Pi-hole – Jupiter Broadcasting

The release is focused on completing the migration to GTK3+ and
adopting new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE
Desktop 1.16 still relied on.

Ubuntu Kylin | Ubuntu

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese government procurement regulations. It includes all the features you’ve come to expect from Ubuntu, alongside essential Chinese software and apps. The interface has been designed specifically to put Chinese users first — and with support for touch screens and HiDPI monitors, it runs beautifully on all kinds of hardware.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Syncthing Usage Reports

This is the total number of unique users with reporting enabled, per day. Area color represents the major version.

Valve have hired another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers

Yep, none other than Keith Packard, a well known name in the Linux community who worked on the X Window System. He previously worked for Intel, then HP and now he’s settling in at Valve to continue Linux development.

VR On Linux

React VR | A framework for building VR apps using React

React VR lets you build VR apps using only JavaScript.

Opening Up Virtual Reality Development with WebVR | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

WebVR — an experimental JavaScript API — seeks to address these limitations and open up development by providing interfaces to let developers build VR experiences in the browser. We spoke with Karanjai to learn more.

Magically Turn your Desktop Apps into VR Apps – CODELECTRON

I was looking at space exploration apps and thought it would have been nice to have Celestia seen through VR.

SteamVR Gets Beta Development Build with Support for Linux – Road to VR

Valve recommends using the issue tracker on the project’s GitHub page for reporting specific bugs, while general discussion and questions are handled on the Steam Community forum. In the long run, there is hope for significantly improved Linux support resulting from the recently-named OpenXR API, and industry-derived open standard for VR and AR from the Khronos Group, which aims to stem hardware and software fragmentation in as the industry continues to grow.

Resources:

Using the linux-lts package definitely works, as I’ve been using it since running into the same incompatibility that you have. You just need to figure out your specific issues.

Issues · ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux · GitHub

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

This Day in History (14-Mar-1994) – Linux 1.0.0 released

On 14 March 1994, Linux 1.0.0 was released. The Linux kernel has received contributions from nearly 12,000 programmers from more than 1,200 companies.

DigitalOcean

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

Picroft Meets Alexa

This week’s Challenge: Can Wes run Alexa and MyCroft on a Raspberry Pi 3?

How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Voice-Enabled Amazon Alexa Device | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

More Fun with the Pi

GitHub – MichMich/MagicMirror: MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.

MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.
https://magicmirror.builders

Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, Asterisk, FreePBX, and the Obihai OBi100

All you need are some simple pieces of hardware and that old landline phone that got shoved into the back of your closet years ago.

Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements – curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains

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Noah Delivers Linux | LAS 412

chris — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:54:07 +0000

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It started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn’t worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux!

We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they’re going to switch the class they’re teaching next semester!

Plus Linus’ hopes for the Linux desktop, setting up a network wide ad blocker using Pi-Hole & more!

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— Show Notes: —

Brought to you by: Linux Academy

Switching People to Linux

Quick Tips

Start them on software on their preferred platform first
Go at their pace
Address the problems they have not the problems you want to talk about
Be available for questions
Answer questions for people you’ve switched like you would for yourself – don’t be afraid to be creative

Software we installed and showed them how to use

LibreOffice
Crossover
Wine
Inkscape
Gimp
Simplenote
Telegram
VLC
Lightworks
Blender

Special Thanks to the Sandbaggers

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

New Linux User’s Ad Blocker RUNS LINUX

Vulan switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago

Runs Ubuntu 14.04 on an intel i5 with a GTX960.

Recently installed PiHole to block ads network wide

Configured DNS on his DHCP server to point to his Pitop

Desktop App Pick

BlueCherry

Download our bootable ISO for quick installation or simply follow our two line instructions and run apt-get install bluecherry from an existing Debian or Ubuntu LTS installation.
Watch live and recorded videos and manage your system from our cross platform client.
With our growing list of 2800 pre-defined IP cameras from over 30 IP manufacturers it is easy to add your IP cameras. Have a IP camera that isn’t on our pre-defined list? No problem, simply add the RTSP or MJPEG path and start streaming video!

Weekly Spotlight

Lightworks

Lightworks is EditShare’s Academy and Emmy award-winning, professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K as well as video in SD and HD formats. In the last 25 years Lightworks has been used to edit some of the finest films in cinema history

One of the most powerful professional NLE’s on Linux

Whether you are running on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, the power of Lightworks will be right at your fingertips. Now you can use your operating system of choice without impacting on the work you need to get done. No other editing software out there runs on all three platforms.

