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Calling has always been one of Wire’s most popular features. Today we’re happy to announce the rollout of a major upgrade to our calling protocol. It further improves the secure calling experience and takes a step forward for privacy.

This update means more successfully connected calls, even in challenging network conditions. Another iteration in a few weeks will significantly shorten the call setup time. When you call someone and they accept then you’ll be able to start talking almost instantly.

Telegram & WhatsApp Vulnerability

One of the most concerning revelations arising from the recent WikiLeaks publication is the possibility that government organizations can compromise WhatsApp, Telegram and other end-to-end encrypted chat applications. While this has yet to be proven, many end-users are concerned as WhatsApp and Telegram use end-to-end encryption to guarantee user privacy. This encryption is designed to ensure that only the people communicating can read the messages and nobody else in between.

BeagleBone Blue: A Linux Robot Computer

BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer. Community-supported and fully open-source, the real-time performance, flexible networking and rich set of robotics-oriented peripherals make building mobile robots quick and affordable.

Smartwatch OS

The news comes via an interview with Swatch CEO Nick Hayek, who stated, “there’s a possibility for wearables to develop as a consumer product, but you have to miniaturize and have an independent operating system.” The statement comes on the heel of Tag Heuer’s unveiling of a new super high-end modular timepiece.

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Future Show Direction

Name: Shannon S
Subject: Just some love
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah. I wanted to reach out to you and show some support and thanks for the time, energy, and money that you put into the research, production and high quality of your show.

My fiance Christopher has been listening for a few years now. He loves what you do, and so do I! As my fiance has become more knowledgeable and more passionate about Linux, security, etc, he has so few people in our real world social network to chat about it with. He can’t dig in deep and dork out over it without eyes glazing over. You guys have been guides and friends as he has worked on moving his career path towards tech.

it’s tough to feel the support of your viewers, especially when they become complacent with sharing on social media. Just know there is tons of love for you guys coming from over in Vermont (though not with social media shares, guilty as charged).

Also, I’ve always appreciated the time you have spent talking about women in tech and women using linux. I’ve got ubuntu gnome onto my laptop and I’ve become a much more knowledgeable and confident with my computer knowledge thanks to you both. This is coming from a very grudging tech user.

We also love love love Unfilter, and we both think the intro is fine as is

Name: Aaron R
Subject: Firewall with Reverse Proxy
Message:

Hey guys, I’m looking for a good open source firewall and reverse proxy that has a nice webUI that I can quickly configure and monitor from. I use cisco ASA’s and nginx combo normally but for the house and $ it doesn’t make sense. i have a limited number of external IP’s as you probably already know. I’ve now got a home setup that I’d like to start hosting some things on. I’m demoing cacheguard and it’s nice but only free for 5 users. Thanks! any help much

Noah’s Reccomendation

Protect your business network from viruses, malware and other threats using the UTM (Unified Threat Management) platform with the best usability in the industry. The Endian UTM appliance provides total network security including web and email filtering, VPN, intrusion prevention, bandwidth management and much more.

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CIA’s Dank Trojans | LINUX Unplugged 187

chris — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:10:58 +0000

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GNU founder Richard Stallman's famous quote resonates with today's @WikiLeaks publication on the CIA's #Vault7 https://t.co/h5wzfrReyy pic.twitter.com/aPk2CK2DbN

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 7, 2017

Vault7 – HIVE Targets Linux

The CIA has developed automated multi-platform malware attack and control
systems covering Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and more, such
as EDB’s “HIVE” and the related “Cutthroat” and “Swindle” tools, which are
_described in the examples section below._

Vault7 – Home

HIVE

HIVE is a multi-platform CIA malware suite and its associated control
software. The project provides customizable implants for Windows, Solaris,
MikroTik (used in internet routers) and Linux platforms and a Listening
Post (LP)/Command and Control (C2) infrastructure to communicate with
these implants.

