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Noah’s Last Ubuntu Straw

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The NES Classic, Runs Linux

Unless you want to desolder flash memory from the motherboard, looks like it's impossible to add new games to NES Classic. pic.twitter.com/jc99WSrNJj

— Peter Brown (@PCBrown) November 2, 2016

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• The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux – Slashdot

With a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 256 MB of RAM, and 512 MB of NAND Flash, it is typical of the hardware found in Linux single board computers, like the Raspberry Pi 2. Surprisingly for Nintendo, there does not seem to be any custom components in it, and it looks like it even does run Linux.

• Brutal Doom 64 mod – Mod DB

Desktop App Pick

SSH Power Tool

The SSH Power Tool (sshpt) enables you to execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously via SSH without using pre-shared keys. Uploaded files and commands can be executed directly or via sudo. Connection and command execution results are output in standard CSV format for easy importing into spreadsheets, databases, or data mining applications.

Advantages

Since sshpt does not utilize pre-shared SSH keys it will use provided credentials for all outgoing SSH connections. This has many advantages:

• Can be used immediately: No need to spend enormous amounts of time setting up pre-shared keys.
• More secure: A server with pre-shared keys is a huge security risk. It literally holds the keys to the castle! With sshpt you can perform all the same tasks as with pre-shared keys with less risk to your infrastructure.
• More compliant: Executing commands as root via pre-shared keys makes it hard to figure out after-the-fact who did what (root as a shared account). When an administrator (or user!) uses sshpt to execute commands it is much easier to figure out “who did what and when” from an auditing standpoint.

Spotlight

Gruik.

It’s a free & open-source note-taking service. A space where you can store notes, tutorials, code snippets… by writing them in markdown and then keep them private or public.

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ChrisLAS Rocks Cali

Meetup with Chris in Cali!

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

LessPass

Stop wasting time synchronize your encrypted vault.
Remember one master password to access your passwords, anywhere, anytime.
No sync needed.

It’s official: Oracle will appeal its “fair use” loss against Google

Oracle’s post-trial motions, which the district court judge rejected, indicate the tack it might try to take on appeal. It could focus on jury instructions that it viewed as improper, or Oracle could simply argue that the evidence presented at trial was so overwhelming that no reasonable jury could have found in Google’s favor.

VoCore2: $4 Coin-sized Linux Computer with WiFi

Coin-sized Linux computer & smart router, target to make wireless life easier, fully open source.

• Move over Raspberry Pi, here is a $4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer | ZDNet

VoCore2 is an open source Linux computer and a fully-functional wireless router that is smaller than a coin. It can also act as a VPN gateway for a network, an AirPlay station to play lossless music, a private cloud to store your photos, video, and code, and much more.

The Lite version of the VoCore2 features a 580MHz MT7688AN MediaTek system on chip (SoC), 64MB of DDR2 RAM, 8MB of NOR storage, and a single antenna slot for Wi-Fi that supports 150Mbps.

All this for $4.

Spend $12 and go for the full VoCore2 option and you get the same SoC, but you get 128MB of DDR2 RAM, 16MB of NOR storage, two antenna slots supporting 300Mbps, an on-board antenna, and PCIe 1.1 support.

Both versions of the VoCore2 have a power consumption of 74mA at standby, and 230mA at full speed. With this low power consumption, a small 9800mAh battery pack can power it for more than four days.

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Mail Bag

• Name: Name: Andrew D

• Subject: Chris was right

I think Chris’ stance on Lenovo being the problem and how they should be ashamed for building a non linux compatible machine was off target. Yes Intel are the issue here, but not Lenovo.

If Microsoft or any other company goes to a hardware manufacturer asked for a feature or specification to make their product stand out (like in this case better battery life), then there is no reason why that hardware manufacturer should not do that.

Just because it makes it makes it Linux incompatible seems to be the uproar here.

I didn’t see people grabbing pitchforks when the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 etc didn’t have standard windows support from the ARM processor.

Noah was dead right with this one. It’s disappointing that the last words on the topic were ‘Shame on Lenovo, they will never make that mistake ever again. +1 for the good guys’

Apart from that, loved the rest of it.

• Name: James S

• Subject: F.LUX approval by me

Hello, this is James from past las chatrooms and i recently saw where both of you use flux and i have been having back and other pain and was wondering if this would help. Doubtful to most, but between using flux and staying out of the sunlight considering the medications i am on i thought i would give it a try.

