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Mycroft and Chilli | LINUX Unplugged 123

chris — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:35:45 +0000

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UbuCon is just around the corner, we’re joined by Ubuntu’s community manager & the team on the ground to share the inside scoop on how this Ubuntu conference came to be & how you can get in free.

Ryan from Mycroft stops by to give us an update on their open source artificial intelligence project, their new official partnership with Ubuntu & more.

Then we discuss the major partnership between LibreOffice & OwnCloud, the cool OwnCloud hardware that could develop into a consumer device.

Plus some major project updates, community feedback & more!

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Pre-Show:

World Without Linux Episode #5: Space Exploration

Follow Up / Catch Up

Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop | Ars Technica

Qubes OS, the security-focused operating system that Edward Snowden said in November he was “really excited” about, announced this week that laptop maker Purism will ship their privacy-focused Librem 13 notebook with Qubes pre-installed.

AMD Announces GPUOpen Initiative, New Compiler And Drivers For Lunix And HPC

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In a nutshell, AMD is releasing a slew of open-source software and tools to give developers of games, heterogeneous applications, and HPC applications deeper access to the GPU and GPU resources.

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AMD GPUOpen also introduces a new Linux driver model and runtime targeted at HPC Cluster-Class Computing. The new headless Linux driver addresses core high-performance computing needs, including low latency compute dispatch and PCI Express data transfers, peer-to-peer GPU support, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) from InfiniBand that interconnects directly to GPU memory and Large Single Memory Allocation support.

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Streamy

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KDE – Plasma 5.5.1 complete changelog

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.5.1. Plasma 5.5 was released in last week with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

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UbuCon Summit US

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The Summit is the evolution of UbuCon as a bigger a multi-track, multi-day event to learn, share and collaborate around Ubuntu as a project.

In Pasadena, CA, on 21-22 January 2016

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Mycroft Update: Design Breakdown and Ubuntu Partnership

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Mycroft has continued to deeper its ties with Canonical by becoming an official Ubuntu partner for IoT. We are continually grateful for Canonical and team’s commitment to this technology, and their support and guidance as we continue to grow as a project. We look forward to what this partnership will bring in terms of innovation and community engagement, and have the highest hopes for a bright future in this respect.

The team finished another feature video this week. These feature videos will appear periodically through mid 2016. Each video highlights one or more Mycroft feature and shows it in every day use. Our first feature? Netflix, and the ability to “set a scene” using IoT integration.

TING

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ownCloud and Collabora Announce LibreOffice Online for ownCloud Server

Today, December 15, ownCloud, Inc. and Collabora have just announced a partnership to bring a new tool for LibreOffice and ownCloud users, based on the LibreOffice Online project and the robust, open-source ownCloud Server self-hosting cloud storage solution.

Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users | ownCloud.org

The Western Digital Labs team contacted us looking to work together with the ownCloud community on offering a self hosted device running ownCloud pre-installed out of the box. Our end goal is to provide a solution for non-technical end users, something which requires few skills to set up.

They provided us with 10 early prototypes to get started with. We’d like to give them out to community members who are serious about helping home users run their ownCloud server.

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Intel NUC5i7RYH with Ubuntu | Flexion.Org

I’ve just bought my first brand new computer since 2008. Thanks to
the Black Friday
and Cyber Monday sales on
Amazon.co.uk and Scan.co.uk
this year I was able to put together a pretty sweet Intel NUC which is
now running Ubuntu MATE 15.10.

I spoke about this new system on LINUX Unplugged Episode 122
and have been contacted by people wanting more details ever since.
Hopefully this blog post will answer any outstanding questions. Press
play below to hear to what I said on the podcast.

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Qubes OS: Security By Isolation | LAS 317

chris — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:11:02 +0000

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Qubes OS, you could call it Linux for the truly paranoid. This system offers a unique isolated approach to keep you and your data safe, we dive in to show you how this system works!

Plus: The big Red Hat news, Docker goes 1.0, a Linux port done right…

And so much more!

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Qubes OS:

Brought to you by: System76

Qubes Release 1 was released in September 2012. Qubes Release 2 is almost complete, with rc1 having been released in April 201
On February 16, 2014, Qubes was selected as a finalist of Access Innovation Prize 2014 for Endpoint Security Solution.

