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Behind Canonical’s Curtain | LINUX Unplugged 234

chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:46:26 +0000

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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.”

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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

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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.

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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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Turbo Mode Ikey | LINUX Unplugged 201

chris — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:05:38 +0000

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Ubuntu Reveal Results of GNOME Desktop Survey

A massive 18,330 people took part in the survey. All 8 questions in the survey were optional, and all bar one asked participants to rate how ‘useful’ they consider various GNOME extensions to be on a scale of 1 (not useful) to 5 (very useful).

Release of openmediavault 3 (Erasmus)

After a long development phase i am happy to announce the release of openmediavault 3 (Erasmus).

vLUG BBQ – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) | Meetup

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Snappy Is Finally Doing Something About Super Large App Sizes

__the GNOME platform within their package.

I'm doing a mini-fundraiser today to get a server for Flathub & make many @FlatpakApps available later in summer. https://t.co/BGCWxwlKoe

— Robert McQueen (@ramcq) June 13, 2017

flathub update / mini infrastructure fundraiser

Announcing the Release of Fedora 26 Beta

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26 Beta, the next big step on our journey to the exciting Fedora 26 release in July.

Is Cockpit Secure?

Here’s info about Cockpit’s security, to help
you make those choices. You’ll find not only has Cockpit got a solid security
story, but you can use it in all sorts of different ways depending on what
kind of security your systems need.

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Ikey To Become Full-Time Solus Developer!

We’re also really excited to announce that Ikey will become a full-time Solus developer.

Solus is creating a 100% independent desktop operating system optimized for you | Patreon | Patreon

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Moonlight Game Streaming

formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. We implemented the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and wrote a set of 3rd party clients.

Setup Guide · moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs Wiki · GitHub

PC Requirements

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600+ series GPU (GT-series and AMD GPUs aren’t supported by NVIDIA GameStream)
NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) 2.1.1 or higher
720p or higher display connected to the PC

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Chilling with Kylin | LINUX Unplugged 184

chris — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:47:48 +0000

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Amazon Chime: Frustration-free meetings with exceptional audio and video quality – YouTube

Amazon unveils Chime, looks to reinvent the conference call with new Skype and GoToMeeting competitor – GeekWire

Now, the Seattle tech juggernaut wants to reinvent how you conduct meetings and conference calls.

Meet The New Linux Desktop Environment Inspired by Windows 7

UKUI is developed by Ubuntu Kylin, the official Chinese-language spin of Ubuntu. It aims to provide ‘a simpler and more enjoyable experience for browsing, searching, and managing your computer’.

Effectively using Android without Google Play Services with gplayweb in Docker

There are many good reasons of using Android without Google Play Services (the Google’s proprietary part of Android operating system), mostly to protect its privacy.
Google Play Services contain background processes used by Google not only to provide services (e.g., push notifications, accurate geolocation combining GPS, Wi-Fi and GSM, application installations and updates…) but also to track the device usage (location, used applications, permanent connection to Google servers…).

Custom roms such as the popular LineageOS (community fork of CyanogenMod) propose, by default, a Google-Play-Services-free version, with optional installation of Google Play Services.

GitHub – matlink/gplayweb: GPlayWeb: A Web interface for GPlayCli

GPlayWeb: A Web interface for GPlayCli

microG Project

A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.

LinuxFest NW 2017. Who’s going? Best Place to stay?

Travel | LinuxFest Northwest 2017

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Motion to switch from Linux (Limux) to Windows in Munich is canceled

I am a little bit surprised, but I guess, there was enough pressure from the open-source community in Munich to cancel the motion to switch from Linux (Limux) to Windows. It was supposed to pass on Wednesday, but now, it is gone.

state of snapd support across distros | Zygoon’s Corner

The story about getting snappy into other distributions

state of snapd support across distros | Zygoon’s Corner

The story about getting snappy into other distributions

Releases, releases, releases!

So here’s an update on what’s been going on and what’s to come.

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takeover.sh: Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebooting. You know you want to.

A script to completely take over a running Linux system remotely, allowing you
to log into an in-memory rescue environment, unmount the original root
filesystem, and do anything you want, all without rebooting. Replace one distro
with another without touching a physical console.

The Depenguinator, version 2.0

In December 2003, I wrote a script for remotely upgrading a linux system to FreeBSD. I gave it a catchy name (“depenguinator”, inspired by the “Antichickenator” in Baldur’s Gate), announced it on a FreeBSD mailing list and on slashdot, and before long it was famous. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for changes in the layout of FreeBSD releases to make the depenguination script stop working; so for the past three years I have been receiving emails asking me to update it to work with newer FreeBSD releases.

A few weeks ago, Richard Bejtlich came forward with an offer to pay me to make the necessary improvements (money doesn’t solve everything, but offering money certainly helps break the “I’ll do it when I have some free time” / “I never have any free time” deadlock). In the end I asked him to arrange for a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation instead of paying me, but his offer was enough of a prompt for me to spend ten hours revising and testing the depenguinator.

The key changes from before are as follows:

The depenguinator now works with recent FreeBSD releases.

The makefs code borrowed from NetBSD is updated, and as a result will compile on more recent versions of Linux.

Instead of setting a root password, the depenguinator now installs an SSH public key.

Instead of constructing a disk image which must be written to the first 40MB of the boot drive (which would often fail if that space contained an active filesystem), the depenguinator now constructs a disk image which can be written to a swap partition (after swapping is turned off, of course) and then booted via GRUB.

Allan Jude’s Depenguinator 3

Use depenguinator 3.x to overwrite a remote linux server with a FreeBSD installer

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WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many different circumstances. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it plans to be cross-platform and widely deployable. It is currently under heavy development, but already it might be regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry.

WireGuard: a new VPN tunnel [LWN.net]

Today I’m releasing WireGuard, an encrypted and authenticated
tunneling virtual interface for the kernel.

FOSDEM 2017 – WireGuard: Next Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel

The presentation will be divided up into several parts. First, there will be an overview of the problems with IPsec, OpenVPN, and other popular VPNs, outlining attacks and weaknesses. Next, the WireGuard idea of the “cryptokey routing table” will be introduced, and we’ll walk through several properties derived from it. This will transition into a discussion of the timer state mechanism, and how secure protocols are necessarily stateful, but it’s possible to make them appear stateless to the user by exhaustively defining all possible state transitions. Then we’ll get into the hardcore meat of the presentation: the cryptography and various crypto innovations behind WireGuard. We will discuss the triple Diffie-Hellman, the role of combining static and ephemeral keys, the performance and DoS-potential of Curve25519 point multiplication, using a PRF chaining for rotating keys, identity hiding and remaining silent on a network, and clever usage of authenticated encryption with additional data.

