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Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0!

Talk about a Happy New Year. The reason: it turns out we’re not dead. In fact, we’re more alive than ever, thanks to a rescue by readers—specifically, by the hackers who run Private Internet Access.

This is exactly what we had hoped for in recent years, but hardly expected. Really and truly, I waited to put up our farewell post until all hope was lost. But hey, it turns out you don’t have to believe in miracles to experience one, because that’s exactly what happened here.

Second, they’re eager to support us in building Linux Journal 2.0 around the substantial core of devoted readers we had through the many years of Linux Journal 1.x. And, this means we need to hear from you!

Google’s experimental Fuchsia OS can now run on the Pixelbook

Google’s in-development operating system, Fuchsia, has a new development device: The Google Pixelbook. Google’s $1,000 laptop usually runs Chrome OS, but with the latest Fuchsia builds, you can swap out the browser-based OS for Google’s experimental operating system.

Fuchsia is still incredibly difficult to get running. Along with the Pixelbook, Fuchsia only supports two other obscure pieces of hardware: an Acer Switch Alpha 12 laptop and old Intel NUCs from 2015.

The extreme difficulty in getting Fuchsia to run reinforces the fact that Fuchsia is currently a secret, deep-in-development operating system that Google isn’t really ready to talk about or encourage people to try just yet.

TING

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‘Kernel memory leaking’ Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

A fundamental design flaw in Intel’s processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.

Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we’re looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down, depending on the task and the processor model.

Details of the vulnerability within Intel’s silicon are under wraps: an embargo on the specifics is due to lift early this month, perhaps in time for Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday next week. Indeed, patches for the Linux kernel are available for all to see but comments in the source code have been redacted to obfuscate the issue.

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature protects against.

• The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table…

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An introduction to Joplin, an open source Evernote alternative

Joplin is an open source cross-platform note-taking and to-do application. It can handle a large number of notes, organized into notebooks, and can synchronize them across multiple devices.The notes can be edited in Markdown, either from within the app or with your own text editor, and each application has an option to render Markdown with formatting, images, URLs, and more.

As such, its synchronization is designed without any hard dependency to any particular service. Most of the synchronization process is done at an abstract level, and access to external services, such as OneDrive or Dropbox, is done via lightweight drivers.

Joplin was designed as a replacement for Evernote, so it can import complete Evernote notebooks, as well as notes, tags, resources (attached files), and note metadata (such as author, geolocation, etc.) via ENEX files.

Valve: Linux Catbot VAC ban claims were hoaxed by hackers to ‘sow distrust among anti-cheat systems’

initially wrote that Valve was banning Linux users with Linux usernames that included the word ‘catbot’, but Valve has said those claims were a “tactic employed by cheaters to try and sow discord and distrust among anticheat systems”.

“Linux historically hasn’t been a problem for cheating–the base rate of cheating is significantly lower on Linux than it is on Windows. Unfortunately, a ‘healthy’ community of cheaters grew up around catbot on linux and their impact on TF became large enough that they simply could no longer be ignored. Those banned users are very annoyed that VAC has dropped the hammer on them.”

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2017 Best Practices

Bad predictions and plans for maintenance

All the Annoying Tech Chores You Need to Do When You Have Time

Like your car, or your kitchen, your tech devices will run best when they’re maintained properly—and that means finding time to do all those low-level maintenance tasks that aren’t much fun, but can keep everything stable and smooth, and avoid problems in the future.

• Update your Software
• Go through old files and free up some space
• Monitor for problems
• Get Organized
• Update router and other firmware
• Move to the cloud?

Linux resolutions for 2018

It’s always a good idea to start a new year with renewed intentions to be even better users and administrators of our Linux systems.

• Automate the boring stuff
• Learn a new language
• Try a new OS
• Focus on Security
• Restore those backups!
• Document, Document, Document
• Most importantly, have some fun!

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Ubuntu Devs Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default in 17.10

Ubuntu Desktop team lead Will Cooke remarks that: “my gut feeling is that wayland (sic) isn’t ready yet,” and Didier Roche says the distro will ‘default to xorg until we take a decision’.

Warning: Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk for customers

It is inseparable from Linux and can not work without it. it would fail a fair-use test (obviously, ask offline if you don’t understand). Because of its strongly derivative nature of the kernel, it must be under the GPL version 2 license, or a license compatible with the GPL and with terms no more restrictive than the GPL. Earlier versions were distributed under GPL version 2.

iWant

A commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server.

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  Check out the Valve presentation from Unite Europe, major Steam Client redesign to come

• Unite Europe 2017 – Steam platform overview and upcoming store updates – YouTube

Benchmarking nftables

Basically, my idea was to find out how much certain firewall setups affect performance.

It clearly shows how performance suffers as the number of rules increases. Interestingly, the decrease in throughput is not linear with rule count, so the overhead introduced with adding rules becomes less and less significant the more rules there are already. In practical boundaries though, one can assume a linear regression. Also worth noting is that iptables performs slightly better.

