MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Pre-Show

• A Raspberry Pi robot that helps people make their grocery list.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Technology Industry Leaders Join Forces to Increase Predictability in Open Source Licensing

To provide greater predictability to users of open source software, Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM today each committed to extending the GPLv3 approach for license compliance errors to the software code that each licenses under GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 and v2.

As I say in the article, I'm seriously thrilled that companies are participating in this dialog and upping their commitment to enforce in a way that is friendly to the long term success of #freesoftware https://t.co/rRVbEOvug5

— karen sandler (@o0karen0o) November 28, 2017

• Facebook, Google, IBM, Red Hat give GPL code scofflaws 60 days to behave – or else

In a blog post, Re7d Hat explained that legal proceedings generally produce poor results in the free software and open-source community and that litigation should almost always be avoided.

Lemonade-stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source

“I do open source work, how do I find funding?”

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the GNOME

In light of the GNOME switch, this release seems like more of a homecoming than an entirely new voyage.

Lynis Follow Up from Founder of CISOfy

Few additions you might find useful to know:
– Lynis celebrated its 10 year birthday this month
– Lynis can also run as non-privileged user. In that case, the log/report is stored in /tmp.

— Michael Boelen (@mboelen) November 23, 2017

Texas Linux Fest Call for Papers

We are proud to officially announce Texas Linux Fest 2018, scheduled for June 8 and 9 at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas.

Fedora 25 enters End of Life status in a little over 2 weeks. Upgrade to Fedora 26 or Fedora 27 to ensure your system is updated and secure https://t.co/FTl9EFwZd8

— Fedora Project (@fedora) November 27, 2017

DigitalOcean

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

• An Introduction to DigitalOcean Spaces

Is the Front line of the Web Firefox?

Do Linux users need to boycott Chrome?

• DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next | Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME standard and many other skirmishes, battles and even wars over the years. With that long history behind us, there are two things we want you to know about DRM:

1. Everybody on the inside secretly knows that DRM technology is irrelevant, but DRM law is everything; and
2. The reason companies want DRM has nothing to do with copyright

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Gentoo Challenge Check In

The post Hacking the Community | LINUX Unplugged 225 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

MP3 Feed | HD Video Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

— Show Notes: —

— The Cliff Notes —

• Download Ubuntu 17.10
• Best Microphone Under $100
• Best Audio Interface Under $100
• Host Your Own YouTube
• Protecting Your Kids Online
• VoxteleSys

How to Enable HighDPI

• gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features “[‘scale-monitor-framebuffer’]”

— Stay In Touch —

Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard

Ask Noah Dashboard

Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!

Altispeed Technologies

Contact Noah

asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com

— Twitter —

• Noah – Kernellinux
• Ask Noah Show
• Altispeed Technologies
• Jupiter Broadcasting

The post Ubuntu 17.10 | Ask Noah 31 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

RSS Feeds:

HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

• Samsung enable Linux on their phones — Linux desktops will become available if users plug their phones into the DeX Station, the device that lets a Galaxy 8 run a Samsung-created desktop-like environment when connected to the DeX and an external monitor
• Purism Now Shipping Their Laptops With Intel ME Disabled — Purism has announced today all laptops to be shipping from their company will now have the Intel Management Engine (ME) disabled.
• Purism partner with Nextcloud on end-to-end encrypted storage — Purism plans to include Nextcloud in the Librem 5 phone, as well as within PureOS for its Librem 13 and Librem 15 laptops. Additionally, Purism will be discussing with Nextcloud about a future Purism NAS that runs completely free software including Nextcloud and services.
• LVFS/fwupd need donations — At the moment the secure part of the LVFS is hosted in a dedicated Scaleway instance, so any additional donations would be spent on paying this small bill and perhaps more importantly buying some (2nd hand?) hardware to include as part of our release-time QA checks.
• Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement — It adopts the same termination provisions we are all familiar with from GPL-3.0 as an Additional Permission giving companies confidence that they will have time to come into compliance if a failure is identified. Their ability to rely on this Additional Permission will hopefully re-establish user confidence and help direct enforcement activity back to the original purpose we have all sought over the years — actual compliance.  
• Ubuntu 17.10 released — Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including
  a new 4.13-based kernel, glibc 2.26, gcc 7.2, and much more.
  Ubuntu Desktop has had a major overhaul, with the switch from Unity as
  our default desktop to GNOME3 and gnome-shell.
• Happy 13th Birthday — Ubuntu 4.10 ‘Warty Warthog’ wasn’t the most glamorous looking release, but it offered open-source enthusiasts of the day a simple, straightforward install from a single CD. The distro was notable for trying to “detect as much hardware as possible, simplifying the X install.”
  GNOME 2.8, Firefox 0.9, Evolution 2.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 were among the software assembled for the formative release.
• Ubuntu MATE — After six months of tireless work we present Ubuntu MATE 17.10, by far the best release we’ve ever produced.
• Xubuntu — Accelerated video playback with Intel hardware should now work more reliably out of the box.

