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Ubuntu Desktop team lead Will Cooke remarks that: “my gut feeling is that wayland (sic) isn’t ready yet,” and Didier Roche says the distro will ‘default to xorg until we take a decision’.

Warning: Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk for customers

It is inseparable from Linux and can not work without it. it would fail a fair-use test (obviously, ask offline if you don’t understand). Because of its strongly derivative nature of the kernel, it must be under the GPL version 2 license, or a license compatible with the GPL and with terms no more restrictive than the GPL. Earlier versions were distributed under GPL version 2.

iWant

A commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server.

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Check out the Valve presentation from Unite Europe, major Steam Client redesign to come

Unite Europe 2017 – Steam platform overview and upcoming store updates – YouTube

Steam Client updates later on around 21:50 which will include a “major redesign of the Steam Client”, which they said they know is long overdue. The new Library and Game Launch Page sound like they will see the biggest changes, with much more content shown to the user.
Hopefully this will also include support for scaling, since the Steam Client is currently terrible for high resolution displays.

Benchmarking nftables

Basically, my idea was to find out how much certain firewall setups affect performance.

It clearly shows how performance suffers as the number of rules increases. Interestingly, the decrease in throughput is not linear with rule count, so the overhead introduced with adding rules becomes less and less significant the more rules there are already. In practical boundaries though, one can assume a linear regression. Also worth noting is that iptables performs slightly better.

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Fedora 26 is here!

@mattdm

Matthew Miller / Fedora Project Leader
Thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate
New development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6.
We’ve added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer)
F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements
better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information.
DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5)
Torrent Server for the Fedora Project
Upgrading Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 – Fedora Magazine

What’s New in Fedora 26 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

Linux 4.11.8
GNOME 3.24
LibreOffice 5.3
Fedora Media Writer gains ARM support
Builder now features improved support for systems like Flatpak, CMake, Meson, and Rust.
Qt Adwaita theme contains many improvements and looks closer to its GTK counterpart than ever.

What is Fedora Boltron?

Boltron is an upcoming prototype of Fedora Modularity. A formal description is documented in Changes/Modular Server Preview on the Fedora wiki. This page tracks the progress of the release.

Changes/NoMoreAlpha – FedoraProject

By gating Rawhide builds from landing in the compose and gating the publication of composes on automated test results we will ensure Rawhide will always be at Alpha quality. This will make it more generally useful to people as a daily driver and development platform, and mean we no longer need to go through the process of building, testing and shipping Alpha releases.

openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.

openQA is a testing framework that allows you to test GUI applications on one hand and bootloader and kernel on the other. In both cases, it is difficult to script tests and verify the output. Output can be a popup window or it can be an error in early boot even before init is executed.

TING

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Fedora 26 Review

I've got a #Fedora server I've upgraded release after release since F24. Upgrading to 26 now, is this the release it finally breaks? pic.twitter.com/uCHq0NeGec

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) July 11, 2017

How the upgrade of Chris’ Fedora server went
Trying out the KDE Spin of Fedora

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Adopt-a-Dongle | LAS 466

chris — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:53:25 +0000

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Laptop Wins and Woes

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Cloud-enabled WiFi router adds VPN and Dynamic DNS

The Debian Linux driven Roqos Core router is now available with a v.1.6 upgrade that adds Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Dynamic DNS features. With the VPN feature, users can make a secure VPN connection from anywhere in the world, says Virginia based Roqos.

Desktop App Pick

Counter Attack

CounterAttack is in a very playable state with lots of content but we aren’t done adding new stuff! There are also a few big changes we would like to finish before the full release including a UI redesign, 4 player local co-op, and the ability to mix local co-op with online play.

HiDPI-Steam-Skin: HiDPI skin for Steam client based on default skin

This is a simple skin for Steam that gives everything a slightly larger font size.

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Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

More than 80 workers at Ubuntu-maker Canonical are facing the chop as founder Mark Shuttleworth takes back the role of chief executive officer.

Ubuntu Budgie Released

Ubuntu Budgie v17.04 (zesty) Released: April 13th 2017

A significant portion of this development cycle has been spent integrating with the Canonical build-system. Key visible integration items were:

Plymouth customisations

utilizing the Ubiquity installer

reworking packages to remove the “budgie-remix” identities and replaced with the updated “Ubuntu Budgie” identity.

This is the Ubuntu 17.10 Release Date

Ubuntu 17.10, codename Artful Aardvark, be the first version of Ubuntu since 2011 to not ship with the Unity desktop by default. Instead, **Ubuntu 17.10 will use GNOME as the default desktop environment **(it’s probable that this could be GNOME 3.26, due for release in September).

Artful (17.10) : Ubuntu

The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2017, designated 17.10.

BFQ I/O Scheduler Queued For Linux 4.12

BFQ has been used for a while now by some different Linux distributions that have opted to carry the patches. It’s seen a lot of work over the years while finally for Linux 4.12 it looks to be mainlined.

The BFQ scheduler has been queued in the Linux-Block For-Next tree meaning it should then be sent in for the upcoming Linux 4.12 merge window.

BFQ is a proportional-share storage-I/O scheduler that also supports hierarchical scheduling with a cgroups interface. Here are the main nice features of BFQ.

Low latency for interactive applications
Low latency for soft real-time applications
Higher speed for code-development tasks
High throughput
Strong fairness, bandwidth and delay guarantees

Feedback

Name: Baggio K
Subject: Exceeding 26 Letter /dev/sd*
Message:

I am a BSD user, but my company uses LInux :(.
Attached the output of ll /dev/sd* for a Linux server with 57 /dev/sd*.

https://jblive.wufoo.com/cabinet/dzd4MnI3/EqGtkOVoRys%3D/2017041613.06.33.png

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Plasma Injection | LINUX Unplugged 185

chris — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:52:55 +0000

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NVIDIA Makes Huge Code Contribution To Qt, New Qt 3D Studio

NVIDIA open-sourced and contributed to Qt the NVIDIA DRIVE Design Studio, which is a “designer friendly 3D UI authoring system” and Qt is now releasing it with the name Qt 3D Studio.

Interview: Thomas Weissel Installing Plasma in Austrian Schools

About 34 classrooms, 2 consulting rooms, the room for teachers and one computer lab just got upgraded to a custom “distribution” based on Kubuntu and KDE neon. At least 75 teachers are going to work with the system. Most of the 700+ students are not going to touch these computers (because they are locked away) but in their 5th grade every one of them gets a live USB flash-drive in order to work with the very same system in the computer lab.

The State of Plasma

Since 2014, Plasma has kept me entertained and disappointed in equal measures. At some point, I had it crowned my favorite desktop, and then it went downhill steeply, fast, struggling to recover. Not helping was the slew of bugs and regressions across the distro space, which exacerbated the quality of Plasma and what it could show the world.

TING

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Linux 4.10 – Linux Kernel Newbies

This release adds support for Intel GVT-g for KVM (a.k.a. KVMGT), a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors with Intel Graphics. This feature is based on a new VFIO Mediated Device framework. Unlike direct pass-through alternatives, the mediated device framework allows KVMGT to offer a complete virtualized GPU with full GPU features to each one of the virtualized guests, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned, while still having performance close to native. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability.

