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Your marvelous container powered future, what happens when your favorite open source project takes its ball and goes closed source? Subsonic is going closed source, we discuss alternative options, how we feel as donors & the bigger picture in all of this.

Hands on with the HTC Vive under Linux, DuckDuckGo supporting their favorite open source, the goals for Ubuntu 16.10 & much more!

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International Day Against DRM – Tuesday, May 3rd | Defective by Design

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Michelob Cactus Lime & Beers w/the DK Brew Master! – YouTube

DuckDuckGo Blog : Our 2016 Open Source Donations

Thank you all for the nominations for our 2016 open source donations program. As usual, there was a wide variety of projects that could benefit from additional funding and fit the theme of raising the standard of trust online. We try to make this a joint effort with the commuity and you didn’t disappoint! Hear Gabriel, the founder of DuckDuckGo, announce this year’s recipients

Ubuntu 16.10 Isn’t Going To Use Mir / Unity 8 By Default – Phoronix

Similar to the current situation with existing Ubuntu releases, Unity 8 and Mir will be available as an opt-in feature for users wanting to upgrade their desktop, but Unity 7 and the faithful X.Org Server is planned to be the default for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak.

Initial Planning For Ubuntu 16.10 Today At UOS – Phoronix

Plasma Mobile : New base system… Ubuntu Touch?

Our initial Ubuntu Touch base was Ubuntu 15.04. Eventually, our image started to diverge from the Ubuntu Touch base. For example, we upgraded _libhybris to upstream version_because libhybris available in Ubuntu archive diverged too much from upstream to be useful in our context. We also had to upgrade to a newer Qt version, and we also needed to upgrade the base system to Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) because we did not have the resources for managing different branches for packaging the latest git KF5/Plasma for 15.04.

OpenWRT Gets Forked By Some Of Its Own Developers As LEDE Project – Phoronix

LEDE will continue to focus upon being “a great embedded Linux distribution” with predictable release cycles and transparent decision making. Among the stated reasons for this “reboot of the OpenWRT community” is that the active core developer count was low, unreliable infrastructure, lack of communication and coordination around the project, not enough people with commit access, and lack of focus on stability and documentation.

Welcome to the LEDE project

Your power management system?

I am starting to play with the power management of my computers running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 (might downgrade but sticking with it for now) and I wanted to know what everyone’s choice for Power Management is, I am looking at powertop but I don’t know how well it will work.

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Subsonic (music streaming software) is no longer open source, starting with 6.0 release

Sorry, no. Starting with 6.0, Subsonic is no longer open-source (the source code for older versions is still available).

The main reason for this change is that the source contains some software license codes I have purchased and that shouldn’t be used by forked projects.

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Quick Take: Ubuntu and Tomb Raider

Ubuntu 16.04 on the server

Wes’ thoughts on ubuntu_lts+systemd
First hands on with LXD
Big departure from how you interact with lxc
Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online
LXD 2.0: Blog post series
LXD 2.0 has been released!

Tomb Raider Is Finally Available on Linux

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Better than Linux | LINUX Unplugged 138

chris — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:24:59 +0000

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Has Linux met its match? That’s the claim several outlets are making this week. We look at the new & innovative operating systems stepping into the public light.

The first official Ubuntu tablet goes on sale & we share our thoughts, a little BASH on Windows & a lot more!

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Microsoft to show Bash on Linux running on Windows 10

However, given the latest session leak, it seems that Bash on Ubuntu will figure in somehow. Bash is a Linux shell. It’s a set of add-ons and plug-ins that are a superset of the Bourne shell, and provide users with the ability to employ text commands to evoke specific actions (and/or to use scripts to do so).

Microsoft Cloud: Helping the Digital Crimes Unit Fight Cybercrime – YouTube

Here come some games!

Linux And SteamOS Gamers Will Get To Play Tomb Raide

Red Hook Studios, the developers of Darkest Dungeon, a gothic roguelike turn-based RPG (role-playing game), have announced today, March 28, 2016, the availability of a public Beta build for the Linux platform.

Payday 2 Hits SteamOS, Goes Free for the Rest of March

Fedora 24 Alpha released! – No Mainstream Wayland Distro in 2016?

We have decided not to make Wayland, the next generation graphic stack, the default in Fedora 24 Workstation. However, Wayland remains available as an option, and the Workstation team would greatly appreciate your help in testing. Our goal is one full release where the non-default Wayland option works seamlessly, or reasonably close thereto. At that point we will make Wayland the default with X11 as the fallback option.

Arch Linux – News: Required update to pacman-5.0.1 before 2016-04-23

In order for the use of hooks to be started, we require all users to have updated to at least pacman-5.0.1 before 2016-04-23. Pacman-5.0.1 was released on 2016-02-23, so this will have given everyone two months to update their system.

