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Since we started the project, we’ve basically re-architected the way the daemon works, re-imagined how the metadata is downloaded and managed, and changed core ways we’ve done the upgrades themselves.

The systemd Corner

systemd 235

For each service unit a restart counter is now kept: it is increased
each time the service is restarted due to Restart=, and may be
queried using “systemctl show -p NRestarts …”.

Dynamic Users with systemd

TL;DR: you may now configure systemd to dynamically allocate a UNIX
user ID for service processes when it starts them and release it when
it stops them. It’s pretty secure, mixes well with transient services,
socket activated services and service templating.

Chris’s Wiki :: blog/unix/ProcessKillingTrick

Sending everyone a SIGSTOP before the real signal completely
avoids this. With all processes suspended, all of them will get
your signal before any of them can wake up from other causes. If
they’re going to die from the signal, they’ll die on the spot;
they’re not going to die (because you’re starting with SIGTERM
or SIGHUP and they block or handle it), they’ll only get woken
up at the end, after most of the dust has settled. It’s a great
solution to a subtle issue.

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TorProxy is a tool which uses netfilter hooks in the linux kernel to route all network traffic through the Tor network

The module uses netfilter hooks in the linux kernel to filter/NAT packets and ensure all outbound traffic is headed for the Tor network.

Why did Compiz “””die”””?

I don’t understand. People act like Compiz is archaic, gimmicky, and buggy, but that has not at all been my experience.

It’s at least as stable as gnome-shell, and it’s more configurable than even kwin. A lot of the effects are gaudy, but there are plenty of simple & pleasant animations…and even they’re configurable. The window and desktop management plugins are top-notch, and give me an insanely efficient work environment.

I liked gnome-shell, but I like compiz much, much more. I’m officially jumping ship to XFCE just to get back to compiz, and I don’t understand why more people/distros haven’t.

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 + pre-install snap – Quality – Ubuntu Community Hub

Ubuntu MATE is pioneering pre-installed snap support by being the first distro to ship a snap by default. For the Ubuntu MATE 17.10 release the pulsemixer snap, a console based mixer for PulseAudio27, will be installed by default.

Ubuntu On-Air

Ubuntu 17.10 Community ISO Testing
2017-10-16 15:00 UTC

DigitalOcean

Librem 15 Review

Success — Linux Phone Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches Its Goal

The security-conscious US-based Linux laptop vendor has raised the full $1.5 million target it sought. The money will be used to help fund the development and manufacture of a 5-inch privacy-focused smartphone, dubbed the ‘Librem 5’.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Unplugged Upgrades

Why the changes?

LINUX Unplugged is JB’s largest podcast
Possibly the largest Linux podcast in the world (accounting for video downloads.)
And we don’t want to stand still. I was going to wait until 300, but I can’t hold back!

What are the changes?

Full video LUP. Better than LAS video.
And we’re doing it by making LUP an audio only show.
More edited, closer to LAN’s polish with the chill vibe of LUP. And live.
We buy about $1k in camera equipment and supporting hardware. Camera for Chris, Camera for Wes, studio cam, guest cam.
We release a full unedited video version, with behind the scenes camera feeds to Patrons.

Benefits

The wider audience gets a better sounding, more polished product.
Video version with better production than LAS for those who really want it. After hardware investment would just use our existing production pipeline. IE we’re already plumbed for it.

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That One Time, At Ubuntu Camp | LINUX Unplugged 217

chris — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:27:18 +0000

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Linux To Get “Extended LTS” Releases, Kernel Support For Six Years

Greg KH will still be managing the Linux LTS releases. Beginning with the current Linux 4.4 LTS cycle will be extended for six years. Meanwhile, Linux 4.14 is the next LTS release currently being worked on that would then be supported until 2023.

Linux kernel long term support extended from two to six years • The Register

Announcing the release of Fedora 27 Beta

The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 Beta features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement. The system search now shows more results at once, including the system actions, and also the antiquated system tray has been removed to reduce visual clutter and confusion. The Topicons extension is available for use with any applications that have not yet updated.

SeaGL is This Friday

The 2017 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is scheduled for October 6th and 7th at Seattle Central College (Maps). 9am-5:30pm both days.

1701 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122

SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source software/hardware. Our goal for SeaGL is to produce an event which is as enjoyable and informative for those who spend their days maintaining hundreds of servers as it is for a student who has only just started exploring technology options. SeaGL’s first year was 2013. The SeaGL web site is built with Jekyll and we use OSEM for event management.

The cost of attendance is free.

Attendee Registration will not require the use of non-free software.

You may attend SeaGL without identifying yourself, and you are encouraged to do so to protect your privacy.

Hang out with Ang and Chris at the SeaGL Meetup

Chris and Angela will be at SeaGL Friday Oct 6th interviewing and meeting people in attendance. If you plan to come feel free to say hi and we’d love to see you wearing a JB shirt!

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Open-source pioneer Munich has begun its move back to Microsoft

“The city will use MS Exchange. It will be used for mail and calendar, so Kolab will not be used anymore,” said the source, adding that the switch will take place in November.