GNOME 3.24 Desktop Environment Enters Beta, Final Release Is Coming March 22

GNOME 3.23.90 is now available. This is the beta release for the upcoming stable GNOME 3.24 release. At this point, we have entered feature freeze, UI freeze, and API freeze, so developers should be focused on bugfixes and stability improvements for the next month as we approach GNOME 3.24,” said Michael Catanzaro in a mailing list announcement.

Ubuntu 17.04 Will Ship with GNOME 3.24

The upcoming beta of Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 — regular Ubuntu only takes part in the second beta — will feature GNOME 3.24 Beta 1 (v3.23.90) and defaults to the latest GNOME Shell desktop.

Plasma in a Snap?

Shortly before FOSDEM, Aleix Pol asked if I had ever put Plasma in a Snap. While I was a bit perplexed by the notion itself, I also found this a rather interesting idea.

GUADEC 2017 – The GNOME Conference

GUADEC brings together Free Software Enthusiasts and professionals from all over the world. Join us for six days of talks, demos, discussion, parties, games and more.

We did it! Our AppCenter campaign was just fully funded. https://t.co/xJyr3LmABI

— elementary (@elementary) February 21, 2017

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GPD Pocket, The 7-Inch Ubuntu Laptop is Now Live on IndieGoGo

It took the little 7-inch laptop less than 7 hours to leap over its $200,000 fixed funding goal. This means the device will (barring any hiccups) be produced.

The device is super small, measuring a teeny 7.1-inch by 4.2-inch (and standing a mere 0.7-inch tall). The GPD Pocket offers a 7-inch 1920×1200 IPS screen, pushing a pixel-popping 323 PPI. Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Despite the diminutive proportions the unibody magnesium alloy case contains some powerful internals.

Core specs:

7-inch full-HD (1920×1200) IPS touch display
Intel Atom x7-Z8750 CPU (Quad Core) @ 1.6GHz
8GB RAM
128GB eMMC

The device does have a fan. GPD says this ‘active cooling’ means its** performance is better than the Microsoft Surface 3**, which is passively cooled.

Also:

7,000 mAh battery (12 hours battery life estimated)
802.11ac WiFi
Bluetooth 4.1
1x USB 3.0 Type-C
1x USB 3.0 Type-A
micro HDMI
3.5mm headphone jack

An option USB Type-C dock can be attached to provide an additional 2x USB 3.0 ports and an SD and microSD card reader.

The included QWERTY keyboard takes up as much room as possible, with a small pointer nub in-between a split space bar (yup, no trackpad, no palm rest).

GPD Pocket: 7.0′ UMPC-Laptop ‘Ubuntu or WIN 10 OS’ | Indiegogo

More than just thin but also small, small to fit in your pocket!

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Linus Reflects on 25 Years of Releasing Linux

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Winter Solus Review | LAS 450

chris — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:18:23 +0000

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Solus Review

The 6 Linux Distros We’re Most Excited For in 2017 – OMG! Ubuntu!

Solus couldn’t not feature on this list, could it? It’s arguably the most innovative and important desktop Linux distribution to arrive in the last few years — and it’s one that has been built pretty much entirely from scratch!

Yup, Solus is not an Ubuntu fork wearing a different shade of lipstick, or a over-themed Fedora port. It’s a bona-fide brilliant OS in its own right, with its own desktop (Budgie, built impeccably upon GNOME technologies so that it can run without issue on other distros); its own package manager (‘eopkg’); and it has a laser-like focus on being a good desktop distribution.

While, in 2016, Solus is not the most stable of operating systemst (it is a rolling release, after all) one has to appreciate that it is, comparatively, very early days for the OS, which is amazing when you see what they’ve achieved in such a short space of time.

Solus Announces First Release Of Brisk Menu | Solus

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In South Korea the World’s first giant manned robot, runs Linux

The world’s first giant, manned robot “Method-2” took some of it’s first steps in the Gunpo studio of Hankook Mirae Technology company near Seoul, Thursday.

The 3,9m (13ft) Method-2 robot responds to the actions of its handler who is seated in a central cockpit, walking like a human and moving its 130kg (286lbs) robot arms and fingers.

Around 30 engineers have been testing the mammoth machine and lead designer Vitaly Bulgarov drew inspiration from his previous work on the fantasy films, Transformers and Terminator. Since 2014 the company have invested about $200 million (€191.3 million) in the robot’s production and development and estimate it could be on sale by the end of 2017 at a price of around $8,3 million (€7,9 million).

South Korea tests their first giant manned robot that runs Ubuntu

Desktop App Pick

HandBrake

@ChrisLAS I haven't tested it yet, but the new release looks nice.https://t.co/RNGDRFsr85

— Rob Coy (@robertcoy) January 1, 2017

Diamond VC500 USB 2.0 One Touch VHS to DVD Video Capture Device For Win7, Win8 and Win10

Spotlight

RT — Best Practical Solutions

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Request Tracker receives and manages all email sent to your key email addresses: support@, sales@, helpdesk@, security@.

RT’s Lifecycles allow you to create custom workflows with your ticket statuses, actions, and transitions to mirror your process.

— NEWS —

The company that wanted to put ‘a bullet through Google’s head’ is dead

Cyanogen Inc., a startup based in Palo Alto, is shutting down all its services, including nightly builds. The company’s open source fork CyanogenMod will also be discontinued on New Year’s Eve.

Cyanogen services shutting down

Yes, this is us. – Lineage OS – Lineage OS Android Distribution

So, yes, this is us. LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was. To quote Andy Rubin, this is the definition of open. A company pulling their support out of an open source project does not mean it has to die.

Check back for more information on Tuesday.

Written on December 24, 2016

Infrastructure Status & Official Builds – Lineage OS – Lineage OS Android Distribution

We’re working on getting everything operational and would like to thank everyone who’s reached out offering assistance.

Emby Server 3.1: Faster and Lighter than Ever Before

A new release of Emby Server is currently rolling out. This new release has a lot of important bug fixes, as well as new features. It’s also much faster than ever before and we think you’re going to enjoy that. Let’s go over the highlights.

OBS Studio 17.0.0 adds support for capturing previous x minutes and a Linux memory leak fix

General changes:
– Added a replay buffer feature. The replay buffer is available in just simple output mode (for now, will add it to advanced output mode later), and allows the user to create snapshot recordings (via hotkey) of a specific amount of time prior to triggering the hotkey.
– Added saturation and hue shift to color correction filter
– Added import/export options for scene collections and profiles
– Added the ability to copy and paste scene item transforms
– Added options to the output timer tool to start the output timers every time recording/streaming is started
– Increased maximum number of possible audio tracks to 6 (up from 4), allowing more advanced audio splitting
– Fixed a bug where semi-transparent images would not look right when filters were applied
– Fixed a bug where Y800 (grayscale) video devices would come out as red
– Fixed a freeze when reordering filters
– Fixed a X11-related memory leak in certain cases (causing memory to slowly continue to allocate memory until exhausted)

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Hexoshi: Milestone 1 | Crowd Supply

Hexoshi is a libre game generally inspired by the Metroid series. It is a work in progress, but once completed, it will be onpon4’s biggest game yet, with a maze-like world spanning hundreds of individual rooms. The intention is to make this one of the greatest libre free-roaming games to date.

