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Forward Momentum | LAS 449

chris — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:25:40 +0000

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High on NextCloud | LAS 448

chris — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 03:50:20 +0000

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NextCloud 11

Nextcloud 11 sets new standard for security and scalability – Nextcloud

This release introduces significant security improvements, attested by NCC Group, a global expert in cyber security and risk mitigation to “complement the existing security architecture” and “enhance the general standing of the security working environment.“

New security capabilities include:

Support for cutting edge browser security features CSP 3.0 and Same-site Cookies* Support for Kerberos authentication and Two-factor Authentication providers based on Universal 2nd Factor and Time-based One-Time Password* Expanded brute force protection to all API access points* More secure Federation through use of SSL/TLS* Our new app store automatically checks apps and enforces signatures

Scalability is a prime concern among our large enterprise customers. This release decreases database load by up to 80% and improves response time by up to 60% for common server operations. Combined with multi-bucket Object Store support, improved handling of previews and Collabora Online speed improvements Nextcloud 11 enables scaling to greater numbers of users and files, decreases the server load and improves the user experience.

Nextcloud 11 introduces Apache Solr powered Full Text Search, enabling users to find words or phrases in text, pdf and common office documents on internal, external, shared and encrypted storage. The next generation Federation technology introduces a central lookup server, enabling Nextcloud users to find each other irrespective of the server their account resides on. The experimental Spreed app integrates secure, peer to peer audio and video chat in Nextcloud.

How to Install from a SNAP

This Nextcloud snap is available in the store for release series 16 (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04).

$ sudo snap install nextcloud

Nextcloud 11 Snap

$ sudo snap install –candidate nextcloud

Or if you already have it installed (not recommended for production systems):

$ sudo snap refresh –candidate nextcloud

Nextcloud: the most active open source file sync and share project!* – Nextcloud

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Uber’s new Self Driving Cars, Run Linux

Uber is expanding its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, giving Bay Area residents the first taste of a driverless future. Anyone who hails an UberX could find themselves in the backseat of one of Uber’s self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs.

Desktop App Pick

Hiri Email Client

Hiri is an email client that helps you master the art of email.

A complete replacement for Microsoft Outlook

Emails
Tasks
Calendars
Contacts

Collaborate with up to 10 members of your team for free. You can see our pricing here.
https://www.hiri.com/pricing/

Spotlight

Piler open source email archiving

Email archiving provides lots of benefits to your company. Piler is a feature rich open source email archiving solution, and a viable alternative to commercial email archiving products; check out the comparison with Mailarchiva.

Piler has a nice GUI written in PHP supporting several authentication methods (AD/LDAP, SSO, Google OAuth, 2 FA, IMAP, POP3). Be sure to try the online demo!

Piler supports

archiving and retention rules

legal hold

deduplication

digital fingerprinting and verification

full text search

tagging emails

view, export, restore emails

bulk import/export messages

audit logs

Google Apps

Office 365

and many more

installation-service – piler open source email archiving

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0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt

The zero-day exploits, which Evans published on Tuesday, are the latest to challenge the popular conceit that Linux, at least in its desktop form

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape and a vulnerability in the Linux GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) | NVIDIA

Ubuntu 17.04 Swaps Swap Partitions for Swap Files

Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov announced today that **Ubuntu 17.04 will use Swap files by default **on non-LVM installs (which if you just click through the installer, is the default setting).

Open-Source Warsow Game Development Appears To End

The Warsow video game was powered by the Qfusion engine, which they evolved into an advanced version of the open-source Quake II code. Thus it was a GPL game engine while their artwork ended up being under the Creative Commons. While it was one of the better open-source FPS video games and saw routine updates — along with passing Steam Greenlight a few years back — it looks like it’s now game over.

Microsoft Office Ribbon UI Is Coming to LibreOffice

LibreOffice 5.3 hides a hidden, Microsoft Office-style ‘Ribbon’ interface — but we’reg going to show you how to enable it.

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Mail Bag

Name: Alex S.
Subject: School Presentation
Message:

Hey Noah and/or Chris,
So I have an anxiety disorder that make giving presentations a bit dangerous for me (think, passing out and bashing your face into things) so I get accommodations from my university’s RCPD that basically just add a little legal weight to any discussions I have with teachers to set up alternatives to giving presentations. This semester one of my teachers is allowing me to make a slide deck of the research I did and record me giving the presentation in audio only and turn that in rather than actually presenting in front of the class.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage the recording side of things since I run Linux exclusively so none of the teacher’s suggestions would work but then I remembered you guys talking about OBS and thought, since it’s in the AUR, I’d just install it and see if it could do what I needed.

AND IT DOES! It’s exactly what I need for my final presentation and I only knew it existed because you guys talked about it so I just wanted to say thanks! It’s not the first recommendation I’ve gotten from LAS but it is the first one that helps me with school work.
So, yeah, thanks again for the (indirect) help.

Name: Stefan R
Subject: Arch Help
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah,

since I heard that Noah finally switched to Arch (Antergos) I decided it was time to ask this question.

How did you get hybrid graphics to work?

I have a nice 17,3″ ASUS Laptop (Intel i5-5200U, Nvidia 920M, Samsung SSD) which works just fine with every Linux-distro I’ve thrown at it so far, but the only thing that seems to work only on Ubuntu is the graphics switching.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love Ubuntu Mate (which it’s running now), but I’d rather have it run a rolling distro.

I simply cannot get it to work properly and trust me, I’ve tried everything:

Arch Wiki

Antergos Wiki

Ubuntu Wiki

forums

opensource drivers

proprietary drivers

bumblebee

prime

lts-kernel + lts-drivers

cutting edge kernel + cutting edge drivers

and ran into all sorts of problems:

bumblebee is working with os-drivers, but steam does not start

bumblebee is working with proprietary-drivers, but steam does not start

no drivers are working

steam does start, but only on Intel graphics

I’d like it to work like in Ubuntu where you choose the card in Nvidia-XServer-Settings, logout and log back in.

Thank you for your help and greetings from Austria (no Chris it’s not Australia)
thefenriswolf

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Throwback Thursday… On Sunday! | LAS 431

chris — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:06:54 +0000

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Winning over at LA

Following Up On Our Reviews

OwnCloud
Mint 18
Android TV box update Re: Android TV showdown : LinuxActionShow
Hue Lights poinck’s Script and Hue Tap Switch
Our current thoughts on remote desktop on Linux:

@ChrisLAS Hi, I'm interested in a remote desktop/terminal server review. Like thinlinc, x2go,ltsp etc. What's your take on these OSS. Thanks

— Sandro (@MoSandro) August 14, 2016

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425
OSS Sync vs Dropbox

@ChrisLAS given how much you use proprietary Dropbox, interested to hear your thoughts on privacy and security, – the fine line of balance.!

— Broken Canoe (@BrokenCanoe) August 14, 2016

Apollo Notebook Follow Up
Apollo: Macbook Killer | LAS 406
What is / Where is the Mumble room you guys name drop all the time?

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Desktop App Pick

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Spotlight

CumulusClips | Free Video CMS, Video Sharing Script, Video Sharing Software, YouTube Clone

CumulusClips is a video sharing script that allows you to start your own video website. It’s free and easy to use. You can build a YouTube clone where users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and much more.

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Google Is Developing A New Open Source OS Named “Fuchsia”

Codenamed Fuchsia, one can spot the new platform existing in Google’s Git repositories. However, at the moment, the repository doesn’t include any source code. This project was originally spotted on Hacker News.

If you go ahead and dig a little deeper, you’ll come across a line on Google’s Git repo that reads — “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”.

Upon further digging the GitHub repository, we came to know that Magenta is the new kernel that powers the Fushia OS. The kernel is designed to interact with the OS via object handles. The documentation from the same calls it an operating system targeting the modern phones and PCs.

Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things

Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice

The police force in Lithuania have switched to using LibreOffice. This free and open source suite of office productivity tools is implemented on over 8000 workstations. The police has started to test the use of workstations running Ubuntu Linux.

Linux malware? That’ll never happen. Ok, just this once then

The good news is that while the Trojan targets Linux systems, it doesn’t rely on a Linux flaw to run.

Simplenote Now Open Source

we are announcing today that all of the official Simplenote client apps are now Open Source Software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the previously open sourced Electron app, you’ll now find the source code for the iOS, Android, and macOS applications on our GitHub page.

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Windows Exploit Edition | TechSNAP 274

chris — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:21:02 +0000

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On this weeks episode we cover a UEFI firmware bug that is affecting computers including ThinkPads, tell you how your windows box can be totally pwned even if it’s fully encrypted & talk about the shortcomings of the MD5 checksum. Plus the feedback, the roundup & more!

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ThinkPwn, Lenovo and possible other vendors vulnerable to UEFI bug

“This code exploits 0day privileges escalation vulnerability (or backdoor?) in SystemSmmRuntimeRt UEFI driver (GUID is 7C79AC8C-5E6C-4E3D-BA6F-C260EE7C172E) of Lenovo firmware. Vulnerability is present in all of the ThinkPad series laptops, the oldest one that I have checked is X220 and the neweset one is T450s (with latest firmware versions available at this moment). Running of arbitrary System Management Mode code allows attacker to disable flash write protection and infect platform firmware, disable Secure Boot, bypass Virtual Secure Mode (Credential Guard, etc.) on Windows 10 Enterprise and do others evil things.”
an attacker can “disable flash write protection and infect platform firmware, disable Secure Boot, [and] bypass Virtual Secure Mode
“Vulnerable code of SystemSmmRuntimeRt UEFI driver was copy-pasted by Lenovo from Intel reference code for 8-series chipsets.”
“Lenovo is engaging all of its IBVs as well as Intel to identify or rule out any additional instances of the vulnerability’s presence in the BIOS provided to Lenovo by other IBVs, as well as the original purpose of the vulnerable code”
Lenovo Advisory
The vulnerable code has also been found in HP Pavilion Laptops, some Gigabyte Motherboards (Z68, Z77, Z87, Z97), Fujitsu, and Dell.
Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets
ThinkPWN, proof of concept exploit

From zero to SYSTEM on a fully encrypted Windows machine

“Whether you want to protect the operating system components or your personal files, a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) solution allows you to keep track of the confidentiality and integrity. One of the most commonly used FDE solutions is Microsoft Bitlocker®, which due to its integration with the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as well as the Active Directory environment makes it both user-friendly and manageable in a corporate environment.
When the system is protected with a FDE solution, without a pre-boot password, the login or lock screen makes sure attackers with physical access are not able to gain access to the system.”
“In this post we will explain how an attacker with physical access to an active directory integrated system (e.g. through stealing) is able to bypass the login or lock screen, obtain a clear-text version of the user’s password and elevate his privileges to that of a local administrator or SYSTEM. This can be accomplished via two security vulnerabilities which affects all Windows versions (from Vista to 10) and abusing a standard “security” feature.”
“These two vulnerabilities, discovered with the help of my colleague Tom Gilis were reported to Microsoft however only one vulnerability is patched at the time of writing CVE-2016-0049 / MS16-014.
“The other one, which allows you to elevate your privileges to that of a local administrator or SYSTEM is still under investigation by Microsoft and is not yet disclosed here.”
Acknowledgement by Microsoft
Since the time of this post, the patch has been released. It turns out, it is MS16-072
You might remember MS16-072 from TechSNAP #272 as the Windows Update that broke Group Policies!
“Step 1 – Hibernation – Your friendly neighbourhood password dumper”
“Speaking for myself, and probably a lot of other users, shutting down a laptop has become a thing of the past. In order to be able to rapidly start using your system when travelling from one place to another, we put it into sleep (or hibernation) mode, essentially putting all processes on hold to be easily resumed when needed. Although in order to resume your session after sleep or hibernation, you’ll have to enter your password on the lock screen (or at least I hope so), the system has your password stored somewhere in memory in order to resume the different processes. We want the system to dump the contents of the memory on disk so we can recover it later. Hibernation is there to the rescue, but we need to be able to force the system into hibernation, creating the HIBERFIL.SYS.”
“Luckily, the default configuration of a laptop running Windows depicts going into hibernation if the battery hits a critical low. This feature, by default at set 5%, ensures you don’t lose any unsaved documents when your battery dies. Once we force the laptop into hibernation mode we reboot it and move to the next step”
“Step 2 – Bypassing the login or lock screen”
“If the computer is a member of an AD Domain, and the user has logged in on this machine before, so their password is cached locally, all an attacker needed to do is create a rogue Kerberos server with the targets user account’s password set to a value of choice and indicated as expired. Upon login attempt, Windows would then prompt the user to change the password before continuing”
“Once the password change procedure is completed, the cached credentials on the machine are updated with the new password set by the attacker. Because the system is not able to establish a secure connection, the password is not updated on the Kerberos server but still allows the attacker to login when the system no longer has an active network connection (using the cached credentials)”
So, since the attacker set the new password on the Domain Controller (not really, but the computer things they did), they know this password, and when they attempt to login with it, and windows cannot reach the domain controller, it uses this locally cached password, and allows them to login
“Although the authentication has been bypassed, we still only have the (limited) privileges of the victim’s account (taking into consideration this is not an local administrator). This is where the next step comes in, in which we explain how you can obtain full local administrative privileges just by using standard Windows functionalities and thus not relying on any vulnerable installed software.”
“Step 3 – Privilege escalation to SYSTEM”
“We know that the trust between the client and Domain Controller (DC) is not always properly validated, we have a working Active Directory set-up and we have a working rogue DC. The question is are there any other Windows functionality that is failing to properly validate the trust?”
“How about Group Policies? It works on all supported Windows versions. There is no need for any additional (vulnerable) software. No specific configuration requirements”
“There are 2 types of Group Policy Objects (GPO), Computer Configuration and User Configuration Policies.”
“Computer Configuration Policies are applied before logon, the machine account is used to authenticated to the DC in order to retrieve the policies and finally all policies are executed with SYSTEM privileges. Since we don’t know the machine account password using Computer Configuration Policies is not an option.”
“User Configuration Policies are applied after a user is logged in, user’s account is used to authenticated to the DC to retrieved the User Configuration Policies and the policies are either executed as the current logged-on user or as SYSTEM.”
“Now this last type of Policy is interesting because we know the password of the user as we reset it to our likings.”
“Let’s create a Scheduled Task GPO that will execute NetCat as SYSTEM and finally will connect to the listening NetCat service as a the current user.”
On Windows 7, Immediately game over, you own the system
“Windows 7 fails to validate if the DC from where the Group Policies are being applied is indeed a trusted DC. It is assumed that the user credentials are sufficient to acknowledge the trust relationship. In this attack all encrypted traffic remains intact and doesn’t require any modification whatsoever.”
On Windows 10, it didn’t work right out of the box
It turns out, the Rouge DC needs to have a user object matching the SID of the user that is logging in. Luckily, with Mimikatz, you can edit the SID of the user on the Rouge DC to make it match
Additional Coverage: Part 2
Slides
So, Microsoft has patched both of these vulnerabilities, and we are all safe again, right?
“Bypassing patch MS16-014: Yes, you’ve read it right! There is still a way to bypass the Windows Login screen and bypass Authentication More details will be released soon!”
The author has not released the details yet, as they are waiting on Microsoft to release another patch