The implants are configured to communicate via HTTPS with the webserver of a
cover domain; each operation utilizing these implants has a separate cover
domain and the infrastructure can handle any number of cover domains.

Each cover domain resolves to an IP address that is located at a commercial
VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider. The public-facing server forwards all
incoming traffic via a VPN to a ‘Blot’ server that handles actual connection
requests from clients. It is setup for optional SSL client authentication: if
a client sends a valid client certificate (only implants can do that), the
connection is forwarded to the ‘Honeycomb’ toolserver that communicates with
the implant; if a valid certificate is missing (which is the case if someone
tries to open the cover domain website by accident), the traffic is forwarded
to a cover server that delivers an unsuspicious looking website.

The Honeycomb toolserver receives exfiltrated information from the implant; an
operator can also task the implant to execute jobs on the target computer, so
the toolserver acts as a C2 (command and control) server for the implant.

Similar functionality (though limited to Windows) is provided by the RickBobby
project.

See the classified user and
developer guides for HIVE.

What time period is covered?

The years 2013 to 2016. The sort order of the pages within each level is determined by date (oldest first).

WikiLeaks has obtained the CIA’s creation/last modification date for each page but these do not yet appear for technical reasons. Usually the date can be discerned or approximated from the content and the page order. If it is critical to know the exact time/date contact WikiLeaks.

What is “Vault 7”

“Vault 7” is a substantial collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.

When was each part of “Vault 7” obtained?

Part one was obtained recently and covers through 2016. Details on the other parts will be available at the time of publication.

Setting Up a Linux Build Environment for EFI

This page will walk you through building a build environment for a Linux machine. Specifically, this tutorial is focused on Ubuntu/Linux Mint.

If you're writing about the CIA/@Wikileaks story, here's the big deal: first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe. pic.twitter.com/kYi0NC2mOp

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 7, 2017

Linux Academy

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“Linux Sucks… For the Last Time” – 2017

“Linux Sucks”. 2017 edition. The very last “Linux Sucks”. Ever. Recorded live at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) on March 2nd, 2017.

The Story of Firefox OS

Well, I’m Ben and I’m a Mozillian. I’m a Software Engineer who worked on the “Boot to Gecko” project full time for five years and I have a story to tell.

The Endless Mission One is a gorgeous Linux-powered desktop with a tempting price tag

But the Endless Mission One, which is the subject of this review, is significantly more expensive, costing $250. It also packs more capable hardware, and a gorgeous wood finish that wouldn’t look out of place in a home office. P

OggCamp 17 – Aug 19th & 20th 2017 | Canterbury, UK

OggCamp 17 is on! Canterbury Christ Church University, 19th-20th August 2017 https://t.co/nYNbYBTO6l pic.twitter.com/AK3ZeRBK1X

— OggCamp (@oggcamp) February 26, 2017

OggCamp is a Free Culture Unconference.

TING

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Gnome and Endless at SCaLE 15x

The Endless Mission One is a gorgeous Linux-powered desktop with a tempting price tag

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The Endless Mission One comes in two variants — one with 320GB of storage, and one with 500GB. I reviewed the latter.

Get the most out of GNOME notifications – Fedora Magazine

For many users, GNOME 3, also known as Gnome Shell, is the definitive desktop interface. It’s clean and simple, without too many twinkles or distractions. That said, this article describes some tricks to change the GNOME notifications experience.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Litebook is a $249 Linux laptop – Liliputing

You can order the 2.9 laptop from the Litebook website. A model with a 512GB hard drive is priced at $249. Or you can pay $20 more for a version with a 32GB mSATA solid state disk and a 512GB hard drive.

Litebook – Slim, Light, Elegant — Take Back Control of your Digital Life

k. Litebooks are the perfect combination of beautiful hardware and software. Fast and intuitive the Litebook offers a computing experience like no other. Unlike Windows laptops, Litebooks are highly optimized, come without performance hogging bloatware, are designed to ensure your privacy, and are entirely free of malware and viruses, while unlike macs Litebooks are affordable, customizable, and are backwards compatible with windows software.