What have i got to lose right? I am in process of saving money for starting up a linux laptop business and i want to express my sincerest thanks to the developers of this program as well as you at jb for putting this flux program into the spotlight. I no longer have much joint back or shoulder pain and though i was having seizures and falls i have had none since Monday of last week. Thanks to you and the developers i am leading a new life. Thanks so much!

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It started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn’t worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux!

We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they’re going to switch the class they’re teaching next semester!

Plus Linus’ hopes for the Linux desktop, setting up a network wide ad blocker using Pi-Hole & more!

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Switching People to Linux

Quick Tips

• Start them on software on their preferred platform first
• Go at their pace
• Address the problems they have not the problems you want to talk about
• Be available for questions
• Answer questions for people you’ve switched like you would for yourself – don’t be afraid to be creative

Software we installed and showed them how to use

• LibreOffice
• Crossover
• Wine
• Inkscape
• Gimp
• Simplenote
• Telegram
• VLC
• Lightworks
• Blender

Special Thanks to the Sandbaggers

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Runs Linux

New Linux User’s Ad Blocker RUNS LINUX

Vulan switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago

Runs Ubuntu 14.04 on an intel i5 with a GTX960.

Recently installed PiHole to block ads network wide

Configured DNS on his DHCP server to point to his Pitop

Desktop App Pick

BlueCherry

• Download our bootable ISO for quick installation or simply follow our two line instructions and run apt-get install bluecherry from an existing Debian or Ubuntu LTS installation.
• Watch live and recorded videos and manage your system from our cross platform client.
• With our growing list of 2800 pre-defined IP cameras from over 30 IP manufacturers it is easy to add your IP cameras. Have a IP camera that isn’t on our pre-defined list? No problem, simply add the RTSP or MJPEG path and start streaming video!

Weekly Spotlight

Lightworks

Lightworks is EditShare’s Academy and Emmy award-winning, professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K as well as video in SD and HD formats. In the last 25 years Lightworks has been used to edit some of the finest films in cinema history

One of the most powerful professional NLE’s on Linux

Whether you are running on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, the power of Lightworks will be right at your fingertips. Now you can use your operating system of choice without impacting on the work you need to get done. No other editing software out there runs on all three platforms.

Lightworks has the widest native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in realtime. Check out the detailed Tech Specs for a full list of supported formats.

Hollywood Movies Cut on Lightworks

Background Import, Rendering and Export. We believe that users should be able to import, render or export without delay. Lightworks allows you to continue editing whilst you are importing a batch of material, rendering your complicated third party FX or exporting two files at the same time to your favourite format. With time saving elements like this Lightworks might just be the fastest editing application available. World class Trimming for fast, precision editing!

• The King’s Speach
• Centurion
• Bruce Almighty
• Pulp Fiction
• Aviator
• Mission Impossible I
• The Nutty Professor
• The Departed

Version 12.6 released on February 4th

• Added Export to Vimeo at up to 1080p in the Free version.
• Added ability to right click a Group within the Content Manager and Copy/Move it to
  another project.
• Added new keyboard .prefs file compatible with Contour Shuttle Pro drivers.
• Added full compatibility support for Ubuntu 15.10.
• Fixed potential crash browsing to a location containing a corrupt JPEG file.
• Fixed segmentation Fault with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (caused a crash on sign in to the
  application).
• Fixed PNG image sequence exports being incorrect from an edit containing an image
  key.
• Behind the GNOME 3.20 Release Video

It’s a little more than two weeks since GNOME made yet another release. Having a release video to go alongside with it is almost a tradition by now. I’m slightly frightened and super excited about it at the same time. (-:

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Join the Jupiter Broadcasting crew as they cover one of the largest Linux Community Events in the Great Pacific Northwest. Plus join us as we have one of the biggest Linux Conversion showdowns in all of Linux History. Will Noah Chelliah, Co-Host of the Linux Action Show and businessman man, become self proclaim supreme Linux converter he claims to be? Or will the Closer known as Emma Marshall from System 76 put the money where the mouth is and take the crown. Stashes and beards are on the line on this epic weekend.

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Ubuntu Tablet Pushed Back

Bq has quietly pushed back the shipping estimate of the world’s first true Ubuntu tablet by one week.

Updating shipping information for both HD and FHD models of tablet on its website, Bq say “Deliveries will take place starting from the second half of April“.

It previously read: “Deliveries will take place starting from the second week of April” (emphasis ours).

