Syncthing – Jupiter Broadcasting

The release is focused on completing the migration to GTK3+ and
adopting new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE
Desktop 1.16 still relied on.

Ubuntu Kylin | Ubuntu

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese government procurement regulations. It includes all the features you’ve come to expect from Ubuntu, alongside essential Chinese software and apps. The interface has been designed specifically to put Chinese users first — and with support for touch screens and HiDPI monitors, it runs beautifully on all kinds of hardware.

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Syncthing Usage Reports

This is the total number of unique users with reporting enabled, per day. Area color represents the major version.

Valve have hired another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers

Yep, none other than Keith Packard, a well known name in the Linux community who worked on the X Window System. He previously worked for Intel, then HP and now he’s settling in at Valve to continue Linux development.

VR On Linux

React VR | A framework for building VR apps using React

React VR lets you build VR apps using only JavaScript.

Opening Up Virtual Reality Development with WebVR | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

WebVR — an experimental JavaScript API — seeks to address these limitations and open up development by providing interfaces to let developers build VR experiences in the browser. We spoke with Karanjai to learn more.

Magically Turn your Desktop Apps into VR Apps – CODELECTRON

I was looking at space exploration apps and thought it would have been nice to have Celestia seen through VR.

SteamVR Gets Beta Development Build with Support for Linux – Road to VR

Valve recommends using the issue tracker on the project’s GitHub page for reporting specific bugs, while general discussion and questions are handled on the Steam Community forum. In the long run, there is hope for significantly improved Linux support resulting from the recently-named OpenXR API, and industry-derived open standard for VR and AR from the Khronos Group, which aims to stem hardware and software fragmentation in as the industry continues to grow.

Resources:

Using the linux-lts package definitely works, as I’ve been using it since running into the same incompatibility that you have. You just need to figure out your specific issues.

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This Day in History (14-Mar-1994) – Linux 1.0.0 released

On 14 March 1994, Linux 1.0.0 was released. The Linux kernel has received contributions from nearly 12,000 programmers from more than 1,200 companies.

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Picroft Meets Alexa

This week’s Challenge: Can Wes run Alexa and MyCroft on a Raspberry Pi 3?

How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Voice-Enabled Amazon Alexa Device | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

More Fun with the Pi

GitHub – MichMich/MagicMirror: MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.

MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.
https://magicmirror.builders

Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, Asterisk, FreePBX, and the Obihai OBi100

All you need are some simple pieces of hardware and that old landline phone that got shoved into the back of your closet years ago.

Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements – curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains

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All Wimpy’s Vault! | LINUX Unplugged 159

chris — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:14:24 +0000

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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Today, we are taking the next step in our journey. I am extremely excited to share that PowerShell is open sourced and available on Linux. (For those of you who need a refresher, PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET Framework to help IT professionals control and automate the administration of the Windows, and now Linux, operating systems and the applications that run on them.) I’m going to share a bit more about our journey getting here, and will tell you how Microsoft Operations Management Suite can enhance the PowerShell experience.

The Linux Foundation Releases Development Report Highlighting Contributions to the Linux Kernel Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Linux | The Linux Foundation

The report comes just days before the 25th anniversary of the initial release of the Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds on August 25, 1991, and analyzes the work done by over 13,500 developers over more than a decade, as well as more recent trends.

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elementary Hackfest in Paris

Getting Developers in a Room together to work on kickass Open Source Software.

Security and reproducible-build progress in Guix 0.11

The GNU Guix package-manager project recently released version
0.11, bringing with it support for several hundred new packages, a
range of new tools, and some significant progress toward making an
entire operating system (OS) installable using reproducible builds.

Google to drop support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac and Linux

Google has killed a lot of things in the past, including Google Buzz, Google Wave and Google Reader. Well Google’s grim reaper is at it again. This time, Google Chrome apps will no longer work on Windows, Mac and Linux by 2018. The company says only 1 percent of Chrome users took advantage of this feature. However, Chrome apps will still function on Chrome OS, which powers Chromebooks.

FYI to you #NoMansSky players under #Linux Wine 1.9.17 Breaks No Man's Sky for me. Confirmed to work under 1.9.16 pic.twitter.com/QiPS6JhQAs

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) August 23, 2016

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Librevault

Open source zero-knowledge peer-2-peer file sync.

Librevault is an open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization program, designed with convenience and privacy in mind.
Our goal is to make a better alternative to BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing.

GPL Version 3
Installing on arch, be sure to have qt5-tools installed.

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Android 7.0 Nougat review—Do more on your gigantic smartphone

Nougat brings a new multitasking split screen mode, a redesigned notification panel, an adjustable UI scale, and fresh emoji. Nougat also sports numerous under-the-hood improvements, like changes to the Android Runtime, updates to the battery saving “Doze” mode, and developer goodies like Vulkan and Java 8 support.

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition review: A flagship Linux smartphone Review | ZDNet

Like the BQ phone, the Meizu MX4 is very much a device for early adopters, since Ubuntu for Phones is still in the development phase. While the €169.90 Aquaris E4.5 is a mid-range phone, the Meizu MX4 delivers considerably more computing power for €299. It runs on a Meizu-customised octa-core MediaTek MT6595 SoC with four ARM Cortex-A17 and four ARM Cortex-A7 cores, with a PowerVR G6200 GPU to handle the graphics, all supported by 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM.

Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet – Features | BQ

The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition combines two different interfaces so you can use it either as a tablet or as a PC. The first module offers all the typical functions of a tablet, while the PC mode is activated automatically when you connect it to a mouse and keyboard.

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Snappy Collaboration | LINUX Unplugged 155

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

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

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

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

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Surround 360 is now open source

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

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

The fall of Open Source

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

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ArchStrike Ethical Hacking Linux Operating System Gets Its First ISO Builds

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

OpenBSD 6.0 tightens security by losing Linux compatibility

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

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

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

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2016 Linux Wish List | LAS 399

chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:34:36 +0000

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What if your humble hosts could have there way? A wave of their magic wands, whatever they want changed in Linux Land in 2016 would just happen? We spend sometime this week fantasizing about all things we wish would happen this year to make Linux better.

Plus the welcome change in Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox OS finds new life, desktop picks that changed our lives & more!

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Wishlist for Linux Land in 2016:

A new effort to distance android from Google (Chris)

For the desktop, something a lot like: Remix OS is Android for the desktop, and it works with nearly any PC , but community backed, fully out in the open.

I’d like this project to even eventually kick Linux in the butt once or twice, to really get some competition in the open source desktop area. So its not just open source desktop vs commercial.

Collaborative Editing Software (Noah)

Google Docs is great for those who like it. Personally I can’t stand the web based solution. It tries to hard to be a native software solution including things like CTRL C and CTRL V for copy paste. When in a browser though my mind immediately starts acting like it should given that I’m in a browser. What I’d really like is a piece of software that runs on the OS itself and allows for offline editing.

