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• Ubuntu Desktop Team Discuss Their Plans for GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10 — “may consider a few tweaks here and there to ease our users into the new experience
• The Ubuntu Desktop Team Wants YOUR Feedback — The results of this survey will help inform and shape the Ubuntu desktop team’s approach to GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10.
• OMG! UBUNTU! on Twitter: 16,000+ Ubuntu users have taken the survey — 16,000+ #Ubuntu users have taken the 17.10 GNOME desktop survey
• Windows Server will add the Linux subsystem, join the Insider program — Microsoft announced that WSL will be included in Server later this year.
• Will Linux distros run on Windows 10 S? — Just because an “app” comes from the Windows Store does NOT automatically mean that it’s safe & suitable for running in Windows 10 S. There are some apps that are not allowed to run on Windows 10 S, including all command-line apps, shells and Consoles.
• New Release: elementary OS Loki 0.4.1 — This release comes with a brand new version of AppCenter with support for apps submitted to the AppCenter Dashboard. Welcome to elementary OS, third-party developers!
• Loki’s New AppCenter with Daniel Foré | Chris Interviews Daniel — Daniel Foré, elementary OS founder, joins Chris to chat about their new update to Loki, their pay what you want AppCenter, what the end of Unity means for them, and the future of the project.
• Shipping Advance Prototype – Mycroft — This first version of Mark 1 is an advance prototype, perfectly suitable for developers or enthusiasts, yet it is not ready for the consumer market.
• What’s New in Android: O Developer Preview 2 & More — New tools for developers to help create more performant apps, and an early preview of a project we call Android Go — a new experience that we’re building for entry-level devices.
• Samsung to extend Tizen OS to nearly all home appliances by 2020 — A new report says, though, that Samsung is looking to further increase Tizen adoption by bringing Tizen (or, in this case, Tizen RT) to nearly all of its home appliances by 2020.
• Samsung to announce Tizen RT for smart home appliances — Samsung intends to announce a slimmed-down Tizen OS, called Tizen RT, for its washing machines and other smart home appliances at its Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) today, according to a new report.

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Canonical drops a bombshell by making snap packages available for nearly all Linux distributions, Nextcloud has some serious momentum, Samsung is rumored to drop Android in favor of Tizen across all devices & Wes kicks the tires of elementary OS’ new Beta of Loki.

Then we try out Snap packages & discuss needs to happen next to really make them take off as the standard universal Linux installer.

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

After a slow start, Dell turns up the dial on Steam Machines

Samsung Planning To Replace Android With Linux-based Tizen OS On All Smartphones

The largest Android smartphone manufacturer Samsung is considering a shift from Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to a report, the South Korean tech giant is planning to expand its homegrown Tizen OS to all of its devices in future.

The executive said that Samsung launched Samsung Z1 and Z3 in the Indian market to see Tizen’s performance. “Samsung’s Z-branded Tizen-powered phones are popular with Indian consumers. During the first quarter of this year, Samsung sold about 64 million phones there. This means that Tizen is proving its competitiveness,” said the executive.

Apart from smartphones and smartwatches, the Korean giant wants to use Tizen in the Internet of Things applications. The company is soon looking to expand Tizen’s reach to more household devices like cameras, televisions, smart refrigerators etc.

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Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

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Loki Beta is Here

This release brings tons of fixes and new features for both users and developers. Over 20 blueprints were implemented and over 800 issues closed. Time to break it all down and reveal what the future holds for the next version of elementary OS!

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Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros

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• Ubuntu Snap Apps Can Run On (Pretty Much) ANY Linux Distrio

“We hope today’s announcement will be surprising because it’s not about Ubuntu,” Shuttleworth said in a press calls held earlier today.

• Adios apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere | Ars Technica

Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other Linux distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo among others.

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Great interviews from the floor of OSCON 2015! How FastMail uses Linux, managing thousands of Apache instances, an open source Slack killer, Tizen on all the things & much more.

