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Why Linux Mint’s X-Apps are a bigger shakeup then you might realize, bricking your laptop with a Linux command & Dell’s new Linux distro.

Plus we celebrate 15 years of VLC, a quick look at Tails 2.0 & more!

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• Shout — The self-hosted web IRC client

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Follow Up / Catch Up

15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

Pacman-5.0 Released | Allan McRae

As is becoming tradition, I need to make a blog post to accompany a pacman release! This is a big release with a long awaited feature so it needed a major version bump (and, most importantly, we now are back ahead of the Linux kernel in version numbers).

• Here’s What’s New in Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.0 Package Manager

Tails – Tails 2.0 is out

We are especially proud to present you Tails 2.0, the first version of Tails
based on:

• GNOME Shell, with lots of changes in the desktop environment.

• Debian 8 (Jessie), which upgrades most included software and improves
  many things under the hood.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Your laptop could be bricked with a single Linux command

The directory that destroyed the system, which is at __/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/__stores information and scripts that the computer uses to boot using the more _modern EFI standard, which is a replacement for the decades-old BIOS._

Canonical Is Looking for Participants to a “Ubuntu Apps in Unity 8” Research Study

The research study is lead by Ting-Ray Chang, a user experience researcher at Canonical, and it is targeted mainly at Ubuntu or Fedora user in the London (United Kingdom) area. Why Fedora? That we don’t know!

DigitalOcean

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

X-Apps… The Hell?

• Has Mint gone crazy with success?

• Linux Mint Is Getting Its Own Apps Starting with the 18.x Branch

“X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. In Mint 18, the ‘X apps’ will allow us to maintain a native look and a good level of integration because they will be used in replacement of GNOME applications which now look foreign (using headerbars and a distinctive layout),” Clement Lefebvre, the leader or the Linux Mint project explained.

• The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – January 2016

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Dell serves up its own disaggregated OS

OS10 is based on a native, “unmodified” Linux kernel that can support a broad range of applications and services from the Linux ecosystem, Dell officials say. Dell claims this differentiates it from Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux and HP’s OpenSwitch effort for disaggregated and “open” network operating systems.

• Dell to ship XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop with Skylake | Computerworld

The next XPS 13 Developer Edition is “closer” to shipping and so discounts are being offered on older models, George Barton, a senior technologist at Dell, said in a Google+ post. Older models are powered by Broadwell chips, which preceded Skylake.

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A list of the most hackable cars has been released on the eve of a highly anticipated Black Hat presentation, Mozilla developers get hacked, getting started with Linux and why a little video games can be good for kids.

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Least Secure Cars Revealed At Black Hat

Research by two security experts presenting at Black Hat this week has labeled the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, the 2015 Cadillac Escalade and the 2014 Toyota Prius as among the vehicles most vulnerable to hacking because of security holes that can be accessed through a car’s Bluetooth, telematics, or on-board phone applications. The most secure cars include the Dodge Viper, the Audi A8, and the Honda Accord, according to Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek. Millar and Valasek will reveal the full report on Wednesday, but spoke to Dark Reading today with some preliminary data.

The two security experts didn’t physically test the vehicles in question, but instead used information about the vehicles’ automated capabilities and internal network. “We can’t say for sure we can hack the Jeep and not the Audi,” Valasek told Dark Reading. “But… the radio can always talk to the brakes” because both are on the same network. According to the “Connected Car Cybersecurity” report from ABI Research, there have been “quite a few proof of concepts” demonstrating interception of wireless signals of tire pressure monitoring systems, impairing anti-theft systems, and taking control of self-driving and remote control features through a vehicle’s internal bus, known as controller area network (CAN).

• Researchers to name the most hackable cars at Black Hat – Computerworld

Thousands of Mozilla developers’ e-mail addresses, password hashes exposed | Ars Technica

About 76,000 e-mail addresses and 4,000 password hashes were left on a publicly accessible server for about 30 days beginning June 23, according to a blog post. There is no indication the data was accessed, but Mozilla officials investigating the disclosure can’t rule out the possibility.

The code Mozilla uses for their developer login site is open source and posted on GitHub. It looks like from the code they didn’t key stretch the hash. While the salt keeps things ‘safer’ (no rainbow tables, etc), against a GPU brute-forcing attempt, the fact these are straight hashes means they are a little weak against brute-forcing.