More Frustrated Mac Users switch to Linux (Chris)

For a certain class of user, the Mac OS X desktop can be very frustrating. Its suppose to just work, and a great many things do indeed just work.

But for us geeks, sometimes it crosses a few sacred lined, that must never be crossed.

Macports is a royal pain compared to Linux package managers.
Brew does not have enough software, is nowhere near the AUR, or Debian/Ubuntu repos.
The lack of proper home/end/pgup/pgdown keys is maddening.
It has just enough quirks that I can’t say it Just Works significantly more than a well configured Linux desktop.
Performance optimization of new software seems to end when it works smoothly on ‘current’ hardware, which means that it doesn’t take long for hardware to get branded ‘old’.
Very expensive eco-system, with no real “lockin” iOS devices do not depend on OS X.
Switching to Linux

FOSS Linux based Access Points (Noah)

I’ve long been in love with Unifi AP’s ruining busybox but I always have my finger on the pulse of the company for fear that they will some day pull support from Linux. To be fair I don’t think it’s likely since more and more people are deploying controllers on AWS. That said, I would love to see a distro geared to turn consumer grade routers into managed access points. OpenWRT is great until you have to deploy 500 of them.

Ubuntu goes with rolling “fork” or version (Chris)

Those of us that love rolling, but want to play with the latest Ubuntu toys finally have the perfect distro to land on.

Client GUI Sync Client (Noah)

Again, there are plenty of projects that almost fit the bill but what would really set me on fire would be an encrypted syncing client that runs as a small client in the dash communicating with other devices I have syncing. It would rely on no special service, would not require you to configure, or access through a web UI, and would be open source.

Full Syncthing interrelation with Gnome Files. (Chris)

Just imagine it. With a few clicks, all your Gnome desktops syncing, peer to peer. Could be done so simply, so elegantly. True, secure, wonderful file sync at the DE level.

Universal app install (Chris)

Even if it requires btrfs.

A clear path with gnome builder for Dev on-ramping (Chris)

It needs to obvious how companies and indy devs jump into the Linux desktop from an app development, creation, deployment, and support standpoint.

Nvidia steps up with first rate Wayland support (Chris)

I really want to be running Wayland, on a studio machine, by the end of 2016.

Professionally Produced High Quality Kodi Media Player (Noah)

There are loads of android based devices that can be loaded with Kodi and at every turn there is a new way to build a Kodi box. I don’t have the time to install and configure those boxes especially when they crash. I would love to see a premade box that has a reset button that comes pre-loaded with JUST Kodi (Not Android). The market is rich for media players and if everyone rallied around a single software set plugins, and stability, would be soon become issues of the past.

Ubuntu 16.10 ships, Unity8 is looking good. Gaming is NOT impacted negatively (Chris)

Unity traditionally introduces about a 10% frame rate cost when running a game.

Hopefully SteamOS continues to be a great gaming platform for average users. But a lot desktop Linux users are benefiting from the new Steam games, and Ubuntu + Unity should be the “best” experience on desktop Linux for gaming. It would generate a lot of good buzz, and give Unity8 the reputation of being “super fast”.

Not an easy feat, with Mir involved.

Native Production Quality Video Conferencing (Noah)

There are plenty of solutions to get your face on someone’s computer. Even solutions that work well on other platforms are crippled to some degree on Linux. Ideally this would utilize XMMP / SIP protocols and communicate directly with a socket not rely on a third party service.

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Life Science Supercomputer RUNS LINUX

The new national supercomputer for life Sciences is physically installed at DTU Risø Campus, where highly redundant power (7 MW) and highly advanced energy efficient and dual redundant cooling technology is available. A dedicated national redundant high-speed network connects the supercomputer to the other DTU Campuses, University of Copenhagen and elsewhere such that it mimics the feel of having the facility in your basement. The machine currently acts as a backbone in the Danish ELIXIR node, where it collaborates across the whole European community on bioinformatics. The infrastructure links up into the European and international infrastructure encouraging the collaboration on the bleeding edge in the technology and life sciences arena.

The supercomputer is built using HP’s next generation of Apollo servers designed for high throughput and contain 16,048 cores of Intel’s state of the art Hashwell architecture, 96TB of global DDR4 high speed memory complemented by an ultra high speed infiniband interconnect. The supercomputer is named “Computerome” with ultra fast 3PB storage that can be expanded to 7.5 PB on the fly. The data is backed onto two 1 PB tape back up robots one on-site and second off-site in Lyngby. An additional layer of online data backup of 2PB is also maintained fully synchronized using long distance secure replication between Risø and Lyngby. The installation has an ultra high-density footprint, and is installed in 2x500KW high-density modular Tier IV containerized data center modules.

The system is designed using the bioinformatics reference architecture developed by CBS over the past 20 years and using the best practices in the industry. It has a full set of comprehensive systems management software tools and hot-spare hardware. The complete site is backed up by the premium support from the vendors. Compared to our current installation we are enlarging the compute capacity by a factor of 10 and the system is the largest of its type in Scandinavia and unique in Europe due to the fact it is specifically designed for life sciences workflows. At the time of writing (Summer 2014) the performance of the system brings it on to 86th place on the Top500 list, which consists of the 500 fastest computers in the world.

Sent by Sune A.

Desktop App Pick

EasyTAG

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier.

Weekly Spotlight

OSTicket

osTicket is a widely-used and trusted open source support ticket system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform. osTicket comes packed with more features and tools than most of the expensive (and complex) support ticket systems on the market. The best part is, it’s completely free.

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Ubuntu ‘Spyware’ Will Be Disabled In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Search terms typed into the Unity 7 Dash search bar will only show local file, folder and app results. No search terms will be sent to Canonical or passed to third party results providers, as is currently the case.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is Continuing To Prep ZFS Support

Chad Miller of Canonical shared that “ZFS is right now 90% ready on (what will be) Ubuntu 16.04.” There still are new ZFS packages to land in the Ubuntu 16.04, but Chad has the current packages queued up in a PPA. These packages will allow for installing Ubuntu to a ZFS partition, but an EFI partition is still needed. Additionally, there’s no support in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity graphical installer for setting up an easy ZFS-based system.

EXT4 will obviously be the default file-system still for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Firefox OS will Power New Panasonic UHD TVs Unveiled at CES

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Panasonic announced that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, the first LED LCD TVs in the world with Ultra HD Premium specification, unveiled today at CES 2016.

Mycroft Adapt Intent Parser Released as LGPL

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected

On a spring day in 2012, I shutdown my MacBook Air for the last time. From then on, my primary computing environment — at least on a laptop computer — was GNU/Linux.