Plus why the Ubuntu MATE project is dropping the Ubuntu Software, their replacement, the vLUG’s thoughts on Plasma Mobile, a Skunkworks project straight out of Las Vegas & more!

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Cisco announces plans to buy OpenDNS, the European Government agrees on Net Neutrality rules, Microsoft selling Bing imaging to Uber & display ads to AOL, PayPal kills it’s terrible robocalling policy & more!

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• European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions
• Cisco to buy cybersecurity firm OpenDNS in $635m deal | ZDNet
• Two keys to rule them all: Cisco warns of default SSH keys on appliances | Ars Technica
• Microsoft selling Bing imaging to Uber, moving display ads to AOL | Ars Technica
• Samsung Electronics plans more Tizen smartphones this year: source | Reuters
• PayPal Just Killed Its Terrible Robocalling Policy
• In Wake Of Hack, OPM Shutters System For Federal Background Checks – ABC News

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How the CIA cracks iOS devices, some watch talk, we debate the future of laptops & the opportunity for an industry power plug standard.

Plus how Russia plans to put some money behind open source mobile platforms & more!

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iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets

The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a decade, with the first CIA-sponsored meeting taking place a year before the first iPhone was released.

Hands-on with a (working) Apple Watch | The Verge

First things first: it is really confusing to have both the Digital Crown and the communications button next to each other on the side.

Hands On With The All-New Ultra Thin MacBook With Retina Display | TechCrunch

n person, the computer’s technical achievements are even more stunning than they were on stage. The notebook weighs only around 2 lbs, which is amazingly only about half a pound heavier than the original iPad. Holding it in the hand tricks your mind into thinking it’s even lighter, though, thanks to that larger display and the fact that you remember it’s actually a notebook.

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Russia To Pay Local Devs To Migrate Apps To Tizen, Sailfish | TechCrunch

Russia wants to support the Samsung-led Tizen open source effort, and also Jolla’s Sailfish OS — which has been developed in Europe (Finland), and is an extension of the open source MeeGo project (although notably Sailfish is not (yet) itself open sourced).

Tweeting from a conference at the weekend, Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Federation’s Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, called for the “de-monopolization of the global IT ecosystem” — and expressed support for the Linux-based Tizen OS, tweeting a hands-on photo of himself using the “new open source operating system”

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Angela & Chris go over tech’s biggest flops and gaffes of 2014 as reported by Cnet & discussed by the epic lower third!

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Is Amazon’s purchase of Twitch the first big move in the new Amazon vs Google war? We discuss the big acquisition from all the angles.

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Amazon Buys Twitch, and Why it makes sense for Amazon to buy Twitch | The Verge

The company has since confirmed the news, and a press release states Amazon will pay $970 million in cash.

Amazon is clearly very keen to get into gaming. It created its in-house gaming studio back in 2012 and has made a few lightweight Facebook and mobile games since then. It signaled it was getting more serious with the acquisition of Killer Instinct developer Double Helix Games and hiring of Kim Swift, the designer behind the classic Portal game. The company’s new Fire TV offered a selection of games created by Amazon’s in-house team and even has a Amazon joystick you can buy separately, hinting at aspirations to compete with consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation.

For Twitch, being acquired was always about finding a partner that could help it keep up with its massive growth. As The Verge reported back in May, Twitch was being offered hundreds of millions in new funding from its previous investors, but felt that it simply couldn’t scale with capital alone. It needed a company with global infrastructure already in place that it could piggyback on. YouTube certainly fit the bill. But Amazon, with its Amazon Web Services (AWS), also has the kind of international presence to ensure Twitch can stream live video to millions across every continent. Twitch in turn could be the live-streaming platform that powers everything from gaming to concerts to sporting events that play on Amazon’s family of Fire devices.