Mail Bag

Name: Ken M
Subject: Antergos … GDM = Wayland… NATIVE! Was it before Fedora 25…???
Message: Antergos … GDM = Wayland… NATIVE! Was it before Fedora 25…???

So, watched show LAS 445 Hats Off to Wayland and found something very interesting. I’ve been running Debian on all my PC’s in the house… server and “workstations”. I decided to give Antergos a try based of some of your recent shows. I like it so much, I switched all my workstations to Antergos… Server is still Debian, but I like stable for that. Let me tell you, the switch was a bit of a process… I have my own “post install script” I run that installs software, maps nfs blah blah had to change that to look at distro to know if pacman or apt should be used. Anyway, all is great again.

But back to my point. The family room pc (intel NUC), I like to have GDM on it. It’s a touch screen monitor and my kids can just tap their icon, it goes in and on their desktop it has shortcuts to stuff like pbskids.org. Well, I had set up all that before switching it to GDM. Made the switch and icons disappeared! WHAT? Come to find out, Antergos automatically starts using Wayland when you disable lightdm and enable GDM. And with wayland on Antergos, it won’t display desktop icons, so at lgin screen I had to change kids default desktop to “Gnome on Xorg” to get their icons back.

So, during the show, I had an “AH HA!” moment when you said something to the effect of “Wayland liking GDM” So… jumped on one of my test rigs that had Antergos with lightdm… sure enough, multiple entries for Gnome in desktop selection at login, but now matter which ones I tried, none of them would fire up Gnome on wayland. I disabled lightdm and enable gdm and sure enough… gnome with wayland. Command: echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE told me so! Seems to be, no matter what, when using lightdm it will default to xorg no matter what you choose.
So, keep that in mind …. might be also be why Noah had different experiences with mouse usage.

So, yes… Antergos does bring you Gnome on Wayland natively… if you use GDM instead of lightdm. And guessing you had it before Fedora 25 if you used GDM.

Name: Jason C
Subject: Hangover on Nextcloud… Calendar on Nextcloud 11 major bug spams a users contacts while importing a calendar from google
Message: Hey Chris and Noah,

Today I installed Nextcloud 11 on FreeBSD11.0p6, I was totally impressed and after setting up the admin account decided I would set up a user and see what was possible.

I decided to not initially setup an email account but rather first imported google contacts, and a google calendar. They were large datasets from an account I have been using since 2005.

That may have been a mistake… As the calendar was importing I started to get bounce mails come into my server’s postmaster account.

Nextcloud was sending all those who were invited to previous calendar events emails from sitename@configdomain.tld

So my server was spamming 11 years of calendar contacts…

Immediately I shut down postfix on my freebsd server…

sudo service postfix onestop

and notice that still the import was not only half way finished and already over 100 mails were sent out…

This is going to really piss off folks like me who saw this project featured on Linux Action Show and decided to import data into a new install. Ut was specifically touted this project as a replacement for Google Apps and Dropbox!

Well it seems like less marketing promo press releases and more devs testing especially the functions users use when adopting nextcloud is in order.

Regards,
Oclair

P.S. I know posting chat from IRC is not good form for a bug report but hopefully you can let your viewers know to beware of the import tools until they are more closely audited…

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Okay Google, Take Over the World | CR 235

chris — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:05:09 +0000

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Hoopla

Pebble confirms Fitbit sale: Hardware is dead, software in maintenance mode

Pebble Time 2, Pebble Core, and Pebble Time Round watches will never ship.

Google Home Review

Google Actions

Hype Driven Development

I call this trend Hype Driven Development, perceive it harmful and advocate for a more professional approach I call “Solid Software Engineering”. Learn more about how it works and find out what you can do instead.

Chris Pick:

A Simplified Approach to Container Orchestration

PiCluster is a simple way to manage Docker containers on multiple hosts. I created this
because I found Docker Swarm not that good and Kubernetes was too difficult to install currently on ARM.

PiCluster will only build and run images from Dockerfile’s on the host specified in the config file.

This software will work on regular x86 hardware also and is not tied to ARM.

Mike Hiring

Android Developer Remote

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Hats Off to Wayland | LAS 445

chris — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:23:05 +0000

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Fedora 25

Fedora 25 released! – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:

Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine
Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language
PHP 7, offering improved performance and reduced memory usage
Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython

Wayland in Fedora 25

Fedora 25 Linux arrives with Wayland display support

The big news for desktop users in Workstation is the Wayland display server has finally replaced the legacy X11 Window server. Wayland has been in the works since 2008. The point of Wayland is to provide a smoother, richer experience for graphical environments. X also had a huge amount of functionality that was no longer being used.

On top of Wayland, Fedora 25 Workstation runs GNOME 3.22. This latest desktop claims to offer multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard settings tool, and additional user interface improvements. If, like me, you’re not a GNOME fan, Fedora 25 also supports spins with other default desktops. These include KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE, and Cinnamon.

Changes/WaylandByDefault – FedoraProject

How To Test

Boot a fresh F25 workstation install.
Verify that the login screen is running under Wayland (you can do so by looking for a process called gdm-wayland-session in ps -ef output)
Verify that the session chooser offers ‘GNOME’, ‘GNOME on X11’ and ‘GNOME Classic’, and that ‘GNOME’ is selected by default.
Log into all three of these sessions and verify that ‘GNOME’ gives you Wayland (you can verify this by bringing up the GTK+ inspector in a gtk3 application and checking what backend is used), while the other two end up with X11.
Change the gdm configuration by adding WaylandEnable=false and reboot
Verify that the login screen comes up under X
Verify that only X-based sessions are offered in the session chooser
Log into the Wayland-based session again
Use the desktop normally, and verify that there are no obvious instabilities, or Wayland-specific bugs or performance problems

FreeMedia

The Fedora Free Media Program is a volunteer initiative by local Fedora Ambassadors and contributors to distribute Fedora Media (DVDs) for free to individuals who can’t afford to buy or download Fedora. There is no funding from Fedora for this initiative. The media comes from volunteers from around the globe that coordinate their efforts using Fedora Infrastructure.

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My Mower Runs Linux

After about 6 months of doing research on hardware and embedded systems I finally have a decent working prototype and it runs LINUX! All design, programming, GIS tools, and supporting tools, like field HUD, are all linux (Arch and Ubuntu).

Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt

Desktop App Pick

Midnight Commander

After last week’s app pick many wrote in to suggest we take a look at…

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It’s a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.
Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

Spotlight

The $89 ARM Laptop

Sent in by Dennis K.

PINEBOOK is a 11″ or 14″ notebook powered by the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor used in our popular PINE A64 Single Board Computer. It is lightweight and comes with a full size keyboard and large multi-touch touchpad for students and makers.

Using the mini HDMI port, the PINEBOOK can be connected to a larger external HDMI diplay or TV for presentations.

Build-in MicroSD Card slot allows users to expand their data storage up to 256 GB with a microSD Card (SD, SDHC, SDXC).

Stickers – Super Key Sticker with Any LAS Sticker While They Last!

