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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS!

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pusto.org: The alpha is here

Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail.

It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features.

Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick

The $85 Chromebit is a 75 gram (or 2.6 ounces) stick that you can plug into any HDMI port — whether that’s a regular computer screen or that large TV in your living room. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage (in the form of relatively cheap and slow eMMC storage) and 2GB of RAM.

UUMATE Is a Respin of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 That Aims to Be Better

Highlights of UUMATE include the Google Chrome web browser, Kdenlive video editor, PeerGuardian privacy-oriented firewall application, Steam for Linux, Syncthing file sync utility, TeamViewer remote control software, Wine 1.7, Compiz for beautiful desktop effects, as well as numerous sound events enabled by default.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Noah VS Dr Emma: Switching people to Linux competition rules

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Have we gone too far with containers?

Engineers are now coming up with crazy solutions to a typical problem. Vulnerable software that’s spreading around the web in containers.

CoreOS says over 80 percent of Docker images stored in its Quay service are still vulnerable to the infamous Heartbleed bug, for example.

Clair can scan containers for known vulnerabilities and then alert developers of potential issues. CoreOS is getting this data from the vulnerability databases of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian.

Docker Doubles Down on Security With Nautilus, Hardware Encryption

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

SteamOS Getting off to a rocky start…

SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows

Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.

Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year

Watch out for the old school shill: Dean Takahashi has authored very Microsoft focused books, and writes a lot about MS, such as – Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution

“We met with Valve about our reservations concerning the limitations of SteamOS with high-end PC builds, and they agreed they were not issues that could be overcome in time for us to launch a Steam Machine this year,” said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon. “But they were genuinely interested in working to address them in future SteamOS builds. So the option for us to produce a Steam Machine is still open, and our Tiki PCs have been in production for years as Windows systems and are always ready. But for now, we’ve put our plans to offer a Steam Machine on hold.”

Fedora/gstreamer dev comments on the importance of gaming on Linux and SteamOS

Time to get a Steam Machine – https://t.co/O7owod66BT

— Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) November 11, 2015

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Leap / Tumbleweed Users — Check in!

Just checked out the latest episode of Linux Unplugged and was stoked to see it had a segment on my distro of choice.

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OpenSUSE’s Big Leap | LAS 385

chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:52:52 +0000

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It might just be the future of openSUSE. We take a indepth look at openSUSE Leap 42.1 beta. Find out why this might be the most ambitious Linux distribution release to date, the features that appeal the power user & the newbie.

Plus the Linux malware that fixes up your box, why it might never be the year of the Linux desktop, the Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks & more!

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Leap – openSUSE

It secures the future of openSUSE. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work. By basing openSUSE on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), the core of openSUSE will be maintained by SUSE engineers. That means it will get fixes and security updates from SLE.

The openSUSE project can then replace and add the bits and pieces of software that contributors want and are willing to maintain.

openSUSE Leap will also complement Tumbleweed better. When there was one openSUSE, it was torn between those who wanted newer software and those who wanted a stable system. Tumbleweed caters to those who want newer software, which allows the regular release to do an even better job of providing a highly stable system.

openSUSE releases Leap Beta

Users wanting a long-term, stable Linux system can expect Leap to use the most advanced long-term supported branch of the Linux kernel, 4.1 series, which provides significant improvements to ARM hardware architecture.

Long-Term support for Leap

rbrownsuse (openSUSE Chairman) comments on Long term support

Yup – the easiest way of saying it is actually:

Leap 42.x will be supported until AT LEAST Leap 43.0 is out – and that will happen around about when SLE 13 is out (which is certainly a few years away)

The exact deadlines and schedules are somewhat unknown, because no one knows when SLE 13 will be out yet

And also, dependant on that, we might focus and fine tune the lifecycle of the final version of Leap 42.x to give it a comfortable overlap with the release of 43.0

But until we’re closer to that, we dont know for sure

So we’re saying what we’re saying..

Quick Notes

btrfs on / and for many subvolumes, some with copy on write disabled (libvert, mailman, pgsql, mariadb)
xfs on /home – Really smart since /home gets filled by me from time to time. Avoids that btrfs slowdown when you fill it up
Possible to set system to use NTP, even when not connected to the Internet at time of install.

