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A Real Pain in the Flash | LINUX Unplugged 161

chris — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:03:31 +0000

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KDE Neon Developer OS Switches To Plasma Wayland By Default

KDE developers have decided to switch to Wayland by default for KDE Neon’s unstable/developer OS.

Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default

This authorization corrects a bureaucratic mistake: FESCo previously authorized the change for Fedora 24, but the Workstation working group decided to defer the change to Fedora 25, then forgot to request authorization again for Fedora 25 as required. An objection was raised on the grounds that the proper change procedure was not followed, so to sidestep this objection we decided to request permission again from FESCo, which granted the request. Authorization to proceed with the change does not mean the decision to proceed has been made; the change could still be deferred, just as it was for Fedora 24.

Let’s pretend that by Fedora 25, Wayland becomes the default display server and all of its major bugs are fixed. What tangible benefits would this bring to Linux users — gamers, developers, etc.? : Fedora

ext4 break with 32,000 Files

I ran into a bug with the ext4 filesystem that causes it to fail if there are more than about 32,000 files in a directory. The technical reasons for this are boring and I really don’t care why; I just want to trust that my filesystem will do the right thing.

How to flash Meizu Pro 5 to Ubuntu Touch From the start the Meizu Pro 5

I could have done with this last week Having gone through the process myself, this document is great and all you need

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Adobe Flash goes crawling back to Linux for some security

The official announcementsaid: “Today we are updating the beta channel with Linux NPAPI Flash Player by moving it forward and in sync with the modern release branch (currently version 23). We have done this significant change to improve security and provide additional mitigation to the Linux community.”_

FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption

Comey’s intention to renew the fight against encryption came about because the issue “has dipped below public consciousness now.” The wait to address encryption until 2017 comes because “next year we can have an adult conversation in this country” about it.

KDE Software Store to Soon Offer Downloads in Snap, Flatpak and AppImage Formats

Revealing the fact that users might be able to soon download their favorite open source applications in the new Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage binary formats, which allows you to use those apps on any distro that supports them.

elementary OS has a Countdown

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FreeBSD Now Has A Port For CentOS 7 Binary Support

As of yesterday, linux_base-c7 landed in ports for installing the CentOS 7 base packages. This will allow running newer Linux binaries built for modern CentOS/RHEL 7 era systems on FreeBSD, assuming the source isn’t available or isn’t compatible natively with FreeBSD. Previously CentOS 6 was the default port used for this Linux binary compatibility with FreeBSD.

KaOS Brings Serious Relevance Back to KDE | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

If you’ve been looking for a distribution to sway you back to the KDE desktop, look no further than KaOS. It’s beautiful, runs with the snap of a much lighter desktop, and feels as reliable as any other option available for Linux. I

I haven’t been this impressed with KDE for a very, very long time.

KaOS – A Lean KDE Distribution

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Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

In the coming weeks, Mozilla will push multi-processing to 100 percent of their initial cohort of users. This group represents 40-50 percent of total users. Within the next six months, a majority of users can expect to have the capabilities. Here is a little cheat sheet of upcoming releases:

Firefox 49: Enabling for a set of add-ons that work well with multi-processing
Firefox 50 or 51: Sandboxing and enabling for more add ons
Firefox 52 or 53: Multiple content processes

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Binary Decisions | LINUX Unplugged 160

chris — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:12:53 +0000

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OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: OpenShot 2.1 Released!

Avidemux 2.6.13 Open-Source Video Editor Gets AAC/ADTS Import and Export

Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming

That was the final nail in the coffin for my time with SteamOS. I don’t have time to deal with such breakage.

Broken promises: Games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux | PCWorld

Maru OS mixes a custom ROM with a dockable Debian desktop, and now it’s open source

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Fedora 24 review: The year’s best Linux distro is puzzlingly hard to recommend

In the end, despite how much I enjoyed using Fedora 24 for a couple of months, it hasn’t convinced me to give up Arch. That’s not a totally fair comparison since much of what I like about Arch is that it’s a rolling release, but I would be more inclined to embrace Fedora if it had either a long-term support type of release that would last several years or a rolling release that dealt out updates as they were ready. As it stands, Fedora sits somewhere in the middle and ends up with an often awkward update process happening all too frequently. It’s possible that the new tools in DNF (and GNOME Software) will make things easier on the update front, but for now that’s far from certain.

Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board

Purism is pleased to announce the creation of its Advisory Board, comprised of top-tier experts from the Free Software community: Kyle Rankin, Matthew Garrett, Aaron Grattafiori, and Stefano Zacchiroli. Together, they bring their vision—with decades of experience in cybersecurity, privacy protection, and digital freedom—to Purism’s product development, as the company continues to create products that finally address privacy and digital rights by default, rights that 86% of computer users cite as a concern.

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. However, there are also the usual updated drivers, arch improvements, and some KVM changes.

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Grepping logs is terrible

You see, the main difference between me and proponents of text-based log storage is that I want my queries and their results to be human readable, and I don’t care how that is accomplished. They, on the other hand, want their raw data to be human readable, and would sacrifice convenience for the sake of being able to keep data textual.

I’m really liking systemd : linux
Wes’ new router build using systemd-nspawn container and all the networking being configured by systemd-networkd

Container technologies in Fedora: systemd-nspawn

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html
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Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
#835222 – needs multiple restarts until network is fully up – Debian Bug report logs

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Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem

Wimpy Goes All In on Ubuntu Touch

How to install Ubuntu on Meizu Pro 5 that was originally with Android?

XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Change region/ID to International in Meizu Pro 5

Note: If you are using the global version, you needn’t do this setup.

XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Unlock the bootloader of Meizu PRO 5
XDA Developers: [RECOVERY][M86][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP 3.0 for Meizu PRO
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One NAT to Rule Them | LINUX Unplugged 153

chris — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:33:48 +0000

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Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit?

Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product.

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Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period | ZDNet

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the leading desktop front-end was Bash. Things have changed in those 25 years. Today, the best Linux desktop is the latest version of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 18 Sarah with the Cinnamon 3.0 interface.

Linux Mint 18 reviews roundup | InfoWorld

Latest Vivaldi Browser Snapshot Improves Tab Hibernation on GNU/Linux Distros

“Good news for Linux users! You can now hibernate tabs while the browser is running,” said Magnus Peter Langeland. “Choose Hibernate Tab to hibernate the selected tab or Hibernate Background Tabs to hibernate all other tabs in the window. Oh and remember, you cannot hibernate a tab while you are viewing its contents.”

ICSI Netalyzr — Command-line Client

Debug your Internet.

Any good Linux friendly VPN providers?

3G and 4G LTE Cell Coverage Map – OpenSignal

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You Can Now Run Ubuntu Linux with the Unity Desktop on Top of Windows 10 – Updated

After doing all sorts of tricks in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CSSM) GUI configuration tool for Compiz, and using a combination of VcXsrv and XLaunch, two applications for configuring and setting up a Windows X server, he has managed to run Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with the Unity desktop environment on top of Windows 10.

Linux’s AV Stack Adding Awesome Features

Beamforming in PulseAudio | Arun Raghavan

Beamforming as a concept is used in various aspects of signal processing including radio waves, but I’m going to be talking about it only as applied to audio. The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a mic array) in some known arrangement, it is possible to “point” or steer the array in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction are made louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer (attenuated).