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Do you want nerdy, boring, file syste… – Straw Poll

Tor Phone Is The “Super-secure Version Of Android”, Developed By Tor Project

Aptly named Tor Phone, this new phone has been designed by Tor developer Mike Perry. It’s based on Copperhead OS, an Android distribution that comes with multiple security enhancement. In the past, Google’s Android security team has accepted many Copperhead patches in their Android code base.

Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security And Privacy | The Tor Blog

Systemic Threats to Software Freedom

Unfortunately, not only is Copperhead the only Android rebuild that supports Verified Boot, but the Google Nexus/Pixel hardware is the only Android hardware that allows the user to install their own keys to retain both the ability to modify the device, as well as have the filesystem security provided by verified boot.

This, combined with Google’s _increasing hostility_towards Android as a fully Open Source platform, as well as the difficulty for _external entities_to keep up with Android’s surprise release and opaque development processes, means that the ability for end-users to _use, study, share, and improve_the Android system are all in great jeopardy.

UbuCon Europe 2016 – Welcome & UBports Announcement – YouTube

FSOSS 2016 – YouTube

Debian putting everything on the /usr

One of the reasons for the change is that the current hierarchy _creates “busy work”_for developers, as Russ Allbery explained in January. He argued the change would mean “we don’t have to try to harass a thousand package maintainers into doing essentially untestable busy-work to try to move things around between __/usr_, _/bin_, and _/lib__to support a tiny handful of systems for which other approaches are available.”

Jay (Microsoft project manager) knows the score when it comes to Linux performance

Tor Phone – The Secure Android

The Tor Project has released Tor Phone–a privacy-focused and secure version of Android mobile OS. It’s based on Copperhead OS, a hardened Android distribution. Tor Phone also uses OrWall to force all the connections over Tor network.

Upcoming XFS Work in Linux v4.8 v4.9 and v4.10+, by Darrick Wong )

For the past year I have been working on a bunch of new features for the
XFS filesystem on Linux. Modern-day XFS is a direct descendant of the
original XFS code from SGI Irix that was donated long ago. The goals
are the same — XFS is intended to behave consistently as it scales to
large storage and many files.

Feedback:

RogueBots – System76

Mail Bag

Name: Craig
Subject: UPS that Will Come via UPS

Message:

Hey Dudes,

Not a direct related Linux question, but it does have to do with my System76 Ratel so there is that. So I have been using my Ratel for a few months now. Real nice machine. plug plug. With the winter approaching and possible electricity failures due to ice and snow, etc.; I am now serious on the lookout for a Uninterrupted Power Supply for my Ratel. Not sure where to start. You guys are IT Gurus, what would you suggest my options should be?

Thanks for LAS and all the shows!

Amazon.com: CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U Smart App LCD UPS 700VA 400W SNMP/HTTP Rackmount: Electronics
Name: Peter D.
Subject: Arch Trackpad Problems solved by GDM
Message:

Noah,

I recently installed Antergos on my Oryx Pro and experienced similar problems with the trackpad.

I found that by replacing LightDM with GDM fixed the problems with the trackpad. After switching to GDM, additional setting show up for the trackpad including tap to click.

Also after switching to GDM, the two finger scrolling worked better in particular the horizontal scrolling.

Call in: 1-877-347-0011

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It’s Not X, It’s Wayland | LINUX Unplugged 172

chris — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:40:10 +0000

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Fedora 25 released!

Each edition is built from a common set of base packages, which form the foundation of the Fedora operating system. As with all new versions of Fedora, Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:

Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine
Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language
Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython
Upgrading Fedora 24 to Fedora 25
mattdm (@mattdm) | Twitter

Microsoft: don’t edit Linux files in Windows

Microsoft warns users of Windows 10 not to edit any Linux files that are part of the Linux subsystem using Windows apps, scripts, console commands or other means.

gmvault: gmail backup software

Gmvault is a tool for backing up your gmail account and never lose email correspondence.
Gmvault is open source and under GNU-AGPL-3.0.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn, subject of a massive DDoS attack in October | TechCrunch

Oracle and Dyn didn’t disclose the price of the deal but we are trying to find out. Dan Primack reports that it’s north of__ $600 million.__We’ve also asked for a comment from Oracle about Dyn’s cyberattack, and whether the wheels were set in motion for this deal before or after the Mirai botnet took down a series of sites in October. Our guess is that it was likely before.

Finally, Our Own OS – Oh Yes! | Nota Bene: Eugene Kaspersky’s Official Blog

So, I’m hoping it’s obvious by now how protecting the IoT and, of course, critical infrastructure (industry, transport, telecoms, etc.) from IT threats is simply _mandatory. _I also hope it’s clear that it’s better — no matter how difficult — to build IoT/infrastructure devices from the very beginning in such a way that hacking them is practically impossible. Indeed, that is a fundamental goal with Kaspersky OS.

bitwarden – Open Source, Cross Platform Password Manager by 8bit Solutions

bitwarden is an easy-to-use, open source password manager that syncs to all of your devices, helping keep you safe online.

DigitalOcean

The new Locked Down

Oryx Pro – System76 Laptops

A guide on provisioning #Vagrant for #Laravel, written by one of our community members! https://t.co/Sn9cofRx8F

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The Feel Benchmark

How do you benchmark how smooth the desktop feels?

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This Old Linux RV | LAS 444

chris — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:44:53 +0000

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Hacking the UPS

This week we install the NAS that was reviewed last episode, and take you through some of the hardware modifications we made to get this Linux rig installed.

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The Synthetic Human RUNS LINUX

Sent in by: Craig T
Hi Guys,

I was watching a documentary over here that is forked from a new TV series Humanshttps://www.channel4.com/programmes/humans which follows a world where synthetic Human’s are part of life.

Anyway the show made a documentary to see how far off creating Synthetic human’s we are : How to build a Human https://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-build-a-human

They appear to be using Ubuntu to program the robot for speech interaction https://imgur.com/a/bBQos its at about 13:48through the video.

Craig

Desktop App Pick

Ranger

Sent in by Tux t

Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with “rifle”, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.

UTF-8 Support
Multi-column display
Preview of the selected file/directory
Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/…)
VIM-like console and hotkeys
Renaming multiple files at once
Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support
True Color Image previews [How to enable]
Video thumbnails [How to enable]

Spotlight

SSH Tunnel

Sent in By Oliver A

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man’s VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn’t require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

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Microsoft SQL On linux is The Real Deal

Now available in a public preview, SQL Server for Linux aims to be full-featured like the Windows edition and a robust, long-term choice for enterprises

Those who wondered what it would be like to run Microsoft SQL Server on Linux now have an answer. Microsoft has released the first public preview of the long-promised product.

Microsoft also wants to make clear this isn’t a “SQL Server Lite” for those satisfied with a reduced feature set. Microsoft has a four-point plan to make this happen.

Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation

It isn’t about Linux alone

And neither is the Linux Foundation. A lot of the projects Microsoft has been helping under the Linux Foundation umbrella are infrastructure and developer-oriented projects that Microsoft’s user base is interested in using.