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Fedora 26 is here!

• @mattdm

  Matthew Miller / Fedora Project Leader

• Thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate

• New development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6.
• We’ve added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer)
• F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements
• better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information.

• DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5)

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• Upgrading Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 – Fedora Magazine

What’s New in Fedora 26 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

• Linux 4.11.8
• GNOME 3.24
• LibreOffice 5.3
• Fedora Media Writer gains ARM support
• Builder now features improved support for systems like Flatpak, CMake, Meson, and Rust.
• Qt Adwaita theme contains many improvements and looks closer to its GTK counterpart than ever.

What is Fedora Boltron?

Boltron is an upcoming prototype of Fedora Modularity. A formal description is documented in Changes/Modular Server Preview on the Fedora wiki. This page tracks the progress of the release.

Changes/NoMoreAlpha – FedoraProject

By gating Rawhide builds from landing in the compose and gating the publication of composes on automated test results we will ensure Rawhide will always be at Alpha quality. This will make it more generally useful to people as a daily driver and development platform, and mean we no longer need to go through the process of building, testing and shipping Alpha releases.

• openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.

openQA is a testing framework that allows you to test GUI applications on one hand and bootloader and kernel on the other. In both cases, it is difficult to script tests and verify the output. Output can be a popup window or it can be an error in early boot even before init is executed.

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Fedora 26 Review

I've got a #Fedora server I've upgraded release after release since F24. Upgrading to 26 now, is this the release it finally breaks? pic.twitter.com/uCHq0NeGec

— Chris Fisher (@ChrisLAS) July 11, 2017

• How the upgrade of Chris’ Fedora server went
• Trying out the KDE Spin of Fedora

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Microsoft tells devs: Whatever you’re doing in Linux, Windows 10 will soon do it too

“Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it’s in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL

Microsoft Azure bug put Red Hat instances at risk

The vulnerability was discovered by Irish software engineer Ian Duffy and reported to Microsoft as part of its bug bounty programme. Duffy discovered the glitch while working on a hardened RHEL image for use on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Android security in 2016 is a mess.

if money is no object, my only sound advice can be to buy an iPhone. Apple is still shipping security updates, albeit on iOS 9, for the iPhone 4s which was released in 2011 (5 years ago). The iPhone 5 is still being kept up to date with iOS 10.

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Core VLC Developer: ‘Noone Cares About Linux; OpenHMD Is a Joke’

Or also, that noone really cares about Linux. And, also, that we might need direct access to get powerful perf.

jbkempf comments on Core VLC Developer: ‘Noone Cares About Linux; OpenHMD Is a Joke’

Therefore, I have never ever ever said “Noone Cares about Linux”. This is the most stupid thing I’ve ever seen; especially outside of the VR context.

Debian putting everything on the /usr

Merging /usr is with a debootstrap compilation flag, --merged-usr.

Ubuntu Prepping Its 16.04 “Rolling HWE Kernel”

Ubuntu 16.04.2 and beyond will feature hardware enablement kernels back-ported from newer Ubuntu releases in order to allow new hardware to work on these older LTS releases, but now the Xenial Xerus is switching to a concept of a “rolling HWE kernel.”

You Can Now Package Your Apps as Snaps Without Bundling Their Dependencies

This is possible now because the latest ubuntu-app-platform snap build incorporates the standard Qt 5 libraries, the QML (Qt Meta Language) runtime, the Ubuntu UI (User Interface) toolkit, and their dependencies. The Oxide web engine library based on Chromium and related QML bindings is also bundled in the ubuntu-app-platform snap, so the new Snaps should now be significantly smaller.

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The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada

Specifications — Next gen XPS 13 developer edition

Here is what the 6th generation developer edition (9360) features:

• 7th generation Intel(r) Core(tm)Processors
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded. Augmented with the necessary hardware drivers (drivers are upstreamed to allow a variety of distros to work)
• Killer Wireless cards*

• InfinityEdge(tm) display, FHD (1920×1080) and QHD+ (3200×1800) versions available

  Killer cards are a branding of Qualcomm Atheros. Their Linux drivers are open source and the firmware is now upstream.

US Configurations

As was the case last time, the US is offering four configs. This time around we are offering the following (including one in Rose Gold):

• i5/8GB/128GB, FHD — $949.99
• i5/8GB/256GB, FHD — $1,349.99
• i7/8GB/256GB, QHD+ (touch) — Rose Gold — $1,599.99

• i7/16GB/512GB, QHD+ (touch) — $1,799.99

• New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada | Hacker News

A word of warning: German magazine c’t tests this laptop in its newest issue, using the pre-installed Ubuntu but also with Fedora 25 Workstation Edition (also with a Linux 4.9 development kernel), as well as Windows 10. The results regarding Linux compatibility are pretty bad:

• The battery lasts for 13h under Linux, which is not too shabby. However, it lasts a whooping 22,5h with Windows 10.

• The headphone port is very noisy with Linux. No noise whatsoever with Windows.

