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We don’t share the IP address with the vendor, in fact it’s not even saved in the MySQL database
The MachineId is a salted hash of your actual /etc/machine-id
The LVFS doesn’t store reports for firmware that it did not sign itself, i.e. locally built firmware archives will be ignored and not logged
You can disable the reporting functionality in all applications by editing /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/*.conf
We have an official GDPR document too — we’ll probably link to that from the Privacy panel in GNOME

Beta Released

This latest update in our continuous innovation stream delivers many new features and enhancements to help secure your data, simplify the system and application lifecycle, and streamline your cloud journey

The Open Brand Project

@Kernellinux @ChrisLAS red hat logo change is in the works. Feedback welcomed from all. Can you mention this in a show or two?https://t.co/ZPUEGaRi1K

— Alex Kretzschmar (@IronicBadger) February 5, 2018

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Fedora Atomic

Fedora Atomic provides the best platform for your Linux-Docker-Kubernetes (LDK) application stack.

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Atomic OpenShift Engineer for Red Hat. Fedora Atomic WG member. Passionate about open source.

Fedora 27 Atomic Released
An Introduction to Fedora Atomic Workstation

Features:
Multi-Architecture Support: Fedora 27 Atomic Host is available for 64-bit ARM and Power8 processor architectures as well as 64-bit Intel (i.e. AArch64, ppc64le and x86_64). Not only are we distributing ISOs and cloud images for all three architectures, we will also be providing two-week OSTree updates for them as well.
Containerized Kubernetes: As planned, the Kubernetes binaries have been removed from the base image for Atomic Host. This change both shrinks the base image size, and allows users to install the container orchestration platform and version of their choice, whether it’s Kubernetes, OpenShift, or something else. Look for a blog post tommorrow on how to migrate your Kubernetes install.
Atomic Workstation Updates: For over a year, Fedora contributors have been experimenting with an RPM-OStree build of Fedora Workstation, with all of their applications running in containers or Flatpaks. This build, now called “Atomic Workstation”, will be receiving regular updates starting with this release.
One Big OverlayFS2 Volume: New Atomic Host systems will now get a single filesystem volume by default, which will share binaries, system containers, and OCI/docker containers using OverlayFS2. Users who need to partition container images and storage onto a separate volume can still do so using kickstart options and container-storage-setup configuration.
OSTree Package Layering Improvements: RPM-OStree has added two capabilities supporting modifying individula systems: remove and replace overrides, and LiveFS layering.
Project Atomic

Use immutable infrastructure to deploy and scale your containerized
applications. Project Atomic builds OSes, tools, and containers for
cloud native platforms.

DigitalOcean

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About AppCenter Payments

One of the primary goals of developing AppCenter Dashboard was to build a sustainable app ecosystem. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that although the AppCenter ecosystem is growing, nobody can make a living on it yet. That’s what we mean when we say “sustainable”. Writing apps is a real, hard, full-time job. If we want to see more high-quality, Open Source apps then we need to prioritize getting third-party app developers paid.

Linux Kernel Release Model – Linux Kernel Monkey Log

This post describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, how the kernel developer’s approach security bugs, and why all systems that use Linux should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches.

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KDE neon

KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository. Most users will want to use the packages built from released software which make up our User Edition. KDE contributors and testers can use the packages built from KDE Git in the Developer Editions. It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04).

KDE Plasma 5.12.0 LTS, Speed. Stability. Simplicity. – KDE.org

Tuesday, 06 February 2018. Today KDE releases a Feature update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.12.0.

Plasma 5.12 LTS is the second long-term support release from the Plasma 5 team. We have been working hard, focusing on speed and stability for this release. Boot time to desktop has been improved by reviewing the code for anything which blocks execution. The team has been triaging and fixing bugs in every aspect of the codebase, tidying up artwork, removing corner cases, and ensuring cross-desktop integration. For the first time, we offer our Wayland integration on long-term support, so you can be sure we will continue to provide bug fixes and improvements to the Wayland experience.

The list of new features in Plasma 5.12 LTS doesn’t stop with improved performance. You can also look forward to the following:

Wayland-only Night Color feature that lets you adjust the screen color temperature to reduce eye strain
Usability improvement for the global menu: adding a global menu panel or window decoration button enables it without needing an extra configuration step
KRunner can now be completely used with on-screen readers such as Orca
Notification text is selectable again and allows you to copy links from notifications
The weather applet can now show the temperature next to the weather status icon on the panel
Clock widget’s text is now sized more appropriately
System Activity and System Monitor display per-process graphs for the CPU usage
Windows shadows are horizontally centered and larger by default
The Properties dialog now shows file metadata
The Icon applet now uses favicons for website shortcuts
The Kickoff application menu has an optimized layout

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Halls of Endless Linux | LINUX Unplugged 202

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Pre-Show

hyper-pokemon: Wondrous, tailor-made Pokémon themes for your Hyper terminal

Follow Up / Catch Up

KMail’s ‘Send Later’ caused PGP encrypted private emails to be sent in plain-text

KMail, an email client from the KDE Project, introduced a new feature in version 4.11 that lets users delay sending of emails until a scheduled later time. Unfortunately, this new feature wasn’t compatible with KMail’s existing OpenPGP implementation.

