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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.

• unity8org – A fork of unity 8

• From the Canyon Edge: ThankHN: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

• 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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The ZeroPhone, Runs Linux

It uses Raspbian Linux, which is currently based on Debian Jessie. This is because it can be tailored to suit our purpose very easily, and will still be /upgradable in the future – this project doesn’t need a separate distribution since that’s prone to obsolescence and is a maintenance nightmare (but I do plan on providing ready-to-go SD card images if the demand is there).

As for the user interface (controlling screen and buttons) – it’s written in Python. I’ll be using pyLCI as a base, but it’s clear for me it needs a rewrite to have all the capabilities a decent mobile phone UI should, and developing a good UI is one of the main goals of this project.

Desktop App Pick

Albert launcher

Access everything with virtually zero effort. Run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more. See wiki for more information.

Spotlight

Kanban Project Management Software

• Visualize your work

  • Limit your work in progress to be more efficient
  • Customize your boards according to your business activities
  • Multiple projects with the ability to drag and drop tasks
  • Reports and analytics
  • Fast and simple to use
  • Access from anywhere with a modern browser
  • Plugins and integrations with external services
  • Free, open source and self-hosted
  • Super simple installation

• KANBOARD Kanban Project Management Software, a simple visual task board that is FOSS

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Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu

Dell’s Barton George says more Ubuntu-powered Precision workstations will go on sale in the coming months, worldwide, including an Ubuntu version of the company’s stylish newPrecision 5720 All-in-One desktop PC.

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Progress

You won’t hear about this anywhere else, but it is likely that the version number for the next stable release of MATE Desktop will be _2.0._

• Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 a…

Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 and Ubuntu MATE 17.04 daily images.

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• sabnbd in docker?

• GitHub – linuxserver/docker-sabnzbd

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• Name: Wolf M

• Subject: ArchAnywhere

• Message:

Hey guys! So it has been awhile since I worte into you, but I have been watching religiously I promise! LOL. Anyhoo, I stumbled upon something I think is pretty cool and thought I would share it.

So I have been using Arch for a long time and it is my go to distro. I am sure noth of you know that the one of the biggest hurdles against trying Arch for many folks is lack of a HUI installer. Installuing Arch has typically always been done via comman line.
UNTIL NOW!

Introducing ArchAnyWhere! Ok so I found this by accident, but I had to try it. Fortunatley, I had an okd machine sitting around waiting for me to put Linux on it. So I did. This is impressive. Installation of Arch was seamless and fast.

And yes, this is pure Arch, not a derivative. This is simply a graphical installer.
Now I perrsonally will always prefer to install Arch via cli, but this shatters the old barrier, making it easy for “noobs” to give Arch a go. So I just wanted to share.

Always a huge fan,

Wolf Mandraagora

• Name: James G

• Subject: Getting more from ripped DVDs

• Message:

I am in the process of trying to learn as much a I can about setting up content for Plex. A couple of subjects have not turned up much that is helpful in search.

1. MakeMkv seems to drop many of the extra feature content. Are there options I can use to get makemkv to extract more of the content.

Is there anything that can extract the menu data from a DVD? This would be helpful for naming the extras content. I know I could play the DVD and make notes on the menu. I hope to find ways to do this faster.

Is there a way to either allow Plex to play an .iso or some other format that incorporates the DVD’s original menu?

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Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up — Mobile Workstations plus a new All-in-One

Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Precision mobile workstation line. Not only have we rev’d the current line-up but we have also added the Precision 5720 All-in-One. This follows the introduction back in October of the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Raspberry Pi’s PIXEL Linux desktop environment now available for x86 PCs | Ars Technica

PIXEL (which is a clunky backronym for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight) is an extensively modified version of the LXDE X11 desktop environment. It was originally released in September for use with _Raspberry Pi_single-board computers, but now it has also been _packaged up for x86 PCs.

KillDisk Ransomware Targets Linux; Demands $250,000 Ransom, But Won’t Decrypt Files

What is KillDisk?

KillDisk is a destructive data wiping malware that has previously been used to sabotage companies by randomly deleting files from the computers.

Linux Academy

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Intel’s Compute Card is a PC that can fit in your wallet | Ars Technica

Intel told us that processors with a TDP of up to 6W could fit inside the Compute Cards, which covers both low-power Atom chips like those that powered early versions of Intel’s Compute Stick to full Core M and Y-series Core i5 and i7 CPUs like the ones you find in laptops.

From OSX to Ubuntu

A year earlier I decided to switch from OSX to Ubuntu, so now is a good time to make a little retrospective. TL;DR: Linux now offers a pleasant desktop user experience and there’s no way back for me.

Mac’s share falls to five-year low

DigitalOcean

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

Late Night Linux – Episode 01

In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod becoming Lineage OS and loads more.

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