Jason Plum – Angry NOOB Syndrome – YouTube

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Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background for the Linux Action

Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

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Consulting the Oracle for 2016 | LAS 398

chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:33:01 +0000

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We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016, Google drops the openJDK bomb & we pay tribute to Ian Murdock.

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Linux Land in 2016:

Chris and Noah surprise each other with their top 7 Linux predictions for 2016.

Patron Predictions

Martin B:

1) LXQt becomes stable and replaces LXDE. Chris becomes hyped.
2) XFCE becomes irrelevant because of the popularity of MATE and developpers will openly leave the sinking ship.
3) Fedora 25 will have Wayland by default. Not Fedora 24. This will cause a lot of issues. Which is good for the development.
4) KDE Plasma 5 will keep improving, but little issues will keep existing that prevent Chris from recommending it.
5) openSUSE Leap 42.2 will not release in 2016, but is postponed to January 2017
6) Ubuntu will launch Unity 8 for desktop but will also keep their phone strategy alive. Mir will not be replaced by Wayland.
7) The hype for Docker will be lowered somewhat, but actual usage in the enterprise will increase. The Open Container Initiative will cease to exist.
8) AMD will go open source as a way to prevent bankruptcy. This will be the start of better Linux compatibility. But their revenues will not improve.

Lindsay S:

1) Steam Linux usage moves up to 5% after wallowing for quite some time under 1% This will be due primarily to Steam Machine sales and some users realising that Linux is a viable gaming platform. Although this will be a large percentage increase, many including valve will be very disappointed with this level of usage but the steamroller will have just started.
2)Ubuntu will dominate the distro market but will continue to slip in usage and user mindshare. Mint based on the Ubuntu LTS will be a big hit and recommended for most new users. Fedora and OpenSUSE will continue to increase in market share.
3) KDE 5.x will continue to stabilise and add new features to fix issues, it will start to bring back some of the mindshare it lost in 2014. 5.7 will be released and get lots of praise due to features, stability and the fact that you have an easy choice of three different start menus.
4) Wayland will be released for some distributions such as Fedora but will still be seen as experimental and will have problems. There will still be options to use the older X versions. Ubuntu will announce that they are giving up on Mir development and throwing their weight and support behind Wayland, pushing for extensions that will support what they wanted to do with Mir (pigs might fly on this one as well)
5) Libre Office will continue on it’s rise to popularity and use. Several large governments and educational institutions will announce that they are moving to it.
6) Citrix Xenserver will get accolades for a new release and will continue to be a great option for virtualisation. Many other Linux based virtualisation solutions such as oVirt will be in the news for their releases. People will be looking more and more at free and open source virtualisation solutions rather than the commercial alternatives from Vmware and Microsoft.
7) Google will try to address the current big issue with Android security with regard to updates across phone manufactures. They will announce a modular solution that allows updates to the OS via the play store but will also allow carriers to keep their customisations for different types of phones.

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That Hotel Music… Runs Linux

The GM had asked us to find an inexpensive way to get the overhead speakers throughout the hotel. We ran RCA baluns through inexpensive cat5 to the front desk where we placed a laptop installed with Ubuntu Mate, Mixxx, and Spotify.

Desktop App Pick

OnionShare

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size. Read more about how it works and how to use it on GitHub.

Tor Browser

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on
Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software.

AUR (en) – tor-browser-en

Weekly Spotlight

DHCPPing

https://bentis.calepin.co/handy-tools-for-debugging-dhcp-on-linux.html

dhcping sends a DHCPREQUEST packet, waits for a reply and prints information indicating success or failure and exits with 0 or 1 as appropriate. Use the -v or -V flags for more verbose ouput. The options I most frequently use are -h, the client hardware address, -s the target dhcp server address and -c for the address you’re expecting the reply to be returned to (I don’t know why this is necessary but I find I get a DHCPNACK reply if not).
A typical invocation would therefore be:
sudo dhcping -h 00:12:3f:20:11:49 -s 10.1.200.200 -c 10.1.200.1

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Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle’s open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs | VentureBeat

The news first came by a “mysterious Android codebase commit” from last month submitted to _Hacker News. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that Android N_will rely on an OpenJDK implementation, rather Android’s own implementation of the Java APIs.

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock’s Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Ian Murdock: a tribute to the man and his work on Linux | Technology | The Guardian

Murdock’s work combined an insistence on excellence with a public commitment to open, ethical software development

How I came to find Linux | Ian Murdock

Finally, I could wait no longer, and Jason and I found an unlocked computer lab in one of the dorms containing a single PC, and in the middle of the night one evening in February, we proceeded to install Linux on that lab PC. I still occasionally wonder what the unfortunate student first to the lab the next morning must have thought.

Tails 1.8 Just Released: New Version Of Edward Snowden’s Favorite Linux OS

Tails is based on Debian’s latest stable release. The main change in the version 1.8 is the switch to Icedove open source software as the default email client. This rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird will be replacing Claws Mail.

The OS also features the updated version of Tor browser and other packages.

Take a look at the complete list of changes and upgrades as mentioned on the Tails’ website:

Electrum from 1.9.8 to 2.5.4. Now Electrum should work again in Tails.
Tor Browser to 5.0.5.
Tor to 0.2.7.6.
I2P to 0.9.23.
Icedove from 31.8 to 38.4.
Enigmail from 1.7.2 to 1.8.2.

The next release of Tails OS is slated for release on January 26. To download Tails or upgrade the existing OS, visit the link below:

— Tails 1.8

Magnitude-4.8 Earthquake Widely Felt Across Washington State – ROCKED THE ROVER

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

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Finding Nakamoto | TechSNAP 244

chris — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:56:35 +0000

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Bitcoin’s creator has been found again, we’ll cover what the media thinks they’ve figured out & what we really know.