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Niche Distros Need Not Apply | LINUX Unplugged 183

chris — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:41:52 +0000

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Kodi 17.0 | Kodi

Krypton brings updated default user interfaces, better organisation of settings, and many under-the-hood changes on VideoPlayer, Music Library, PVR, audio on Android, and thousands of small bugfixes and improvements to stability

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Vizio smart TVs tracked viewers around the clock without consent

According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for automated content recognition—software. Without asking for permission, the ACR code captured second-by-second information about the video the TVs displayed. The software collected other personal information and transmitted it, along with the viewing data, to servers controlled by the manufacturer. Vizio then sold the data to unnamed third-parties for purposes of audience measurement, analysis, and tracking.

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Ubuntu OTA-15 Is Now Rolling Out to Ubuntu Phones, Tablets

“This is a security bug fix update only, actually only including changes to oxide and the webbrowser. The next future OTAs will most likely be very similar, concentrating only on critical security issues — until ubuntu-personal enters the touch world with its snaps.”

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KDE Plasma 5.9.1 – Here is the First Bugfix Release

Today, the Kde team announced the first minor release for Kde Plasma 5.9 including various little but important bugfixes and translation updates. Certainly, this first small bugfix release will improve the stability and usability of the desktop environment.

Google Brain super-resolution image tech makes “zoom, enhance!” real | Ars Technica

Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. Google’s software, in short, basically means the “zoom in… now enhance!” TV _trope_is actually possible.

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boot – Windows 10 Update repartitioned my Ubuntu 16.04 drive – Ask Ubuntu

You’ve been hit with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update bug. It updates Windows 10, and wipes out Ubuntu (Linux) partitions.

Software containers improve performance

Performance for an application determines how quickly your software can complete the intended task.

Linux Container Hardening

This project will focus on hardening of Linux containers. It will help
contribute patches to the Kernel Self Protection
Project
that evolve the primitives in the Linux kernel used by containers (namespaces,
cgroups, etc) to be more secure.

FOSDEM 2017 – Resurrecting dinosaurs, what can possibly go wrong?

Containerised Application technologies like AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak promise a brave new world for Linux applications, free from the worries of shared libraries and dependency issues.

Just one problem, this is a road long travelled before, such as in the application dark ages of Win32 applications and DLLs. And it worked out so wonderfully there.

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#Noah is right, Solus will always be a “Boutique” distro and there is such a thing as finished software

For fuck sake. It is possible for software to be finished and stable.

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The Many Faces of Linux | LINUX Unplugged 177

chris — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:53:03 +0000

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Linux Shadow Force | LINUX Unplugged 168

chris — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:39:26 +0000

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Freeablo

A work-in-progress free and open-source replacement for the Diablo I engine. Simply import the Diablo assets, and enjoy the same old game with faster performance and modern resolutions, and first class support for mods.

Android phones rooted by “most serious” Linux escalation bug ever

I__ndependent security researcher David Manouchehri told Ars that this _proof-of-concept code that explo__its Dirty Cow on Android_gets devices close to root. With a few additional lines, Manouchehri’s code provides persistent root access on all five of the Android devices he has tested.

Dirty COW and clean commit messages [LWN.net]

Dirty COW (which, naturally, has its own logo and web page, though this one is a
bit on the satirical side) is a race condition in the kernel’s memory-management
subsystem. By timing things right, a local attacker can exploit the
copy-on-write mechanism to turn a read-only mapping of a file into a
writable mapping; with that, a file that should not be writable can be
written to. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how the ability to
overwrite files could be used to escalate privileges in any of a number of
ways.

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing | Ars Technica

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Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving

What’s your data archive strategy?

After Chris talked about wanting a Volt meter CPU monitor before LUP, so i made one

ioangogo/CPUMeter: The Files needed for a analog cpu meter

Loving deepin 15.3

Hi guys. Long term Linux user (+- 12 years), and huge openSuse and Arch Linux (Manjaro) fan. Been running Manjaro for the last couple of months. I’m always looking for a polished desktop experience. I installed the latest Deepin Linux version on my notebook. I’m blown away at how well polished this distro is.

The software store is amazing! Been running for two weeks, and loving it. I’ve never used WPS Office, always been Open Office user, and was blown away on how polished WPS Office were! Even the built in ‘guake’ like drop down terminal impressed me. I think I’ve found my new favorite distro. It almost feels ‘Apple’ like polished to me.

The one ‘niggle’ was that the default deepin file manager application is very basic. Probably the average user want’s it simple, but I quickly installed Nautilus from the app store, and replaced the dock on the bar.

Would be great if you guys did a review on Deepin 15.3. I’m stumped.

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Coming around to home automation… On my terms.

How we built a truly Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi

Such a huge project cannot start without a good, long workshop about our needs and requirements. After a thorough workshop we decided to have the following features:

light control,
conference and call room occupancy signalization,
individual access codes for the main doors for each team member in a centralized database, * audio system with a wireless music streaming option,
separate, manageable audio experience in the restroom,
five TVs with the ability to manage the content displayed on them,
kitchen LED lamp color management,
ability to control everything via a web application (desktop, mobile, phone and panels mounted on the walls).

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Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists

The Model 01 is the best keyboard we can make. It’s not like other keyboards. We mill the Model 01’s enclosure from two blocks of solid maple that are a joy to rest your hands on. Instead of shallow, uncomfortable keyswitches, we use gloriously tactile mechanical keyswitches similar to those found in the original Apple II. We’ve custom-sculpted each of the 64 individual keycaps on the Model 01 to gently guide your fingers to the right keys. After putting it all together, the result is a keyboard that is a pleasure to type on all day and all night.

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Snappy Collaboration | LINUX Unplugged 155

chris — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:37:37 +0000

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The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip.

And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, we ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they’d audit if given the means & why.

Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge!

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Surround 360 is now open source

Today we officially open-sourced the specs for Surround 360, our high-quality 3D-360 hardware and software video capture system. The open source project includes the hardware camera design and software stitching code that makes end-to-end 3D-360 video capture possible in one system — from shooting to video processing.

We believe making the camera design and stitching code freely available on GitHub will accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem — developers will be able to leverage the code, and content creators can use the camera in their productions. Anyone will be able to contribute to, build on top of, improve, or distribute the camera based on these specs.

The fall of Open Source

The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement. It is no longer an ideology. It is no longer about fairness, freedom, equality, rights, or the greater good.

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ArchStrike Ethical Hacking Linux Operating System Gets Its First ISO Builds

_The ArchStrike 20__16.07.21__ISOs are __available for download today, distributed for 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures, and are the first of their kind,_

OpenBSD 6.0 tightens security by losing Linux compatibility

ost significant among the latest security-related changes for OpenBSD is the removal of Linux emulation support. Prior versions of OpenBSD made it possible to run Linux applications via a compatibility layer, but the release notes for OpenBSD 6.0 indicate the Linux subsystem was removed as a “security improvement.”

