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openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.

Wed Mar 18 2015: I’m announcing the release of the 3.19.2 kernel.

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21K FPS Camera RUNS LINUX!

1:43 – talks about Linux
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Desktop App Pick

Wire

End to end encryption, open source through and through communication

Timed Messages
Audio message with filters
Voice and video calls
Group calls and chats
Apps for desktop
Multiple Devices

Spotlight

Easystroke

Application that allows you to define a mouse gesture for opening an application, executing a command, or even linking to a key such as the Superkey or shift key

OpenYourMouth: Open Source Recipes from the Jupiter Broadcasting community

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Dirty COW was Livepatched in Ubuntu within Hours of Publication

Coincidentally, just before the vulnerability was published, we released the Canonical Livepatch Service for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The thousands of users who enabled canonical-livepatch on their Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems with those first few hours received and applied the fix to Dirty COW, automatically, in the background, and without rebooting!

New Legislation to Tackle Pirate Kodi Box Sellers Rejected

Modified Kodi and other IPTV devices allow users to access valuable content for free. Members of Parliament and industry players say they want to clamp down on such devices, by closing loopholes in copyright law to target sellers. This week, however, their suggestions to change the law in the UK were withdrawn.

DTrace for Linux 2016

Without DTrace on Linux, I began by using what was built in to the Linux kernel, ftrace and perf_events, and from them made a toolkit of tracing tools (_perf-tools). They have been invaluable. But I couldn’t do some tasks, particularly latency histograms and stack trace counting. We needed kernel tracing to be programmatic._

A Quantum Leap for the Web – Mozilla Tech

Project Quantum is about developing a next-generation engine that will meet the demands of tomorrow’s web by taking full advantage of all the processing power in your modern devices. Quantum starts from Gecko, and replaces major engine components that will benefit most from parallelization, or from offloading to the GPU.

(Linux Only) BIOS Update for Windows 10 (64-bit) – Yoga 900-13ISK2 – Lenovo Support

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Subject: CRM Review

Message: This was a great segment. I would like to see more business solution type segments on LAS or even a more business centric show for Noah. As a person that works primarily in a Windows environment, I like to see open source solutions that are business ready so that I can pitch them at work. The only way we will go from a Microsoft shop to a Linux shop is by finding open source applications that can meet the needs of the business. We will be looking to replace our CRM next year so I’ll be setting up a Zurmo server for people to try.

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OpenMediaVault vs FreeNAS | LAS 436

chris — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:16:08 +0000

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OpenMediaVault in Practice Review

OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.

OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.

Ok Chris, what have you decided for your NAS build? FREENAS? : LinuxActionShow

Overview

GPLv3 license
Debian Linux
ExtJS
AJAX
PHP
Modular design
Event driven configuration change management

Has Support for Raspberry Pi and Odroid-C2

OpenMediaVault 2.x

Debian 7 (Wheezy)
+Revised GUI supports configuration of WiFi, VLAN, et a

OpenMediaVault 3.x

In development for a while now
Based on Debian 8 (Jessie).
Developers are required to update their plugins to work with OMV3.
OMV 3.x

The Setup

NUC

4th Generation Intel Core i5-4250U processor
2014 Model BOXD54250WYKH1
4 USB3.0 Ports

DISK

WD 4TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive
Two USB 3.0 expansion ports on back give cramped NUC more USB
Up to 290 MB/s file transfers
Dual-drive enclosure
WD RED drives
Hardware RAID controller
LED dummy lights for each drive

Have not tested a drive failure

ANG DISK

Synology DS412+
Just over three years old, running great, still getting updates.
205.68 MB/sec Reading, 182.66 MB/sec Writing
2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support
Features SuperSpeed USB 3.0
CPU Passive Cooling Technology & System Fan Redundancy

OpenMediaVault 3 Pros

Debian 8 is very secure and solid, around for a while.
I live in a systemd world.

OpenMediaVault Super Plugins:

Greyhole is worth the price of adition alone.
SnapRAID could give you real data protection.

How Greyhole Works

The user defines it’s storage pool by listing all the paths of the different disks he wants to use.
When files are added on Greyhole shares’ Landing Zones, the Greyhole daemon moves those files into 1+ of the paths defined as the storage pool. It then replaces the original file (on the share) by a symbolic link pointing to one of the copy created in the pool.
Samba is configured to use opaque symbolic links, i.e. what are in fact symbolic links in the shares appear as normal files to clients.

