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Mystical Users | LINUX Unplugged 337

Wes Payne — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:45:00 +0000

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Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora | LINUX Unplugged 306

Wes Payne — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:24:54 +0000

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Our Trip to Dell | LAS 464

chris — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 14:42:41 +0000

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The Briggo Coffee Robot, Runs Linux

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The stories center on an Austin, Texas-based startup called Briggo, which has created a fully automated, one-stop coffee kiosk that churns out what it believes is a superior cup of joe. You can order and pay by smartphone, customize the brewing process to your precise specifications, and schedule it to be ready for pickup the minute you arrive. And it really doesn’t care if you say “venti” instead of “large.”

Desktop App Pick

GitHub – JannikHv/gydl: gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

Gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program.

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Ubuntu’s Drops Unity for Gnome

Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

We will continue to produce the most usable open source desktop in the world, to maintain the existing LTS releases, to work with our commercial partners to distribute that desktop, to support our corporate customers who rely on it, and to delight the millions of IoT and cloud developers who innovate on top of it.

Our efforts were seen fragmentation not innovation. And industry has not rallied to the possibility, instead taking a ‘better the devil you know’ approach to those form factors, or investing in home-grown platforms.

We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Welcoming Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland | Christian Schaller

am personally happy to see this convergence of efforts happening because I have for a long time felt that the general level of investment in the Linux desktop has not been great enough to justify the plethora of Linux desktops out there, so by now having reached a position where Canonical, Endless, Red Hat and Suse again share one desktop technology stack

Canonical Elimniating Jobs

Reportedly 30 to 60% of staff could be let go depending upon what comes of these outside investments. But the headcounts are going up in areas of security, cloud, and other money-making enterprise efforts.

Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors • The Register

In the best-case scenario, The Reg understands, departments would suffer a 30 per cent headcount reduction but in the worst it was 60 per cent. It’s not clear how many staff have gone, but Canonical is believed to have a workforce of 700.

Drop MIR/Unity for Wayland/Gnome (351 weight)

Release/GA Unity 8 (15 weight)
Easily, the most heavily requested, major change in this thread was for Ubuntu to drop MIR/Unity in favor of Wayland/Gnome. And that’s exactly what Mark Shuttleworth announced in an Ubuntu Insights post here today. There were a healthy handful of Unity 8 fans, calling for its GA, and more than a few HackerNews comments lamenting the end of Unity in this thread.

Welcome to Gnome and Wayland

Unity will Continue as a Fork

Lightworks 14 Released

Like a sequel to the Expendables, Lightworks 14.0 is packed to the rafters with cameos from features you always knew were there, but had sort of forgotten all about.

Part of the ‘old dog, new tricks‘ vibe is thanks to the top-to-toe redesign the non-linear editor is sporting. Lightworks’ new look (called “Fixed”, funnily enough) addresses the software’s most oft cited criticism: that it’s hard to use. Thew new layout aims to offer a “more organised” workspace, and help you discover, learn, and use the editor’s various features.

Light works supports Ubuntu 16.10 or later — sorry LTS users. You won’t be able to export to MP4 or MOV; you can’t import WMV; and there’s no FX plugin-support.

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Ubuntu 16.04: From Warty to Wimpy | LAS 413

chris — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:24:58 +0000

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We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with.

Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

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Some Bugs

Bug #1553652 “Ubiquity Install fails to create Swap Partition Er…” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu

Attempting to install Daily Drop of Unity Desktop 16.04. Selecting fourth install option to Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu. Receiving error that Swap Partition creation failed. Unable to proceed with installation and must reboot. This is a hard failure and also happens on the current Gnome Daily 16.04 distribution.

@dominucco @Kernellinux not yet. I understand it's an upstream Intel video driver issue. Will let you know when I see a fix appear.

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 16, 2016

No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04 | Timo Aaltonen’s Weblog

In case someone hasn’t noticed yet, fglrx has been removed from Xenial. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, the driver did not support XServer 1.18 which we wanted to get in for 16.04. But more importantly, AMD asked us earlier this year to migrate to the open driver stack since fglrx would not be supported in 16.04.

Snap Packages

Snapcraft 2.8 Now Live in Ubuntu 16.04, Adds Support for Snappy’s New Interfaces

New features in Snapcraft 2.8 include better detection of some of the steps that need to be executed for showing the current version of the snapraft.yaml file, support for using the “cleanbuild” command to make sure you have a clean build of your snaps, as well as support for Snappy’s new interface, which is still work in progress.

Starting with Snapcraft 2.8, support for Snappy’s “config” setting has been completely removed, and by popular request, the “geoip” feature has been disabled by default. Users can enable it in Snapcraft using the “–enable-geoip” flag via the command-line. More details should be found in today’s announcement.