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Tales from the Sprint

GNOME Software 3.22 Will Support Installation of Snaps, Flatpak Repository Files

it looks like GNOME Software now supports installation of Flatpak repository files in the .flatpakrepo format, launching of apps using the appstream:// URL, as well as installation of universal binary apps as Snaps.

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KeePass Password Manager is getting a code audit – gHacks Tech News

In light of KeePass and Apache Web server getting an audit, we ask our virtual LUG which projects they’d audit if given the means.

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Pragmatic Idealism | LINUX Unplugged 154

chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:19:16 +0000

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Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist.

Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome.

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Microsoft blocks Linux installations

Microsoft has closed a backdoor left open in Windows RT even though the OS is pretty much dead in the water as Vole can’t be bothered with it any more.

Linux demo of the System Shock remake is now available on GOG

System Shock by Nightdive Studios — Kickstarter

System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994 built by a team of industry veterans.
Remember Citadel.

System Shock Demo on GOG.com

After two decades, Nightdive Studios is rebooting and re-imagining the original System Shock. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved while giving today’s gamers the modern look and feel expected from a AAA title.

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kernel-4.6.4-301.fc24 – Fedora Updates System

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4

For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-kernel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware update before installing the kernel.

You Can Now Use Netflix on Vivaldi and Other Chromium-Based Web Browsers

In other news, your #Chrome browsing data will soon be used for ad tailoring. Time to act surprised, I guess. pic.twitter.com/kd2sgaKtYy

— Philipp Sackl (@phlsa) July 16, 2016

How are they acquiring this browsing data? Is it one of the following?

People who sign into Chrome
People who use opt-out services, like:
“Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”
“Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar or the app launcher search box”
“Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”
“Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google”
“Protect you and your device from dangerous sites”
“Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google”

Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard has managed to create a handy script that would allow you to watch Netflix movies on Vivaldi as well as any other Chromium-based web browser.

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below. · GitHub

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below.

The best Linux laptop: The 2016 Dell XPS 13

Make no mistake about it. The 2016 Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is wonderful. It’s fast, its display is gorgeous, and, at less than three pounds, you can carry and code with it anywhere. But, oh, that price tag!

Hands-on with the Linux-ready Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition | Opensource.com

Canonical Announces Snappy Sprint Event in Germany to Shape Up Universal Snaps

Today, July 5, Canonical’s David Planella has informed Softpedia about an upcoming event that aims to gather together developers and contributors from various well-known projects to work on shaping up the universal Snaps.

Just finished the first cross distro session on Day 2 of the Snappy Sprint. Sitting in this room are representatives from Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementary and Ubuntu. All working together to make sure that Snappy is well integrated into the various distro CI systems and provides a consistent experience everywhere.

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubunt…

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubuntu, who’ve been invited to represent their distro or project. Around this table are AppStream, Arch Linux, Debian, elementary, Fedora, openWRT, openSUSE, KDE and (me behind the camera) MATE. And some +Ubuntu of course

GitHub – ubuntu/snappy-playpen: A place to test, learn creating snaps and share best practices.

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Chris’ VPN Follow Up

AirVPN – The air to breathe the real Internet

A VPN based on OpenVPN and operated by activists and hacktivists in defence of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship.

Would I finally surrender to Intuit and start using Quicken? Was a Google Docs spreadsheet enough to get me through? I experimented with GNU Cash for a bit and found it very powerful but somewhat difficult to use. A search for other open source tools randomly led me to ledger and my interest was peaked.

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A Bearded Thinkpad | LAS 422

chris — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:16:11 +0000

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We review the ThinkPad x260 with Linux & compare it to the XPS 13.

Then we discuss Snaps, AppImage, Flatpak & the Universal Package war that’s brewing, what the major downsides are & why we think this concept of universal Linux apps is not going away.

Plus our picks of the week, a laptop giveaway & more!

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ThinkPad x260

Intel 8260AC+BT 2×2 vPro
Sierra EM7455 WAN Adapter
SIM Card for WWAN 2
Accessories 2 NONE
X260 IGPU i7-6600U
Camera 720p HD Camera
AC Adapter and Power Cord 45W 2pin US
Intel Core i7-6600U MB
12.5 FHD IPS Non-Touch
Smart Card Reader
Hard drive 512GB SSD SATA3
Backlit KYB ENG
16GB DDR4 2133 SoDIMM
Battery 2 6cell 72Wh Rear
Battery 3cell 23.2Wh Front

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Runs Linux

ASM IV Series Automatic Scrap Monitoring System, Runs Linux

The ASM IV radiation detection system is designed to monitor a variety of
vehicles and/or scan for undesirable sources of radiation commonly found
in scrap metal and reject them before hey can cause harm to people, property or product.

Desktop App Pick

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line. It is flexible, fast, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way.

tasknc is a ncurses wrapper for task warrior written in C. It aims to provide an interface like the excellent ncurses programs mutt and ncmpcpp.

TaskWhisperer – GNOME Shell Extensions

Taskwhisperer is a extension for TaskWarrior Application https://taskwarrior.org to manage todos.

Spotlight

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

Introducing the Nextcloud bug bounty program

We offer some of the highest bounties in the open source software industry, rewarding responsible disclosure with up to $5,000 for qualifying vulnerabilities!

We have partnered with the HackerOne platform because of its extraordinary popularity among IT security professionals. More than 3,000 hackers have reported over 24,000 bugs via the platform. Running a program on HackerOne allows us to quickly leverage the collective knowledge of a huge amount of these security experts.

Snaps vs AppImage vs Flatpak

What am I missing (as a user) regarding the excitement over all these competing new universal packaging standards?

App distribution for Linux just got way better

Ubuntu’s “snap” package format now works on a bunch of other popular Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and most of the Ubuntu flavors. It’s also coming to CentOS, Mint, OpenSUSE, and even OpenWrt, among others.

Ubuntu’s ‘Snap’ packages may be the future of software installation on every Linux PC

This is big news. The Linux community has seen a constant stream of projects attempting to provide an easy software installation system across Linux distributions for more than a decade. But Ubuntu’s Snap package format is the first one that looks like it has some serious traction.

Ubuntu Snappy-Based Package Format Aims to Bridge Linux Divide

According to Shuttleworth, the “stunning” and “surprising” emergence of snap as a universal package format was not even on his roadmap a few months ago. He said that when he told ISVs that Canonical was extending snap to classic Ubuntu, the response was overwhelming.

Shuttleworth conceded that there are other universal open source packaging solutions available, such as AppImage and the newer Flatpak, but argued that most lack the security and/or transactional nature of snap. “The snap mechanism has sophisticated capabilities in the way it delivers updated versions,” he said. “Snaps are perfectly transactional.”