Not a huge delay but a delay nonetheless.

If you pre-ordered the tablet on the assumption of getting it this week this is us telling why you may be waiting a little longer for a dispatch notice.

The delay was pointed out to us by reader Jack F., who explained in his e-mail

“I pre-ordered the BQ tablet thinking that deliveries would take place second week of April. BQ have changed this to second half on their site without notifying via email it would be delayed. Would be good for other customers to know.”

Researchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines

Known as Mumblehard, the botnet was the _product of highly skilled developers. It used a custom “packer” to conceal the P__erl-based source code that made it run, a backdoor that gave attackers persistent access, and a mail daemon that was able to send large volumes of spam._

itch.io Open Market Place trying to get App on Steam

Itch.io is an open marketplace for indie games. According to their About page, if you’ve made a game you can easily upload it, set the price, and sell your game through Itch.io, and “It’s never necessary to get votes, likes, or follows to get your content approved…”

Speaking of which, the creators of Itch.io have a desktop client called Itch, and while it’s already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, they’re going a step further by putting Itch on Steam Greenlight, where they hope to get enough votes, likes, or follows to make it onto Steam proper. Which sounds a bit strange, trying to launch an app for a games marketplace on another games marketplace. As one commenter puts it: “storefrontception.”

Linus Torvalds Gives TED Talk

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system and the Git source code management system, opened the “Code Power” session at the recent TED2016 conference, speaking in an interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson.

In the talk, Torvalds, whose blunt approach in dealing with people is well known, stated, “I’m actually not a people person. I don’t really love other people, but I do love other people who get involved in my project.”

In the TED talk, Torvalds admitted that he is sometimes “myopic, when it comes to other people’s feelings…” However, he said, “What I love about open source is that it really allows different people to work together.”

Nonetheless, typically self-deprecating Torvalds doesn’t see himself as a visionary. Instead, he says: “I’m an engineer. I’m happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.”

• Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop

I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That’s why, to me, it’s not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it’s a really hard area to enter. I’m still working on it. It’s been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I’ll wear them down.”

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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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• How One Line of Text Nearly Killed ‘Toy Story 2’ | Mental Floss

• Internet of Things World » Developing Open Platforms & Integrating App Stores for Smart Ecosystems across IoT

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

My experience of Gnome Shell 3.16 on Wayland 1.8 : LinuxActionShow

• docli – a command line tool for DigitalOcean : LinuxActionShow

DigitalOcean

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

Matthew Miller – Fedora

Fedora – Get Fedora

• Releases/23/Schedule – FedoraProject

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Ang Switches to Linux

• 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.

Linux Academy

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The founder of Open Broadcaster, a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming joins us to discuss the project, challenges they face & what the future holds.

Plus we go into detail on the miracles we pulled off to make LinuxFest Northwest coverage Linux powered. A new alternative to systemd, a cheap Linux PC for everyone, three years of Steam & more!

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Open Broadcaster Software

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Supported features include:

• Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
• Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
• Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
• Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
• File output to MP4 or FLV.
• GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
• DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
• Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
• Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.

What is OBS MultiPlatform?

OBS MultiPlatform is a complete rewrite of the original OBS from the ground up, with the main goals of course being multiplatform support, a more thorough feature set, and a much more powerful API. A very early and simple release is currently available for Mac.

OBS MultiPlatform will eventually support many of the advanced requested features not present in the original OBS, such as multiple stream outputs and scene previewing. It does not have these features in this release.

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Runs Linux

My Media Center Runs LInux

I took an old 1940s (I think) record player/radio unit from my Dad’s antique shop and modified it to suit my needs. I removed all of the (broken) internal components, fixed it up, painted it, and turned it into a base for my music and entertainment centre.

Desktop App Pick

Natron

Natron is a free open-source, cross-platform compositing software. It aims to produce visual effects

Weekly Spotlight

PiTop

Pi-Top provides a platform to expand your knowledge in hardware creation. The kit takes you through each of its components and their functionality, so that you can use Pi-Top as a tool for your own projects in the future.

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Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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Linux on a USB Stick for Students

Lernstick is a mobile and secure learning and working environment for school and home that is usually installed on removable media (USB sticks, USB hard disks, SD cards, etc.) so that (almost*) any computer can be booted from these storage media. A hard drive with an installed operation system is no longer necessary. (But optionally, the system can also be installed on internal hard drives.)