Introduction to Linux | edX

Beginning August 1st, The Linux Foundation, in conjunction with online education giant edX, is offering a free Introduction to Linux course.

This class, first announced in early March, is available for free. That’s not bad for a class that usually runs $2,400!

This massively open online course (MOOC) is being taught by Jerry Cooperstein. Cooperstein is a nuclear astrophysicist who’s been using Linux since 1994 and teaching it for almost that long.

According to Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals, nine out of ten IT hiring managers are looking for Linux pros.

This class looks at Linux from a very high level. You’ll be able to use Linux distributions from any of the three major Linux families, including Red Hat, with Fedora or CentOS; Debian, including Ubunt or Mint; and SUSE, including openSUSE.

This course will cover the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to do day-to-day work in Linux.

• Linux Foundation’s free online intro to Linux class opens its doors | ZDNet

Could a Little Video Game Play Be Good for Kids?

Researchers found that kids who played video games for less than one hour a day were more likely to be happy, helpful and emotionally stable than kids who never grab a controller, according to findings published online Aug. 4 in the journal Pediatrics.

More than three hours daily of gaming had the opposite effect, however. Video game junkies were more likely to be moody, unhappy with their life and apt to act out in negative ways.

To examine both the positive and negative effects of gaming, researchers assessed the video game habits and emotional growth of nearly 5,000 British boys and girls aged 10 to 15.

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We celebrate our 300th episode with some big announcements and a few surprises!

Plus we discuss Ubuntu switching to systemd, Firefox getting ads…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, the Linux Action Show!

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Howto Linux coming soon

Watch the trailer:

• Won’t detract from LAS. It will complement LAS like LINUX Unplugged has.

• Example: We just interviewed the creator of YaCy and showed it off a bit. That would be a perfect tie in for a howto install, setup, and secure YaCy episode. It’d would be complementary, but not required viewing.

• Weekly show with an exciting new model that we’ll be talking more about soon.

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LAS 300 / LFNW After Party

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• Food

• LAN Party

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Runs Linux:

• Mokrotik Routers Run Linux, and Challange High-end Cisco Solutions

• Altispeed Online Store – MikroTik Wired Router

• House of Cards Season 2, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

• KDE Partition Manager

• speedtest-cli

• AUR (en) – speedtest-cli

Celebrate Linux Action Show 300!

Weekly Spotlight

• The LAS 300 Shirt

• New Logo

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— NEWS —

• Debian decides on systemd—for now [LWN.net]

The vote came down much as expected, with a 4:4 split between systemd and Upstart proponents. Anthony Towns analyzed the votes and declared a tie between systemd and Upstart, which left it up to the chairman to decide by using the casting vote. Garbee did just that, voting for systemd, which makes it the Debian Linux default init for jessie. At least for now, since the prospect of a GR to decide is being bandied about.

• Mark Shuttleworth » Losing graciously

• Scott James Remnant – Creator of Upstart on switch to sysmd

• China shutters Windows ‘rival’ Red Flag Linux

• Mozilla Will Sell Ads In Firefox To Create A New Revenue Stream

• Content, Ads, Caution | Mitchell’s Blog

• More Details on Directory Tiles | Advancing Content

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• Give away quiz: Linux Trivia

• Tons of Amazon subscribers and PayPal subs canceled due to card changes related to the Target hack.

• Has Linux Gone Capitalist?

• Texas Linux Fest

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Turns out FreeBSD is still a thing you can think about download! We take a look at version 9.0! And marvel at its new anti-crash-usb-thumb-drive removal technology!

Plus Red hat’s big release that require it’s customers to use Microsoft Windows.. A little LESS, kinda!

And so much more!

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Runs Linux:

• The University of Windsor, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

• Significant Other Pleaser Free
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Universal Pick:

• Tor
• Pencil
• Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!