OpenMediaVault 3 Cons

Base system and plugins are still a moving target.
No UI to connect to external NFS shares, NFS mounts don’t show up in UI.
No built in UI to configure UPS support, plugin.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) plugin finished

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Moto Mods, Require You to Run Linux

The Moto Mods Development Kit (MDK), allows you to contribute to the ecosystem and bring your own Moto Mod to life.

Desktop App Pick

Greyhole – Redundant Storage Pooling using Samba

An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

Next Steps

Try out QNAP’s Ubuntu Running NAS
NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution for server virtualization
Supports VMware(r), Citrix(r), and Microsoft(r) Hyper-V and advanced virtualization features
AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption for efficient cryptographic performance up to 412 MB/s
Supports hardware decoding and transcode 4K (H.264) videos on-the-fly or offline
Dual HDMI outputs for switching between mirroring and extended desktop options
Supports the Linux(r) OS with direct output via HDMI
Equipped with 24-bit digital to analog converter (DAC) for amplifier and clear audio
Check out the new unRAID Server OS 6.2 d

Spotlight

Upcoming OSS Events

Come say hi at the OpenDaylight Summit this Tuesday, Sept 27th.
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SeaGL, Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is coming up November 11th and 12th, 2016.
Ubuntu Online Summit: 15-16 November 2016

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Lenovo confirms that Linux won’t work on Yoga 900 and 900S laptops

Device maker Lenovo today issued a statement confirming that its Yoga 900 and 900S convertible laptops cannot boot Linux — only Windows 10.

“requires very specific, complex and unique drivers that require even greater amounts of testing, to ensure class-leading performance with Windows 10”.

“support our Yoga products and our industry-leading 360-hinge” before stating it “does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems”.

Lenovo: No, we didn’t plot with Microsoft to block Linux on our laptops

Compounding matters, a ‘Lenovo Product Expert’ seemingly responded to a Best Buy customer’s complaint online with the following:

“This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft.”

If Linux won’t install on your laptop, blame Intel not Microsoft

Here’s the problem: Linux doesn’t support internal solid-state drives in RAID (Intel RST) mode. Linux can see the drive in AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode. However, certain Lenovo laptops don’t allow the mode to be changed in the BIOS. You can boot Linux from a USB drive, but not install it on the laptop’s SSD.

Hardware hack enables Linux support on Lenovo Yoga 900 ISK2, undermining Lenovo’s statement

A hardware hack has enabled AHCI support on the Lenovo Yoga 900 ISK2, undermining Lenovo and Microsoft’s claims that Linux is “missing drivers”.

Unfortunately, the procedure to flash the BIOS is too complicated for most people because the person who did it had to use external flashing equipment to bypass Lenovo’s ROM signature check and load the modified BIOS, and he can’t provide the BIOS ROM because it only supports his computer and has private info in it, such as the Windows 10 license for his machine.

Request Lenovo Yoga 900 BIOS Unlock / AHCI enable

GNOME 3.22 Released, This Is What’s New

Software, the GNOME app store, is looking a lot nicer in GNOME 3.22.

MATE 1.16 Desktop Environment Officially Released with More GTK+ 3 Improvements

“After 6 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.16. We’d like to thank every MATE contributor for their help making this release possible,” says Martin Wimpress. “The release is focused on improving GTK3+ compatibility, migrating components to newer libraries, fixing bugs and code hygene.”

GTK+ 3.22 GUI Toolkit Released for GNOME 3.22 As Devs Prepare for GTK+ 4.0

“The 3.22 release is the last development release in the GTK+ 3. series. GTK+ 3.22 will be maintained as the long-term stable version of GTK+ 3, and new development will move to the GTK+ 3.90.x releases. To learn more about the GTK+ roadmap, read: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk,” says Matthias Clasen in today’s announcement.
“”

GTK+ 3.22 released

Major new features include:

The Wayland backend has support for drawing tablets
The Wayland backend requires xdg-shell v6
We have a gesture API for tablet support, GtkPadController
GdkMonitor offers an API for richer information about connected outputs
GdkGLContext supports GLES
GtkScrolledWindow has new max-content-width/height properties that can
affect the sizing behavior
GtkShortcutLabel is a new widget that can display keyboard shortcuts
in the same way that GtkShortcutWindow does
A number of GTK+ APIs will now transparently use portals when used
in a Flatpak sandbox, including GtkFileChooserNative, GtkPrintOperation,
gtk_show_uri.
Versioning and long term stability promise in GTK+ – GTK+ Development Blog

Mail Bag

Name: Kristiyan D

Subject: Proper use of Touchpad

Message: Hello guys. My question may be silly but I am trying from a year and more to find a proper way to use and configure touchpad/clickpad on GNU/Linux. Could you suggest me some information online because I am looking in particular how to use it (position of hands), proper configuration under GNU/Linux (palm tracking, sensitivity, coasting, scrolling, etc)?