Why would Twitch choose Amazon over Google? It wasn’t the money, with Amazon’s purchase price being equal or less than Google’s reported offer. Shear wouldn’t answer that question directly, but did provide detail on why Amazon was the best fit. “One of the things that really stood out about Amazon was their approach to acquisitions. We will be a wholly owned subsidiary and and I will remain CEO,” said Shear. “They have a long term vision about how to create big opportunities in the future by investing today.”

Reading between the lines a little, it sounds like Twitch felt at Google, it would have always been YouTube’s little brother. At Amazon, it has the chance to build something from scratch, as Amazon has no user-generated or live video offerings yet. A source familiar with the deal suggested Twitch felt Amazon would give it more autonomy and bigger role in growing the gaming business.

Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust Concerns

Google was unable to close the deal, said sources familiar with the talks, because it was concerned about potential antitrust issues that could have come with the acquisition. The Mountain View, Calif. company already owns YouTube, the world’s most-visited content streaming site, which competes with Twitch to broadcast and stream live or on-demand video game sessions. One source noted that because of the concerns, Google and Twitch could not come to an agreement on the size of a potential breakup fee in case the deal did not go through.

White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise

Michael Daniel is the White House’s cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent interview with GovInfoSecurity, he argued that his lack of technical expertise gave him an advantage in doing that job.

“You don’t have to be a coder in order to really do well in this position,” Daniel said, when asked if his job required knowledge of the technology behind information security. “In fact, actually, I think being too down in the weeds at the technical level could actually be a little bit of a distraction.”

“You can get taken up and enamored with the very detailed aspects of some of the technical solutions,” he explained, arguing that “the real issue is looking at the broad strategic picture.”

As Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten points out, it’s hard to imagine senior policymakers with responsibility for other technical subjects making this kind of claim. Imagine a White House economic advisor arguing that experience in the weeds of economic research would be a distraction, an attorney general making that claim about time in a courtroom, or a surgeon general bragging about never having set foot in an operating room.

Huawei’s Head of Business Group Sees no Future in Tizen

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer business group, talked about the future of the global smartphone industry and how Huawei will compete against Samsung and Apple.

Mr. Yu: We have no plans to use Tizen. Some telecom carriers are pushing us to design Tizen phones but I say “no” to them. In the past we had a team to do research on Tizen but I canceled it. We feel Tizen has no chance to be successful. Even for Windows Phone it’s difficult to be successful.

We have no plans to build our own OS. It’s easy to design a new OS, but the problem is building the ecosystem around it.

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Are you excited about Smart Watches? Or does the current crop fall to far below expectations to be a serious item? Plus a look at how hackers remotely owned a Tesla, and the broader ramifications as computer systems are further integrated into our cars.

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Tesla Model S hack reportedly controls locks, horn, headlights while in motion | Ars Technica

The hacks were carried out at the Syscan 360 security conference in Beijing, an article published by Bloomberg News reported. The report cited a brief post on Chinese social media site Weibo from a representative of China-based Qihoo 360 Technology Co., which said the experiment was carried out by members of the company’s information technology department.

Tesla Motors officials vowed to investigate reports that its Model S sedan is susceptible to hacks that can remotely control the car’s locks, horn, headlights, and skylight while the car is in motion, according to a published report.

Google beats Q2 2014 revenue estimates with $15.96 billion, misses on EPS | Ars Technica

Google announced its earnings for Q2 2014 today. The company reported $15.96 billion in revenue, a 22 percent increase over last quarter, and earnings of $6.08 per share. This is a mixed bag compared to what Wall Street was expecting, which was a net revenue of about $15.62 billion and earnings of $6.25 a share.

Selling hardware and apps on the Play Store now makes up 10 percent of Google’s revenues, up 53 percent over last year for 1.60 billion in revenue.

• Google reports strong revenue growth but misses profit expectations, ad rates still falling

CPC was down 7 percent in the quarter, but for network sites it was down almost twice as much at 13 percent. The growth of mobile usage has been a big part of this decline, since mobile ads tend to cost less.

