Upgrade your terminal with Fish & the new Fishery plugin market. We chat about one of the really neat bash replacements on Linux. Then we take a look at Maru, a Debian based image for Nexus 5 devices that sounds a lot like Ubuntu Touch.

Plus a quick look at a new app that combines Plex with Popcorn Time & the awesome new features we just all got as Linux users!

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• Purism Librem Shipping Status

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Lumberyard + Amazon GameLift + Twitch for Games on AWS | AWS Official Blog

Today I would like to tell you about a pair of new AWS products that are designed for use by professional game developers building cloud-connected, cross-platform games.

• Amazon Lumberyard

WOW, Wayland Over Wire! – Samsung Open Source Group Blog

A common complaint about Wayland is that it isn’t network transparent.

Fish: A Better Alternative to Bash That Many Are Not Aware of – Make Tech Easier

Replacing Bash with Fish is as simple as a single command.

• Fisherman

A blazing fast, modern plugin manager for Fish

• Fishery

DigitalOcean

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maru

Maru is a new kind of computing experience. It gives you a single, context-aware device that makes personal computing really simple. And guess what? That device is your smartphone.

Korora 23 Screencast and Screenshots

The Korora Project has released version 23 (codename “Coral”) which is now available for download.

Existing 23 beta users do not need to re-install, just keep installing regular updates.

For the last three months we have been waiting for the RPMFusion repositories to be declared stable before releasing Korora 23. These community packages provide support for things that Fedora doesn’t normally ship, like multi-media codecs and proprietary kernel drivers. Normally, the stable RPMFusion repositories are available a few weeks after a Fedora release, however the community has moved to new infrastructure and this has caused some delays.

The First Ubuntu Tablet: The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet

Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Table will have the following specs:

• 10.1 inch touchscreen with 1080p video
• MediaTek quad-core MT8163A 1.5GHz processor
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB internal storage, approximately 11GBs is available for use
• MicroSD slot (up to 64GB)
• 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, FM Radio
• 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual flash
• Front mounted speakers
• Micro HDMI port
• 7,280mAh Li-Po battery

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Virgil 3D GPU project by virgil3d

The project entails creating a virtual 3D capable graphics card for virtual machines running inside qemu. The design of this card is based around the concepts of Gallium3D to make writing Mesa and (eventually) Direct3D drivers for it easy.

• LinuxChanges – Linux Kernel Newbies

virtio-gpu is a driver for virtualization guests that allows to use the host graphics card efficiently. In this release, it allows the virtualization guest to use the capabilities of the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. In practice, this means that a virtualized linux guest can run a opengl game while using the GPU acceleration capabilities of the host, as show in this or this video. This also requires running QEMU 2.5.

• Virgil project page

• 44m linux.conf talk about the project

• Code: commit

• Why trying to base your 3D Supporter on an openGL implementation is a bit insane: https://youtu.be/rPeMrmeLTig?t=2m58s

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Stremio – Watch instantly

Stremio is an app that helps you organize and instantly watch your favorite videos, movies, TV series and TV channels.

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We traveled to Denver Colorado to meet the folks behind System76, tour their office & record a live show on location. Join us as we go behind the scenes of a dedicated Linux hardware manufacture.

Plus Linux goes to space, Firefox OS has a new trick, the good news for open source router firmware & more!

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LAS Visits System76

• System76 – Ubuntu Laptops, Desktops, and Servers

System76 is a Denver, Colorado-based computer manufacturer specializing in the sale of notebooks, desktops, and servers. They are notable for their support of open-source software, only offering Ubuntu as the installed operating system.

The #system76fan roundtable discussion has begun! @ubuntu @thelinuxgamer @brianfagioli @ChrisLAS pic.twitter.com/6WHFxm43Sw

— System76 (@system76) November 13, 2015

#system76fan winners sit down with Dr.Emma to find out if they are human, robot, or cyborg. pic.twitter.com/s4Tuq6D6DI

— System76 (@system76) November 13, 2015

Playing NXS game created by Kevin Kane. this was a lot of fun. check it out at https://t.co/oqjD442J73 pic.twitter.com/ygHRuIF8Aj

— System76 (@system76) November 13, 2015

Video games with #system76fan winners! Fun challenging the @thelinuxgamer while he's here with us! @steam_games pic.twitter.com/6rYXMLLFhi

— System76 (@system76) November 13, 2015

System76 girls pose with the incredibly talented Helena. #creatormakerbuilder #womenintech https://t.co/Pp9sl2RBoI pic.twitter.com/wJ10fevT87

— System76 (@system76) November 13, 2015

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Runs Linux

Son’s Lego Robotics Club RUNS LINUX!