GNU dmd

GNU dmd is a “Daemon managing Daemons” (or “Daemons-managing Daemon”?), i.e. a service manager that provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other init) with a both powerful and beautiful dependency-based system with a convenient interface. It is intended for use on GNU/Hurd, but it is supposed to work on every POSIX-like system where Guile is available. In particular, it has been tested on GNU/Linux

It’s Been Three Years Since The Big Steam Linux Reveal

Fast forward three years, there’s now more than 1,100 games on Steam for Linux!

Going out this year there’s Source 2 to look forward to seeing, Steam Machines and the Steam Controller expected for release before year end, and SteamOS should be stabilized. There’s also going to be the release of the open-source Intel Vulkan driver financed by Valve for as soon as the Khronos Group releases the first official Vulkan specification.

Scientists Use Ubuntu to Interpret Hubble Telescope Data

The Hubble space telescope is now in the news because it celebrates 25 years since its launch and that is an amazing achievement, especially if we keep in mind that it was launched with a flaw that could have turned it into space junk.

Endless Computers by Endless Team

A few years ago, on a trip to India, we had an epiphany: If we ran a full desktop operating system on the inexpensive processors that power smartphones, and plugged them into the TVs people already own, we could make a computer that is affordable to more people.

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been doubling down on production on Linux. We go over the tips, tricks & hardware we use to make the show now with more Linux.

Plus the really big news for Linux gaming & the big new feature for Linux 4.0…

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Media Production Under Linux

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Software:

• ocenaudio

ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.

• FFmpeg

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

• ownCloud.org

Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.

• Best VOIP Clients for Linux (That Aren’t Skype) | Linux.com

So if you’re looking to connect with other SIP users, give any one of these apps a try and see if they can’t serve as a perfect drop-in replacement for Skype.

Hardware:

• Wild Dog Performance – System76

• Amazon.com: PreSonus AudioBox USB 2×2 USB Recording Interface

• Amazon.com: M-Audio 2-Channel Portable USB Audio and MIDI Interface: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI HDMI to USB 3.0 Video Capture Dongle: Electronics

• Atomos Ninja-2 camera-mounted recorder, monitor & deck for HDMI cameras and DSLRs : Camera And Photography Products

• BeachTek

Microphones

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE320 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE20 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: AKG Perception 220 Professional Studio Microphone

• Amazon.com: Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Studio Microphone: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: ART Pro-VLA II Two Channel Vactrol-based Compressor: Musical Instruments

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Runs Linux

This programmable, six screen, water proof cube called the Cuberox, runs Linux

• Linux-powered programmable cube gets touchy-feely · LinuxGizmos.com

The Cuberox runs Arch Linux on an ARM9-based Freescale iMX233 SoC, backed up with 64MB RAM. There’s an SD slot with a 4GB data card capable of holding 8,000 of the device’s minimalist apps. A separate Qi wireless charging station includes surround sound speakers.

Specifications listed for the Cuberox include:

• Processor — Freescale iMX233 (1x ARM926J @ 454MHz)
• Memory — 64MB RAM, SD slot with 4GB data card
• Display — 6x 256-pixel sides with accelerometer-based touch input and backlighting
• Wireless — WiFi; Bluetooth
• Sensors — Accelerometers; gyroscope; vibration feedback
• Other features — dustproof, waterproof, polycarbonate construction
• Battery — 7800mAh with wireless charging
• Charging station:
  • Qi wireless charging
  • Micro-USB port for power (DC 5V 2A)
  • Speakers with surround sound
  • Bottom backlight
• Dimensions — 100 x 100 x 100mm (3.94 x 3.94 x 3.94 in.) .
• Operating system — Arch Linux ARM (3.16 kernel); Node.js with Cuberox API

Desktop App Pick

Save 80% on Torchlight II on Steam

The award-winning action RPG is back, bigger and better than ever! Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets – and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands!

• Snowmix

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Live and recorded video feeds can be fed to the mixer via GStreamer pipelines. Output can be accessed through GStreamer pipelines.

• Rtorrent

rTorrent is a quick and efficient BitTorrent client that uses, and is in development alongside, the libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent-rasterbar) library. It is written in C++ and uses the ncurses programming library, which means it uses a text user interface. When combined with a terminal multiplexer (e.g. GNU Screen or Tmux) and Secure Shell, it becomes a convenient remote BitTorrent client.

