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We share our early experiences with virtualization, then show you how Linux’s built-in enterprise grade virtualization curb stomps some commercial options. The discussion wraps up with examples of awesome hardware passthrough, and the major shift Linux has made possible.

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Virtualization

Eddie Asks

libvirt

Libvirt is collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh). A primary goal of libvirt is to provide a single way to manage multiple different virtualization providers/hypervisors, such as the KVM/QEMU, Xen, LXC, OpenVZ or VirtualBox hypervisors

Virtual Machine Manager Home

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.

Boxes – GNOME Wiki!

UEFI in Virutal Machines, Meet OVMF

OVMF is an EDK II based project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. OVMF contains a sample UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

Using CPU host-passthrough with virt-manager

Since host-passthrough is the only reliably way to expose the full capabilities of the host CPU to the VM, users regularly want to enable it.

Qemu OVMF PCI Passthrough stopped booting after most recent update / Applications & Desktop Environments

unraid – Virtualization Host

7 Gamers, 1 CPU – Ultimate Virtualized Gaming Build Log – YouTube

In our case, we created 7 discrete gaming systems capable of running concurrently and completely independently of each other – all running in a single tower.

8 (or is it 10?) Gamers, 1 CPU – Taking it to the Next Level! – YouTube

Another $30,000 worth of computer hardware.. But can it power TEN gaming rigs this time??

Proxmox – Powerful Open Source Server Solutions

Storage: ZFS – Proxmox

How To

Server

yum install kvm qemu-kvm python-virtinst libvirt libvirt-python virt-manager libguestfs-tools
chkconfig libvirtd on
service libvirtd start
yum install bridge-utils
Open Virt-Manager > click + > Bridge > br0 > Start Mode: onboot > Activate Now > Check eth0

Client

Install virt-manager

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Desktop App Pick

Netdata – Real-Time Performance Monitoring

netdata is a highly optimized Linux daemon providing real-time performance monitoring for Linux systems, Applications, SNMP devices, over the web !

nethogs: Linux ‘net top’ tool

NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

Spotlight

systemd GUI: systemd-manager

This application exists to allow the user to manage their systemd services via a GTK3 GUI. Not only are you able to make changes to the enablement and running status of each of the units, but you will also be able to view and modify their unit files, check the journal logs. In addition, systemd analyze support is available to display the time it takes for systemd to boot the system.

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Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US

Google’s low-cost Chromebooks outsold Apple’s range of Macs for the first time in the US recently. While IDC doesn’t typically break out Windows vs. Chromebook sales, IDC analyst Linn Huang confirmed the milestone to The Verge. “Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time in 1Q16,” says Huang. “Chromebooks are still largely a US K-12 story.”

lykwydchykyn comments echo Chris’ thoughts perfectly

Fedora just missed rebasing on the goodness that is Linux 4.6

Fedora 24 ships June 14, 2016

And because of that, it looks like Linux kernel 4.6 will not be the default for the Fedora 24 operating system, which will ship in less than a month, on June 14, 2016, with the latest maintenance release of the Linux 4.5 kernel series. However, the chances are that Linux kernel 4.6 will be shortly released to the stable channels for users to upgrade their current kernel after Fedora 24’s official release.

Linux kernel 4.6 was announced by Linus Torvalds on May 15, 2016. It promises to offer users a new distributed file system, OrangeFS, support for the USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Plus (SSP) protocol, Out Of Memory task killer reliability improvements, support for Intel Memory protection keys, the Kernel Connection Multiplexor, as well as 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec) support.

Moreover, Linux kernel 4.6 ships with support for the BATMAN V protocol, an online inode checker for the OCFS2 file system, dma-buf, support for cgroup namespaces, and support for the pNFS SCSI layout. The first GNU/Linux distributions to adopt the Linux 4.6 kernel branch are Gentoo, Arch Linux, and SparkyLinux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed should join them in the coming weeks.

lm-sensors project dead?

It’s been a year since the last LM-Sensors release and the project isn’t as vibrant or active as it once was while the project site has been down for a while now and it doesn’t appear to be coming back.