The post Linux Action News 24 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Show Notes:

Follow Up / Catch Up

Wes and Chris report back from SeaGL 2017

fwupd hits 1.0.0

Since we started the project, we’ve basically re-architected the way the daemon works, re-imagined how the metadata is downloaded and managed, and changed core ways we’ve done the upgrades themselves.

The systemd Corner

• systemd 235

For each service unit a restart counter is now kept: it is increased
each time the service is restarted due to Restart=, and may be
queried using “systemctl show -p NRestarts …”.

• Dynamic Users with systemd

TL;DR: you may now configure systemd to dynamically allocate a UNIX
user ID for service processes when it starts them and release it when
it stops them. It’s pretty secure, mixes well with transient services,
socket activated services and service templating.

• Chris’s Wiki :: blog/unix/ProcessKillingTrick

Sending everyone a SIGSTOP before the real signal completely
avoids this. With all processes suspended, all of them will get
your signal before any of them can wake up from other causes. If
they’re going to die from the signal, they’ll die on the spot;
they’re not going to die (because you’re starting with SIGTERM
or SIGHUP and they block or handle it), they’ll only get woken
up at the end, after most of the dust has settled. It’s a great
solution to a subtle issue.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

TorProxy is a tool which uses netfilter hooks in the linux kernel to route all network traffic through the Tor network

The module uses netfilter hooks in the linux kernel to filter/NAT packets and ensure all outbound traffic is headed for the Tor network.

Why did Compiz “””die”””?

I don’t understand. People act like Compiz is archaic, gimmicky, and buggy, but that has not at all been my experience.

It’s at least as stable as gnome-shell, and it’s more configurable than even kwin. A lot of the effects are gaudy, but there are plenty of simple & pleasant animations…and even they’re configurable. The window and desktop management plugins are top-notch, and give me an insanely efficient work environment.

I liked gnome-shell, but I like compiz much, much more. I’m officially jumping ship to XFCE just to get back to compiz, and I don’t understand why more people/distros haven’t.

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 + pre-install snap – Quality – Ubuntu Community Hub

Ubuntu MATE is pioneering pre-installed snap support by being the first distro to ship a snap by default. For the Ubuntu MATE 17.10 release the pulsemixer snap, a console based mixer for PulseAudio27, will be installed by default.

Ubuntu On-Air

Ubuntu 17.10 Community ISO Testing
2017-10-16 15:00 UTC

DigitalOcean

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

• An Introduction to DigitalOcean Spaces

Librem 15 Review

Success — Linux Phone Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches Its Goal

The security-conscious US-based Linux laptop vendor has raised the full $1.5 million target it sought. The money will be used to help fund the development and manufacture of a 5-inch privacy-focused smartphone, dubbed the ‘Librem 5’.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Unplugged Upgrades

Why the changes?

• LINUX Unplugged is JB’s largest podcast
• Possibly the largest Linux podcast in the world (accounting for video downloads.)
• And we don’t want to stand still. I was going to wait until 300, but I can’t hold back!

What are the changes?

• Full video LUP. Better than LAS video.
• And we’re doing it by making LUP an audio only show.
• More edited, closer to LAN’s polish with the chill vibe of LUP. And live.
• We buy about $1k in camera equipment and supporting hardware. Camera for Chris, Camera for Wes, studio cam, guest cam.
• We release a full unedited video version, with behind the scenes camera feeds to Patrons.