9 nine year old son wanted to join the Lego Robotics club

Hey guys, I’ve got a runs Linux for you. My 9 nine year old son wanted to join the Lego Robotics club at his elementary school. Because it is a volunteer-run program, I got roped into it. I ended up actually teaching the program and have been having a great time teaching the kids how to program their Lego EV3 robots. There are 12 kids in the group and the school district was supposed to configure 6 Apple laptops with the Lego programming software for us to use. Wouldn’t you know, there were some bureaucratic issues getting the laptops set up. Luckily, since my friends and family know I like to tinker with computers, I have 6 laptops at the house, most of which had been given to me because they had issues, that I subsequently fixed. Poking around in the menus on the Lego robot, I saw that the robot ran Linux (see attached pic). Honestly, I had more than half expected they would run Linux. Imagine my dismay when I went to the Lego website to download the software to write the programs to control the robots, only to discover that the Lego software was only available for Mac and Windows! So I spent a couple of evenings updating the Windows installs on the dual boot machines, and reinstalling Windows on the Linux-only machines, and for the last 6 weeks the kids have been downloading their robot controller programs from Windows machines onto the Linux robots. So the Lego EV3 robots run Linux, and the kids have been having a blast.

Regards
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Desktop App Pick

TiddlyWiki

Have you ever had the feeling that your head is not quite big enough to hold everything you need to remember?

Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.

Use it to keep your to-do list, to plan an essay or novel, or to organise your wedding. Record every thought that crosses your brain, or build a flexible and responsive website.

Weekly Spotlight

Novacut

• Novacut – direct to fan TV & film, plus the tools to help artists win

Novacut is a collaborative video editor that aims to bring the agile, distributed workflow pioneered by free software to professional movie and TV production

— NEWS —

International Space Station Planning for Linux

Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) operations, decided to migrate to Linux. As leader of the Laptops and Network Integration Teams, Chuvala oversees the developers in charge of writing and integrating software for the Station’s “OpsLAN” – a network of laptops that provide the ISS crew with vital capabilities for day-to-day operations, from telling the astronauts where they are, to inventory control of the equipment used, to interfacing with the cameras that capture photos and videos.

Let’s Encrypt Public Beta: December 3, 2015

Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a requirement to sign up and wait for an invitation.

Our Limited Beta started on September 12, 2015. We’ve issued over 11,000 certificates since then, and this operational experience has given us confidence that our systems are ready for an open Public Beta.

• Let’s Encrypt on Linux Crazy Easyt

If you have Apache web server on Debian-based Linux Distribution, you can try the Apache module with automated renewal and installing:

Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an experimental Android app

• Add-ons: Just like the add-ons we’ve come to love in desktop browsers, Firefox OS add-ons can extend just one app, several, or all of them, including the system app itself.
• Private Browsing with Tracking Protection: A new Firefox privacy feature, Tracking Protection allows users to control how their browsing activity is tracked across many sites.

• Pin the Web: Pin the Web removes the artificial distinction between web apps and web sites and lets you pin any web site or web page to your home screen for later usage.

• Firefox OS Preview Android App

Introducing Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an experimental app that lets you use Firefox OS on your Android device.

The next big Gnome thing

Alex’s incredible work with xdg-app is a subject that gets talked about a lot, but it really can’t be emphasised how significant it is for GNOME as a project.

FCC: We aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers

“We were not, but we agree that the guidance we provide to manufacturers must be crystal-clear to avoid confusion,” he wrote. “So, today we released a revision to that guidance to clarify that our instructions were narrowly focused on modifications that would take a device out of compliance.”

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Exclusive interviews and coverage from one of the show’s favorite events, SouthEast LinuxFest, aka SELF 2015. Find out the latest with the Ubuntu project, a humble approach to Linux advocacy & how the boundaries of science are being pushed by Linux.