Mattermost continues to bring the heat to Slack

Mattermost 3.0 offers a long awaited features: multi-team accounts, Japanese language translation, and full width display, plus upgrades to apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac, emojis, and we have new integrations for Outlook, Ruby & Rust.

Introducing Mycroft Core – Mycroft

We are pleased to announce that Mycroft Core 0.6 Alpha is available for download today. Mycroft Core is a lightweight, portable piece of software written in Python. You can run it on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a gaming rig.

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Circumventing Ubuntu Snap confinement
xorg – Why is X11 a security risk in servers? – Ask Ubuntu
X11 is horribly insecure, each subuser should get its own X11 server in a container. · Issue #31 · subuser-security/subuser · GitHub
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Passing On LastPass | LAS 387

chris — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:12:49 +0000

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Our best open source alternatives to LastPass. We run down the easy, the straight forward & the totally custom solutions to rolling your password managment. All our picks are totally open source, auditable & ready to use today.

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LastPass Killers

Yahoo Mail drops passwords and adds third-party email support for new apps

It’s Yahoo Mail‘s 18th birthday this month and to mark the occasion, Yahoo is pulling out all the stops with three major announcements: a brand new mobile app for Android and iOS, the support for multiple third-party email accounts and, perhaps most significantly, the introduction of a completely password-free sign-in experience called Yahoo Account Key.

LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family

It’s a big day here at LastPass. We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joining LogMeIn. As one of the world’s leading SaaS companies, we can’t imagine a better team to align with our values and product-driven mission. With their experience in growing successful brands like join.me, we’re excited to join LogMeIn in delivering the next generation of identity and access management for individuals, teams and companies, with LastPass at the forefront.

KeePass

KeepassC

KeePassC is a password manager fully compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX. That is, your
password database is fully encrypted with AES.

KeePassC is written in Python 3 and comes with a curses-interface. It is completely controlled
with the keyboard (vim-like keys are supported).

Some features are:

AES encryption of the database with password and/or keyfile
Included customizable password generator
KeePassX and KeePass v.1.x compatible (KeePass v2.x planned)
Database entries are sorted in alphabetically sorted groups
Subgroups of groups
Entries are identified by a title
Search entries by this title and show matches in an own group
Set expiration dates to remind you that a new password is needed
Unicode support
Copy username and password to clipboard
Auto-locking workspace and self-deleting clipboard with adjustable delays
Options to remember last database and last keyfile
Open URLs directly in your standard browser
Optional use of vim/ranger-like keys
Simple command line interface
Network functionality including multiuser support
The last can be used to omit password entering, too
kpcli – A command line interface for KeePass

A command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files. This program was inspired by my use of the CLI of the Ked Password Manager (“kedpm -c”) combined with my need to migrate to KeePass.

Pass

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. All passwords live in ~/.password-store, and pass provides some nice commands for adding, editing, generating, and retrieving passwords. It is a very short and simple shell script. It’s capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard and tracking password changes using git.

Pass for Android on F-Droid

How Active is Pass Development?

Migrating your data to Pass

To free password data from the clutches of other (bloated) password managers, various users have come up with different password store organizations that work best for them.

Using Git to Sync Pass

First install and then setup git

1 $ git config --global user.name  "John Doe"
2 $ git config --global user.email "johndoe@foobar.com"
3 $ pass git init

QtPass GUI for pass, the standard UNIX password manager

Using pass or git and gpg2 directly

Cross platform: Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows

Reading pass password stores

Decrypting and displaying the password and related info

Editing and adding of passwords and information

Updating to and from a git repository

Per-folder user selection for multi recipient encryption

Configuration options for backends and executable/folder locations

Copying password to clipboard

Configurable shoulder surfing protection options

Experimental WebDAV support

Planned features

Re-encryption after users-change (optional ofcourse).
Plugins based on key, format is same as password file.
Colour coding folders (possibly disabling folders you can’t decrypt).
WebDAV (configuration) support.
Optional table view of decrypted folder contents.
Opening of (basic auth) urls in default browser? Possibly with helper plugin for filling out forms?
Some other form of remote storage that allows for accountability / auditing (web API to retreive the .gpg files)?
GPG – How to trust an imported key

Encryptr – Powered by Crypton

Encryptr is simple and easy to use. It stores your sensitive data like passwords, credit card data, PINs, or access codes, in the cloud. However, because it was built on the zero-knowledge Crypton framework, Encryptr ensures that only the user has the ability to access or read the confidential information. Not the app’s developers, cloud storage provider, or any third party.