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Live from SCaLE 15x | LAS 459

chris — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:33:28 +0000

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Live from SCaLE15x

Noah @Kernellinux in action at the #Nextcloud both #linuxactionshow .Would have liked to say hi but had to run for the next talk #scale15x pic.twitter.com/jobGqIYE8P

— Carmelito Andrade (@CarmelitoA) March 5, 2017

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RT cbast_meneses: RTgnome: Thanks kernellinux jupitersignal for dropping by our booth! gnome #scale15x pic.twitter.com/M4dHhX2FzD

— Carlos Quizhpe (@carlosquizhpe_) March 5, 2017

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Runs Linux

Meet the Ubuntu Powered Augmented Reality Helmet

So think of it less of an Ubuntu Hololens and more of a souped-up set of cyborg Snappy Ubuntu Core goggles.

Desktop App Pick

Standard Notes – standard notes app, un-standard every other way.

A proof of concept collaborative text editor with end-to-end encryption. Simply share the URL with anyone you want to collaborate with.

The URL contains a unique, random identifier for the document, as well as an encryption key and edit token. Since the encryption key follows the # symbol, it is never sent to the server.

Edits to the document are end-to-end encrypted, meaning what you type is encrypted locally before being sent to the server and other users.

Other collaborators do not need Standard Notes to view the document. To allow others to edit the document, share the “Editing URL”. For viewing access only, share the “Viewing URL”.

Distro of the Week

Zenwalk GNU Linux: New Zenwalk Current ISO for 22 feb 2017

The main change is the comeback of Firefox, built with GTK3 and multithreading enabled by default : This build of Firefox starts and react nearly as fast as Chromium, and with many tabs opened : scales much better in terms of responsiveness and memory footprint.

— NEWS —

The New System76 Galago Pro is a Potential Macbook Kille

The Galago Pro is slim and lightweight, yet it packs in plenty of power under the hood. It’s powered by choice of Intel Kaby Lake processors — Core i5 or Core i7-7500U — with Intel Integrated Graphics 620, and can be configured withup to 32GB RAM.

Razer Is Planning Better Laptop Support On Linux – Phoronix

Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan has shared plans to improve their Linux support, at least when it comes to their Blade laptops.

Welcome to The Linux Corner! | Razer Insider

As Razer Insider is always adapting and evolving based on what our community is looking for, we decided to lead a new forum section that is dedicated to Linux’s applications for gamers or other creators alike. The Linux Corner is a result of this where fans can now discuss their experience, provide feedback, and talk about everything related to Tux’s OS running on the Razer Blade.

Jaguar Land Rover invests in artificial intelligence startup Mycroft

Mycroft has landed a strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover. The Kansas City-based artificial intelligence startup is among the first startups to enter the Portland-based Jaguar Land Rover Tech Incubator, which will provide Mycroft with a $110,000 investment and full-time engineering support.

Mycroft gets a Plasmoid – Mycroft

The Plasmoid is built on some of the latest technologies, so you need to be running KDE Plasma Desktop 5.9 or later.

Valve launches SteamVR support for Linux

We're now live with a developer build of SteamVR for Linux! https://t.co/UbsEC01eDh

— Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) February 21, 2017

The company just launched SteamVR for Linux, letting developers create Linux content for the HTC Vive VR headset, trackers and other hardware. The program is in beta, meaning developers must use an NVIDIA developer beta driver

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux | GamingOnLinux

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplayer and co-op campaign modes, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR with Croteam’s new Serious Warp movement system.

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Spotting LAS viewers in the wild

Cousin Randal @merlyn scores a second row seat @badvoltage #scale15x #goodtimes #clamsOnHalfshell #rollerskates pic.twitter.com/8sXV412min

— jordan247 (@jordan247) March 4, 2017

Where are some places where you’ve found fans of the Linux Action Show? Was it in a normal place, or some place exotic? Recently, I met a LAS viewer named Justin at a local Smash Burger in Texas (he was wearing a LAS hoodie with the logo on it). Apparently, he’s been a viewer for a long time.

