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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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Follow Up / Catch Up

An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

• GitHub – ynsta/steamcontroller: Standalone Steam Controller Driver
• Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

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Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

• All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
• Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
• Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
• Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
• Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

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Leo Laprote Tries out Arch Linux

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• Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
• Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
• Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
• Turkey Feed

Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

• Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
• Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
• Install unzip on Ubuntu
• unzip the package
• Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
• Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
• Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
• Quick Start – Traccar
• guest access / embedding? – Traccar
• Public/View-only-Webinterface (no login required) · Issue #96 · tananaev/traccar-web · GitHub

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This week on the show, we’ve got something pretty different. We went to a Linux convention and asked various people if they’ve ever tried BSD and what they know about it. Stay tuned for that, all this week’s news and, of course, answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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LUKS in OpenBSD

• Last week, we were surprised to find out that DragonFlyBSD has support for dm-crypt, sometimes referred to as LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup)
• It looks like they might not be the only BSD with support for it for much longer, as OpenBSD is currently reviewing a patch for it as well
• LUKS would presumably be an additional option in OpenBSD’s softraid system, which already provides native disk encryption
• Support hasn’t been officially committed yet, it’s still going through testing, but the code is there if you want to try it out and report your findings
• If enabled, this might pave the way for the first (semi-)cross platform encryption scheme since the demise of TrueCrypt (and maybe others BSDs will get it too in time)

FreeBSD gets 64bit Linux emulation

• For those who might be unfamiliar, FreeBSD has an emulation layer to run Linux-only binaries (as rare as they may be)
• The most common use case is for desktop users, enabling them to run proprietary applications like Adobe Flash or Skype
• Similar systems can also be found in NetBSD and OpenBSD (though disabled by default on the latter)
• However, until now, it’s only supported binaries compiled for the i386 architecture
• This new update, already committed to -CURRENT, will open some new possibilities that weren’t previously possible
• Meanwhile, HardenedBSD considers removing the emulation layer entirely

BSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Nagoya

• We’ve covered the Japanese NetBSD users group setting up lots of machines at various conferences in the past, but now they’re expanding
• Their latest report includes many of the NetBSD things you’d expect, but also a couple OpenBSD machines
• Some of the NetBSD ones included a Power Mac G4, SHARP NetWalker, Cubieboard2 and the not-so-foreign Raspberry Pi
• One new addition of interest is the OMRON LUNA88k, running the luna88k port of OpenBSD
• While at the event, NetBSD even revived their older luna68k port
• There was even an old cell phone running Windows games on NetBSD
• Check the mailing list post for some links to all of the nice pictures

LLVM introduces OpenMP support

• One of the things that has kept some people in the GCC camp is the lack of OpenMP support in LLVM
• According to the blog post, it “enables Clang users to harness full power of modern multi-core processors with vector units”
• With Clang being the default in FreeBSD, Bitrig and OS X, and with some other BSDs exploring the option of switching, the need for this potential speed boost was definitely there
• This could also open some doors for more BSD in the area of high performance computing, putting an end to the current Linux monopoly

Interview – Eric, FSF, John, Jose, Kris and Stewart

Various “man on the street” style mini-interviews

News Roundup

BSD-licensed gettext replacement

• If you’ve ever installed ports on any of the BSDs, you’ve probably had GNU’s gettext pulled in as a dependency
• Wikipedia says “gettext is an internationalization and localization (i18n) system commonly used for writing multilingual programs on Unix-like computer operating systems”
• A new BSD-licensed rewrite has begun, with the initial version being for NetBSD (but it’s likely to be portable)
• If you’ve got some coding skills, get involved with the project – the more freely-licensed replacements, the better

Unix history git repo

• A git repository was recently created to show off some Unix source code history
• The repository contains 659 thousand commits and 2306 merges
• You can see early 386BSD commits all the way up to some of the more modern FreeBSD code
• If you want to browse through the giant codebase, it can be a great history lesson
• Paper with additional details and methodology

PCBSD 10.1.2 and Lumina updates

• We mentioned 10.1.1 being released last week (and all the cool features a couple weeks before) but now 10.1.2 is out
• This minor update contained a few hotfixes: RAID-Z installation, cache and log devices and the text-only installer in UEFI mode
• There’s also a new post on the PCBSD blog about Lumina, answering some frequently asked questions and giving a general status update

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Manufactures claims software integrated with hardware means the end user never truly owns the device, and simply owns a license to use it. Our panel discusses the real world ramifications of this.

Plus MacBook Linux woes, the quick look at the ThinkPad Yoga 3 running Linux, the biggest systemd myth busted & more!

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Novena | Crowd Supply

A new open-hardware computing platform, flexible and powerful, designed for use as a desktop, laptop, or standalone board.