Plus the new MATE release, HP kills The Machine, a quick update on Ubuntu’s Unity 8 & more!

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Southeast LinuxFest 2015

Brought to you by: System76

SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. It is part educational conference and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips and ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux and Open Source Software. SELF is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

• Build a botnet?: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2015 in Portland, OR

This talk will introduce you to the concepts behind botnets, and also show a live demonstration of a botnet on a sandboxed network.

We’ll start off by discussing the implications of running a botnet and the horrifying effect of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. I’ll demonstrate how bots behave on infected hosts, and give attendees a look at a command and control (C&C) system, which ultimately gives the bots their orders.

At the end of the discussion attendees will be encouraged to share their horror stories of botnet attacks on networks and systems that they’ve administered.

There are a lot of resources available online for those who’d like to research botnets. I’ll share some of these with attendees, but please realize that this talk is for research purposes only.

• Speaker: Bryan Smith: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2014 in Portland, OR

• Michael Hall (@mhall119) | Twitter

Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical

• Michael Hall – Google+

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

• Linux powers DARPA Robotics Challenge winne

A Xenomai Linux based robot from Korea’s Team KAIST called the DRC-Hubo won the $2 million DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, one of only three bots to complete the course on time.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla – FTP Client

FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Weekly Spotlight

• Emby for Kodi – a headless media server for Kodi. (Transcoding, Open Source, Web GUI, and more)

An addon for Kodi that’ll let you automatically sync with Emby media server.

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Our Past Picks

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— NEWS —

MATE 1.10 released

After 15 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce
the release of MATE Desktop 1.10. We would like to thank every MATE contributor
and user.

Ubuntu’s Unity 8 and Mir Get Another Massive, Exciting New Update

After announcing last week that both the next-generation Unity 8 user interface and Mir display server of the Ubuntu Linux operating system received a massive update with numerous new features, Kevin Gunn dropped an email on June 12 informing us about an exciting new update for said technologies.

HP kills The Machine, repurposes design around conventional technologies

Last year, HP announced it was building The Machine — a computer meant to leap as far above conventional modern systems as a high-end Xeon workstation is above an IBM mainframe from the 1960s. The entire system was designed to work with special-purpose cores and to use memristors as a universal memory architecture. The entire system would be tied together through extensive use of silicon photonics. It was bold, ambitious, and cutting-edge. And now, it’s pretty much dead.

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The proprietor of Evolve OS stops by to discuss what makes Evolve OS a unique Linux desktop & the challenges smaller projects face getting coverage and attention.

Plus a look at tiny powerful Linux hardware gadget that we think might be worth backing, a debate about “the look” of Linux apps & more!

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• Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter
  • Ridiculous Ruling In Ireland Requires ISP To Kick Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of File Sharing Off The Internet | Techdirt

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• Systemd Developers Did NOT Fork The Linux Kernel

• digiKam at CeBIT 2015

The award for the best open source photo management application went to digiKam.

• Official GNOME SDK runtime builds are out | Alexander Larsson

This repository contains the gnome 3.16 runtimes, org.gnome.Platform, as well as a smaller one that is useful for less integrated apps (like games) called org.freedesktop.Platform. It also has corresponding develoment runtimes (org.gnome.Sdk and org.freedesktop.Sdk) that you can use to create applications for the platforms.

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• Ubuntu touch apps on other distributions… Or how Chris is wrong (NSFW rant)

Right, this has been stopping me from sleeping from a while because it has wound me up quite a lot. (slightly sarcastic)

On a certain episode of L.U.P Chris questioned how Ubuntu applications (made with the Ubuntu SDK) would look on non Ubuntu desktop environments, and quite rightly so came to the conclusion of “well, they would look out of place”. Fine.

Lets stop right now and talk about something else, Gnome “Apps”. Gnome Apps are fucking shit under anything that isn’t Gnome, however nobody is giving Gnome a hard time over this. Gnome is shitting all over everyone else with their poorly designed applications and the Ubuntu Desktop and other desktops are suffering because of it.