Random Distro Of The Day

• Tails

Linux Action Show Subreddit

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NEWS:

• Samsung says no final decision on bada/Tizen merge

  • bada – Wikipedia
  • Bada 2.0.1 OS screenshots leak, UI change imminent

• Arch Linux – pacman 4 moves to core

  • Pacman Package Signing
    • LAS Reddit thread

• Roadmap For openSUSE 12.2: Summer 2012 Release

• XBMC running on Raspberry Pi

• Desura Game Client Is Now Open-Source

• Red Hat software now slightly less dependent on Microsoft Windows

• Linux Foundation Happy Barcharts

• EU To Sign ACTA Later This Month

• What Is ACTA ? – YouTube
  • ACTA subreddit

FreeBSD 9 Review:

• UFS Softupdate Journaling
• The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports softupdates journaling. It introduces a intent log into a softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need for background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdown
• This new feature means that a fsck after an unexpected reboot is no longer required. In modern FreeBSD only a basic preen was required, and then a full fsck would take place on a snapshot of the file system, in the background after the system had finished rebooting. With the new softupdate journaling (basically an intent log), a full fsck is no longer required at all
• Journaling support is enabled by default on all newly created file systems, and can be enabled on existing UFS2 partitions using tunefs(8)
• Full TRIM support for SSDs
• The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports the TRIM command when freeing data blocks. The TRIM-enable flag makes the file system send a delete request to the underlying device for each freed block
• TRIM support can also be enabled during newfs(8) or on an existing file system with tunefs(8)
• ZFS Upgraded to v28
• ZFS v28 introduces support for data deduplication, triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3), snapshot holds, log device removal, zfs diff, zpool split, zpool import -F, and read-only zpool import
• The zpool(8): utility now supports a zpool labelclear command. This allows to wipe the label data from a drive that is not active in a pool
• HAST Improvements
• The Highly Available Storage daemon now supports data checksumming (crc32 or sha256) and compression (zero hole or lzf) and improved security
• Introduction of the GEOM RAID class graid(8)
• Which supports:
  • RAID0
  • RAID1
  • RAID1E
  • RAID10
  • SINGLE
  • CONCAT
• It also supports the on disk formats for:
  • Intel RAID BIOS
  • JMicron RAID BIOS
  • NVIDIA MediaShield RAID BIOS
  • Promise and AMD/ATI RAID BIOS
  • SiliconImage RAID BIOS
• Additionally, geom_map(4) allows specific areas of a device to be mapped as separate devices, especially useful for embedded flash storage
• GEOM also support the following classes: CACHE, ELI, JOURNAL, LABEL, MIRROR, MOUNTVER, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID3, SCHED, SHSEC, STRIPE and VIRSTOR
• NFSv4 with ACLs
• In addition to NFSv2 and v3,
• New utmpx(3) user accounting system
• 5 new TCP congestion control schems
• The FreeBSD TCP/IP network stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion control algorithms to be implemented as dynamically loadable kernel modules
• The following kernel modules are available as of 9.0-RELEASE: cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_cubic(4) for the CUBIC algorithm, cc_hd(4) for the Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_htcp(4) for the H-TCP algorithm, cc_newreno(4) for the NewReno algorithm, and cc_vegas(4) for the Vegas algorithm.
• An h_ertt(4) (Enhanced Round Trip Time) module has been added, which allows per-connection, low noise estimates of the instantaneous RTT in the TCP/IP network stack.
• New CAM based disk subsystem
• The ATA/SATA disk subsystem has been replaced with a new cam(4)-based implementation. cam(4) stands for Common Access Method, which is an implementation of an API set originally for SCSI–2 and standardized as “SCSI–2 Common Access Method Transport and SCSI Interface Module”
• The ada(4) driver now supports per-device write cache control. New sysctl(8) variables kern.cam.ada.write_cache and kern.cam.ada.N.write_cache settings of 1 enables and 0 disables the write cache, and –1 leaves the device default behavior. sysctl(8) variables can override the configuration in a per-device basis (the default value is –1, which means to use the global setting)
• New Resource Accounting and Limiting APIs
• RACCT is a new resource accounting API has been implemented. It can keep per-process, per-jail, and per-loginclass resource accounting information
• The new resource-limiting API RCTL works in conjunction with the RACCT resource accounting implementation and takes user-configurable actions based on the set of rules it maintains and the current resource usage
• Full USB3 support
• OpenSSH upgraded to 5.8p2 with HPN for faster transfer speeds
• OpenResolv to manage resolv.conf for multiple interfaces
• Support for SHA–256 and SHA–512 cryptographic password hashing
• sh updated
• new arithmetic expression handling imported from dash (which is originally from NetBSD ash)
• changes to the way builtin commands relate to PATH env
• fixed various other bugs
• Capsicum Capability Mode
• New Sandboxing and compartmentalization framework from Cambridge University
• Improved privilege separation in OpenSSH and DHClient
• Replacement of various GPL tools and utilities with BSD licensed ones to avoid GPLv3
• libreadline
• grep
• llvm/clang imported, will eventually replace gcc 4.2 (last GPL v2)
• compiler-rt replaced libgcc