Weekly Spotlight

Imcomptech

The cost for me to share music is low, and the benefits are high. There are a lot of schools with no money, and plenty of film makers who want to have music – but can’t afford to clear copyrights from the existing systems that are set up. I believe that copyright is badly broken , so I chose a license that allows me to to give away the rights I wish to surrender.

Linux Action Show at LFNW | Offical LAS 2015 Shirt

We are releasing another set of LAS shirts in preparation for LinuxFest Northwest which is at the end of April 2015! We hope to color Bellingham Technical College with LAS supporters donning their favorite Linux podcast!

Our Past Picks

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PC gaming is expanding, Valve’s GDC 2015 announcements recap

Valve attended GDC in full force this year and talked about a lot of stuff. Here’s everything they talked about it in one post.

• Gabe Newell talks Steam Machines, Free Source 2.0 Engine, the growth of PCs and Steam Controller – YouTube

• Steam launches massive Linux game sale to celebrate Steam Machine unveiling

More than 50 titles are highlighted, including three of PCWorld’s favorite games of 2014—The Talos Principle, Transistor, _and our Game of the Year, _Wasteland 2—and a slew of other spectacular titles like Metro Redux, The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Civilization: Beyond Earth, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, _and _Goat Simulator, among many others.

• Reported Steam Linux Usage Battles To Stay Above 1.0% – Phoronix

This drop to just over 1.0% is the lowest numbers we’ve seen for Linux’s representation on Steam in quite a number of months. However, it’s not a huge surprise.

• Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver – Phoronix

With the Vulkan API still in flux and not finalized until later this year, Valve has been developing their own Intel GPU reference driver for Vulkan to help early adopters boot-strap their code. Valve said during their presentation today at GDC2015 that this Intel Linux driver will be open-sourced, but they haven’t provided a time-frame for doing so.

VMware alleged to have violated Linux’s open source license for years

Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig filed the suit in the district court of Hamburg, Germany with funding from the nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy, which works to “promote, improve, develop, and defend” free and open source software. The case centers on “a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (‘vmkernel’) with portions of Linux’s code, which was licensed only under GPLv2,” _the group said in an FAQ describing the lawsuit._

• Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Lawsuit

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy’s ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware’s ESXi products.

​No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in October 2014, the two groups got together and started work on a way to _patch Linux without rebooting that combines the best of both programs. Essentially, what they ended up doing was putting both kpatch and kGraft in the 4.0 Linux kernel._

New App Brings Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop

The new project is called ‘Nuntius’ and lets notifications received on an Android phone appear on the GNOME desktop.

• holylobster/nuntius-linux · GitHub

Nuntius delivers notifications from your phone or tablet to your computer over Bluetooth.

Nuntius is an Open Source project from HolyLobster.

To use Nuntius you will need to install a companion tool on your phone or table and pair it via Bluetooth.

• HolyLobster · GitHub

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We round off the week’s tech news & follow up on the big Lenovo story & discuss HP’s push into Linux powered Networking.

Then Chris share’s the start of his lifestyle reboot & then a in depth discussion on getting into the IT job market.

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Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs t

An anonymous reader send news from the Wall Street Journal, where Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius said in an interview that the company will roll out a software update to remove the Superfish adware from its laptops. “As soon as the programmer is finished, we will provide a tool that removes all traces of the app from people’s laptops; this goes further than simply uninstalling the app. Once the app-wiping software is finished tonight or tomorrow, we’ll issue a press release with information on how to get it.” When asked whether his company vets the software they pre-install on their machines, he said, “Yes, we do. Obviously in this case we didn’t do enough. The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience. The feedback from users was that it wasn’t useful, and that’s why we turned it off. Our reputation is everything and our products are ultimately how we have our reputation.”

HP Targets Cisco and Facebook With New Line of Open-Source Networking Gear

Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it would sell a new line of networking switches that are manufactured by a Taiwanese company and depend on Linux-based, open-source software from another company.

Epic Games offers up $5 million in Unreal Dev Grants

Today Epic Games has announced a new initiative — one that could see your game netting between $5,000 and $50,000 in no-strings-attached funding from the engine provider.

HEALTH WATCH: sweatthesweetstuff — Eating healthy doesn’t have to be boring and that working out can be fun!

I want people to understand their bodies. To know that there is a connection between what we put in it and on it, and how that makes us feel. That eating right isn’t just about losing weight, it’s about how good we can feel! On the inside and out. It doesn’t stop at our dress size and energy levels (which are great) but it can help improve other things like your skin, hair & nails, achy joints, headaches, allergies, asthma, your menstrual cycle, IBS, indigestion, several diseases, even cancer. Your body is smart. It knows what to do. You just have to give it the right stuff.