• Cinnamon Developers Working to Improve Loading Times for the Desktop
• Cinnamon Developers Working to Improve Loading Times for the Desktop – Softpedia

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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I created a Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup group. I was inspired by the idea of how nice it would be to have a rough idea of how many folks will be making it out to LFNW. Just to help with planning.

But I realized my long-term plans are a bit more ambitious. As the weather gets nice in the Seattle area, I’d like to hold semi-frequent meetups with Jupiter Colony members that are in the area. Maybe once a month, record them, or stream them. Eat, chat, maybe even create show content.

Also as we travel to other fests, or hit the road, I’d like to have a tool to suss out interest in your area.

So after LFNW I’d like to use the group for that kind of stuff, which sounds like a lot of fun to me!

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Onion Omega: Invention Platform for the Internet of Things by Onion — Kickstarter

Tiny but powerful Linux + WiFi development board. With Cloud Integration & App Store, making hardware is as easy as installing apps!

DigitalOcean

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• How To Resize Your Droplets on DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean

Show distro coverage criteria: what do you suggest? Here are my thoughts.

• Would you guys like Chris and Noah to Interview the Fedora team again before their Fedora 22 release May 19th

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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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• Rugged NUC mini-PCs run Linux on Broadwell and Bay Trail · LinuxGizmos.com

• Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand | America’s Markets

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• BioShock Infinite Released For Linux, Thanks To Virtual Programming

• bioshock infinite is ready!!!!! : linux_gaming

• State of VoIP in Linux – Datamation

Like most people, I find myself using the same VoIP options everyone else is using. Thankfully, these days there are far more options available than what we might think. Today, I’ll look at these options and also explore up-and-coming alternatives as well.

TING

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• Episode 82 – Pre-show Goes in my Favorites EVER! Awesome!

• Ubuntu developer portal

Here you can install everything needed to get developing apps and scopes for Ubuntu.

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges | Ars Technica

For $1,533 out of the gate or about $2,080 as tested, is the M3800 Developer Edition worth it?

Sure—if you want a fast, well-built, well-equipped 4K laptop preloaded with Ubuntu, with most of the potential edge-case configuration issues already taken care of, with an active set of developers working to ensure that the necessary repos are kept current, and with an actual, for-real OEM warranty and support.

The Good

• Ubuntu 14.04, factory-preconfigured to just work
• Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don’t have to
• High-quality build: no squeaks, no rattles, no shimmies
• 16GB of RAM, the potential for a large SSD, and a Haswell i7 CPU mean it’s got plenty of guts as a developer’s workstation
• Reasonable amount of upgradeability
• Display is bright, beautiful, and works with Ubuntu 14.04 (including the multitouch functionality)

The Bad

• Thunderbolt port doesn’t really work in Ubuntu
• Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
• If all you’re after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800’s starting price
• I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn’t

The Ugly

• Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day’s worth of working

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The future of Linux storage | ZDNet

For instance, Chris Mason, a Facebook software engineer and one of the _Btrfs(pronounced Butter FS) maintainers, explained how Facebook uses this file system. Btrfs has many advantages as a file system such as the ability to handle both numerous small files and single files as large as 16 exabytes; baked in RAID; built-in file-system compression; and integrated multi-storage device support._

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The first Ubuntu phone goes on sale tomorrow & we ask all the interesting questions you might have been wondering. The details on the launch of the phone, some of the great apps & what’s still missing.

Plus the new Raspberry Pi hates being flashed & we read a quick batch of great emails.

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• Secure Your Google Account, and Get 2 GB of Drive Storage

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Bq Ubuntu Phone Goes on Sale Next Week at €169, Meizu Device Coming Soon – OMG! Ubuntu!

As we shared towards the end of last year, the Bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition handset will go on sale in Europe from next week priced at €169.

• This Is Bq’s Exclusive Ubuntu Phone Case Accessory – OMG! Ubuntu!

Bq has you covered with an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Edition’ of their popular Duo case accessory designed especially for the Aquaris E4.5, which is being made available for purchase alongside the handset.

• Debut Ubuntu phone’s first flash sale announced, more to come – CNET

The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is the first phone that will let phone fans snap up an Ubuntu-running device for themselves. Best known as an open-source operating system for computers, Ubuntu is expanding to phones as part of a plan that will see the software power everything from TVs to drones. And to kick things off, the BQ phone will be up for grabs between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. (CET) on Wednesday 11 February.

