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We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with.

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Some Bugs

• Bug #1553652 “Ubiquity Install fails to create Swap Partition Er…” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu

Attempting to install Daily Drop of Unity Desktop 16.04. Selecting fourth install option to Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu. Receiving error that Swap Partition creation failed. Unable to proceed with installation and must reboot. This is a hard failure and also happens on the current Gnome Daily 16.04 distribution.

@dominucco @Kernellinux not yet. I understand it's an upstream Intel video driver issue. Will let you know when I see a fix appear.

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 16, 2016

• No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04 | Timo Aaltonen’s Weblog

In case someone hasn’t noticed yet, fglrx has been removed from Xenial. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, the driver did not support XServer 1.18 which we wanted to get in for 16.04. But more importantly, AMD asked us earlier this year to migrate to the open driver stack since fglrx would not be supported in 16.04.

Snap Packages

• Snapcraft 2.8 Now Live in Ubuntu 16.04, Adds Support for Snappy’s New Interfaces

New features in Snapcraft 2.8 include better detection of some of the steps that need to be executed for showing the current version of the snapraft.yaml file, support for using the “cleanbuild” command to make sure you have a clean build of your snaps, as well as support for Snappy’s new interface, which is still work in progress.

Starting with Snapcraft 2.8, support for Snappy’s “config” setting has been completely removed, and by popular request, the “geoip” feature has been disabled by default. Users can enable it in Snapcraft using the “–enable-geoip” flag via the command-line. More details should be found in today’s announcement.

Great Flavors

• Download Ubuntu MATE 16.04

New in Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Here is a run down of the headline features in Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

• MATE Desktop 1.12.1
  • Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
  • Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
  • The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
  • Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
  • Extended systemd support.
  • Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
  • Consistent categorisation of the Control Center and System menus.
  • See the MATE Desktop 1.12 release announcement for more details.
  • CPU resource requirements have been reduced across the board.
• Complete overhaul of Ubuntu MATE Welcome
  • Incorporates Ubuntu MATE Software Boutique with one-click installs for nearly 150 best in class Linux desktop applications.
  • One-click install for popular applications that are not in the official Ubuntu archive, such as Google Chrome, InSync, Minecraft, Opera, Spotify, Steam, Skype, Syncthing, Telegram, TorBrowser and Vivaldi via the Software Boutique.
  • Pre-installation documentation and assistant.
  • System Information and Diagnostics.
  • Post-install setup and configuration assistant.
  • Added one-click enablement of the LibreOffice Fresh PPA to continually track stable LibreOffice releases.
  • One-click install of Drivers, Firmware and Codecs.
  • Includes Raspberry Pi specific documentation and features.
  • Translated in 20 languages.
• Cross tooklit integration and theming
  • QT applications will inherit GTK theming.
  • Client Side Decorated and Header Bar applications render correctly in all supported window managers, even without compositing enabled in all shipped themes.
  • The default Ubuntu MATE themes have been refined to minimise differences between GTK3 and GTK2.
  • Deeper Compiz integration, gtk-window-manager now sources settings directly from MATE when Compiz is running in a MATE session.
• Supports Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3
  • Including the Raspberry Pi 3 integrated Bluetooth and WiFi. Also includes Raspberry Pi accelerated versions of VLC, ffmpeg and Kodi.
  • Option to enable experimental hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
• MATE Tweak capabilities have been extended.
  • Option to enable Keyboard LED to show a Caps Lock and Num Lock status indicator for modern laptops and wireless keyboards that no longer have built-in status LEDs.
  • Added Compton GPU accelerated compositing, as an alternative to Compiz, for those seeking tear free video playback.
  • Displays a confirmation after changing the compositor to either Compton or Compiz.
• Added MATE Dock Applet developed by Robin Thompson.
  • A configurable dock applet that can be placed on any panel, in any orientation.
• Added Topmenu Applet developed by Javier S. Pedro
  • A GTK+ module that allows placing a global menu in MATE panel applets.
  • The Ubuntu MATE team also added lxpanel-plugin-topmenu and xfce4-topmenu-plugin to the Debian and Ubuntu archives so those desktops can benefit too.
• Added Mutiny panel layout which showcases mate-dock-applet and topmenu-gtk.
  • The traditional GNOME2 style two panel layout is, and will continue to be, the default.
  • The Mutiny layout is a Unity-like interface, designed to showcase MATE Dock Applet and Topmenu Applet.
• Added Synapse which also includes complete MATE integration.
  • Synapse is a graphical launcher enabling you to start applications and also to quickly find and access relevant documents and files (by making use of the Zeitgeist engine).
  • The Synapse Launcher can be enabled via MATE Tweak.
• Updated to Plank 0.11 and includes a new theme for Ubuntu MATE contributed by Holger Rueckershaeuser.
• DVD and BluRay libraries are pre-installed
  • This doesn’t mean encrypted DVD and BluRay will play out-of-the-box, but they can be fully enabled via Ubuntu MATE Welcome.
• Vastly expanded language support, the full rationale on how we choose the languages and what we install is available from https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278.
  • Including this wider language support has added ~400MB to the size of the .iso images.
• Improved support for braille displays and a new indicator for changing accessibility profiles in Ubiquity.
• Added an assortment of new community contributed background wallpapers, more consistent icons and icon rendering in menus is optimised.