Continued erosion of the CPC number (down 2% Q2Q, 6% y/y) so for those who haven’t been following this like I have here are the last fourteen quarters:

Paid Clicks Cost Per Click Paid Distribution
Q-2-Q Y-A-Q Q-2-Q Y-A-Q In $M
2011Q1 18 4 8 -1 337
2011Q2 18 -2 6 12 355
2011Q3 13 28 -5 5 383
2011Q4 17 34 -8 -8 442
2012Q1 7 39 -6 -12 468
2012Q2 1 42 1 -16 507
2012Q3 6 33 -3 -15 556
2012Q4 9 24 -2 -6 634
2013Q1 3 20 -4 -4 680
2013Q2 4 23 -2 -6 706
2013Q3 8 26 -4 -8 755
2013Q4 13 31 -2 -11 824
2014Q1 1 26 0 -9 845
2014Q2 2 25 -2 -6 893

Cost per click is the money that Google gets per click, it keeps going down suggesting to me that the “value” of this advertising is going down.

• Not slowing down at all, Google spent $2.65B on data centers in Q2 — Tech News and Analysis

Google’s quarterly infrastructure spending has been skyrocketing for several quarters now, and the past three months were no exception. Google spent nearly $2.65 billion on data centers during the second quarter — more than $1 billion over last year’s second quarter and more than triple what it spent two years ago.

Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?

Fewer than half of the respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they would consider buying a smartwatch, and even the most optimistic experts predict only 20 million smartwatch sales this year, a pittance compared with phone and tablet sales.

To understand the smartwatch hype, it helps to know that the consumer-tech world is going through an identity crisis. Smartphones and their affiliated apps have powered Silicon Valley’s profit engines for years, but growth in the phone market is slowing as more people make do with the devices they already have. (Research firm IDC expects smartphone growth to fall to single digits by 2018.)

Since at the moment smartwatches need to be tethered to your phone’s data connection in order to work properly, they actually don’t allow you to streamline at all. And while it was convenient not to have to reach into my pocket every time I got a Facebook message, Twitter reply, or email, the constant buzzing raised my stress level considerably. Then there’s the matter of having a $300 gadget strapped to my wrist, which creates anxiety of its own.

Android Wear Review: Putting the Smartphone on Your Wrist – YouTube

WSJ Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern reviews the first truly “smart” watches.

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iOS security researchers have found what appear to be backdoors in current versions of iOS, Edward Snowden plans to build new privacy tools, Google strong arms Samsung to drop Tizen, and a new Nvidia Tablet could be landing as soon as tomorrow.

Plus a new gadget to extend your wifi, Android and Linux apps running together, and more!

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Edward Snowden Plans to Work on Privacy Tech

NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers to join his efforts.

Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in New York

But today he hinted, without providing any further details, that he’s going to be doing some of that work himself. He also wants like-minded hackers to work with him in some capacity.

Forensic Expert Questions Covert ‘Backdoor’ Services Included in iOS by Apple – Mac Rumors

As part of a recent Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE/X) conference presentation, forensic scientist and iPhone jailbreak expert Jonathan Zdziarski detailed several backdoor security mechanisms that are secretly included in iOS by Apple.

Jonathan confirms that iOS is reasonably secure from attack by a malicious hacker, but notes that the mobile OS includes several forensic services and noticeable design omissions that make the OS vulnerable to snooping by forensic tools.

These services, such as “lockdownd,” “pcapd” and “mobile.file_relay,” can bypass encrypted backups to obtain data and can be utilized via USB, Wi-Fi and possibly cellular.

I am not suggesting some grand conspiracy; there are, however, some services running in iOS that shouldn’t be there, that were intentionally added by Apple as part of the firmware, and that bypass backup encryption while copying more of your personal data than ever should come off the phone for the average consumer.

Consumers who want to limit access to these backdoor services are advised by Jonathan to enable a complex passcode in iOS and use the enterprise Apple Configurator application to set Mobile Device Management (MDM) restrictions and enable Pair locking which will delete all pairing records. This solution will block third-party forensic software, but won’t protect the device contents if it is sent to Apple for analysis.