Microsoft still has a lot of proprietary software, and it’s going to stay that way

Make no mistake: This move does not constitute a signal that Microsoft is preparing to open-source its key products. The Microsoft Windows kernel, Microsoft SQL Server, crucial parts of the Azure stack, and so on—they are all still strong moneymakers for Microsoft in their current incarnations. You can expect them to remain proprietary for a good long while.

This helps Microsoft help itself

A common theme in discussions about Microsoft’s involvements with Linux and open source is that it’s been a self-serving effort. Over time, Microsoft has found more places where its best interests coincide nicely with those of others—but again, in a pragmatic and transactional manner.

There’s still a lot of room for change on Microsoft’s part

Don’t get this wrong, Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation would have been unthinkable even a short time ago. But it is only one of many possible steps that Microsoft could take.

The Five Dollar Tool That Breaks Passwords

The perils of leaving computers unattended just got worse, thanks to a newly released exploit tool that takes only 30 seconds to install a privacy-invading backdoor, even when the machine is locked with a strong password.

PoisonTap, as the tool has been dubbed, runs freely available software on a $5/£4 Raspberry Pi Zero device. Once the payment card-sized computer is plugged into a computer’s USB slot, it intercepts all unencrypted Web traffic, including any authentication cookies used to log in to private accounts. PoisonTap then sends that data to a server under the attacker’s control. The hack also installs a backdoor that makes the owner’s Web browser and local network remotely controllable by the attacker.

It Turns Out The Btrfs RAID 5/6 Issue Isn’t Completely Fixed

_with headlines like “btrfs RAID5/RAID6 support is finally fixed” when that’s very much not the case. Only one bug has been removed for the key use case that makes RAID5 interesting, and it’s just the first of many that still remain in the path of a user trying to recover from a normal disk failure.

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Name: Broken Canoe
Subject: Data Privacy Following The Presidential Election

Hey Chris, – this is something I’ve had a lot of people ask me following Trump’s victory, – “should I keep my data in the cloud on services based in the US now that Trump is President?”

I think it’s a valid question, and one worth discussing on LAS or User Error. The general feeling is that infringements on privacy and civil liberties will only get worse in the coming years. Interested to hear your thoughts, more so that you use Dropbox.

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Subject: Touchpad Issue

in Gnome 3.20 (I think) Gnome switched to use libinput over synaptic for the touchpad lib. you need to remove xf86-input-synaptic and install xf86-input-libinput. but you also need to remove the synaptic config file. Forgive me I don’t remember what/where it is. Antergos may still be setting it up with synaptic

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Qnap’s Thick NAS | LAS 443

chris — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 08:57:21 +0000

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QNAP TS-453A 8G First Hands On

TS-453A :: QNAP

Supports the Linux(r) OS with direct output via HDMI
Dual HDMI output for switching between duplicated and extended desktop options
AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption for efficient cryptographic performance up to 412 MB/s
Supports 4K hardware decoding and transcodes 4K H.264 videos on-the-fly or offline
Quickly find files using a real-time, natural search with Qsirch 2.1
NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution for virtualization
Supports VMware(r), Citrix(r), Microsoft(r) Hyper-V and advanced virtualization features
A hybrid approach to virtualization in one NAS: Virtualization Station & Container Station
Build a personal karaoke system with high-quality audio output with the new OceanKTV app

QNAP TS-453A 8G Virtualization

Virtualization Station allows you to host virtual machines (VM) on the TS-453A, and access them via a web browser or VNC. Virtualization Station supports multiple operating systems, fast VM creation, VM backup & restoration, VM import/export, snapshot, and Device Management for centrally managing VM. Virtualization Station uses SDN (Software-defined Networks) and allows the TS-453A and VMs to share the same LAN port. No longer constrained by physical network performance, high-speed Virtual Switches greatly increases data transfer between VMs as well as between VMs and NAS through the internal interface. You can also download VMs on demand from online VM markets and import them to the TS-453A without any complex procedures.

The TS-453A also features the game-changing container technology for server virtualization. QNAP Container Station exclusively integrates LXC and Docker(r) lightweight virtualization technologies, allowing you to operate multiple isolated Linux(r) systems on the TS-453A as well as download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry(r)

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Desktop App Pick

FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…

A free, self-hostable aggregator… probably the best!

Spotlight

Flatdoc

Flatdoc is a small JavaScript file that fetches Markdown files and renders them
as full pages. Essentially, it’s the easiest way to make open source documentation from Readme files.

No server-side components
No build process needed
Deployable via GitHub Pages
Can fetch GitHub Readme files
Gorgeous default theme (and it’s responsive)
Just create an HTML file and deploy!

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Some Disappointed Apple Fans Are Moving To Ubuntu Linux

Thanks to technology enthusiasts’ underwhelming response to Apple’s October event, a big flock of users turned to the famed Ubuntu laptop seller System76 whose website witnessed about 4-times more traffic than usual. As a result, System76 needed to upgrade the servers to keep up. It could be seen as a sign that users are looking at Linux machines as Mac-alternatives.

MacBook Pro (2016) disappointment pushes some Apple loyalists to Ubuntu Linux

Another fun one to write. I work alongside designers every day, and have next to zero… https://t.co/ojFTfFEYnU pic.twitter.com/SMkgqOiBR3

— Cassidy James (@CassidyJames) November 4, 2016

Ubuntu Core 16 delivers foundation for secure IoT

Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 16 for the Internet of Things (IoT), with regular and reliable security updates, and app stores for intelligent connected devices.

During this year’s Steam Dev Days, Valve was demoing SteamVR on Linux on Vulkan

Another talk about Unity on Linux
Chris’ Favorite part: https://youtu.be/WYdOQ_k6YvI?t=10m38s

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Name: Name: David L
Subject: New Linux Computer

As my father is soon looking at retirement he is going to lose access his work provided laptop. He has asked me for recommendations on a new machine. I’m considering the possibility of moving him over to Linux. He is technologically competent and not afraid of trying something new but is still more comfortable going with a well-known manufacturer. Immediately my first thought was the Dell XPS 13 as he is familiar with them and they also offer Linux support out of the box which is a huge plus as I can purchase the Windows version so that knows he has the option to fallback to Windows if he ends up not liking Linux. However, after looking into the device it appears that these machines are still affected by Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) that can’t be disabled and coil whine issues. Outside of System76 machines is the XPS 13 still the go-to Linux laptop? Do you have any better recommendations? Thanks.

David

Name: Name: James S
Subject: Set GDM Orientation

I was able to resolve my GDM issue by doing the following: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Rotate_login_screen

Let me know if this works.

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A Gift for Future Chris | User Error 7

chris — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:17:07 +0000

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Everybody’s Keyboard Fighting | CR 227

chris — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:08:44 +0000

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Hoopla

Apple: Dash developer had two accounts, 25 apps, and almost a thousand fraudulent reviews

Dash V Apple What Does it Mean?

The facts
Apple’s Case
The scary part
Can’t we all just grow up a smidge?
Wider consequences?

