonical about how closed drivers will work with Mir, how new devices like the Oculus Rift might work, Wayland, and much more.

Plus: Unreal 4 and GOG.com announce incoming Linux support, AMD could be planning some major video driver changes, Ubuntu Tablet rumors…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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MIr Chat: Kevin Gunn

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What is your involvement with the MIR Project?
DO you like my hair?
How do you feel that MIR will hold up to time? We’ve seen how initial decisions with X have impacted its ability to preform as our computing needs have changed. Is MIR being designed with as much forward compatibility as possible?
Does or will MIR have the ability to be expanded/extended upon with regard to future devices/platforms? Is it monolithic in that it will exist as a single unit, or can it be altered easily for different systems with different goals in mind?
One of the concerns we’ve heard is that ‘;eventually’ applications will need to be written for MIR, Obviously there is the XMir compatibility layer, but are there plans for a wayland compatibility layer to deal with future Wayland/MIR differences which may creep up over time.
How do you feel MIR will perform as a display server over the next, say, 10 years? Do you believe it will fair better than X has over the past 10 years?
Can you give me a better picture of how closed source drivers will work with Mir?
Will I be able to do ssh with x forwarding from a computer running Mir. Will I be able to do something like ssh -X to a computer running Mir from a computer running X? From a computer running Mir?
And much more!

2013 Followup: our milestones effectively match this line of thought

Launching Mir & UnityNext
Its like a 3 stage rocket for Mir & Unity Next…
First target is integration of Unity Next & Mir (we’ll be discussing this at the upcoming UDS)….
second is actually creating our Ubuntu for Phone with Unity Next + Mir sometime in 4Q13. Lastly we should hit full convergence in 2Q 2014.

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Runs Linux:

Indian Banks switching to Linux, rather than taking extended Windows XP Support

Desktop App Pick

Viber – Free calls, Free text messages, photo and location sharing
AUR (en) – viber
Viber – Google Play
Viber on the App Store
On February 13, 2014, Rakuten announced they had acquired Viber for $900 million
Viber – Privacy Policy
Viber founder: ‘People should be concerned about privacy’ | Technology | theguardian.com

Viber’s policy is that if it receives a proper subpoena, it will provide records of who made and received calls, and when, but that no content from those conversations will be shared.

He says Viber does not “have the capability to listen to conversations”. Messages are stored, for two weeks or until they are opened by the recipient, whichever is shorter. Around 80% are deleted in less than a second.

Weekly Spotlight

If Mir fails within one year from now, I’ll wear this on the show (Matt)
Matt Makes the Bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTQc0ME1eo&feature=youtu.be&t=24m56s

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First Ubuntu Tablets To Launch This Autumn

“[Tablets] will arrive pretty much simultaneously with phones. Q3, middle of this year we’ll see both phones and tablets running Ubuntu on the market.”

GOG.com Soon On More Platforms

No, don’t duck. This is actually good news. We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, **we’ve decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux.

We’re initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint.

Getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play.

This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we’ll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

Unreal Engine 4 to Support Linux with Monthly Sub for Devs

For $19/month you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development.

We’re working to build a company that succeeds when UE4 developers succeed. Anyone can ship a commercial product with UE4 by paying 5% of gross revenue resulting from sales to users. If your game makes $1,000,000, then we make $50,000. We realize that’s a lot to ask, and that it would be a crazy proposition unless UE4 enables you to build way better games way more productively than otherwise!

This first release of Unreal Engine 4 is just the beginning. In the C++ code, you can see many new initiatives underway, for example to support Oculus VR, Linux, Valve’s Steamworks and Steam Box efforts, and deployment of games to web browsers via HTML5.

The All New Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) Virtual Reality Headset to Ship with Linux Support

The Oculus Rift and the Oculus SDK currently support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Debian Project Leader canidate proposes PPA system

It’s again that time of the year for the Debian Project: the elections of its Project Leader! Starting on March 31st, and during the following two weeks, the Debian Developers will vote to choose the person who will guide the project for one year.

Among this year’s candidates there is the current DPL, Lucas Nussbaum, who admits that “the workload involved in being the DPL is just huge,”

In his platform, Lucas speaks of technical and social steps to improve the project: from reproducible builds for a more secure archive to a renewed effort to run Debian on new platforms (especially smartphone and tablets); from a more welcoming approach to prospective contributors to an easier collaboration with organizations.

Neil McGovern. Neil’s platform focuses mainly on the need to “ensure that we cater to our users, and there’s millions of them. From those running the latest software in unstable, to people who simply want a rock solid core release.”

In his opinion “the size of Debian is increasing, and will reach a point where we’re unable to guarantee basic compatibility with other packages, or the length of time it takes to do so becomes exponentially longer, unless something changes.” To fix this problem, Neil proposes the implementation of PPAs (Personal Package Archives), the modernisation of the current build and infrastructure system as well as generally supporting the various teams.

AMD Is Exploring A Very Interesting, More-Open Linux Driver Strategy .

The short answer of what AMD’s trying to do is seeing about leveraging the existing (with modifications) open-source Radeon (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel driver underneath the closed-source Catalyst driver.

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Bob’s development blog: Why the display server doesn’t matter

Display servers are the component in the display stack that seems to hog a lot of the limelight. I think this is a bit of a mistake, as it’s actually probably the least important component, at least to a user.

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