The MD5 collision is here

“A while ago a lot of people visited my site (~ 90,000 ) with a post about how easy it is to make two images with same MD5 by using a chosen prefix collision. I used Marc Steven’s HashClash on AWS and estimated the the cost of around $0.65 per collision.”
“Given the level of interest I expected to see cool MD5 collisions popping up all over the place. Possibly it was enough for most people to know it can be done quite easily and cheaply but also I may have missed out enough details in my original post”
A 2014 blog post showed how to create two php scripts with the same MD5
An early 2015 blog post showed two JPGs with the same MD5
So, this version of the tools was able to make two different .jpg images, that had the same MD5 checksum, but different contents, while still being perfectly valid JPG images
The post included instructions and an Amazon AWS images to do the number crunching
That a later follow up post on how to do the same thing with executable files
Same Binaries Blog Post
This example shows a C binary that prints an Angel if a condition is true, and a Devil if it is false
It contains a bunch of filler that can be changed to make the hashes the same in a second version of the file, where the condition is false. The end result is a pair of binaries, with the same MD5 hash, but different output
Using this same technique, Casey Smith (@subtee) managed to make an Angel.exe that is a copy if mimikatz, a windows password dumping utility, and a devil.exe that just says ‘nothing to see here’
Demo of the attack
This means all I need to do is run this tool against my malware, and say, regedit.exe that is on the whitelist in Windows, and now I have a malware binary that will be trusted

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Mind on my Cloud & Cloud on my Mind | LINUX Unplugged 148

chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:06:58 +0000

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After we get through a slew of great open source project achievements, we discuss the slippery slope that online services represent to Linux users.

Plus we get all big picture, what can be learned from ownCloud’s recent troubles, what we conclude by reading between the lines & more!

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Muhammad Ali & IBM sought to “shake up the world” with Linux | Network World

Follow Up / Catch Up

The new Control Center Shell

A demonstration of the new Control Center UI being developed

Arc Is a Gorgeous GTK Theme for Linux Desktops

It has been a veritable eon since we last highlighted a GTK theme here on this site.

Yes, the moment you’ve been waiting for is here, and you can now have all the essential Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Live CD editions into a single ISO image. Linux AIO Ubuntu 16.04 includes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS, Xubuntu 16.04 LTS, Lubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS.

Linux AIO

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Trisquel is about ethics not technology or innovation

So, please, stop thinking about snappy packages and begin enjoying your LIBERTAD (FREEDOM).

Firefox 47.0

Embedded YouTube videos now play with HTML5 video if Flash is not installed.

Firefox 47 widens HTML5 video support to include DRM-protected streams

Support for Google’s Widevine CDM — which is currently limited to Windows and OS X — was first introduced to the Nightly build of Firefox two months ago, and has made a seamless transition to the stable build.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

What we can learn from ownCloud’s collapse

Another factor in ownCloud’s undoing could be venture capitalists. Jos Poortvliet, the ownCloud community manager who now works at Nextcloud told me that a lot of ownCloud features were held back because developers had to convince investors in 30 seconds. And every such conversation led to a comparison with Dropbox. Investors would refuse features on the basis that Dropbox doesn’t do that.

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Slipping Into Google

Upgrade the launcher on your Android device for a fast, clean home screen that puts Google Now just a swipe away.

Google now
Google VR – Daydream
Google Chrome continues to be my go to browser for work. Makes switching to Linux easier.
Google stuff tends to have a Linux solution

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Jumping to the Nextcloud | LAS 420

chris — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:18:36 +0000

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Frank & Jos of Nextcloud join us to discuss their fork of ownCloud, some of the history behind the fork, the reaction by ownCloud, & what they plan to do differently this time around.

Plus we debate if Valve’s Steam Machines are a bust, a bit more on Oracle vs Google & much more!

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What is nextcloud?

OwnCloud foundation announcement:

nextcloud announcement: About – Nextcloud | nextcloud.com

ownCloud reacts to nextcloud: ownCloud Statement concerning nextcloud

OwnCloud closes US office, blames Nextcloud | ZDNet

nextCloud reacts to ownCloud’s reaction:

Wow. ownCloud Inc. collapses only 12 hours after the Nextcloud announcement. I didn't expect it to be so fragile. Sad day.

— Frank Karlitschek (@fkarlitschek) June 3, 2016

Nextcloud GmbH has enough funding to hire everyone from ownCloud who is looking for a job.

— Frank Karlitschek (@fkarlitschek) June 3, 2016

Contributors to owncloud/core · GitHub

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Desktop App Pick

Turtl: A secure, encrypted Evernote alternative | Turtl

Turtl lets you take notes, bookmark websites, and store documents
for sensitive projects. From sharing passwords with your
coworkers to tracking research on an article you’re writing,
Turtl keeps it all safe from everyone but you and those you
share with.

Spotlight

QLC Plus

QLC+ is a free software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.

This project is a fork of the great QLC project written by Heikki Junnila that aims to continue the development of QLC and to introduce new features.

The primary goal is to bring QLC+ at the level of other lighting control commercial softwares.

https://www.amazon.com/RioRand-Interface-Adapter-Lighting-Controller/dp/B00V7MQ99G/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1465147589&sr=8-9&keywords=USB+DMX

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https://slexy.org/view/s29Xzr9wZr

Seven months later, Valve’s Steam Machines look dead in the water

_Put it together, and you find that there have been less than half a million Steam Machines sold over a span of more than half a year.

Google’s fair use victory is good for open source

Let me first explain the main facts and claims in the lawsuit, and then why Google’s fair use victory is a good thing not only for Google but also for open source developers, for software developers more generally, and for the public.

So why is this a victory for the open source community as well as for Google? The main reason is because open source programs are often designed to interoperate with, either as complements or substitutes for, existing programs.

Hurst is wrong in asserting that Google’s fair use victory means that anyone can freely appropriate whatever they want from open source and other programs.

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13 Inches of Freedom | LAS 419

chris — Sun, 29 May 2016 20:05:22 +0000

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Purism has sent us the Librem 13 for review, does a laptop designed to protect your digital life make a good Linux workstation? With physical kill switches, and a well built aluminum housing, we answer if this could be your next ultimate Linux laptop.

Plus why were not so excited about Google’s recent win against Oracle, new features coming to Linux, what the heck is going on at OwnCloud & more!

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Librem 13 Review

7 Hours Battery Life
2 USB ports
Ethernet Jack
Audio Headset jack

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Desktop App Pick

Etcher

Sent in by Rikai….94 times

Here at resin.io we have thousands of users working through our getting started process and until recently we were embarassed about the steps that involved burning an SD card. There was a separate track for each Mac/Windows/Ubuntu and several manual and error prone steps along the way.

Validated Burning
Hard Drive Friendly
Open Source
Beautiful Interface

Spotlight

Solaar

Solaar is a Linux device manager for Logitech’s Receiver
peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for most
devices read battery status.

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https://slexy.org/view/s29Xzr9wZr

An Apparent Exodus Continues At OwnCloud

Since the recent ownCloud 9.0 release, a number of high-profile individuals have been leaving the company.

Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs

There was only one question on the special verdict form, asking if Google’s use of the Java APIs was a “fair use” under copyright law. The jury unanimously answered “yes,” in Google’s favor.

Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL |

Linux 4.7 Brings A Plethora Of New Features: AMD Polaris, ARM ASpeed, SGI UV4, Schedutil

After a very exciting past two weeks, the merge window for Linux 4.7 is expected to close today. This was an action-packed merge window with a ton of new code being introduced. While I’ve already written dozens of posts on Phoronix about the changes that got me excited, here’s my usual kernel feature overview. Here’s a look at what’s coming for Linux 4.7.