How It Feels to Learn Javascript in 2016

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All Aboard Ubuntu 16.10 | LAS 439

chris — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:12:05 +0000

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Ubuntu 16.10 Review

Ubuntu 16.10
Super fast boot into Unity (set your login to auto and give it a shot, tell me that’s not crazy fast)
For me personally I never expected to be this surprised by Ubuntu 16.10. I was expecting just another simpler interaction. And that’s exactly what I got, and I didn’t even know I wanted it.
Unity 7 is fast, simple, and now runs are lower end hardware and VM’s a lot better.
This is the simple, clean, modern looking desktop I’m comfortable recommending to friends and loved ones.
But my biggest surprises came when I found myself reloading studio production machines to Ubuntu MATE 16.10.
From a desktop environment perspective, we need our desktops to be light on the GPU, simple in their function, and steady. MATE has played that role for a while now on top of Arch in the JB studio.
But Ubuntu 16.10’s based on Kernel 4.8 (which brings Skylake improvements, and USB capture/camera device improvements). 16.10’s MATE flavor also ships with MATE Desktop 1.16. The first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop.
The roll out of the Unity 8 Preview is very humble. Very clear on what state this is in, and how end users can play and improve it.

Kernel 4.8 Features

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

The biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug

NFS Client Sees Some Performance Improvements With Linux 4.8 – Phoronix

NFS client updates for Linux 4.8, the next major kernel release, include several performance-related features, more aggressive caching, optimized several code paths, SUNRPC updates, pNFS improvements, and various bug fixes. The performance changes for the NFS client in Linux 4.8 include removing a “performance killer.”

Support for overclocking AMD graphic cards
Initial NVIDIA Pascal support in Nouveau driver
Raspberry Pi 3 SoC support
ACPI Low-Power Idle support
Support for the Microsoft Surface 3 touch screen
Wider range of audio device, USB and webcam drivers

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak | Ubuntu Insights

The current experience comes with a minimal set of applications; a browser, terminal and systems settings. Here are a few things you might like to try to flesh out your Unity 8 session and get the most from it.

What to do with Unity 8 now – whizzy.org

The main driver for getting Unity 8 in to 16.10 was the chance to get it in the hands of users so we can get feedback and bug reports. If you find something doesn’t work, please, log a bug. We don’t monitor every forum or comments section on the web so the absolute best way to provide your feedback to people who can act on it is a bug report with clear steps on how to reproduce the issue (in the case of crashes) or an explanation of why you think a particular behaviour is wrong. This is how you get things changed or fixed.

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 | Ubuntu MATE

The work to port MATE Desktop to GTK3+ has been ongoing for a couple
of years and Ubuntu MATE is the first major distribution to ship a
full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop. And the absolute latest
release too, MATE Desktop 1.16! Firefox and LibreOffice are also GTK3+
only in Yakkety.

This has been no small undertaking, we’ve changed toolkits twice this
cycle. First from GTK 2.24.x to GTK 3.18, and then again to GTK 3.20. The
themes required two significant upgrades during this process.
We’ve also upgraded through three MATE Desktop versions this cycle,
starting from 1.12 to 1.14, to 1.15 and finally to 1.16.

We originally planned to complete the migration to GTK3+ for the
Ubuntu MATE 17.04 release, but thanks to those of you who have generously
supported the Ubuntu MATE crowd-funding we’ve achieved that
objective well ahead of schedule!

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 Hits the Streets with MATE 1.16 Desktop and GTK+ 3 Goodness

newest _MATE 1.16 desktop environment_based on the latest GTK+ 3.20 technologies, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is probably the most important milestone of the official Ubuntu flavor built around the MATE Desktop

Being re-worked from scratch, more or less, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 ships with the ability for users to uninstall default applications without issues.

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Desktop App Pick

Internet DJ Console

Ability to broadcast LIVE audio through icecast. Internet DJ Console is a project started in March 2005 to provide a powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.
Because of the large number of streaming applications that already existed but did little more than stream a pair of audio channels or a fixed playlist, it was decided that IDJC would be the opposite and simulate audio hardware to cut down the expense of creating a home studio.

Unlike Mixxx is designed to stream live audio not just pre-recorded MP3s

Spotlight [Ben F Switched to Linux for Good] (Video in Dropbox)

Ben gives us a little show and tell.

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Devs Mark KDE’s 20th Birthday By Re-Releasing KDE 1!

Yup, it’s the KDE project’s 20th birthday. And to help mark the mammoth milestone the KDE Restoration Project is re-releasing KDE 1!

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

So many Linux nerds are happy right now #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/UlV4ZVXVzz

— Kevin Lee (@infinite_lee) October 12, 2016

As mentioned before, SteamVR on Linux will use Vulkan and not OpenGL. This is probably one of the main things that held up SteamVR/HTC Vive support on Linux.

Collabora Has Been Working On A Fully-Open HTC Vive Driver – Phoronix

While we found out today Valve is finally expected to show a VR Linux demo likely using the HTC Vive, it turns out Collabora has been working on their own Linux VR effort with a focus on a fully open-source driver for the HTC Vive for the OSVR platform.

FreeBSD Takes Open Source to 11 with Latest Release

New architecture support, performance improvements, toolchain enhancements and support for contemporary wireless chipsets.

Mad Max to release on 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, being ported by Feral Interactive

Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.

The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.

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Nov. 11-12. #MeetBSDCA

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Name: Sam S

Subject: Barebones Linux Follow Up

Message: Hi guys, I’m writing in about the LAS438 question regarding a “barebones” distro. I’d like to give a shameless plug to my set of “GeckoLinux” spins based on openSUSE. Among the 8 spins, I actually have one called “BareBones”, which is basically an openbox desktop with Firefox, rxvt, and the YaST configuration tools, nothing else. There’s a BareBones based on openSUSE Leap (long-term fixed-release cycle) and another for Tumbleweed (super-stable rolling release). You can download it at geckolinux.github.io or clone it on SuseStudio.

Name: Ghislain A.

Subject: Ghislain is looking for a distro to do the following three things

Full Disk Encryption

Installation on RAID 1

Support multi screen three by default

Full Message: Hi Noah !

I still have my windows machine but i go rid of the last windows software necessary to run my business bu going webbased for my billing. For my workstation as my main working PC at my company i wanted to run a linux KDE desktop ( i love the layout of the plasma 5 desktop) but gnome would do also, i do not like at all the ubuntu unity one so i prefer to avoid it but i can live with it if i have raid and encryption.

On my research i had quite a lot of issue as most distro i tried to install do not support the basic i need “out of the box”. Those “basics” are:

full disk encryption ( i use truecrypt on windows)
installation on a raid 1
support multi screen (3) by default

For now i do not find any distro that support the raid 1 thing in the installer.

I have to manually do some magic mojo to have a simple install in raid1 in the installer.

The second challenge is that allmost all the non KDE 5+ distro i tried did not support the 3 screen i have with my 2 low power AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series cards. The others would see 2 screen and not the third or see it but do not allow to move the mouse to it.

So right now i have kubuntu and antegros that is working , the last one was installed but i had to do some mojo to install it with raid and i do not have encryption so i must restart my install.

This is where you can help Do you know of a distro you think can support those simple business need (raid1, encryption, multi screen) without the need to manually tweak many thing by hand and pray no error was made ? Hope you do

Ghislain.