Firewall set to enable (one click disable)
SSH Port set to blocked
SSH Service set to disabled

YaST always bitches that a software source is missing. It’s the USB drive I installed the distro from. How common is it to install from a thumb drive, and then leave it forever plugged in? (Easy to fix)
Online Update tool shipped without any sources configured. (Again an easy fix)

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Desktop App Pick

Gpick Project – Home

Gpick is an advanced color picker and palette editing tool.

KColorChooser – Color Chooser

KColorChooser is a simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete.

Weekly Spotlight

FeedReader – RSS desktop client

Desktop notifications
- Fast search and filters
- Full articles instead of previews for known sites
- Tagging (plugin needed for Tiny Tiny RSS)
- Sharing to “read-it-later” services like Pocket and Instapaper
- Handy keyboard short-cuts
- Keep all your old articles as long as you like
- Consistent formatting of articles
- automatically saved state of the UI

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Why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop

Oh, don’t get me wrong, Linux, as Android tablets and smartphones and Chrome OS Chromebooks, will become the most popular end-user operating system of all. But, the desktop? That’s another story.

Security firm discovers Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks

Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that’s reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150 Gbps. The botnet spreads via a Trojan variant dubbed XOR DDoS. This malware infects Linux systems via embedded devices like network routers then brute forces SSH access. Once the malware has Secure Shell credentials, it secretly downloads and installs the necessary botnet software, then connects the newly-infected computer to the rest of the hive.

Is there an Internet-of-Things vigilante out there?

The further we dug into Wifatch’s code the more we had the feeling that there was something unusual about this threat. For all intents and purposes it appeared like the author was trying to secure infected devices instead of using them for malicious activities.

Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online | Ars Technica

Hackers have published almost 15 gigabytes’ worth of password data, donation records, and source code taken during the recent hack of the Patreon funding website.

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Chronicles of a Linux Switcher | LAS 360

chris — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:09:16 +0000

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We follow the journey of users who have just made the switch to Linux. We document what went great & what hasn’t worked.

Plus a big announcement is made, great news for Ubuntu MATE, a quick look at Elementary OS Freya Beta & more!

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Mall Kiosk Runs Linux

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Walking through a mall I found a kiosk that is running Ubuntu

Desktop App Pick

Gramps Genealogical Research Software

Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.

Sent by Adrian

Weekly Spotlight

BitPay’s Internal Mining Pool

At BitPay we are huge proponents of open source software and of course cool gadgets! To do some of our internal testing, we built a small pool of bitcoin miners that run raspbian. Those two miners each have a powered USB hub and a few usb miners each. They are cooled by a pair of simple USB fans. All of which sits neatly on the corner of my desk! Gotta love how easy it is to deploy something like this in such a small form factor on linux… It’s reliable, fast, and just plain looks awesome sitting on my desk!

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Ubuntu MATE Inks First Hardware Deal

Entroware laptops __start from £379.99. __This bags an ‘Orion’ laptop powered by an Intel Pentium 3550M (Haswell) processor running at 2.3GHz, 4GB DRR3 RAM, a 500GB 5400RPM HDD and integrated Intel graphics. Desktops begin at £299.

Ubuntu MATE hardware partnership with Entroware | Ubuntu MATE

Ubuntu MATE forges exciting partnership with Linux hardware startup Entroware.

elementary OS Freya Available For Download, See What`s New

For those not familiar with elementary OS, this is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution (with Freya being based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, supported until April 2019) which ships with its own desktop environment, called Pantheon, and its own custom application for the most part, which look great, integrate very well with the desktop and ship with sane defaults so the user doesn’t have to tweak anything.

Evolve OS Changes Name due to Legal Warning

Thank you everyone for helping us in the naming process!
In that time, one name cropped up time and time again. A name we do own, and one indicative of our history and roots.

Solus Project

Valve games for Mesa/DRI developers

Hi,
At Collabora (my lovely dayjob), we’ve been working with Valve on
SteamOS. Valve are keen to give back to the community, and we’ve been
discussing ways they can help do that, including providing free access
to Valve games on Steam to Debian developers last year.