Up comming OSS Community Events

The world’s premier open source event listing

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Getting to know Flatpak – a walktrough
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Floating on ownCloud 9 | LAS 410

chris — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:46:24 +0000

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We risk it all and toss our data into the new ownCloud 9 to give you our review. Find out about using ownCloud as an Evernote killer, Federated servers & the long-term commitment you’re making as an ownCloud user.

Plus Red Hat’s big news, the new Gnome & things go to the next level in our upcoming switch competition.

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ownCloud 9 Review

Federated Sharing – What’s new in ownCloud 9.0

With ownCloud 9.0 we made it even easier to exchange the Federated Cloud IDs. Below you can see the administrator setting for the new Federation App, which will be enabled by default.

The option “Add server automatically once a federated share was created successfully” is enabled by default. This means, that as soon as a user creates a federated share with another ownCloud, either as a recipient or as a sender, ownCloud will add the remote server to the list of trusted ownClouds. Additionally you can predefined a list of trusted ownClouds. While technically it is possible to use plain http I want to point out that I really recommend to use https for all federated share operations to secure your users and their data.

What does it mean that two ownClouds trust each other? ownCloud 9.0 automatically creates a internal address book which contains all users accounts. If two ownClouds trust each other they will start to synchronize their system address books. In order to synchronize the system address books and to keep them up-to-date we use the well known and widespread CardDAV protocol. After the synchronization was successful ownCloud will know all users from the trusted remote servers, including their Federated Cloud ID and their display name. The share dialog will use this information for auto-completion. This allows you to share files across friendly ownClouds without knowing more than the users name. ownCloud will automatically find the corresponding Federated Cloud ID and will suggest the user as a recipient of your share.

Time to Upgrade to ownCloud 9.0!

Why Should I Upgrade?

Read this blog post for 5 reasons to upgrade to a newer ownCloud. A summary:

ownCloud usage grew last year from 2.4 to 8 million so newer releases have far more users
Testing improves, benefiting newer releases more than older, in part because
Backporting is limited to security fixes for releases older than Latest-1
Clients take advantage of features only in newer server versions
We introduce features which improve reliability

Bug#816376: Bug#816376: Unfit upstream
Install Owncloud on Centos 7

https://www.techtransit.org/setup-private-cloud-storage-owncloud-9-centos-rhel-7/

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I enjoy a lot of the content at Jupiter Broadcasting and now that I am deriving billable value from your content, I will be becoming a patron over at patreon.com. I also checked out teespring.com and found a JB polo, but unfortunately it is out of stock. If I were to find a JB, LAS, Tech SNAP, Tech Talk Today, BSD Now, or Linux Unplugged polo over there in the future, I would be sure to pick one up. Thanks for the great programming, please keep it up.

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Desktop App Pick

QOwnNotes – cross-platform open source plain-text file notepad

QOwnNotes is the open source (GPL) plain-text file notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud.

Weekly Spotlight

Newsbeuter

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It
runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems.
Newsbeuter’s great configurability and vast number of features make it a
perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can
be completely controlled via keyboard.

A summary of some of its features:

Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds
Download podcasts
Freely configure your keyboard shortcuts
Search through all downloaded articles
Categorize and query your subscriptions with a flexible tag system
Integrate any data source through a flexible filter and plugin system
Automatically remove unwanted articles through a “killfile”
Define “meta feeds” using a powerful query language
Synchronize newsbeuter with your bloglines.com account
Import and exporting your subscriptions with the widely used OPML format
Freely define newsbeuter’s look’n’feel through free color configurability and format strings
Keep all your feeds in sync with Google Reader
Newsbeuter is the Mutt of RSS feed readers.
Not convinced? See for yourself.

— NEWS —

Red Hat becomes first $2b open-source company

Just think: Some people still don’t believe that you can make money from Linux and open-source software. Fools! Red Hat just became the first open-source company to make a cool 2 billion bucks.

GNOME 3.20 Release Notes

GNOME 3.20 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result
of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new
features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the
release incorporates 28933 changes, made by approximately 837
contributors.

11 Neat New Features in GNOME 3.20

To celebrate this milestone we’ve scoured the change-logs to pull out 11 GNOME 3.20 features we think you’re going to love…

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Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

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Making Music with Linux | LAS 408

chris — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:54:46 +0000

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What’s the best software under Linux to create music? We answer that & the best hardware that work together. We have something for the musician to casual hardware geek, we cover the dark art of creating music under Linux as we go inside Noah’s music studio and see what he uses.

Plus we chat with ownCloud’s Community Manager about the new features in version 9, our thoughts on Microsoft’s SQL for Linux announcement & more!

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MIDI Sequencers

Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Protocol allows electronic instruments, computers, and devices to communicate with one another.

Equipment

Analog to Digital Recording Interface

M Audio M-Track Two-Channel Portable USB Audio & MIDI Interface

+ XLR
+ 1/4″
+ Headphones
+ TRS Output
+ Phantom Power
+ Native Linux Compatible

PreSonus AudioBox USB

+ Bus Powered USB Audio and MIDI Interface
+ 24-bit resolution 44.1 & 48khz sampling rate
+ 2 combo mic/instrument inputs with high-performance, low-noise, high-headroom mic preamplifiers.
+ Zero Latency Monitoring

Microphones

Singing Vocal Mic – AKG P420

Podcasting Vocal Mic – RE320

Instrument Mic – SM57

Almost Perfect Replication of Sound – DPA 2006A

Instruments

MIDI Interface

Synthesizer

MIDI Controller

Yamaha UX96

Works with Linux
Inexpensive
MIDI Only
Not available any more

Software

Audacity

Free Audio Editor and Recorder
New Version as of Jan 20th (2.1.2)
Major Improvements

Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment based around a MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation and includes basic support for digital audio.
Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Rosegarden’s matrix and notation editors also include rulers for graphically editing control changes, as well as for velocity and pitch bend.
Rosegarden includes synth plugin support for sample-accurate synthesis of MIDI tracks.
Rosegarden uses the DSSI architecture for synth plugins, a public standard which permits each plugin to be controlled from its own custom GUI as well as Rosegarden’s built-in plugin interface.

Hydrogen

Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4.
Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.

Ardour

Full DAW
An Ardour track can be of type audio or MIDI, depending on the data that the track will primarily record and play back.
No limits on number of tracks, buses, plugins, inserts, or sends.
Pick your audio interface based on your needs and budget. If your OS supports it, Ardour can use it. PCI, USB, Firewire interfaces, along with the option to use network audio too.
Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo/redo, even across editing sessions (reload and undo your changes from last time).
All editing is in-window: no switching to piano roll or other dedicated dialogs/displays for specialized operations.
Route anything to anywhere (for more than ten years!).
Matrix-style patching/routing.
Hundreds of no-cost plugins in LV2, native VST and LADSPA formats on Linux.
Export to many different data and file formats, including but not limited to WAV, AIFF, CAF, BWF, FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis.

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Desktop App Pick

Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

Submitted by Rikai

The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

GitKraken is free (as in beer) but is not open source.

Weekly Spotlight

bomi

By taking the advantage of mpv and GUI, bomi provides various features.
Submitted by Rikai

— NEWS —

Facebook launches project to open source hardware, designs for cell networks | Ars Technica

There have already been a number of efforts to bring open source software and commodity hardware to bear on providing wireless service to unserved communities. OpenBTS, an open source cellular infrastructure software project, released a fully open 3G cellular network stack in October of 2014. The OpenBTS software was used by the University of California at Berkeley’s Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) research group to _build a community cellular network in Papua, Indonesia_in 2013, with a VSAT backhaul for SMS text messaging to the rest of the world.