Google and Samsung’s relationship continues to worsen, this time over wearables

Samsung currently sells three smartwatches that run Tizen, including the Gear 2, Gear Neo, and Gear Fit. The company only offers one Android Wear-based smartwatch in the Gear Live. Google wants Samsung to focus its efforts more on Android Wear than Tizen

According to a new report out of The Information, the already tense relationship between Samsung and Google has begun to worsen thanks to both of their own lines of wearables. The report claims that Google CEO Larry Page and Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee took part in an a “tense” private meeting at the Allen & Co. conference last week in Sun Valley. The meeting reportedly centered around Page being frustrated that Samsung was investing more in its smartwatches running Tizen than the ones running Android Wear.

• Smartwatches Drive New Wedge Between Samsung, Google – The Information

Report: Nvidia Shield Tablet ships July 29 in the US; $299 for 16GB Wi-Fi-only, $399 for 32GB with LTE, $59 for separate controller

On July 22nd NVIDIA will announce its own device, called SHIELD Tablet. It will be accompanied by wireless controller designed specifically for NVIDIA SHIELD family, meaning you will be able to control either SHIELD tablet or SHIELD console.

SHIELD tablet is 8 inch device with 1920×1200 resolution. It has 2GB RAM, Tegra K1 SoC with 192 CUDA cores, QuadCore 2.2 GHz A15 CPU. Tablet has dual speakers and 5 MPIX ‘selfie’ camera.

MicroXwin Creators Have A PC That Runs Debian & Android Together

The company behind MicroXwin, a kernel-based X Windows implementation that claims to be the smallest and fastest X implementation, has come up with a unified Linux distribution that runs Android and Debian/Ubuntu applications simultaneously.

• This demo is running on a RK3066 dual core set top box. Some features of this implementation that your readers may be interested in knowing:

1. Both Android and Debian apps run at native speeds. Debian apps don’t depend on Android unlike other implementation of Debian on Android which are based on VNC running on Android.

2. We did not change Android to implement this (other than start-up scripts). This means we have full compatibility with all Android applications.

3. MicroXwin provides the X-Wndows framework and it is much faster as seen running on ARM based Raspberry Pi

Is Kindle Unlimited worth it? – The Washington Post

Kindle Unlimited is $9.99 per month. So you’ll be paying Amazon, whose chief executive Jeffrey Bezos owns The Washington Post, around $120 per year for the unfettered e-book access. If you’re habitually spending money on more than one book per month, then it’s a service to think about. It has its perks for big book buyers — namely that don’t have to worry about spending money on a book you end up hating.

But, chances are, you aren’t reading more than one book per month. In January, the Pew Internet and American Life Project asked how many books the typical American had read in the past year.

The answer? Five.

Linksys Launches New Wi-Fi Network Range Extenders

On Thursday, Linksys introduced three new additions to its family of wireless networking products: the Linksys AC1200 MAX Wi-Fi Range Extender (RE6500), the Linksys N600 PRO Wi-Fi Range Extender (RE4000W) and the Linksys N300 Wi-Fi Range Extender (RE3000W). Their prices are quite reasonable, costing $99.99 for the RE6500, $79.99 for the RE3000W and $59.99 for the RE4000W.

Prices Range from $59.99 – $99.99 USD.

The new Linksys AC1200 Max Wi-Fi Range Extender dishes out coverage of up to 10,000 square feet.

This range extender also includes four Gigabit ports for connecting wired devices like consoles, smart TVs and Blu-ray players. There is even an audio jack on the back, allowing users to plug in a stereo system or audio speakers to wirelessly stream music from a computer or smart device.

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Cinnamon 2.0 is a serious desktop contender, but not for the reasons you might think. Has this desktop environment come into its own?

Plus: Linus says the desktop is his big goal for Linux in the next few years, a fantastic new game for Linux…

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• Cinnamon 2.0 released!

This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 16 “Petra” planned for the end of November and will then be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS.