• WiFi performance is dismal in Linux. No problem with Windows.

• The HDMI port on the separately sold docking station does not work correctly with Linux.

netdata backends

netdata supports backends for archiving the metrics, or providing long term dashboards, using grafana or other tools

DalmatinerDB – A fast distributed metric store

DalmatinerDB’s performance relies heavily on taking advantage of facilities like ARC, ZIL, checksums and volume compression. Expecting those things to be handled on a filesystem level makes it possible to remove most of the code for caching, compression, validation from the application improving code simplicity, stability, and performance significantly.

• DalmatinerDB documentation
• Playing with DalmatinerDB

Essentially the main difference is that it relies on some very well tested software as the foundation. Clustering is a first class citizen and complicated compression and checksumming code is kept out of the database where ZFS can do it instead.

Currently Dalmatiner is a great database if you are looking for a reliable time series metrics store that scales and is 100% open source and not backed by a commercial company.

Managing devices in Linux

This month I cover some fascinating aspects of the /dev directory.

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Fedora 24 is both a delight & simply frustrating at the same time. We share our experiences with one of the most highly anticipated Fedora releases.

Plus Canonical makes good on the code, a big hole in Linux & more!

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Fedora 24 Review

• Fedora 24 Workstation Installation Steps with Screenshots

Most awaited version of Fedora 24 workstation, Server and cloud image is officially released on 21st June 2016. Some of the improved features noticed in Fedora 24 workstation are listed below:

• GNOME 3.2 — Improved Desktop Gnome 3.20 which makes searching of files easier and also provide simple interface to manage printer jobs.
• Flatpak Tool Support — A flatpak is a tool that allows us to package Linux based application and distribute it on the linux systems which supports flatpak. Beauty of Flatpak is that it doesn’t depend what is currently installed on your system.
• Upgrade via Graphical Mode — Fedora 24 workstation provides a feature to upgrade your fedora OS(Operating System) version to the latest version graphically without any issues.
• Latest Version of Libre Office 5.1
• Introduction of Wayland — Wayland is the new X display Server
• QGnomePlatform Support
• Firefox 47
• Latest version Photo Editor Shotwell-0.23.1

Explore Flatpak in Fedora 24

We covered the Flatpak release announcement a few days ago here on the Fedora Magazine, but if you’ve never heard of Flatpak before that, you may have heard of xdg-app which was a development name for this technology. It was recently renamed to Flatpak to reflect the fact that it’s finally ready for broader usage. Besides Fedora Flatpak is already available in Arch, Debian (Experimental), Mageia, openSUSE (still as xdg-app). There are also personal repositories with Flatpak for Debian Stable and Ubuntu.

• Flatpak Apps

Applications require the org.gnome.Platform 3.20 runtime. See the runtimes page for details on how to install this.

To add the nightly-graphics repository, run:

wget https://209.132.179.2/keys/nightly.gpg

flatpak remote-add --gpg-import=nightly.gpg nightly-graphics https://209.132.179.2/repo/

Now you have the Gnome runtime, and are ready to install software.

You can then list available apps using:

flatpak remote-ls gnome-apps --app
 
Pick the app you want, example:

flatpak install gnome-apps org.gnome.gedit stable

Snaps on Fedora 24

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On Fedora 23 or 24:

• sudo dnf copr enable zyga/snapcore
• sudo dnf install snapd
• enable the snapd systemd service:

• sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.service

• SELinux support is in beta, so on Fedora 24 you currently have to:

• sudo setenforce 0

• to persist, edit /etc/selinux/config to set SELINUX=permissive and reboot.

• RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 status update

Recently, there has been a big development in RPM Fusion for Fedora 24.

• Top 22 things to do after installing Fedora 24 to make as user friendly

Fedora 22 Linux to Reach End of Life on July 19, 2016, Move to Fedora 24 Now

“This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 22. Fedora 22 will reach end of life on 2016-07-19, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 24, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 22 collection,” says Dennis Gilmore.

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The Grid RUNS LINUX!

• Computer from the grid powered LAS live broadcast from SELF
• Great deal on computers – bought a ThinkPad i7 with 8gb of ram 500gb hard drive for $170
• Tons of “laptop for parts” that are under $50 but actually run
• Old games / game systems
• Great place if you want to introduce someone to Linux.

Desktop App Pick

Abricotine markdown editor

Abricotine is an open-source markdown editor built for desktop.

Abricotine features:

• Write in markdown
• Export documents in HTML
• Preview text elements (e.g, headers, images, todo lists, etc) while you type
• View ‘table of content’ in side pane
• Display syntax highlighting for supported languages
• Show helpers, anchors and hidden characters
• Copy formatted HTML in the clipboard
• Write in a distraction-free fullscreen view
• Manage and easily beautify markdown tables
• Search and replace text
• Support for common formatting keyboard shortcuts

Spotlight

huginn: Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.

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Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux debacle

Sony and lawyers representing as many as 10 million console owners reached the deal on Friday.