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Plasma 5.8 Shines Bright | LAS 438

chris — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:19:33 +0000

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Plasma 5.8 Review

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Released, This Is What’s New

Plasma 5.8 LTS “marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users,” project lead Jonathan Riddell says.

KDE Turning 20, Launches Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop To Celebrate Its Birthday

Modifier-only shortcuts, a highly requested functionality for the Plasma desktop, has been added. This allows you to launch an application by pressing a Meta key. The inclusion of Wayland to the Plasma desktop has facilitated the addition of this feature which has also been backported the X11.

Another notable feature is the support for right-to-left scripts like Urdu, Hebrew, etc. The widget explorer, window switcher, activity manager can be seen on the right side of the screen for such languages.

Wayland debuted on Plasma with 5.4 release. Since then, it has been continuously improved for stability and features. In the Plasma 5.8 LTS, a lot of work has been done on Wayland which now supports the GTK+ toolkit. The support for multitouch gestures and touchscreen devices has been enhanced, although, no default gestures are actually present as of now. The X11 and Wayland-based applications can now have a shared clipboard.

Review Notes

Now if you don’t recall KDE Neon is not a distro per sey, rather it’s a great way to play with KDE. Basically you get the Ubuntu base and the KDE Plasma Desktop and that’s it! Everything NOT KDE related is maintained by Canonical/Ubuntu. KDE Neon only cares about KDE’s stack.
They provide downloads to make initial setup easier for users. You could just do minimal install of Ubuntu and then install Neon PPA to essentially get the same thing.
They did however fix the wifi bug that some users experienced with Kubuntu so neon WILL fix other things if they need to but basically they “just care about KDE”
If you need more infomation go back and take a look at LAS409 where Chris and I deep dive into what exactly is Neon
The project leaders have said “If your last dalliance with a KDE desktop was somewhere south of now it may be time to ‘re+assess’, the team say. “Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.“ Well as it turns out my last experience with KDE was somewhere south of now so it’s high time we take a looksee.
Neon makes sure that KDE’s entire stack is compatible with Ubuntu including updates. Every new release of KDE’s stack will be managed in Neon so if someone wants Ubuntu + KDE then Neon will always be up to date where as Kubuntu has the whole 6 months hold back still.
5.7 to 5.8 is mostly a polish release but a few things stand out for improvements
5.8 offers a very cohesive design, their tag line is “everything is designed to match the KDE experience, from startup to shutdown.” The breeze theme makes sure that everything looks amazing
Right off the bat the fact that it’s an 18 month support cycle has me hooked.
The nice thing I noticed about Plasma does colour scheme independent of theme. As such you can have any theme with any color scheme. As of the most recent versions of plasma this includes the colours in Icon’s of the default icon theme.
I’ve always said there are a few things that make or break a distro for me. Firefox, Thunderbird, Telegram a terminal application and the ability to launch applications with the super key. Up until now we’ve had to rely on the super+space to launch an application. I was pleased to learn that launching Telegram is now as simple as superkey and typing it. Additionally unlike Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity I can launch Telegram immediately after installing it. I don’t need to reboot.
Their package manager formally Moo On but now branded as Discover is a great package manager. Muon or Discover is an advanced program with a graphical program that as it’s name obviously implies will allow you to install and remove software. Additionally It will automatically notify you for updates (in the lower right hand corner), but you can use it at anytime to install new package
Michael Tunnel our producer who uses this distro as his daily driver and has been invaluable to my review is pretty excited about something that seems like it’s just a minor improvement. The virtual desktop switcher applet now has an option to show only the current screen in multi+screen setups. This seemingly small improvement is great for him because it makes it easier to create the GNOME workflow in Plasma”
Last thing to note is the improved global shortcuts. Global shortcuts configuration has been simplified and global shortcuts can now be configured to jump to specific tasks within an application via jump list functionality.

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Desktop App Pick

PDFtk

PDFtk Server is our command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs.
It is also used by OEMs and ISVs to give their products the ability to manipulate PDFs. A commercial license is required to distribute PDFtk with your commercial product.

pdftk contract.pdf cat 1-9 output firstnine.pdf
pdftk firstnine.pdf lastpage.pdf output signedcontract.pdf

Spotlight

Paperwork by twostairs

Paperwork – OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep

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X crash during Fedora update when system has hybrid graphics and systemd-udev is in update

Here’s the short version: especially if your system has hybrid graphics (that is, it has an Intel video adapter and also an AMD or NVIDIA one, and it’s supposed to switch to the most appropriate one for what you’re currently doing — NVIDIA calls this ‘Optimus’), DON’T UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM BY RUNNING DNF FROM THE DESKTOP. (Also if you have multiple graphics adapters that aren’t strictly ‘hybrid graphics’; the bug affects any case with multiple graphics adapters).

elementary blog — We’ve Joined the Snap Format TOB!

Yesterday, Jamie Bennett had the pleasure of announcing the members of the new Snap Format Technical Oversight Board. This board has been formed to guide the shaping of the Snap package format and ensure that it remains useful for everyone. We’re very excited to have Cody Garver sit on this board as a representative of elementary!

Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.19 Snap Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical’s Sergio Schvezov announced recently the release and immediate availability of the Snapcraft 2.19 tool for creating Snap universal packages, in the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos.

Flatpak 0.6.12 Linux Application Sandboxing Makes Kernel Keyring Non-Containable

New features in Flatpak 0.6.12 include support for the “–device=kvm” option to be able to access /dev/kvm, support for the “–allow=multiarch” parameter to allow running 32-bit (i686) code in a 64-bit (x86_64) application, better error messages, robustness fixes for the build-commit-from command, and partial revert in application ID rules.

Pirate Kodi Add-Ons Gain Massive Popularity

Streaming piracy is on the rise with the popular media center Kodi at the center of attention. While Kodi itself is a neutral platform, millions of people use third-party add-ons to turn it into the ultimate pirate machine. In less than a year, the leading add-on repository has seen the number of unique users double, which may be just the beginning.

Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel

“I’m really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew just before doing the 4.8 release, because they cause problems, and now it is in 4.8 (and that buggy crap is marked for stable too),” he wrote in a message to the Linux kernel mailing list. “In particular, I just got this — kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swap.h:276 — and the end result was a dead kernel.”

KDE Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with the Release of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS will be supported until the year 2018

and it shall receive no less than nine point releases. The first one, KDE Plasma 5.8.1, will come next week, on October 11, followed one week later by the second one, KDE Plasma 5.8.2. On November 1, KDE Plasma 5.8.3 will arrive with more improvements, and KDE Plasma 5.8.4 should see the light of day three weeks later, on November 22, 2016._

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OpenMediaVault vs FreeNAS | LAS 436

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OpenMediaVault in Practice Review

OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.

OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.