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Pre SCaLE LAS | LAS 401

chris — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:04:20 +0000

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In this special episode of LAS, we go off the rails as we buckle down & prep for our visit to SCaLE live on the air! Plus picks, your feedback & more!

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Runs Linux

This Viewers Car Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

reep.io | peer-to-peer filesharing made easy

With reep.io you can transfer files directly to another browser.
Just point to a file you want to share. Your peer will then be able to download this file
directly from you. No data is stored on a server in-between.

Weekly Spotlight

GalliumOS – A fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices

A fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices.

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SCaLE Planning

SCaLE 14x

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center

Equipment Chris is bringing:

GoPro Hero 4
Zoom SGH-6 Shotgun Mic
Zoom H4n

Thanks to Ryan (@techhelper1)

Offered the use of his 99 Cadillac Seville while at SCALE

Thanks to Brian

Offered his long driveway, which might or might not work.

Post-Show

SyncThing

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Sorry, I don’t do Windows | LINUX Unplugged 127

chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:07:48 +0000

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We react to Remix OS and give it a go on a few of our machines, discuss the surprise feature in KDE 5.6 & chat with some of the folks behind SCALE 14x.

Plus how to tell family and friends you’re not the Geek Squad, we get our filesystem geek on & using tech support opportunities to be an open source ambassador.

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Snapcraft 1.0 Ubuntu Snappy Creator Tool Officially Released

Canonical’s Snappy team had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the Snapcraft 1.0 Snappy creator tool for Ubuntu Linux.

KDE Plasma 5.6 to Feature Unity Launcher Support, Media Controls in Task Manager

Let’s start with the Uni__ty Launcher support, as it would appear that KDE Plasma 5.6 will borrow the Unity API from Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system to implement support for app notifications in the Task Manager. For example, the Chromium web browser will display the download progress.

Why do you think btrfs is better than zfs for home use

In ep 399 you talk about how ZFS is more designed for enterprise. While btrfs is more suited for home use. But you never really said why you think that, could you try to explain why you think this?

Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

UbuCon portal

On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

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Ilan Rabinovitch and Gareth J. Greenaway on what’s new for SCALE14x

We’re always looking for help! If you would like to volunteer for one of these SCALE committees, please email the committee chair.

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What’s Remix OS for PC? Remix OS for PC is built on the Android-x86

This is an alpha version intended for developers and early adopters who don’t mind a bug or two.

Android was designed for touchscreens and as there isn’t a touchscreen on most PCs, we want you to be aware that apps may perform differently. We’re asking for developers and testers to help us optimize Remix OS for Android PCs.
Join our Google Group for further discussion or give us your feedback here.We read all your messages and feedback but will not be replying to most due the volume of the feedback.

Remix OS—a multitasking, windowed Android OS—can now run on your PC

We tried Remix OS at the end of a recent article that looked at Android on the desktop. The OS definitely proved nicer than vanilla Android with a mouse and keyboard, but just like with Android tablets, the biggest software weakness is app support for the new environment. Remix actually comes out a little better here, since if you get stuck with a phone app, you can usually just shrink it down to a phone-sized window.

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2016 Linux Wish List | LAS 399

chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:34:36 +0000

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What if your humble hosts could have there way? A wave of their magic wands, whatever they want changed in Linux Land in 2016 would just happen? We spend sometime this week fantasizing about all things we wish would happen this year to make Linux better.

Plus the welcome change in Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox OS finds new life, desktop picks that changed our lives & more!

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Wishlist for Linux Land in 2016:

A new effort to distance android from Google (Chris)

For the desktop, something a lot like: Remix OS is Android for the desktop, and it works with nearly any PC , but community backed, fully out in the open.