If you are using an older version of FreeBSD, the FreeBSD-Update tool can do a quick in-place upgrade using bsdiff binary patching.

As always, instructions for installing the OS and Packages, securing and managing your system can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/13308/arch-made-easy-las-s19e03/ Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:39:32 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=13308 Is the Chakra Project a beautifully simple ready to go Arch Linux desktop, or off the tracks onto an island of it’s own?

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Is the Chakra Project a beautifully simple ready to go Arch Linux desktop, or off the tracks onto an island of it’s own? We find out, plus what sets pacman apart from FreeBSD’s Ports system!

Also – Chris blasts Google for leaving Nexus One owns behind, Jolicloud ditches the Netbook, and we celebrate a new geek holiday!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

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Runs Linux:

• 200 stores across China, run Linux

Android Pick:

• Guns’n’Glory WW2
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Universal Pick:

• Guake terminal
• Yakuake terminal

Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!

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News:

• Today, October 30th, is Dennis Ritchie Day
• Linux Foundation, Canonical and Red Hat Weigh In On Secure Boot
• Jolicloud reinvents as multi-cloud syncing service
• Official Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus One won’t happen Chris’s 1st Google+ post and Chris’ 2nd Google+ thread
• SUSE Backs OpenStack, Red Hat Stands Alone
• Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, reorganizes
• Skype Publishes New Linux APIs w/ Video Support

Chakra Project Review, IE Arch Made Easy:

• Arch Linux Review | Linux Action Show
• Arch “Based”
• Rolling Release
• Uses it’s own Bundles system for apps
• Built their own Installer, not bad… Drive managment feels a bit awkward.
• Built there own tools, like Chakra GTK Config, Cinstall, and LiveScripts2 The Chakra Project – Tools
• The Chakra Project
• Official LAS VirtualBox Image of Chakra
• VM Username: linuxactionshow
• VM Password: jblive

Pacman vs Ports

• Pacman is the binary package tool for Arch Linux. The FreeBSD equivalent is pkg_add
• the Arch Build System (ABS) is designed to mimic some of the capabilities of FreeBSD’s ports system
• Both Ports and ABS consist of a number of directories named after various packages sorted into categories (ie ABS: extra/daemons/apache Ports: www/apache22). These directories do not contain the files or source code for firefox, but rather just a few script files that provide the infrastructure to allow you to build firefox.
• Both Ports and ABS automate the process of building software, including the following steps:
• Download source code from mirrors
• Checksum the file (for security and integrity)
• Extract the files
• Apply any required patches (FreeBSD changes the default paths for a lot of apps to follow the FreeBSD directory structure)
• Run the configure script (FreeBSD provides a text based menu for selecting options)
• Compile the application
• BSD ONLY: Install the application
• BSD ONLY: checksum all the files that were installed
• BSD ONLY: Uninstall the application (remove any unmodified files using checksums from earlier)
• Create a package that can be installed (with pacman or pkg_add respectively)
• ABS is only a build system used to build packages, that are then installed and managed by pacman
• Ports is integrated with pkg_add and the package registry, and allows you to install the build application without the additional step of building a package.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/3071/arch-linux-review-linux-action-show-s14e03/ Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:35:36 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=3071 We review Arch Linux and tell you why this 8 year old Linux distribution is the freshmaker!

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We review Arch Linux and tell you why this 8 year old Linux distribution is the freshmaker!

Then – We cover Ubuntu’s plans to switch to Unity, huge news for Compiz, and the Gnome projects mega cash infusion!