Practically speaking, it should be easy to see the value of this on a laptop, for example, where you might want to focus a mic array to point in front of the laptop, where the user probably is, and suppress sounds that might be coming from other locations. You can see an example of this in the webcam below. Notice the grilles on either side of the camera — there is a microphone behind each of these.

Introducing GStreamer VR Plug-ins and SPHVR – Lubosz’s Blog

Pronounced sphere, SPHVR is a python video player using gst-plugins-vr. Currently it is capable of opening a URL of an equirectangular mapped spherical video.

CopperheadOS – Secure Android

CopperheadOS currently supports the Nexus 5, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.

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Nylas N1

Nylas Pro

But right now, Nylas N1 is also free as in free beer, and that’s a problem. Due to its popularity, the API traffic for N1 users has dramatically eclipsed the combined volume of all other apps built on the Nylas Cloud APIs. We already sync several hundred terabytes of data for our users and are adding tens of thousands of new users each month. It’s costing us real dollars.

Does anyone here use Nylas?

Dekko Is Shaping Up Nicely for Desktop Convergence

Dekko developer Dan Chapman shared some images of a new, converged Dekko for the desktop on Google+, under the title “An all new Dekko is coming!”.

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What’s Going on with Matrix.org?

Ruma – A Matrix homeserver written in Rust.

Matrix is an open specification for an online communication protocol. It includes all the features you’d expect from a modern chat platform including instant messaging, group chats, audio and video calls, searchable message history, synchronization across all your devices, and end-to-end encryption. Matrix is federated, so no single company controls the system or your data. You can use an existing server you trust or run your own, and the servers synchronize messages seamlessly. Learn more in the Introduction to Matrix.

Say Hello To Vector! — Medium

This week, we’re officially launching Vector, a forward-looking open source collaboration app, and the very first production-ready application built on top of the Matrix open standard. In fact Vector Web has been around for a bit, growing and being polished with the help of a passionate community of pioneers and they’ve done a great job of supporting us with useful feedback! And now the mobile apps are out! So today Vector is ready to be shared more widely as a proper beta.

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What’s Up Docker? | LINUX Unplugged 119

chris — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:52:17 +0000

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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS!

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pusto.org: The alpha is here

Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail.

It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features.

Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick

The $85 Chromebit is a 75 gram (or 2.6 ounces) stick that you can plug into any HDMI port — whether that’s a regular computer screen or that large TV in your living room. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage (in the form of relatively cheap and slow eMMC storage) and 2GB of RAM.

UUMATE Is a Respin of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 That Aims to Be Better

Highlights of UUMATE include the Google Chrome web browser, Kdenlive video editor, PeerGuardian privacy-oriented firewall application, Steam for Linux, Syncthing file sync utility, TeamViewer remote control software, Wine 1.7, Compiz for beautiful desktop effects, as well as numerous sound events enabled by default.

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Noah VS Dr Emma: Switching people to Linux competition rules

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Have we gone too far with containers?

Engineers are now coming up with crazy solutions to a typical problem. Vulnerable software that’s spreading around the web in containers.

CoreOS says over 80 percent of Docker images stored in its Quay service are still vulnerable to the infamous Heartbleed bug, for example.

Clair can scan containers for known vulnerabilities and then alert developers of potential issues. CoreOS is getting this data from the vulnerability databases of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian.

Docker Doubles Down on Security With Nautilus, Hardware Encryption

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SteamOS Getting off to a rocky start…

SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows

Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.

Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Watch out for the old school shill: Dean Takahashi has authored very Microsoft focused books, and writes a lot about MS, such as – Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution

“We met with Valve about our reservations concerning the limitations of SteamOS with high-end PC builds, and they agreed they were not issues that could be overcome in time for us to launch a Steam Machine this year,” said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon. “But they were genuinely interested in working to address them in future SteamOS builds. So the option for us to produce a Steam Machine is still open, and our Tiki PCs have been in production for years as Windows systems and are always ready. But for now, we’ve put our plans to offer a Steam Machine on hold.”

Fedora/gstreamer dev comments on the importance of gaming on Linux and SteamOS

Time to get a Steam Machine – https://t.co/O7owod66BT

— Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) November 11, 2015

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Leap / Tumbleweed Users — Check in!

Just checked out the latest episode of Linux Unplugged and was stoked to see it had a segment on my distro of choice.

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Rolling with Netrunner | LAS 386

chris — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:45:30 +0000

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Some say it’s the best Plasma 5 Desktop experience to be had, we review Netrunner Rolling & take a walk on the KDE side of things for the week. Find out what makes this unique distribution stands out & why you might want to give it a try yourself.

Then we put the great Ubuntu Conspiracy to bed, our best LastPass alternatives, a quick look at Slackel & more!

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Netrunner | GNU/Linux Distribution

Netrunner Rolling 2015.09 Released With New Plasma 5 And Apps Updates

Netrunner is a Linux distribution that comes into two versions – Main version and Rolling release. Main version is based on Kubuntu and the Rolling release is based on Manjaro Linux. The new Netrunner 2015.09 has been released with a completely different look – KDE4 has been transformed to Plasma 5.2 desktop. Let’s look at the complete changes in the Netrunner 2015.09 release.

Netrunner comes with two versions, Main version that is based on Kubuntu and that gets released in sync with Kubuntu new release and the Rolling version is based on Manjaro Linux. Both the desktops have been customized and so makes its own new look & feel.

Calamares Is Default Installer

The default installer in this rolling release has been changed to Calamares installer. If you read my last post, Manjaro has adopted Calamares installer which is easy to use and makes Manjaro to install easily. The release is based on Majaro so this also has Calamares installer.

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Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

he Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico. It comprises 27, 25-meter radio telescopes in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to focus on particular bands of wavelength.[2] Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way’s center, probed the Universe’s cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission.

Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array – YouTube

Created in 2013 as the new interpretive film for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) public Visitor Center, this 24-minute production explores the synergies of technology and human curiosity that power the world’s most productive radio telescope.

Desktop App Pick

KeepassC

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

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

Some features are:

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

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

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Open Source GPS Tracking System – Traccar

Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system for various GPS tracking devices. System supports more than 80 different communication protocols from popular vendors. It includes web interface to manage tracking devices online.

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The Ubuntu Conspiracy

If Microsoft bought Canonical, millions of users would have to jump ship or accept life
under the Microsoft banner.

Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A “Standard” Offering

Through the wonderful ZFS On Linux project there is a native port of the ZFS file-system driver to Linux natively (unlike the ZFS FUSE implementation) but due to the GPL vs. CDDL licensing issue it can’t be mainlined into the Linux kernel.

Mark Shuttleworth sent out a brief mailing list message today responding to a user interested in making ZFS Snappy support for Ubuntu. Mark wrote, “If it’s ZFS you’re after, it will be included in Ubuntu as standard in due course.”

By “standard” he presumably means that Ubuntu will maintain a DKMS kernel package for it in the official Ubuntu archive and perhaps we’ll see that package installed by default for Ubuntu Server, but that it wouldn’t be directly patched into their kernel. That’s what I’d assume at least given the license issues. Ubuntu wouldn’t support ZFS for the root file-system, but could be useful on Ubuntu Server for some secondary drives with RAID-Z.

LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family

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

Slackel Linux: Not Your Father’s Slackware

For a Slackware-based distro, one of Slackel’s strong points is the systems tool collection from Salix Linux. Slackel uses the Gslapt Package Manager for access to Slackware, Salix and Slackel package repositories.