Encryptr only ever encrypts or decrypts your data locally on your device. No plain text is ever sent to the server, not even your passphrase. This is what zero-knowledge means.*

You don’t even need to hand over any personal data to register. Not your name, and not your email address. The app only requires a username and a passphrase.

Encryptr is free, and completely open source. This includes Crypton.

Firefox Password Manager

If you use the same simple password for everything you will be more susceptible to identity theft. The Create secure passwords to keep your identity safe article shows you an easy method for creating secure passwords and using the Password Manager, as described above, will help you remember them all.

Even though the Password Manager stores your usernames and passwords on your hard drive in an encrypted format, someone with access to your computer can still see or use them. The Use a Master Password to protect stored logins and passwords article shows you how to prevent this and keep you protected in the event your computer is lost or stolen.

When paired with Firefox sync feature this effectively emulates LastPass without Yubikey support, and without the password generation feature.

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Etch-a-sketch RUNS LINUX!

Over on YouTube user devnulling has uploaded a video showing his “Etch-A-SDR” project. This project involved creating an all-in-one SDR device out of an Odroid C1, Teensy 3.1 and an RTL-SDR dongle. The Odroid C1 is an embedded computer, similar to the Raspberry Pi 2 and the Teensy 3.1 is a microcontroller development board. The “Etch-A-SDR” is named as such because of its resemblance to an Etch-A-Sketch toy. It has two knobs that can be used for tuning and several side buttons for changing demodulation modes etc.

Upon boot the Etch-A-SDR opens GQRX and is ready for tuning within seconds of turning it on. In addition to using it as a portable SDR with GQRX the Etch-A-SDR can also be booted into normal Linux mode and into Etch-A-Sketch mode, where it operates as a normal Etch-A-Sketch toy.

The code can be downloaded from https://github.com/devnulling/etch-a-sdr.

Desktop App Pick

FreeMind Mind Mapping Tool

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.

Keeping Track of Projects
Project workplace
Workplace for Internet Research
Essay Writing and Brainstorming
Small Database with structure
Commented Internet Favorites or Bookmarks

Weekly Spotlight

Hangups

hangups is the first third-party instant messaging client for Google
Hangouts. It includes both a Python library and a reference client with a
text-based user interface.

Unlike its predecessor Google Talk, Hangouts uses a proprietary,
non-interoperable protocol. hangups is implemented by reverse-engineering
this protocol, which allows it to support features like group messaging that
aren’t available in clients that connect via XMPP.

hangups is still in an early stage of development. The reference client is
usable for basic chatting, but the API is undocumented and subject to change.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome!

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GIMP Online – rollApp

Run GIMP and other X11 apps in your web browser.

Red Hat is buying Ansible for more than $100M

Buying Ansible — one of four major providers of at least partly open-source devops tools — makes sense, because it can add to Red Hat’s line of offerings. Plus, Ansible already integrates with Red Hat’s OpenShift, OpenStack, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.

Red Hat buys Ansible to bolster its developer toolset – Fortune

As part of the deal, about50 Ansible employees will join Red Hat

Red Hat Is Buying IT Automation Startup Ansible, Reportedly For Around $100M | TechCrunch

Red Hat today also provided a brief update to its earnings as part of the news. It says the acquisition is expected to have no material impact to Red Hat’s revenue for the third and fourth quarters of its fiscal year. Non-GAAP operating expenses for fiscal 2016 will be increased by $2 million, or ($0.01) per share, in Q3 and $4.0 million, or ($0.02) per share, in Q4 as a result of the transaction.