Fedora Workstation 26 and beyond

Below is a sampling of the things we are working on.

Having that in place should allow us to create a solution where you only use the NVidia driver when you want the extra graphics power which will of course require significant work from Nvidia to enable it on their side so I can’t give a definite timeline for when all the puzzle pieces are in place. Just be assured we are working on it and talking regularly to NVidia about it. I will let you know here as soon as things come together.
Another major project we been working on for a long time in Fleet Commander. Fleet Commander is a tool to allow you to manage Fedora and RHEL desktops centrally.
All this features can be set and controlled on either a user level or a group level or organization wide due to the close integration we have with FreeIPA suite of tools. The data is stored inside your organizations LDAP server alongside other user information so you don’t need to have the clients connect to a new service for this, and while it is not there in this initial release we will in the future also support Active Directory.
PipeWire now aims at unifying linux Audio and Video. The long term the goal is for PipeWire to not only provide handling of video streams, but also handle all kings of audio. Due to this Wim has been spending a lot of time making sure PipeWire can handle audio in a way that not only address the PulseAudio usecases, but also the ones handled by Jack today. A big part of the motivation for this is that we want to make Fedora Workstation the best place to create content and we want the pro-audio crowd to be first class citizens of our desktop.
Fedora Workstation has been leading the charge in supporting HiDPI on Linux and we hope to build on that with the current work to enable fractional scaling support.
Carlos Garnacho has been doing some great work recently improving the general performance of GNOME Shell.
Essentially what we are doing is making it very simple for a Fedora maintainer to build a Flatpak of the application they maintain through the Fedora package building infrastructure and push that Flatpak into a central Flatpak registry.
While playback these days have moved to streaming where locally installed codecs are of less importance for the consumption usecase
Luckily we are at a crossroads now where a lot of widely used codecs have their essential patents expire (mp3, ac3 and more) while at the same time the industry focus seems to have moved to royalty free codec development moving forward (Opus, VP9, Alliance for Open Media). We have been spending a lot of time with the Red Hat legal team trying to clear these codecs, which resulted in mp3 and AC3 now shipping in Fedora Workstation.
We been looking at this for a while now and hope to be able to start sharing information with users on which laptops they should get that will have good battery life under Fedora.

casync — A tool for distributing file system images

It combines the idea of the rsync algorithm with the idea of git-style content-addressable file systems, and creates a new system for efficiently storing and delivering file system images, optimized for high-frequency update cycles over the Internet.

Canonical Updates Snapcraft on Ubuntu with Support for Resuming Snap Downloads

The biggest change in the Snapcraft 2.31 release appears to be support for resuming the download of the core Snap when building classic Snaps when an error occurs because the package can’t be fetched. This could come in handy during tests and in CI when you package your apps as Snaps.

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Debian 9 “Stretch” released

Debian 9 is dedicated to the project’s founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 December 2015.

elementary + GitHub – elementary OS – Medium

on GitHub!

Revolutionist76 – System76

Need some more RAM? Have another SSD to throw in? NO PROBLEM. We're not going to tell you what to do with YOUR PC! A revolution is coming… pic.twitter.com/b7ZJBy4q9G

— Not a Robot (@system76) June 19, 2017

Want cross-play with macOS or Linux? Vote for suggestions on feedback.minecraft.net!

Unfortunately, MCBC/MCPE/C++ Edition is currently only available on one desktop platform: Windows 10. Well, almost. Education Edition (an education-specialized port of Bedrock Codebase) runs on macOS, and I guess that a macOS Edition is quite likely to come in the future.

Another huge deal is that there is no Xbox Live for Android yet (surprisingly!) and Linux has no store, no update mechanism for closed source stuff etc, so we would need to make our own store and launcher just to sell there. That’s a massive amount of work, probably more than just porting issues.

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Michael Hall Joins Us

Community Manager at endlessos.com

The core OSTree model is like git in that it checksums individual files and has
a content-addressed-object store. It’s unlike git in that it “checks out” the
files via hardlinks, and they should thus be immutable. Therefore, another way
to think of OSTree is that it’s just a more polished version
Of Linux VServer hardlinks.

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aldyr comments on Moonlight

Linux can only be for the masses if you take up arms and make it for them. #revolutionist76 https://t.co/NvSALg4z1C pic.twitter.com/PaI6QcsbtV

— Christian Hergert (@hergertme) June 19, 2017

@ChrisLAS you can use moonlight on the entire desktop by pointing it at explorer.exe. and doesn't work on Grid cloud, requires a GTX,no aws

— Paul Demers (@PaulMDemers) June 15, 2017

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