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Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is released, with support for next-gen onion services and KIST scheduler

Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It includes support for our next-generation (“v3”) onion service protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small features and bugfixes here.

Introducing Keybase Teams

But Keybase teamwork is end-to-end encrypted, which means you don’t have to worry about server hacks

An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Effective today, EFF is resigning from the W3C.

Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC Are the Most Popular Apps Among Ubuntu Users

Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland attended this year’s UbuCon Europe conference for Ubuntu users and developers in Paris, France, where he revealed the results of the Ubuntu desktop survey and the apps that users want to see by default in future Ubuntu releases.

Dustin Shares Software Survey Results for the First time

Linux Academy

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Launching PipeWire!

Pipewire, the linux multimedia gamechanger, is here! – https://t.co/ayXhrCF6eu

— Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) September 19, 2017

We are finally ready to formally launch pipewire as a project and have created a Pipewire website and logo.

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DigitalOcean

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Linux “Journalism” is in a Nose Dive

More than ever I believe very deeply that Linux “journalism” is in a nose dive of quality. Fewer and fewer “reporters” are going to the story or creating anything new, and instead have chosen the easy and lazy route of clickbait, virtue signaling journalism. It’s a well proven business model after all, and saves quite a bit of time.

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— Batman 66 Labels (@BatLabels) September 19, 2017

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Linux Foundation Head Calls 2017 ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’… While Running Apple’s macOS Himself

Sitting on a plane, watching Jim Zemlin use OS X.

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) July 23, 2013

Perhaps I am creating unnecessary controversy. Perhaps this simply should be ignored.

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Happy 20th Birthday, GNOME!

the GNOME Project proudly celebrates its 20th Birthday. Founded by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero on August 15, 1997, GNOME has since become a pillar of the Free Software community.

• Happy Birthday GNOME

Solar Eclipse Oregon Meetup

When:

• Monday, August 21, 2017
• 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Where:

• Pacific Wayside Crest
• 43405 U.S. 101 S, Neskowin, OR

Linux Academy

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KDE Connect/MConnect integration for Gnome Shell

This extension provides integration for KDE Connect/MConnect in Gnome Shell.

Alacritty: A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

Latte-Dock: Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids

Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and trys to be there only when it is needed.

• Release Version 0.7.0 · psifidotos/Latte-Dock · GitHub

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Solus 3 Released

On behalf of the Solus team and community, we’re extremely proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 3. This is the third iteration of Solus since our move to become a rolling release operating system. Unlike the previous iterations, however, this is a release and not a snapshot. We’ve now moved away from the “regular snapshot” model to accommodate the best hybrid approach possible – feature rich releases with explicit goals and technology enabling, along with the benefits of a curated rolling release operating system.

This release features out-of-the-box support for snaps, universal software packages for Linux. Support for snaps relieves pressure from software vendors to target a specific platform by sharing a unified target across all Linux distributions. For our users, they gain access to a wide variety of software that may not meet our package inclusion criteria, such as server software, as well as enabling an improved distribution method for Third Party software.

Support for Snaps was made possible due to fantastic cross-platform collaboration between Canonical’s Snapcraft and Ubuntu teams and Solus, which is the first non-Ubuntu distribution to feature full snap confinement leveraging AppArmor, offering feature parity with the reference Ubuntu implementation.

• Late Night Linux – Call for OggCamp questions

TING

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Slackware Follow up

• Y2k100 bug

Is it reasonable to expect the below Ubuntu version numbers?
2100 April release – 100.04 LTS
3000 April release – 1000.04 LTS

• The best reply ever

The world will have been obliterated by nuclear and biochemical warfare by
then so don’t worry.

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Could Google be about to make a major shake up in future development for Android? We discuss the scuttlebut about Swift on Android.

Plus Mike’s new mobile rig & Noah from the Linux Action Show joins for Mike’s update on his Linux Adventure & Mike gets the hard sell.

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Hoopla

• Bill Campbell Passed

• Swift on Android

• Port to Android by modocache · Pull Request #1442 · apple/swift · GitHub

• swift/Android.md at master · apple/swift · GitHub

Mike’s New Rig

• Dell XPS 13

Linux Adventure Nears Conclusion

• Intel Driver Issues
• Broadcom Issues
• Mate > Unity

• Whereto from here?

• Gnome Builder

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We\’ll be talking to renowned BSD author Michael Lucas about his latest opus, \”Sudo Mastery.\” Also, we\’ve heard your cries and we\’ll also finally be showing you how to build a BSD desktop system from the ground up. There\’s plenty of news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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OpenBSD 5.4 released

• The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
• People who bought the CD (this is where we show the CD) get the release very early, but now it\’s on the public FTP
• New platforms \”octeon\” and \”beagle\”
• Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
• Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features – check out the full release notes
• A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
• Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future

FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

• Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
• Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
• Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
• New \”pkg+http\” protocol identifier for SRV records
• If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it\’s easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
• If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
• What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?

DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

• SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it\’s time to branch
• Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
• Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
• We\’re hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release

FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

• Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
• At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
• The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).