Kirta Packager on Appimage/Flatpak/Snap

The old rpm/deb way of packaging is excellent for creating the base system. For software where having the latest version doesn’t matter that much for productivity. It’s a system that’s been used for about twenty years and served us reasonably well. But if you are developing software for end users that is regularly updated, where the latest version is important because it always has improvements that let the users do more work, it’s a problem. It’s a ghastly drag having to actually make the packages if you’re not part of a distribution, and having to make packages for several distributions is not feasible for a small team.

uApp Explorer

Community Reaction

Flatpak is the new name for GNOME’s XDG-App initiative, though ‘…95% of the commits come from one Red Hat employee,’ Shuttleworth cheekily noted.

flatpack currently has 29 different committers, most of them not Red Hat employees; one is even a Debian developer.
Alexander Larsson has 78% of the commits, not 95%.
snappy has 5 only committers, all of them Canonical employees.
If you want people to help you with your snaps, don’t require them to sign Canonical’s CLA, open all snap components (including the server side) and stop spreading FUD in first place.

Chris’ note: The above has some mistakes. He is confusing Snappy and snapd. Snapd has 30 contributors.

Typical Linux Shit Show with Evil Cononical Behind it All, Time for WAR

What’s going on is that Canonical beat us to market in development… and now their marketing folks have beat us in marketing, too. We of course have zero plans to adopt Snappy in Fedora, and in fact multiple Fedora developers
are working on a competing solution, Flatpak

On Snappy and Flatpak: business as usual in the Canonical propaganda department

That’s not being constructive or working together with others. That’s being a bunch of asshats and trying to present the rest of the community with a fait accompli – and notably, a fait accompli in which Canonical holds all the strings (by means of the Canonical CLA controlling contributions to the client end, and the closed source, closed shop server end that is owned entirely by Canonical).

Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default

Currently Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default, since
substantial parts of the implementation of interfaces that allow the
applications to access resources outside the sandbox in a secure way
(“Portals”) are missing.

Sandbox · flatpak/flatpak Wiki · GitHub

Mail Bag

10 Year Old ThinkPad T43 Rocks Today’s Tasks

Lenovo T43 Laptop Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz 2GB RAM 80GB HDD
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Ubuntu 16.04: From Warty to Wimpy | LAS 413

chris — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:24:58 +0000

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We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with.

Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

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Some Bugs

Bug #1553652 “Ubiquity Install fails to create Swap Partition Er…” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu

Attempting to install Daily Drop of Unity Desktop 16.04. Selecting fourth install option to Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu. Receiving error that Swap Partition creation failed. Unable to proceed with installation and must reboot. This is a hard failure and also happens on the current Gnome Daily 16.04 distribution.

@dominucco @Kernellinux not yet. I understand it's an upstream Intel video driver issue. Will let you know when I see a fix appear.

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 16, 2016

No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04 | Timo Aaltonen’s Weblog

In case someone hasn’t noticed yet, fglrx has been removed from Xenial. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, the driver did not support XServer 1.18 which we wanted to get in for 16.04. But more importantly, AMD asked us earlier this year to migrate to the open driver stack since fglrx would not be supported in 16.04.

Snap Packages

Snapcraft 2.8 Now Live in Ubuntu 16.04, Adds Support for Snappy’s New Interfaces

New features in Snapcraft 2.8 include better detection of some of the steps that need to be executed for showing the current version of the snapraft.yaml file, support for using the “cleanbuild” command to make sure you have a clean build of your snaps, as well as support for Snappy’s new interface, which is still work in progress.

Starting with Snapcraft 2.8, support for Snappy’s “config” setting has been completely removed, and by popular request, the “geoip” feature has been disabled by default. Users can enable it in Snapcraft using the “–enable-geoip” flag via the command-line. More details should be found in today’s announcement.

Great Flavors

Download Ubuntu MATE 16.04

New in Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Here is a run down of the headline features in Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

MATE Desktop 1.12.1
- Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
- Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
- The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
- Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
- Extended systemd support.
- Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
- Consistent categorisation of the Control Center and System menus.
- See the MATE Desktop 1.12 release announcement for more details.
- CPU resource requirements have been reduced across the board.
Complete overhaul of Ubuntu MATE Welcome
- Incorporates Ubuntu MATE Software Boutique with one-click installs for nearly 150 best in class Linux desktop applications.
- One-click install for popular applications that are not in the official Ubuntu archive, such as Google Chrome, InSync, Minecraft, Opera, Spotify, Steam, Skype, Syncthing, Telegram, TorBrowser and Vivaldi via the Software Boutique.
- Pre-installation documentation and assistant.
- System Information and Diagnostics.
- Post-install setup and configuration assistant.
- Added one-click enablement of the LibreOffice Fresh PPA to continually track stable LibreOffice releases.
- One-click install of Drivers, Firmware and Codecs.
- Includes Raspberry Pi specific documentation and features.
- Translated in 20 languages.
Cross tooklit integration and theming
- QT applications will inherit GTK theming.
- Client Side Decorated and Header Bar applications render correctly in all supported window managers, even without compositing enabled in all shipped themes.
- The default Ubuntu MATE themes have been refined to minimise differences between GTK3 and GTK2.
- Deeper Compiz integration, gtk-window-manager now sources settings directly from MATE when Compiz is running in a MATE session.
Supports Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3
- Including the Raspberry Pi 3 integrated Bluetooth and WiFi. Also includes Raspberry Pi accelerated versions of VLC, ffmpeg and Kodi.
- Option to enable experimental hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
MATE Tweak capabilities have been extended.
- Option to enable Keyboard LED to show a Caps Lock and Num Lock status indicator for modern laptops and wireless keyboards that no longer have built-in status LEDs.
- Added Compton GPU accelerated compositing, as an alternative to Compiz, for those seeking tear free video playback.
- Displays a confirmation after changing the compositor to either Compton or Compiz.
Added MATE Dock Applet developed by Robin Thompson.
- A configurable dock applet that can be placed on any panel, in any orientation.
Added Topmenu Applet developed by Javier S. Pedro
- A GTK+ module that allows placing a global menu in MATE panel applets.
- The Ubuntu MATE team also added lxpanel-plugin-topmenu and xfce4-topmenu-plugin to the Debian and Ubuntu archives so those desktops can benefit too.
Added Mutiny panel layout which showcases mate-dock-applet and topmenu-gtk.
- The traditional GNOME2 style two panel layout is, and will continue to be, the default.
- The Mutiny layout is a Unity-like interface, designed to showcase MATE Dock Applet and Topmenu Applet.
Added Synapse which also includes complete MATE integration.
- Synapse is a graphical launcher enabling you to start applications and also to quickly find and access relevant documents and files (by making use of the Zeitgeist engine).
- The Synapse Launcher can be enabled via MATE Tweak.
Updated to Plank 0.11 and includes a new theme for Ubuntu MATE contributed by Holger Rueckershaeuser.
DVD and BluRay libraries are pre-installed
- This doesn’t mean encrypted DVD and BluRay will play out-of-the-box, but they can be fully enabled via Ubuntu MATE Welcome.
Vastly expanded language support, the full rationale on how we choose the languages and what we install is available from https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278.
- Including this wider language support has added ~400MB to the size of the .iso images.
Improved support for braille displays and a new indicator for changing accessibility profiles in Ubiquity.
Added an assortment of new community contributed background wallpapers, more consistent icons and icon rendering in menus is optimised.
…and many other minor improvements and hundreds of bug fixes.
KDE neon upgrades to 16.04LTS

KDE neon is a package archive of KDE software built on a stable foundation. We use Ubuntu because it’s good technology that we’re familiar with and which provides a Long Term Support foundation we can use. When we started the only practical version to use at the start was 15.10 so our packages have been built using that. But with 16.04LTS due out next week it’s time to move to a solid foundation where we expect to stay for the next couple of years.