I’d like this project to even eventually kick Linux in the butt once or twice, to really get some competition in the open source desktop area. So its not just open source desktop vs commercial.

Collaborative Editing Software (Noah)

Google Docs is great for those who like it. Personally I can’t stand the web based solution. It tries to hard to be a native software solution including things like CTRL C and CTRL V for copy paste. When in a browser though my mind immediately starts acting like it should given that I’m in a browser. What I’d really like is a piece of software that runs on the OS itself and allows for offline editing.

More Frustrated Mac Users switch to Linux (Chris)

For a certain class of user, the Mac OS X desktop can be very frustrating. Its suppose to just work, and a great many things do indeed just work.

But for us geeks, sometimes it crosses a few sacred lined, that must never be crossed.

Macports is a royal pain compared to Linux package managers.
Brew does not have enough software, is nowhere near the AUR, or Debian/Ubuntu repos.
The lack of proper home/end/pgup/pgdown keys is maddening.
It has just enough quirks that I can’t say it Just Works significantly more than a well configured Linux desktop.
Performance optimization of new software seems to end when it works smoothly on ‘current’ hardware, which means that it doesn’t take long for hardware to get branded ‘old’.
Very expensive eco-system, with no real “lockin” iOS devices do not depend on OS X.
Switching to Linux

FOSS Linux based Access Points (Noah)

I’ve long been in love with Unifi AP’s ruining busybox but I always have my finger on the pulse of the company for fear that they will some day pull support from Linux. To be fair I don’t think it’s likely since more and more people are deploying controllers on AWS. That said, I would love to see a distro geared to turn consumer grade routers into managed access points. OpenWRT is great until you have to deploy 500 of them.

Ubuntu goes with rolling “fork” or version (Chris)

Those of us that love rolling, but want to play with the latest Ubuntu toys finally have the perfect distro to land on.

Client GUI Sync Client (Noah)

Again, there are plenty of projects that almost fit the bill but what would really set me on fire would be an encrypted syncing client that runs as a small client in the dash communicating with other devices I have syncing. It would rely on no special service, would not require you to configure, or access through a web UI, and would be open source.

Full Syncthing interrelation with Gnome Files. (Chris)

Just imagine it. With a few clicks, all your Gnome desktops syncing, peer to peer. Could be done so simply, so elegantly. True, secure, wonderful file sync at the DE level.

Universal app install (Chris)

Even if it requires btrfs.

A clear path with gnome builder for Dev on-ramping (Chris)

It needs to obvious how companies and indy devs jump into the Linux desktop from an app development, creation, deployment, and support standpoint.

Nvidia steps up with first rate Wayland support (Chris)

I really want to be running Wayland, on a studio machine, by the end of 2016.

Professionally Produced High Quality Kodi Media Player (Noah)

There are loads of android based devices that can be loaded with Kodi and at every turn there is a new way to build a Kodi box. I don’t have the time to install and configure those boxes especially when they crash. I would love to see a premade box that has a reset button that comes pre-loaded with JUST Kodi (Not Android). The market is rich for media players and if everyone rallied around a single software set plugins, and stability, would be soon become issues of the past.

Ubuntu 16.10 ships, Unity8 is looking good. Gaming is NOT impacted negatively (Chris)

Unity traditionally introduces about a 10% frame rate cost when running a game.

Hopefully SteamOS continues to be a great gaming platform for average users. But a lot desktop Linux users are benefiting from the new Steam games, and Ubuntu + Unity should be the “best” experience on desktop Linux for gaming. It would generate a lot of good buzz, and give Unity8 the reputation of being “super fast”.

Not an easy feat, with Mir involved.

Native Production Quality Video Conferencing (Noah)

There are plenty of solutions to get your face on someone’s computer. Even solutions that work well on other platforms are crippled to some degree on Linux. Ideally this would utilize XMMP / SIP protocols and communicate directly with a socket not rely on a third party service.