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You Can Pre-Order The Ubuntu M10 Tablet Right Now

Pre-order the first Ubuntu Linux tablet

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Stali distribution smashes assumptions about Linux

Stali’s project head, Anselm R. Garbe (a developer currently working at BMW, and creator of the DWM window manager), believes static linking works out better for most common use cases. The most obvious benefit is that static binaries have a smaller memory and on-disk footprint. Static binaries also claim to be faster, although there are no benchmarks as yet to show how Stali performs against other distributions.

Stali distribution smashes assumptions about Linux

Stali’s project head, Anselm R. Garbe (a developer currently working at BMW, and creator of the DWM window manager), believes static linking works out better for most common use cases. The most obvious benefit is that static binaries have a smaller memory and on-disk footprint. Static binaries also claim to be faster, although there are no benchmarks as yet to show how Stali performs against other distributions.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2016

With 80 general sessions, 10 postgres sessions, and 6 tutorials, LinuxFest Northwest will be quite the full weekend of learning and fun. View the accepted sessions.

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Linux Hardware Build Project. HUGE for JB

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What’s Up Docker? | LINUX Unplugged 119

chris — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:52:17 +0000

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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS!

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pusto.org: The alpha is here

Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail.

It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features.

Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick

The $85 Chromebit is a 75 gram (or 2.6 ounces) stick that you can plug into any HDMI port — whether that’s a regular computer screen or that large TV in your living room. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage (in the form of relatively cheap and slow eMMC storage) and 2GB of RAM.

UUMATE Is a Respin of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 That Aims to Be Better

Highlights of UUMATE include the Google Chrome web browser, Kdenlive video editor, PeerGuardian privacy-oriented firewall application, Steam for Linux, Syncthing file sync utility, TeamViewer remote control software, Wine 1.7, Compiz for beautiful desktop effects, as well as numerous sound events enabled by default.

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Noah VS Dr Emma: Switching people to Linux competition rules

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Have we gone too far with containers?

Engineers are now coming up with crazy solutions to a typical problem. Vulnerable software that’s spreading around the web in containers.

CoreOS says over 80 percent of Docker images stored in its Quay service are still vulnerable to the infamous Heartbleed bug, for example.

Clair can scan containers for known vulnerabilities and then alert developers of potential issues. CoreOS is getting this data from the vulnerability databases of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian.

Docker Doubles Down on Security With Nautilus, Hardware Encryption

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SteamOS Getting off to a rocky start…

SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows

Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.

Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Watch out for the old school shill: Dean Takahashi has authored very Microsoft focused books, and writes a lot about MS, such as – Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution

“We met with Valve about our reservations concerning the limitations of SteamOS with high-end PC builds, and they agreed they were not issues that could be overcome in time for us to launch a Steam Machine this year,” said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon. “But they were genuinely interested in working to address them in future SteamOS builds. So the option for us to produce a Steam Machine is still open, and our Tiki PCs have been in production for years as Windows systems and are always ready. But for now, we’ve put our plans to offer a Steam Machine on hold.”

Fedora/gstreamer dev comments on the importance of gaming on Linux and SteamOS

Time to get a Steam Machine – https://t.co/O7owod66BT

— Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) November 11, 2015

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Leap / Tumbleweed Users — Check in!

Just checked out the latest episode of Linux Unplugged and was stoked to see it had a segment on my distro of choice.

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Open Production | LINUX Unplugged 115

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:29:12 +0000

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OpenStreetMap might just be one of the most important open source projects in the world. We look at some of the amazing tools built around this open & free infrastructure. Then our tips for producing great content & podcasts under Linux, plus a live unboxing & demo of the new Steam Controller.

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Happy 11th Birthday, Ubuntu! – OMG! Ubuntu!

The Warty Warthog, better known to most as Ubuntu 4.10, was a rough and ready stab at bringing Linux to the masses.

Mark described his new Linux distribution as one bringing together: “…the extraordinary breadth of Debian with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six months), a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of security and technical support for every release.”

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I’m one of the hosts of the Kubuntu Podcast, and a big fan of your shows.

Currently we publish our shows only on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ChyPPcJSMUw2au2UyIKwQ) and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0/112102796730023795852), and sometimes as audio using Google Drive.

Since we’re big fans of Jupiter Broadcasting, we look to you guys as mentors on how to organize our podcast. However, there are many things that we don’t know or are unsure how to do better.

Currently we use Google Hangouts to record our Podcast, and we’re looking into OBS.

Could you give use some feedback and tell us how do you organize your podcast? Maybe have a video call and discuss this in more detail.

Thank you.

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Why OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo

The OpenStreetMap community is maturing and the industry surrounding it is expanding. We have only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to the potential of OpenStreetMap and what it can do. I look forward to being apart of what’s next.