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WIRED thinks they found Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Since that pseudonymous figure first released bitcoin’s code on January 9th, 2009, Nakamoto’s ingenious digital currency has grown from a nerd novelty to a kind of economic miracle. As it’s been adopted for everything from international money transfers to online narcotrafficking, the total value of all bitcoins has grown to nearly $5 billion.
Nakamoto himself, whoever he is, appears to control a stash of bitcoins easily worth a nine-figure fortune (it rose to more than a billion at the cryptocurrency’s peak exchange rate in 2014).
In the last weeks, WIRED has obtained the strongest evidence yet of Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity. The signs point to Craig Steven Wright.
Gizmodo thinks it was actually two people
A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
According to a cache of documents provided to Gizmodo which were corroborated in interviews, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian businessman based in Sydney, and Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics expert who died in 2013, were involved in the development of the digital currency.
Wired’s “Evidence”
An August 2008 post on Wright’s blog, months before the November 2008 introduction of the bitcoin whitepaper on a cryptography mailing list. It mentions his intention to release a “cryptocurrency paper,” and references “triple entry accounting,” the title of a 2005 paper by financial cryptographer Ian Grigg that outlines several bitcoin-like ideas.
A post on the same blog from November, 2008 includes a request that readers who want to get in touch encrypt their messages to him using a PGP public key apparently linked to Satoshi Nakamoto. This key, when checked against the database of the MIT server where it was stored, is associated with the email address satoshin@vistomail.com, an email address very similar to the satoshi@vistomail.com address Nakamoto used to send the whitepaper introducing bitcoin to a cryptography mailing list.
An archived copy of a now-deleted blog post from Wright dated January 10, 2009, which reads: “The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized… We try until it works.” (The post was dated January 10, 2009, a day after Bitcoin’s official launch on January 9th of that year. But if Wright, living in Eastern Australia, posted it after midnight his time on the night of the 9th, that would have still been before bitcoin’s launch at 3pm EST on the 9th.) That post was later replaced with the rather cryptic text “Bitcoin — AKA bloody nosey you be…It does always surprise me how at times the best place to hide [is] right in the open.” Sometime after October of this year, it was deleted entirely.
In addition to those three blog posts, they received a cache of leaked emails, transcripts, and accounting forms that corroborate the link.
Another clue as to Wright’s bitcoin fortune wasn’t leaked to WIRED but instead remains hosted on the website of the corporate advisory firm McGrathNicol: a liquidation report on one of several companies Wright founded known as Hotwire, an attempt to create a bitcoin-based bank. It shows that the startup was backed in June 2013 by $23 million in bitcoins owned by Wright. That sum would be worth more than $60 million today.
Reported bitcoin ‘founder’ Craig Wright’s home raided by Australian police
On Wednesday afternoon, police gained entry to a home belonging to Craig Wright, who had hours earlier been identified in investigations by Gizmodo and Wired,
People who say they knew Wright have expressed strong doubts about his alleged role, with some saying privately they believe the publications have been the victims of an elaborate hoax.
More than 10 police personnel arrived at the house in the Sydney suburb of Gordon at about 1.30pm. Two police staff wearing white gloves could be seen from the street searching the cupboards and surfaces of the garage. At least three more were seen from the front door.
The Australian Federal police said in a statement that the raids were not related to the bitcoin claims. “The AFP can confirm it has conducted search warrants to assist the Australian Taxation Office at a residence in Gordon and a business premises in Ryde, Sydney. This matter is unrelated to recent media reporting regarding the digital currency bitcoin.”
The documents published by Gizmodo appear to show records of an interview with the Australian Tax Office surrounding his tax affairs in which his bitcoin holdings are discussed at length.
During the interview, the person the transcript names as Wright says: “I did my best to try and hide the fact that I’ve been running bitcoin since 2009 but I think it’s getting – most – most – by the end of this half the world is going to bloody know.”
Guardian Australia has been unable to independently verify the authenticity of the transcripts published by Gizmodo, or whether the transcript is an accurate reflection of the audio if the interview took place. It is also not clear whether the phrase “running” refers merely to the process of mining bitcoin using a computer.
The purported admission in the transcript does not state that Wright is a founder of the currency, but other emails that Gizmodo claim are from Wright suggest further involvement he may have had in the development of bitcoin.
The emails published by Gizmodo cannot been verified. Comment has been sought from Sinodinos on whether he was contacted by Wright – or his lawyer – in relation to bitcoin and its regulatory and taxation status in Australia.
A third email published by Gizmodo from 2008 attributes to Wright a comment where he said: “I have been working on a new form of electronic money. Bit cash, bit coin …”
WikiLeaks on Twitter: “We assess that Craig S Wright is unlikely to be the principal coder behind Bitcoin.” https://t.co/nRnftKPjm9”
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In Patches We Trust: Why Security Updates have to get better

“How long do you put off restarting your computer, phone, or tablet for the sake of a security update or software patch? All too often, it’s far too long”
Why do we delay?
I am in the middle of something
The update might break something
I can’t waste a bunch of time dealing with fixing it if it doesn’t work
I hate it when they move buttons around on me
Installing the update makes the device unusable for 20+ minutes
“Patches are good for you. According to Homeland Security’s cyber-emergency unit, US-CERT, as many as 85 percent of all targeted attacks can be prevented by applying a security patch”
“The problem is that far too many have experienced a case when a patch has gone disastrously wrong. That’s not just a problem for the device owner short term, but it’s a lasting trust issue with software giants and device makers.”
We have all seen examples of bad patches
“Apple’s iOS 8.0.1 update was meant to fix initial problems with Apple’s new eight generation mobile operating system, but killed cell service on affected phones — leaving millions stranded until a fix was issued a day later. Google had to patch the so-called Stagefright flaw, which affected every Android device, for a second time after the first fix failed to do the job. Meanwhile, Microsoft has seen more patch recalls in the past two years than in the past decade.”
“Microsoft, for example, issued 135 security bulletins this year alone with thousands of separate vulnerabilities patched. All it takes is one or two patches to fail or break something — which has happened — to account for a 1 percent failure rate.”
Users get “update fatigue”, If every time they go to use the computer, there is a new update for one or more of: Java, Flash, Chrome, Skype, Windows, etc.
Worse, many drivers and other programs now add their own utilities, “update managers” and so on. Lenovo and Dell have both recently had to patch their “update managers” because they actually make your system more vulnerable
Having a slew of different programs constantly nagging the user about updating just causes the user to stop updating everything, or to put the updates off for longer and longer
“At the heart of any software update is a trust relationship between the user and the company. When things go wrong, it can affect thousands or millions of users. Just ignoring the issue and pulling patches can undermine a user’s trust, which can damage the future patching process.”
“Customers don’t always expect vendors to be 100 percent perfect 100 percent of the time, or at least they shouldn’t,” said Childs. “However, if vendors are upfront and honest about the situation and provide actionable guidance, it goes a long way to reestablishing the trust that has been lost over the years.”