Gnome Builder Dev Joins Red Hat

The real news, however, is that I’ve accepted a wonderful role at Red Hat. I’ll be focusing on the Xdg-App developer story, and Builder is an important part of that. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to create and deploy software that users can trust.

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OpenSUSE’s Big Leap | LAS 385

chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:52:52 +0000

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It might just be the future of openSUSE. We take a indepth look at openSUSE Leap 42.1 beta. Find out why this might be the most ambitious Linux distribution release to date, the features that appeal the power user & the newbie.

Plus the Linux malware that fixes up your box, why it might never be the year of the Linux desktop, the Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks & more!

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Leap – openSUSE

It secures the future of openSUSE. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work. By basing openSUSE on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), the core of openSUSE will be maintained by SUSE engineers. That means it will get fixes and security updates from SLE.

The openSUSE project can then replace and add the bits and pieces of software that contributors want and are willing to maintain.

openSUSE Leap will also complement Tumbleweed better. When there was one openSUSE, it was torn between those who wanted newer software and those who wanted a stable system. Tumbleweed caters to those who want newer software, which allows the regular release to do an even better job of providing a highly stable system.

openSUSE releases Leap Beta

Users wanting a long-term, stable Linux system can expect Leap to use the most advanced long-term supported branch of the Linux kernel, 4.1 series, which provides significant improvements to ARM hardware architecture.

Long-Term support for Leap

rbrownsuse (openSUSE Chairman) comments on Long term support

Yup – the easiest way of saying it is actually:

Leap 42.x will be supported until AT LEAST Leap 43.0 is out – and that will happen around about when SLE 13 is out (which is certainly a few years away)

The exact deadlines and schedules are somewhat unknown, because no one knows when SLE 13 will be out yet

And also, dependant on that, we might focus and fine tune the lifecycle of the final version of Leap 42.x to give it a comfortable overlap with the release of 43.0

But until we’re closer to that, we dont know for sure

So we’re saying what we’re saying..

Quick Notes

btrfs on / and for many subvolumes, some with copy on write disabled (libvert, mailman, pgsql, mariadb)
xfs on /home – Really smart since /home gets filled by me from time to time. Avoids that btrfs slowdown when you fill it up
Possible to set system to use NTP, even when not connected to the Internet at time of install.

Firewall set to enable (one click disable)
SSH Port set to blocked
SSH Service set to disabled

YaST always bitches that a software source is missing. It’s the USB drive I installed the distro from. How common is it to install from a thumb drive, and then leave it forever plugged in? (Easy to fix)
Online Update tool shipped without any sources configured. (Again an easy fix)

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Desktop App Pick

Gpick Project – Home

Gpick is an advanced color picker and palette editing tool.

KColorChooser – Color Chooser

KColorChooser is a simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete.

Weekly Spotlight

FeedReader – RSS desktop client

Desktop notifications
- Fast search and filters
- Full articles instead of previews for known sites
- Tagging (plugin needed for Tiny Tiny RSS)
- Sharing to “read-it-later” services like Pocket and Instapaper
- Handy keyboard short-cuts
- Keep all your old articles as long as you like
- Consistent formatting of articles
- automatically saved state of the UI

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Why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop

Oh, don’t get me wrong, Linux, as Android tablets and smartphones and Chrome OS Chromebooks, will become the most popular end-user operating system of all. But, the desktop? That’s another story.

Security firm discovers Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks

Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that’s reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150 Gbps. The botnet spreads via a Trojan variant dubbed XOR DDoS. This malware infects Linux systems via embedded devices like network routers then brute forces SSH access. Once the malware has Secure Shell credentials, it secretly downloads and installs the necessary botnet software, then connects the newly-infected computer to the rest of the hive.

Is there an Internet-of-Things vigilante out there?

The further we dug into Wifatch’s code the more we had the feeling that there was something unusual about this threat. For all intents and purposes it appeared like the author was trying to secure infected devices instead of using them for malicious activities.

Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online | Ars Technica

Hackers have published almost 15 gigabytes’ worth of password data, donation records, and source code taken during the recent hack of the Patreon funding website.

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Will Flash Be Trashed? | LINUX Unplugged 101

chris — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:01:37 +0000

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A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on.

Plus your take on openSUSE’s big changes & follow up to our take on it.

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Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.

I spent the first five days of my week logging into Gnome manually– not turning on automatic login. On night of the fifth day I got annoyed with having to login by hand and so I went into the User Manager and turned on automatic login. The next time I logged in I got a prompt: “Your keychain was not unlocked. Please enter your password to unlock your keychain.” That was when I realized something… Gnome had been automatically unlocking my keychain—my wallet in KDE speak– every time I logged in via GDM. It was only when I bypassed GDM’s login that Gnome had to step in and make me do it manually.
- it was at that moment that I realized it was such a simple thing that made the desktop feel so much more like it was working WITH ME. When I log into KDE via SDDM? Before the splash screen is even finished loading there is a window popping up over top the splash animation– thereby disrupting the splash screen– prompting me to unlock my KDE wallet or GPG keyring.
- Software Managers! Something that has seen a lot of push in recent years and will likely only see a bigger push in the months to come. Unfortunately, it’s another area where KDE was so close… and then fell on its face right at the finish line.
- Gnome Software is probably my new favorite software center, minus one gripe which I will get to in a bit. Muon, I wanted to like you. I really did. But you are a design nightmare. When the VDG was drawing up plans for you (mockup below), you looked pretty slick.
- Then someone got around to coding you and doing your actual UI, and I can only guess they were drunk while they did it.

Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.
KDE doesn’t feel like cohesive experience. KDE doesn’t feel like it has a direction its moving in, it doesn’t feel like a full experience. KDE feels like its a bunch of pieces that are moving in a bunch of different directions, that just happen to have a shared toolkit beneath them.
I know the KDE developers know design matters, that is WHY the Visual Design Group exists, but it feels like they aren’t using the VDG to their fullest.
Will I still use Gnome after this week? Probably not, no. Gnome still trying to force a work flow on me that I don’t want to follow or abide by, I feel less productive when I’m using it because it doesn’t follow my paradigm.

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I don’t get why Noah and Chris are puzzled by what SuSE and OpenSuSE intend to do. The new distro will be to SLE what CentOS is to RHEL.
There will be Tumbleweed, the bleeding edge, always rolling distro that will be in much better shape than Rawhide because OpenSuSE actually expects people to use it as a desktop OS as opposed to “it’s rawhide so it’s borked”.

Then there will be OpenSUSE 42, based on the SLE sources. People will be able to use it such as others do with CentOS and I would be amazed if OpenSuSE and SuSE don’t make it extremely easy to switch from 42 to the enterprise version where they can sell people support on a subscription basis.

To me, it looks like a very smart move.

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btrfs Meltdown | LINUX Unplugged 87

chris — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:53:49 +0000

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After yet another gotcha takes down a critical Linux workstation, is it officially time to consider avoiding btrfs when it matters?

Plus what happened to the Evolve OS project & why they are now called Solus.

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The Death of Chris’ #1 Rig

Another btrfs snafu… glad I am sitting this one out

Stable kernel version 3.19.1+ can cause a deadlock at mount time

workaround: boot with older kernel, or run btrfs-zero-log to clear the log (beware of the consequences)

fix: scheduled for 3.19.4, or apply 9c4f61f01d269815bb7c37.

also affected: 3.14.35+, 3.18.9+

Versions from 3.15 up to 3.16.1 suffer from a deadlock that was observed during heavy rsync workloads with compression on, it’s recommended to use 3.16.2 and newer

Fedora Server 22 Is Using The XFS File-System By Default

The server edition of Fedora 22 is using the XFS file-system by default rather than EXT4.