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Pi Powered Weather Monitor RUNS LINUX

Essentially, one Raspberry Pi acts as a surveillance camera and temperature sensor, while the other Raspberry Pi acts as a remote display. You can view the feed of the camera using a touchscreen that allows you to switch over to a graph at a tap. As you’d expect, you’ll need a couple of Raspberry Pis, a touch screen, a temperature sensor, a Raspberry Pi camera, and a pair of Wi-Fi dongles. When you’re all finished with the project, you’ll easily be able to pull up a live feed from the camera on a Pi. It’s a pretty easy little project when all’s said and done. Head over to Adafruit for the full guide.

Desktop App Pick

AltYo

AltYo – drop-down console, is written in vala, depends only on libvte, gtk3.

For full description please follow this link https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

AltYo – drop-down terminal emulator, written in Vala, depends only on libvte and gtk3.

Weekly Spotlight

Shotwell has a new Maintainer

GitHub – chubin/wttr.in: Web frontend for wego

This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend.
You can check it at wttr.in.

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Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds

In the latest OpenStack user survey, we see that OpenStack is finally gaining real momentum in private clouds. We also see that Ubuntu Linux is continuing to dominate OpenStack. As Canonical cloud marketing manager Bill Bauman said, “Ubuntu OpenStack continues to dominate the majority of deployments with 55 percent of production OpenStack clouds. The previous survey showed Ubuntu OpenStack at 33 percent of production clouds. Ubuntu has seen almost 67 percent growth in an area where Ubuntu was already the market leader. These numbers are a huge testament to the community support Ubuntu OpenStack receives every day.” The Cloud Market’s latest analysis of operating systems on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) shows Ubuntu with just over 215,000 instances. Ubuntu is followed by Amazon’s own Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI), with 86,000 instances. Further back, you’ll find Windows with 26,000 instances. In fourth and fifth place, respectively, you’ll find Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with 16,500 instances and then CentOS with 12,500 instances.

How Red Hat is Worth 2 Billion

Many corporate cultures still conform to the hierarchical command and control management model designed for 20th century business needs. Knowledge workers are driving our economy today and they thrive in organizations that welcome their opinions, tap their creativity and award contribution over title.

In his new book The Open Organization (published by the Harvard Business Review Press), Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst challenges businesses to adopt an open approach that ignites passion and performance. Red Hat became the world’s first (and only so far) billion-dollar open source company by staying true to its ethos – leveraging a community approach to creating solutions where the best ideas win.

CIA’s In-Q-Tel invests in Docker, Mesosphere

Mesosphere and Docker are very well-funded San Francisco-based companies, with valuations that are said to be at or above $1 billion.

All Linux ALL The Time

The culture at Cumulus is all about standards. It was expressed repeatedly that Cumulus want to ensure that their linux is absolutely standard, so the file system hierarchy should be the standard, configuration files should be where they normally are, and so forth. A system that doesn’t follow those guidelines becomes a special snowflake that can’t be supported by regular tools and, as you’ll see, this attitude has paid dividends in this solution.

Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

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Will take place Sat during Linux Fest NW (Location TBD)
Come find Noah let him switch you to Linux and get a free SSD installed.

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There’s a Snap for That | LINUX Unplugged 136

chris — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:57:34 +0000

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The future of Linux package management is here & there’s a lot of ideas on how to solve it. We discuss some of the more popular ones & how they might be impacting your Linux desktop much sooner than you expect.

Plus that awkward moment when a traditional desktop environment adopts a controversial UI modern element, the new generation of “perfect” Linux laptops & more!

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Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi

The 314GB drive, which will normally cost $45.81 but is currently available for $31.42, is a 7mm-high drive based on the basic Western Digital Blue drives that still ship in many budget and mid-end laptops and PCs. The difference is the interface, which has been changed from SATA to USB and is designed to connect to the Pi directly without drastically increasing the footprint of the device.

Mozilla’s super speedy new browser will be available for testing in June

Servo is a browser engine that was built from the ground up in the Rust language to specialize in performance, security, modularity and parallelism.

Mycroft Announces The OpenSTT Project – YouTube

Mycroft is announcing that we are going after the Watson AI XPrize, and our first project aimed at achieving this goal is OpenSTT, an initiative to create an open source speech-to-text model that products and services, the world over, will be able to make use of.

https://youtu.be/cDRDZng92Bs?t=41s

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MATE in 16.04 to support Client Side Decoration (CSD) and Header Bars

The attached screenshot shows a number of applications that use Client Side Decoration and Header Bars. They are pictured here running on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 daily using the Marco window manager with software compositing enabled.

You may not be a fan of CSD applications, but there are a good number of them and undoubtedly there will be many more released over the coming years. It would be remiss of the Ubuntu MATE team to not provide first class CSD application support for the upcoming LTS release. With these changes, Ubuntu MATE can finally bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary applications.

[What is Client Side Decoration?]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28650646/what-is-client-side-decoration)

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Is the Future Snappy?

Snappy are repackaged .deb packages, which bring its own libraries and therefore might be a bit bigger than usual debs.

Advantages
Developers can choose which version of libraries they want you to use
If an update failed you can reverse to the last working one without any problems
Apps are sandboxed and cannot modify or read files that they aren’t supposed to
Cons
Bigger files
Developers have to update snaps if there is a security hole in a library
Snaps are Ubuntu exclusive, afaik

The questions we have:

Its approach is nothing new: just bundled libs, as Windows does. This is a security nightmare.

Could this lead to a security nightmare? All those linked libs?
Why not bundle dependencies – Gentoo Wiki

How to create local repository for Ubuntu Snappy – Ask Ubuntu

You can “snappy install” a snap directly on a machine, but there isn’t an equivalent to the idea of a local repository.

Skylake-based Dell XPS 13 with Linux arrives in the US

The fifth-generation XPS 13 developer edition ships with a Core i7 processor, up to 16 GB of memory, and Ubuntu Linux.

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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?