SQL Server on Linux Shows Microsoft’s More Flexible Side

Microsoft has made a preview of SQL Server for Linux available. The final product is expected to ship in mid

Microsoft’s former CEO claimed he “loved” this week’s news that Redmond would deliver a Linux-compatible version of its ever-popular SQL Server database.

Qubes OS 3.1 has been released!

The major new architectural feature of this release has been the introduction of
the Qubes Management
infrastructure, which is
based on the popular Salt management software.

In Qubes 3.1, this management stack makes it possible to conveniently control
system-wide Qubes configuration using centralized, declarative statements.
Declarative is the key word here: it makes creating advanced configurations
significantly simpler. (The user or administrator needs only to specify what
they want to get, rather than how they want to get it).

This has already allowed us to improve our installation wizard (firstboot) so
that it now offers the user the ability to easily select from various options to
pre-create some useful configurations, such as Whonix or USB-hosting VMs.

Salt management stack in Qubes

ownCloud 9 is OUT

ownCloud Server 9.0 has significant improvements for users, administrators and developers. Learn how ownCloud 9.0 provides the safest home for all your data.

Jos Poortvliet (@jospoortvliet) on Twitter

People person, technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist.

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Microsoft’s SeQueL to Linux | LINUX Unplugged 135

chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:50:02 +0000

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Our world has forever changed with Microsoft’s announcement of SQL server for Linux. We get a little nostalgic. Plus a look at the new OwnCloud release & updates on some of our favorite projects.

Then we take a look at Shashlik which promises to transparently run Android apps on your Linux desktop & more!

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A brand new look for future Kodi versions

As you will see the main eye catcher is the whole new home screen which will guide you through all the main sections that are available.

Mozilla Eyes IoT Devices in Plans for Linux-Based Open Source OS

On March 1, Mozilla’s Senior Vice President for Connected Devices, Ari Jaaski, _announced_that the open source organization seeks to “develop, test and evaluate” four IoT software projects. They include Project Link, Project Sensor Web, Project Smart Home and Project Vaani.

fail0verflow on Twitter: “We’ve released the PS4 kexec-style code to load the Linux kernel from Orbis OS.

ps4-kexec: Implementation of the kexec system call for PS4

This repo implements a kexec()-style system call for the PS4 Orbis kernel
(FreeBSD derivative). This is designed to boot a Linux kernel directly from
FreeBSD.

I just wanted to put out a quick update about bounties!

So far, elementary has paid out over $14,000 to developers fixing bugs.

elementary – Bountysource

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ownCloud 9.0 Released with Major Enhancements, Brings Federation to a New Level

W__ith ownCloud 9.0, organizations and institutions like CERN and AARNet will be able to integrate deeply their massive ownCloud installations with various storage solutions and their infrastructure, thanks to the addition of a new storage API (Application Programming Interface) that allows for unimaginable scaling levels.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Today I’m excited to announce our plans to bring SQL Server to Linux as well. This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud. We are bringing the core relational database capabilities to preview today, and are targeting availability in mid-2017.

Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation and brings more tools to the community | The Visual Studio Blog

Microsoft is taking its relationship with the Eclipse community to the next level by joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member. Joining the Eclipse Foundation enables us to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, deliver a great set of tools and services for all development teams, and continuously improve our cloud services, SDKs and tools.

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What is Shashlik?

The goal of Shashlik is to provide a way to run Android applications on a standard Linux desktop as easily and simply as possible.

Shashlik brings Android apps to Linux, and you can try it today

Essentially, Shashlik runs Android in the background on your Linux system. (Shashlik developers are working on stripping down Android as much as possible.) OpenGL and graphics code are rendered directly on your Linux system for speed, but Shashlik provides an Android activity manager, daemons, and intents so Android apps will work properly.

But Shashlik isn’t just an emulator—it aims to provide a more native experience. When you install an Android app, Shashlik will extract its icon and create a menu entry so you can launch that Android app just like you’d launch any other Linux desktop app. All the Android emulation happens behind the scenes.

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Mycroft and Chilli | LINUX Unplugged 123

chris — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:35:45 +0000

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UbuCon is just around the corner, we’re joined by Ubuntu’s community manager & the team on the ground to share the inside scoop on how this Ubuntu conference came to be & how you can get in free.

Ryan from Mycroft stops by to give us an update on their open source artificial intelligence project, their new official partnership with Ubuntu & more.

Then we discuss the major partnership between LibreOffice & OwnCloud, the cool OwnCloud hardware that could develop into a consumer device.

Plus some major project updates, community feedback & more!

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World Without Linux Episode #5: Space Exploration

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Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop | Ars Technica

Qubes OS, the security-focused operating system that Edward Snowden said in November he was “really excited” about, announced this week that laptop maker Purism will ship their privacy-focused Librem 13 notebook with Qubes pre-installed.

AMD Announces GPUOpen Initiative, New Compiler And Drivers For Lunix And HPC

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In a nutshell, AMD is releasing a slew of open-source software and tools to give developers of games, heterogeneous applications, and HPC applications deeper access to the GPU and GPU resources.

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AMD GPUOpen also introduces a new Linux driver model and runtime targeted at HPC Cluster-Class Computing. The new headless Linux driver addresses core high-performance computing needs, including low latency compute dispatch and PCI Express data transfers, peer-to-peer GPU support, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) from InfiniBand that interconnects directly to GPU memory and Large Single Memory Allocation support.

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Introducing NVIDIA GameWorks | NVIDIA Developer

Streamy

Streamy connects all your media devices like never before.

KDE – Plasma 5.5.1 complete changelog

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.5.1. Plasma 5.5 was released in last week with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

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UbuCon Summit US

Join us at the UbuCon Summit for two days of Ubuntu talks by the best experts in the community and to discuss and shape the future of Ubuntu.

The Summit is the evolution of UbuCon as a bigger a multi-track, multi-day event to learn, share and collaborate around Ubuntu as a project.

In Pasadena, CA, on 21-22 January 2016

UbuCon portal

Taking UbuCons to the next level: multi-day and multi-track. Join us in Pasadena, CA, on the 21-22 January 2016

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Mycroft Update: Design Breakdown and Ubuntu Partnership

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Mycroft has continued to deeper its ties with Canonical by becoming an official Ubuntu partner for IoT. We are continually grateful for Canonical and team’s commitment to this technology, and their support and guidance as we continue to grow as a project. We look forward to what this partnership will bring in terms of innovation and community engagement, and have the highest hopes for a bright future in this respect.

The team finished another feature video this week. These feature videos will appear periodically through mid 2016. Each video highlights one or more Mycroft feature and shows it in every day use. Our first feature? Netflix, and the ability to “set a scene” using IoT integration.

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ownCloud and Collabora Announce LibreOffice Online for ownCloud Server

Today, December 15, ownCloud, Inc. and Collabora have just announced a partnership to bring a new tool for LibreOffice and ownCloud users, based on the LibreOffice Online project and the robust, open-source ownCloud Server self-hosting cloud storage solution.

Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users | ownCloud.org

The Western Digital Labs team contacted us looking to work together with the ownCloud community on offering a self hosted device running ownCloud pre-installed out of the box. Our end goal is to provide a solution for non-technical end users, something which requires few skills to set up.

They provided us with 10 early prototypes to get started with. We’d like to give them out to community members who are serious about helping home users run their ownCloud server.

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Intel NUC5i7RYH with Ubuntu | Flexion.Org

I’ve just bought my first brand new computer since 2008. Thanks to
the Black Friday
and Cyber Monday sales on
Amazon.co.uk and Scan.co.uk
this year I was able to put together a pretty sweet Intel NUC which is
now running Ubuntu MATE 15.10.

I spoke about this new system on LINUX Unplugged Episode 122
and have been contacted by people wanting more details ever since.
Hopefully this blog post will answer any outstanding questions. Press
play below to hear to what I said on the podcast.