Great Flavors

Download Ubuntu MATE 16.04

New in Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Here is a run down of the headline features in Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

MATE Desktop 1.12.1
- Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
- Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
- The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
- Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
- Extended systemd support.
- Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
- Consistent categorisation of the Control Center and System menus.
- See the MATE Desktop 1.12 release announcement for more details.
- CPU resource requirements have been reduced across the board.
Complete overhaul of Ubuntu MATE Welcome
- Incorporates Ubuntu MATE Software Boutique with one-click installs for nearly 150 best in class Linux desktop applications.
- One-click install for popular applications that are not in the official Ubuntu archive, such as Google Chrome, InSync, Minecraft, Opera, Spotify, Steam, Skype, Syncthing, Telegram, TorBrowser and Vivaldi via the Software Boutique.
- Pre-installation documentation and assistant.
- System Information and Diagnostics.
- Post-install setup and configuration assistant.
- Added one-click enablement of the LibreOffice Fresh PPA to continually track stable LibreOffice releases.
- One-click install of Drivers, Firmware and Codecs.
- Includes Raspberry Pi specific documentation and features.
- Translated in 20 languages.
Cross tooklit integration and theming
- QT applications will inherit GTK theming.
- Client Side Decorated and Header Bar applications render correctly in all supported window managers, even without compositing enabled in all shipped themes.
- The default Ubuntu MATE themes have been refined to minimise differences between GTK3 and GTK2.
- Deeper Compiz integration, gtk-window-manager now sources settings directly from MATE when Compiz is running in a MATE session.
Supports Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3
- Including the Raspberry Pi 3 integrated Bluetooth and WiFi. Also includes Raspberry Pi accelerated versions of VLC, ffmpeg and Kodi.
- Option to enable experimental hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
MATE Tweak capabilities have been extended.
- Option to enable Keyboard LED to show a Caps Lock and Num Lock status indicator for modern laptops and wireless keyboards that no longer have built-in status LEDs.
- Added Compton GPU accelerated compositing, as an alternative to Compiz, for those seeking tear free video playback.
- Displays a confirmation after changing the compositor to either Compton or Compiz.
Added MATE Dock Applet developed by Robin Thompson.
- A configurable dock applet that can be placed on any panel, in any orientation.
Added Topmenu Applet developed by Javier S. Pedro
- A GTK+ module that allows placing a global menu in MATE panel applets.
- The Ubuntu MATE team also added lxpanel-plugin-topmenu and xfce4-topmenu-plugin to the Debian and Ubuntu archives so those desktops can benefit too.
Added Mutiny panel layout which showcases mate-dock-applet and topmenu-gtk.
- The traditional GNOME2 style two panel layout is, and will continue to be, the default.
- The Mutiny layout is a Unity-like interface, designed to showcase MATE Dock Applet and Topmenu Applet.
Added Synapse which also includes complete MATE integration.
- Synapse is a graphical launcher enabling you to start applications and also to quickly find and access relevant documents and files (by making use of the Zeitgeist engine).
- The Synapse Launcher can be enabled via MATE Tweak.
Updated to Plank 0.11 and includes a new theme for Ubuntu MATE contributed by Holger Rueckershaeuser.
DVD and BluRay libraries are pre-installed
- This doesn’t mean encrypted DVD and BluRay will play out-of-the-box, but they can be fully enabled via Ubuntu MATE Welcome.
Vastly expanded language support, the full rationale on how we choose the languages and what we install is available from https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278.
- Including this wider language support has added ~400MB to the size of the .iso images.
Improved support for braille displays and a new indicator for changing accessibility profiles in Ubiquity.
Added an assortment of new community contributed background wallpapers, more consistent icons and icon rendering in menus is optimised.
…and many other minor improvements and hundreds of bug fixes.
KDE neon upgrades to 16.04LTS

KDE neon is a package archive of KDE software built on a stable foundation. We use Ubuntu because it’s good technology that we’re familiar with and which provides a Long Term Support foundation we can use. When we started the only practical version to use at the start was 15.10 so our packages have been built using that. But with 16.04LTS due out next week it’s time to move to a solid foundation where we expect to stay for the next couple of years.

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Pi Powered Weather Monitor RUNS LINUX

Essentially, one Raspberry Pi acts as a surveillance camera and temperature sensor, while the other Raspberry Pi acts as a remote display. You can view the feed of the camera using a touchscreen that allows you to switch over to a graph at a tap. As you’d expect, you’ll need a couple of Raspberry Pis, a touch screen, a temperature sensor, a Raspberry Pi camera, and a pair of Wi-Fi dongles. When you’re all finished with the project, you’ll easily be able to pull up a live feed from the camera on a Pi. It’s a pretty easy little project when all’s said and done. Head over to Adafruit for the full guide.