Name: Jeff P

Subject: Wallpaper Changer

Message: Hi Chris.

I think it was in last weeks LAS that you were showing your desktop with the wallpaper changer app that took random wallpapers from an online source and set them for you. I like doing something similar because it is good to have variety. You said you are just collecting your favourite background images to a single folder so that you can cycle through them instead randomly grabbing from an online source.

Because wallpaper slideshows do not seem to be baked in to the GNOME DE and I cannot find a wallpaper changer that I like I am instead using a script which I keep running in the background to change my wallpaper every 10 minutes. I don’t know if I already shared it with you but here is my script for changing wallpapers.

#!/bin/bash
WP_DIR="/home/drthpnguin/Dropbox/Wallpapers/HD-Wallpapers"
cd "$WP_DIR"
while [ 1 ] 
  do
  set -- * 
  length=$#
  random_num=$((( $RANDOM % ($length) ) + 1)) 
  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$WP_DIR/${!random_num}"
  sleep 600
done

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Linux Photography in Focus | LAS 372

chris — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 16:25:42 +0000

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From total beginner to photo pro, we’ll share workflow tips, tools, tricks & backup techniques to super-charge your photography workflow under Linux.

Plus the Pinos project promises to bring PulseAudio to video, how DirectX11 is coming to Linux, the Yotaphone upset, OwnCloud dreams & more!

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Perfect Photo Workflow with Linux

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Prepare your Monitor:

Color management

Getting the photos into Linux:

Rapid Photo Downloader

Rapid Photo Downloader for Linux is written by a photographer for professional and amateur photographers. Its goal is to be the best photo and video downloader for the Linux Desktop. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL license.

Quick Sorting of Photos:

gthumb

gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

Tweaking your RAW Pictures:

RawTherapee Features

HDR Photo Editing:

LuminanceHDR

Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.

HDR Photography on Linux | LAS s30e06

Photo Organization

darktable | the photo workflow software

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

Corel AfterShot Pro

Say hello to the world’s fastest RAW photo-editing software. Corel AfterShot Pro 2 is changing the way the world works with RAW, with 64-bit performance that’s 30% faster than AfterShot Pro 1 and up to 4x faster than the competition. AfterShot Pro 2 is the best way to unlock the freedom and flexibility of shooting RAW. With unparalleled speed and power, and a sleek new interface, AfterShot Pro 2 is a RAW converter, non-destructive photo editor and complete high-speed photo manager in one. Whether you’re batch processing thousands of RAW images, or making detailed adjustments to your latest prize-winning shot, AfterShot Pro 2 gives you the tools to quickly take complete control over every aspect of your photo workflow.

Photo Backup Under Linux:

SpiderOak

SpiderOak ONE is the leading private backup solution and is 100% Zero Knowledge. Get a ton of space for only $12 a month. Plans starting at $7 a month for 30GB and up to 5TB.
Pay monthly or annually. Upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time.

Grsync rsync GUI interface frontend for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

Grsync is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface). Rsync is the well-known and powerful command line directory and file synchronization tool.

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The NSA XKEYSCORE, Runs Linux

This global Internet surveillance network is powered by a somewhat clunky piece of software running on clusters of Linux servers. Analysts access XKEYSCORE’s web interface to search its wealth of private information, similar to how ordinary people can search Google for public information.

Desktop App Pick

digiKam

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.

The people who inspired digiKam’s design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.

You can take a look into the digiKam Overview page to take a tour or the Features page to see more advanced information about.

Weekly Spotlight

OpenMediaVault 2.1

Using Sencha ExtJS 5.1.1 framework for the WebGUI

Add a new dashboard and widgets

Many internal improvements and bugfixes

Improved the internal network interface backend

Add Wi-Fi support. Only WPA & WPA2 is supported

Add VLAN support

The network interface configuration page has been modified. Now only the configuration values are displayed. Use the dashboard widget to show the state of all network interfaces.

The public key of the user must now be specified in the RFC 4716 SSH public key file format. It is possible to add multiple keys.

Option to turn off the collection of system performance statistics.