New APT group identified, known as Sofacy, or Fancy Bear

“Sofacy (also known as “Fancy Bear”, “Sednit”, “STRONTIUM” and “APT28”) is an advanced threat group that has been active since around 2008, targeting mostly military and government entities worldwide, with a focus on NATO countries. More recently, we have also seen an increase in activity targeting Ukraine.”
“Back in 2011-2012, the group used a relatively tiny implant (known as “Sofacy” or SOURFACE) as its first stage malware. The implant shared certain similarities with the old Miniduke implants. This led us to believe the two groups were connected, at least to begin with, although it appears they parted ways in 2014, with the original Miniduke group switching to the CosmicDuke implant.”
“In the months leading up to August, the Sofacy group launched several waves of attacks relying on zero-day exploits in Microsoft Office, Oracle Sun Java, Adobe Flash Player and Windows itself. For instance, its JHUHUGIT implant was delivered through a Flash zero-day and used a Windows EoP exploit to break out of the sandbox. The JHUHUGIT implant became a relatively popular first stage for the Sofacy attacks and was used again with a Java zero-day (CVE-2015-2590) in July 2015.
While the JHUHUGIT (and more recently, “JKEYSKW”) implant used in most of the Sofacy attacks, high profile victims are being targeted with another first level implant, representing the latest evolution of their AZZYTrojan.”
This shows how APT attackers constantly evolve, and reserve their best exploits for use against high profile targets, using lesser quality exploits on lesser targets, to avoid the better exploits being discovered and mitigated
“The first versions of the new AZZY implant appeared in August of this year. During a high profile incident we investigated, our products successfully detected and blocked a “standard” Sofacy “AZZY” sample that was used to target a range of defense contractors.”
“Interestingly, the fact that the attack was blocked didn’t appear to stop the Sofacy team. Just an hour and a half later they had compiled and delivered another AZZY x64 backdoor. This was no longer detectable with static signatures by our product. However, it was detected dynamically by the host intrusion prevention subsystem when it appeared in the system and was executed.”
“This recurring, blindingly-fast Sofacy attack attracted our attention as neither sample was delivered through a zero-day vulnerability — instead, they appeared to be downloaded and installed by another malware. This separate malware was installed by an unknown attack as “AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\msdeltemp.dll””
The attackers have multiple levels of malware, and can cycle through them until something works, then use that to drop a payload that matches the quality of the target they are attacking
“In addition to the new AZZY backdoors with side-DLL for C&C, we observed a new set of data-theft modules deployed against victims by the Sofacy group. Among the most popular modern defense mechanisms against APTs are air-gaps — isolated network segments without Internet access, where sensitive data is stored. In the past, we’ve seen groups such as Equation and Flame use malware to steal data from air-gapped networks. The Sofacy group uses such tools as well. The first versions of these new USB stealer modules appeared around February 2015 and the latest appear to have been compiled in May 2015.”
“This data theft module appears to have been compiled in May 2015 and is designed to watch removable drives and collect files from them, depending on a set of rules defined by the attackers. The stolen data is copied into a hidden directory as “%MYPICTURES%\%volume serial number%“, from where it can be exfiltrated by the attackers using one of the AZZY implants. More details on the new USB stealers are available in the section on technical analysis.”
“Over the last year, the Sofacy group has increased its activity almost tenfold when compared to previous years, becoming one of the most prolific, agile and dynamic threat actors in the arena. This activity spiked in July 2015, when the group dropped two completely new exploits, an Office and Java zero-day. At the beginning of August, Sofacy began a new wave of attacks, focusing on defense-related targets. As of November 2015, this wave of attacks is ongoing. The attackers deploy a rare modification of the AZZY backdoor, which is used for the initial reconnaissance. Once a foothold is established, they try to upload more backdoors, USB stealers as well as other hacking tools such as “Mimikatz” for lateral movement.”
Lateral movement is a more generic term for Island Hopping, moving around inside the network once you get through the outer defenses
“Two recurring characteristics of the Sofacy group that we keep seeing in its attacks are speed and the use of multi-backdoor packages for extreme resilience. In the past, the group used droppers that installed both the SPLM and AZZY backdoors on the same machine. If one of them was detected, the other one provided the attacker with continued access.”
“As usual, the best defense against targeted attacks is a multi-layered approach. Combine traditional anti-malware technologies with patch management, host intrusion detection and, ideally, whitelisting and default-deny strategies.”

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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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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

View all updates: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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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Return of the Localhost | LINUX Unplugged 110

chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:59:30 +0000

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We cover some great open source projects that help you live life off-line, as if you were online. We also discuss the upstream contributions from Munich & an awesome block level back up system.

Plus some great feedback, a road trip update & more!

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How to Watch Netflix Natively on Linux – the Easy Way

Thankfully, all of that has become unnecessary and using Netflix natively on Linux is now really easy and basically all you need to do is use Google Chrome.

How To Watch Hulu on Ubuntu 14.04 and Up – OMG! Ubuntu!

The problem? Ubuntu no longer includes HAL by default nor in the Ubuntu Archive. Sites that use Flash DRM don’t work on Ubuntu out of the box.

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Finding Linux

Here is my name contribution! Love all the shows! Good luck with the endeavor!

Name for road show

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The Very Open Road Show (vors)

The Wide Open Road Show (off to the wors!)

The Linux Open Road Show

Linux On The Move

If you pass by Colorado

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Subject: If you pass by Colorado

For the road show I heard that you might pass by in Colorado. In case that is so, would be great if you like to come by for a beer at a microbrew.

Then the second thing, I was this week at a students meeting of linux users at the University, and it was great to see so many young people interested in linux.

They even helped installing Mint on whoever liked to try linux. Some of them where even running Arch! There were around 10-15 people, perhaps you like to meet them, they are the new generation of linux users.

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Munich now a major contributor to open source

The city of Munich is a major contributor to free and open source projects, sending bugfixes to upstream developers, making available software solutions and sharing best practices and technical information. In August, Munich IT staff members shared the city’s accomplishments with the community of Debian developers, one of the main free software distributions.

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Off-Line Like your On-Line

what is wallabag? – wallabag

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages. Unlike other services, wallabag is free (as in freedom) and open source.

With this application you will not miss content anymore. Click, save, read it when you want. It saves the content you select so that you can read it when you have time.

KeePassX

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.
KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and
you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet.

Archiving a website with Wget

I’ll share the command I use to archive a single website.

wget -mpck –user-agent=”” -e robots=off –wait 1 www.foo.com

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datto

The Datto Block Driver (Dattobd) solves the above problems. Dattobd is an open source Linux kernel module for point-in-time live snapshotting. Dattobd can be loaded onto a running Linux machine (without a reboot) and used to create an image file representing any block device at the instant the snapshot is taken. After the first snapshot, Dattobd tracks incremental changes to the block device and can therefore efficiently update existing backups by copying only the blocks that have changed.

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Vulkan the Metal Slayer | LINUX Unplugged 105

chris — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:03:48 +0000

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We chat with the chief technology officer behind Mycroft, an open source artificial intelligence for everyone. Then discuss Android’s adoption of Vulkan and the major impact it could have on desktop Linux & the nice new Linux exclusive features coming to Firefox.

Plus we revisit file syncing under Linux & discuss the really great options that have cropped up recently.

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Mycroft: An Open Source Artificial Intelligence For Everyone by Joshua Montgomery — Kickstarter

Uses natural language to control Internet of Things. Built on Raspberry Pi this whole home A.I. plays media, controls lights & more.