Using the XFS file-system as the default within an LVM has been part of the Fedora Server technical spec while with Fedora 22 it’s finally happened. The default layout for Fedora Server 22 installations is using XFS atop LVM while /boot is outside the LVM setup.

XFS: There and back … and there again?

Software RAID and LVM – ArchWiki

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This is not an April Fools post We will be required to change the name

We will be required to change the name of the Evolve OS project, to avoid unnecessary legal action.

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Greg KH: The Interview | LAS 346

chris — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:00:19 +0000

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Greg Kroah-Hartman long time Linux kernel developer and maintainer of a few subsystems you depend on joins us to discuss his insights on the pace of Linux’s development, third party involvement, the rolling future & what gets him excited about Linux.

Plus Linus reviews Fedora 21, the questions facing Gnome Software…

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Greg K-H Linux Kernel Developer Interview

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, and many critical subsystems.

He also created linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project. He worked for SUSE Labs and, as of 1 February 2012, works at the Linux Foundation.

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The Linux Kernel, how fast it is developed and …

This talk will go into the latest statistics for the development of the Linux kernel.

It will describe how the many thousand developers all work together and are able to release a stable kernel every 3 months with no planning.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

If you want to know how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel
on your machine, buy this book. It is written by someone who spends every
day building, configuring, and installing custom kernels as part of the
development process of this fun, collaborative project called Linux.

I’m especially proud of the chapter on how to figure out how to configure a
custom kernel based on the hardware running on your machine. This is an
essential task for anyone wanting to wring out the best possible speed and
control of your hardware.

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The Roman Airport, Runs Linux!

During a recent trip to Rome I came upon a helpdesk-terminal kind of thing, a pedestal with a touch-screen for information and a microphone and camera for video calls with personnel.

That was awesome, it helped me out since my Italian is non-existent, and Italian organisational skills leaves a lot to be desired. The next one I saw however seems to have had some problem, and showed only a gnome desktop with a very Ubuntu-esque background, though I couldn’t quite place it.

-Dojan from Sweden

DOUBLE XTREME BONUS RUNS LINUX

This Mens Urinal Runs Linux

So I went with few friends to Boston Pizza (a pizza-bar chain, not sure if exist in the USA) in Toronto. After I had a few beers I went to the washroom (that’s how we say bathroom up here in the north) and to my surprise I saw this on the ad screen on the wall… with my pants already unbuttoned I pulled my phone out and took some pictures, as I was doing that a guy walked in and gave me a weird look. So I had to explain to him what the hell I was doing.

Anyways, I was very excited to see this grub menu in the wild… even if it was on the same wall with a urinal..

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Gnome MultiWriter

GNOME MultiWriter can be used to write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at
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MUP, a Markup Previewer

Features

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Skips metadata headers, such as those used by static blog generators like
Jekyll
Supports gzipped documents, useful to read documentation shipped with Debian
packages

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Linus Reviews Fedora 21

The merge window being over, and things being calm made me think I should try upgrading to F21..

JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification (JMAP)

JMAP is a transport-agnostic, stateless JSON-based API for synchronising a mail client with a mail server. It is intended as a replacement for IMAP. The specification is based on the API currently used by FastMail‘s web app.

GNOME Software, GNOME’s App Store, Is Drawing Some Fresh Criticism

Starting in December and continuing into January are various Fedora development threads of users questioning various GNOME motives with their GNOME Software program. In particular, right now, the GNOME Software application center doesn’t like CLI-only packages for installation but only those with a GUI. Additionally, GNOME Software is limited in showing packages for non-GNOME desktop environments unless certain parameters are set.

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Fedora Takes the Lead | LINUX Unplugged 71

chris — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:24:43 +0000

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Our virtual LUG reviews Fedora 21 & why we’ve just witnessed one of the most ambitious transformation of any Linux distro of 2014.

Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical answers if Ubuntu Snappy could be the future of the entire Ubuntu project & what’s coming soon from the Xonotic project.

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Brewie: Worlds first fully automated home-brewery | Indiegogo

Brewie is a fully automated brewing machine with compact design. Perfect for beginners and experts.

Summary of Brewie specs

Specs listed for the Brewie include:

Processor — TI Sitara AM3358 (may change in commercial version)
Memory/storage — (not specified)
Display — 4.3-inch color LCD touchscreen
Wireless — 802.11b/g/n; RFID transceiver
Other I/O — USB port
Internal sensors — Level, current, and temperature
Brewing features:
- Solid state relay control
- Magnetic valves with brushless pumps
- Stainless steel containers
- 20,000-hour pumps
- Automatic water inlet
- Wort outlet (one button push)
- 2x automatic hop inserters
Other features (Beginner’s model) — 4x 5-liter kegs; 1x ingredient pad
Capacity — 20 liters (5.2 gal.)
Brewing time — 5-6 hours, plus approx. 14 days of fermentation.
Power — 230V/120VAC, 2000 W
Weight — 25 k (55 lbs)
Dimensions — 71.5 x 32.5 x 45cm (21.15 x 12.8 x 17.7 in.)
Operating system — Poky-based Linux; accessible from Android, iOS, and Windows Phone mobile apps, plus a general web interface

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A Proper End of The Year on Linux

Ubuntu Snappy Core for the Desktop?

We ask Dustin Kirkland the Ubuntu Cloud Product Manager and Strategist at Canonical if his new baby could be the future of the Ubuntu Project.

Fedora 21 Community Review

It’s Here! Announcing Fedora 21! | Fedora Magazine

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce Fedora 21, the final release, ready to run on your desktops, servers, and in the cloud. Fedora 21 is a game-changer for the Fedora Project, and we think you’re going to be very pleased with the results.

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Impatient? Go straight to https://getfedora.org/ and get started. Otherwise, read on!

Fedora 21 Release Review: An Impressive Developer Workstation | Linux.com

Sans the Files bug, I found Fedora 21 to be an impressive release. I was able to get the desired software from RPMFusion. Online Accounts and Software are among the many gems that this community has developed and I wish other DEs adopt a similar approach to make people’s lives easier.

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Rooting for the Kids | LAS 340

chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:51:07 +0000

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Charlie Reisinger the pioneer of an extremely forward looking program to give every student a Linux laptop joins us. Find out how they integrate the students into the IT program, why they give their students root access & much more. It’s a truly inspiring story of how Linux can make a difference in education.

Plus the Jolla tablet is real, and boy is it funded! Ubuntu Phone rumors get white hot, our picks of the week…

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Charlie Reisinger

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Many large Commercial software vendors are transitioning to a subscription model. Does this create an even great lockin for schools?
One-to-One programs are very expensive, and the argument I’ve always heard was: Must use Windows, must use Office. Have get the kids ready for the “real world” that uses those tools. Is there a sound argument to that “concern”?
Linux and open source give students the ability to go very deep into how the computer works, if they are motivated and want to embrace their inquisitive nature. How far down the rabbit hole are your young Linux users permitted to go? How much can they explore?
Can you tell us how the Fast Linux Deployment Toolkit was created, and what it does?
What are some of the most useful open source software and tools you, or the students use?
What is the biggest road block others should expect?

Charlie Reisinger of Penn Manor gives talk at All Things Open 2014 | Opensource.com

Charlie Reisinger from the Penn Manor School District talked to us next about open source at his school. This talk was an expanded version of his lightning talk from the previous night.