Proxmox VE 4.0 is OUT

This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.0:

Debian Jessie 8.2 and 4.2 Linux kernel
Linux Containers (LXC)
IPv6 support
Bash completion
New Proxmox VE HA Manager

View all updates: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

The Alienware Steam Machine: finally, a gaming PC for the living room

I used to laugh when I saw Linux users scramble to build compatibility layers to play “real” PC games. I chuckled when Valve CEO Gabe Newell lambasted Windows 8 as a “catastrophe for everyone,” proffering Linux and SteamOS as a viable alternative. It seemed so far-fetched, so silly. Truth be told, I’m still laughing — but now it’s because I’m enjoying myself. The Alienware Steam Machine has some growing pains, but it’s fun. Lots of fun.

Steam’s living room hardware blitz gets off to a muddy start | Ars Technica

It’s all very smooth, overall, but there were a few sticking points that seemed a little rough compared to other game consoles. While the system hasn’t frozen on us during a game yet, there have been a handful of times where the whole OS hung when we were closing or opening a title, requiring a system reboot that took 30 to 60 seconds. We ran into occasional problems with webpage scrolling, the on-screen keyboard, and Wi-Fi recognition as well, all of which disappeared with a reboot.

We also found a few SteamOS games that still include an intermediate “launcher” screen that asks players to confirm resolution and other settings. That’s only an annoyance because these screens can’t be navigated with the Steam Controller; you need to plug in a mouse and keyboard to get through to the actual game in these cases. While the SteamOS interface includes large warnings that these games require extra hardware, and Valve isn’t directly responsible for third-party developers’ unfriendly decisions, it still seems like an oversight to have such games be unplayable out of the box.

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Arch Home Server Challenge | LAS 313

chris — Sun, 18 May 2014 16:19:39 +0000

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Coming up on this week’s episode of The Linux Action Show!

Arch Linux can make the perfect Home Server, we’ll share our tips to build the ultimate home server running the latest software, powered by Arch Linux.

Plus Ubuntu rocks the OpenStack summit, a first look at Syncthing (the fully OSS Bittorrent Sync killer), results from our Btrfs poll, our picks…

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Ultimate Arch Home Server:

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Ubuntu 12.10 – Quantal Quetzal – End of Life reached on May 16 2014

Arch Home Server Install Notes:

My Arch server philosophy comes down to one word: Focus
Outside of a few exceptions, an Arch server should be an absolutely lean machine, with only the packages required to perform a specific function.
Additional functions should be spun out into separate VMs when possible. VMs are cheap, containers are even cheaper.
We use a Template with a base Arch install, with the correct uids for NFS, the correct groups, and the basic file system mounts entered to fstab. This also simplifies the Arch deployment process.
The best server is a headless server, with no GUI. When you toss out the GUI, the usability playing field for setting up a server gets leveled out to nearly flat.
The invaluable amount of help that comes from the Arch Wiki in many ways gives Arch a usability boost over other possible distributions for a headless home server.

Arch Installation Quick Reference Guide by jmac217

So over the past few months or so I\’ve been just been throwing often-used commands and links into a Google Document to get me up and running quickly when I want to spin up a new Arch installation.

[Google Doc Install Guide by jmac217][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC41PnZFX7en8L3l0AYLXQKFsC2kxFrZjxQ1Q36AP-k/edit?usp=sharing]

Proxmox

Proxmox supports a mix of KVM Virtual Machines, and Linux containers.
Arch currently (I believe due to a systemd bug) runs best in KVM, not in a container.
Arch might make a better Linux Container candidate after that bug is fixed.
Our Proxmox box is a Core i7 rig, with 1TB of internal RAID0 storage.
Important data is stored on the NFS FreeNAS box.
We run one Arch VM from the internal 1TB, and one from the NFS mount.