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During a recent passionate speech Richard Stallman said users of proprietary software are victims, we’ll debate of that’s true & play other clips from his speech.

Then we’ll look at the recent exodus of Mac developers, ponder if this a trend worth paying attention to & if Linux is ready to take advantage of it.

Plus the pants debt comes due, your feedback & much more!

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• Some news from KDENLIVE

• Pants on Head

• SCALE 13x | 13x -Hilton Los Angeles Airport • February 19-22 2015

• LinuxFest Northwest 2015 – Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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C3TV – Freedom in your computer and in the net

For freedom in your own computer, the software must be free. For freedom on the internet, we must organize against surveillance, censorship, SaaSS and the war against sharing.

Macs Exodus

Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can’t talk anymore.

Geoff Wozniak went back to desktop Linux after almost a decade on OS X (Update: He appears to have taken the post down). It’s just one person’s story, but many of his cited reasons resonate widely. I suspect the biggest force keeping stories like this from being more common is that Windows is still worse overall and desktop Linux is still too much of a pain in the ass for most people. But it should be troubling if a lot of people are staying on your OS because everything else is worse, not necessarily because they love it.

• What it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.org

Why I quit OS X – Curried lambda

After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personal work, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best tech decision I made last year.

Furthermore, I found that I had stopped using the majority of the primary apps that ship with OS X: Mail, Safari, iTunes, and Apple Creativity Apps/iLife. For the most part, I ran essentially three apps: Firefox, MailMate, and iTerm2. Most of my work was done in terminals. The culture of the operating system at this point was more about sharing than personal productivity.

In short, I was working against the grain of the environment. It was a gradual transition, but OS X went from a useful tool set to get my work done to an obnoxious ecosystem of which I no longer wanted to be a part.

More damning than the lack of personal connection, though, was the complete lack of transparency and general decline in software quality, as I perceived it.

At this point, my default position on Apple software in OS X has moved from “probably good” to “probably not OK”. They seem more interested in pumping out quantity by way of more upgrades. It’s death by a thousand cuts, but it’s death nonetheless.

I’ve gone back to a desktop system running Linux (for now) and while I consider it markedly inferior to OS X in terms of usability, it feels like a personal computer again. I’m enjoying the experience and I look forward to working with it, even when it’s a monumental pain in the ass.

Panic Blog » The 2014 Panic Report

This is the biggest problem we’ve been grappling with all year: we simply don’t make enough money from our iOS apps. We’re building apps that are, if I may say so, world-class and desktop-quality. They are packed with features, they look stunning, we offer excellent support for them, and development is constant. I’m deeply proud of our iOS apps. But… they’re hard to justify working on.

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Coming up this week, we’ll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update

• A status update for Shawn Webb’s ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD
• One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree
• “FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren’t compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support”
• If you’re running -CURRENT, just add “WITH_PIE=1” to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf
• The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it
• Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR

Misc. pfSense news

• Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news
• Someone’s gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they’re sold, which involves powering them all on at least once
• To make that process faster, they’re building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)
• There will be more info on that device a bit later on
• On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (for paying customers only…) about virtualized firewalls
• pfSense University, a new paid training course, was also announced
• A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch

ZFS stripe width

• A new blog post from Matt Ahrens about ZFS stripe width
• “The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice”
• Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages
• He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases
• It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels’ overhead factor

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released

• The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we’re slowly getting closer to the release
• This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs
• There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what’s in -CURRENT (but still isn’t using ChaCha20)
• The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post about it too
• There’s a list of changes between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we’ll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits

Interview – Bryce Chidester – brycec@devio.us / @brycied00d

Running a BSD shell provider

Tutorial

Chaining SSH connections

News Roundup

My FreeBSD adventure

• A Slackware user from the “linux questions” forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings
• After ruling out PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to “politics” (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on
• In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things
• So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux
• Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later

Even more BSDCan trip reports

• BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in
• This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation
• He’s part of the “Jenkins CI for FreeBSD” group and went to BSDCan mostly for that
• Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read
• He even talks about… the food

FreeBSD disk partitioning

• For his latest book series on FreeBSD’s GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification
• This erupted into a very long discussion about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart
• So you don’t have to read the tons of mailing list posts, he’s summarized the findings in a blog post
• It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools

BSD Router Project version 1.51

• A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51
• It’s now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE
• Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere
• Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes
• The minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB

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Is this the year of Arch? We dig through the results from our listener home server survey, and compare our audience\’s answers with another recent large survey, and find some surprising results.

