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We chat about our time with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE, then using the latest situation with Manjaro we discuss the poor state of Linux news, root causes, and what the real solution is that has major ramifications for the open source community.

Plus some fantastic feedback, a Command Line challenge update, and our big plans for next week!

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Pre-Show:

• The Importance of Our Brand | elementary OS

We love when our community shares screenshots and stories of what they create on elementary OS. When you share how you use elementary OS, you’re sharing the fact that it’s something real people use every day—that it’s something both five-year-olds and professional programmers can use. Your stories and the community you create is a big part of what brings people to elementary OS.

FU:

• My concerns with containerization of software on the desktop

• Command Line Challenge Update

• 2 question to ask the Jupiter LUG

KDE – New Plasma brings a cleaner interface on top of a new graphics stack

KDE proudly announces the immediate availability of Plasma 5.0, providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE’s workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability.

• Plasma 5 on ARCH!!!

Request: Describe your desktop setup ChrisLAS

Here we are again…

Michael came by some information about Manjaro developers leaving the distribution. No big deal, that happens; people move on. But that’s not sexy enough to drive clicks. So what we need here is a really flagrant title, one like: “Manjaro Linux Developers Experience A Mass Exodus”.

Now in the real world of news reporting, there is this thing called ‘Verification’, wherein, you try to independently verify from multiple sources the information you are researching. You contact multiple people, you get the story from different angles, and then you decided what you are going to write. But in todays fast paced ‘Get the story out first’ online news reporting, that step gets lost. Sites want to be the first one to release news, why…? Because the first to report gets the clicks, and in this world. Clicks = Money. We have sacrificed Truth for convenience and money.

But there’s a more ugly deceitful side; intentionally NOT verifying information can sometimes create a lot of drama. And drama my friends… well… Drama = Clicks. So whats our mantra? – Get the story out first! – If its wrong and creates drama no problem — that’s a plus, it’ll drive more traffic to our site. We can later ‘retract’ any false information once we’ve actually been presented with the correct information.
It’s simple math.
Drama = Clicks. Click = Money. Thus: Drama = Money.

• Join us on Sunday for a chat with Rob from Manjaro to get the story straight from the source.

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• Only a few days old, OpenSSL fork LibreSSL is declared “unsafe for Linux” | Ars Technica

A security researcher has warned that there are cases where the LibreSSL PRNG will produce identical output two or more times when running on Linux systems, something he called a “catastrophic failure.” The same data can be returned when an application process is cloned—or “forked,” in computing parlance—something that can happen when an operating system repeats a similar task over and over, like each time a Web server opens a new connection, for example. In most cases, LibreSSL will detect that a process has been forked because its identifier, known as a PID, will differ. In those cases, LibreSSL will automatically reseed the random numbers to ensure they’re unique to the new process.

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Project lead of the new KDE Visual Design Group, Jens Reuterberg, joins us to discuss building a culture of design around KDE, driving community consensus, and how they hope to design by collaboration.

Plus: Linux had a strong showing at Mobile World Congress, we’ll round it up, another major game land for Linux…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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KDE’s Visual Design Group:

Brought to you by: System76

Jens Reuterberg

This is the portfolio site of me, Jens Reuterberg (or Ohyran).

• Jens Reuterberg – Google+

• Jens Reuterberg – Twitter

• KDE Visual Design Group

• KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #4

• KDE Visual Design Group: The issue with icons

We are too small to influence them, but too big not to get sued – is the long and the short of it.

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Runs Linux:

• q5sys one of our Action Producers, Runs Linux

• q5sys’ Linux Rig Specs

Desktop App Pick

• Tox

Project Tox, also known as Tox, is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) instant messaging application aimed to replace Skype.
The goal of this project is to create a configuration-free P2P skype replacement. Configuration-free means that the user will simply have to open the program and without any account configuration will be capable of adding people to his friends list and start conversing with them. There are many so-called skype replacements and all of them are either hard to configure for the normal user or suffer from being way too centralized.