Under the terms of the accord, (PDF) which has not been approved by a California federal judge yet, _gamers are eligible to receive $55 if they used Linux on the console.

The proposed settlement, which will be vetted by a judge next month, also provides $9 to each console owner that bought a PS3 based on Sony’s claims about “Other OS” functionality._

Snappy server source code?

The snap *format* is not intrinsically tied to a store. You can stand up
a snap on a system regardless of how it arrived at that system. So the
current store implementation is not particularly relevant, and would not
be a good starting point.

The simplest approach would be to focus on delivering a snap to a system
over HTTPS. Since there are no complex dependency maps, you don’t need
the same sort of sophisticated infrastructure that APT or Debs or RPM
do, you just need a webserver and wget.

• From the Canyon Edge: HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

In fact, Bret Barker has published an open source (Apache License) SNAP store on GitHub. We’re already looking at how to flesh out his proof-of-concept and bring it into snapcore itself.

• OpenStore

Linux CVE-2016-4997 and CVE-2016-4998

Impact: Kernel memory corruption, leading to elevation of privileges or kernel code execution. This occurs in a compat_setsockopt() call that is normally restricted to root, however, Linux 3/4 kernels that support user and network namespaces can allow an unprivileged user to trigger this functionality. This is exploitable from inside a container.

From the Canyon Edge: HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

The answer is really quite simple… SNAP stores are really just HTTP web servers! Of course, you can get fancy with branding, and authentication, and certificates. But if you just want to host SNAPs and enable downstream users to fetch and install software, well, it’s pretty trivial.

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Microsoft’s Windows 10 push leaves grandma on her iPad, Project Ara from Google scales back while the Fairphone pushes on, the Razr is making a comeback & tracking down Grindr users physical location is way easier than you might have thought.

Plus our Kickstarter of the week, some great news for a fan project & more!

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• Microsoft makes final, aggressive Windows 10 upgrade push
• Microsoft has finally found a legal path to publishing Minecraft on Chinese PCs | Ars Technica
• Inside Project Ara, Google’s Lego-like plan to disrupt the smartphone – CNET
• Fairphone 2
• REVOLUTIONARY FINGERPRINT SENSOR | Urbanvaastu Blog
• The Motorola Razr might be about to make a comeback
• Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location | WIRED
• LICKI Brush – Lick Your Cat. by Jason O’Mara — Kickstarter

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AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to win the Go series. We discuss why slowing down AlphaGo and making it think more like a human, might have won the match.

Windows 7 users start getting auto upgraded to 10, the incredible images that reveal bacteria motor parts & of course our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Google’s AlphaGo AI beats Lee Se-dol again to win Go series 4-1 | The Verge
• Why is Google’s Go win such a big deal?
• Google DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go – YouTube
• Incredible images reveal bacteria motor parts in unprecedented detail
• Microsoft will allow Xbox gamers to play against PS4 and PC players | The Verge
• Windows 7 users complain of unprovoked Windows 10 auto-upgrades | PCWorld
• The Field Skillet: Lighter, Smoother Cast Iron by Field Company — Kickstarter

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Fedora 23 has hit the web and we think this is the release that changes everything, forever. Find out why we think the changes made in Fedora 23 make this nearly a future proof distribution in some work cases.

Plus Linus Torvalds is under attack this week from multiple sources, we’ll break down one of the more technical assaults, Ubuntu is finally killing the software center & the biggest feature coming to systemd ever, just got delayed.

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What’s new in Fedora 23 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 23 Workstation is now released. It’s a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system aimed at home users, hobbyists, students, and software developers. Fedora 23 Workstation features the latest GNOME 3.18 release courtesy of the GNOME community. This release of GNOME includes updates to the Files browser, and the new Calendar and Todo applications. Fedora 23 Workstation is the first release of Fedora to include LibreOffice 5.

Gnome Software can update Firmware

This means that if your hardware supports it and your vendor uploads the needed firmware to lvfs you can update your system firmware through GNOME Software. So no more struggling with proprietary tools or bootable DVDs.

Files

The Files browser, also known as Nautilus, now gives progress feedback when copying or moving large files. A button in the header bar allows you to see progress at a glance. Searching and renaming files in the file browser is now also quicker and easier to use.

There’s now better support for your Google Drive contents, too. If you’ve set up a Google online account in the Control Center, you’ll see your Google Drive contents in Files, with a shortcut to Drive in the sidebar.

LibreOffice 5 w/beta GTK3 support

Fedora 23 Workstation ships with LibreOffice 5, the newest version of the widely used productivity suite. LibreOffice features LibreOffice Writer for creating documents, LibreOffice Calc for spreadsheets, and LibreOffice Impress for presentations. LibreOffice 5 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

• Style previews in the sidebar
• Built-in image crop
• UI for data bars in Calc
• Support for Time-Stamp Protocol in PDF export
• Improved import and export to a variety of different types of files
• Improved support for HiDPI screens
• …and more!

xdg-app Tech Preview

• Testing rawhide apps using xdg-app

xdg-app is our new technology for packaging desktop applications. While still early stage it provides a way for software developers to package their software in a way that is both usable across multiple distributions and with improved security through the use of the LXC container technology.