Built on top of Xen:

Qubes is based on Xen, the X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers.

Qubes implements a Security by Isolation approach.
Qubes utilizes virtualization technology in order to isolate various programs from each other and even to sandbox many system-level components, such as networking and storage subsystems, so that the compromise of any of these programs or components does not affect the integrity of the rest of the system.
Qubes lets the user define many security domains, which are implemented as lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs), or “AppVMs.”

For example, the user can have “personal,” “work,” “shopping,” “bank,” and “random” AppVMs and can use the applications within those VMs just as if they were executing on the local machine. At the same time, however, these applications are well isolated from each other.

Qubes also supports secure copy-and-paste and file sharing between the AppVMs, of course.

Key Architectural features¶

The network mechanism is the most exposed to security attacks. This is why it is isolated in a separate, unprivileged virtual machine, called the Network Domain.
Disk space is saved thanks to the fact that various virtual machines (VM) share the same root file system in a read-only mode.
Separate disk storage is only used for userʼs directory and per-VM settings. This allows to centralize software installation and updates. Of course, some software can be installed only on a specific VM.
Some documents or application can be run in disposable VMs through an action available in the file manager. The mechanism follows the idea of sandboxes: after viewing the document or application, then the whole Disposable VM will be destroyed.

Based on a secure bare-metal hypervisor (Xen)
USB stacks and drivers sand-boxed in an unprivileged VM (currently experimental feature)
No networking code in the privileged domain (dom0)
All user applications run in “AppVMs,” lightweight VMs based on Linux
Centralized updates of all AppVMs based on the same template
Qubes GUI virtualization presents applications as if they were running locally
Qubes GUI provides isolation between apps sharing the same desktop
Secure system boot based (optional)

Not just for Linux, Qubes can run Windows app seamless too:

WindowsAppVms – Qubes

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SnapRAID

SnapRAID is an application able to make a partial backup of your disk array. If some of the disks of your array fail, even if they are completely broken, you will be able to recover their content. It’s only a partial backup, because it doesn’t allow to recover from a failure of the whole array, but only if the number of failed disks are under a predefined limit.

Weekly Spotlight

magpie —

Basically, magpie is just a web tool for managing text files in a git repo. In it, you can create notebooks (which are just folders); create, edit, and delete notes (which are just files). That’s pretty much it. However, when you make any of these changes, they are automatically committed to git.

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A big step forward in business Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 arrives

As for the features, RHEL 7 boasts many stability and performance upgrades. Red Hat claims that, depending upon the load, RHEL 7 is 11 to 25 percent faster than the previous iteration of the software, RHEL 6.

Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

You know you’re a nerd when the most interesting news of the week is about a filesystem…

It’s Here: Docker 1.0

On March 20, 2013, we released the first version of Docker. After 15 months, 8,741 commits from more than 460 contributors, 2.75 million downloads, over 14,000 “Dockerized” apps, and feedback from 10s of 1000s of users about their experience with Docker, from a single container on a laptop to 1000s in production in the cloud … we’re excited to announce that it’s here: Docker 1.0.

HP bets it all on The Machine, a new computer architecture based on memristors and silicon photonics

In the words of HP Labs, The Machine will be a complete replacement for current computer system architectures. There will be a new operating system, a new type of memory (memristors), and super-fast buses/peripheral interconnects (photonics). Speaking to Bloomberg, HP says it will commercialize The Machine within a few years, “or fall on its face trying.”

Day 2 Keynote – HP Discover Las Vegas 2014 – tStarts at 15:50

Some of our favorite bullshit headlines:

On top of that, HP is working on a brand new operating system for The Machine based on Linux. And another one based on Android, Fink continued:

“We are, as part of The Machine, announcing our intent to build a new operating system all open source from the ground up, optimized for non-volatile memory systems.

…

We also have a team that’s starting from a Linux environment and stripping out all the bits we don’t need. So that way you maintain … compatibility for apps.

What if we build a version of Android? … We have a team that’s doing that, too.”

Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future

Aspyr Media have quite clearly proven themselves at porting to Linux with a port that works this well, but the bigger news is that they may have more to come.

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