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Ubuntu 16.10 Review

• Ubuntu 16.10

• Super fast boot into Unity (set your login to auto and give it a shot, tell me that’s not crazy fast)

• For me personally I never expected to be this surprised by Ubuntu 16.10. I was expecting just another simpler interaction. And that’s exactly what I got, and I didn’t even know I wanted it.

• Unity 7 is fast, simple, and now runs are lower end hardware and VM’s a lot better.

• This is the simple, clean, modern looking desktop I’m comfortable recommending to friends and loved ones.

• But my biggest surprises came when I found myself reloading studio production machines to Ubuntu MATE 16.10.

• From a desktop environment perspective, we need our desktops to be light on the GPU, simple in their function, and steady. MATE has played that role for a while now on top of Arch in the JB studio.

• But Ubuntu 16.10’s based on Kernel 4.8 (which brings Skylake improvements, and USB capture/camera device improvements). 16.10’s MATE flavor also ships with MATE Desktop 1.16. The first major distribution to ship a full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop.

• The roll out of the Unity 8 Preview is very humble. Very clear on what state this is in, and how end users can play and improve it.

Kernel 4.8 Features

• Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

The biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug

• NFS Client Sees Some Performance Improvements With Linux 4.8 – Phoronix

NFS client updates for Linux 4.8, the next major kernel release, include several performance-related features, more aggressive caching, optimized several code paths, SUNRPC updates, pNFS improvements, and various bug fixes. The performance changes for the NFS client in Linux 4.8 include removing a “performance killer.”

• Support for overclocking AMD graphic cards
• Initial NVIDIA Pascal support in Nouveau driver
• Raspberry Pi 3 SoC support
• ACPI Low-Power Idle support
• Support for the Microsoft Surface 3 touch screen
• Wider range of audio device, USB and webcam drivers

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak | Ubuntu Insights

The current experience comes with a minimal set of applications; a browser, terminal and systems settings. Here are a few things you might like to try to flesh out your Unity 8 session and get the most from it.

• What to do with Unity 8 now – whizzy.org

The main driver for getting Unity 8 in to 16.10 was the chance to get it in the hands of users so we can get feedback and bug reports. If you find something doesn’t work, please, log a bug. We don’t monitor every forum or comments section on the web so the absolute best way to provide your feedback to people who can act on it is a bug report with clear steps on how to reproduce the issue (in the case of crashes) or an explanation of why you think a particular behaviour is wrong. This is how you get things changed or fixed.

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 | Ubuntu MATE

The work to port MATE Desktop to GTK3+ has been ongoing for a couple
of years and Ubuntu MATE is the first major distribution to ship a
full GTK3+ implementation of the MATE Desktop. And the absolute latest
release too, MATE Desktop 1.16! Firefox and LibreOffice are also GTK3+
only in Yakkety.

This has been no small undertaking, we’ve changed toolkits twice this
cycle. First from GTK 2.24.x to GTK 3.18, and then again to GTK 3.20. The
themes required two significant upgrades during this process.
We’ve also upgraded through three MATE Desktop versions this cycle,
starting from 1.12 to 1.14, to 1.15 and finally to 1.16.

We originally planned to complete the migration to GTK3+ for the
Ubuntu MATE 17.04 release, but thanks to those of you who have generously
supported the Ubuntu MATE crowd-funding we’ve achieved that
objective well ahead of schedule!

• Ubuntu MATE 16.10 Hits the Streets with MATE 1.16 Desktop and GTK+ 3 Goodness

newest _MATE 1.16 desktop environment_based on the latest GTK+ 3.20 technologies, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 is probably the most important milestone of the official Ubuntu flavor built around the MATE Desktop

Being re-worked from scratch, more or less, Ubuntu MATE 16.10 ships with the ability for users to uninstall default applications without issues.

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Dutch Train Station, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Internet DJ Console

Ability to broadcast LIVE audio through icecast. Internet DJ Console is a project started in March 2005 to provide a powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.
Because of the large number of streaming applications that already existed but did little more than stream a pair of audio channels or a fixed playlist, it was decided that IDJC would be the opposite and simulate audio hardware to cut down the expense of creating a home studio.

Unlike Mixxx is designed to stream live audio not just pre-recorded MP3s

Spotlight [Ben F Switched to Linux for Good] (Video in Dropbox)

Ben gives us a little show and tell.

— NEWS —

• Ting data price drop
• Ting drops data prices to $10 GB beyond the first gig

Devs Mark KDE’s 20th Birthday By Re-Releasing KDE 1!

Yup, it’s the KDE project’s 20th birthday. And to help mark the mammoth milestone the KDE Restoration Project is re-releasing KDE 1!

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

So many Linux nerds are happy right now #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/UlV4ZVXVzz

— Kevin Lee (@infinite_lee) October 12, 2016

As mentioned before, SteamVR on Linux will use Vulkan and not OpenGL. This is probably one of the main things that held up SteamVR/HTC Vive support on Linux.