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• Fedora 23: A walk through my favorite Linux installer – Anaconda | ZDNet

I know that a lot of people don’t agree with me about this, and I always see a number of moans and groans about Anaconda when a new Fedora release comes along. But I believe that Linux installation is not a simple task, and installers which try to treat it as if it were will eventually either come up short, or get into trouble. In the simplest cases, Anaconda can get you through the installation with something like six or seven mouse clicks. But when the going gets tough, or complicated, Anaconda has the wherewithal to handle that as well.

• Fedora Workstation 23 and LibreOffice

Another major piece of engineering that I have covered that we did for Fedora Workstation 23 is the GTK3 port of LibreOffice. Those of you who follow Caolán McNamaras blog are probably aware of the details. The motivation for the port wasn’t improved look and feel integration, there was easier ways to achieve that, but to help us have LibreOffice deal well with a range of new technologies we are supporting in Fedora Workstation namely: Touch support, Wayland support and HiDPI.

DNF system upgrade – FedoraProject

Shift to DNF for system upgrades

One important new change is the shift to DNF for system upgrades. Fedora’s old fedup tool for upgrading from one release of Fedora to another is gone. Operating system upgrades are now handled by DNF, Fedora’s new package management tool that replaced yum back in Fedora 22 . This uses systemd‘s support for offline system updates and can roll them back if necessary. If you’re upgrading from one version of Fedora to another, you’ll need to use the DNF tools instead.

What is DNF system upgrade?

dnf-plugin-system-upgrade is a plugin for the Dnf package manager which handles system upgrades. It is the recommended upgrade method for Fedora since the release of Fedora 23 Beta. The Changes/DNF_System_Upgrades page documents the initial introduction of this mechanism.

What does DNF system upgrade do?

DNF system upgrade can upgrade your system to a newer release of Fedora, using a mechanism similar to that used for offline package updates. The updated packages are downloaded while the system is running normally, then the system reboots to a special environment (implemented as a systemd target) to install them. Once installation of the updated packages is complete, the system reboots again to the new Fedora release.

How do I use it?

1. Update your system using the standard updater for your desktop or pkcon or dnf:
   • sudo dnf update
   • It is wise to reboot the computer, especially if you’ve just installed a new kernel.
   • Please note that there is an issue if you use a non-default plymouth boot theme. If you do, please follow the issue description to make sure your upgrade will not be affected.
2. Install the [![Package-x-generic-16.png](https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/a/a4/Package-x-generic-16.png)][4][dnf-plugin-system-upgrade][5] package:
   • sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade --best
3. Download the updated packages:
   • sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=24
   • If some of your packages would have unsatisfied dependencies, the upgrade will refuse to continue until you run it again with an extra –allowerasing option. This often happens with packages installed from third-party repositories for which an updated repositories hasn’t been yet published. Please study very careful the output and examine which packages are going to be removed. None of them should be essential for system functionality, but some of them might be important for your productivity.
   • In case of unsatisfied dependencies, you can see more details if you add –best option to the command line.
4. Trigger the upgrade process:
   • sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
5. Wait for the upgrade process to complete.

Fedora Server

Fedora Server Roles

A Featured Server role is an installable component of Fedora Server that provides a well-integrated service on top of the Fedora Server platform. These prepared roles simplify deployment and management of a service compared to setting up an upstream server from scratch; their use is recommended but optional;

Domain Controller Server Role

Fedora Server can deploy a domain controller powered by FreeIPA. The role greatly simplifies configuration of a primary domain controller.

Database Server Role

Rapidly deploy instances of the powerful postgresql database server using the new Database Server Role for rolekit.

Cockpit Management Console

The Cockpit Management Console (the Cockpit package) is available by default in Fedora Server. This tool provides a powerful, easy to use, web-based graphical interface for managing multiple Linux servers. Features include:

• systemd service management
• Journal log viewer
• Storage configuration including LVM
• Docker container management
• Basic network configuration
• Adding and removing local users

Any user known to the server can log in to the Cockpit console by opening https://_server-ip-address_:9090.

New features for Cockpit in Fedora 23 include:

• Secondary Server Authentication via SSH keys

A single Cockpit instance can be used to manage many devices by connecting to them over ssh. Cockpit can now manage SSH keys to implement this securely. Read more at https://files.Cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/authentication.html

• Manage User SSH keys

Cockpit’s user management interface can also manage a user’s authorized keys.

• Kubernetes dashboard

Cockpit has grown a basic dashboard for managing container deployments with Kubernetes.

• Time Zone management

You now can use Cockpit to adjust the system time zone.