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Kali linux 2.0 Released

We now find ourselves smack in the middle of the most significant release of Kali since 2013. Today is the day that Kali 2.0 is officially released.

Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution oriented toward penetration testing and related tasks; the 2.0 release is now available. “There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for a variety of Desktop Environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm), updated desktop environment and tools – and the list goes on. But these bulletpoint items are essentially a side effect of the real changes that have taken place in our development backend. Ready to hear the real news? Take a deep breath, it’s a long list.” At the top of that list is that Kali is now a rolling distribution.

GNOME Announces Search for Executive Director

The GNOME Foundation is looking for qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. The Executive Director is critical for the Foundation, the public face of GNOME, the liaison to the GNOME Advisory Board

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Syncing Under Linux Revisited

Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced | Ubuntu Insights

Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service.

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and
you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet.

The Firefox Accounts server is deployed on our systems using RPM packaging,
and we don’t provide any other packaging or publish official builds yet.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Android Developers Blog

In order to address some of the sources of CPU overhead and provide developers with more explicit control over rendering, we’ve been working to bring a new 3D rendering API, Vulkan(tm), to Android.

Here’s a brain dump of the things that sometimes drive me crazy about OpenGL.

Metal for Developers – Apple Developer

Metal provides the lowest-overhead access to the GPU, enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS and OS X.

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Perfect Linux Laptop | LINUX Unplugged 69

chris — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:46:39 +0000

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The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

Plus CoreOS announces Rocket, a new Docker competitor that we’re very excited about & more!

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Librem 15: A Free/Libre Software Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms | Crowd Supply

The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. Every other consumer-grade laptop you can purchase comes with an operating system that includes suspect, proprietary software, and there’s no way for you to know what that software does.

The reality is that unless every aspect of your kernel, operating system, and software applications are free/libre and open source, there is no way to know that your computer is truly working in your best interest. Purism is the first to solve this problem.

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

Rocket is a new container runtime, designed for composability, security, and speed. Today we are releasing a prototype version on GitHub to begin gathering feedback from our community and explain why we are building Rocket.

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Mark Shuttleworth Interview | LAS 341

chris — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:15:45 +0000

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Mark Shuttleworth sits down with the big show to reflect on 10 years of Ubuntu, the state of the Debian community, their efforts with Mir & the switch to systemd. Plus he’ll give us some insights to his competitive advantage when dealing with a contentious market.

Plus Mint 17.1 is out and we’ll dig into what’s great, the Debian fork is looking for funds, FreeBSD’s plans to compete with systemd…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Desktop App Pick

MenuLibre

Thank you to crossroads1112, RottN

An advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface. All without GNOME dependencies, so even lightweight systems can benefit from the sanity that MenuLibre offers. MenuLibre is your one-stop shop for menus in Linux, whether you use Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, or Unity.

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Weekly Spotlight

urlwatch – a tool for monitoring webpages for updates

This script is intended to help you watch URLs and get notified (via
email or in your terminal) of any changes. The change notification will
include the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed.

NetMauMau

A server for the popular card game Mau Mau.
There is also a proof of concept Qt client available:
https://github.com/velnias75/NetMauMau-Qt-Client

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Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon released!

Linux Mint 17.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

They’re going to fork Debian.

Dear Init-Freedom lovers, the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you!

Our project is called “Devuan”.

Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like “DevOne” in English.

Devuan – the GNU/Linux by Veteran Unix Admins.

HandBrake 0.10.0 Released With Support For New Encoders

added VP8 encoder (using libvpx)
updated libraries: x264 r2479-dd79a61, Libav v10.1 and libbluray 0.5.0
Linux only: improvements to Auto-Naming feature
Linux only: requires GTK3.

Syncthing is still syncthing

This is to announce and explain that we’re slightly modifying the relationship between syncthing and Ind.ie. You may recall that I announced that syncthing was going to be renamed Pulse and live under the stewardship of Ind.ie, almost exactly a month ago. This isn’t happening, at least not right now and not exactly in this manner. Syncthing is going to remain syncthing.

FreeBSD Plans For The Next Ten Years

Jordan Hubbard – FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years – YouTube

FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years (MeetBSD 2014) from iXsystems

Jordan Hubbard, the co-founder of FreeBSD and CTO of iXsystems, gave a talk at this month’s MeetBSD California 2014 conference about the next ten years of FreeBSD.

Besides recapping the twenty-one year history of FreeBSD with some remarks, Hubbard focused on the future of FreeBSD and goals he hopes to see realized for this popular BSD distribution. Among the project ideas Jordan hopes will be tackled for FreeBSD in the next decade include a single/unified configuration data interface for FreeBSD and all services/applications, a centralized event notification system, and service start-up and wrangling improvements.

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OwnCloud Your Chromebook | LAS 329

chris — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:30:26 +0000

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Linux is the ultimate productivity OS. This week we’ll show you how to divorce your Chromebook from Google, sync all your Linux desktops with free software and improve your workflow at the same time.

Plus the new tool from Red Hat you’ll be using soon, Ubuntu shows developers some love & the big game coming to Linux we’re excited about!

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Howto Install Linux on Chromebook

Suggest: ‘Linux on Chromebook how to’ LAS episode

Acer C720 Chromebook – ArchWiki

The Acer C720 Chromebook (and newer Chromebooks in general) features a “legacy boot” mode that makes it easy to boot Linux and other operating systems. The legacy boot mode is provided by the SeaBIOS payload of coreboot. SeaBIOS behaves like a traditional BIOS that boots into the MBR of a disk, and from there into your standard bootloaders like Syslinux and GRUB.

How to run DotA 2 on a Chromebook

Accessing the superuser shell with Chrome OS installed

If you have configured Chrome OS already:

Open a crosh window with Ctrl + Alt + T.
Open a bash shell with the shell command.
Become superuser with sudo bash

Enabling the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS

This method will allow you to access the pre-installed version of SeaBIOS through the Developer Mode screen in coreboot.

Inside your superuser shell enter:
crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1
Reboot the machine.

You can now start SeaBIOS by pressing Ctrl + L at the white boot splash screen.

Remove the write-protect screw to Perma-Disable the boot message warning

By removing the bottom panel of the laptop by removing the 12 visible screws and another one underneath the warranty sticker, then separating the plastic starting at the back

Finally completely remove the write-protect screw from the motherboard, which is labelled as #7 in this picture

Setsuna666/elementaryos-chromebook · GitHub

ChromeeOS will install elementary OS (with ChrUbuntu) and apply automatically all the necessary fixes to run elementary OS on Chromebooks. You will be able to boot in ChromeOS or elementary OS on your Chromebook.