• Collabora Has Been Working On A Fully-Open HTC Vive Driver – Phoronix

While we found out today Valve is finally expected to show a VR Linux demo likely using the HTC Vive, it turns out Collabora has been working on their own Linux VR effort with a focus on a fully open-source driver for the HTC Vive for the OSVR platform.

FreeBSD Takes Open Source to 11 with Latest Release

New architecture support, performance improvements, toolchain enhancements and support for contemporary wireless chipsets.

Mad Max to release on 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, being ported by Feral Interactive

Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.

The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.

Come say hi at MeetBSD

Nov. 11-12. #MeetBSDCA

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Name: Sam S

Subject: Barebones Linux Follow Up

Message: Hi guys, I’m writing in about the LAS438 question regarding a “barebones” distro. I’d like to give a shameless plug to my set of “GeckoLinux” spins based on openSUSE. Among the 8 spins, I actually have one called “BareBones”, which is basically an openbox desktop with Firefox, rxvt, and the YaST configuration tools, nothing else. There’s a BareBones based on openSUSE Leap (long-term fixed-release cycle) and another for Tumbleweed (super-stable rolling release). You can download it at geckolinux.github.io or clone it on SuseStudio.

Name: Ghislain A.

Subject: Ghislain is looking for a distro to do the following three things

1. Full Disk Encryption
2. Installation on RAID 1
3. Support multi screen three by default

Full Message: Hi Noah !

I still have my windows machine but i go rid of the last windows software necessary to run my business bu going webbased for my billing. For my workstation as my main working PC at my company i wanted to run a linux KDE desktop ( i love the layout of the plasma 5 desktop) but gnome would do also, i do not like at all the ubuntu unity one so i prefer to avoid it but i can live with it if i have raid and encryption.

On my research i had quite a lot of issue as most distro i tried to install do not support the basic i need “out of the box”. Those “basics” are:

• full disk encryption ( i use truecrypt on windows)
• installation on a raid 1
• support multi screen (3) by default

For now i do not find any distro that support the raid 1 thing in the installer.

I have to manually do some magic mojo to have a simple install in raid1 in the installer.

The second challenge is that allmost all the non KDE 5+ distro i tried did not support the 3 screen i have with my 2 low power AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series cards. The others would see 2 screen and not the third or see it but do not allow to move the mouse to it.

So right now i have kubuntu and antegros that is working , the last one was installed but i had to do some mojo to install it with raid and i do not have encryption so i must restart my install.

This is where you can help Do you know of a distro you think can support those simple business need (raid1, encryption, multi screen) without the need to manually tweak many thing by hand and pray no error was made ? Hope you do

Ghislain.

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OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: OpenShot 2.1 Released!

• Avidemux 2.6.13 Open-Source Video Editor Gets AAC/ADTS Import and Export

Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming

That was the final nail in the coffin for my time with SteamOS. I don’t have time to deal with such breakage.

• Broken promises: Games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux | PCWorld

Maru OS mixes a custom ROM with a dockable Debian desktop, and now it’s open source

• GitHub – maruos/maruos: Welcome to the Maru OS Project!
• Device Port Thread – Google Groups

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Fedora 24 review: The year’s best Linux distro is puzzlingly hard to recommend

In the end, despite how much I enjoyed using Fedora 24 for a couple of months, it hasn’t convinced me to give up Arch. That’s not a totally fair comparison since much of what I like about Arch is that it’s a rolling release, but I would be more inclined to embrace Fedora if it had either a long-term support type of release that would last several years or a rolling release that dealt out updates as they were ready. As it stands, Fedora sits somewhere in the middle and ends up with an often awkward update process happening all too frequently. It’s possible that the new tools in DNF (and GNOME Software) will make things easier on the update front, but for now that’s far from certain.

Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board

Purism is pleased to announce the creation of its Advisory Board, comprised of top-tier experts from the Free Software community: Kyle Rankin, Matthew Garrett, Aaron Grattafiori, and Stefano Zacchiroli. Together, they bring their vision—with decades of experience in cybersecurity, privacy protection, and digital freedom—to Purism’s product development, as the company continues to create products that finally address privacy and digital rights by default, rights that 86% of computer users cite as a concern.

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

the biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug. However, there are also the usual updated drivers, arch improvements, and some KVM changes.

DigitalOcean

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Grepping logs is terrible

You see, the main difference between me and proponents of text-based log storage is that I want my queries and their results to be human readable, and I don’t care how that is accomplished. They, on the other hand, want their raw data to be human readable, and would sacrifice convenience for the sake of being able to keep data textual.

• I’m really liking systemd : linux

• Wes’ new router build using systemd-nspawn container and all the networking being configured by systemd-networkd

  Container technologies in Fedora: systemd-nspawn

  
  https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html
  https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspawn.html

• Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

• #835222 – needs multiple restarts until network is fully up – Debian Bug report logs

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Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem

Wimpy Goes All In on Ubuntu Touch

• PRO 5 – Summary – MEIZU

• Flyme

• Meizu PRO 5 – Full phone specifications

• The Meizu Pro 5 is close to perfect, except for one thing… [REVIEW]

How to install Ubuntu on Meizu Pro 5 that was originally with Android?

• XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Change region/ID to International in Meizu Pro 5

Note: If you are using the global version, you needn’t do this setup.

• XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Unlock the bootloader of Meizu PRO 5
• XDA Developers: [RECOVERY][M86][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP 3.0 for Meizu PRO
• Read these 3 articles about Ubuntu Touch:
• Hacking Ubuntu Touch, Part 1: ubuntu-device-flash
• Hacking Ubuntu Touch, Part 2: devices and images
• Hacking Ubuntu Touch, Part 3: How images are flashed

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• Is bleeding edge unstable? Considering Arch

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Mike shares his recent experience developing Chrome apps & we debate if Chrome platform tax is costing users a decent browser. Is Chrome becoming the next Windows?

Plus what we’d like to see announced next for Android and iOS & the big problems those features would solve for developers.

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Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

When Chrome debuted for the first time in 2008 it was the fastest browser on the block. It was light, nimble, extensible and easy to use compared to Firefox, which had become slow and cumbersome.

In the past few years, I’ve stuck with it, even as it became a memory hog, unstable and a major drain on battery life.

I was in denial. But now I have to admit it — the stable, snappy Chrome is a distant memory. As it has grown in popularity, it’s steadily got worse.

• Google Lobbying Spending Reached New High in Early 2015

What we’d like to see in iOS 9 at WWDC next month | Ars Technica

We’ve assembled a small wishlist of features for iOS 9, with a focus on the smaller tweaks we hope Apple can focus on now that it’s not pulling up all the carpets and replacing all the fixtures. Some of these are more likely to be incorporated than others. Some have been on our wishlist for literally years. But all of them would be welcome improvements.

• A Google Now Open API is in the Works

Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use. Expanding on the current pilot program that works with 40 third-party services, the plan is to offer an open API in the future, that anyone can build into their apps.

Mike went to Build 2015 NY

• MicroSite: Build Tour

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Our discussion of Linux filesystems goes in depth this week as our LUG sorts out the best filesystem for your Linux desktop, server, laptop & mobile. Plus a few corrections from last week & lots of follow up.

We also look at the release of Linux 4.0, some of the more humorous press coverage it’s received & the “big feature” Linus could care less about.

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• Linux 4.0 released

4.0 doesn’t have all that much special. Much have been
made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically,
that not only wasn’t the reason for the version number change, we’ve
had much bigger changes in other versions. So this is very much a
“solid code progress” release

• Latest Antergos Live CD Includes GNOME 3.16, Based on Arch Linux

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

• Gnome 3.16 problems

Dell XPS 13

• A03 BIOS for XPS 13

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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• Easy rollback after update (btrfs and grub).

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The Death of Chris’ #1 Rig

Why I think btrfs remains the future for those who want it

Chris on the latest episode of Unplugged took the time to vent his latest frustration with btrfs. The issue in question is a bug that causes arch not to boot on 3.19.1-3, 3.18.9 and 3.14.35. I and quite a few others have experienced this on our Arch btrfs setups and I enjoyed fixing this issue for the same reason I enjoyed fixing libxcursor and radeon bugs that caused my system not to boot.

Easy rollback after update (btrfs and grub).

Hope anyone can find this useful when dealing with bleeding edge breakage

OS Backups…

How PC-BSD Does it…

• Another btrfs snafu… glad I am sitting this one out

• Stable kernel version 3.19.1+ can cause a deadlock at mount time
  • workaround: boot with older kernel, or run btrfs-zero-log to clear the log (beware of the consequences)
  • fix: scheduled for 3.19.4, or apply 9c4f61f01d269815bb7c37.
  • also affected: 3.14.35+, 3.18.9+

• Versions from 3.15 up to 3.16.1 suffer from a deadlock that was observed during heavy rsync workloads with compression on, it’s recommended to use 3.16.2 and newer

• Fedora Server 22 Is Using The XFS File-System By Default

The server edition of Fedora 22 is using the XFS file-system by default rather than EXT4.

Using the XFS file-system as the default within an LVM has been part of the Fedora Server technical spec while with Fedora 22 it’s finally happened. The default layout for Fedora Server 22 installations is using XFS atop LVM while /boot is outside the LVM setup.

• XFS: There and back … and there again?

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Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.

The reality is users want new features, but hate reduced functionality. And often free software developers want to build something new. But what is the cost of this constant form of “progress”?

How do we shift value from new and shiny, to tried and true to help enable wider free software adoption?

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FU

• Did Valve Just Shoot Linux Gaming in the Head?

• Why is Linux on the desktop failing?

• Scott James Remnant: A CLA is just an employment without a wage.

• Linux is not ready

• Digital Ocean – Mumble Server

The New and Shiney Culture

• Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the culture of shiny, focusing on polish, and other topics that matter to him.

Mailsack:

• Why is Linux on the desktop failing?

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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.

Plus: Linus’ dad kicks of an Internet storm, news of the week…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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