Other Fedora 23 Reviews

• Review of Fedora 23 | Unixmen

Fedora 23 is great for small business who are looking at options for cutting down on IT costs related to software. If Fedora doesn’t suit the task at hand, we remind our readers not to forget about CentOS 7.0. Sure, Ubuntu is also an equal potential option with solid and reliable performance. But it’s difficult to look past Fedora’s fine polish and overall friendly take on a server operating system. Additionally, the simple fact that Cockpit is so well equipped and installed by default with the core system, makes Fedora 23 that little bit more tempting.

• Fedora 23 lands with GNOME 3.18, Wayland progress, and a new upgrade system | PCWorld

Wayland is a new graphical server technology designed to replace X.org. Almost all Linux distributions—except for Ubuntu, which is forging its own path with Mir—plan on using it. Fedora 23 has an optional Wayland session you can enable and play with today, and developers are hopeful Fedora 24 can switch to Wayland by default. This will also bring mixed high-DPI support, so you can use a laptop with a high-DPI display and connect it to a low-DPI external monitor. Each display will be able to have its own DPI settings. Work is also ongoing to make LibreOffice and Firefox run normally under Wayland.

• Fedora 23 Now Available, Highlights Fedora.next Successes – MarketWatch

Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader

“Two years ago, the
Fedora Project started the Fedora.next initiative, which helped us look
at what the Fedora Project needed to accomplish in the next 10 years to
adapt to a changing technology landscape, one where open source
development and cloud computing are becoming more prevalent across the
IT landscape. The Fedora operating system needed to be both more
flexible and more targeted, and last year, we released the first Fedora
distribution with three separate editions for users in the cloud, for
those in the server room, and for users looking for a desktop platform.
The release of Fedora 23 highlights the important successes of this
initiative, including the delivery of these three distinct editions as
well as infrastructure improvements to help our community continue
Fedora’s role as a leader within the open source operating system world.”

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Group of neighbors Runs Linux

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When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that’s exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013. Faced with CenturyLink service that was slow and outage-prone, residents gathered at a community potluck and lamented their current connectivity.

• Doe Bay Internet Users Association | Doe Bay Internet Users Assocation

Desktop App Pick

Trine 3 Released For Linux

Trine 3 is currently on sale for 50% off ($10) via the Steam Store. Trine 3 on Linux requires OpenGL 4.1 support and the developers explicitly recommend using the proprietary drivers over the open-source drivers for best results.

Weekly Spotlight

Architect Linux

Architect Linux – the successor to “Evo/Lution Linux” – provides a powerful, user-friendly, and flexible installer for Arch Linux.

The net-based Architect Installation Framework will download the latest packages from the Arch repositories to build the most up-to-date system possible. It can be used to provide just the Arch base alone, or also to provide a large choice of full desktop environments, window managers, display managers, and network managers.

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Linus’s Thoughts on Linux Security

The Washington Post has a lengthy article on Linus Torvalds and his thoughts on Linux security. Quoting: “…while Linux is fast, flexible and free, a growing chorus of critics warn that it has security weaknesses that could be fixed but haven’t been. Worse, as Internet security has surged as a subject of international concern, Torvalds has engaged in an occasionally profane standoff with experts on the subject. …

His broader message was this: Security of any system can never be perfect. So it always must be weighed against other priorities — such as speed, flexibility and ease of use — in a series of inherently nuanced trade-offs. This is a process, Torvalds suggested, poorly understood by his critics. ‘The people who care most about this stuff are completely crazy. They are very black and white,’ he said … ‘Security in itself is useless. The upside is always somewhere else. The security is never the thing that you really care about.'”

Of course, contradictory points of view are presented, too: “While I don’t think that the Linux kernel has a terrible track record, it’s certainly much worse than a lot of people would like it to be,” said Matthew Garrett, principal security engineer for CoreOS, a San Francisco company that produces an operating system based on Linux. At a time when research into protecting software has grown increasingly sophisticated, Garrett said, “very little of that research has been incorporated into Linux.”

• Linus Torvalds fires off angry ‘compiler-masturbation’ rant

Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has unloaded as only he can in a post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux to become officially supported on Azure (at last)

Azure will become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Services Provider. In the coming months, Red Hat system images will become available to buy on a pay-as-you-go basis through the Azure Marketplace. In the meantime, Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to provide their own virtual machine images for running in Azure.

• What’s behind the odd couple Microsoft-Red Hat partnership | Network World

There’s more to the Microsoft-Red Hat deal though. Both Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Red Hat Executive Vice President of Products Paul Cormier said that this is one of the deepest partnerships that their companies have signed. Microsoft and Red Hat are organizing a team of engineers from both companies in Redmond (where Microsoft is headquartered) that will provide joint support to common customers. “There’ll be no finger pointing,” Cormier said.

• Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises | Red Hat Developer Blog

What was announced —

• Developers will be able build .NET applications and deploy them on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

• Red Hat and Microsoft engineers are engaged in building and certifying .NET with Red Hat technologies for enterprise use.