Penn Manor has nine IT team members which is a very lean staff for 4500 devices. They also do a lot of their technology in house. But, before we talk about open source, Charlie took a tangent into the nature of education today. He says that school districts are so stuck on the model they’re using and have used for centuries, but today kids can learn anything they would like with a simple connection to the Internet. You can be connected to the most brilliant minds that you’d like, so teachers are no longer the fountains of all knowledge. A glaring gap in this evolution is that the classroom hasn’t been transformed by technology; if you walked into a classroom 60 years ago, it would look pretty much like a classroom today.

Enabling students in a digital age: Charlie Reisinger at TEDxLancaster – YouTube

Charlie Reisinger, an innovative IT Director for Penn Manor school district in Lancaster County, shows how to provide affordable, new digital technologies to high school students. The answer is not only a cost-effective way to improve the quality of education, it is opening students’ minds.

1:1 Laptop Program | PM Technology Blog

During the 2012-2013 school year, a committee comprised of faculty, administrators and a school board liaison worked to evaluate the viability of a district 1:1 computing program. After several months of internal discussion and public board presentations, a recommendation to proceed with a 1:1 laptop program at Penn Manor High School was unanimously approved at the April 1, 2013 school board meeting. The recommendation called for the program to commence with a pilot during the Fall of 2013. The full building implementation began in January 2014. At that time, each full-time high school student was provided with a personal laptop computer for use throughout the school day and at home.

Parents: We encourage you to read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document: 1to1ParentFAQ.pdf.

Penn Manor School District · GitHub

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Runs Linux

Jaguar Cars and System Architects, Run Linux

Desktop App Pick

MOC – music on console

Sent in by Kyle on Twitter

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create playlists as in other players.

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Weekly Spotlight

Corebird

Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop

Corebird is a modern, easy and fun Twitter client, just what you were looking for, right?

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Jolla Tablet

Be a part of making the world’s first truly crowdsourced tablet, powered by Sailfish OS 2.0.

To celebrate #JollaTablet's #PeoplePowered $1M success, we're offering Jolla at a crazy price! https://t.co/xlHXYTEvfB pic.twitter.com/uSfDxFkw9Q

— Jolla (@JollaHQ) November 21, 2014

Mozilla ends Google relationship, Firefox will now default to Yahoo in the US

Mozilla and Yahoo have signed a five-year deal. As part of the deal, Yahoo is going to start honoring the Do Not Track feature when used by Firefox users to limit Yahoo’s ability to track user activity across the Web through advertisements. Yahoo is also going to roll out a new search interface for American Firefox users, starting in December.

Crowdfunding project promises a “laptop that respects essential freedoms”

Based on the Intel i7-4712MQ processor, the 15.6-inch Librem 15’s base configuration will come with an Nvidia GT840M, 4GB of RAM, a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and an actual CD/DVD drive. The Librem will have three USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and a “pop-down” RJ-45 Ethernet port, in addition to an Atheros-based 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter, a 720p built-in camera, HD audio, and a backlit keyboard.

Ubuntu Phone Partner ‘Bq’ Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event next week, November 25, 2014, to announce three new products.

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OpenSUSE Followup | LINUX Unplugged 65

chris — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:00:41 +0000

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We follow up on our review of openSUSE 13.2 & discuss how life on the rolling side has been going for some of our LUG members.

Plus the hardware box that promises to replace your password manager & we say goodbye to the Linux Outlaws.

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Unity 7 Won’t Go Away until Most Agree U8 is Better than U7

In a long list of life’s lessons learned, ‘be gentle pushing people onto your new code’ is high up. So we won’t require U8 for everyone even when it’s first class. It will be opt in till most people agree it’s better than U7

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openSUSE 13.2 Follow Up

openSUSE 13.2 is Released

Dear contributors, friends and fans: openSUSE 13.2 is out! After one year on continuous improvement in the tools and procedures and many hours of developing, packaging, testing and fixing issues a new stable release is here providing the best that Free and Open Source has to offer with our special green touch: stable, innovative and fun!

Facts about Tumbleweed and Factory merging

Installation

openSUSE will always try to install alongside another distro or OS.
Any btrfs partition assigned to root will automatically have subvolumes created.
As stated, the disc prompt will go away if unselected in Software Repositories module of YaST.

Software

gnome-software is good for software discovery and installation.
- openSUSE didn’t have anything like this until now.
Software Management is the YaST module for more advanced software management.
Package Updater runs in the background and prompts via notification if there are updates.
Software Repositories is the YaST module for configuring software repositories.
YMP One-Click Installer extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ymp-one-click-installer/chldcpnlaiffaelmcjkeodakmnkomldg?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon)

Font Rendering

Tumbleweed/Factory

Initial article
Facts about Tumbleweed and Factory Merging
Tumbleweed and Factory are now synonymous under the name Tumbleweed (as of November 4th)
Factory continues to be the name of the development project.
A how-to will be published soon, until then: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2014-11/msg00073.html
Factory is aliased to Tumbleweed for 6 months, after which Factory repos will no longer exist.
Is truly rolling.
- Tumbleweed was a stable base with rolling packages and kernel.
Snapshot ISOs are available.

Goodbye to Linux Outlaws

The Last Stand

After more than seven years of Linux Outlaws, my co-host Dan and myself have decided to end the show. This decision has been a while in the making and it is with a heavy heart that I am committing to finally announce it.

Mooltipass: Open Source Offline Password Keeper

Our team believes that great security can only be achieved through complete transparency. That’s why we have been publishing everything that goes into making the Mooltipass on our GitHub repository from the project’s start.

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Microsoft’s Munich Man | LINUX Unplugged 54

chris — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:35:48 +0000

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Sam from the Moka project stops by to chat about the business of making Linux look better. Then we get into the role open source plays in self driving cars.

Plus we bust some of the FUD around Munich’s much reported plan to abandon Linux and switch back to Windows.

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Moka Project

Joined by “snwh” aka Sam Hewitt

Moka started as a single Linux desktop icon theme, but over time it has gradually evolved into an entire project & brand identity that provides quality designs to people.

Moka is about personalization and its goal is to provide an assortment of style options to allow you to customize your experience. Moka’s suite of themes is a “style layer” for your favourite OS – you can use your favourites and layer Moka right on top.

Robocars | Erich Eickmeyer

Munich Disappointed with Linux, Plans to Switch Back to Windows [Updated]

German media is reporting that city officials were looking into productivity figures of local departments and acknowledged that many employees actually experienced issues with Linux. That wasn’t the case before 2004, when Windows was powering all PCs, a local source said.

Linux in Munich: City Council defends LiMux against mayor | The H Open Source

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ownCloud 7 Interview | LAS 324

chris — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:37:55 +0000

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The founder of ownCloud joins us to discuss their latest release, future plans and challenges. And we’ll ask a batch of the tough questions you sent in.

Then we take a look at CRUX, a legendary Linux distribution with an amazing history. Plus an app pick that will instantly tickle your retro bone, a cautious tale…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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CRUX Linux Review:

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Today we’re kicking off our most substantial Ubuntu computer sale of the year.…

About: Crux

CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is keep it simple, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

In short, CRUX might suit you very well if you are:

A somewhat experienced Linux user who wants a clean and solid Linux distribution as the foundation of your installation.
A person who prefers editing configuration files with an editor to using a GUI.
Someone who does not hesitate to download and compile programs from the source.