Lightworks has the widest native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in realtime. Check out the detailed Tech Specs for a full list of supported formats.

Hollywood Movies Cut on Lightworks

Background Import, Rendering and Export. We believe that users should be able to import, render or export without delay. Lightworks allows you to continue editing whilst you are importing a batch of material, rendering your complicated third party FX or exporting two files at the same time to your favourite format. With time saving elements like this Lightworks might just be the fastest editing application available. World class Trimming for fast, precision editing!

The King’s Speach
Centurion
Bruce Almighty
Pulp Fiction
Aviator
Mission Impossible I
The Nutty Professor
The Departed

Version 12.6 released on February 4th

Added Export to Vimeo at up to 1080p in the Free version.
Added ability to right click a Group within the Content Manager and Copy/Move it to
another project.
Added new keyboard .prefs file compatible with Contour Shuttle Pro drivers.
Added full compatibility support for Ubuntu 15.10.
Fixed potential crash browsing to a location containing a corrupt JPEG file.
Fixed segmentation Fault with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (caused a crash on sign in to the
application).
Fixed PNG image sequence exports being incorrect from an edit containing an image
key.
Behind the GNOME 3.20 Release Video

It’s a little more than two weeks since GNOME made yet another release. Having a release video to go alongside with it is almost a tradition by now. I’m slightly frightened and super excited about it at the same time. (-:

Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 Meetup

Join the Jupiter Broadcasting crew as they cover one of the largest Linux Community Events in the Great Pacific Northwest. Plus join us as we have one of the biggest Linux Conversion showdowns in all of Linux History. Will Noah Chelliah, Co-Host of the Linux Action Show and businessman man, become self proclaim supreme Linux converter he claims to be? Or will the Closer known as Emma Marshall from System 76 put the money where the mouth is and take the crown. Stashes and beards are on the line on this epic weekend.

— NEWS —

Ubuntu Tablet Pushed Back

Bq has quietly pushed back the shipping estimate of the world’s first true Ubuntu tablet by one week.

Updating shipping information for both HD and FHD models of tablet on its website, Bq say “Deliveries will take place starting from the second half of April“.

It previously read: “Deliveries will take place starting from the second week of April” (emphasis ours).

Not a huge delay but a delay nonetheless.

If you pre-ordered the tablet on the assumption of getting it this week this is us telling why you may be waiting a little longer for a dispatch notice.

The delay was pointed out to us by reader Jack F., who explained in his e-mail

“I pre-ordered the BQ tablet thinking that deliveries would take place second week of April. BQ have changed this to second half on their site without notifying via email it would be delayed. Would be good for other customers to know.”

Researchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines

Known as Mumblehard, the botnet was the _product of highly skilled developers. It used a custom “packer” to conceal the P__erl-based source code that made it run, a backdoor that gave attackers persistent access, and a mail daemon that was able to send large volumes of spam._

itch.io Open Market Place trying to get App on Steam

Itch.io is an open marketplace for indie games. According to their About page, if you’ve made a game you can easily upload it, set the price, and sell your game through Itch.io, and “It’s never necessary to get votes, likes, or follows to get your content approved…”

Speaking of which, the creators of Itch.io have a desktop client called Itch, and while it’s already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, they’re going a step further by putting Itch on Steam Greenlight, where they hope to get enough votes, likes, or follows to make it onto Steam proper. Which sounds a bit strange, trying to launch an app for a games marketplace on another games marketplace. As one commenter puts it: “storefrontception.”

Linus Torvalds Gives TED Talk

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system and the Git source code management system, opened the “Code Power” session at the recent TED2016 conference, speaking in an interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson.

In the talk, Torvalds, whose blunt approach in dealing with people is well known, stated, “I’m actually not a people person. I don’t really love other people, but I do love other people who get involved in my project.”

In the TED talk, Torvalds admitted that he is sometimes “myopic, when it comes to other people’s feelings…” However, he said, “What I love about open source is that it really allows different people to work together.”

Nonetheless, typically self-deprecating Torvalds doesn’t see himself as a visionary. Instead, he says: “I’m an engineer. I’m happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.”

Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop

I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That’s why, to me, it’s not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it’s a really hard area to enter. I’m still working on it. It’s been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I’ll wear them down.”