Benefits

• The wider audience gets a better sounding, more polished product.
• Video version with better production than LAS for those who really want it. After hardware investment would just use our existing production pipeline. IE we’re already plumbed for it.

The post The Purism Redemption | LINUX Unplugged 218 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

RSS Feeds:

HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

• New Atari console runs Linux — The Ataribox is powered by a ‘customised’ AMD processor and uses Radeon graphics. On the software side the machine runs a ‘customised’ version of Linux that has an “easy-to-use user interface”.
• Ubuntu 17.10 final beta — Artful Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 4.13 kernel
• Ubuntu 17.10 Will Drop The 32-bit Desktop ISO — There will no longer be any “ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso” produced. There is no longer any effective QA or testing being done on the Ubuntu i386 desktop image on actual 32-bit-only hardware.
• Announcing the XFree KWin project — The idea is to be able to start KWin/Wayland without XWayland support.
• 6 year LTS kernel — Linux LTS releases will now be maintained for six years.
• Nextcloud Introducing Native Integrated End-to-end Encryption — Nextcloud End-to-end Encryption keeps the server from ever seeing the data while still facilitating syncing between devices and sharing with other users.
• SQL Server lands on Linux for the first time — Microsoft hit a major milestone today with the official general availability of SQL Server on Linux.
• Microsoft Rolls Out A Preview Of The New Skype For Linux — This long-awaited Skype for Linux update brings screen sharing, group chat, and other features not recently available under the current Skype for Linux client. This new Linux client is part of their effort to “rebuild Skype from the ground up with cloud technology.”
• Microsoft becomes a sponsor of the Open Source Initiative — As a premium sponsor, Microsoft joins the likes of Google, IGM, HPE, AdblockPlus, GitHub and Heptio as top sponsors of the project. Other sponsors at lower levels include RedHat, The Linux Foundation, Mozilla and HP.
• When Microsoft met SUSE: This Windows-Linux partnership gets stronger every day — Microsoft SQL Server, which just became available on Linux, is also available on SLES and SLES on Azure on October 2.
• Will Microsoft love Linux to death? Shuttleworth and Stallman. — “It certainly looks that way. But it won’t be so easy to extinguish us, because our reasons for using and advancing free software are not limited to practical convenience,” he said.

The post Linux Action News 21 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

RSS Feeds:

HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Episode Links

• Snaps in Solus — Occurs to me that I likely have to make some kind of statement or whathaveyou about the whole “Solus adopting snaps” thing.
• Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal — I propose we replace the Community Portal with a dynamic and collaboratively maintained site. The site would raise the profile of conversations and content, to improve our onboarding and communication issues.
• Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint — First up is the Desktop Fit & Finish Sprint on August 24th and 25th.
• 50% CPU savings w/Hardware Accelerated Video Playback — We’re testing some patches to Chromium 60 in Artful to enable video acceleration and we’re seeing roughly a 50% saving in CPU overhead when using VA API.
• Nextcloud push into education — Today we are very proud to officially announce the Nextcloud Education Edition, developed in collaboration with Moodle, DeiC, regio iT, the TU Berlin and Univention.
• Firefox 55 — Performance changes include significantly faster startup times when restoring lots of tabs and settings that let users take greater control of our new multi-process architecture. We’ve also upgraded the address bar to make finding what you want easier, with search suggestions and the integration of our one-click search feature, and safer, by prioritizing the secure – https – version of sites when possible.
• Firefox 55 Advanced Performance Features — Firefox 55 introduces several new low-level capabilities that help improve the performance of demanding web applications
• Epiphany gets Firefox Sync — You can sync bookmarks, history, passwords, and open tabs with other Epiphany instances and as well as both desktop and mobile Firefox.
• Photon UI — Version 57 of Firefox is slated to be released sometime in November and the biggest user facing change is its new user interface.
• Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full | Ars Technica — Starting with Android 8.0, the A/B system partition setup is being upgraded with a “streaming updates” feature. Update data will arrive from the Internet directly to the offline system partition, written block by block, in a ready-to-boot state.

The post Linux Action News 14 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.