Interview – Michael W. Lucas – mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

Sudo Mastery
+ Could you tell us a little about yourself, how you got involved with writing and specifically writing about BSD?
+ To set the record straight, is \”su-doh\” or \”su-du\” the correct pronunciation?
+ For the sake of completeness, what is sudo, where does it come from, what does it do?
+ Why did you write this book?
+ Is this mainly a security-focused book?
+ What\’s something interesting you learned about sudo while writing this that you didn\’t know?
+ What are some other BSD books you\’ve written?
+ What makes a \”good\” tech book, would you say?
+ Since you\’ve written about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, how do you personally use both of them?
+ Do the projects get any of the money from sales of the books?
+ Where\’s the best place for people to go to find out more about (and buy) your books?
+ We saw on Twitter you\’re going to be doing an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk for MUG?
+ Anything else you\’d like to mention?
+ Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes

Tutorial

Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

• The BSDs are known around the world as the server OSes of the gods
• They can each make a pretty nice desktop
• PCBSD gives you an out of the box, preconfigured desktop experience
• This guide is for manually setting one up and learning about the process

News Roundup

iXsystems FreeBSD party wrap-up chat

Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

• Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
• Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
• Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes

NYCBSDCon 2014

• After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 1, 2014
• Theme of \”The BSDs in Production\” this year
• Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer

FreeBSD newcons progress update

• This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
• Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
• More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki

Weekly PCBSD feature digest

• PBI 10 format is about ready and they\’ll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
• PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
• New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
• New PC-BSD Builder Scripts (https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd-build)
• New 9.2 ISO just out today

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• Thanks for ten great episodes so far, we hope to keep doing this for a long time. Be sure to send us your feedback about what you want to see on future episodes! Especially tutorials!

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As much as we might like to have different fully native applications for every platform we target — that can be more than a little inefficient not to mention expensive.

This episode is all about compromise.

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Feedback

• Sigflup writes in to disagree with me regarding finding bugs while porting apps and share his awesome project
• Community recommendations on source control books
• Source Control by Example
• Rellon or Ruby hacker writes in to clarify what he wants to do with Ruby and puts his vote in for a testing episode.
• Bill has been teaching himself some coding but wants to be a systems programmer and wonders if there is money in that.
• James is working in C# as an ASP.Net developer, is learning Python, and has to make a decision regarding design patterns.
• Github clarifications
• A lot of you came to the defense of QT; Chris and I clarify.

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This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• Digia bought QT — please don’t go the way of Mono….
• Steve Yegge’s Liberal / Conservative Software Axis
• ZOMG TextMate 2!

Mikes a Sad Panda

• Sales progress….

Write Once Suck Everywhere

• Using the same code base across multiple platforms
• How Java fits in
• Other options?
• About those pesky designers….
• The Great Web Hope
• 20,000 Leagues Under Java!

Mike’s Plug

• Code Journal

Tool of the Week

• QTCreator

Book of the Week

• Foundations of QT Development

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By popular demand we have specially tailored an episode for fresh computer scientists who are about to enter the development arena. Things are different here, but if you follow some simple guidelines, you’ll have a much better time started out.

This episode is all about those little things academia forgot.

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• Emmet has made his own solution and put it on Github — and David recommends Uranos for him.
• A number of you still love Codeacademy.com
• Rellon is moving from Windows to Linux development and has fallen in love with Ruby (good choice). He would like some Ruby resources.
• Adam says he’s loves the show (Awesome BTW!) but is having something of a problem wrapping his head around the arcane world of software licences. GPL? BSD? MIT? Apache? What does it all mean?
• Pablo suggests we take a look at test driven development and unit testing one day — not a bad idea.
• Fernando asks how I stay focussed enough on side commercial projects to actually complete them; I wonder if he likes tomatoes?
• Colin says, “I see your email written in C and raise you a message in Haskell”. Yes, he wrote the email in Haskell.

PSA on Manners and the Real World

• Nixie has a problem: you.
• And back to your regularly scheduled programming.

First Rule About Source Control: USE IT!!!

• Everything in Source control no exceptions!
• Centralised vs distributed?
• Gui or command line?
• Commit message formatting?

I Regret to Inform You that the Compiler is Almost Always Right

• Don’t start with assumption that there is a bug in the vendor’s compiler / framework…
• Having trouble? Consider writing test…
• Test before you push, please….

Forget About Being Perfect, Be Good Enough and Get the Job Done

• Don’t waste a week writing a “perfect” algorithm when a less perfect one will meet your needs and take significantly less time.
• To that point it is almost always a good idea to use accepted solutions / algorithms for most problems you will encounter, rather than rolling your own.

Code Journal Experiment Update

• Lessons Learned: Code Journal Early Release

The Horror!

• This one is all too common…

JB Community App Update!

• GitHub Project Page
• Phonegap is slow….

Book of the Week

• Effective Programming: More than Writing Code

Tool of the Week

• Stackoverflow

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• Live Monday 9am PDT
• Music by: Ronald Jenkees
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