NFS Setup

FreeNAS was our selection for the back-end storage.
A btrfs powered server was considered, but upon a mighty reflection induced by our recent poll, ZFS seemed like the wiser choice.
ZFS does work on Linux, but the utility aspect of FreeNAS appeals.
When the application stuff is handled by front end systems, the backend storage should be a simple, reliable, and appliance like as possible. FreeNAS offers a lot of that, with a native ZFS implementation, backed by a trusted company – iXsystems.
Install NTP on both ends
In Arch use systemd to mount the NFS share
Create a common UID on the NFS server and Client. This makes file permissions much simpler. Have everything owned by your “media” user in your “media” share.

SABnzbd

Configured SABnzbd to work off the NFS mount.
sabnzb modify it to allow network connections:

/opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

CouchPotato.

packer -S couchpotato-git
cd /usr/lib/systemd/system
nano couchpotato.service – edit to run as root
chown -R root:root /opt/couchpotato
systemctl enable couchpotato
systemctl start couchpotato

Default port is 5050

SickBeard

SickBeard requires you have some usenet index search APIs. It’s built in search is limited.

Set SickBeard to ping Plex to update once a download completes.

Monitorix

Edit /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
Set your hostname and title
Double check the built in httpd port. 8080 is the default. Which is also sabnzbd’s port.
Set to enabled if you want to use the internal webserver.
Further down you can turn on and off what it graphs.
How to set up a web-based lightweight system monitor on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL

SSMTP

SSMTP is a program to deliver an email from a local computer to a configured mailhost (mailhub). It is not a mail server (like feature-rich mail server sendmail) and does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. One of its primary uses is for forwarding automated email (like system alerts) off your machine and to an external email address.
A lot of server side applications (and the next item down in this list) need to use smtp to send you an email notification. When you have automated processes happening at all different hours of the day, often kicked off my some script running headless in the background, it’s sorta a necessary evil.
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Logwatch

Logwatch is a powerful and versatile log parser and analyzer. Logwatch is designed to give a unified report of all activity on a server, which can be delivered through the command line or email.
A key part of set it and forget it is having your system alert you when it needs help, so you can address it before it becomes a disaster.

Syncthing

Per-user config files, example:

/home/studio/.syncthing/config.xml

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ExoMars Mission, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Castawesome

Castawesome is live screencasting tool for Linux. With it you can broadcast video and audio from your desktop to Twitch.tv/Justin.tv, Hitbox.tv and YouTube

Weekly Spotlight

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync 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.

Syncthing – Android Apps on Google Play

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Canonical Goes BIG at

OpenStack Deployments Are Up, And So Is Ubuntu—But Will It Stick?

This year more than 5,000 people showed up to the OpenStack conference, and 1,780 people filled out a survey that drills into how they\’re using OpenStack. Many of the respondents (60%) came from companies that employ fewer than 500 people, while a dwindling percentage was derived from users at companies that employ more than 1,000 people, compared to the October 2013 user survey (34%, down from 39%).

The Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – Mark Unveils the Orange Box

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.
Mark introduces the Orange Box: https://youtu.be/aEYCjHCderM?t=13m33s

Canonical offers \’Chuck Norris Grade\’ OpenStack private cloud service

This new offering is called Your Cloud. For $15 per day per host, \”Ubuntu offers all the software infrastructure, tools, and services you need to have your own cloud at your fingertips. Built by experts on Ubuntu OpenStack, fully managed and with 24/7 monitoring.\”

Canonical Juju DevOps tool coming to CentOS and Windows

It\’s hard to shock an audience at a technical conference. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company Canonical, managed it several times in his OpenStack Summit keynote speech. No news may have been more surprising than that Canonical had ported its Juju DevOps program to its rival\’s operating systems: Red Hat\’s CentOS and Microsoft\’s Hyber-V and Windows Server 2012.

Ubuntu\’s Unity 8 Desktop To Be Release As Separate Flavor?

“The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (we don’t plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project.

The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that’s required to make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration.”

Linux Mint will stick to LTS release

The decision was made to stick to LTS bases. In other words the development team will be focused on the very same package base used by Linux Mint 17 for the next 2 years.

It will also be trivial to upgrade from version 17 to 17.1, then 17.2 and so on.
Important applications will be backported and we expect this change to boost the pace of our development and reduce the amount of regressions in each new Linux Mint release.

