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Back from the SNAP Sprint

snap install –classic skype

Firmware Telemetry for Vendors

We’ve shipped nearly 1.2 MILLION firmware updates out to Linux users since we started the LVFS project.

• Phoning home after updating firmware? – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

Some key points:

• We don’t share the IP address with the vendor, in fact it’s not even saved in the MySQL database
• The MachineId is a salted hash of your actual /etc/machine-id
• The LVFS doesn’t store reports for firmware that it did not sign itself, i.e. locally built firmware archives will be ignored and not logged
• You can disable the reporting functionality in all applications by editing /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/*.conf
• We have an official GDPR document too — we’ll probably link to that from the Privacy panel in GNOME

Beta Released

This latest update in our continuous innovation stream delivers many new features and enhancements to help secure your data, simplify the system and application lifecycle, and streamline your cloud journey

The Open Brand Project

@Kernellinux @ChrisLAS red hat logo change is in the works. Feedback welcomed from all. Can you mention this in a show or two?https://t.co/ZPUEGaRi1K

— Alex Kretzschmar (@IronicBadger) February 5, 2018

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Fedora Atomic

Fedora Atomic provides the best platform for your Linux-Docker-Kubernetes (LDK) application stack.

• Dusty Mabe (@dustymabe) | Twitter

Atomic OpenShift Engineer for Red Hat. Fedora Atomic WG member. Passionate about open source.

• Fedora 27 Atomic Released

• An Introduction to Fedora Atomic Workstation

  Features:

• Multi-Architecture Support: Fedora 27 Atomic Host is available for 64-bit ARM and Power8 processor architectures as well as 64-bit Intel (i.e. AArch64, ppc64le and x86_64). Not only are we distributing ISOs and cloud images for all three architectures, we will also be providing two-week OSTree updates for them as well.

• Containerized Kubernetes: As planned, the Kubernetes binaries have been removed from the base image for Atomic Host. This change both shrinks the base image size, and allows users to install the container orchestration platform and version of their choice, whether it’s Kubernetes, OpenShift, or something else. Look for a blog post tommorrow on how to migrate your Kubernetes install.
• Atomic Workstation Updates: For over a year, Fedora contributors have been experimenting with an RPM-OStree build of Fedora Workstation, with all of their applications running in containers or Flatpaks. This build, now called “Atomic Workstation”, will be receiving regular updates starting with this release.
• One Big OverlayFS2 Volume: New Atomic Host systems will now get a single filesystem volume by default, which will share binaries, system containers, and OCI/docker containers using OverlayFS2. Users who need to partition container images and storage onto a separate volume can still do so using kickstart options and container-storage-setup configuration.

• OSTree Package Layering Improvements: RPM-OStree has added two capabilities supporting modifying individula systems: remove and replace overrides, and LiveFS layering.

• Project Atomic

Use immutable infrastructure to deploy and scale your containerized
applications. Project Atomic builds OSes, tools, and containers for
cloud native platforms.

DigitalOcean

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

About AppCenter Payments

One of the primary goals of developing AppCenter Dashboard was to build a sustainable app ecosystem. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that although the AppCenter ecosystem is growing, nobody can make a living on it yet. That’s what we mean when we say “sustainable”. Writing apps is a real, hard, full-time job. If we want to see more high-quality, Open Source apps then we need to prioritize getting third-party app developers paid.

Linux Kernel Release Model – Linux Kernel Monkey Log

This post describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, how the kernel developer’s approach security bugs, and why all systems that use Linux should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

  KDE neon

KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository. Most users will want to use the packages built from released software which make up our User Edition. KDE contributors and testers can use the packages built from KDE Git in the Developer Editions. It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04).

• KDE Plasma 5.12.0 LTS, Speed. Stability. Simplicity. – KDE.org

Tuesday, 06 February 2018. Today KDE releases a Feature update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.12.0.

Plasma 5.12 LTS is the second long-term support release from the Plasma 5 team. We have been working hard, focusing on speed and stability for this release. Boot time to desktop has been improved by reviewing the code for anything which blocks execution. The team has been triaging and fixing bugs in every aspect of the codebase, tidying up artwork, removing corner cases, and ensuring cross-desktop integration. For the first time, we offer our Wayland integration on long-term support, so you can be sure we will continue to provide bug fixes and improvements to the Wayland experience.

The list of new features in Plasma 5.12 LTS doesn’t stop with improved performance. You can also look forward to the following:

• Wayland-only Night Color feature that lets you adjust the screen color temperature to reduce eye strain
• Usability improvement for the global menu: adding a global menu panel or window decoration button enables it without needing an extra configuration step
• KRunner can now be completely used with on-screen readers such as Orca
• Notification text is selectable again and allows you to copy links from notifications
• The weather applet can now show the temperature next to the weather status icon on the panel
• Clock widget’s text is now sized more appropriately
• System Activity and System Monitor display per-process graphs for the CPU usage
• Windows shadows are horizontally centered and larger by default
• The Properties dialog now shows file metadata
• The Icon applet now uses favicons for website shortcuts
• The Kickoff application menu has an optimized layout

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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

In the style introduced by the famous BarCamps of old, the agenda is totally free-form and attendee-generated. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’ll sit down and relax! There are many things planned that need tackling. Every attendee already has a long laundry list of things to work on; as a group we will move forward and check things off the list as the days go by. We are going to be covering a wide range of technologies and domains, from GUI oriented electron based applications and its development stack to robotics, with a spice and language frameworks and command line tools for the cloud would be the few to mention.

Welcome to the Red Hat family @coreos! https://t.co/DcF67Yioix

— Jim Whitehurst (@JWhitehurst) January 30, 2018

​Linux 4.15: Good news and bad news about Meltdown and Spectre | ZDNet

On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds explained, “The bulk of the 4.15 work is all the regular plodding ‘boring’ stuff. And I mean that in the best possible way. It may not be glamorous and get the headlines, but it’s the bread and butter of kernel development, and is in many ways the really important stuff.”

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

How a SNAP Gets Made

• We’re live in downtown Seattle at the Canonical January SNAP Sprint event.

• We’re joined by some big names this week

• Plex

• Slack
• Microsoft Azure
• Electron
• .NET
• Skype
• Visual Studio Code

DigitalOcean

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

All Aboard The Meson Future Hype Train

For quite a while now, the build system that we’ve endorsed at elementary has been CMake. CMake does a pretty decent job at being legible and we’ve provided a number of modules to make sure that it can do all of the things we need it to do without developers having to spend a lot of time writing build system code. Let’s face it, build system code is boring and spending time writing it is time spent away from actually making your app more awesome. That’s why I’m excited to say that the new hotness is here and it sure is new and hot.

LinuxBoot

LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.

Introducing the CSD Initiative

Unless you’re one of a very lucky few, you probably use apps with title bars. In case you’ve never come across that term, title bars are the largely empty bars at the top of some application windows. They contain only the window title and a close button, and are completely separate from the window’s content. This makes them very inflexible, as they can not contain any additional UI elements, or integrate with the application window’s content.

• Server side decorations and Wayland

The situation is that GNOME Shell and Weston require CSD, but KDE Plasma and Sway do not. In fact we created a protocol (supported by GTK) that allows to negotiate with the Wayland compositor whether to use CSD or SSD.

• An update on Pipewire – the multimedia revolution

The video handling we hope to enable in Fedora Workstation 28 as mentioned, while the other pieces we will work towards enabling in later releases as the components mature.

Linux Academy

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  Back to Plasma

The latest and greatest of KDE community software packaged on a rock-solid base.

• Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

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