• …and many other minor improvements and hundreds of bug fixes.

• KDE neon upgrades to 16.04LTS

KDE neon is a package archive of KDE software built on a stable foundation. We use Ubuntu because it’s good technology that we’re familiar with and which provides a Long Term Support foundation we can use. When we started the only practical version to use at the start was 15.10 so our packages have been built using that. But with 16.04LTS due out next week it’s time to move to a solid foundation where we expect to stay for the next couple of years.

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Runs Linux

Pi Powered Weather Monitor RUNS LINUX

Essentially, one Raspberry Pi acts as a surveillance camera and temperature sensor, while the other Raspberry Pi acts as a remote display. You can view the feed of the camera using a touchscreen that allows you to switch over to a graph at a tap. As you’d expect, you’ll need a couple of Raspberry Pis, a touch screen, a temperature sensor, a Raspberry Pi camera, and a pair of Wi-Fi dongles. When you’re all finished with the project, you’ll easily be able to pull up a live feed from the camera on a Pi. It’s a pretty easy little project when all’s said and done. Head over to Adafruit for the full guide.

Desktop App Pick

AltYo

AltYo – drop-down console, is written in vala, depends only on libvte, gtk3.

For full description please follow this link https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

AltYo – drop-down terminal emulator, written in Vala, depends only on libvte and gtk3.

Weekly Spotlight

Shotwell has a new Maintainer

• GitHub – chubin/wttr.in: Web frontend for wego

This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend.
You can check it at wttr.in.

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Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds

In the latest OpenStack user survey, we see that OpenStack is finally gaining real momentum in private clouds. We also see that Ubuntu Linux is continuing to dominate OpenStack. As Canonical cloud marketing manager Bill Bauman said, “Ubuntu OpenStack continues to dominate the majority of deployments with 55 percent of production OpenStack clouds. The previous survey showed Ubuntu OpenStack at 33 percent of production clouds. Ubuntu has seen almost 67 percent growth in an area where Ubuntu was already the market leader. These numbers are a huge testament to the community support Ubuntu OpenStack receives every day.” The Cloud Market’s latest analysis of operating systems on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) shows Ubuntu with just over 215,000 instances. Ubuntu is followed by Amazon’s own Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI), with 86,000 instances. Further back, you’ll find Windows with 26,000 instances. In fourth and fifth place, respectively, you’ll find Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with 16,500 instances and then CentOS with 12,500 instances.

How Red Hat is Worth 2 Billion

Many corporate cultures still conform to the hierarchical command and control management model designed for 20th century business needs. Knowledge workers are driving our economy today and they thrive in organizations that welcome their opinions, tap their creativity and award contribution over title.

In his new book The Open Organization (published by the Harvard Business Review Press), Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst challenges businesses to adopt an open approach that ignites passion and performance. Red Hat became the world’s first (and only so far) billion-dollar open source company by staying true to its ethos – leveraging a community approach to creating solutions where the best ideas win.

CIA’s In-Q-Tel invests in Docker, Mesosphere

Mesosphere and Docker are very well-funded San Francisco-based companies, with valuations that are said to be at or above $1 billion.

All Linux ALL The Time

The culture at Cumulus is all about standards. It was expressed repeatedly that Cumulus want to ensure that their linux is absolutely standard, so the file system hierarchy should be the standard, configuration files should be where they normally are, and so forth. A system that doesn’t follow those guidelines becomes a special snowflake that can’t be supported by regular tools and, as you’ll see, this attitude has paid dividends in this solution.