Windows Kingdom at Risk as Apple and Linux Operating Systems Post Record Growth

Windows has been for many years the top desktop operating system, but the latest statistics provided by NetMarketShare for the month of September point to a trend that should at least make Microsoft a little bit worried about its dominance in this particular field.

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Get Involved with elementary OS

Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you’re not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.

elementary is creating The world’s greatest Indie Operating System

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In the Snapcraft room at the Ubuntu Rally today we have +Ubuntu, +elementary,…

In the Snapcraft room at the Ubuntu Rally today we have +Ubuntu, +elementary, +Microsoft Visual Studio, +The KDE Community, +Skype, +Fedora Project, .NET, Electron, MATE Desktop, +Node, ROS and +Snapcraft.

Chromium 60 now available as a snap, many thanks for testing feedback from the community! – 'snap install chromium' https://t.co/Pj0RDeGNxo pic.twitter.com/H5eocPttjJ

— Snapcraft (@snapcraftio) October 3, 2017

Our brand new #Ubuntu Community Hub is now live! Join us to help inspire the next generation of Ubuntu Community! https://t.co/YecnDMvSBe pic.twitter.com/FBbYauQpzC

— Ubuntu (@ubuntu) October 3, 2017

Ubuntu Community Hub

Discussing @Canonical's @Ubuntu cloud product portfolio with our world class sales team, on the 34th floor of One World Trade Center. pic.twitter.com/8QV1q5yl8o

— Dustin Kirkland (@dustinkirkland) October 3, 2017

Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth lands luxury NY crash pad

Ubuntu king Mark Shuttleworth has bought a condo in Manhattan’s Superior Ink building for a record $31.5m, according to the New York Post.

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Nextcloud Introducing Native Integrated End-to-end Encryption

Nextcloud End-to-end Encryption keeps the server from ever seeing the data while still facilitating syncing between devices and sharing with other users.

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Wolfing Down Ubuntu 15.10 | LAS 388

chris — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 07:15:43 +0000

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Our review of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, what new, noteworthy changes there are & who we think this new release is just right for. Also, we look the various flavors with bold new features worth checking out.

Plus Kubuntu’s release manager calls it quits, our impressions of the Steam Controller & more!

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Ubuntu 15.10 Review

Linux kernel 4.2
Stateless persistent network interface names are now being used
GNOME packages have been upgraded to version 3.16.X
Upstream GNOME scrollbars are now being used.
GCC 5 and Python 3.x
Support for the Steam Controller when you install Steam from the repo.The Steam installer package takes care of setting requisite udev and uinput rules and permissions.
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Since the Linux Kernel version used in the previous Ubuntu release (3.19 in Ubuntu 15.04), there are quite a few changes, including a new AMDGPU kernel driver for supporting recent and near-term Radeon GPUs, Intel Broxton support, F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) encryption support, support for Ext4 encryption, experimental support for managing clustered raid arrays, live patching the kernel code (aimed at applying security fixes without rebooting), dm-crypt CPU scalability improvements and more.

Ubuntu 15.10 Flavors Now Available for Download

Yep, downloads for Ubuntu’s colorful array of community flavors, including perennially popular Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu GNOME, are now live.

Unity 7.3.3 Features

Unity, the default desktop shell, has been handed a batch of small fixes and usability improvements for Ubuntu 15.10.

For example, you can now drag and drop apps from the Unity Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts, and navigate through Dash results using keyboard navigation keys.

The Unity Dash search box text and BFB tooltip no longer make mention of ‘online sources’ when you have online source searching set to ‘disabled’ under System Settings > Privacy.

Other changes in Unity 7.3.3:

You can now drag and drop apps from the Dash to the desktop to create shortcuts

Page up/down keyboard navigation works as scroll in the Dash

Dash title & BFB tooltip is updated based on your privacy settings

Session exit buttons now have a click effect

Fix to prevent ‘shutdown’ of computer when screen is locked

Active app icons now show unfolded when launcher accordion triggered

Fix for full screen menubar

Fixes issues with ‘show desktop’ that caused window decoration for two windows of same app to vanish

Dash: Non-expandable category headers skipped in keyboard navigation

Dash: Non-expandable category headers are no longer highlighted on mouse over

Dash: screenreader and KeyNav fixes

New setting to control the show-now delay (when pressing Alt key)

Logic tweak to stop adjacent menu opening when moving from an indicator icon to its menu

Ubuntu Make

Ubuntu Make, a command-line utility that makes installing popular developer tools easier on Ubuntu, now supports even more platforms, frameworks and services, including a full Android development environment.

Ubuntu 15.10: Wily Werewolf – not too hairy, not too scary •

What you won’t find in this release are any major changes. It used to be that the x.10 releases were the time when things got experimental, sometimes for the better, as in the case of the Unity shell, which became the only option in 11.10 (technically Unity first showed up in 11.04, but that version still offered a GNOME fallback) and sometimes for the worse, as in the case of Amazon search results which first showed up in 12.10. This release has nothing like that.