Plus how the “Power Linux User” is underrepresented by developer attention, and we share some Linux switching stories that go horribly wrong!

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The Year of Arch?

Results of the 2014 /r/Linux Distribution Survey

The data was pulled from Google Docs and contained 10,292 responses (up from 7,698 last year, and 4,932 the year before that). This is probably a mix of /r/Linux’s growth in active users and the /r/Linux moderators stickying my survey post.

• Do you use Linux on any non-server computers? Responses Responses (%)

Yes 9896 96%

No 383 4%

Do you run Linux on any of your server computers? Responses Responses (%)

Yes 5940 58%

No 4339 42%

Distribution Server Users Desktop Users

Arch Linux 64% 36%

Ubuntu 54% 46%

Debian 67% 33%

Linux Mint 45% 55%

Fedora 68% 32%

elementary OS 38% 62%

Xubuntu 54% 46%

Crunchbang 47% 53%

Gentoo 81% 19%

OpenSUSE 59% 41%

Kubuntu 58% 42%

Other 53% 47%

After two years of a strong Ubuntu lead, Arch Linux has taken the lead as the #1 distribution

Favorite GUIs Responses

GNOME 3.x 1565

KDE 4.x 1339

XFCE 1201

Unity 1166

Cinnamon 1034

i3 608

Openbox 567

Pantheon 459

Awesome 334

GNOME 2.x (or fork/derivative) 322

Other 1358

• Straw Poll: What’s your DE?

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Are boutique distributions a bag of hurt for new users?

We love a good underdog, but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us and we recommend something that’s not appropriate for a switcher to land on.

Plus some quick thoughts on the beating open source is taking as fallout from the Heartbleed bug.

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• KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #11 – Go time!

• Is anyone else having problems with Gnome Terminal 3.12?

• On The Subject of Linux UX

• Linux Learners – LUP35

• Terminal v/s GUI // Slexy 2.0

• The big point for technical switchers everyone missed

• Steam Controller comes out this fall

Underdog Syndrome

• Recent discussions on LUP about switching
• End of XP brings this to front of mind.

• Ubuntu 14.04 this Sunday on LAS. The big dog on the desktop.

• These smaller, boutique distros are great for experienced enthusiasts.

• Sending users from the worlds most deployed desktop operating system to a niche distribution of a niche desktop operating system is a recipe for failure.

• Support community is always smaller.
• Random poorly crafted Google searches are less likely to show distro relevant results.

• Long term viability of really small teams is always questionable. Larger distros even if corporate backers or the large community dropped it – the code would go on. Smaller distros that’s not always the case.

• Do these concerns apply to the more esoteric desktops, ie Cinnamon, MATE?

Heartbleed Butt Hurt

• OSS name getting dragged through the mud.
• Why are we not focused on the patch turn around time?

• Ability to audit future code.

• Heartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It\’s Not What You Think

A week after the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability wreaked havoc across the web, the conversation is shifting from reaction to reflection. The discussion is no longer about what to do now, but what can be done to prevent another Heartbleed from happening in the future. In other words, we\’re entering the blame game chapter in this saga.

• Heartbleed: Open source\’s worst hour | ZDNet

Everyone just assumed that OpenSSL must be perfectly safe because, well OpenSSL has a reputation for being safe, therefore it was safe. Developers, website developers, security experts, one and all, it seems no one ever thought to actually use those eyeballs that successful open source relies upon to check the code to see if it really was safe.

• Did open source matter for Heartbleed? | ZDNet

Open source does not provide a meaningful inherent security benefit for OpenSSL and it may actually discourage some important testing techniques. Also, panhandling is not a good business model for important software like OpenSSL.

• Stop laying the blame for Heartbleed on open source | Open Source Software – InfoWorld

Security experts acknowledge that open source is the best model for crypto, so how do we drive improvements to the model for creating security-critical infrastructure?

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SteamOS and the Leopard Extreme are in studio, and we’ve got a lot to say. We start with a tour under the hood of SteamOS, and then we put Leopard Extreme from System76 to the ultimate performance test.

Plus: Lessons learned in switching new users to Linux, a look at OwnCloud 6…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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