We’re happy to say that this has been extended to Mesa developers as
well, to say thanks for all the great work. If you have 25 commits or
more (an arbitrary number) to Mesa0 in the past five years, please
drop me an email (with ‘Steam’ in the subject) with your freedesktop
username and Steam username. We can then get you access to all past
and future Valve-produced games available on Steam[1].
Thanks for all the great work, and enjoy.
Cheers,
Daniel

Gnome 3.16 Hits

My Updated 3.16 Packages for GNOME Extensions by Michael Tunnell aka RottNKorpse

GNOME, desktop environment project, released their latest version of 3.16 recently so I decided to make an update to my previous extension package releases. I made a similar post last year for the GNOME 3.14 Release because some of my extension broke. Unfortunately, some of those extensions are still unmaintained and thus not updated for 3.16 either. So I am continuing to update some extensions for myself and anyone else who wants them.

Intel Compute Stick, world’s smallest PC, will cost $150 with Windows, $110 with Linux

Intel Atom quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. It plugs directly into a monitor or TV via HDMI, and is powered through a Micro USB jack on the side of the stick. There’s also a full-sized USB port, and Bluetooth 4.0 for connecting a mouse and keyboard.

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Get A Job, You Linux Bum! | LAS 359

chris — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:46:02 +0000

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Have you ever thought it’s better to create a job then apply for one? This week we dive into what it takes to build a business that runs on open source & supports open source.

Plus Microsoft’s surprise move, openSUSE jumps ahead, running just about any Android app under Linux & more!

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Best Enterprise Router for the Money

Mikrotik

Best Autonomous Access Points For the Money

EnGenius

Best Cloud Access Points for the Money

UBNT – Ubiquiti Networks

Best Display for Internet Kiosk

Asus VS248H-P 24-Inch Full-HD LED-lit LCD Monitor

Best PC for Internet Kiosk for Internet Kiosk

Intel NUC DN2820FYKH with Intel Celeron N2820

Best USB Wifi Dongle

Panda 300Mbps Wireless-N USB Adapter

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Ubiquiti Networks – Wireless networking products for broadband and enterprise

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Desktop App Pick

ClipGrab – Free YouTube Downloader & Converter

ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.

It converts downloaded videos to MPEG4, MP3 or other formats in just one easy step.

Weekly Spotlight

Go For It!

Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format. This simplifies synchronization with mobile devices and makes it possible to edit tasks using other front-ends, like my Todo.txt Kupfer Plugin. If you already use Todo.txt, beware of the fact, that Go For It! automatically archives completed tasks to the done list!

Project belong to community member mank319

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Microsoft Adopts ODF

Microsoft has confirmed it will start supporting the Open Documents Format (ODF) in the next update to Office 365, following a lengthy battle against the UK government.
In 2014, Microsoft went against the government’s request to support ODF, claiming its own XML format was more heavily adopted. The UK government refutes the claim, stating that ODF allows users to not be boxed into one ecosystem.

Gnome 3.16 systemd-journal coming in next Tumbleweed snapshot

It’s official, Gnome will be in the next Tumbleweed snapshot and the development experience is highly anticipated. A clean installation works, but the guys are working on one last test before its released. We’re not promising an early Easter gift, but Tumbleweed users won’t have to wait long for Gnome’s latest upgrade.

A small change to Linux can be seen in Tumbleweed with a change from the syslog to systemd-journal; the systemd-journal as a binary file needs special tools to look at it.

systemd-journal has been in Fedora since Fedora 18

Audacity 2.1.0 Released

For a long time, we have wanted Real-Time Preview for effects.
It seemed nearly unachievable without major restructuring.
But with Audacity 2.1.0, we have it in
LADSPA, VST, and Audio Unit (OS X) effects!
Thanks to Leland Lucius for these great new capabilities!

Much improved
Noise Reduction
effect replaces Noise Removal. Thanks to new contributor Paul Licameli!

Lots of other improvements to effects, also thanks to Leland, including:

VST: FXB preset banks, hosting multiple plugins

All effects can now be used in Chains, and can be sorted on name, publisher, or class.

Most Nyquist effects now have Preview button.

Redesigned Meter Toolbars show a lot more information in smaller area. Thanks, Leland Lucius and James Crook!

Spectral Selection
in Spectrogram view. Thanks to Paul Licameli!

How to Install and Run Android Apps in a Linux OS

Basically, anyone with a computer will be able to get an APK file and get it running inside the Google Chrome browser with a minimum amount of effort. What’s even more interesting is that the app only needs Google Chrome installer, it doesn’t need it to run. If you check the background processes, you will notice that a Chrome one is running along with the Arc Welder.

ARC Welder – Chrome Web Store

Gentoo, after 10 years, has a new website! – not April Fools this time!