What’s new in 6 Ubuntu 15.10 offshoot ‘flavors,’ from Kubuntu to Ubuntu GNOME

Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, and other Ubuntu “flavors” with different desktops all saw their own changes and improvements.

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2

Martin Wimpress and Rohith Madhavan have made an Ubuntu MATE image
for the Raspberry Pi 2 which you can download or build yourself.

10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 15.10

Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf may lack the bite of its namesake but there is still some nifty new changes shipping inside it.

Trying out Unity 8 in LXC

The Unity 8 Desktop Preview in LXC is the new Unity 8 desktop shell running on the Mir display technology using an LXC container so users of released Ubuntu versions can use the latest versions of Unity 8 and Mir. The idea is that the LXC will be the latest development version of Ubuntu with the latest packages. Also, a user can log in to the Unity 8 LXC session from LightDM just as they would any normal session.

[Ubuntu 15.10 Screenshot Tour](https://www.linuxscreenshots.org/?release=Ubuntu 15.10)

Codenamed ‘Wily Werewolf’, 15.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released for Desktop, Server, and Cloud

“In 15.10, Unity8 is demonstrating Canonical’s convergence vision as a tech preview. Users can log into a Unity8 session on the desktop, experience the new features, and cleanly revert to the default Unity7 experience. The feature set of Unity8 now includes the important windowed mode for Desktop users, which allows users to multi-task between multiple running apps. Mobile apps such as the Music player and the Deko email client have added support to cover small form-factor devices and large screen Desktops. Ubuntu 15.10 also has improved supports for developers of traditional apps that want to bring these apps into Unity8,” say the Ubuntu developers.

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Desktop App Pick

BlueProximity

Add security to your desktop by automatically locking and unlocking the screen when you and your phone leave/enter the desk. Think of a proximity detector for your mobile phone via bluetooth.

Weekly Spotlight

Hawaii – The QtQuick and Wayland system

Hawaii is a lightweight Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. It uses the Hawaii Shell desktop workspace. You can use the Hawaii operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows(tm) or Mac OS X(tm) although it’s not currently considered as stable as other operating systems, if you feel brave enough you can be an early adopter and let us know of glitches and bugs and help us make a great product.

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

The 2015 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference is scheduled
for October 23rd and 24th
at Seattle Central College (Maps).

SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading
awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and
free/libre/open-source software/hardware.

Tweets by @seagl

SeaGL 2015 Schedule | Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

Kubuntu’s Release Manager Calls It Quits

Now that Kubuntu 15.10 shipped yesterday, he’s moving on and will no longer be serving as the Kubuntu release manager. Instead, Riddell is just going to get involved with upstream KDE development more as he no longer wants to be involved under the Ubuntu/Canonical umbrella.

Kubuntu Release Manager Steps Down, Says Canonical Defrauded Donors

The release manager of the Kubuntu project has stepped down after the launch of Kubuntu 15.10. The information was made public by Jonathan Riddell himself on the official Kubuntu website.

Below are links to the past reports detailing the donations and disbursements from this program.

Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS

This week, Ubuntu developer Michael Hall posted proof of Canonical’s progress toward full Ubuntu convergence in the form of a screenshot from an Ubuntu-based Nexus 4 running desktop apps, including GIMP and Firefox.

Hall emphasized that the software in the image remains very much under development. “Lots of work still to do to make these useful, but it’s great to be able to show visible progress,” he wrote.

After Hall posted the screenshot, Softpedia confirmed with him that Canonical’s plan is indeed to make it possible to run any Linux application on Ubuntu.

Alienware Steam Machine Up for Pre-Order

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The Alienware Steam Machine opens up a new way to play, with the endless possibilities of SteamOS. It’s designed for your living room and built for fun. Ready? Let’s game.

Starting at $449.99

Valve Steam Controller hands-on: Opening a new world of PC gaming possibilities

It took three long, intense days of swearing and messing around in menus and playing Portal 2, but it’s official—we love the Steam Controller.

If you have 15.10 and newer you do not need to do anything except plug in the dongle and pair the controller when you launch steam big picture mode. 14.04 fix is in progress.

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SeaGL & OLF Roundup | LINUX Unplugged 64

chris — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:58:43 +0000

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Our interviews from SeaGL 2014, a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source. Special guest Angela Fisher joins us to discuss getting women involved with Linux and technology general.

Plus our fun stories from Ohio LinuxFest 2014, a few closing thoughts, your feedback & much more!

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SeaGL 2014

SeaGL: https://seagl.org
Presentations (Video or Audio only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm0HuuKPWBglv-qPC8kkUw
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeaGL
Pogo Linux: https://pogolinux.com
Ada Initiative: https://adainitiative.org/
Libreoffice: https://libreoffice.org
FreeGeek Seattle: https://freegeekseattle.org
Seattle Meshnet: https://www.seattlemesh.net/
Seattle Attic Community Workshop: https://www.seattleattic.com/
Emily Dunham:
https://talks.edunham.net
https://osuosl.org/

“I’d recommend https://usfirst.org to any middle school or high school students who want to get involved with robotics.”

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Audio recordings from talks held at SeaGL 2014

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