• First Ever Ubuntu Phone Unboxing Video Appears Online – OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Touch Apps

Browse, download, and search apps from the Ubuntu click appstore – appstore.bhdouglass.com.

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Chris reviews his Dell touch screen, and how it’s performed under Linux. Then the Mumble room shares their touch screen experience under multiple workloads.

Plus the secret US cybersecurity report that recommends strong encryption, a strong contrast to David Cameron’s platform to build in backdoors. He’s meeting with Obama to push that agenda forward, and we’ll bring you up to date and debate the impact.

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Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data

A secret US cybersecurity report warned that government and private computers were being left vulnerable to online attacks from Russia, China and criminal gangs because encryption technologies were not being implemented fast enough.

The advice, in a newly uncovered five-year forecast written in 2009, contrasts with the pledge made by David Cameron this week to crack down on encryption use by technology companies.

Part of the cache given to the Guardian by Snowden was published in 2009 and gives a five-year forecast on the “global cyber threat to the US information infrastructure”. It covers communications, commercial and financial networks, and government and critical infrastructure systems. It was shared with GCHQ and made available to the agency’s staff through its intranet.

One of the biggest issues in protecting businesses and citizens from espionage, sabotage and crime – hacking attacks are estimated to cost the global economy up to $400bn a year – was a clear imbalance between the development of offensive versus defensive capabilities, “due to the slower than expected adoption … of encryption and other technologies”, it said.

An unclassified table accompanying the report states that encryption is the “[b]est defense to protect data”, especially if made particularly strong through “multi-factor authentication” – similar to two-step verification used by Google and others for email – or biometrics. These measures remain all but impossible to crack, even for GCHQ and the NSA.

I wanted to address kinda a question you posed on the Tech Talk Today Episode 117

• What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry – Boing Boing

But there is the problem of more open platforms, like GNU/Linux variants, BSD and other unixes, Mac OS X, and all the non-mobile versions of Windows. All of these operating systems are already designed to allow users to execute any code they want to run. The commercial operators — Apple and Microsoft — might conceivably be compelled by Parliament to change their operating systems to block secure software in the future, but that doesn’t do anything to stop people from using all the PCs now in existence to run code that the PM wants to ban.

More difficult is the world of free/open operating systems like GNU/Linux and BSD. These operating systems are the gold standard for servers, and widely used on desktop computers (especially by the engineers and administrators who run the nation’s IT). There is no legal or technical mechanism by which code that is designed to be modified by its users can co-exist with a rule that says that code must treat its users as adversaries and seek to prevent them from running prohibited code.

Google Glass sales halted but firm says kit is not dead

Google is ending sales of its Google Glass eyewear.

The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass in its present form.

Instead it will focus on “future versions of Glass” with work carried out by a different division to before.

The Explorer programme, which gave software developers the chance to buy Glass for $1,500 (£990) will close.

The programme was launched in the United States in 2013.

Dell S2240T Touch Panel H6V56 21.5-Inch Screen LED-lit Monitor

• Sleek and stylish – Edge-to-edge glass gives the Dell 21.5″ touch monitor a clean finish that boasts of fine craftsmanship.
• Natural, direct and intuitive, the Dell 21.5″ touch monitor offers you a fast and easy way to use your applications. Tap, slide, swipe, turn, pinch and stretch with your fingers -it?s that simple and intuitive when used with Windows 8.1
• Enabling touch is easy! Simply connect a USB cable from your PC to the monitor’s USB upstream port, and use either an HDMI, DVI or VGA cable to project images onscreen

Dell S2240T 21.5″ monitor

• Diagonal Viewable Size: 21.5″ (18.77″ horiz., 10.56″ vert.)
• Display Type: Multi-touch full HD LED
• Resolution: Full HD 1920 x 1080 (60Hz)
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (widescreen)
• Contrast Ratio: 3,000:1 (typical), 8 million:1 (dynamic, max)
• Max Viewing Angle: 178° vertical (typical), 178° horizontal (typical)
• Brightness: 250 cd/m2 (typical)
• Color Gamut: CIE1931 (72%)
• Response Time: 25 ms (typical), 12 ms (typical) with Overdrive
• Pixel Pitch: 0.248 x 0.248 mm
• Connectivity: HDMI, DVI, VGA

The Bad:

• Dat gap. There is a noticeable gap between display and glass.
• At least on Linux: If you unplug the USB while the computer is running, the desktop session gets all kinds of confused.
• 1080p is perhaps a bit small for a lot of people looking for a display in 2015.