Wheelmap.org is an online map to search, find and mark wheelchair-accessible places. Get involved by marking public places like bars, restaurants, cinemas or supermarkets!

mapsme/omim · GitHub

MAPS.ME – Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS/Android/Mac/Linux/Windows

OSMTracker for Android – Android Apps on Google Play

Inspired by OSMTracker for Windows Mobile, allows you to track your journeys, mark waypoints with tags, voice record, and photos.

GPS traces can then be exported in GPX format for later use with OpenStreetMap tools like JOSM, or uploaded directly to OpenStreetMap.

Tracks can be displayed over an OpenStreetMap background or with no background if you don’t have a data plan.

MAPS.ME is beautifully designed, and the maps do load very quickly. It would be a good resource to have in your pocket.

Open Source Mapping and Routing: Mapzen

We’re excited to announce Mapzen Search, our new search engine for places that takes our philosophy of open communities creating data and code to its heart. Mapzen Search will launch in the next week, and in the meantime, we wanted to share some background on why the time is right for a new, open search engine for places.

uNav GPS Navigation – uApp Explorer

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Passing On LastPass | LAS 387

chris — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:12:49 +0000

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Our best open source alternatives to LastPass. We run down the easy, the straight forward & the totally custom solutions to rolling your password managment. All our picks are totally open source, auditable & ready to use today.

Plus the first reviews of the Steam Machines hit the web, Red Hat’s big buy, GIMP in your browser & more!

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LastPass Killers

Yahoo Mail drops passwords and adds third-party email support for new apps

It’s Yahoo Mail‘s 18th birthday this month and to mark the occasion, Yahoo is pulling out all the stops with three major announcements: a brand new mobile app for Android and iOS, the support for multiple third-party email accounts and, perhaps most significantly, the introduction of a completely password-free sign-in experience called Yahoo Account Key.

LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family

It’s a big day here at LastPass. We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joining LogMeIn. As one of the world’s leading SaaS companies, we can’t imagine a better team to align with our values and product-driven mission. With their experience in growing successful brands like join.me, we’re excited to join LogMeIn in delivering the next generation of identity and access management for individuals, teams and companies, with LastPass at the forefront.

KeePass

KeepassC

KeePassC is a password manager fully compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX. That is, your
password database is fully encrypted with AES.

KeePassC is written in Python 3 and comes with a curses-interface. It is completely controlled
with the keyboard (vim-like keys are supported).

Some features are:

AES encryption of the database with password and/or keyfile
Included customizable password generator
KeePassX and KeePass v.1.x compatible (KeePass v2.x planned)
Database entries are sorted in alphabetically sorted groups
Subgroups of groups
Entries are identified by a title
Search entries by this title and show matches in an own group
Set expiration dates to remind you that a new password is needed
Unicode support
Copy username and password to clipboard
Auto-locking workspace and self-deleting clipboard with adjustable delays
Options to remember last database and last keyfile
Open URLs directly in your standard browser
Optional use of vim/ranger-like keys
Simple command line interface
Network functionality including multiuser support
The last can be used to omit password entering, too
kpcli – A command line interface for KeePass

A command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files. This program was inspired by my use of the CLI of the Ked Password Manager (“kedpm -c”) combined with my need to migrate to KeePass.

Pass

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. All passwords live in ~/.password-store, and pass provides some nice commands for adding, editing, generating, and retrieving passwords. It is a very short and simple shell script. It’s capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard and tracking password changes using git.

Pass for Android on F-Droid

How Active is Pass Development?

Migrating your data to Pass

To free password data from the clutches of other (bloated) password managers, various users have come up with different password store organizations that work best for them.

Using Git to Sync Pass

First install and then setup git

1 $ git config --global user.name  "John Doe"
2 $ git config --global user.email "johndoe@foobar.com"
3 $ pass git init

QtPass GUI for pass, the standard UNIX password manager

Using pass or git and gpg2 directly

Cross platform: Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows

Reading pass password stores

Decrypting and displaying the password and related info

Editing and adding of passwords and information

Updating to and from a git repository

Per-folder user selection for multi recipient encryption

Configuration options for backends and executable/folder locations

Copying password to clipboard

Configurable shoulder surfing protection options

Experimental WebDAV support

Planned features

Re-encryption after users-change (optional ofcourse).
Plugins based on key, format is same as password file.
Colour coding folders (possibly disabling folders you can’t decrypt).
WebDAV (configuration) support.
Optional table view of decrypted folder contents.
Opening of (basic auth) urls in default browser? Possibly with helper plugin for filling out forms?
Some other form of remote storage that allows for accountability / auditing (web API to retreive the .gpg files)?
GPG – How to trust an imported key

Encryptr – Powered by Crypton

Encryptr is simple and easy to use. It stores your sensitive data like passwords, credit card data, PINs, or access codes, in the cloud. However, because it was built on the zero-knowledge Crypton framework, Encryptr ensures that only the user has the ability to access or read the confidential information. Not the app’s developers, cloud storage provider, or any third party.