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Hewlett-Packard is splitting into two, Google wants its own chips for Android, Comcast has new caps & our mixed reaction to the announcement of a new Star Trek series.

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• Hewlett-Packard Is Splitting Into Two Companies

• With Apple in Mind, Google Seeks Android Chip Partners

In the discussions, which occurred this fall, Google representatives put forward designs of chips it was interested in co-developing, including a phone’s main processor. The designs enable new features Google hopes to implement within Android software in the next few years, according to people briefed on the discussions.

• Android App Mutates Source Code, Spreads Virally and Enables Mesh Networks

• Comcast Dramatically Expanding Usage Cap Areas December 1

• Google engineer leaves scathing reviews of dodgy USB Type-C cables on Amazon

• New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series To Launch In 2017 – Update

• Petition · CBS: Cancel the New Star CBS Star Trek Series Now! · Change.org

In summation, and let me be clear:

We want it for free.

But first, we want you to cancel it.

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• HUDWAY Glass: keeps your eyes on the road while driving by HUDWAY — Kickstarter

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The FBI has started their campaign to make the Internet wiretap friendly which proposes backdoors built into all network services, using existing laws on the books, we’ll break it down.

The Gun Control Debate has pivoted from the utility of high capacity weapons, to a war on mental health. This week we’ll demonstrate how the media is quietly changing to national conversation right out from underneath us.

Plus Turkey erupts in protest, we’ll explain why are 100s of thousands of people taking to the streets, cover your feedback, and much much more!

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Turkey protests

• Turkey protests – YouTube

Pamela Falk, CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst, joins UTTM to discuss violent anti-government demonstrations in Turkey. Protestors say the government has become to authoritarian.

• Activists present list of demands in Turkey – World – CBC News

Activists on Wednesday presented a list of demands they said could end days of anti-government demonstrations that have engulfed Turkey, as trade unions joined in the outpouring of anger, shouting slogans and wielding banners calling on the prime minister to resign.

• Turkey imported 628 tons of teargas and pepper spray in 12 years – report — RT News

Turkey has bought $21 million in tear gas and pepper spray – mainly from US and Brazil – over the past 12 years, Turkish media reported.

FBI pushes for wiretap-friendly Internet

• FBI pushes for wiretap-friendly Internet – YouTube

A new wiretap bill backed by the FBI has many Internet companies concerned that this new proposed legislation will open the floodgates to all Internet communication. The new motion will expand wiretapping designs significantly and includes the ability for law enforcement to gain access to emails and features like video chats.

• President Foreshadows New Internet Surveillance Proposal During National Security Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation

President Obama gave an influential speech on counter terrorism and national security policy last week, and while much of the media coverage discussed the President remarks on Guantanamo prison and drone strikes, buried in the speech was a line just as critical to civil liberties online.

Half way through the speech, Obama said he wanted to “review[] the authorities of law enforcement, so we can intercept new types of communication, and build in privacy protections to prevent abuse.”

• Requiring real-time back doors Increases Risk to Real Hacks | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Requiring real-time back doors into all of our communications would make those kinds of attacks easier. Recently, a group of more than a dozen of the nation’s best cybersecurity experts published a paper explaining why such a proposal would be a disaster for Internet security, giving hackers all over the world a central point of vulnerability to target.

• Hack-up Plan: US recruits cyber warriors as tension with China grows – YouTube

Cyber tension flares between the US and China, as president Obama gets set to confront Chinese leader Xi Jingping over hacker attacks on American military networks. Meanwhile, reports say Washington’s launched massive preparations for an all out cyber war. In another sign cyber warfare has stepped from the pages of science fiction – NATO recently released a manual on the international law applicable to digital warfare.

• China has ‘mountains of data’ about U.S. cyber attacks: official | Reuters

China’s top Internet security official says he has “mountains of data” pointing to extensive U.S. hacking aimed at China, but it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks, and called for greater cooperation to fight hacking.

“They advocated cases that they never let us know about,” Huang said in comments on Tuesday and carried by the government-run China Daily newspaper on Wednesday.

“Some cases can be addressed if they had talked to us, why not let us know? It is not a constructive train of thought to solve problems.”

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The War on our Minds

• Judge accepts James Holmes’ insanity plea in Colorado shooting

• Suspect in Colorado Movie Killings Enters Insanity Plea – NYTimes.com

An insanity plea means the trial’s outcome will hinge not on questions of whether Mr. Holmes carried out the mass shooting, but rather on his mental condition at the time.