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about Free Software and open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

Catch Up:

• elogind — The systemd project’s “logind”, extracted to a standalone package

Elogind is an attempt to rip logind out of systemd. logind integrates with PAM to expose the org.freedesktop.login1 interface over D-Bus. It also integrates with polkit to let polkit know who is logged in at the console. Gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon both have logind integration of some kind, using the d-bus interface, and actually the logind support is necessary for basic things to work like backlight control and suspend/resume.
Anyway. I forked the systemd repo and removed most of the non-logind parts.

• andywingo/elogind

• Neil McGovern Elected Debian Project Lead his Platform included adding PPA’s to Debian

The votes have been tallied and Neil McGovern has been elected as the new Debian Project Leader. Neil McGovern was elected on a platform which promotes the implementation of personal package archives (PPAs) which have been popular in the Ubuntu community for years

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Today we count over 25 million users and the numbers keep growing rapidly. The demand is coming both from enterprise and consumer segments.

• Instant Messaging in Fedora Workstation | Brno’s hat

Because Empathy no longer has any user experience advantages and its development prospects are zero, we’ve been thinking about replacing it with something else. Pretty much the only other GTK+ IM client with support for a wide range of networks is _Pidgin_which used to be the default client before it was replaced by Empathy

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We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership | WIRED

• In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”

It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.

• Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• Kerry Adams, hasn’t been able to fix an expensive transplanter because he doesn’t have access to the diagnostic software he needs. He’s not alone: many farmers are opting for older, computer-free equipment.

• Some companies have even leveraged the DMCA to stop owners from modifying the programming on those products.

• What does any of that have to do with copyright? Owners, tinkerers, and homebrew “hackers” must copy programming so they can modify it. Product makers don’t like people messing with their stuff, so some manufacturers place digital locks over software. Breaking the lock, making the copy, and changing something could be construed as a violation of copyright law.

• And that’s how manufacturers turn tinkerers into “pirates”—even if said “pirates” aren’t circulating illegal copies of anything.

• John Deere: The company argues that allowing people to alter the software—even for the purpose of repair—would “make it possible for pirates, third-party developers, and less innovative competitors to free-ride off the creativity, unique expression and ingenuity of vehicle software.”

• The pièce de résistance in John Deere’s argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor’s programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle’s entertainment system.

• General Motors told the Copyright Office that proponents of copyright reform mistakenly “conflate ownership of a vehicle with ownership of the underlying computer software in a vehicle.”

• Other automakers pointed out that owners who make unsanctioned modifications could alter their vehicles in bad ways. They could tweak them to go faster. Or change engine parameters to run afoul of emissions regulations.

• GM went so far as to argue locking people out helps innovation.

• This week, Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Jared Polis will introduce the “Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act of 2015, which would substantially improve the DMCA process. Lawmakers in Minnesota and New York have introduced “Fair Repair” legislation that assert an owner’s right to repair electronic equipment they’ve purchased. They want equal access to repair information, replacement parts, and security updates.

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During a recent passionate speech Richard Stallman said users of proprietary software are victims, we’ll debate of that’s true & play other clips from his speech.

Then we’ll look at the recent exodus of Mac developers, ponder if this a trend worth paying attention to & if Linux is ready to take advantage of it.

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C3TV – Freedom in your computer and in the net

For freedom in your own computer, the software must be free. For freedom on the internet, we must organize against surveillance, censorship, SaaSS and the war against sharing.

Macs Exodus

Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can’t talk anymore.

Geoff Wozniak went back to desktop Linux after almost a decade on OS X (Update: He appears to have taken the post down). It’s just one person’s story, but many of his cited reasons resonate widely. I suspect the biggest force keeping stories like this from being more common is that Windows is still worse overall and desktop Linux is still too much of a pain in the ass for most people. But it should be troubling if a lot of people are staying on your OS because everything else is worse, not necessarily because they love it.

• What it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.org

Why I quit OS X – Curried lambda

After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personal work, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best tech decision I made last year.

Furthermore, I found that I had stopped using the majority of the primary apps that ship with OS X: Mail, Safari, iTunes, and Apple Creativity Apps/iLife. For the most part, I ran essentially three apps: Firefox, MailMate, and iTerm2. Most of my work was done in terminals. The culture of the operating system at this point was more about sharing than personal productivity.

In short, I was working against the grain of the environment. It was a gradual transition, but OS X went from a useful tool set to get my work done to an obnoxious ecosystem of which I no longer wanted to be a part.

More damning than the lack of personal connection, though, was the complete lack of transparency and general decline in software quality, as I perceived it.