Desktop App Pick

AltYo

AltYo – drop-down console, is written in vala, depends only on libvte, gtk3.

For full description please follow this link https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

AltYo – drop-down terminal emulator, written in Vala, depends only on libvte and gtk3.

Weekly Spotlight

Shotwell has a new Maintainer

GitHub – chubin/wttr.in: Web frontend for wego

This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend.
You can check it at wttr.in.

— NEWS —

Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds

In the latest OpenStack user survey, we see that OpenStack is finally gaining real momentum in private clouds. We also see that Ubuntu Linux is continuing to dominate OpenStack. As Canonical cloud marketing manager Bill Bauman said, “Ubuntu OpenStack continues to dominate the majority of deployments with 55 percent of production OpenStack clouds. The previous survey showed Ubuntu OpenStack at 33 percent of production clouds. Ubuntu has seen almost 67 percent growth in an area where Ubuntu was already the market leader. These numbers are a huge testament to the community support Ubuntu OpenStack receives every day.” The Cloud Market’s latest analysis of operating systems on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) shows Ubuntu with just over 215,000 instances. Ubuntu is followed by Amazon’s own Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI), with 86,000 instances. Further back, you’ll find Windows with 26,000 instances. In fourth and fifth place, respectively, you’ll find Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with 16,500 instances and then CentOS with 12,500 instances.

How Red Hat is Worth 2 Billion

Many corporate cultures still conform to the hierarchical command and control management model designed for 20th century business needs. Knowledge workers are driving our economy today and they thrive in organizations that welcome their opinions, tap their creativity and award contribution over title.

In his new book The Open Organization (published by the Harvard Business Review Press), Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst challenges businesses to adopt an open approach that ignites passion and performance. Red Hat became the world’s first (and only so far) billion-dollar open source company by staying true to its ethos – leveraging a community approach to creating solutions where the best ideas win.

CIA’s In-Q-Tel invests in Docker, Mesosphere

Mesosphere and Docker are very well-funded San Francisco-based companies, with valuations that are said to be at or above $1 billion.

All Linux ALL The Time

The culture at Cumulus is all about standards. It was expressed repeatedly that Cumulus want to ensure that their linux is absolutely standard, so the file system hierarchy should be the standard, configuration files should be where they normally are, and so forth. A system that doesn’t follow those guidelines becomes a special snowflake that can’t be supported by regular tools and, as you’ll see, this attitude has paid dividends in this solution.

Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

Noah vs Emma Card
Can not already be running Linux.
Must agree to install Linux, or have Linux installed
Will take place Sat during Linux Fest NW (Location TBD)
Come find Noah let him switch you to Linux and get a free SSD installed.

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Painless Plex Migration | Linux Action Show 334

chris — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:58:02 +0000

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Our guide to moving your Plex, btsync, SmokePing, and others to a new Linux server. And our take on how the Intel NUC performs as a home server with heavy Plex usage.

Plus the big features coming to a distro near you & has Netflix coming to Linux shown us how Linux users are now “all-in with DRM”? We debate.

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Migrate Plex and btsync to a new server.

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NUC Linux Server

Intel Nuc D54250WYKH

The Intel NUC D54250WYKH has many useful features, including four USB 3.0 ports, an infrared sensor, a headphone/microphone jack, Mini HDMI*, and Mini DisplayPort* video interfaces, and extra space to accommodate 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives to support a variety of home or small office usages.

The chubby NUC has room for a 2.5 Inch SSD which was great for my OS and still has the standard PCI Mini storage slot

Low noise profile, not silent. But very quiet, about three feet away I can’t hear it.

Performance of the NUC

AnandTech | Intel D54250WYKH Haswell NUC Kit with 2.5″ Drive Slot Mini-Review*
Inital tesiting shows a busy btsync and 1080p Plex stream can nearly max the 4 core i5 out.

The power consumption at the wall was measured with the display being driven through the mini-HDMI port. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the D54250WYK with other low power PCs evaluated before. For load power consumption, we ran Furmark 1.12.0 and Prime95 v27.9 together.

Moving Plex Media Server to another server

1 . Set up coming UID and GIDs between your NFS and app server.
2. When migrating, try to keep the same file paths. IE: /mnt/nfs was where I had the media nfs mount on the previous box.
3. Setup your fstab, when possible use systemd to mount so the mount is network aware.