In the weeks ahead, a psychiatric expert will pore over thousands of pages of evidence, including interviews on digital discs and evaluations of Mr. Holmes at a state mental health institute in Pueblo, in Southern Colorado. That examination is likely to take until at least early August.

• Parents of mentally ill child may have averted mass shooting

Now 21, Blaec Lammers sits in the Polk County Jail, charged with three felony counts, including making a terrorist threat. He may face a life sentence. His parents say it could jhave been much worse,

• Glenn Close: “We will reach the tipping point” on mental illness – YouTube

In Washington, D.C. to help raise awareness of mental health issues, actress Glenn Close – founder of “BringChange2Mind” – told CBS News correspondent Major Garrett she believes national dialogue will soon shift toward increased tolerance for those who suffer from mental illnesses, because “there are too many of us affected by it.”

Adrian Lamo Takes Stand in Manning Trial

• Hacker who turned in Bradley Manning takes stand

Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker, said he started chatting online with Manning on May 20, 2010, and alerted law enforcement the next day about the contents of the soldier’s messages, including his mention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Subreddit Top Story

• Domino’s tests drone pizza delivery

In perhaps the first bit of “technological research” to involve flying pepperoni, Domino’s has developed a drone capable of delivering pizzas.

• Domino’s tests drone pizza delivery – Jun. 4, 2013

In perhaps the first bit of “technological research” to involve flying pepperoni, Domino’s has developed a drone capable of delivering pizzas.

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Things get real this episode as the guys look at the market pressures that are creating the conditions for a console like the Ouya, and it’s discounted software titles. Plus Mike’s results from playing the “free” game.

Plus observations from the shuttering of LucasArts, and the drama of an always on future, your questions, and much more!

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Now, onto the Ouya. I am not the biggest fan of The Verge, they really like to go down on Apple\’s \’little Apple\’. But they did bring up one good point: because all the games need a free version, most games are plauged by nagging for DLC and freemium content with ads. That\’s a huge loss and would drive anybody insane, and would discredit the Ouya as a \’serious\’ gaming platform. Another thing is I don\’t think Ouya\’s upgrade frequency will help them, the way that processors are exponentially getting faster, people will start expecting better and better graphics. And devs would find it hard to keep both ends of the spectrum, high graphics and compatibility with old versions of the console, in balance.

Also, I don\’t think that you have the demographic that will buy the Ouya correct. Gamers will still buy consoles and PCs, but the WalMart crowd that buys cheapo tablets and smartphones would love the Ouya and all of it\’s free games.)

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Code Journal has done extremely well on the Mac App Store recently. It reached as high as number 31 for free apps overall and number 2 in its category. Needless to say I was shocked by the sheer number of users downloading the app

LucasArts Shutdown:

• Disney Shuts Down LucasArts, Cancels Star Wars 1313 And Star Wars: First Assault

\”After evaluating our position in the games market, we\’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company\’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games,\” LucasArts parent company LucasFilm said in a statement. \”

Always Online:

• Microsoft Xbox 720 – An always online model could lead to always offline business – Capital Technologies

But recent reports indicate that the idea behind the working of the Microsoft Xbox 720 could cause big problems to the company in terms of sales, popularity and revenue. Recent reports indicate that the Microsoft Xbox 720 will always have to be connected to the internet in order to use the gaming console. So even if you are playing alone at home, you will still need an internet connection to keep the console running.

• Adam “Always Online” Orth no longer employed at Microsoft | Ars Technica

With a public Twitter account comes great responsibility—a good rule of thumb is that you shouldn\’t tweet anything your mother or your boss would object to seeing. According to GameInformer, Microsoft Creative Director Adam Orth\’s tone-deaf comments regarding his inability to understand why rumors of an always-connected Xbox were causing some customers angst have led to his becoming former Microsoft Creative Director Adam Orth.

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Mike and Chris take a retrospective look at mobile in 2012, the good, the bad, and the really bad. Plus we promise Mike doesn’t hate Java, online learning, a bunch of your emails…

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2012 In Review

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On Saturday Oct 16th, News Corp. shut off access to all FOX programming on Hulu and FOX.com. Why? What were they trying to prove? And what does such a forced outage actually show us about online media? What could this mean for the future of Internet Web Series?

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