Encryptr only ever encrypts or decrypts your data locally on your device. No plain text is ever sent to the server, not even your passphrase. This is what zero-knowledge means.*

You don’t even need to hand over any personal data to register. Not your name, and not your email address. The app only requires a username and a passphrase.

Encryptr is free, and completely open source. This includes Crypton.

Firefox Password Manager

If you use the same simple password for everything you will be more susceptible to identity theft. The Create secure passwords to keep your identity safe article shows you an easy method for creating secure passwords and using the Password Manager, as described above, will help you remember them all.

Even though the Password Manager stores your usernames and passwords on your hard drive in an encrypted format, someone with access to your computer can still see or use them. The Use a Master Password to protect stored logins and passwords article shows you how to prevent this and keep you protected in the event your computer is lost or stolen.

When paired with Firefox sync feature this effectively emulates LastPass without Yubikey support, and without the password generation feature.

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Etch-a-sketch RUNS LINUX!

Over on YouTube user devnulling has uploaded a video showing his “Etch-A-SDR” project. This project involved creating an all-in-one SDR device out of an Odroid C1, Teensy 3.1 and an RTL-SDR dongle. The Odroid C1 is an embedded computer, similar to the Raspberry Pi 2 and the Teensy 3.1 is a microcontroller development board. The “Etch-A-SDR” is named as such because of its resemblance to an Etch-A-Sketch toy. It has two knobs that can be used for tuning and several side buttons for changing demodulation modes etc.

Upon boot the Etch-A-SDR opens GQRX and is ready for tuning within seconds of turning it on. In addition to using it as a portable SDR with GQRX the Etch-A-SDR can also be booted into normal Linux mode and into Etch-A-Sketch mode, where it operates as a normal Etch-A-Sketch toy.

The code can be downloaded from https://github.com/devnulling/etch-a-sdr.

Desktop App Pick

FreeMind Mind Mapping Tool

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.

Keeping Track of Projects
Project workplace
Workplace for Internet Research
Essay Writing and Brainstorming
Small Database with structure
Commented Internet Favorites or Bookmarks

Weekly Spotlight

Hangups

hangups is the first third-party instant messaging client for Google
Hangouts. It includes both a Python library and a reference client with a
text-based user interface.

Unlike its predecessor Google Talk, Hangouts uses a proprietary,
non-interoperable protocol. hangups is implemented by reverse-engineering
this protocol, which allows it to support features like group messaging that
aren’t available in clients that connect via XMPP.

hangups is still in an early stage of development. The reference client is
usable for basic chatting, but the API is undocumented and subject to change.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome!

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GIMP Online – rollApp

Run GIMP and other X11 apps in your web browser.

Red Hat is buying Ansible for more than $100M

Buying Ansible — one of four major providers of at least partly open-source devops tools — makes sense, because it can add to Red Hat’s line of offerings. Plus, Ansible already integrates with Red Hat’s OpenShift, OpenStack, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.

Red Hat buys Ansible to bolster its developer toolset – Fortune

As part of the deal, about50 Ansible employees will join Red Hat

Red Hat Is Buying IT Automation Startup Ansible, Reportedly For Around $100M | TechCrunch

Red Hat today also provided a brief update to its earnings as part of the news. It says the acquisition is expected to have no material impact to Red Hat’s revenue for the third and fourth quarters of its fiscal year. Non-GAAP operating expenses for fiscal 2016 will be increased by $2 million, or ($0.01) per share, in Q3 and $4.0 million, or ($0.02) per share, in Q4 as a result of the transaction.

Proxmox VE 4.0 is OUT

This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.0:

Debian Jessie 8.2 and 4.2 Linux kernel
Linux Containers (LXC)
IPv6 support
Bash completion
New Proxmox VE HA Manager

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The Alienware Steam Machine: finally, a gaming PC for the living room

I used to laugh when I saw Linux users scramble to build compatibility layers to play “real” PC games. I chuckled when Valve CEO Gabe Newell lambasted Windows 8 as a “catastrophe for everyone,” proffering Linux and SteamOS as a viable alternative. It seemed so far-fetched, so silly. Truth be told, I’m still laughing — but now it’s because I’m enjoying myself. The Alienware Steam Machine has some growing pains, but it’s fun. Lots of fun.

Steam’s living room hardware blitz gets off to a muddy start | Ars Technica

It’s all very smooth, overall, but there were a few sticking points that seemed a little rough compared to other game consoles. While the system hasn’t frozen on us during a game yet, there have been a handful of times where the whole OS hung when we were closing or opening a title, requiring a system reboot that took 30 to 60 seconds. We ran into occasional problems with webpage scrolling, the on-screen keyboard, and Wi-Fi recognition as well, all of which disappeared with a reboot.