• Red Hat will ship Microsoft .NET certified for Red Hat environments through Red Hat Software Collections — aimed at developers.
• Red Hat will provide direct support for installation, configuration, and environmental issues related .NET and Red Hat technologies.

Ubuntu Software Centre To Be Replaced in 16.04 LTS

GNOME’sSoftware application will — according to current plans — take its place as the default and package management utility on the Unity 7-based desktop.

MATE 1.12 released

The headline changes in MATE 1.12 are:

• Fixes and improvements for GTK3 support across the entire MATE Desktop including GTK 3.18 support.

• Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.

• Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
• The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
• Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
• MATE now listens to the org.gnome.SessionManager namespace.

• Extended systemd support.

• Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.

• For example, panel applets are no longer reordered when changing screen resolutions.
• Translations updated and a number of components now retrieve strings directly from gschema (requires intltool 0.50.1).
• Dropped support for win32 and osx.

KDBUS Is Being Removed From Fedora, Could Be A While Before Being Mainlined

In somewhat of an embarrassing move and indicating that KDBUS likely won’t be proposed for Linux 4.4, this in-kernel IPC mechanism is being temporarily stripped out of Fedora.

• Videos Begin From The First-Ever Systemd Conference

The first-ever systemd conference began today in Berlin and runs through Saturday.

If you are interested in systemd but weren’t able to attend, the session videos are already being uploaded to the Internet.

You can see the systemd 2015 conference videos via this YouTube channel. Stay tuned for more coverage over the next two days.

• Systemd conference: “kdbus is not dead”

The systemd maintainer Lennart Poettering reaffirmed a developer conference that kdbus will continue hand and “not dead”. The implementation in the kernel and userspace will however rebuilt. How long that will take, is not yet clear.

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New Desktop Environment updates grab our attention & the trend to move open source projects towards Slack has us concerned.

Plus how the VW emissions issue is great for hackers, an OggCamp recap & we light a candle for Fedora 23.

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• Alien: Isolation Released For Linux, Prepare Your Spare Pants, Port Report, Review & Sale

Alien: Isolation has officially been released for Linux, and continues our trend of great AAA games. I would recommend playing this from behind a pillow, with emergency pants nearby.

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• OggCamp

• LXDE – Lightweight X Desktop Environment / Mailing Lists

This release, we focused on cleanup, polishing and quality-of-life
improvements, with over 400 issues fixed and dozens of new
translations. We have also gained two new frameworks: Solid, which
replaces liblxqt-mount and some custom power management code and
libkscreen, which replaces system xrandr calls and is wayland
forward-compatible.

• Notes in plain text files

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• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Cinnamon 2.8 released!

On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 2.8!

This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” planned for the end of November and in LMDE 2 “Betsy”.

DigitalOcean

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

The EPA says Volkswagen cheated on emissions testing again – YouTube

What route does someone who cares about this kinda stuff take. Do we just avoid all this stuff until its sorted out? I mean seriously, why not

• VW Diesel Crisis Illustrates Downside of Proprietary Vehicle Software

The Volkswagen diesel crisis is an ongoing reminder of the dilemma that proprietary auto software and hardware is presenting for automakers and consumers. In September, VW disclosed that alleged “defeat devices” were installed in 2009-15 VW and Audi diesel cars. How was VW able to get away with this for so long? Because the automaker’s onboard software is protected against outside inspection.

• Defendants should be able to inspect software code used in forensics.

But as shocking as Volkswagen’s fraud may be, it only heralds more of its kind. It’s time to address one of the most urgent if overlooked tech transparency issues—secret code in the criminal justice system. Today, closed, proprietary software can put you in prison or even on death row. And in most U.S. jurisdictions you still wouldn’t have the right to inspect it. In short, prosecutors have a Volkswagen problem.

• Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet – The New York Times

Mr. Moglen, a lawyer, technologist and historian who founded the Software Freedom Law Center, has argued for decades that software ought to be transparent. That would best serve the public interest, he said in his 2010 speech.

“Software is in everything,” he said, citing airplanes, medical devices and cars, much of it proprietary and thus invisible. “We shouldn’t use it for purposes that could conceivably cause harm, like running personal computers, let alone should we use it for things like anti-lock brakes or throttle control in automobiles.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Moglen recalled the elevator in his hotel.

“Intelligent public policy, as we all have learned since the early 20th century, is to require elevators to be inspectable, and to require manufacturers of elevators to build them so they can be inspected,” he said. “If Volkswagen knew that every customer who buys a vehicle would have a right to read the source code of all the software in the vehicle, they would never even consider the cheat, because the certainty of getting caught would terrify them.”

• Hacking your car is cool with us, says U.S. copyright authority – The Washington Post

But on Tuesday, the Library of Congress issued exemptions to DMCA that pleased many auto enthusiasts. In a ruling that also freed those who wish to modify tablets and smart TVs, the LOC said, more or less, monkey away.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Fedora 23 released – Fedora Magazine

It’s (approximately) Halloween, so you know what that means — new Fedora! The Fedora 23 release is here, and it’s better than ever before. We’re pleased to bring you the latest incarnations of the three main Fedora editions — Fedora Workstation,Fedora Cloud, andFedora Server, each built with love by the Fedora community to custom-fit your needs in different areas. Fedora 23 is also available in alternate desktop Spins, curated software Labs, and special images for the ARM processor architecture.