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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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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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Rooting Noah’s House | LAS 384

chris — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:31:02 +0000

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Home automation can make you feel like you’re living in the future. This week we dig into the technology, advantages & disadvantages to fully automating all aspects of your home or office. We share our hard learned lessons!

Plus Valve’s huge milestone, what’s great about Gnome 3.18, Ubuntu powered Drones, the creepy Windows 10 feature that’s pushing people to adopt Linux & more!

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Automation starts by designing around something

Automation Controller ie: Crestron
Peer to Peer Automation ie: Insteon
Science Project based automation ie: X10
Security System based automation ie: HAI

Consider the the following

How can I interface to other systems?
What I/O does the system offer? ie: prop protocol? CC/OC?
How does the system communicate? ie: wifi, network

Light Solutions Considered

Instead
X10
Crestron
Lutron

Advantages of Lutron

Able to interface to multiple devices

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Z-Wave Plus home automation hub runs Linux on Raspberry Pi

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Z-Wave Europe and Popp & Co. have launched a “Popp Hub” home automation gateway that runs Linux on a Raspberry Pi, and supports Z-Wave and IP smart devices.

Desktop App Pick

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Weekly Spotlight

App Grid – your alternative to the Ubuntu Software Center

App Grid is an alternative to the Software Center.

— NEWS —

GNOME 3.18 Release Notes

GNOME 3.18 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorporates 25112 changes, made by approximately 772 contributors.

Qualcomm Goes Ubuntu for Drone Reference Platform | Linux.com

Ubuntu got a big boost as a competitive operating system for drones with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) reference platform announced by Qualcomm last week called Snapdragon Flight. The Snapdragon 801 based development platform supports Linaro’s version of Ubuntu, as well as OpenCV, according to an email to Linux.com from a Qualcomm representative. The rep went on the call it “an open platform for companies to port their own existing drone software.”

Valve hits a Linux landmark—1,500 games available on Steam

But this weekend there’s an even bigger numeric milestone to celebrate according to the Linux site Phoronix—1,500 Linux titles are currently available through Steam.

Steam Crosses 1,500 Games Natively Available For Linux – Phoronix

Today marks a huge milestone for Steam on Linux: 1,500 games are natively available! This is quite significant while Windows is at 6,464 and OS X is at 2,323.

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Miles of WiFi | LINUX Unplugged 104

chris — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:47:34 +0000

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Ubuntu publishes their roadmap for the next few releases & we discuss what the future might hold for “Ubuntu Personal”. Plus the major challenges Linux gaming is facing.

Then we’ve got insights from the experts on building robust wifi for your home, enterprise or even large events… Powered by Linux!

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T – 242d!

It’s only 242 days until April 1st, 2016, the month where another great Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release will be born. Ubuntu 16.04 will be the most sophisticated release of Ubuntu so far.

In my old/new role as Canonical’s Shepherd for all things related to Ubuntu Client (meaning Ubuntu, Phones, Tablets and everything related), I wanted to take a few moments and share our current plans for the remaining time until Ubuntu 16.04.

Canonical Publishes Impressive Roadmap for All of Their Ubuntu Products

“The chart shows Ubuntu as the center of gravity for everything that revolves around it. We will be seeing a solid 15.10 leading to the Long Term Support release 16.04. I personally expect some improvements around the Dash and general usability improvements for users with high resolution screens in addition to the work that’s done to polish and stabilize Ubuntu to the level an LTS release deserves,” wrote Olli Ries.

The chart itself is very interesting, but above all else, it shows that Ubuntu for regular users is still pretty much the focus of their efforts. The Ubuntu community is afraid that Canonical is putting too much work into the mobile space or containers, but in the end, everything they do seems to come back to the desktop.

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GlobalVision Powers SELF 2015 Wifi with Linux

GlobalVision setup and ran the WIFI and Internet access for the SouthEast Linux Fest 2014 held in Charlotte, NC. The event had a little over 600 attendees over a 3 day weekend. We worked directly with the hotel hosting the event to run the cable in the event area to prevent hazards or from guests seeing or tripping over them. GlobalVision arranged to get a temporary dedicated Internet line to allow for faster speeds for event guests. Next we brought all of the gear needed for the network and had it set up and running in just a few hours. After the event was over GlobalVision removed everything and restore the area to the original look and feel.

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Should We Drop the dream of Linux Gaming?

Gaming on Linux struggles to take off. With Windows seeming less and less “evil” is it time to accept having a Windows install around if you want to game, and let Linux focus on its strengths?

Shadow of Mordor: Performance Tests

The result leaves nothing to speculation:

Max FPS: 81.40 on Windows vs 50.87 on Ubuntu [ 62% of the Windows Performance ]
Average FPS: 55.83 on Windows vs 30.16 on Ubuntu [ 54% of the Windows Performance ]
Lowest FPS: 31.65 on Windows vs 6.84 on Ubuntu [ 22 % of the Windows Performance ]
Amplitude (Max vs Min FPS) : 49.75 on Windows vs 44.03 on Ubuntu

As you can see the game runs about half as fast as the Windows version on average

Shadow of Mordor Performance: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux – Phoronix

Steam gamers already use Windows 10 more than all Linux distros combined | PCWorld

That’s what the July 2015 Steam hardware and software survey reveals, at least, as first spotted by Windows Central.

Windows dominates among Steam users, with 44.91 percent using Windows 7 64-bit, and 31.65 percent using Windows 8.1 64-bit. According to the numbers, Windows 10 64-bit can already be found on 2.21 percent of Steam users‘ systems, with the **32-bit variant found on another 0.09 percent. **

By contrast, the most-used Mac operating system among Steam gamers is OS X “Yosemite” 10.10.3 at 1.10 percent, though when you take all available versions of Yosemite into account, it’s found on 2.4 percent of all systems. All four tracked Linux OSes combined account for a mere 0.55 percent of use.

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Fedora’s Bright Future | LINUX Unplugged 96

chris — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:35:50 +0000

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The Fedora Project Lead Matthew Miller joins us to discuss what’s coming up in Fedora 23 & reflect on Fedora 22.

Plus Mark Shuttleworth unveils another device running Ubuntu, Angela stops by with a switch to Linux update, some quick story updates & more!

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Black “mirror”: SourceForge has now taken over Nmap audit tool project

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Apps/Software – GNOME Wiki!

Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.

Graphical pacman frontends – ArchWiki

This is a list of frontends for the pacman CLI tool. The list includes full featured GUI frontends, informational tools, and a variety of system tray notifiers. The list also includes categories for GTK2 based and Qt based software.

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Google’s Brillo Pad | CR 155

chris — Mon, 25 May 2015 14:22:53 +0000

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Google may be planning to scrub the grime away from the Internet of Things devices with a new operating system designed for low resources in mind.

We debate what Google’s rumored Brillo OS would look like & the impact it could have on Canonicals big plans for Ubuntu Snappy.