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Code a Little Deeper | CR 181

chris — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:11:55 +0000

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Mike shares his open source picks for 2015 & why they are a real game changer for him. Then we read through a few submissions by the audience & then discuss Microsoft’s huge new PowerApps initiative.

Plus some feedback that cuts deep & more!

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Hoopla

Microsoft launches PowerApps for businesses to create mobile and web-based apps without writing code on iOS, Android, and Windows

PowerApps — codenamed Project Kratos — is designed to allow business users and developers to create custom native, mobile, and Web apps that can be shared simply across their organizations

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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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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)

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Codeweavers On DX11 in WINE, Steam Machines & Porting

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woN DSB | BSD Now 83

chris — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:24:15 +0000

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Coming up this week on the show, we’ll be talking to Kamila Součková, a Google intern. She’s been working on the FreeBSD pager daemon, and also tells us about her initial experiences trying out BSD and going to a conference. As always, all the week’s news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Major changes coming in PCBSD 11

The PCBSD team has announced that version 11.0 will have some more pretty big changes (as they’ve been known to do lately with NTP daemons and firewalls)
Switching from PF to IPFW provided some benefits for VIMAGE, but the syntax was just too complicated for regular everyday users
To solve this, they’ve ported over Linux’s iptables, giving users a much more straightforward configuration
While ZFS has served them well as the default filesystem for a while, Kris decided that Btrfs would be a better choice going forward
Since the FreeBSD kernel doesn’t support it natively, all filesystem calls will be through FUSE from now on – performance is Good Enough
People often complain about PCBSD’s huge ISO download, so, to save space, the default email client will be switched to mutt, and KDE will be replaced with DWM as the default window manager
To reconfigure it, or make any appearance changes, users just need to edit a simple C header file and recompile – easy peasy
As we’ve mentioned on the show, PCBSD has been promoting safe backup solutions for a long time with its “life preserver” utility, making it simple to manage multiple snapshots too
To test if people have been listening to this advice, Kris recently activated the backdoor he put in life preserver that deletes all the users’ files – hope you had that stuff backed up

NetBSD and FreeBSD join forces

The BSD community has been running into one of the same problems Linux has lately: we just have too many different BSDs to choose from
What’s more, none of them have any specific areas they focus on or anything like that (they’re all basically the same)
That situation is about to improve somewhat, as FreeBSD and NetBSD have just merged codebases… say hello to FretBSD
Within a week, all mailing lists and webservers for the legacy NetBSD and FreeBSD projects will be terminated – the mailing list for the new combined project will be hosted from the United Nations datacenter on a Microsoft Exchange server
As UN monitors will be moderating the mailing lists to prevent disagreements and divisive arguments before they begin, this system is expected to be adequate for the load
With FretBSD, your toaster can now run ZFS, so you’ll never need to worry about the bread becoming silently corrupted again

Puffy in the cloud

If you’ve ever wanted to set up a backup server, especially for family members or someone who’s not as technology-savvy, you’ve probably realized there are a lot of options
This post explores the option of setting up your own Dropbox-like service with Owncloud and PostgreSQL, running atop the new OpenBSD http daemon
Doing it this way with your own setup, you can control all the security aspects – disk encryption, firewall rules, who can access what and from where, etc
He also mentions our pf tutorial being helpful in blocking script kiddies from hammering the box
Be sure to encourage your less-technical friends to always back up their important data

NetBSD at AsiaBSDCon

Some NetBSD developers have put together a report of what they did at the most recent event in Tokyo
It includes a wrap-up of the event, as well as a list of presentations that NetBSD developers gave
Have you ever wanted even more pictures of NetBSD running on lots of devices? There’s a never-ending supply, apparently
At the BSD research booth of AsiaBSDCon, there were a large number of machines on display, and someone has finally uploaded pictures of all of them
There’s also a video of an OMRON LUNA-II running the luna68k port

Interview – Kamila Součková – kamila@ksp.sk / @anotherkamila

BSD conferences, Google Summer of Code, various topics

News Roundup

FreeBSD foundation March update

The FreeBSD foundation has published their March update for fundraising and sponsored projects
In the document, you’ll find information about upcoming ARMv8 enhancements, some event recaps and a Google Summer of Code status update
They also mention our interview with the foundation president – be sure to check it out if you haven’t

Inside OpenBSD’s new httpd

BSD news continues to dominate mainstream tech news sites… well not really, but they talk about it once in a while
The SD Times is featuring an article about OpenBSD’s in-house HTTP server, after seeing Reyk’s AsiaBSDCon presentation about it (which he’s giving at BSDCan this year, too)
In this article, they talk about the rapid transition of webservers in the base system – apache being replaced with nginx, only to be replaced with httpd shortly thereafter
Since the new daemon has had almost a full release cycle to grow, new features and fixes have been pouring in
The post also highlights some of the security features: everything runs in a chroot with privsep by default, and it also leverages strong TLS 1.2 defaults (including Perfect Forward Secrecy)

Using poudriere without OpenSSL

Last week we talked about using LibreSSL in FreeBSD for all your ports
One of the problems that was mentioned is that some ports are configured improperly, and end up linking against the OpenSSL in the base system even when you tell them not to
This blog post shows how to completely strip OpenSSL out of the poudriere build jails, something that’s a lot more difficult than you’d think
If you’re a port maintainer, pay close attention to this post, and get your ports fixed to adhere to the make.conf options properly

HAMMER and GPT in OpenBSD

Someone, presumably a Google Summer of Code student, wrote in to the lists about his HAMMER FS porting proposal
He outlined the entire process and estimated timetable, including what would be supported and which aspects were beyond the scope of his work (like the clustering stuff)
There’s no word yet on if it will be accepted, but it’s an interesting idea to explore, especially when you consider that HAMMER really only has one developer
In more disk-related news, Ken Westerback has been committing quite a lot of GPT-related fixes recently
Full GPT support will most likely be finished before 5.8, but anything involving HAMMER FS is still anyone’s guess

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Also, if you want to come on for an interview, or know of someone who’s doing something interesting with BSD, let us know
We want to dedicate this week’s episode to the chairman of the EuroBSDCon foundation, Paul Schenkeveld – he’s been a great asset to all the BSD communities over the years, and just recently passed away (he’s also the one that encouraged Kamila to do an interview with us)
He was especially known for his work in keeping EuroBSDCon fair and balanced to all the BSDs, something that we hope other conferences will also push for going forward
Check his FOSDEM talk, as well as our interview and BSDTalk’s interview if you haven’t seen the man before
Thanks for all the work you did, and rest in peace

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Common *Sense Approach | BSD Now 72

chris — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:55:22 +0000

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This week on the show, we’ll be talking to Jos Schellevis about OPNsense, a new firewall project that was forked from pfSense. We’ll learn some of the backstory and see what they’ve got planned for the future. We’ve also got all this week’s news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD

We’ve covered how to build a BSD-based gateway that tunnels all your traffic through a VPN in the past – but what if you don’t trust any VPN company?
It’s easy for anyone to say “of course we don’t run a modified version of OpenVPN that logs all your traffic… what are you talking about?”
The VPN provider might also be slow to apply security patches, putting you and the rest of the users at risk
With this guide, you’ll be able to cut out the middleman and create your own VPN, using OpenBSD
It covers topics such as protecting your server, securing DNS lookups, configuring the firewall properly, general security practices and of course actually setting up the VPN

FreeBSD vs Gentoo comparison

People coming over from Linux will sometimes compare FreeBSD to Gentoo, mostly because of the ports-like portage system for installing software
This article takes that notion and goes much more in-depth, with lots more comparisons between the two systems
The author mentions that the installers are very different, ports and portage have many subtle differences and a few other things
If you’re a curious Gentoo user considering FreeBSD, this might be a good article to check out to learn a bit more