We also found a few SteamOS games that still include an intermediate “launcher” screen that asks players to confirm resolution and other settings. That’s only an annoyance because these screens can’t be navigated with the Steam Controller; you need to plug in a mouse and keyboard to get through to the actual game in these cases. While the SteamOS interface includes large warnings that these games require extra hardware, and Valve isn’t directly responsible for third-party developers’ unfriendly decisions, it still seems like an oversight to have such games be unplayable out of the box.

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Finger on the Pulse of Video | LINUX Unplugged 99

chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:52:52 +0000

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Will Pinos bring to Linux Video What PulseAudio did for audio? We discuss this major development that breaks during the show.

Also, a great discussion about the new Linux Mint release that leads to a heated debate about the long-term usefulness of boring distributions & why we Linux advocates might think they are more useful than they truly are.

Plus some big follow up, the Mumble room gets unplugged & much more!

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Valve says ‘get it early’ pre-orders for Steam Machine hardware, controller are sold out

Early allocations of Valve’s Steam Machine hardware — including the Steam Machine controller and Steam Link streaming hub — are sold out via pre-order, Valve said in a release today. If you wanted a Steam Machine a few weeks early, the time has passed, the company says.

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“PulseVideo” Coming To Complement PulseAudio?

Prolific open-source contributor at Red Hat, Christian Schaller, who has worked on GStreamer as well as the Transmageddon GNOME video transcoding app and other multimedia projects, seems poised to announce PulseVideo.

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Party with Linux | LAS 368

chris — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:53:53 +0000

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Who doesn’t like a good party? Some folks will tell you that Linux is boring, or for geeks. This week we’ll show you how you can have a very loud and bright time with Linux.

Plus Valve officially pins down a Steam Machine launch date. More encryption for Linux, and did the CHIP guys underestimate the cost of their $9 computer?

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Train Ad Sensor Runs Linux

Video of ad system that uses a raspberry pi to sense when a train is coming so that it can start playing a specific part of an ad.

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Desktop App Pick

Q Light Controller Plus

QLC+ is a fork of the great QLC project written by Heikki Junnila. This project aims to continue the development of QLC and to introduce new features.
The primary goal is to bring QLC+ at the level of other lighting control commercial softwares

Controls an arbitrary number of universes, 512 DMX channels each
Fixture editor to create and customize fixtures
440+ ready made fixtures
Web access for remote control
Input/Output plugins to support a wide variety of hardware and software
MIDI Input / Output and Feedbacks (for devices with motorized faders)
MIDI support of Notes, Control Change, Program Change and Beat clock
Virtual Console to get the best while performing live shows
Quick access to 750+ gobos, color presets, RGB values, thanks to the Click And Go technology
Simple Desk for manual DMX channels control
Multitrack Show editor for offline desk programming
Audio input/output support
Import/export fixtures list
Channels groups
Fixture remapping
ArtNet and E1.31 native input/output plugin
OSC input/output/feedback plugin
DMX4ALL StageProfi and FX5 DMX USB support
Dump DMX values into scenes/chasers
Look & feel based on the Humanity icon theme

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+SSHFS

T his is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there’s nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.

Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for linux
Multithreading: more than one request can be on it’s way to the server
Allowing large reads (max 64k)
Caching directory contents

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Steam Machine Launch Date

November 10, 2015: May it forever be known as “Steam Day”—the day Valve will officially unleash its suite of Steam Machines, Steam Link, SteamOS, and the Steam Controller. Sure, it’s almost exactly a year later than anticipated, but…well, if you want one, this is when you can get one. Officially.

“Unofficially,” you can get a Steam Machine and Steam Controller as early as October 16, provided you’re in the market for Alienware’s model. Preordering through GameStop ensures you’ll receive Alienware’s Steam Machine (which Valve previously referred to as “a console that encapsulates the full potential of what a Steam Machine should be”) almost a month early.

HP Enterprise will be all-in

What’s the latest enterprise IT company to proclaim its love of open source? HP, that’s who – or, more specifically, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two companies that will emerge once HP splits this November.

Speaking at the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas this week, CTO Martin Fink said open source will be central to how HP’s enterprise incarnation conducts its business.

“We have taken this very, very seriously and we are all-in on the notion of open source,” Fink said, adding that even game-changing big bets like the Machine will be backed by open source software.

“I want to stress something here: It is not called HP Grommet. It is called Grommet,” Fink said. “It is HP’s contribution to the IT industry to bring consumer-grade capabilities with an enterprise user experience framework so that all of you can take advantage of it.”