History of CRUX

Started May 2000
No public releases made during this time
A strong community by 2002, and was responsible for working together and adding important package management features to the distro.
CRUX was built from scratch and has never been based on any other Linux distribution.
Tracked by Distrowatch since 2002-01-14

CRUX vs Arch

Before creating Arch, Judd Vinet admired and used CRUX; a minimalist distribution created by Per Lidén. Originally inspired by ideas in common with CRUX and BSD, Arch was built from scratch, and pacman was then coded in C.
Arch and CRUX share some guiding principles: for instance, both are architecture-optimized, minimalist and K.I.S.S.-oriented.
Both ship with ports-like systems, and, like *BSD, both provide a minimal base environment to build upon.
Arch features pacman, which handles binary system package management and works seamlessly with the Arch Build System. CRUX uses a community contributed system called prt-get, which, in combination with its own ports system, handles dependency resolution, but builds all packages from source (though the CRUX base installation is binary).
Arch officially supports x86_64 and i686 only, whereas CRUX officially offers only x86_64.
Arch uses a rolling-release system and features a large array of binary package repositories as well as the Arch User Repository. CRUX provides a more slimmed-down officially supported ports system in addition to a comparatively modest community repository.

CRUX 3.1 Released July 17th 2014

Toolchain updates

CRUX 3.1 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.19.0, gcc 4.8.3 and binutils 2.24

Kernel

Linux 3.12.24

Xorg

CRUX 3.1 ships with Xorg 7.7 and xorg-server 1.15.1.

CRUX Install:

Very Manual.

Packages in CRUX

The package system (pkgutils) is made with simplicity in mind, where all packages are plain tar.gz files (i.e. without any kind of meta data).

When a package is installed using pkgadd a new record is added to the package database (stored in /var/lib/pkg/db). The basic package system does not have any kind of dependency checking, thus it will not warn you if you install a package that requires other packages to be installed. The included prt-get tool, however, does support dependencies.

Since the package file itself does not contain any meta data. Instead, the package manager uses the package filename to determine the package name and version.
Thus, when installing a package file named bash#2.05-1.pkg.tar.gz, the package manager will interpret this as a package named bash at version 2.05-1.

If pkgadd is unable to interpret the filename (e.g. # is missing or the filename does not end with .pkg.tar.gz) an error message will be printed and pkgadd will abort without installing the package.

Package management frontend: prt-get

To address the different requirements towards package management in CRUX, a number of users started discussion about an advanced package management frontend to pkgutils, with dependency handling and support for large install transactions. The result of this community effort is prt-get, a tool which provides a number of features on top of pkgutils while keeping pkgutils’ original character and power. Its main features are

Dependency handling
Build logging
Powerful search and query functionality

Nowadays prt-get is an official project and tool of the CRUX project.

The Ports System

The term Ports System refers to a remote repository containing ports and a client program capable of downloading ports from that repository. CRUX users use the ports(8) utility to download ports from the repository and place them in /usr/ports/. The ports utility uses rsync(1) or httpup(1) to do the actual downloading/synchronization.

A port is a directory containing the files needed for building a package using pkgmk. This means that this directory at least has the files Pkgfile (which is the package build description) and .footprint (which is used for regression testing and contains a list of files this package is expected to contain once it is built). Further, a port directory can contain patches and/or other files needed for building the package. It is important to understand that the actual source code for the package is not necessarily present in port directory. Instead the Pkgfile contains an URL which points to a location where the source can be downloaded.

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The Future of Desktop Computing? – Computerphile – YouTube

Tablets are taking over from desktop computing but what if we merge the two? This prototype demonstrates something new, that builds upon something centuries old – working with paper on your desk.

How To Install and Configure Syncthing to Synchronize Directories on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

Desktop App Pick

cool-old-term

‘cool-old-term’: This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest we’ve seen yet! | Tech Drive-in

Developed by Swordfish’s Labs, cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

Weekly Spotlight

Toxic

Toxic is a Tox-based instant messaging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.

qTox

Powerful Tox client that tries to follow the Tox UI mockup while running on all major systems.
This GUI uses code from @nurupo’tos ProjectTox-Qt-GUI, in particular the “Core” Toxcore wrapper.
However, it is not a fork.

Features

One to one chat with friends
Group chats
File transfers, with previewing of images
Audio calls
Video calls (alpha)
Tox DNS
Translations in various languages

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OpenSUSE Factory Turns Into Rolling Release Distribution

OpenSUSE Factory will still serve where openSUSE development takes place, but it’s also going to aim for being a distribution on its own as a “tested and stable fresh-daily bleeding-edge distribution.”

Fedora security team is announced

== What are we doing? ==

The Security Team’s mission is to assist packagers in closing security vulnerabilities. Once alerted to a
vulnerability on a package, the security team can help work with upstream to obtain a patch or a new release
of a package. Once we have a patch or a new release we attach it to the vulnerability bug and work with
packagers to get the fix pushed.

== How bad is the problem now? ==

As of a few days ago we had 566 open vulnerability tickets that cover both Fedora and EPEL. The breakdown of
those bugs by severity looks like this:

Critical: 3
Important: 69
Moderate: 366
Low: 128
Answering questions regarding the Fedora Security Team | Sparks’ Open Source and Security Journal

Fedora 21 Has Been Delayed By Three Weeks

At Wednesday’s Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee it was agreed upon to push back the entire release process by three weeks. This three weeks is to give additional time to finish outstanding work prior to the changes freeze and for also then working around Fedora’s “Flock” contributor conference.

Fedora 21 will not be officially released now until at least 4 November while the alpha release is at 26 August, beta release on 30 September, and the final change deadline on 21 October. The updated Fedora 21 schedule can be found via this Fedora Wiki page.

OMG! Fedora is just getting a security team? Does this mean Fedora has been insecure this entire time?!?

Umm, no, it doesn’t mean that Fedora has been insecure this entire time. In all actuality Fedora is in pretty good shape overall. There is always room for improvement and so we’re organizing a team to help facilitate that improvement.

XBMC Is Getting a New Name – Introducing Kodi 14

We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

Questions for Frank:

What brought about Server-to-Server syncing, and how close to real time is that syncing?
Sleepee asks: Any plans for better auditing on who shared filed. He’s working in an Enterprise, and the management would like some records.
Seal20 asks: I could not find anyway to replace the last closed and evil tool: evernote. I hate it but I couldn’t switch to any other free alternative. Do you plan do include an evernote alternative somewhere down the road?
Seal20 also asks: What about an “owncloud phone” you could rip off an android os from all google or even better start from a firefox os and include all owncloud related apps: cal/carddav sync, owncloud news, sync apps, etc! I and i am sure others will surely pay a premium for this!
pierre4l asks: I wonder whether the focus of OwnCloud is going to be home users wanting to set up their personal cloud servers, or whether it is veering more to the enterprise deployments. Or is it trying to be a solution for all?
OwnCloud apps seems to be really growing. Where do you see OwnCloud apps going? Even casual games on apps.ownCloud.com
autodidactos: I know there are two email client apps available (roundcube and rainloop) but neither seem to be as integrated as an official client would be. Are there any plans for an official OwnCloud email client?

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OSCON Behind The Story | LINUX Unplugged 51

chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:21:41 +0000

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We’ve got more exclusive interviews from OSCON 2014, and then debate if fragmentation is simply the result of winning.

Plus why the Linux community needs a reality check about the popularity of Apple’s MacBook, and how poor the solutions are for MacBook owners who want to run Linux.