Kernel W^X in OpenBSD

W^X, “Write XOR Execute,” is a security feature of OpenBSD with a rather strange-looking name
It’s meant to be an exploit mitigation technique, disallowing pages in the address space of a process to be both writable and executable at the same time
This helps prevent some types of buffer overflows: code injected into it won’t execute, but will crash the program (quite obviously the lesser of the two evils)
Through some recent work, OpenBSD’s kernel now has no part of the address space without this feature – whereas it was only enabled in the userland previously
Doing this incorrectly in the kernel could lead to far worse consequences, and is a lot harder to debug, so this is a pretty huge accomplishment that’s been in the works for a while
More technical details can be found in some recent CVS commits

Building an IPFW-based router

We’ve covered building routers with PF many times before, but what about IPFW?
A certain host of a certain podcast decided it was finally time to replace his disappointing consumer router with something FreeBSD-based
In this blog post, Kris details his experience building and configuring a new router for his home, using IPFW as the firewall
He covers in-kernel NAT and NATD, installing a DHCP server from packages and even touches on NAT reflection a bit
If you’re an IPFW fan and are thinking about putting together a new router, give this post a read

Interview – Jos Schellevis – project@opnsense.org / @opnsense

The birth of OPNsense

News Roundup

On profiling HTTP

Adrian Chadd, who we’ve had on the show before, has been doing some more ultra-high performance testing
Faced with the problem of how to generate a massive amount of HTTP traffic, he looked into the current state of benchmarking tools
According to him, it’s “not very pretty”
He decided to work on a new tool to benchmark huge amounts of web traffic, and the rest of this post describes the whole process
You can check out his new code on Github right now

Using divert(4) to reduce attacks

We talked about using divert(4) with PF last week, and this post is a good follow-up to that introduction (though unrelated to that series)
It talks about how you can use divert, combined with some blacklists, to reduce attacks on whatever public services you’re running
PF has good built-in rate limiting for abusive IPs that hit rapidly, but when they attack slowly over a longer period of time, that won’t work
The Composite Blocking List is a public DNS blocklist, operated alongside Spamhaus, that contains many IPs known to be malicious
Consider setting this up to reduce the attack spam in your logs if you run public services

ChaCha20 patchset for GELI

A user has posted a patch to the freebsd-hackers list that adds ChaCha support to GELI, the disk encryption system
There are also some benchmarks that look pretty good in terms of performance
Currently, GELI defaults to AES in XTS mode with a few tweakable options (but also supports Blowfish, Camellia and Triple DES)
There’s some discussion going on about whether a stream cipher is suitable or not for disk encryption though, so this might not be a match made in heaven just yet

PCBSD update system enhancements

The PCBSD update utility has gotten an update itself, now supporting automatic upgrades
You can choose what parts of your system you want to let it automatically handle (packages, security updates)
There’s also a new graphical frontend available for it
The update system uses ZFS + Boot Environments for safe updating and bypasses some dubious pkgng functionality

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Linux Powered Schools | LINUX Unplugged 68

chris — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:35:40 +0000

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We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment.

Plus a preview of our upcoming interview with Mark Shuttleworth & his take on the recent criticism and exodus from Debian & getting started in a Linux career.

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IPSECond Wind | BSD Now 61

chris — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:03:16 +0000

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This week on the show, we sat down with John-Mark Gurney to talk about modernizing FreeBSD’s IPSEC stack. We’ll learn what he’s adding, what needed to be fixed and how we’ll benefit from the changes. As always, answers to your emails and all of this week’s news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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BSD panel at Phoenix LUG

The Phoenix, Arizona Linux users group had a special panel so they could learn a bit more about BSD
It had one FreeBSD user and one OpenBSD user, and they answered questions from the organizer and the people in the audience
They covered a variety of topics, including filesystems, firewalls, different development models, licenses and philosophy
It was a good “real world” example of things potential switchers are curious to know about
They closed by concluding that more diversity is always better, and even if you’ve got a lot of Linux boxes, putting a few BSD ones in the mix is a good idea

Book of PF signed copy auction

Peter Hansteen (who we’ve had on the show) is auctioning off the first signed copy of the new Book of PF
All the profits from the sale will go to the OpenBSD Foundation
The updated edition of the book includes all the latest pf syntax changes, but also provides examples for FreeBSD and NetBSD’s versions (which still use ALTQ, among other differences)
If you’re interested in firewalls, security or even just advanced networking, this book is a great one to have on your shelf – and the money will also go to a good cause
Michael Lucas has challenged Peter to raise more for the foundation than his last book selling – let’s see who wins
Pause the episode, go bid on it and then come back!

FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon

Some people from the FreeBSD Foundation went to EuroBSDCon this year, and come back with a nice trip report
They also sponsored four other developers to go
The foundation was there “to find out what people are working on, what kind of help they could use from the Foundation, feedback on what we can be doing to support the FreeBSD Project and community, and what features/functions people want supported in FreeBSD”
They also have a second report from Kamil Czekirda
A total of $2000 was raised at the conference

OpenBSD 5.6 released

Note: we’re doing this story a couple days early – it’s actually being released on November 1st (this Saturday), but we have next week off and didn’t want to let this one slip through the cracks – it may be out by the time you’re watching this
Continuing their always-on-time six month release cycle, the OpenBSD team has released version 5.6
It includes support for new hardware, lots of driver updates, network stack improvements (SMP, in particular) and new security features
5.6 is the first formal release with LibreSSL, their fork of OpenSSL, and lots of ports have been fixed to work with it
You can now hibernate your laptop when using a fully-encrypted filesystem (see our tutorial for that)
ALTQ, Kerberos, Lynx, Bluetooth, TCP Wrappers and Apache were all removed
This will serve as a “transitional” release for a lot of services: moving from Sendmail to OpenSMTPD, from nginx to httpd and from BIND to Unbound
Sendmail, nginx and BIND will be gone in the next release, so either migrate to the new stuff between now and then or switch to the ports versions
As always, 5.6 comes with its own song and artwork – the theme this time was obviously LibreSSL
Be sure to check the full changelog (it’s huge) and pick up a CD or tshirt to support their efforts
If you don’t already have the public key releases are signed with, getting a physical CD is a good “out of bounds” way to obtain it safely
Here are some cool images of the set
After you do your installation or upgrade, don’t forget to head over to the errata page and apply any patches listed there

Interview – John-Mark Gurney – jmg@freebsd.org / @encthenet

Updating FreeBSD’s IPSEC stack

News Roundup

Clang in DragonFly BSD

As we all know, FreeBSD got rid of GCC in 10.0, and now uses Clang on i386/amd64 almost exclusively
Some DragonFly developers are considering migrating over as well, and one of them is doing some work to make the OS more Clang-friendly
We’d love to see more BSDs switch to Clang/LLVM eventually, it’s a lot more modern than the old GCC most are using

reallocarray(): integer overflow detection for free

One of the less obvious features in OpenBSD 5.6 is a new libc function: “reallocarray()”
It’s a replacement function for realloc(3) that provides integer overflow detection at basically no extra cost
Theo and a few other developers have already started a mass audit of the entire source tree, replacing many instances with this new feature
OpenBSD’s explicit_bzero was recently imported into FreeBSD, maybe someone could also port over this too

Switching from Linux blog

A listener of the show has started a new blog series, detailing his experiences in switching over to BSD from Linux
After over ten years of using Linux, he decided to give BSD a try after listening to our show (which is awesome)
So far, he’s put up a few posts about his initial thoughts, some documentation he’s going through and his experiments so far
It’ll be an ongoing series, so we may check back in with him again later on

Owncloud in a FreeNAS jail

One of the most common emails we get is about running Owncloud in FreeNAS
Now, finally, someone made a video on how to do just that, and it’s even jailed
A member of the FreeNAS community has uploaded a video on how to set it up, with lighttpd as the webserver backend
If you’re looking for an easy way to back up and sync your files, this might be worth a watch

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The OpenBSD router, dpb, PXE autoinstall and patched ISO building tutorials have all been updated for 5.6
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You can usually watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC), but…
We’ll be in California at MeetBSD next week, so there will be a prerecorded episode
Speaking of conferences, the operatingsystems.io event has gotten a few more BSD speakers – check it out if you’re in London on November 25th

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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!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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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

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Memo – Unix-style note taking software

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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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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

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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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OwnCloud Your Chromebook | LAS 329

chris — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:30:26 +0000

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Linux is the ultimate productivity OS. This week we’ll show you how to divorce your Chromebook from Google, sync all your Linux desktops with free software and improve your workflow at the same time.