Dell Inspiron 14 Ubuntu Review

I ‘ve been using this new Ubuntu notebook from Dell for a couple days, and overall, I’m pretty happy. For a $299 computer (that’s list price, I got mine for $249), it has reasonably good specs, looks nice, and performs about like you would expect considering the hardware and price.

Easy Risk Free Encrypted Colab released for LINUX

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Chip to be $20 not $9

Allwinner confirmed R8 just SOC cost $4.80 but this makes not much sense either this is the price of A33 quad core SOC why they price so expensive obsolete A13 Cortex-A8 SOC???

On my question how then Next Thing Co. sell this computer for $9 Allwinner response is:

“CHIP 9$ computer launched a big advertising campaign to promote their new development board, their actual cost is higher than 9$. After the Kickstarter their computer will sell for 39$.”

So, sorry guys to break your dreams for 1Ghz SOCs costing $1, maybe in future this would be possible, but not now.

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Remote Desktop Roundup | LAS 358

chris — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:30:58 +0000

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We take a look at remote desktop on Linux. We go behind the scenes to see how Linux can be used to remotely support business at scale as well as providing help to family and friends and round up the best solutions.

Plus is SteamOS diverging too far from Debian? LibreOffice has big online plans, Gnome 3.16 is out, tons of Kodi follow up & more!

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Chrome Remote Desktop

Relies on Google, scary message when installing on Ubuntu.

VNC

Great for testing but performance is terrible and requires router configuration. Only seems to work well if client and host are on the same machine (virtual host / guest)

TeamViewer

Native on Linux and other platforms, has android app, free for personal use, but expensive for business.

Screen Connect

Perfect for large support companies, doesn’t really require user to install software. Owner is in control of branding, fraction of the cost of Bomgar

Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.
We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.
Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.

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Desktop App Pick

Remmina

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH are supported.

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OpenELEC

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a
small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center. OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot fast, and the install is so easy that anyone can turn a blank PC into a media machine in less than 15 minutes.

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Welcome LibreOffice Online

LibreOffice has been competing with the two giant companies Microsoft Office and Google docs. Here is another step from this open source community to make LibreOffice in reach of every platforms’ users. LibreOffice has announced the release of LibreOffice Online soon in near future. Open-Source fans are ready to welcome the efforts of The Document Foundation including IceWarp and Collabora Companies.

New SteamOS Beta

Valve has announced earlier today, March 25, the immediate availability for download and testing of a new Beta version for its awesome SteamOS Linux operating system for gamers. SteamOS Update 157 has been pushed to the Alchemist Beta channel a few hours ago and the ISO images are now available for download.

Gnome 3.16 Released

Version 3.16 of GNOME, the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been released. Some major new features in this release include a overhauled notification system, an updated design of the calendar drop down and support for overlay scrollbars. Also, the grid view in Files has been improved with bigger thumbnail icons, making the appearance more attractive and the rows easier to read. A video is available which demonstrates the new version.

New Ubuntu Phone Flash Sale

Canonical confirmed a few minutes ago on their Twitter and Facebook accounts that a new flash sale of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smartphone will take place tomorrow morning, on March 26, starting 9 AM CET (Central European Time). BQ already started shipping the Ubuntu phones to users from the European Union, so it should arrive quickly this time.

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Google Minus | Tech Talk Today 139

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:18:53 +0000

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Google+ is going to be broken up into “Streams”. We’ll detail what we know at this point, who is saying what & speculate about the future of Google+ a bit.

Plus NVIDIA has a new 4k TV console, Valve announces Steam Machine ship dates, VR details & their new Steam Link set top.

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NVIDIA’s calling Shield the “world’s first 4K Android TV” — it’s able to both stream and locally run 4K content to your fawncy 4K television. How does it do that? It uses a bleeding edge X1 chip — the most powerful mobile processor NVIDIA’s made to date.

It’s going to push that 4K content via HDMI out back, and pull down streamed 4K content via Gigabit Ethernet. Need some extra storage? You might, as it’s only got 16GB of internal stores. Good news: It’s got a microSD expansion port and two USB 3.0 ports for an external HDD. You’ll need some extra storage with all those huge video files.

Valve announces streaming box and SteamVR for November – PC Gamer

Steam Machines from Alienware and Falcon Northwest are at GDC, with Steam Machines being released this November.

Valve’s Steam Machines Will Officially Launch In November

The new Pebble smartwatch is now the most-funded project in Kickstarter history – Quartz

In one week, Pebble’s new Time smartwatch has become the most “funded” project in Kickstarter history, approaching $14 million in pre-orders. The watch project generated more than $9 million in pre-orders on its first day alone, and has slowly been making its way up the chart all week.

What may have boosted it: Pebble announced today that it will also be producing a more expensive “Steel” version of the watch. Within a few hours, the Pebble Time broke the record, dethroning the Coolest Cooler, a cooler that has a built-in blender and speakers.