Plus Mike ponders switching to BSD, Google Play services in a library & GBA games in your browser.

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Project(s) of the Week

Jsemu/GBA
Source for GBA
The Emulation Game | LAS 365
Google Play Services from PTDave

The Pre-IO Calm

Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’

In a post in the /r/Android subreddit, an engineer of Chrome for Android announced that the mobile browser is now “almost entirely open source,” with the bulk of its code now available in the open source Chromium repository just like its desktop sibling. To explain the use of the word ‘almost’ in layman’s terms, Google saves certain features — particularly those which communicate with your Google account — for its commercial version of Chromium, which is the Chrome browser.

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Rollback Romanticism | LINUX Unplugged 93

chris — Tue, 19 May 2015 17:29:19 +0000

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After an Ubuntu update goes really bad Chris reflects on how snappy, a transactionally updated version of Ubuntu, could have avoided this problem.

Plus a review of the System76 Meerkat PC, Russia plans to fork Sailfish OS & more!

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Russia will fork Sailfish OS to shut out pesky Western spooks

Russia’s Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, has taken part in talks to form a consortium that will aid Russia in developing a custom mobile OS, reportedly a forked version of Jolla’s Sailfish OS, to lessen its dependence on Western technology.

Nikiforov held a working meeting last week with the leadership of Hong Kong-based Sailfish Holdings, developer of the quietly admired Sailfish OS.

Alongside other participants, the parties involved discussed the use of open-source software in the public and private sectors, taking into account technical, economic and political factors, the latter of which is expected to include United States’ interference with exported technologies.

YotaPhone 2 – Worlds First Dual-Screen Smartphone | Indiegogo

The world’s first dual-screen always-on smartphone has arrived. Fully customizable always-on screen. Hands-free messaging and notifications. E-reading for up to 100 hours on a single charge. Full Android functionality on both screens. The smart-phone future. Now.

YotaPhone 2 is the first dual-screen mobile in the world that combines the features of a premium Android smartphone with the benefits of an Electronic Paper Display.

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Google Chrome 43 Brings Better Linux HiDPI Support

Of much interest to Linux users will be the landing of improved Linux HiDPI support.

What are you favorite terminal applications?

So I feel cool using the terminal, and it honestly feels more efficient half the time to boot. What are some of your must-have/most used terminal applications? I’ve been trolling through the Arch Wiki’s list of terminal apps (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications[1] ), and that’s been a solid jumping off point.

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2014 SouthEast LinuxFest – JT Pennington – Puppy Linux Deconstructed – YouTube

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Meerkat Review

Few basic features of System76 Meerkat include:

Intel 5th Generation processors, available options i3-5010U and i5-5250U
up to 2 TB of storage (M.2 SATA SSD)
16 GB DDR3 RAM
Graphics Intel HD 5500 and Intel HD 6000 for i3 and i5 respectively
4″ x 4″ in size
WiFi
1 Gb NIC
2 USB 3.0 ports (with one being PoweredUSB)

gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images.

System76 Meerkat is a cute Intel Broadwell-powered Ubuntu Linux computer [Review]

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Linux Wife, Happy Life. | LINUX Unplugged 92

chris — Tue, 12 May 2015 19:24:53 +0000

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We get an update on our resident Mac users switch to Linux & the challenges she’s run into. Ubuntu makes a deal with Microsoft and promises to ship snappy on the Internet of Things, but what the heck is a Snap package? And is it truly a transactional system?

Plus hints on how Debian PPAs might work, the world’s first $9 Linux rig & much more!

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Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft

That wasn’t a typo. Canonical and Microsoft, which were already working together on bringing Canonical’s Juju DevOps tools to Windows and bringing Windows Server to OpenStack, are working with DataArt on an IoT industrial predictive maintenance solution. It will combine the three companies’ IoT, cloud, big data, machine learning, and Docker efforts. To integrate all of this they’ll be using “Snappy” Ubuntu apps, DeviceHive, and Juju Charms. Microsoft will also use an Azure service to manage and capture machine data.

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CHIP – The World’s First Nine Dollar Computer by Next Thing Co. — Kickstarter

C.H.I.P. is a computer. It’s tiny and easy to use.

C.H.I.P. does computer things. Work in LibreOffice and save your documents to C.H.I.P.’s onboard storage. Surf the web and check your email over wifi. Play games with a bluetooth controller. With dozens of applications and tools preinstalled, C.H.I.P. is ready to do computer things the moment you power it on.

C.H.I.P. is a computer for students, teachers, grandparents, children, artists, makers, hackers, and inventors. Everyone really. C.H.I.P. is a great way to add a computer to your life and the perfect way to power your computer based projects.

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Krita Developer Interview | LAS 364

chris — Sun, 10 May 2015 16:50:48 +0000

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We get the opportunity to talk to the Krita project. Can professional graphic design be done on Linux? What it will take to get the project to the next level? We find out!

Plus a crazy member of our audience takes CentOS desktop challenge & we check in. CryEngine to support Linux, Firefox OS in Africa, Snappy packages, Python 3 in Ubuntu by Default & more!

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Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.

Krita is a FREE digital painting and illustration application.

Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features you would expect. Check out the gallery to see what other artists have done with Krita

Krita: free paint app – let’s make it faster than Photoshop! — Kickstarter

Krita is the free and open source digital painting program used by artists all over the world. Help make Krita even faster and better!

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Ubuntu Powered Drone

It seems world is slowly and steadily moving towards Linux powered devices. After Linux was used to power destroyers for US Navy, now Erle Robotics has used Ubuntu to power a drone.
Erle Robotics, a Spanish company, has been at the forefront of using Linux in devices and had introduced the Erle-Copter drone powered by Ubuntu Snappy Core back in February 2015, has launched the world’s first Ubuntu powered Drone on 3rd May.

Desktop App Pick

Fort Password Manager

Fort allows you to store passwords and other sensitive information. Today it’s important not to use the same password on multiple places. Passwords should also be more than 8 characters long and contain mixed case letters, numbers and special characters. Of course it’s impossible to remember such passwords. That’s where Fort comes in. All you have to do is to remember one password, the Fort master key. Fort will remember rest of your passwords.

QtPass by IJHack

Weekly Spotlight

Centos 7 on the Desktop

https://slexy.org/view/s21VYbhCQh

Last night I started a challenge. A good friend of mine said to me “I doubt you could use CentOS 7 on your desktop for a month.” After thinking about it, I realised I probably could. So I accepted his challenge. Mind you this was at 10:30 at night. Maybe tiredness played a role in my decision, but I am going to document my experience with CentOS 7 on my desktop for the next month.