Plus the new tool from Red Hat you’ll be using soon, Ubuntu shows developers some love & the big game coming to Linux we’re excited about!

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Howto Install Linux on Chromebook

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Acer C720 Chromebook – ArchWiki

The Acer C720 Chromebook (and newer Chromebooks in general) features a “legacy boot” mode that makes it easy to boot Linux and other operating systems. The legacy boot mode is provided by the SeaBIOS payload of coreboot. SeaBIOS behaves like a traditional BIOS that boots into the MBR of a disk, and from there into your standard bootloaders like Syslinux and GRUB.

How to run DotA 2 on a Chromebook

Accessing the superuser shell with Chrome OS installed

If you have configured Chrome OS already:

Open a crosh window with Ctrl + Alt + T.
Open a bash shell with the shell command.
Become superuser with sudo bash

Enabling the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS

This method will allow you to access the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS through the Developer Mode screen in coreboot.

Inside your superuser shell enter:
crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1
Reboot the machine.

You can now start SeaBIOS by pressing Ctrl + L at the white boot splash screen.

Remove the write-protect screw to Perma-Disable the boot message warning

By removing the bottom panel of the laptop by removing the 12 visible screws and another one underneath the warranty sticker, then separating the plastic starting at the back

Finally completely remove the write-protect screw from the motherboard, which is labelled as #7 in this picture

Setsuna666/elementaryos-chromebook · GitHub

ChromeeOS will install elementary OS (with ChrUbuntu) and apply automatically all the necessary fixes to run elementary OS on Chromebooks. You will be able to boot in ChromeOS or elementary OS on your Chromebook.

Troubleshooting

Legacy Boot Doesn’t Work

Sometimes it’s possible to break the SeaBIOS install in the flash (sometimes doing innocuous things like tweaking the GBB flags). If you do get into such a situation:

Check that dev_boot_legacy is set to 1 when you run crossystem
- If it isn’t, then see the normal Legacy Boot section above
- if it is, then see below

You can safely reset the copy of SeaBIOS in your flash by running (as root):

# chromeos-firmwareupdate --sb_extract /tmp
# flashrom -w /tmp/bios.bin -i RW_LEGACY

OwnCloud 7 Digital Ocean Tutorial?

software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud

For xUbuntu 14.04 run the following:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud

You can add the repository key to apt. Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information). To add the key, run:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

After Packages are Installed Guide

Navigate to your ownCloud instance.

If you are installing ownCloud on the same machine as you are accessing the
install wizard from, the url will be https://localhost/owncloud

Which is better files synchronizer – ownCloud or BitTorrent Sync?

Accessing your Files (WebDAV) — ownCloud User Manual 6.0 documentation

BitTorrent Sync

Share directly from device to device. No cloud. No limits.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted
over the Internet.

Private. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally.
Encrypted. All communication is secured using TLS. The encryption used includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from ever gaining access to your data.
Authenticated. Every node is identified by a strong cryptographic certificate. Only nodes you have explicitly allowed can connect to your cluster.
Syncthing in the official Arch Linux [community] repository – Syncthing Forum

Open Development

Open Discourse. Development and usage is always open for discussion.

Syncthing Discussion Forum
* Open Source. All source code is available on GitHub — what you see is what you get, there is no hidden funny business.

Syncthing Source Code
* Open Protocol. The protocol is a documented standard — no hidden magic.

Syncthing Protocol Definition
* Open Development. Any bugs found are immediately visible for anyone to browse — no hidden flaws.

Syncthing Issue Tracker

MEGAsync For Linux Desktops MEGA.co.nz Linux Sync Client

MEGAsync for Linux comes with most features available for other similar tools (like Dropbox): the tray icon displays the sync status (and if you use the Nautilus extension, the files have emblems which show their sync status), it supports selective sync, you can use proxies, you can copy a public link for a file via the Nautilus context menu and so on.

There are also some extra features: you can upload a link to MEGA directly from the tray/appindicator app and import links to your MEGA account

MEGA

MEGA currently provides a multi-platform software development kit, and we have plans to release the source code to MEGAsync under an open-source license.

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Hackers Run Linux, Acording to NBC

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Desktop App Pick

slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing
from the terminal easier. It has:

first-class mouse support
GUI editor-like keybindings *
copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
undo/redo
syntax highlighting for many languages
a Sublime-like file sidebar
select word to highlight other occurrences; double-click to select word
easy-to-use finding with regex support
bracket matching
… many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind

Weekly Spotlight

Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop Alphas now available

David Purse has announced the availability of the alpha release of Simplicity Linux 14.10, a lightweight Puppy-based distribution with LXDE as the preferred desktop environment: “After a bit of a delay, the Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop alphas are now available for download. All versions of Simplicity Linux 14.10 alpha are using the 3.15.4 kernel and are based on Puppy Slacko 5.9.3. As usual, Netbook is aimed at users who tend to do things online, but still want a pretty and professional looking desktop. It runs LXDE as the window manager, has Wbar as a dock, and comes complete with Firefox and TOR browser. Desktop 14.10 alpha is aimed at users who want a full-featured desktop Linux. It comes complete with LibreOffice, WINE, Java, VLC and a host of other applications. As with Netbook, it also comes with Firefox and TOR browser built in.” Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): Desktop1410Alpha.iso (580MB), Netbook1410Alpha.iso (324MB).

Development Release: Simplicity Linux 14.10 Alpha (DistroWatch.com News)

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Red Hat Developers Introduce New Tool For Linux Storage Management

blivet-gui, a new open-source storage tool designed by Red Hat for configuring disks and file-systems.

This tool replaces the deprecated system-config-lvm storage management tool.

Open WebOS reborn in new LuneOS release

The Open WebOS mobile Linux operating system has been renamed “LuneOS,” and is available in an “Affogato” release supporting HP’s TouchPad and LG’s Nexus 4.

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, Makes It Easy To Install Android Studio And Android SDK In Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Developer Tools Center was created, a project to enable quick and easy setup of common developers needs on Ubuntu. For now, Canonical is focusing on Android developers, but more will follow, like Go developers, web developers, Dart and more.

Linux Gaming Round-Up: Borderlands 2, Wasteland 2 & Sanctum 2

In fact, it’s so good that we’re a little swamped by the latest bout of releases, teases and rumours! To help us (and you) get back on top of things, we’ll rattle off the biggest gaming stories of the past fortnight or so in one swoop.

cool-old-term is dead, long live cool-retro-term | Swordfish’s Labs

But why?… Well, cool-old-term was a sort of boilerplate name I chose at the beginning of the project and it stuck when the project became more popular. cool-retro-term keeps familiarity and has a very cool acronym so we can talk nerdy: “Have you tried CRT. It’s really great!”.

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