The Good:

• Responsive touch
• Good picture, not amazing. But good.
• Super easy to setup, just plug in the USB cable for touch
• The stand is perfect. It stays firm, but is easy to move. It feels a bit like magic.

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With 2015 around the corner we own up to our predictions for 2014, we admit to what we got wrong, and what we got right. Then we look forward to 2015 and go on the record for the big developments we expect to see.

Plus our picks, your feedback…

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The Sequestered TV Show, Runs Linux

I don’t know if this one has been mentioned before but in Episode 11 of Sequestered in minute 3 there is a second of root nmap of a windoze 2003 device from a shell.

However it seems to be on a doze laptop and the 3 monitor display a couple seconds later also seems like doze.

Supposedly the scene is showing a remote shell being opened for the attacker by the wife.

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• TV Series ‘The Strain’ runs linux : LinuxActionShow

Hi all, I’ve been following the show since last year, kudos to Chris and Matt. I just saw the TV series The Strain, and one of them is using Opensuse. I thought I just share it here :).
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Desktop App Pick

Telegram Desktop

“Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s superfast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any of your phones, tablets or computers.”

“With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc) to people who are in your phone contacts and have Telegram. You can also create groups for up to 200 people or send broadcasts to up to 100 contacts. As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs,”

• Telegram Messenger

• Telegram Desktop Native App for Linux Is Simply Awesome – Softpedia

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Weekly Spotlight

easyLife

Allows new and even experienced users to install and configure software on Fedora, just by clicking. It’s simple and clean. Among others, these are some of easyLife features:

• Sets “sudo” command up for your regular user;
• Configures RPMFusion repository for extra and non-free software;
• Installs Flash Player plugin;
• Installs all kinds of Codecs (h264,divx,xvid,mp3 etc);
• Installs nvidia and ati drivers;
• Installs Skype;
• Installs Sun Java and Sun Java Plugin for Firefox;
• Integrates Sun Java with system-switch-java;

• And many others…

• Fedy – Tweak your Fedora

Fedy lets you install multimedia codecs and additional software that Fedora doesn’t want to ship, like mp3 support, Adobe Flash, Oracle Java etc., and much more with just a few clicks.

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Roadmap – GIMP Developer Wiki

Ubuntu Desktop certified hardware | Ubuntu

Steam Machines

• Meet Alienware’s Alpha console, a Steam Machine without SteamOS (for now) | PCWorld

Steady March of the Linux Desktop and OEMs

• Global Enterprises Increase Linux Adoption in Critical Growth Areas Including Cloud Computing | The Linux Foundation

• Linux adoption – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Bacula Backup Server to an external drive or cloud storage.
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Charlie Reisinger the pioneer of an extremely forward looking program to give every student a Linux laptop joins us. Find out how they integrate the students into the IT program, why they give their students root access & much more. It’s a truly inspiring story of how Linux can make a difference in education.

Plus the Jolla tablet is real, and boy is it funded! Ubuntu Phone rumors get white hot, our picks of the week…

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• Many large Commercial software vendors are transitioning to a subscription model. Does this create an even great lockin for schools?

• One-to-One programs are very expensive, and the argument I’ve always heard was: Must use Windows, must use Office. Have get the kids ready for the “real world” that uses those tools. Is there a sound argument to that “concern”?

• Linux and open source give students the ability to go very deep into how the computer works, if they are motivated and want to embrace their inquisitive nature. How far down the rabbit hole are your young Linux users permitted to go? How much can they explore?

• Can you tell us how the Fast Linux Deployment Toolkit was created, and what it does?

• What are some of the most useful open source software and tools you, or the students use?

• What is the biggest road block others should expect?