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Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model

In the old development model, an army of packagers would shoot new packages and updates to Factory, with a relatively small team of Factory Maintainers taking care of the integration process of all those packages. This often took a long time to stabilize for a release.

In the new “rolling release” development model, package submissions cannot go to Factory directly. First they have to prove to be functional and trustworthy in a staging project. Staging projects are projects in our Open Build Service where groups of submissions are collected, reviewed, compiled and tested with openQA. But even after the packages survived the staging project, they don’t directly end up in Factory.

FU:

A talk in 9 images: GTK+3 dialogs without CSD

OSCON 2014

Chris’ OSCON 2014 Photo Album

Pidora – Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix

Pidora is a Fedora Remix optimized for the Raspberry Pi computer.

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Tech, gardening, politics, Quakerism, and more. Senior Editor @OReillyMedia, Co-Chair, Fluent and OSCON

Simon St. Laurent – O’Reilly Media

Apple grows Mac sales by 18% on the back of the MacBook Air

Sells 4.4M Macs in the face of continued declines in the PC industry overall; sets June quarter sales record

Apple, Inc’s double digit U.S. Mac growth contradicts IDC & Gartner reports of a Mac sales slump

“This growth is particularly impressive, given the contraction of the overall PC market. Macs have now gained global market share for 32 of the last 33 quarters,”

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Crux Review on LAS
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Sabayon Revisited | LAS s31e07

chris — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:54:34 +0000

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We revisit Sabayon Linux, a Gentoo based rolling distribution. Find out the how this distribution has leapfrogged the competition, and where we feel it could use some extra work.

Plus highlights from Linus recent Q&A, Ubuntu One shuts down, XP’s death is near…

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Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon follows the “out of the box” philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.

Sabayon Linux features a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon is available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there is support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.

The installer feels a bit dated.

Uses systemd not OpenRC
Does not assume a tone of big and corporate. Dialogs are clear, and honest. Even a little fun.
Install and Download Process feels dates, download is not user friendly.

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Runs Linux:

The Man who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Apache Wave

Weekly Spotlight

The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale

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 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.

— NEWS —

Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has switched to Google Chromebooks to migrate from Windows XP, which Microsoft will no longer support after 8 April.

The council is working with Google enterprise partner, Ancoris, and its joint venture outsourcing provider, Elevate East London, to roll out 1,500 Chromebooks and 500 Chromeboxes.

Ubuntu One falls from the clouds

But as of June 1st, 2014, syncing will stop. On July 31st, 2014, all data will be wiped. Ubuntu One will be no more.

Ubuntu One storage and music service shut down by Canonical

“As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store,” Canonical CEO Jane Silber wrote. “The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted.”

“Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB–50GB free storage,” Silber wrote. “If we offer a service, we want it to compete on a global scale, and for Ubuntu One to continue to do that would require more investment than we are willing to make.”

Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

The shutdown will not affect the Ubuntu One single sign on service, the Ubuntu One payment service, or the backend U1DB database service.

Linus Torvalds not happy with systemd author Kay Sievers

Linus Q&A at Portland Linux Users Group

Audio MP3 of the Q&A

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Do Me a SolydXK | LINUX Unplugged 32

chris — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:37:26 +0000

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The co-founders of SoyldXK join us to discuss their origins, what they focus on, how they hope to make a profit, and what the future might hold.

Plus we have some “solid” AutoCAD replacements for Linux, your emails, and more!

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I used to do drafting for my family\’s business (civil engineering related) and I tried some of the solutions a while back while trying to find a cheaper alternative to AutoCAD (on Windows, but they apply here). I haven\’t used all the solutions that are present for Linux related to CAD, but I can certainly get you started.

Home – Art of Illusion

SoyldXK Interview

Is SolydXK based on LMDE or inspired by LMDE? SolydXK uses Mint Tools such as the Mint Software Manager, Mint Updater, etc but is it directly based on LMDE or is it based directly on Debian?
What exactly is the difference between Business and Home…we can guess for the most part but the website is very obscure with the difference. For example: Business says \”Focus on Stability and Security\” and Home says \”Stable and Secure\”.
How does SolydXK support the Cinnamon desktop environment? Does it use It\’s own repo, pull from Mint or pull from Debian.
Do they offer MATE as an option and if so is it from their own Solyd Repo?
Does SolydX or K have custom packages that are dependent on XFCE or KDE? For example: Lets say I want to use Cinnamon or MATE in Solyd, will there be any package breakage in doing that?
Dat theme?
Scaling with their user base?
Revenue model
And much more!

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » ACPI, firmware and your security

ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn\’t be changed by the hardware manufacturer.

We don\’t live in that era any more.

Mark Shuttleworth against ACPI **

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SolydXK Linux Review | LAS s31e04

chris — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:39:34 +0000

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Based on Debian SolydXK offers all the advantages of a rolling release, with a safe and sensible approach. But where does this new distro stack up compared to the big dogs? And what challenges do we think they might face in the near future? Tune in to find out!

Plus why Chromium is dropping GTK, Valve drops some code, Intel drops a Linux bomb…

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SolydX | SolydXK

SolydXK is a Dutch semi-rolling release Linux distribution based on Debian.2 It aims to be simple to use, providing an environment that is stable, secure, and ideal for small businesses, non-profit organizations and home users

SolydXK includes proprietary software such as Adobe Flash, Steam and optional closed-source drivers to provide initial multimedia usage and gaming on Linux

After first book a straightforward Welcome Screen with driver assistance pops up.
Welcome screen also has community resource links

SolydXK originated in 2012 as an unofficial version of “Linux Mint Debian edition” (LMDE) using the KDE desktop environment.

In November 2012, Linux Mint ceased maintaining both the KDE and XFCE versions of LMDE. SolydXK was started to support these two desktop environments. “SolydX” refers to the XFCE version, while “SolydK” refers to the KDE version. The web site url is an amalgam of the two names.

SolydX is a Debian based distribution with the Xfce desktop. It intends to be as light-weight as possible without giving up any of the expected functionality.

SolydX does not need to be reinstalled each time an update is released. You don’t have to reinstall, ever!

Updates are delivered in quarterly packs through the update manager. The update manager sits in your system tray and signals you whenever there is an update available. You can find a detailed description of the update pack process here.

Update Packs explaine

SolydXK increases stability and security by testing the incoming packages before they are released. To guarantee up-to-date security, the SolydXK Security repository is updated on a daily basis, and therefore the SolydXK security repository is not included in the UP process.

The Update Pack is a quarterly process. The testing period is initiated on the first of the month, and will take two weeks of testing before making the Update Pack available for the public. The following dates are planned testing periods:

To further increase security both Firefox and Thunderbird are being built from source if there are new versions available. These packages do not necessarily follow the UP frequency, but will be released whenever they are available.

Users can point the update manager directly to Debian Testing, which is the upstream source of all Solyd updates, the default configuration points to the update manager.
Solyd Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager.
Upgdate package manager screen grab in review at ZDNet.

A useable rolling release, with a safety net. Good bye reloads between releases for Mint, or leaps of faith upgrades with Ubuntu.