This makes Linux Mint 17.x very important to us, not just yet another release, but one that will receive security updates until 2019, one that will receive backports and new features until 2016 and even more importantly, the only package base besides LMDE which we’ll be focused on until 2016.

Our traffic doubled lately and all our stats are on the raise, and we don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to the the end-of-life of Windows XP. We’re not really sure

Antergos\’ Release Candidate plus Partnering with Numix

Antergos is partnering with the Numix Project to create an exclusive edition of Numix Themes for our desktops (both GTK and QT). In this RC, you will be able to enjoy some premature advances of this agreement in the form of the icon theme. We’re not sure if the rest of the design will be make it into this release or if it will be postponed until next stable release.

Antergos – Here we are one year after

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Ethically Hacked | TechSNAP 120

chris — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:17:35 +0000

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Apple\’s Developer Center first went offline last Thursday, and on Sunday, Apple revealed that it had been taken down as a precaution after a security breach. It is unclear who was responsible for the hacking, but a security researcher, Ibrahim Balic has suggested that he might be to blame for the outage.
The company added that critical developer data had not been compromised and that they were working day n’ night to fix the vulnerability and bring the site back online.
According to 9 to 5 Mac adds that, “In an email… Balic … is persistent in stating he did this for security research purposes and does not plan to use the information in any malicious manner.”
The comment comes from independent security researcher Ibrahim Balic, who claims that his effort was not intended to be malicious and that he reported his findings to Apple just hours before the developer site was taken down by the company.
Balic, who has reported 13 different bugs to Apple, originally discovered an iAd Workbench vulnerability on June 18 that allowed a request sent to the server to be manipulated. This security hole could be used to acquire the names and email addresses of iTunes users (even non-developers).
After finding the loophole, Balic wrote a Python script to harvest data from the vulnerability and then displayed it in a YouTube video, which may have put him on Apple\’s radar.
In addition to the iAd Workbench bug, Balic also discovered and submitted a report on a bug that caused the Dev Center site to be vulnerable to a stored XSS attack. While Balic says that it was possible to access user data by exploiting the Dev Center issue, he claims that he did not do so.
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Ubuntu Forums compromised

The forums were defaced and the database compromised
There were approximately 1.82 million registered accounts in the forum database
Attackers have access to each of these user\’s username, password and email address
The passwords were salted hashes, but by which algorithm was not made clear. Where these cryptographic hashes, or just md5(salt+md5(password)) or similar like some forum software?
If you were a registered user, and reused that password anywhere else, you are likely going to have a bad time
“Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are NOT affected by the breach”
Timeline:
2013-07-20 2011 UTC: Reports of defacement
2013-07-20 2015 UTC: Site taken down, this splash page put in place while investigation continues.
2013-07-21: we believe the root cause of the breach has been identified. We are currently reinstalling the forums software from scratch. No data (posts, private messages etc.) will be lost as part of this process.
2013-07-22: work on reinstalling the forums continues.

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Let’s Talk Proxmox | LAS | s24e08

chris — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:42:27 +0000

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Learn all about Proxmox, a free software based enterprise grade virtualization solution. Proxmox combines KVM with openVZ powered by Debian, and it’s free to use.

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Find out what’s better than KVM or OpenVZ. It’s Proxmox. And, it combines both technologies into the ultimate hypervisor.

By mixing the two virtualization types, you can install more than twice as many VMs per host as you can using full virtualization alone. Some techs report three or four times the density per host.

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Perfect Linux Server | LAS | s24e02

chris — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:43:00 +0000

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The amazing open source projects we love that will take your Linux box to the next level! It’s our tips, tricks, and software we love that make our Home Linux server perfect!

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What makes for a good server OS? A few important things to look for:

A deep repository of packages, that are reasonably current.
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I was not happy with my big storage options for Linux, I want a native kernel level implementation of ZFS, but I want the cutting edge software options of Linux.

I bought a FreeNAS Mini from iXsystems that I use as my backend storage apliance. In front of that I have an Ubuntu 12.04 that has an NFS mount to the ZFS storage on the FreeNAS Mini box.