Charlie Reisinger of Penn Manor gives talk at All Things Open 2014 | Opensource.com

Charlie Reisinger from the Penn Manor School District talked to us next about open source at his school. This talk was an expanded version of his lightning talk from the previous night.

Penn Manor has nine IT team members which is a very lean staff for 4500 devices. They also do a lot of their technology in house. But, before we talk about open source, Charlie took a tangent into the nature of education today. He says that school districts are so stuck on the model they’re using and have used for centuries, but today kids can learn anything they would like with a simple connection to the Internet. You can be connected to the most brilliant minds that you’d like, so teachers are no longer the fountains of all knowledge. A glaring gap in this evolution is that the classroom hasn’t been transformed by technology; if you walked into a classroom 60 years ago, it would look pretty much like a classroom today.

Enabling students in a digital age: Charlie Reisinger at TEDxLancaster – YouTube

Charlie Reisinger, an innovative IT Director for Penn Manor school district in Lancaster County, shows how to provide affordable, new digital technologies to high school students. The answer is not only a cost-effective way to improve the quality of education, it is opening students’ minds.

1:1 Laptop Program | PM Technology Blog

During the 2012-2013 school year, a committee comprised of faculty, administrators and a school board liaison worked to evaluate the viability of a district 1:1 computing program. After several months of internal discussion and public board presentations, a recommendation to proceed with a 1:1 laptop program at Penn Manor High School was unanimously approved at the April 1, 2013 school board meeting. The recommendation called for the program to commence with a pilot during the Fall of 2013. The full building implementation began in January 2014. At that time, each full-time high school student was provided with a personal laptop computer for use throughout the school day and at home.

Parents: We encourage you to read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document: 1to1ParentFAQ.pdf.

Penn Manor School District · GitHub

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Desktop App Pick

MOC – music on console

• Sent in by Kyle on Twitter

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create playlists as in other players.

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Corebird

Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop

Corebird is a modern, easy and fun Twitter client, just what you were looking for, right?

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Jolla Tablet

Be a part of making the world’s first truly crowdsourced tablet, powered by Sailfish OS 2.0.

To celebrate #JollaTablet's #PeoplePowered $1M success, we're offering Jolla at a crazy price! https://t.co/xlHXYTEvfB pic.twitter.com/uSfDxFkw9Q

— Jolla (@JollaHQ) November 21, 2014

Mozilla ends Google relationship, Firefox will now default to Yahoo in the US

Mozilla and Yahoo have signed a five-year deal. As part of the deal, Yahoo is going to start honoring the Do Not Track feature when used by Firefox users to limit Yahoo’s ability to track user activity across the Web through advertisements. Yahoo is also going to roll out a new search interface for American Firefox users, starting in December.

Crowdfunding project promises a “laptop that respects essential freedoms”

Based on the Intel i7-4712MQ processor, the 15.6-inch Librem 15’s base configuration will come with an Nvidia GT840M, 4GB of RAM, a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and an actual CD/DVD drive. The Librem will have three USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and a “pop-down” RJ-45 Ethernet port, in addition to an Atheros-based 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter, a 720p built-in camera, HD audio, and a backlit keyboard.

Ubuntu Phone Partner ‘Bq’ Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event next week, November 25, 2014, to announce three new products.

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We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest.

Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager.

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• VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt — and It’s Better – Slashdot

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• A different take on Netflix and DRM, please discuss…

• Software Store? // Slexy 2.0

• What is the bash helper you use

• systemd hate

Ubuntu Next Gen apps on Ubuntu 14.10 – YouTube

A Lightworks developer talks about the kind of issue you meet when coding for an NLE on Linux

In recent weeks, some of Lightworks’ Linux users started to report reduced performance in both new and old versions of the software. After some investigation, it appeared that the slow-down was only affecting systems with a Linux kernel newer than 3.13. In tests, kernel performance in 3.14 did seem to be slightly worse than earlier versions, but nothing that could explain the symptoms being experienced by users. So what could possibly explain the sudden change in behaviour?

• Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

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The FBI is making a big stink about Apple & Google turning on encryption by default without the keys.

Eric Schmidt says the battle between Google & Apple is defining the industry, Ubuntu Touch goes RTM & more!