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Runs Linux

Life Science Supercomputer RUNS LINUX

The new national supercomputer for life Sciences is physically installed at DTU Risø Campus, where highly redundant power (7 MW) and highly advanced energy efficient and dual redundant cooling technology is available. A dedicated national redundant high-speed network connects the supercomputer to the other DTU Campuses, University of Copenhagen and elsewhere such that it mimics the feel of having the facility in your basement. The machine currently acts as a backbone in the Danish ELIXIR node, where it collaborates across the whole European community on bioinformatics. The infrastructure links up into the European and international infrastructure encouraging the collaboration on the bleeding edge in the technology and life sciences arena.

The supercomputer is built using HP’s next generation of Apollo servers designed for high throughput and contain 16,048 cores of Intel’s state of the art Hashwell architecture, 96TB of global DDR4 high speed memory complemented by an ultra high speed infiniband interconnect. The supercomputer is named “Computerome” with ultra fast 3PB storage that can be expanded to 7.5 PB on the fly. The data is backed onto two 1 PB tape back up robots one on-site and second off-site in Lyngby. An additional layer of online data backup of 2PB is also maintained fully synchronized using long distance secure replication between Risø and Lyngby. The installation has an ultra high-density footprint, and is installed in 2x500KW high-density modular Tier IV containerized data center modules.

The system is designed using the bioinformatics reference architecture developed by CBS over the past 20 years and using the best practices in the industry. It has a full set of comprehensive systems management software tools and hot-spare hardware. The complete site is backed up by the premium support from the vendors. Compared to our current installation we are enlarging the compute capacity by a factor of 10 and the system is the largest of its type in Scandinavia and unique in Europe due to the fact it is specifically designed for life sciences workflows. At the time of writing (Summer 2014) the performance of the system brings it on to 86th place on the Top500 list, which consists of the 500 fastest computers in the world.

Sent by Sune A.

Desktop App Pick

EasyTAG

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier.

Weekly Spotlight

OSTicket

osTicket is a widely-used and trusted open source support ticket system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform. osTicket comes packed with more features and tools than most of the expensive (and complex) support ticket systems on the market. The best part is, it’s completely free.

LAS Shirt at SCALE – Teespring

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Ubuntu ‘Spyware’ Will Be Disabled In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Search terms typed into the Unity 7 Dash search bar will only show local file, folder and app results. No search terms will be sent to Canonical or passed to third party results providers, as is currently the case.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is Continuing To Prep ZFS Support

Chad Miller of Canonical shared that “ZFS is right now 90% ready on (what will be) Ubuntu 16.04.” There still are new ZFS packages to land in the Ubuntu 16.04, but Chad has the current packages queued up in a PPA. These packages will allow for installing Ubuntu to a ZFS partition, but an EFI partition is still needed. Additionally, there’s no support in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity graphical installer for setting up an easy ZFS-based system.

EXT4 will obviously be the default file-system still for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Firefox OS will Power New Panasonic UHD TVs Unveiled at CES

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Panasonic announced that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, the first LED LCD TVs in the world with Ultra HD Premium specification, unveiled today at CES 2016.

Mycroft Adapt Intent Parser Released as LGPL

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected

On a spring day in 2012, I shutdown my MacBook Air for the last time. From then on, my primary computing environment — at least on a laptop computer — was GNU/Linux.

Jason Plum – Angry NOOB Syndrome – YouTube

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Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background for the Linux Action

Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

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Offered the use of his 99 Cadillac Seville while at SCALE

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Offered is long driveway, which might or might not work.

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Mycroft Action Show | LINUX Unplugged 126

chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:35:05 +0000

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Straight from the horse’s mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA’s Linux powered CES demo.

Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more!

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With the Drive PX2, NVIDIA is doubling-down on the vision it had last year: Instead of just enabling high-end PC gaming, NVIDIA’s GPUs can also be used to perform the crazy levels of computation necessary for self-driving cars.