Cinnamon 2.0 represents 5 months of development and 856 commits from 28 developers. It features a lot of bug fixes but also brand new features and many improvements.

Edge-Snapping

Edge-Snapping was inspired by the Snap functionality of Xbox One. It is similar to Edge-Tiling (the window sticks to the edge or corner of the screen, occupies half of the screen and can be resized) but with one key difference: Maximized windows do not cover snapped windows.

The New User Applet

A new user applet is introduced in Cinnamon 2.0 to let you easily perform most session/account related tasks (leaving, switching users, disabling notifications, accessing settings…etc).

Better User Management

System administrators now have access to the “Users and Groups” configuration tool which allows them not only to administrate users but also groups.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/37741/lint-mint-15-review-archs-nemesis-las-s27e02/ Sun, 26 May 2013 14:27:37 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=37741 Is this the distro for the disenfranchised Ubuntu user? We’ll demo of some of Mint 15’s new features, and compare MATE vs Cinnamon.

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Linux Mint 15 is about to hit the web. Is this the distro for the disenfranchised Ubuntu user? We’ll demo of some of Mint 15’s best new features, look at MATE vs Cinnamon. And why Mint’s real competition might be Arch Linux, and the Arch challenge is announced!

PLUS: A flash review of 5 great new games for Linux, a huge BIG batch of your feedback…

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Linux Mint 15 Review:

Brought to you by: System76

• 8 Month support cycle or so (depends on release). Mint releases not built off Ubuntu LTS will be subject to the shorter support window non-LTS Ubuntu releases now have.

• No upgrade path from Mint 14, or to Mint 16 in the future.

• MATE and Cinnamon are at their best, current releases really starting to shine.

• Tools built by the Mint team are top rate, and fill holes missing on Ubuntu.

• Linux Distro Timeline

• Linux MintRoadmap · GitHub

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Runs Linux:

• Vaisala’s Total Lightning Processor Runs Linux

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• Sonic The Hedgehog

• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

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• Gnome Encfs Manager

• dwb – a webkit web browser

• Picks so far

• Madjo

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• The First Jolla Phone is Here!

• Jolla Jolla – Full phone specifications

• Jolla co-founder: ‘This isn’t about us against emerging platforms. This is us against Android.’

“This is not about us against new, emerging platforms,” Saarnio said. “This is about new platforms against Android. I think that’s the game.”

• Latest Tizen sightings: Samsung phone, Intel laptop demo · LinuxGizmos.com

On May 23, the second day of a three-day Tizen Developers Conference in San Francisco, TechTastic reported confirmation of a rumored debut Tizen smartphone called the GT-I8805 in Samsung’s UAPROF systems. The GT-I8805 (“Redwood”) is listed as running Tizen 2.1 on an ARM Cortex-A9 SoC and offering 1280 x 720 resolution and LTE support.

• Tizen with GNOME 3 shell shown by Intel

• Plasma Workspaces to go into feature freeze with version 4.11

• Plasma Workspaces 4.11: A long term release

• Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features

• Mark Shuttleworth Talks Mir, Ubuntu Touch Marketshare & Mudslinging

• Linus one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub

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— /etc: Game Time —

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• Dungeon Defenders on Steam

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four distinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning defenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat!

• X3: Terran Conflict on Steam

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

• Don’t Starve on Steam

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.

• Shank 2 on Steam

The fan-favorite 2D brawler is back as ex-mob hit man Shank returns to action in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is once again forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plus all-new weaponry.

• Minetest

Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. It has been in development and use since October 2010.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/33826/killer-chrome-cr-41/ Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:03:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=33826 Google shuffles the head of Android to a new role, folding Android under the Chrome division. We speculate on the possible transition from Android to ChromeOS.

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Google shuffles the head of Android to a new role, folding Android under the Chrome division. We take live calls and speculate on the long-term possible transition from Android to ChromeOS, how it would impact developers and how the transition could be accomplished.