At this point, my default position on Apple software in OS X has moved from “probably good” to “probably not OK”. They seem more interested in pumping out quantity by way of more upgrades. It’s death by a thousand cuts, but it’s death nonetheless.

I’ve gone back to a desktop system running Linux (for now) and while I consider it markedly inferior to OS X in terms of usability, it feels like a personal computer again. I’m enjoying the experience and I look forward to working with it, even when it’s a monumental pain in the ass.

Panic Blog » The 2014 Panic Report

This is the biggest problem we’ve been grappling with all year: we simply don’t make enough money from our iOS apps. We’re building apps that are, if I may say so, world-class and desktop-quality. They are packed with features, they look stunning, we offer excellent support for them, and development is constant. I’m deeply proud of our iOS apps. But… they’re hard to justify working on.

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This week we\’ll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we\’ll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now – the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

• The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder
• We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book
• \”For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD\’s internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11\”
• OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now
• You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it\’s available publicly
• 5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these – tell Austin we sent you!

pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

• This year\’s pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd
• There\’s a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks
• Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it\’s pretty informal
• Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

BSDMag issue for March 2014

• The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue
• Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article
• The Linux article trend seems to continue… hmm

Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

• We\’ve gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS
• Here we\’ve got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build
• The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it\’s not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it\’s more expensive
• Regular RAM also has \”special\” issues with ZFS and pool corruption
• Long post, so check out the whole thing if you\’ve been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits
• While we\’re on the topic of FreeNAS…

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EdgeBSD (slides)

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

• This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@
• Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team
• \”FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how
  organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with
  the for-profit companies I work for\”
• We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

NetBSD on the Playstation 2

• Who doesn\’t want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?
• The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived
• It\’s using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn\’t have much GCC support
• Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

The FreeBSD Challenge update

• Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey
• This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren\’t working because of his clock being way off
• After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases
• Maybe he should\’ve just read our NTP tutorial!

PCBSD weekly digest

• The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes
• The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and… destroyed
• New language localization project is in progress
• Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

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We\’ll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even… the winner of our tutorial contest! It\’s a big show, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD foundation\’s 2013 fundraising results

• The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013
• $768,562 from 1659 donors
• Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture
• \”We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon.\”
• A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook)

OpenSSH 6.5 released

• We mentioned the CFT last week, and it\’s finally here!
• New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein\’s Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it)
• Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA
• Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can\’t even attempt to login
• New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force
• Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one
• Portable version already in FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
• Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
• Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL!

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

• In 2000, MWL wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: \”It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now.\”
• This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent idiocy from Richard Stallman
• Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL
• Check out the full post if you\’re one of those people that gets into license arguments
• The takeaway is \”BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone.\”

OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black

• Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi
• A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today!
• He describes it as \”everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black\”
• It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds
• Could be a really fun weekend project if you\’re interested in small or embedded devices

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OpenBSD\’s signify infrastructure

Tutorial

Running an NTP server

News Roundup

Getting started with FreeBSD

• A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD
• The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he\’s worked with
• He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users
• The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics – 4 videos so far

More OpenBSD hackathon reports

• As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience
• He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work
• This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there

X11 in a jail

• We\’ve gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can!
• A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes
• Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail
• Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial for ideas
• Ongoing Discussion

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0 \”Joule Edition\” finally released!
• AMD graphics are now officially supported
• GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
• PCBSD also got a mention in eweek

Feedback/Questions

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• Reminder: if you\’re on FreeBSD 8.3 for some reason, upgrade soon – it\’s reaching EOL
• Reminder: if you\’re using pkgng, be sure to update to 1.2.6 for a security issue
• The winner of the tutorial contest is… Dusko! We didn\’t get as many submissions as we wanted, but his Nagios monitoring tutorial was extremely well-done. It\’ll be featured in a future episode. Congrats! Send us a picture when it arrives.
• Allan got his pillow in the mail as well, it\’s super awesome

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Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we\’ll ask if Android is Stallman\’s worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it\’s current limitations over the next few years.

Then it\’s your feedback, and our follow up!

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• Arch Linux – News: Deprecation of /etc/sysctl.conf

• In your last episode of LAS you talked about note taking programs and I was wondering if you\’ve ever tried Cherrytree? If so, what are your thoughts?

• giuspen

• System76 – Ubuntu Desktop – Leopard Extreme

— Android Love Lost —

• RMS: \’Is Android Really Free Software?\’

Mail Sack:

• Arch Challenge Follow Up

The post The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Fedora lit the web on fire when they announced a new deal with Microsoft, but is this just a case of Fedora being pragmatic? Or are they setting the stage for a Microsoft controlled hardware universe? We debate!

Then: Podcasting software on Linux, and our thoughts on crowd funded open source software.

Plus so much more!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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