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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

Brought to you by: O’REILLY OSCON

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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Runs Linux

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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Conference Connoisseur | BSD Now 66

chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:40:12 +0000

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This week on the show, we’ll be talking with Paul Schenkeveld, chairman of the EuroBSDCon foundation. He tells us about his experiences running BSD conferences and how regular users can get involved too. We’ve also got answers to all your emails and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

BSD-powered digital library in Africa

You probably haven’t heard much about Nzega, Tanzania, but it’s an East African country without much internet access
With physical schoolbooks being a rarity there, a few companies helped out to bring some BSD-powered reading material to a local school
They now have a pair of FreeNAS Minis at the center of their local network, with over 80,000 books and accompanying video content stored on them (~5TB of data currently)
The school’s workstations also got wiped and reloaded with FreeBSD, and everyone there seems to really enjoy using it

pfSense 2.2 status update

With lots of people asking when the 2.2 release will be done, some pfSense developers have provided a status update
2.2 will have a lot of changes: being based on FreeBSD 10.1, Unbound instead of BIND, updating PHP to something recent, including the new(ish) IPSEC stack updates, etc
All these things have taken more time than previously expected
The post also has some interesting graphs showing the ratio of opened and close bugs for the upcoming release

Recommended hardware threads

A few threads on caught our attention this week, all about hardware recommendations for BSD setups
In the first one, the OP asks about mini-ITX hardware to run a FreeBSD server and NAS
Everyone gave some good recommendations for low power, Atom-based systems
The second thread started off asking about which CPU architecture is best for PF on an OpenBSD router, but ended up being another hardware thread
For a router, the ALIX, APU and Soekris boards still seem to be the most popular choices, with the third and fourth threads confirming this
If you’re thinking about building your first BSD box – server, router, NAS, whatever – these might be some good links to read

Interview – Paul Schenkeveld – freebsd@psconsult.nl

Running a BSD conference

News Roundup

From Linux to FreeBSD – for reals

Another Linux user is ready to switch to BSD, and takes to Reddit for some community encouragement (seems to be a common thing now)
After being a Linux guy for 20(!) years, he’s ready to switch his systems over, and is looking for some helpful guides to transition
In the comments, a lot of new switchers offer some advice and reading material
If any of the listeners have some things that were helpful along your switching journey, maybe send ’em this guy’s way

Running FreeBSD as a Xen Dom0

Continuing progress has been made to allow FreeBSD to be a host for the Xen hypervisor
This wiki article explains how to run the Xen branch of FreeBSD and host virtual machines on it
Xen on FreeBSD currently supports PV guests (modified kernels) and HVM (unmodified kernels, uses hardware virtualization features)
The wiki provides instructions for running Debian (PV) and FreeBSD (HVM), and discusses the features that are not finished yet

HardenedBSD updates and changes

a.out is the old executable format for unix
“The name stands for assembler output, and was coined by Ken Thompson as the fixed name for output of his PDP-7 assembler in 1968”
FreeBSD, on which HardenedBSD is based, switched away from a.out in FreeBSD 3.0
A restriction against NULL mapping was introduced in FreeBSD 7 and enabled by default in FreeBSD 8
However, for reasons of compatibility, it could be switched off, allowing buggy applications to continue to run, at the risk of allowing a kernel bug to be exploited
HardenedBSD has removed the sysctl, making it impossible to run in ‘insecure mode’
Package Building Update: more consistent repo, no more i386 packages

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