Plus so much more, all this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Runs Linux:

Delta Airlines, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

Tango Video Calls
Uninstaller

News:

Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04
A bright new future for Compiz
Unity to use Compiz instead of Mutter
GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work
Banshee becomes Ubuntu 11.04 default music player

Illumination Software Creation Station is Suse Appliance of the Week

Arch Review:

Linux Action Show’s ArchBox torrent

User: linuxactionshow
Pass: linux
root pass: linux

Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues Forum
Chakra 0.3-beta2, Released! (based on Arch)
apt-fast: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get

Arch Community Links (via Michael on Buzz):
https://archlinux.me/ – a site where users of Arch can get a blog.
https://archlinux.us/ – a site where users of Arch can get a free e-mail address.
https://rollingrelease.com/ – a new site created after the Archlinux Magazine didn’t hit off as desired. A magazine style site relating to everything Archlinux.

Download:

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/2467/time-savers-wasters-jupiternite-7282010/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:42:56 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=2467 We’ve talked in the past about how much time people have spent on FaceBook, or how the human race wasted 500+ years playing Google Pacman. We thought we’d dig a little deeper into this topic, and take a closer look at how average people spend their time, and maybe provide some tips and pointers on reducing the amount of time wasted on certain things.

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We’ve talked in the past about how much time people have spent on FaceBook, or how the human race wasted 500+ years playing Google Pacman. We thought we’d dig a little deeper into this topic, and take a closer look at how average people spend their time, and maybe provide some tips and pointers on reducing the amount of time wasted on certain things.

How people spent their time (infographic)
Interesting to compare single peoples’ time with parents, and the employed vs. unemployed.

Show Notes:

Time Savers:

 

●     Use search.twitter.com to find current/breaking info (IE, ISP outtage, car crash, etc)

●     Use a news reader to save time visiting sites.

●     Cancel your extended cable TV.

○     Switch to entirely on-demand media.  Make the world fit your schedule.

●     Always plan for an 8 hour work day, or less. It gives you that motivation to get everything done that you need to get done. Great for those of us who like to procrastinate!

●     Avoid meetings, seriously.

●     Invest a little time to really setup some basic email filters. Why have all Facebook spam emails hit your inbox? Filter that noise out!

○     Take it a step further, create a spam email account purely for signing up for things online.  Nobody wants their info on a mailing list for things they’re not interested in.

●     Pick your battles! Sometimes we spend way to much time trying to save time… Sometimes it is just faster to do something the hard way and get it done! But whenever you find your self repeating a process/task… Try to find a way to make it as efficient as possible. So you gain a net savings every time you repeat that task in the future.

●     Set up checklists for regularly repeated tasks (groceries, party prep, work tasks, etc)

●     Clean your air with plants, helps you think better, breath better. Good plants for that:

○     1. Chinese evergreen

○     2. Peace lily

○     3. Arrowhead vine

 

Become a hotkey genius: (Linux version here, Mac Users check out TextExpander)

●    Turn any action into a keyboard shortcut.

●    Requires a bit of learning, but for the right people it could save you a lot of time.

 

Related? 

European mass transit using an algorithm system called ARRIVAL to make train schedules more efficient.

●     Already shaved time between trains from 4 minutes to 2 minutes, on average.

●     Across several thousand trains that is a significant time savings.

Let’s talk about LOST and WASTED time:

 

Adults spend 200 billion hours per year watching Television

Wikipedia – largely believed to be the living proof of collective intelligence – has taken only 100 million man hours to get to where it is today.

 

BBC reports that British citizens spent 280million pounds playing casual online games in 2009 (~$430million)

●     French = 200m (~US$310m)

●     Germans = 440m (~US$685m)

●     Also another 170m (~US$260m) on mobile games

 

On a lighter note, let’s talk about Physics

If time slows down to infinitely slow at the event horizon of a black hole, how does anything ever fall into one?

 

Related:

Back to the Future complete box set coming to BluRay, Oct26th

( Pre-Order on Amazon.com by clicking here )

and

Telltale Games surveying BttF fans for help creating an episodic game series

 

Recommended websites for saving and wasting time:

 

– Fark.com (News aggregator with clever titles)

– Downloadsquad.com (Games and gadgets to kill and/or save time)

– jupiterbroadcasting.com (Awesome Geek shows!)

Download:

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