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Our guide to moving your Plex, btsync, SmokePing, and others to a new Linux server. And our take on how the Intel NUC performs as a home server with heavy Plex usage.

Plus the big features coming to a distro near you & has Netflix coming to Linux shown us how Linux users are now “all-in with DRM”? We debate.

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Migrate Plex and btsync to a new server.

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NUC Linux Server

Intel Nuc D54250WYKH

• Mini PC – Intel® NUC Kit D54250WYKH
• Amazon.com: Intel NUC BOXD54250WYKH1 Intel 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4250U with Intel HD Graphics 5000

The Intel NUC D54250WYKH has many useful features, including four USB 3.0 ports, an infrared sensor, a headphone/microphone jack, Mini HDMI*, and Mini DisplayPort* video interfaces, and extra space to accommodate 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives to support a variety of home or small office usages.

• The chubby NUC has room for a 2.5 Inch SSD which was great for my OS and still has the standard PCI Mini storage slot

• Low noise profile, not silent. But very quiet, about three feet away I can’t hear it.

Performance of the NUC

• AnandTech | Intel D54250WYKH Haswell NUC Kit with 2.5″ Drive Slot Mini-Review*

• Inital tesiting shows a busy btsync and 1080p Plex stream can nearly max the 4 core i5 out.

The power consumption at the wall was measured with the display being driven through the mini-HDMI port. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the D54250WYK with other low power PCs evaluated before. For load power consumption, we ran Furmark 1.12.0 and Prime95 v27.9 together.

Moving Plex Media Server to another server

1 . Set up coming UID and GIDs between your NFS and app server.
2. When migrating, try to keep the same file paths. IE: /mnt/nfs was where I had the media nfs mount on the previous box.
3. Setup your fstab, when possible use systemd to mount so the mount is network aware.

Mount using /etc/fstab with systemd

Another method is using the systemd automount service. This is a better option than _netdev, because it remounts the network device quickly when the connection is broken and restored. As well, it solves the problem from autofs, see the example below:

/etc/fstab

servername:/home   /mountpoint/on/client  nfs  users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,noatime 0 0

**Tip: **noauto above will not mount the NFS share until it is accessed: use auto for it to be available immediately.
If you have any issues with the mount failing due to the network not being up/available, enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service: this will ensure that network.target has all the links available prior to being active.

1. Stop Plex on your current server.
2. Copy your old Plex Media Server configs to the new server:

• In general, the location for the various Linux versions of Plex Media Server will be found under:

  $PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

Make sure that the directories and contents are all owned by plex:plex.

• Move an Install to Another System – Plex

SickRage

FEATURES:

• XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
• configurable episode renaming
• available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
• can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are available
• specials and double episode support
• Automatic XEM Scene Numbering/Naming for seasons/episodes
• Episode Status Manager now allows for mass failing seasons/episodes to force retrying.
• DVD Order numbering for returning the results in DVD order instead of Air-By-Date order.
• Improved Failed handling code for shows.
• DupeKey/DupeScore for NZBGet 12+
• Searches both TheTVDB.com, TVRage.com and AniDB.net for shows, seasons, episodes
• Importing of existing video files now allows you to choose which indexer you wish to have SickBeard search its show info from.
• Your tvshow.nfo files are now tagged with a indexer key so that SickBeard can easily tell if the shows info comes from TheTVDB or TVRage.
• Sports shows are now able to be searched for..

Moving btsync between servers

1. Copy down your paths and keys
2. Shutdown btsync on your old system
3. Depending on your version you need to remove the .sync folder, or the .Sync folders. Newest versionf of btsync will asking you if you want “take owner ship”.
4. “Add Folder” and put your folder path in.
5. Edit the sync listing and click “view key” then click update key.
   
6. Post your orginal key you copied down early in. Now btsync will connect up to your peers.

Easy SmokePing Install and Setup

• Smoke Ping is a challange to setup on Arch

How to use this image

• Install Docker
  • Docker – ArchWiki
  • Docker Documentation

A. Pull down the SmokePing Docker image: mokeping Docker Image | Docker Hub Registry

docker pull dperson/smokeping

B. Start the Docker image

sudo docker run --name smokeping -p 8000:80 -d dperson/smokeping

C. Visit https://localhost:8000/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

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Scorpion TV Show is using linux as “hacker” os : LinuxActionShow

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Desktop App Pick

bithammer · GitHub

• BitHammer : LinuxActionShow

Hey Chris and Matt, I thought I’d share this cool program BitHammer if you haven’t already heard of it. If you haven’t BitHammer searches out and bans BitTorrent users on your local sub-net. That means if you travel and work (Ohio LinuxFest), often using shared Wi-Fi. This is nice because many people have been plagued by rogue BitTorrent users who’ve crept onto these public hostpots either with a stolen/cracked password, or who lie (and the Wi-Fi owners) about it.

https://github.com/MichaelJCole/bithammer

Weekly Spotlight

Pocket-sized mobile touchscreen web server runs Tizen

The Egg is available in packages starting at $199 with 64GB through Nov. 6, with devices shipping in July 2015. The Egg is billed as a personal web server, and a way to cut the cord on social networking sites that sell information based on your data.

• The Egg | If you care about it, then Egg it! by Eggcyte — Kickstarter

— NEWS —

Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Many Great Features

Linux 3.17 is a big improvement and brings a ton of great features like working AMD Radeon R9 290 support, Xbox One controller support, DMA-BUF cross-device synchronization, a lot of ARM hardware improvements, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, Intel Braswell and Cherry Trail enablement work, EFI Xen Dom0 boot support, file-system improvements, and much more. Linux 3.17 is a very exciting update!