Troubleshooting

Legacy Boot Doesn’t Work

Sometimes it’s possible to break the SeaBIOS install in the flash (sometimes doing innocuous things like tweaking the GBB flags). If you do get into such a situation:

Check that dev_boot_legacy is set to 1 when you run crossystem
- If it isn’t, then see the normal Legacy Boot section above
- if it is, then see below

You can safely reset the copy of SeaBIOS in your flash by running (as root):

# chromeos-firmwareupdate --sb_extract /tmp
# flashrom -w /tmp/bios.bin -i RW_LEGACY

OwnCloud 7 Digital Ocean Tutorial?

software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud

For xUbuntu 14.04 run the following:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud

You can add the repository key to apt. Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information). To add the key, run:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

After Packages are Installed Guide

Navigate to your ownCloud instance.

If you are installing ownCloud on the same machine as you are accessing the
install wizard from, the url will be https://localhost/owncloud

Which is better files synchronizer – ownCloud or BitTorrent Sync?

Accessing your Files (WebDAV) — ownCloud User Manual 6.0 documentation

BitTorrent Sync

Share directly from device to device. No cloud. No limits.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted
over the Internet.

Private. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally.
Encrypted. All communication is secured using TLS. The encryption used includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from ever gaining access to your data.
Authenticated. Every node is identified by a strong cryptographic certificate. Only nodes you have explicitly allowed can connect to your cluster.
Syncthing in the official Arch Linux [community] repository – Syncthing Forum

Open Development

Open Discourse. Development and usage is always open for discussion.

Syncthing Discussion Forum
* Open Source. All source code is available on GitHub — what you see is what you get, there is no hidden funny business.

Syncthing Source Code
* Open Protocol. The protocol is a documented standard — no hidden magic.

Syncthing Protocol Definition
* Open Development. Any bugs found are immediately visible for anyone to browse — no hidden flaws.

Syncthing Issue Tracker

MEGAsync For Linux Desktops MEGA.co.nz Linux Sync Client

MEGAsync for Linux comes with most features available for other similar tools (like Dropbox): the tray icon displays the sync status (and if you use the Nautilus extension, the files have emblems which show their sync status), it supports selective sync, you can use proxies, you can copy a public link for a file via the Nautilus context menu and so on.

There are also some extra features: you can upload a link to MEGA directly from the tray/appindicator app and import links to your MEGA account

MEGA

MEGA currently provides a multi-platform software development kit, and we have plans to release the source code to MEGAsync under an open-source license.

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Desktop App Pick

slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing
from the terminal easier. It has:

first-class mouse support
GUI editor-like keybindings *
copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
undo/redo
syntax highlighting for many languages
a Sublime-like file sidebar
select word to highlight other occurrences; double-click to select word
easy-to-use finding with regex support
bracket matching
… many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind

Weekly Spotlight

Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop Alphas now available

David Purse has announced the availability of the alpha release of Simplicity Linux 14.10, a lightweight Puppy-based distribution with LXDE as the preferred desktop environment: “After a bit of a delay, the Simplicity Linux 14.10 Netbook and Desktop alphas are now available for download. All versions of Simplicity Linux 14.10 alpha are using the 3.15.4 kernel and are based on Puppy Slacko 5.9.3. As usual, Netbook is aimed at users who tend to do things online, but still want a pretty and professional looking desktop. It runs LXDE as the window manager, has Wbar as a dock, and comes complete with Firefox and TOR browser. Desktop 14.10 alpha is aimed at users who want a full-featured desktop Linux. It comes complete with LibreOffice, WINE, Java, VLC and a host of other applications. As with Netbook, it also comes with Firefox and TOR browser built in.” Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): Desktop1410Alpha.iso (580MB), Netbook1410Alpha.iso (324MB).

Development Release: Simplicity Linux 14.10 Alpha (DistroWatch.com News)

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Red Hat Developers Introduce New Tool For Linux Storage Management

blivet-gui, a new open-source storage tool designed by Red Hat for configuring disks and file-systems.

This tool replaces the deprecated system-config-lvm storage management tool.

Open WebOS reborn in new LuneOS release

The Open WebOS mobile Linux operating system has been renamed “LuneOS,” and is available in an “Affogato” release supporting HP’s TouchPad and LG’s Nexus 4.

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, Makes It Easy To Install Android Studio And Android SDK In Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Developer Tools Center was created, a project to enable quick and easy setup of common developers needs on Ubuntu. For now, Canonical is focusing on Android developers, but more will follow, like Go developers, web developers, Dart and more.

Linux Gaming Round-Up: Borderlands 2, Wasteland 2 & Sanctum 2

In fact, it’s so good that we’re a little swamped by the latest bout of releases, teases and rumours! To help us (and you) get back on top of things, we’ll rattle off the biggest gaming stories of the past fortnight or so in one swoop.

cool-old-term is dead, long live cool-retro-term | Swordfish’s Labs

But why?… Well, cool-old-term was a sort of boilerplate name I chose at the beginning of the project and it stuck when the project became more popular. cool-retro-term keeps familiarity and has a very cool acronym so we can talk nerdy: “Have you tried CRT. It’s really great!”.

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Fine Wine or Sour Ports | LINUX Unplugged 42

chris — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:28:39 +0000

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Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to discuss the Witcher 2 port fiasco, and why Linux’s reputation as a gaming platform could be on the line.

Plus a heated Manjaro discussion, your feedback, and a BIG announcement!

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The Witcher 2 Just Made A Bunch Of Linux Gamers Very, Very Angry

eON is a middle ground idea between what WINE does, and a native port. It is tuned and customised to each game we port — we do not simply slap a Windows binary into it and ship the game. For example, we often customise the D3D9->GL code path in various ways to cater for the title. Shaders are often rewritten to native GLSL, etc.

GamingOnLinux – Why We Shouldn\’t Accept Bad Linux Ports

_The problem is if we keep accepting ports at a sub-par quality then Linux will gain a reputation for having low quality games. Think about that big picture for a moment, seriously.

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A daily, low key tech talk show. Covering the entire industry.
A rotating cast of friends will join me, sometimes I’ll be solo.
A unique perspective and insights, from outside the valley bubble. Outside the grasp of Google or Apple influence. A perspective from the open source community considering the important topics of the day.
The state of technology coverage has bothered me for a long time, and specifically as many LUP listeners know the coverage of the Linux and open source communities.
The show will try and be a daily taste maker of interesting topics and discussion.
The daily format will allow for a large range of topics, and active live participation via Mumble, etc for talk back.
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Arch Home Server Challenge | LAS 313

chris — Sun, 18 May 2014 16:19:39 +0000

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Coming up on this week’s episode of The Linux Action Show!

Arch Linux can make the perfect Home Server, we’ll share our tips to build the ultimate home server running the latest software, powered by Arch Linux.