Follow Up / Catch Up

World Without Linux Final Episode: Free Burger

In 1991, Linus Torvalds starting working on Linux “just for fun” as a “hobby, nothing professional.” Today, Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It powers the Internet, the cloud, the world’s stock exchanges, supercomputers, embedded devices and more.

Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

Tentative Breakfast Friday morning (per LAS398)? Let me know. There are tons of restaurants in the area.

Linux Action Show POWER Brunch

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On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Mycroft

Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence | Indiegogo
Mycroft Community
Mycroft update from Ryan
Here comes the source!

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2016 edition

In this regularly updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and deficiencies (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes: excellent package management, multiple platforms and architectures support out of the box, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses or malware, complete system reinstallation is almost never required, besides Linux is extremely customizable, easily scripted and it’s free as in beer.

Again, let me reiterate it, this article is primarily about Linux distributions, however many issues listed below affect the Linux kernel as well.

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Chris Owns up to his 2015 Predictions

2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345

With 2015 around the corner we own up to our predictions for 2014, we admit to what we got wrong, and what we got right. Then we look forward to 2015 and go on the record for the big developments we expect to see.

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Consulting the Oracle for 2016 | LAS 398

chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:33:01 +0000

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We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016, Google drops the openJDK bomb & we pay tribute to Ian Murdock.

Plus we announce our SCaLE 14x plans, some changes to the show & more!

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Linux Land in 2016:

Chris and Noah surprise each other with their top 7 Linux predictions for 2016.

Patron Predictions

Martin B:

1) LXQt becomes stable and replaces LXDE. Chris becomes hyped.
2) XFCE becomes irrelevant because of the popularity of MATE and developpers will openly leave the sinking ship.
3) Fedora 25 will have Wayland by default. Not Fedora 24. This will cause a lot of issues. Which is good for the development.
4) KDE Plasma 5 will keep improving, but little issues will keep existing that prevent Chris from recommending it.
5) openSUSE Leap 42.2 will not release in 2016, but is postponed to January 2017
6) Ubuntu will launch Unity 8 for desktop but will also keep their phone strategy alive. Mir will not be replaced by Wayland.
7) The hype for Docker will be lowered somewhat, but actual usage in the enterprise will increase. The Open Container Initiative will cease to exist.
8) AMD will go open source as a way to prevent bankruptcy. This will be the start of better Linux compatibility. But their revenues will not improve.

Lindsay S:

1) Steam Linux usage moves up to 5% after wallowing for quite some time under 1% This will be due primarily to Steam Machine sales and some users realising that Linux is a viable gaming platform. Although this will be a large percentage increase, many including valve will be very disappointed with this level of usage but the steamroller will have just started.
2)Ubuntu will dominate the distro market but will continue to slip in usage and user mindshare. Mint based on the Ubuntu LTS will be a big hit and recommended for most new users. Fedora and OpenSUSE will continue to increase in market share.
3) KDE 5.x will continue to stabilise and add new features to fix issues, it will start to bring back some of the mindshare it lost in 2014. 5.7 will be released and get lots of praise due to features, stability and the fact that you have an easy choice of three different start menus.
4) Wayland will be released for some distributions such as Fedora but will still be seen as experimental and will have problems. There will still be options to use the older X versions. Ubuntu will announce that they are giving up on Mir development and throwing their weight and support behind Wayland, pushing for extensions that will support what they wanted to do with Mir (pigs might fly on this one as well)
5) Libre Office will continue on it’s rise to popularity and use. Several large governments and educational institutions will announce that they are moving to it.
6) Citrix Xenserver will get accolades for a new release and will continue to be a great option for virtualisation. Many other Linux based virtualisation solutions such as oVirt will be in the news for their releases. People will be looking more and more at free and open source virtualisation solutions rather than the commercial alternatives from Vmware and Microsoft.
7) Google will try to address the current big issue with Android security with regard to updates across phone manufactures. They will announce a modular solution that allows updates to the OS via the play store but will also allow carriers to keep their customisations for different types of phones.

