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Blame Popey for ZFS | LINUX Unplugged 140

chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:38:28 +0000

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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

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Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

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Previously on Unplugged: Drive-By Advice | LINUX Unplugged 34

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The LFNW is So Nigh

Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) – Meetup
Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
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Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
Install unzip on Ubuntu
unzip the package
Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
Quick Start – Traccar
guest access / embedding? – Traccar
Public/View-only-Webinterface (no login required) · Issue #96 · tananaev/traccar-web · GitHub

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Kool as Breeze KDE | LINUX Unplugged 137

chris — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:08:50 +0000

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Plasma Desktop 5.6 is out today & we’ll share of the small things that we simply love. Plus some of our secret LinuxFest Northwest Linux rig build plans are revealed, why gaming on Linux is doing better than you’ve been led to believe & live shootout of open source Skype killers.

Also our thoughts on ubuntuBSD, open source GPS tracking, Nvidia shipping Wayland support & more!

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NVIDIA Publishes Patches For Its Driver To Work With Wayland’s Weston

Following NVIDIA publishing a new Linux driver that supports Wayland and Mir alongside X11, a NVIDIA engineer followed through and posted patches of the EGL support changes needed by Wayland’s Weston compositor to support the new driver.

Don’t Expect to it to work just yet

If I understand it correctly, it requires extra patches on wayland egl, which are currently under review on wayland maillist and they were just posted at the same time as the new driver was released.

Linux gaming is much healthier than Steam’s Hardware Survey implies

Here’s one obvious caveat: Steam’s user numbers are growing. So while Linux usage on the Steam Hardware Survey has declined from about 2 percent in March 2013 to 0.91 percent in February 2015, that smaller percentage is from a larger overall user base.

Linux usage on Steam is better than people think | GamingOnLinux

Meet ubuntuBSD, UNIX for Human Beings

ubuntuBSD is currently hosted on the SourceForge website and distributed as an installable-only ISO image for 64-bit (amd64) computers. You can also **download the Beta of ubuntuBSD 15.04 **(codename****”Escape from systemD”) via our website, but you need to be aware of the fact that it’s still in heavy development and bugs might occur during or after the installation.

True believers mind-meld FreeBSD with Ubuntu to burn systemd • The Register

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LinuxFest Northwest 2016

With 80 general sessions, 10 postgres sessions, and 6 tutorials, LinuxFest Northwest will be quite the full weekend of learning and fun. View the accepted sessions.

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Open Source GPS Tracking System – Traccar

Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system for various GPS tracking devices. System supports more than 80 different communication protocols from popular vendors. It includes web interface to manage tracking devices online.

OwnTracks – Your location companion

OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends.
OwnTracks is open-source and uses open protocols for communication so you can be sure your data stays secure and private.

Linux Hardware Build Project. HUGE for JB

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KDE Plasma 5.6 Release

KDE neon dev edition installable image tech preview

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Hubl.in, the Awesome video conference service

Hubl.in is a free and open source video conference solution built with love and designed with ethics in mind. It’s the best way to initiate a communication anywhere with anybody and brings real time conversation to the next level. Hubl.in allows free communication without additional plugins. If you can read this page, you probably can use Hubl.in right now.

Based on WebRTC which allows decentralized communication between browsers. Your video conference is not streamed to Hubl.in in any way.
Simple but full featured: temporarily disable your microphone or camera, invite easily your guests, switch camera between attendees and much more!
GitHub – linagora/hublin: An easy and free video conference service #webrtc

Jitsi Meet

Now has Chrome and Firefox support
Includes all video conferencing features you’d expect but also has Screen Sharing, Etherpad collaboration, and Presentations sharing with Prezi.com
Remote Camera switching is available as well as the ability to hide the camera thumbnails when not needed.
GitHub – jitsi/jitsi-meet: Jitsi Videobridge meets WebRTC

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Rolling with Netrunner | LAS 386

chris — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:45:30 +0000

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Some say it’s the best Plasma 5 Desktop experience to be had, we review Netrunner Rolling & take a walk on the KDE side of things for the week. Find out what makes this unique distribution stands out & why you might want to give it a try yourself.