Blender New Version 2.74 Is Out With New Tools And Improvements

The Blenders Institute’s sixth open film

The Blender Institute’s sixth film project, codenamed Gooseberry, is in deep into the most open production from the Blender Institute yet. If you’ve been following the project so far, then you already have a sense of what Blender means by an “open production”—lots of sharing.

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op5 IT monitoring – eliminate time thieves on Vimeo

“Built on top of Nagios you say?”
Yes, with some added features like proper report generation, a sweet REST API, easy to use load-balancing/redundancy, a business logic engine and of course commercial support!

PS: I managed to sneak in a JB shout-out in one of our cheesy promo videos: https://vimeo.com/107821073

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OpenSUSE Followup | LINUX Unplugged 65

chris — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:00:41 +0000

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We follow up on our review of openSUSE 13.2 & discuss how life on the rolling side has been going for some of our LUG members.

Plus the hardware box that promises to replace your password manager & we say goodbye to the Linux Outlaws.

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Unity 7 Won’t Go Away until Most Agree U8 is Better than U7

In a long list of life’s lessons learned, ‘be gentle pushing people onto your new code’ is high up. So we won’t require U8 for everyone even when it’s first class. It will be opt in till most people agree it’s better than U7

Docker on Google Compute Now

FU:

openSUSE 13.2 Follow Up

openSUSE 13.2 is Released

Dear contributors, friends and fans: openSUSE 13.2 is out! After one year on continuous improvement in the tools and procedures and many hours of developing, packaging, testing and fixing issues a new stable release is here providing the best that Free and Open Source has to offer with our special green touch: stable, innovative and fun!

Facts about Tumbleweed and Factory merging

Installation

openSUSE will always try to install alongside another distro or OS.
Any btrfs partition assigned to root will automatically have subvolumes created.
As stated, the disc prompt will go away if unselected in Software Repositories module of YaST.

Software

gnome-software is good for software discovery and installation.
- openSUSE didn’t have anything like this until now.
Software Management is the YaST module for more advanced software management.
Package Updater runs in the background and prompts via notification if there are updates.
Software Repositories is the YaST module for configuring software repositories.
YMP One-Click Installer extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ymp-one-click-installer/chldcpnlaiffaelmcjkeodakmnkomldg?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon)

Font Rendering

Tumbleweed/Factory

Initial article
Facts about Tumbleweed and Factory Merging
Tumbleweed and Factory are now synonymous under the name Tumbleweed (as of November 4th)
Factory continues to be the name of the development project.
A how-to will be published soon, until then: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2014-11/msg00073.html
Factory is aliased to Tumbleweed for 6 months, after which Factory repos will no longer exist.
Is truly rolling.
- Tumbleweed was a stable base with rolling packages and kernel.
Snapshot ISOs are available.

Goodbye to Linux Outlaws

The Last Stand

After more than seven years of Linux Outlaws, my co-host Dan and myself have decided to end the show. This decision has been a while in the making and it is with a heavy heart that I am committing to finally announce it.

Mooltipass: Open Source Offline Password Keeper

Our team believes that great security can only be achieved through complete transparency. That’s why we have been publishing everything that goes into making the Mooltipass on our GitHub repository from the project’s start.

Just like Linux-based operating systems, open source allows our product to benefit from many engineers’ expertise. This results in better code quality, more trust from our final users and verified security implementation.

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Best of Ohio LinuxFest | Linux Action Show 336

chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:10:15 +0000

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Our interviews, stories, and adventures from Ohio LinuxFest 2014. The big show traveled to Columbus Ohio for one of the best Linux events on the East coast of the US, and we came away with some great stories, friends, and interviews. We’ll feature some of the best in today’s episode.

Plus the big news for openSUSE, Oculus Linux users get some love…

And so much more!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Closing Address: Ken Starks | Ohio LinuxFest 2014 – The Future of Free

Many of us who work with Linux in the private and government sectors may share a jaded perception. A perception that Linux on the desktop isn’t relevant any more or it never was. I want to talk to you about that. I’ll show you a side you rarely see.

Official PC-BSD Blog » Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ

I am seeing lots of interest and questions about Lumina since it was mentioned in the PC-BSD weekly update last week, so I am just going to try and answer some of the big questions that I have been seeing.

Gqrx SDR | A software defined radio powered by GNU-Radio and Qt

Gqrx supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices. See supported devices for a complete list.

SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

Jupiter Broadcasting at Ohio LinuxFest Photo Album

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Behind the Scenes of Lords of War Runs Linux (Blizzard?)

Desktop App Pick

Memo – Unix-style note taking software

Memo is a command line, Unix-style note-taking software written in C99. It’s
very flexible and works well with standard Unix tools.

Weekly Spotlight

SparkleShare – Self hosted, instant, secure file sync

SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or “projects”) to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file.

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Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a single openSUSE rolling release under the name ‘Tumbleweed’

Factory will remain the name of the development process where openSUSE’s new developments are integrated, with the tested, user-ready rolling release assuming the name Tumbleweed from Nov. 4.

Oculus Rift SDK 0.4.3 with support for Linux released

This Is What We Learnt From the Ubuntu at 10 Reader Survey

ownCloud Asks Canonical to Remove Their Software from Ubuntu Repos, Sparks Fly

One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular “universe,” is that they’re full of old and unmaintained versions. This is a repository where anyone care be a maintainer and it’s mainly used for applications that are not supported officially.

LAS jacket just 1 away from second relaunch

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Windows 10 Includes a Linux-Style Package Manager Named “OneGet”

(I’m batching up my answers, I’m post-limited because I don’t post on Reddit much at all)

FAQs:

OneGet is open source — https://github.com/oneget/oneget[1]

we post bleeding edge/experimental builds often and the latest is always https://oneget.org/oneget.zip[2] (this contains the chocolatey provider again!)

Following @PSOneGet on twitter will keep you in the loop when new builds arrive.

We also actively take community input and design ideas; anyone can participate during our online weekly meetings (Friday mornings at 10AM PDT) — https://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html[3]

@ANUSBLASTER_MKII — Package Provider can provider their own default repositories, but you have a point, feed discovery is an important concept. I have a few ideas about it, I think we’ll have to talk about that in the weekly meeting this week.

@blackout24 — I hear ya. I do make cmdline stuff all the time, but the PowerShell way of doing things strongly encourages use down a particular set of patterns. I’d tend to go a bit simpler too, but once you’ve learned the “PowerShell” patterns, everything that follows those is easy to use.

As well, OneGet will be exposing the APIs to talk to the package providers, so it’s entirely possible to build standalone cmdline tools that just use the APIs and make things easy.

CSB: I had a rather senior director at MS ask me if we couldn’t just make an exe called RPM (and/or apt-get) that had the same syntax as the linux tools so that those who were well versed in one could just use OneGet that way. I told him sure, but we’re scrambling for time, so I don’t know when we’d get to it

@Tireseas – what would you like it to do differently for interactive use? I’m going to great lengths to make the tab-completion as functional as I can (way more than PowerShell normally would let me). Additionally, the APIs will let someone make a GUI around it and bypass the whole powershell interface.

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openSUSE: Ubuntu Killer? | LAS | s26e02

chris — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:32:09 +0000

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It’s our review of openSUSE 12.3. Is this powerful distribution an island of refuge for Ubuntu defectors? And we’ll discuss how openSUSE stands on it’s own, as a distribution with a rich legacy that’s following it’s own path to the future. But are there a few bumps along this journey?

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— Show Notes: —

openSUSE 12.3 Review:

Brought to you by: System76

The Power of the Build Service

software.opensuse.org

Rolling, the Right Way

Portal:Tumbleweed – openSUSE

Top Tier Messaging – Can it attract new users?

Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users

A Traditional Distro

A DVD install only disk, with all the DE choices.
Release notes full of info.
Feels very much like the best traditional aspects of a grand release, in sensible delivery and context.

Bumps and Bruises

Wifi No Worky After Install
I was not too impressed with the XFCE implementation, LXDE was about what I expected.

Other

openSUSE 12.3 installer should play nice with UEFI and Secure Boot.
jumping ship from Mint 13 KDE to openSuse 12.3…hmm : LinuxActionShow

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One major piece I will be tackling is making sure we in the Red Hat desktop team work even closer with the Fedora community to bring forth some great improvements to Fedora and created an even more integrated and seamless experience for those wanting to use the Fedora desktop. This ranges from working with the Fedora team on a new software installer to working on getting Wayland ready for deployment in Fedora.

Taking on a new job at Red Hat
May the best code WIN!
openSUSE 12..3 Released!
Back to their usual eight month cycle (12.2 was delayed by two months).

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