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That Hotel Music… Runs Linux

The GM had asked us to find an inexpensive way to get the overhead speakers throughout the hotel. We ran RCA baluns through inexpensive cat5 to the front desk where we placed a laptop installed with Ubuntu Mate, Mixxx, and Spotify.

Desktop App Pick

OnionShare

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size. Read more about how it works and how to use it on GitHub.

Tor Browser

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on
Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software.

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Weekly Spotlight

DHCPPing

https://bentis.calepin.co/handy-tools-for-debugging-dhcp-on-linux.html

dhcping sends a DHCPREQUEST packet, waits for a reply and prints information indicating success or failure and exits with 0 or 1 as appropriate. Use the -v or -V flags for more verbose ouput. The options I most frequently use are -h, the client hardware address, -s the target dhcp server address and -c for the address you’re expecting the reply to be returned to (I don’t know why this is necessary but I find I get a DHCPNACK reply if not).
A typical invocation would therefore be:
sudo dhcping -h 00:12:3f:20:11:49 -s 10.1.200.200 -c 10.1.200.1

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Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle’s open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs | VentureBeat

The news first came by a “mysterious Android codebase commit” from last month submitted to _Hacker News. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that Android N_will rely on an OpenJDK implementation, rather Android’s own implementation of the Java APIs.

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock’s Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Ian Murdock: a tribute to the man and his work on Linux | Technology | The Guardian

Murdock’s work combined an insistence on excellence with a public commitment to open, ethical software development

How I came to find Linux | Ian Murdock

Finally, I could wait no longer, and Jason and I found an unlocked computer lab in one of the dorms containing a single PC, and in the middle of the night one evening in February, we proceeded to install Linux on that lab PC. I still occasionally wonder what the unfortunate student first to the lab the next morning must have thought.

Tails 1.8 Just Released: New Version Of Edward Snowden’s Favorite Linux OS

Tails is based on Debian’s latest stable release. The main change in the version 1.8 is the switch to Icedove open source software as the default email client. This rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird will be replacing Claws Mail.

The OS also features the updated version of Tor browser and other packages.

Take a look at the complete list of changes and upgrades as mentioned on the Tails’ website:

Electrum from 1.9.8 to 2.5.4. Now Electrum should work again in Tails.
Tor Browser to 5.0.5.
Tor to 0.2.7.6.
I2P to 0.9.23.
Icedove from 31.8 to 38.4.
Enigmail from 1.7.2 to 1.8.2.

The next release of Tails OS is slated for release on January 26. To download Tails or upgrade the existing OS, visit the link below:

— Tails 1.8

Magnitude-4.8 Earthquake Widely Felt Across Washington State – ROCKED THE ROVER

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake

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Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread : LinuxActionShow

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

Areas we need help with our SCALE coverage

Any interest in sponsoring our coverage of SCALE? Email Chris.

Anyone possibly able to provide transport to SCALE, from about 10 miles away? Email Chris.

Your advice on a nice trip from Washington to Pasadena from the audience, like which route to take, any quick places to stop along the way etc. Email Chris

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Desktop Burnout | LINUX Unplugged 435

Brunch with Brent: Brandon Bruce | Jupiter Extras 59

Shrimps have SSHells | LINUX Unplugged 342

Mental Health Hackers | Jupiter Extras 32

Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Jill Bryant Ryniker | Jupiter Extras 31

Cheese on the SCaLE | LINUX Unplugged 292

Dependency Dangers | Coder Radio 348

The Meat Factor | LINUX Unplugged 289

F# Envy | Coder Radio 345

Ell is for Linux | LINUX Unplugged 286

Pain the APT | LINUX Unplugged 285

Season of Change | T3 270

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#SaveLAS | LAS 461

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CIA’s Dank Trojans | LINUX Unplugged 187

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Gnome and Endless at SCaLE 15x

Live from SCaLE 15x | LAS 459

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