Then we put the great Ubuntu Conspiracy to bed, our best LastPass alternatives, a quick look at Slackel & more!

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Netrunner | GNU/Linux Distribution

Netrunner Rolling 2015.09 Released With New Plasma 5 And Apps Updates

Netrunner is a Linux distribution that comes into two versions – Main version and Rolling release. Main version is based on Kubuntu and the Rolling release is based on Manjaro Linux. The new Netrunner 2015.09 has been released with a completely different look – KDE4 has been transformed to Plasma 5.2 desktop. Let’s look at the complete changes in the Netrunner 2015.09 release.

Netrunner comes with two versions, Main version that is based on Kubuntu and that gets released in sync with Kubuntu new release and the Rolling version is based on Manjaro Linux. Both the desktops have been customized and so makes its own new look & feel.

Calamares Is Default Installer

The default installer in this rolling release has been changed to Calamares installer. If you read my last post, Manjaro has adopted Calamares installer which is easy to use and makes Manjaro to install easily. The release is based on Majaro so this also has Calamares installer.

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Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

he Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico. It comprises 27, 25-meter radio telescopes in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to focus on particular bands of wavelength.[2] Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way’s center, probed the Universe’s cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission.

Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array – YouTube

Created in 2013 as the new interpretive film for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) public Visitor Center, this 24-minute production explores the synergies of technology and human curiosity that power the world’s most productive radio telescope.

Desktop App Pick

KeepassC

KeePassC is a password manager fully compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX. That is, your
password database is fully encrypted with AES.

KeePassC is written in Python 3 and comes with a curses-interface. It is completely controlled
with the keyboard (vim-like keys are supported).

Some features are:

AES encryption of the database with password and/or keyfile
Included customizable password generator
KeePassX and KeePass v.1.x compatible (KeePass v2.x planned)
Database entries are sorted in alphabetically sorted groups
Subgroups of groups
Entries are identified by a title
Search entries by this title and show matches in an own group
Set expiration dates to remind you that a new password is needed
Unicode support
Copy username and password to clipboard
Auto-locking workspace and self-deleting clipboard with adjustable delays
Options to remember last database and last keyfile
Open URLs directly in your standard browser
Optional use of vim/ranger-like keys
Simple command line interface
Network functionality including multiuser support
The last can be used to omit password entering, too
kpcli – A command line interface for KeePass

A command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files. This program was inspired by my use of the CLI of the Ked Password Manager (“kedpm -c”) combined with my need to migrate to KeePass.

Weekly Spotlight

Open Source GPS Tracking System – Traccar

Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system for various GPS tracking devices. System supports more than 80 different communication protocols from popular vendors. It includes web interface to manage tracking devices online.

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The Ubuntu Conspiracy

If Microsoft bought Canonical, millions of users would have to jump ship or accept life
under the Microsoft banner.

Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A “Standard” Offering

Through the wonderful ZFS On Linux project there is a native port of the ZFS file-system driver to Linux natively (unlike the ZFS FUSE implementation) but due to the GPL vs. CDDL licensing issue it can’t be mainlined into the Linux kernel.

Mark Shuttleworth sent out a brief mailing list message today responding to a user interested in making ZFS Snappy support for Ubuntu. Mark wrote, “If it’s ZFS you’re after, it will be included in Ubuntu as standard in due course.”

By “standard” he presumably means that Ubuntu will maintain a DKMS kernel package for it in the official Ubuntu archive and perhaps we’ll see that package installed by default for Ubuntu Server, but that it wouldn’t be directly patched into their kernel. That’s what I’d assume at least given the license issues. Ubuntu wouldn’t support ZFS for the root file-system, but could be useful on Ubuntu Server for some secondary drives with RAID-Z.

LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family

It’s a big day here at LastPass. We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joining LogMeIn. As one of the world’s leading SaaS companies, we can’t imagine a better team to align with our values and product-driven mission. With their experience in growing successful brands like join.me, we’re excited to join LogMeIn in delivering the next generation of identity and access management for individuals, teams and companies, with LastPass at the forefront.

Slackel Linux: Not Your Father’s Slackware

For a Slackware-based distro, one of Slackel’s strong points is the systems tool collection from Salix Linux. Slackel uses the Gslapt Package Manager for access to Slackware, Salix and Slackel package repositories.

Gnome Builder Dev Joins Red Hat

The real news, however, is that I’ve accepted a wonderful role at Red Hat. I’ll be focusing on the Xdg-App developer story, and Builder is an important part of that. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to create and deploy software that users can trust.

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Who Will Build The Builders | LINUX Unplugged 109

chris — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:59:53 +0000

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Debian aims for reproducible builds of all packages. We’ll explain what that means & why other distributions might be jumping onboard with the idea.

Plus impressive early performance results under Mir & Gnome’s 3.18’s best features you’re not hearing about.

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Jose Macbook Linux feedback

From: Sean
RE: Jose Macbook Linux feedback

I’ve been running Linux on my macbook pro for about 4 years now, I just switched back to Fedora 22 from OpenSuse (been rocking Suse since 2007) and my macbook has never worked better.

The newer kernel 4.1+ finally has good hardware support for the keyboard backlight, thermal/fan controls, cpu scaling (yes Apple does their own crap for this) so battery life is still good.

One other thing that I’ve done to extend battery life is buy the Fluendo codec suite and switch to a gstreamer based video player, the fluendo codecs have much better video acceleration for video decoding, taking much of the load off the cpu.

Also, not all gstreamer video players are created equal; totem is still pretty heavy on the cpu, 24% on 1080p h.264 video, but something lightweight like MPV sits around 12%, and this is on a Sandy Bridge i5.

I haven’t tried Arch on here but I imagine getting a similar setup wouldn’t be too hard. I wish Jose the best of luck, don’t give up on Linux.

Name for the road show

From: Zek the Penguin
RE: Name for the road show

Hi Chris!

Was listening to Unplugged today and figured I’d make suggestions for the road show.

How about ‘Nation Migration’? ‘March of the Penguin’? ‘Roll Your Own’?

Just a few ideas. Hope it helps.

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Ubuntu Convergence Demo: X Apps Running on Mir Display Server

The video was filmed by Canonical at a recent developer sprint. The video was distributed internally to better demonstrate the progress made on the X.org compatability layer for Mir.

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How Debian Is Trying to Shut Down the CIA and Make Software Trustworthy Again

In response to the Snowden revelation that the CIA compromised Apple developers’ build process, thus enabling the government to insert backdoors at compile time without developers realizing, Debian, the world’s largest free software project, has embarked on a campaign to to prevent just such attacks. Debian’s solution? Reproducible builds.

Reproducible builds, as the name suggests, make it possible for others to reproduce the build process. “The idea is to get reasonable confidence that a given binary was indeed produced by the source,” Lunar said. “We want anyone to be able to produce identical binaries from a given source.”

A software package reproducibly built should be byte for byte identical to the publicly-available package. Any difference would be evidence of tampering.

Reproducible builds rely in part on David A. Wheeler’s solution to this problem, Diverse Double-Compiling.

“You need two compilers,” Lunar explained, “with one that you somehow trust. Then you build the compiler under test twice, once with each compiler, and then you use the compilers that you just built to build the compiler under test again.

“If the output is the same, then no backdoors,” he added. “But for this scheme to work, you need to be able to compare that both build outputs are the same. And that’s exactly what we are enabling when having reproducible builds.”

According to Lunar, 83 percent of Debian packages are now built reproducibly, and more join the party every day.

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