For years, I’ve been a pave and rebuild kinda guy. But my current Arch install is going strong from the Arch challenge. And the longer I have ran this install, the more I have come to appreciate how nice it is to just have things like GPG, mail, etc configured and ready all the time.
Even the minefield of upgrades, even when done with a nice GUI can be a major hassle on any kind of production system, be it a workstation, a studio Skype box, or a server.
Rolling solves the problem of the pave and rebuild (Mint) and the major upgrade jumps every six months (Ubuntu).
tech lore by igor: My Review of SolydX 201401

Of the two flavors offered by Solyd, I opted for SolydX, which uses the light-as-a-mouse–hence the mascot–XFCE desktop environment.

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Mozilla and Epic Games have showed the power of the Web as a platform for gaming by porting Unreal Engine 3 to the Web and showcasing Epic Citadel, using asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript pioneered by Mozilla. In less than 12 months, optimizations have increased the performance of Web applications using asm.js from 40% to within 67% of native, and we expect it to get even faster. This performance opens up new opportunities for giving users an astonishing and delightful experience, from within their choice of Web browser. Any modern browser can run asm.js content, but specific optimizations currently present only in Firefox, ensure the most consistent and smooth experience.

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Please opt-in to the dev channel on Linux to test Aura – Google Groups

We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35. Aura is a cross-platform graphics system, and the Aura frontend will replace the current GTK+ frontend.

Chrome engineer here. I think people are making a much bigger deal about this than it really is.

I think people are making a much bigger deal about this than it really is.

I’m also the original author of Audacity, which uses wxWidgets.

Is it NIH syndrome? I don’t really think so. We’re not choosing not to use GTK+ or Qt because we don’t want to learn how to use them and we think we could do better, we understand them really well and we specifically want to build something different. It’s harder, but the payoff is worth it.

Note that Chrome still uses GTK+ for theme support, for things like file dialogs, and other desktop integration. It’s just that the main browser window is now rendered using Aura rather than being made up of GTK+ widgets.

For everyone who is saying that GTK+ and Qt support GPU acceleration, of course they do – but they don’t support all of the features Aura does, and it wouldn’t be trivial to add them. Aura composites the whole window – the browser UI, and the webpage, in one pass. That’s a big memory and performance win, but it can’t be done with many graphics toolkits.

Replicant Developers Find Backdoor In Android Samsung Galaxy

The Replicant developers’ research finds "Samsung Galaxy devices running proprietary Android versions come with a back-door that provides remote access to the data stored on the device.

In particular, the proprietary software that is in charge of handling the communications with the modem, using the Samsung IPC protocol, implements a class of requests known as RFS commands, that allows the modem to perform remote I/O operations on the phone’s storage.

As the modem is running proprietary software, it is likely that it offers over-the-air remote control, that could then be used to issue the incriminated RFS messages and access the phone’s file system."

Among the known affected devices are the Nexus S, Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 2, Galaxy S 3, and Galaxy Note 2. The Galaxy S seems to be in the worse shape with the back-doored program running as root.

In terms of the legitimacy of the backdoor, the developers believe, “the incriminated RFS messages of the Samsung IPC protocol were not found to have any particular legitimacy nor relevant use-case. However, it is possible that these were added for legitimate purposes, without the intent of doing harm by providing a back-door. Nevertheless, the result is the same and it allows the modem to access the phone’s storage.”

Valve Opens Code

Valve releases open source Direct3D to OpenGL translator

With little fanfare, Valve has published the source to ToGL, a translation layer to support a subset of the Direct3D 9 API on OpenGL systems. ToGL is a component of the company’s Source 3D engine. Valve has broken it out and slapped a permissive MIT license on it in the hope that it might be useful to other developers.

ValveSoftware/vogl · GitHub

This project is alpha^2 right now. If you are up for suffering through a bit of pain with early releases, please continue on – we’d love to have your help…

Crytek Showing Off CryEngine On Linux At GDC

Crytek sent out a press release today announcing they will be showing off CryEngine Linux support. Found in a press release today, “During presentations and hands-on demos at Crytek’s GDC booth, attendees can see for the first time ever full native Linux support in the new CRYENGINE. The CRYENGINE all-in-one game engine is also updated with the innovative features used to recreate the stunning Roman Empire seen in Ryse – including the brand new Physically Based Shading render pipeline, which uses real-world physics simulation to create amazingly realistic lighting and materials in CRYENGINE games.”

This upcoming Game Developers’ Conference is happening from 17 to 21 of March in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Details on the conference can be found via the GDConf.com web-site along with the exhibitors.

Intel processors now get OS locked In an GOLEM

At CEBIT 2014 fair, Frank Kuypers, technical account manager at INTEL corp., proudly presented a new feature in INTEL processors, called “hooks”, beginning with the new 2014 “Merrifield” 64 bit SoC chip generation.

The manager gave an example: In the Intel network only mobiles with certain Android versions are allowed to use certain functionalities. If you then replace your Android version, e.g. by a free Cyanogenmod Android kernel, not only some chips would stop working, e.g. LTE/UMTS, but also mails from your employer would be blinded out, because now the processor itself would ‘classify’ the new software as ‘risk’.

Now, beginning with the new 2014 power efficient mobile “Merrifield” processor generation, this functionality can and will (so are WINTEL alliance plans) be used to lock the processor for certain OS’es or OS versions.

First implementation will be the INTEL owned McAffee virus scanner, which now operates in the background on microcode level, completely unnoticeable by the OS or system operator, Frank Kuypers proudly added.

alcalde comments on Intel processors now get OS locked

If you read the comments, this article is essentially taking software hooks in Android and projecting this with wild-eyed imagination to ideas of locked OSes and code that runs without OS knowledge, things which have no foundation in the interview which is the ultimate source for the article.

The author also writes things like:

Microcode is very similar to ASIC or FPGA technology (ASIC is much faster, up
to 15 GHz possible). By updating ‘microcode’ you burn new circuits into the
processor, which then has same functionality as software code.

Which suggests he doesn’t really understand what he’s talking about.

Take this article with a Red Sea-level of salt.

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The Ubuntu Hangover | LINUX Unplugged 10

chris — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:53:20 +0000

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What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in.

PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you\’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward.

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The Big Picture for Linux

The Linux desktop is easily still a good 5 years behind Windows and OSX and without LTS Linux wouldn\’t even be in the ballpark.

Linux outlasts Any Distro, Experienced End-Users Should Embrace that.

Watching the events around Ubuntu unfold it\’s once again teaching us something that anyone who\’s watched Linux for a long time, has noticed, but like my self, refuses to fully accept it. Many (maybe all? In the grand scheme) die or change for the worse.

And yet many Linux users are afraid of a \”raw\” Linux experience without the protection of their distro masters. They fear total system havoc without some bearded keeper of the repo gates preventing mass chaos from entering their system during some random update.

Four months into using Arch as my daily driver, in production and play, has taught me a big lesson. Not about how l33t Arch is, or that Wiki\’s can actually not suck, but that upstream is amazing. The near real time work that is being done is inspiring and encouraging to watch and enjoy.

Some examples of cutting edge:

Maybe there is a case to be made, that if you, like me, often enjoy toying with computer instead of playing a video game, then perhaps it in Linux and all upstream code\’s best future interests to try and live outside the box a little.

irrationalNumber comments on Ubuntu 13.10 Review | LAS s29e02

I\’ve spent a lot of time with each of the main-line distros (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, openSUSE, Slackware), and I have to say that if I weren\’t using Arch, I really don\’t know what else I would use.

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In Defense of KDE

Chris points out that Gene wanted the Enterprise to be clean, and streamlined. Because the technology had become so perfected by that point it was natural and comfortable to use.

Good and Bad Advice for Linux Noobs

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