• The Top Features Of The Linux 3.17 Kernel

• Linux-Kernel Archive: Linux 3.17

At Last! Netflix Now Works On Ubuntu, No Hacks Required

Netflix now works on Ubuntu out of the box — no hacks, plugins or user-agent switching workaround required.

ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards. Only fully supported filesystems are FAT and NTFS.

let’s drop support for ext2/3/4. Unnecessary features like this make it difficult to implement a feature that matter

AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver

Basically converging the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver and closed-source AMD Catalyst driver to run off the same kernel driver

NVIDIA Presents Its Driver Plans To Support Mir/Wayland & KMS On Linux

No firm time table was provided when NVIDIA’s Unix driver team hope to have their Linux proprietary driver fully running with Wayland/Mir and available to the public, but based upon how things are looking right now, it would likely be a safe bet for 2015.

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

Firefox OS is now available on three continents with 12 smartphones offered by 13 operators in 24 countries. As the only truly open mobile operating system, Firefox OS demonstrates the versatility of the Web as a platform, free of the limits and restrictions associated with proprietary mobile operating systems.

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openSUSE 13.1 hits the web this week, and it’s our review of this serious contender. With a focus on stability and polish, can this Linux for adults have a lot of fun?

We look at some of the tools, features, and advantages that set openSUSE apart, and a few areas that could use some work.

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Install:

• Nice to have a straight to install, and an installer that gives you room to get technical, but has sane defaults.
• Live CDs for Gnome and KDE are also available.
• Had trouble getting my bootloader to install on an alternative drive.

Desktop:

• Updater integration/plasma widget is bad ass

• Display configuration now handled through KDE settings, not YaST.

• YaST once again looks at home under KDE or Gnome.

• Update alert info does not seem to be integrated into the XFCE desktop, but brilliantly integrated into KDE and supports Gnome Notifications too.

Steam Test:

• A couple games did not work. But some of my favorites did.

Overall:

• This really is an Enterprise grade release, specifically the KDE desktop. A couple-year deployment would be totally reasonable.

• I’d like the long-term use case to look more exciting. Intergration of software.opensuse.org into the YaST tools.
  • Search of software.opensuse.org from within the package manager zypper, or YaST tools, ala packer for Arch.
  • Install from the zypper CLI/YaST tools from software.opensuse.org

• Jos on openSUSE’s importance to SUSE

• Live From SUSECon: OpenSUSE’s openQA Distro Tester is the Coolest, Plus OpenSUSE 13.1

Fun fact: openSUSE has a new release every eight months, and there are only three per version: .1, .2 and .3. So a .1 release comes out every other November. openSUSE 13.1 promises greater stability

Round-Up:

• Linux 3.11
• Work done on 64bit ARM support.
• 32bit ARM support has been heavily improved and a special Raspberry Pi build for openSUSE is available.
• End users can now mount Amazon s3 buckets as local file system.
• Samba 4.1
• systemd 208
• YaST has been ported to Ruby
• This release has been selected for Evergreen support extending its life cycle to 3 years.

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The amazing open source projects we love that will take your Linux box to the next level! It’s our tips, tricks, and software we love that make our Home Linux server perfect!

Plus: Is Mark Shuttleworth moving Ubuntu’s future development behind closed doors? The fundamental issues between Nvidia and the Kernel devs, the big features coming to Gnome 3.8…

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Perfect Linux Home Server:

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What makes for a good server OS? A few important things to look for:

• A deep repository of packages, that are reasonably current.
• Good online support/community for howto’s and guides.
• Good security.

I was not happy with my big storage options for Linux, I want a native kernel level implementation of ZFS, but I want the cutting edge software options of Linux.

I bought a FreeNAS Mini from iXsystems that I use as my backend storage apliance. In front of that I have an Ubuntu 12.04 that has an NFS mount to the ZFS storage on the FreeNAS Mini box.

Home Network Essentials:

• Proxmox – Proxmox VE
• Dnsmasq – a DNS forwarder for NAT firewalls.
• xrdp | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

File Syncing:

• Dropbox – CLI
• CLI Control Script for Dropbox

Future Syncing Plans:

• ownCloud’s Latest Community Edition Adds Video Streaming, and Easy Mounting of Third-Party Storage
• Sync Clients
• Gnome 3.8 Features: Integrate ownCloud in Gnome!

Usenet:

• Spotweb.nu
• spotweb/spotweb · GitHub
• Thanks to LeonBo in our subreddit
• Alternative to Spotweb: Newznab – Download

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Video/Picture Streaming

• PS3 Media Server
• PS3 Media Server – Easy setup guide for Ubuntu / Debian
• How to Stream Media Files From any PC to Your PlayStation 3 – How-To Geek

Music and Podcasts:

• Subsonic » Free Music Streamer
  • You can generate Podcast subscription feeds from Subsonic playlists

Keep things healthy:

• SmokePing – About SmokePing

• Logcheck: Keep an eye on your Linux server logs | Stackful.io

• Home Server Ideas Thread

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• Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid, Runs Linux

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• CalDAV-Sync beta
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Desktop App Pick:

• Hotot – A microblogging client
• Picks so far
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• Gnome to Require systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin?

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  discussion

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• Bickering Continues About NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF

• Intel On Haswell Under Linux: “We’ve Screwed Up”

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