Use the browser local storage to store the WebGUI state (e.g. displayed grid columns, column width, …) instead of cookies.

The whole changelog for 2.1 can be viewed here.

— NEWS —

Introducing Pinos

So what is Pinos? One of the original goals of Pinos was to provide the same level of advanced hardware handling for Video that PulseAudio provides for Audio. For those of you who has been around for a while you might remember how you once upon a time could only have one application using the sound card at the same time until PulseAudio properly fixed that. Well Pinos will allow you to share your video camera between multiple applications and also provide an easy to use API to do so.

ownCloud 8.1 Coming Soon

The first release candidate of ownCloud 8.1 is ready for testing. This release will bring many performance improvements, Encryption 2.0 and much more. If you’re an avid ownCloud user, this is the time to test the upcoming release and make sure it can deal with your specific installation. Get the release on the ownCloud website.

Yotaphone Adopts Sailfish – Drops Android

Today the news has it for us as Yota Phone, the recently famous Russian [Android] phone manufacturer with their revolutionary “two-faced” phone has dropped their near-stock Android OS in favor of our beloved Sailfish OS which has raised a fair bit of keyboard warriors to attack the comments section on some websites saying things like “Why dumping the most popular OS in the world for the least popular?” Uh, excuse me as your most popular OS (Which I admit I am an Android user alongside Sailfish) does not care about user’s privacy and wants to send everything directly to that famous and most hated agency in the world! (NSA)

No, the Yotaphone Isn’t Switching From Android to Sailfish | Ink, Bits, & Pixels

Codeweavers On DX11 in WINE, Steam Machines & Porting

The recent news of WINE/Crossover supporting DX11 is significant, because up until now there were no FOSS solutions to get such support. Sure, the eON wrapper from Virtual Programming was one commercial option for game companies to develop ports for Linux, but it was not available for end users. With WINE supporting DX11, this opens up a whole new library of recent Windows games for the Linux platform.

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systemd Haters Busted | LINUX Unplugged 57

chris — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:49:51 +0000

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The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out.

Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF?

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OpenMediaVault – The open network attached storage solution

systemd – the topic that just keeps driving the clicks

Ultimately, the schism over systemd could lead to a separation of desktop and server distros, or Linux server admins moving to FreeBSD

Systemd rampages through the Linux community like Godzilla through Tokyo | ITworld

Systemd has turned into the Godzilla of Linux controversies. Everywhere you look it’s stomping through blogs, rampaging through online discussion threads, and causing white-hot flames that resemble Godzilla’s own breath of death. TechNewsWorld has a roundup of the systemd hostilities in case you missed any of it and want to savor some of the drama.

It’s time to split Linux in two | Data Center — InfoWorld

Maybe it’s time Linux is split in two. I suggested this possibility last week when discussing systemd (or that FreeBSD could see higher server adoption), but it’s more than systemd coming into play here. It’s from the bootloader all the way up. The more we see Linux distributions trying to offer chimera-like operating systems that can be a server or a desktop at a whim, the more we tend to see the dilution of both. You can run stock Debian Jessie on your laptop or on a 64-way server. Does it not make sense to concentrate all efforts on one or the other?

DNF – The Next Generation Package Management Utility for RPM Based Distributions

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Ubuntu with Rodent | LINUX Unplugged 53

chris — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:02:45 +0000

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The new Beta of ElementaryOS has shipped and we discuss where they are heading, the problems with their community interaction, and the genius move they are taking with some tricky hardware support.

Plus the long term cost of Ubuntu Touch becoming successful, using ZFS on Linux successfully, and much more!

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Freya Beta 1 Available for Developers & Testers | elementary OS

It’s been exactly one year since the release of the second version of elementary OS. On this, the day of our Lunaversary, we’re proud to make the first beta of elementary OS Freya publicly available for developers and testers.

Chromebooks get more useful with Elementary OS Beta

The Acer C720 has been tested and given a thumbs-up. The HP Chromebook 14 is untested physically but has been given a thumbs-up by the team because of its similarities with the Acer C720 profile. An ASUS Panther Chromebox has also been tested and verified.

elementary OS Freya on a Mac using rEFInd & EFI stub loading

This is why Linux is a winner: This is the computer lab I built last week in Malawi, Africa. Edubuntu on Chromebooks, DD-WRT Routers, and Raspberry Pi for Local Intranet

In the video you see Niall, the school’s head teacher (Principal/Headmaster) opening the door and showing off what we built together.

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