Plus Ubuntu rocks the OpenStack summit, a first look at Syncthing (the fully OSS Bittorrent Sync killer), results from our Btrfs poll, our picks…

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Ubuntu 12.10 – Quantal Quetzal – End of Life reached on May 16 2014

Arch Home Server Install Notes:

My Arch server philosophy comes down to one word: Focus
Outside of a few exceptions, an Arch server should be an absolutely lean machine, with only the packages required to perform a specific function.
Additional functions should be spun out into separate VMs when possible. VMs are cheap, containers are even cheaper.
We use a Template with a base Arch install, with the correct uids for NFS, the correct groups, and the basic file system mounts entered to fstab. This also simplifies the Arch deployment process.
The best server is a headless server, with no GUI. When you toss out the GUI, the usability playing field for setting up a server gets leveled out to nearly flat.
The invaluable amount of help that comes from the Arch Wiki in many ways gives Arch a usability boost over other possible distributions for a headless home server.

Arch Installation Quick Reference Guide by jmac217

So over the past few months or so I\’ve been just been throwing often-used commands and links into a Google Document to get me up and running quickly when I want to spin up a new Arch installation.

[Google Doc Install Guide by jmac217][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC41PnZFX7en8L3l0AYLXQKFsC2kxFrZjxQ1Q36AP-k/edit?usp=sharing]

Proxmox

Proxmox supports a mix of KVM Virtual Machines, and Linux containers.
Arch currently (I believe due to a systemd bug) runs best in KVM, not in a container.
Arch might make a better Linux Container candidate after that bug is fixed.
Our Proxmox box is a Core i7 rig, with 1TB of internal RAID0 storage.
Important data is stored on the NFS FreeNAS box.
We run one Arch VM from the internal 1TB, and one from the NFS mount.

NFS Setup

FreeNAS was our selection for the back-end storage.
A btrfs powered server was considered, but upon a mighty reflection induced by our recent poll, ZFS seemed like the wiser choice.
ZFS does work on Linux, but the utility aspect of FreeNAS appeals.
When the application stuff is handled by front end systems, the backend storage should be a simple, reliable, and appliance like as possible. FreeNAS offers a lot of that, with a native ZFS implementation, backed by a trusted company – iXsystems.
Install NTP on both ends
In Arch use systemd to mount the NFS share
Create a common UID on the NFS server and Client. This makes file permissions much simpler. Have everything owned by your “media” user in your “media” share.

SABnzbd

Configured SABnzbd to work off the NFS mount.
sabnzb modify it to allow network connections:

/opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

CouchPotato.

packer -S couchpotato-git
cd /usr/lib/systemd/system
nano couchpotato.service – edit to run as root
chown -R root:root /opt/couchpotato
systemctl enable couchpotato
systemctl start couchpotato

Default port is 5050

SickBeard

SickBeard requires you have some usenet index search APIs. It’s built in search is limited.

Set SickBeard to ping Plex to update once a download completes.

Monitorix

Edit /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
Set your hostname and title
Double check the built in httpd port. 8080 is the default. Which is also sabnzbd’s port.
Set to enabled if you want to use the internal webserver.
Further down you can turn on and off what it graphs.
How to set up a web-based lightweight system monitor on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL

SSMTP

SSMTP is a program to deliver an email from a local computer to a configured mailhost (mailhub). It is not a mail server (like feature-rich mail server sendmail) and does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. One of its primary uses is for forwarding automated email (like system alerts) off your machine and to an external email address.
A lot of server side applications (and the next item down in this list) need to use smtp to send you an email notification. When you have automated processes happening at all different hours of the day, often kicked off my some script running headless in the background, it’s sorta a necessary evil.
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Logwatch

Logwatch is a powerful and versatile log parser and analyzer. Logwatch is designed to give a unified report of all activity on a server, which can be delivered through the command line or email.
A key part of set it and forget it is having your system alert you when it needs help, so you can address it before it becomes a disaster.

Syncthing

Per-user config files, example:

/home/studio/.syncthing/config.xml

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Desktop App Pick

Castawesome

Castawesome is live screencasting tool for Linux. With it you can broadcast video and audio from your desktop to Twitch.tv/Justin.tv, Hitbox.tv and YouTube

Weekly Spotlight

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it\’s transmitted over the Internet.

Syncthing – Android Apps on Google Play

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Canonical Goes BIG at

OpenStack Deployments Are Up, And So Is Ubuntu—But Will It Stick?

This year more than 5,000 people showed up to the OpenStack conference, and 1,780 people filled out a survey that drills into how they\’re using OpenStack. Many of the respondents (60%) came from companies that employ fewer than 500 people, while a dwindling percentage was derived from users at companies that employ more than 1,000 people, compared to the October 2013 user survey (34%, down from 39%).

The Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – Mark Unveils the Orange Box

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.
Mark introduces the Orange Box: https://youtu.be/aEYCjHCderM?t=13m33s

Canonical offers \’Chuck Norris Grade\’ OpenStack private cloud service

This new offering is called Your Cloud. For $15 per day per host, \”Ubuntu offers all the software infrastructure, tools, and services you need to have your own cloud at your fingertips. Built by experts on Ubuntu OpenStack, fully managed and with 24/7 monitoring.\”

Canonical Juju DevOps tool coming to CentOS and Windows

It\’s hard to shock an audience at a technical conference. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company Canonical, managed it several times in his OpenStack Summit keynote speech. No news may have been more surprising than that Canonical had ported its Juju DevOps program to its rival\’s operating systems: Red Hat\’s CentOS and Microsoft\’s Hyber-V and Windows Server 2012.

Ubuntu\’s Unity 8 Desktop To Be Release As Separate Flavor?

“The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (we don’t plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project.

The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that’s required to make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration.”

Linux Mint will stick to LTS release

The decision was made to stick to LTS bases. In other words the development team will be focused on the very same package base used by Linux Mint 17 for the next 2 years.

It will also be trivial to upgrade from version 17 to 17.1, then 17.2 and so on.
Important applications will be backported and we expect this change to boost the pace of our development and reduce the amount of regressions in each new Linux Mint release.

This makes Linux Mint 17.x very important to us, not just yet another release, but one that will receive security updates until 2019, one that will receive backports and new features until 2016 and even more importantly, the only package base besides LMDE which we’ll be focused on until 2016.

Our traffic doubled lately and all our stats are on the raise, and we don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to the the end-of-life of Windows XP. We’re not really sure

Antergos\’ Release Candidate plus Partnering with Numix

Antergos is partnering with the Numix Project to create an exclusive edition of Numix Themes for our desktops (both GTK and QT). In this RC, you will be able to enjoy some premature advances of this agreement in the form of the icon theme. We’re not sure if the rest of the design will be make it into this release or if it will be postponed until next stable release.

Antergos – Here we are one year after

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