Google+ is about to be broken up – Mar. 2, 2015

The search giant’s tepidly embraced social network is going to reorganize around its two standout products — photos and hangouts — as well as a newly named social feed called “streams,” Google’s (GOOGL, Tech30) product chief Sundar Pichai said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,

Pichai didn’t give a timeline for when Google+ will be rebranded. A spokesman for Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The snake sheds a skin: Why Google is splitting up Google+ | The Drum

Bradley Horowitz Is Now Running Google+ | TechCrunch

Horowitz has confirmed our reporting in a carefully worded Google+ update that does not mention Hangouts, or even Google+ by name, but instead refers to Photos and Streams. This points to the idea of Google+ being split into dedicated services, two of which Horowitz will oversee:

“Just wanted to confirm that the rumors are true — I’m excited to be running Google’s Photos and Streams products! It’s important to me that these changes are properly understood to be positive improvements to both our products and how they reach users.”

Why Google+ is being divided

Did Google+ fail? According to that message, perhaps,” one former Google+ employee told me recently. “But that’s not the relevant question: Is Google in a better position today to provide identity services across products? Yes.”

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Predicting 2015 | LINUX Unplugged 73

chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:09:35 +0000

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Our bold predictions for Linux & open source over 2015. Thought provoking, sometimes a bit inspired or maybe just plain wrong, this edition of Unplugged promises to entertain.

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Being good at going full Salesman on things comes with a certain responsibility if you care about your audience. Touting the security of Telegram should be avoided. By all means, use it if it fits your needs but please don’t portrait Telegram as something vetted and secure, that’s doing the audience a disservice.

Only half of the equation (the client) is open source and the protocol is full of weirdness and outright flaws. I believe their crypto contest charade was even featured and scoffed at on one of the network’s channels a while ago.

Its encryption score in the following table should be taken with a grain of salt since it’s vulnerable to ‘hostile server’ attacks, which are sadly just a subpoena away:

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

Why isn’t Debian as popular as Ubuntu on LAS

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2015 VLUG Linux Predictions

HighDPI
Secuirty? Audits? Shellshock 2.0?
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Ubuntu Touch?
Firefox OS?

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A Chat with Icculus | LAS 328

chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:28:56 +0000

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Ryan C. Gordon aka Icculus joins us to discuss past, present and future of Linux gaming. Plus the fundamental technology challenges facing Linux gaming, the hope for SteamOS, and much more.

Then – Red Hat’s internal politics burst out into the spotlight, John C. Dvorak trolls Linux users….

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Desktop App Pick

Braid

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess.

Braid (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by Number None, Inc. The game was released on August 6, 2008 for the Xbox 360‘s Xbox Live Arcade service. A Microsoft Windows version was released on April 10, 2009. Hothead Games ported and released the game to Mac OS X on May 20, 2009 and the PlayStation Network on November 12, 2009. A Linux port, created by Ryan C. Gordon, was released December 14, 2010 as part of the second Humble Indie Bundle.

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GParted — Turns 10

The first public release of GParted was version 0.0.3 on August 26th, 2004. Over the past 10 years, much
has happened. Following are some statistics:

Over 300 people have contributed to GParted
Many GNU/Linux distributions now include GParted
Translators have worked to make GParted available in over 50
different languages
GParted is used in over 220 countries around the world
There have been over 17 million downloads from Sourceforge
alone

Ting App Pick

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Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens has resigned.

Sean Michael Kerner at eWeek says Red Hat CTO Resigns for New Opportunity – not friction.

I’ve heard from my own sources that Stevens is not leaving due to any internal wrangling or politics at Red Hat, but rather to pursue a new opportunity that he simply could not turn down.

Reasons for Red Hat CTO departure still a mystery

The only additional statement from Red Hat is a remark that Stevens was “leaving to pursue another opportunity.” While Stevens did not reply to inquires, sources stated that he’d been biding his time waiting for the right opportunity.

JOHN C. DVORAK: Linux Has Run Out of Time

Time has run out for there to be a must-have killer software package on Linux. Anyone writing such an application writes it for Mac or Windows, because that’s where the customers are. All the super applications for Linux are on the server side and that ends the discussion. Yes, this could change someday. But that someday is not on the horizon.

Right now Linux on the desktop remains a cheap curiosity, that is kind of fun to play with when you are bored.

Screencheat Out OCT 3rd

Screencheat is a split-screen multiplayer FPS where everyone is invisible and you have to cheat to win. Remember when looking at your friends’ screen in Goldeneye was frowned upon? Well those days are gone and in Screencheat, we encourage it!

Hand of Fate on Steam

Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests – earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.