• Binaries – Tox Wiki

• Venom · GitHub

A Vala/Gtk+ graphical user interface for Tox

Weekly Spotlight

• Wings of Saint Nazaire

Wings of Saint Nazaire is a retro space combat sim in the vein of Wing Commander(tm) and X-Wing(tm) developed today!

• Wings of St. Nazaire (WingsOfNazaire) on Twitter

• Wings Of Saint Nazaire Alpha On Linux – YouTube

• Happy Birthday to the Rasberry Pi – Possibly open source RPU Drives on the Way?

— NEWS —

Portal 2 for Linux Beta Released

There are a few bugs but Valve is tracking those on a public Github page.

• ValveSoftware/portal2 · GitHub

Important: To play Portal 2 on Linux you must opt-in to the beta. You may do this by right-clicking on Portal 2 (Beta) in Steam, clicking Properties -> Betas and then select ‘beta’ from the drop-down. If you do not do this, Portal 2 will not run on Linux.

Ubuntu wins Tom’s Hardware Best of MWC 2014

Tom’s Hardware noted: Overall, the experience was a lot smoother, and the operating system itself was a pleasure to use, being both intuitive and visually appealing.

Ubuntu Meizu MX3 and BQ Aquaris – First look ahead of UK launch (Wired UK)

Wired.co.uk went hands-on with the two prototype devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The MX3 has a 5.1-inch screen.

Provisional specs for the phone include an octa-core chip, a 3-core graphics processor and 2GB of RAM.

It should be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions and will be powered by a 2,400mAh battery.

There are no specific specs available yet for the BQ Aquaris

Canonical’s CEO tells Wired.co.uk:

The marketing strategy for the phones when they officially launch will be a global online campaign. It will be a relatively soft launch, she adds, that will give Ubuntu fans the opportunity to get their hands on the devices first.

Hands-On with the $25 Firefox Phone

Mozilla engineers were able to accomplish this by adjusting the hardware requirements of the operating system to run on a 1 GHz CPU, single core Spreadtrum chipset with only 128 MB of RAM. That’s only 25 to 50 percent of the RAM found in existing entry-level devices on the market

Lawrence Lessig At SCALE12x

At SCALE12x the 12th Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig delivered an
opening keynote that challenged the free software community to do
something it does not normally attempt: engage with the political
system. Lessig is perhaps best known as a public advocate for reform
in the US government’s patent and copyright systems and for his activism in intellectual property issues (such as founding
Creative Commons).

As he explained to the SCALE crowd, those affected public policy areas include some key
technology issues—and Lessig’s own commitment to the cause he
credits directly to his friendship with developer Aaron Swartz.

The talk was an unusual one for SCALE, where politics is rarely on the agenda. But the crowd responded with enthusiasm, to the stories of technology policy, and to the analogy of zeroing in on a flaw like a bug and fixing it.

• Samsung smartwatches run on Tizen

Samsung unveiled three Tizen smartwatches

Set to ship in April, with pricing unknown, the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit will ship with 100 Tizen apps.

Both devices offer the same 1.63-inch, 320 x 320-pixel Super AMOLED screen found on the Galaxy Gear, but they advance to a faster 1GHz, dual-core processor. Memory stays put at 512MB RAM and 4GB flash.

• Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals

Cutting the price of Windows 8.1 by 70 percent for makers of low-cost computers and tablets

Manufacturers will be charged $15 to license Windows 8.1 and preinstall it on devices that retail for less than $250.

Instead of the usual fee of $50.

• Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1 | The Verge

We’re told that Microsoft is aiming to position Windows 8.1 with Bing as a free or low-cost upgrade for Windows 7 users. Any upgrade offers will be focused on boosting the number of people using Windows 8.1. This Bing-powered version of Windows 8.1 may also be offered to PC makers as part of recent license cuts for devices under $250.

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• Fitbit for Linux

• Lots of really good Howto Linux producer submissions. The audience is full of amazing people.

• Contact will be made early next week to folks we want to discuss things further with.

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Georgi Karavasilev from the Numix project joins us to discuss their vision for pushing the look of the Linux desktop to the next level, and the efforts they’re willing to take to make that vision happen.