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CryEngine to Support Linux

Let’s talk about the pengui… elephant in the room If you read the above paragraph, it might not come as a major surprise to you, but we are proud to announce that we will add an Open GL implementation and support for running your EaaS games on Linux with one of our next updates. For now, Linux support will be limited to the game launcher, and the Sandbox editor will still require Microsoft Windows. And of course, Linux support will be subject to the same developer-friendly terms as on Windows: Your monthly subscription fee will allow you to sell your games for Linux in addition to Windows, with no additional fees or royalties required.

A massive change for Ubuntu package management is on the horizon

Snappy Personal is slotted to take the place of Desktop Next. If you’ve been following Ubuntu, you know that Next is the iteration of Ubuntu that will feature Unity 8 and Mir, which will power desktops, phones, and tablets. Snappy Personal will be the desktop image that will install Ubuntu 15.10 (if it arrives in time for that release) that’s built with said Unity 8 and Mir.

An important notice for Desktop Next users Edit: This is referring to the…

Ubuntu Plans for Python 3 by Default

Within the Ubuntu world, by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS next April they want Python 3 by default and potentially to only have Python 3.5. In upstream Debian for their 9.0 Stretch release they are also hoping for no Python2 by default, albeit the Stretch release is much further out.

Orange Launches First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa

We are happy to share that the first Firefox OS smartphones went on sale in Senegal and Madagascar this week. This follows an announcement from Mozilla and Orange at Mobile World Congress 2015 that Firefox OS smartphones would be available in markets across Africa and the Middle East later this year.

CHIP – The World’s First Nine Dollar Computer by Next Thing Co. — Kickstarter

C.H.I.P. is a computer. It’s tiny and easy to use.

C.H.I.P. does computer things. Work in LibreOffice and save your documents to C.H.I.P.’s onboard storage. Surf the web and check your email over wifi. Play games with a bluetooth controller. With dozens of applications and tools preinstalled, C.H.I.P. is ready to do computer things the moment you power it on.

C.H.I.P. is a computer for students, teachers, grandparents, children, artists, makers, hackers, and inventors. Everyone really. C.H.I.P. is a great way to add a computer to your life and the perfect way to power your computer based projects.

The CHIP Is A $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All | TechCrunch

Star Trek Comes To Linux, Star Trek 25th Anniversary & Star Trek Judgement Rites On GOG

GOG have now added two classic Star Trek games to their collection with Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Star Trek Judgement Rites.

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Trisquel Founder Interview | LAS 349

chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:43:14 +0000

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The main developer and founder of Trisquel GNU/Linux Ruben Rodriguez joins us to discuss the projects mission, the major headwinds it faces, what the future holds, and their new focus on privacy.

Plus: Mark Shuttleworth sees a future where Ubuntu powers Robots and Drones, a mini-review of KDE Plasma 5.2 desktop, what’s coming up in Gnome…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Main Developer and Founder Ruben Rodriguez aka quidam

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GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is
the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an
ethical one: it is entirely free software.
While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free
software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as
plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license restricts distribution
in several ways incompatible with freedom 0.

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The Mouse Box, Runs Linux

At the beginning moving computers was a real challenge. The problem was not just their quite big weight, but also their size which made it difficult to put them in a right place even though it was possible to lift them. Computer portability has been improving along with developing a PC. However, it still isn’t ideal as it is necessary to transport a lot of its parts – a monitor, a keyboard, a CPU and a mouse. The approach to computer design and appearance has been the same until today. We are introducing Mouse-Box, a computer different than ever before. An incredible combination of the two most important elements in a computer set – a computer and a mouse.

Desktop App Pick

swatd · GitHub

SWATd is a daemon for running scripts when your house gets raided by the police
(or broken into by criminals). For example, if you use any kind of encryption,
you can use SWATd to destroy the keys, instead of hoping the police (or
criminals) are stupid enough to unplug your computer. SWATd can also be used
for more mundane things like sending an email notification when a server goes
down.

Weekly Spotlight

Dex UI | NNKD

DEX UI is a combination of my love for futuristic interfaces and desktop customization. It’s a handcrafted interface programmed in openFrameworks, running fullscreen underneath a functioning terminal, as essentially an animated desktop.

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Shuttleworth: Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86 [LWN.net]

Mark Shuttleworth takes a look at
Ubuntu and the Internet of Things. “Ubuntu is right at the heart of
the “internet thing” revolution, and so we are in a good position to raise
the bar for security and consistency across the whole ecosystem. Ubuntu is
already pervasive on devices — you’ve probably seen lots of “Ubuntu in the
wild” stories, from self-driving cars to space programs and robots and the
occasional airport display. I’m excited that we can help underpin the next
wave of innovation while also thoughtful about the responsibility that
entails. So today we’re launching snappy Ubuntu Core on a wide range of
boards, chips and chipsets, because the snappy system and Ubuntu Core are perfect for distributed, connected devices that need security updates for the OS and applications but also need to be completely reliable and self-healing. Snappy is much better than package dependencies for robust, distributed devices.”

pfSense 2.2-RELEASE Now Available!

I’m happy to announce the release of pfSense(r) software version 2.2! This release brings improvements in performance and hardware support from the FreeBSD 10.1 base, as well as enhancements we’ve added such as AES-GCM with AES-NI acceleration, among a number of other new features and bug fixes. Jim Thompson

Plasma 5.2 Beta out for Testing

Today KDE releases a beta for Plasma 5.2. This release adds a number of new components and improves the existing desktop. We welcome all testers to find and help fix the bugs before our stable release in two weeks’ time.

Kubuntu 15.04 Alpha 2 Is the Most Exciting Release in a Long Time – Screenshot Tour – Softpedia

The second batch of testing images for Kubuntu 15.04 is out and it looks like the developers are definitely on the right track. This is the first Kubuntu edition that integrates the new Plasma 5 desktop and the rest of the components from the former KDE SC. This latest edition of Kubuntu is quite exciting and none of the flavors for the Vivid launch has such a big change in the desktop paradigm.

GNOME Shell Adds VP9 Screencasting, Mutter Improves Wayland

Mutter 3.15.4 was checked in this morning by Florian Müllner and it has Wayland improvements and other exciting changes with GTK+ now drawing all window decorations, a change to replicate the monitor EDID parsing for Mutter on Wayland so it acts the same way as under X11, Mutter now handles input device configuration, and there’s support for pointer barriers with Mutter on Wayland. The pointer barriers on Wayland will ensure that the pointer never enters “dead areas” of the screen due to different monitor sizes, etc.

Librem 15, the first free software GNU/Linux laptop, makes funding goal

Crowd Supply, a curated crowd-funding and e-commerce company has been working on funding the first pure free-software laptop, the Purism Librem 15. The Kickstarter-like project had been seeking $250,000 to create the “first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” On January 21st, the company achieved its goal. As of January 22nd, the project has raised just over $260,000.

Purism, the company behind the Librem 15, promises that it will ship an Intel CPU fused to run unsigned BIOS code. The hope is that this will allow a future where free software can replace the proprietary, digitally signed, BIOS binaries.

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