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BBC News – FBI boss ‘concerned’ by smartphone encryption plans

“I’d hate to have people look at me and say, ‘Well how come you can’t save this kid?’ ‘How come you can’t do this thing?'” said Mr Comey in a briefing.

His comments came in reaction to a decision by Apple to enable a file encryption system on its iOS 8 software for which it has no keys. This means it would not be able to comply with any official request to help police get at the data on those devices.

Mr Comey said he was “very concerned” about these plans because of what they would allow people to do.

“What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law,” he said.

“I am a huge believer in the rule of law, but I am also a believer that no-one in this country is beyond the law,” he added.

Apple and Google have yet to respond to Mr Comey’s comments.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever – Mac Rumors

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture, strategy, talent, innovation, dealing with disruption, and more. The duo have done an interview with Bloomberg to promote the title, with Schmidt commenting on the state of affairs between iOS and Google and Apple’s new larger-screened iPhones.

According to Schmidt, competition between Apple and Google is more brutal than ever before, with “enormous, enormous racing” going on between the two companies, which ultimately has “enormous benefits for consumers worldwide.”

• Eric Schmidt on New Book, Apple-Google Competition: Video – Bloomberg

Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt and former Senior Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg talk about their book “How Google Works,” the mobile industry and Google’s competition with Apple.
They speak with Stephanie Ruhle and Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Lenovo set to complete acquisition of IBM x86 server business

Lenovo has announced that it will be closing the acquisition deal of IBM’s x86 server business on October 1. The closing purchase price is lower than the $2.3 billion announced in January because of a change in the valuation of inventory and deferred revenue liability, Lenovo said. Roughly $1.8 billion will be paid in cash and the remainder in stock. Lenovo says it had “big plans” for the enterprise market. “We will compete vigorously across every sector, using our manufacturing scale, and operational excellence to repeat the success we have had with PCs,” the company added.

Ubuntu Touch For Phones Hits RTM, First Phones Coming This Year

In early 2013, Canonical showed the world Ubuntu Touch, a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for smartphones. Now, the mobile operating system has finally reached “release to manufacturing” status. (Here’s the release announcement.) The first phone running Ubuntu Touch, the Meizu MX4, will start shipping in December. “Details are scarce on its hardware, but a leak from iGeek suggests the Pro variant may have a Samsung Exynos 5430 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 2560×1536 resolution screen. … This more powerful hardware is good news if true, and it bodes well for Ubuntu’s vision of computing convergence.” Softpedia has a preview of the RTM version of the OS. They say performance has improved significantly, even on old phones, and that the UI has been polished into a much better state.

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Chris shares his experience with triple booting Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch and Android on his Nexus 5 and the surprising results.

Plus some grounded feedback and much more!

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Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch on the Nexus 5

MultiROM Manager – Android Apps on Google Play

**This app only works on Nexus 7 (2012 & 2013), Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, as they are the only devices officially supported by MultiROM.
This application requires root and it is designed to be used by experienced “power users”.

It is strongly recommended to read XDA thread before installing this app, you can find links at the bottom of this description.**

MultiROM Manager can install or update MultiROM, it’s recovery and kernels. It can also install Ubuntu Touch system-image based builds into MultiROM as a secondary ROM.

MultiROM is one-of-a-kind multi-boot mod for Nexus 7 (2012 and 2013) and Nexus 4. It can boot any Android ROM as well as other systems like Ubuntu Touch. Besides booting from device’s internal memory, MultiROM can boot from USB drive connected to the device via OTG cable. The main part of MultiROM is a boot manager, which appears every time your device starts and lets you choose ROM to boot. You can see how it looks on the left image below and in gallery. ROMs are installed and managed via modified TWRP recovery. You can use standard ZIP files to install secondary Android ROMs, daily prebuilt image files to install Ubuntu Touch and MultiROM even has its own installer system, which can be used to ship other Linux-based systems.

See XDA threads for more information:
+ Nexus 7 (2012): https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
+ Nexus 7 (2013): https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457063
+ Nexus 4: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2472295
+ Nexus 5: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2571011

• [MOD][JUN 05] MultiROM v24 | Google Nexus 5 | xda-developers

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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:

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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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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?

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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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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

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• 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

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• 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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