Plus: Ubuntu Touch gets two hardware partners, Microsoft is up to it;s old tricks again…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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The Numix Project:

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• System76 at SCALE12x

• Numix – Not just yet another theme suite

Numix is all about making a difference in theming. We aim to prove that “difference” and “usability” are two words combined, that can make sense. You get a modern and stylish desktop, spiced up with a pinch of warmth just enough to make you feel like laying in your favourite comfy armchair, with a beverage of your choice in hand.

• Numix Project on Google+

Georgi Karavasilev

Works on the icon themes and is the unofficial PR guy.

Georgi is the guy behind the design of Kazam, Unity Tweak Tool, Smuxi, XNoise, Athena and a bundle of more community and third party apps. He is also an Ubuntu member. He writes on omgubuntu.co.uk and his personal blog mechoslav.wordpress.com.

• Numix Project – Google+ – So, in case you haven’t watched the Linux Action Show here…

Yeah, we’re doing a custom desktop shell built on top of Gnome-Shell.
More details are to come tomorrow.
For now just have this little teaser.

Desktop Shots

• https://i.imgur.com/TwTQl21.png
• https://i.imgur.com/ARm9liC.png
• https://i.imgur.com/pLqYzbL.png

– Picks –

Runs Linux:

• Project Tango, Runs Linux!

Project Tango is a phone which uses complex array of sensors that track motion in closed environments, and can build a visual 3D of rooms and other indoor areas. The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.

Runs Linux Moment: https://youtu.be/pQzOikz63jA?t=2m2s

• Google’s Project Tango Struts Into the Spotlight

Desktop App Pick

• Stikked · GitHub

Weekly Spotlight

• Humble Indie Bundle 11

• The Reason Some Games Are Delayed For Linux In Humble Indie Bundles

• The LAS 300 Shirt

• New Logo

• Limited time LAS Challenge Coin

— NEWS —

• Ubuntu phones to ship this year from two manufacturers
• BQ-Products-S50
• MX3 | Features
• Ubuntu Phone Handsets from Bq and Meizu Coming This Year

The Meizu handset is strongly rumoured to be a re-purposed version of company’s latest Android device, the Meizu MX3. This 5.1-inch mobile is powered by an 8-core ARM Cortex 15 CPU, paired with a 3-core GPU and 2GB of RAM.

• Sailfish hits 1.0, to be released for Android devices

• Microsoft cries out to UK government against open source

• Government open standards consultation will likely impact all of us. Make sure your voice is heard by 26th February – The Microsoft Partner Network UK Blog

• Pitivi: bringing open source video editing to the next level

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• Give away quiz: Linux Trivia

• Tons of Amazon subscribers and PayPal subs canceled due to card changes related to the Target hack.

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• SCALE 12x

February 21–23, 2014, Hilton Los Angeles Airport

Send in your pics/coverage of Mobile World Congress 2014

• Mobile World Congress 2014

Mobile World Congress 2014 will take place 24 – 27 February 2014 (Mon – Thur). The event will once again take place at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain.

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Angela and Chris share their tips, tricks, and thoughts on blogging. Plus WordPres vs. SquareSpace and other services. And a few great blogs to check out!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

A blog is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (\”posts\”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog

Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video,[7] and is a form of Web television. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts.

filterfree.me

www.watchthefishers.com

www.momvault.com

5 Best iPhone Apps for Bloggers:https://www.callingallgeeks.org/5-best-iphone-apps-bloggers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CallingAllGeeks+%28CallingAllGeeks%3A+iPhone+|+Gadgets+|+Technology%29

Best blog Sites:
https://lifehacker.com/5568092/five-best-blogging-platforms

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic: https://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012

Every Star Trek Ever: https://everystartrekever.com/2012/05/13/to-boldly-go/

Livejournal https://scalingdynasty.livejournal.com/

VeryShortStory: https://www.facebook.com/veryshortstory or https://twitter.com/veryshortstory

Single Topic Blogs: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/single-topic-blogs

Photo Blogs: https://dailybooth.com/thefauxshow

https://penelopeloveslists.com/
https://www.starfishenvy.typepad.com/

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