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Bedrock: A New Paradigm | LINUX Unplugged 44

chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:31:17 +0000

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The founder of Bedrock Linux joins us to discuss their ambitious distribution that lets you utilize the userland of all your favorite distributions at once

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Bedrock Linux

Bedrock Linux is a Linux distribution created with the aim of making most of the (often seemingly mutually-exclusive) benefits of various other Linux distributions available simultaneously and transparently.

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Alienware refits its Steam Machine with Windows and will launch it as a living-room PC

Alienware is launching its Alpha console-like gaming PC at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show today. But instead of running Valve\’s Steam OS, the machine will run Microsoft\’s Windows operating system and use an Xbox 360 wireless controller.

The Alpha will ship at $549 during the 2014 holiday season.

Civilization V Strategy Game Launches Natively On SteamOS Linux | GamingOnLinux

Aspyr Media is pleased to announce our first Linux and SteamOS title, Sid Meier\’s Civilization V. The SteamOS release includes all Civilization V DLC and expansion content, including Gods & Kings and Brave New World.

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Steam Streaming Showcased | LAS s30e07

chris — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:38:21 +0000

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In-Home Streaming hit beta this week and it’s a breakthrough technology that changes the game for desktop Linux forever. Not just limited to games, Steam’s In-Home streaming can deliver entire applications. We’ll demo the power and possibilities of this new tech.

Plus: The new big feature in the Linux kernel everyones talking about, a roundup of upcoming Linux community events…

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Requirements

A machine powerful enough on the “server” side to play the game, and encode it.
A machine on the client side powerful enough to decode whatever the resolution of video is it will be receiving (resolution is set to the servers screen size).
About 3MB/s sustained transfer. That might be trickier than you think over Wifi.

Game Streaming

Games installed on Windows box show up in my Library
Game install status is displayed on the Linux steam client while the Windows box is installing.
I was able to stream Dust from Linux to my Windows box.
When the game you are streaming is running for the first time on the host Windows box, and the DirectX reds is getting installed, Steam will inform you that the remote system is running first time setups on the remote box.
UAC will break this process at this time.
Steam In-Home Streaming Beta Demonstration

Non-Steam Application Streaming

Valve open up in-home streaming beta to non-Steam games

In this latest instance, they’ve updated the Steam client beta’s in-home streaming functionality to support “streaming non-Steam games in the Steam library”. That means, whether they’re part of Steam or not, you’ll be able to beam your most powerful games between local area network PCs. Even Minesweeper.

You might lose title bars.
If you’re tricky enough you can get to the full Windows desktop.
Everything is full screen. Loading boxes, new windows, etc.

Notes

All Windows stream as full screen, so loading boxes are full screen while the app loads.
Works from Big Picture Mode
My Life is now complete – I can now change my main pc to my laptop (arch) and stream my games to either the laptop or shield from the desktop

Resources

Steam In-Home Streaming Forum

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bro pages

bro pages are a highly readable supplement to man pages
bro pages show concise, common-case examples for Unix commands

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Splashtop
Previous Spashtop coverage: Easy Linux Remote Desktop | LAS s28e03

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Linux 3.13 is out bringing among other thing the first official release of nftables. nftables is the project that aims to replace the existing {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables framework aka iptables. nftables version in Linux 3.13 is not yet complete. Some important features are missing and will be introduced in the following Linux versions. It is already usable in most cases but a complete support (read nftables at a better level than iptables) should be available in Linux 3.15.

The SteamOS non-UEFI / legacy BIOS support is derived from the community’s “Ye Olde SteamOSe” distribution fork. With this SteamOS Beta update, dual-boot and custom partitioning are also possible via the SteamOS installer’s “expert install” mode.

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Google Invades Your Nest | LUP 23

chris — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:50:18 +0000

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We follow up on some of the most innovative Linux powered devices at CES, and this discuss Google buying Nest Labs. Is the future of the “Internet of Things” locked down to proprietary devices running locked down software? And what are the ramifications for the home?

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The Closed Internet of Things

From the crockpot to your smoke detector, the famous “Internet of Things” is slowly, and half hazardly coming into reality. Unfortunately it’s dominated by sealed off devices you have no direct control over. As these devices fill our homes, are we taking something fundamental away from the homeowner, and from the open source community?

Google buys Nest for $3.2B — its key to the connected home | VentureBeat | Deals | by Devindra Hardawar

Google just announced that it\’s snapping up Nest, maker of smart thermostat and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest has raised around $80 million from investors including Shasta Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Google Ventures.

Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion | The Verge

It\’s not yet clear exactly how Google plans to use Nest, but the company obviously sees it as an important part of its future. A combination of Nest\’s home solutions coupled with Google\’s language recognition could give Google its strongest path yet into your home. \”Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone,\” writes Fadell on the Nest blog. \”We\’ve had great momentum, but this is a rocket ship.\”

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