Mount using /etc/fstab with systemd

Another method is using the systemd automount service. This is a better option than _netdev, because it remounts the network device quickly when the connection is broken and restored. As well, it solves the problem from autofs, see the example below:

/etc/fstab

servername:/home   /mountpoint/on/client  nfs  users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,noatime 0 0

**Tip: **noauto above will not mount the NFS share until it is accessed: use auto for it to be available immediately.
If you have any issues with the mount failing due to the network not being up/available, enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service: this will ensure that network.target has all the links available prior to being active.

Stop Plex on your current server.
Copy your old Plex Media Server configs to the new server:

In general, the location for the various Linux versions of Plex Media Server will be found under:
$PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

Make sure that the directories and contents are all owned by plex:plex.

Move an Install to Another System – Plex

SickRage

FEATURES:

XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
configurable episode renaming
available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are available
specials and double episode support
Automatic XEM Scene Numbering/Naming for seasons/episodes
Episode Status Manager now allows for mass failing seasons/episodes to force retrying.
DVD Order numbering for returning the results in DVD order instead of Air-By-Date order.
Improved Failed handling code for shows.
DupeKey/DupeScore for NZBGet 12+
Searches both TheTVDB.com, TVRage.com and AniDB.net for shows, seasons, episodes
Importing of existing video files now allows you to choose which indexer you wish to have SickBeard search its show info from.
Your tvshow.nfo files are now tagged with a indexer key so that SickBeard can easily tell if the shows info comes from TheTVDB or TVRage.
Sports shows are now able to be searched for..

Moving btsync between servers

Copy down your paths and keys
Shutdown btsync on your old system
Depending on your version you need to remove the .sync folder, or the .Sync folders. Newest versionf of btsync will asking you if you want “take owner ship”.
“Add Folder” and put your folder path in.
Edit the sync listing and click “view key” then click update key.
Post your orginal key you copied down early in. Now btsync will connect up to your peers.

Easy SmokePing Install and Setup

Smoke Ping is a challange to setup on Arch

How to use this image

Install Docker
- Docker – ArchWiki
- Docker Documentation

A. Pull down the SmokePing Docker image: mokeping Docker Image | Docker Hub Registry

docker pull dperson/smokeping

B. Start the Docker image

sudo docker run --name smokeping -p 8000:80 -d dperson/smokeping

C. Visit https://localhost:8000/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

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Scorpion TV Show is using linux as “hacker” os : LinuxActionShow

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Desktop App Pick

bithammer · GitHub

BitHammer : LinuxActionShow

Hey Chris and Matt, I thought I’d share this cool program BitHammer if you haven’t already heard of it. If you haven’t BitHammer searches out and bans BitTorrent users on your local sub-net. That means if you travel and work (Ohio LinuxFest), often using shared Wi-Fi. This is nice because many people have been plagued by rogue BitTorrent users who’ve crept onto these public hostpots either with a stolen/cracked password, or who lie (and the Wi-Fi owners) about it.

https://github.com/MichaelJCole/bithammer

Weekly Spotlight

Pocket-sized mobile touchscreen web server runs Tizen

The Egg is available in packages starting at $199 with 64GB through Nov. 6, with devices shipping in July 2015. The Egg is billed as a personal web server, and a way to cut the cord on social networking sites that sell information based on your data.

The Egg | If you care about it, then Egg it! by Eggcyte — Kickstarter

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Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Many Great Features

Linux 3.17 is a big improvement and brings a ton of great features like working AMD Radeon R9 290 support, Xbox One controller support, DMA-BUF cross-device synchronization, a lot of ARM hardware improvements, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, Intel Braswell and Cherry Trail enablement work, EFI Xen Dom0 boot support, file-system improvements, and much more. Linux 3.17 is a very exciting update!

At Last! Netflix Now Works On Ubuntu, No Hacks Required

Netflix now works on Ubuntu out of the box — no hacks, plugins or user-agent switching workaround required.

ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards. Only fully supported filesystems are FAT and NTFS.

let’s drop support for ext2/3/4. Unnecessary features like this make it difficult to implement a feature that matter

AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver

Basically converging the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver and closed-source AMD Catalyst driver to run off the same kernel driver

NVIDIA Presents Its Driver Plans To Support Mir/Wayland & KMS On Linux

No firm time table was provided when NVIDIA’s Unix driver team hope to have their Linux proprietary driver fully running with Wayland/Mir and available to the public, but based upon how things are looking right now, it would likely be a safe bet for 2015.

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

Firefox OS is now available on three continents with 12 smartphones offered by 13 operators in 24 countries. As the only truly open mobile operating system, Firefox OS demonstrates the versatility of the Web as a platform, free of the limits and restrictions associated with proprietary mobile operating systems.

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