Plus rumor has it Windows Phone 8 will lose support in July 2014, and the dark cloud of uncertainty around the struggling platform this creates.

Then the hard choice when developing for desktop Linux, the Samsung problem, and much more!

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Feedback

• We take your live calls
• No show notes (Google Drive was down during our show) so emails back next week!

Dev Hoopla

• mdominick.com – Chrome > Android

My guess is that the conversion will start slow. Perhaps Google will start to push Chrome apps for the Android version of Chrome. Maybe in a year, when those rumored Google stores start to show, we’ll see a Chrome for Mobile “developer phone.” Regardless of the conversion starts, my bet is that within the next five years Google will start publically pushing Chrome as its next generation operating system.

• Samsung Dominates Android, Threatens HTC and Google (Videos – International Business Times

Google is fixing its eyes on its favoured partner, Samsung. The Android OS made the South Korean tech giant become the dominant smartphone maker in the world with nearly 215 million smartphones in 2012 or 40 per cent of the global market.

• Apple leads mobile revenues, well ahead of Samsung | Electronista

Data released by UK\’s Juniper Research shows that although Samsung has retaken the smartphone sales lead from Apple, with 42.2 million sold against 35.1 million, Apple is easily leading in terms of revenue from mobile sales. It estimates that Apple\’s mobile revenues were $29.3 billion, when including the iPad. By comparison, Samsung\’s revenue from all mobile devices including feature phones came in at $17 billion.

They\’re actually generating more than 100 percent of the industry\’s earnings — 106 percent, to be precise — according to a report from Canaccord Genuity.

That may seem impossible, but it\’s largely because rivals — like Research In Motion, Nokia, and Motorola — posted operating losses during the September quarter, the firm said.

• Apple, Samsung control 106 percent of industry\’s profits | Mobile – CNET News

• Apple vs. Samsung: The Longer Vie

• Samsung, Apple grow U.S. phone sales as others lag — Tech News and Analysis

• Microsoft Says Windows Phone 8 Support Ends July 2014, Still No Official Successor Announced | TechCrunch

• Mainstream support for WP 8 ends July 2014, WP 7.8 September 2014

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/33286/xamarin-warrior-princess-cr-40/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:10:22 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=33286 We question the real purpose of Xamarin’s recent initiatives, the likely and unfortunate outcome of alternative mobile operating systems.

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We question the real purpose of Xamarin’s recent initiatives, the likely and unfortunate outcome of alternative mobile operating systems, and pontificate on HTML5\’s continued growth.

Plus: A little more on logging, some of our favorite accessories, and a plea for your calls next week!

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Feedback

• Vengeance!
• Nathan ported Cherry Notes to Android.
• Macarthur plays devil\’s advocate for Tizen
• Michael asks how important warnings are.
• Jed wants more details re logging.
• YouTubers say we got the remote worker recall wrong

Dev Hoopla

• Xamarin

Pick of the week:

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/29811/developing-for-ubuntu-phone-cr-31/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:35:06 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=29811 Ubuntu for Phones holds a lot of promise, but so many glaring questions remain for developers. Can the choice of a powerful toolkit solve their challenges?

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Ubuntu for Phones holds a lot of promise, but so many glaring questions remain for developers. Can the choice of a powerful toolkit, and a small passionate community really break this new OS into the mobile market? We debate that, answer your emails…

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Feedback

• A number of listeners share the carrier situation in Europe.
• Steve wants to listen to other coding podcasts in addition to CR BLASPHEMY
• Stephen asks:

“ was wondering if either of you saw any benefit in writing an application for Ubuntu and Windows (I do not own a Mac) that will plug in to the Ubuntu One api and treat it like dropbox”

• Shane writes in to agree with Mike re QT.

Dev Hoopla

• Samsung Tizen

Ubuntu Phone

• Ubuntu Phone 101
• The Critical Reception
• Where’s the Phone
• Dev story
• QML == Mike was right!

Took of the Week

• Github Survivor

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