Ok Chris, what have you decided for your NAS build? FREENAS? : LinuxActionShow

Overview

GPLv3 license
Debian Linux
ExtJS
AJAX
PHP
Modular design
Event driven configuration change management

Has Support for Raspberry Pi and Odroid-C2

OpenMediaVault 2.x

Debian 7 (Wheezy)
+Revised GUI supports configuration of WiFi, VLAN, et a

OpenMediaVault 3.x

In development for a while now
Based on Debian 8 (Jessie).
Developers are required to update their plugins to work with OMV3.
OMV 3.x

The Setup

NUC

4th Generation Intel Core i5-4250U processor
2014 Model BOXD54250WYKH1
4 USB3.0 Ports

DISK

WD 4TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive
Two USB 3.0 expansion ports on back give cramped NUC more USB
Up to 290 MB/s file transfers
Dual-drive enclosure
WD RED drives
Hardware RAID controller
LED dummy lights for each drive

Have not tested a drive failure

ANG DISK

Synology DS412+
Just over three years old, running great, still getting updates.
205.68 MB/sec Reading, 182.66 MB/sec Writing
2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support
Features SuperSpeed USB 3.0
CPU Passive Cooling Technology & System Fan Redundancy

OpenMediaVault 3 Pros

Debian 8 is very secure and solid, around for a while.
I live in a systemd world.

OpenMediaVault Super Plugins:

Greyhole is worth the price of adition alone.
SnapRAID could give you real data protection.

How Greyhole Works

The user defines it’s storage pool by listing all the paths of the different disks he wants to use.
When files are added on Greyhole shares’ Landing Zones, the Greyhole daemon moves those files into 1+ of the paths defined as the storage pool. It then replaces the original file (on the share) by a symbolic link pointing to one of the copy created in the pool.
Samba is configured to use opaque symbolic links, i.e. what are in fact symbolic links in the shares appear as normal files to clients.

OpenMediaVault 3 Cons

Base system and plugins are still a moving target.
No UI to connect to external NFS shares, NFS mounts don’t show up in UI.
No built in UI to configure UPS support, plugin.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) plugin finished

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Moto Mods, Require You to Run Linux

The Moto Mods Development Kit (MDK), allows you to contribute to the ecosystem and bring your own Moto Mod to life.

Desktop App Pick

Greyhole – Redundant Storage Pooling using Samba

An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

Next Steps

Try out QNAP’s Ubuntu Running NAS
NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution for server virtualization
Supports VMware(r), Citrix(r), and Microsoft(r) Hyper-V and advanced virtualization features
AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption for efficient cryptographic performance up to 412 MB/s
Supports hardware decoding and transcode 4K (H.264) videos on-the-fly or offline
Dual HDMI outputs for switching between mirroring and extended desktop options
Supports the Linux(r) OS with direct output via HDMI
Equipped with 24-bit digital to analog converter (DAC) for amplifier and clear audio
Check out the new unRAID Server OS 6.2 d

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Upcoming OSS Events

Come say hi at the OpenDaylight Summit this Tuesday, Sept 27th.
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SeaGL, Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is coming up November 11th and 12th, 2016.
Ubuntu Online Summit: 15-16 November 2016

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Lenovo confirms that Linux won’t work on Yoga 900 and 900S laptops

Device maker Lenovo today issued a statement confirming that its Yoga 900 and 900S convertible laptops cannot boot Linux — only Windows 10.

“requires very specific, complex and unique drivers that require even greater amounts of testing, to ensure class-leading performance with Windows 10”.

“support our Yoga products and our industry-leading 360-hinge” before stating it “does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems”.

Lenovo: No, we didn’t plot with Microsoft to block Linux on our laptops

Compounding matters, a ‘Lenovo Product Expert’ seemingly responded to a Best Buy customer’s complaint online with the following:

“This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft.”

If Linux won’t install on your laptop, blame Intel not Microsoft

Here’s the problem: Linux doesn’t support internal solid-state drives in RAID (Intel RST) mode. Linux can see the drive in AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode. However, certain Lenovo laptops don’t allow the mode to be changed in the BIOS. You can boot Linux from a USB drive, but not install it on the laptop’s SSD.

Hardware hack enables Linux support on Lenovo Yoga 900 ISK2, undermining Lenovo’s statement

A hardware hack has enabled AHCI support on the Lenovo Yoga 900 ISK2, undermining Lenovo and Microsoft’s claims that Linux is “missing drivers”.

Unfortunately, the procedure to flash the BIOS is too complicated for most people because the person who did it had to use external flashing equipment to bypass Lenovo’s ROM signature check and load the modified BIOS, and he can’t provide the BIOS ROM because it only supports his computer and has private info in it, such as the Windows 10 license for his machine.

Request Lenovo Yoga 900 BIOS Unlock / AHCI enable

GNOME 3.22 Released, This Is What’s New

Software, the GNOME app store, is looking a lot nicer in GNOME 3.22.

MATE 1.16 Desktop Environment Officially Released with More GTK+ 3 Improvements

“After 6 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.16. We’d like to thank every MATE contributor for their help making this release possible,” says Martin Wimpress. “The release is focused on improving GTK3+ compatibility, migrating components to newer libraries, fixing bugs and code hygene.”

GTK+ 3.22 GUI Toolkit Released for GNOME 3.22 As Devs Prepare for GTK+ 4.0

“The 3.22 release is the last development release in the GTK+ 3. series. GTK+ 3.22 will be maintained as the long-term stable version of GTK+ 3, and new development will move to the GTK+ 3.90.x releases. To learn more about the GTK+ roadmap, read: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk,” says Matthias Clasen in today’s announcement.
“”

GTK+ 3.22 released

Major new features include:

The Wayland backend has support for drawing tablets
The Wayland backend requires xdg-shell v6
We have a gesture API for tablet support, GtkPadController
GdkMonitor offers an API for richer information about connected outputs
GdkGLContext supports GLES
GtkScrolledWindow has new max-content-width/height properties that can
affect the sizing behavior
GtkShortcutLabel is a new widget that can display keyboard shortcuts
in the same way that GtkShortcutWindow does
A number of GTK+ APIs will now transparently use portals when used
in a Flatpak sandbox, including GtkFileChooserNative, GtkPrintOperation,
gtk_show_uri.
Versioning and long term stability promise in GTK+ – GTK+ Development Blog

Mail Bag

Name: Kristiyan D

Subject: Proper use of Touchpad

Message: Hello guys. My question may be silly but I am trying from a year and more to find a proper way to use and configure touchpad/clickpad on GNU/Linux. Could you suggest me some information online because I am looking in particular how to use it (position of hands), proper configuration under GNU/Linux (palm tracking, sensitivity, coasting, scrolling, etc)?

Name: Jeff P

Subject: Wallpaper Changer

Message: Hi Chris.

I think it was in last weeks LAS that you were showing your desktop with the wallpaper changer app that took random wallpapers from an online source and set them for you. I like doing something similar because it is good to have variety. You said you are just collecting your favourite background images to a single folder so that you can cycle through them instead randomly grabbing from an online source.

Because wallpaper slideshows do not seem to be baked in to the GNOME DE and I cannot find a wallpaper changer that I like I am instead using a script which I keep running in the background to change my wallpaper every 10 minutes. I don’t know if I already shared it with you but here is my script for changing wallpapers.

#!/bin/bash
WP_DIR="/home/drthpnguin/Dropbox/Wallpapers/HD-Wallpapers"
cd "$WP_DIR"
while [ 1 ] 
  do
  set -- * 
  length=$#
  random_num=$((( $RANDOM % ($length) ) + 1)) 
  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$WP_DIR/${!random_num}"
  sleep 600
done

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