If that’s all you need to hear, download from https://getfedora.org/, or if you already use Fedora, follow the simple upgrade steps. Otherwise, read on for details.

• What’s new in Fedora 23 Workstation – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 23 Workstation is now released. It’s a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system aimed at home users, hobbyists, students, and software developers. Fedora 23 Workstation features the latest GNOME 3.18 release courtesy of the GNOME community. This release of GNOME includes updates to the Files browser, and the new Calendar and Todo applications. Fedora 23 Workstation is the first release of Fedora to include LibreOffice 5.

• Upgrading from Fedora 22 to Fedora 23 – Fedora Magazine

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A Windows 10 upgrade is automatically installing on some Windows 7, 8 systems & ads in the Start Menu started showing up this week. We discuss.

Plus the most disruptive technology in the last 100 years is probably not what you’re thinking, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell & Lenovo form supergroup to save the PC & it’s terrible.

Then it’s our Kickstarter of the week, a new breed of computing!

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— Episode Links —

• Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windows 7, 8 systems | Ars Technica
• Microsoft is now showing suggested apps in the Start Menu
• The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn’t What You Think – Slashdot
• Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Lenovo form supergroup to save the PC- The Inquirer
• Getting LEAN with Digital Ad UX | IAB
• iOS App Store Revenue Now 80 Percent Higher Than Google Play, Thanks To China | TechCrunch

• Solu – A new breed of computing by Solu Machines — Kickstarter

• End of show clip: Your most personal trainer – Elvie

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Down to the wire & nothing left to lose, we rebuild our live stream rig for the weekends big event & share the story of technical woes we’ve had to conquer.

Plus the Comcast merger falls flat, no upgrades for Apple Watch & more!

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Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd

The final release of Ubuntu 15.04 is now available. A modest set of improvements are rolling out with this spring’s Ubuntu. While this means the OS can’t rival the heavy changelogs of releases past, the adage “don’t fix what isn’t broken” is clearly one 15.04 plays to. The headline change is systemd being featured first time in a stable Ubuntu release, which replaces the inhouse UpStart init system. The Unity desktop version 7.3 receives a handful of small refinements, most of which aim to either fix bugs or correct earlier missteps (for example, application menus can now be set to be always visible). The Linux version is 3.19.3 further patched by Canonical. As usual, the distro comes with fresh versions of various familiar applications.

Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated

“Today, we move on. Of course, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities, but we structured this deal so that if the government didn’t agree, we could walk away.

Pentagon says evicted Russian hackers, global cyber threat grows | Reuters

The United States on Thursday disclosed a cyber intrusion this year by Russian hackers who accessed an unclassified U.S. military network, in a episode Defense Secretary Ash Carter said showed the growing threat and the improving U.S. ability to respond.

Apple Watch Teardown – iFixit

it’s been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement, the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing down the Apple Watch—and see what makes it tick.

Rufus Labs

With its built-in mic, speaker, and camera, you can answer and place voice or video calls right from your wrist and your connected iPhone or Android smartphone. If you don’t want your call overheard, simply switch off the speaker and continue by holding your wrist up to your ear or put the call back on your smartphone.

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We talk with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it\’s all about. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD quarterly status report

• Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what\’s going on
• The report contains 37 entries and is very very long… various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes
• Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving
• Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year
• There\’s quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time
• Jordan (jkh), one of the co-founders of the FreeBSD project, is once again a FreeBSD committer

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

• Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
• 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
• Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
• If you\’ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you\’ve seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
• Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things – some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
• Another report from Theo details his work
• Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff

Four new NetBSD releases

• NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
• These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
• You can upgrade depending on what branch you\’re currently on
• Confused about the different branches? See this graph.

The future of open source ZFS development

• On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
• The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
• It\’s in San Jose, California – go if you can!

This episode was brought to you by

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The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

• pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
• They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
• There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
• Unfortunately they\’re only for subscribers, so you\’ll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense!

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

• Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here\’s the FreeBSD version
• Nice big fat warning: \”The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty.\”
• Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
• Other than that it\’s a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running

Dragonfly ACPI update

• Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
• There\’s also a \”heads up\” to update your BIOS if you experience problems
• Check the mailing list post for all the details

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
• Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
• By the way, PCBSD 10.0 is out!
• Special thanks to developers, testers, translators and docs team!
• Upcoming: Working on a 11-CURRENT PC-BSD and 10-STABLE

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• NYCBSDCon will be on February 8th in NYC
• We\’ll announce the winner of our tutorial contest on next week\’s episode! Get your last minute tutorial submissions in for our contest

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Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We\’re back with the first show of 2014, and we\’ve got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we\’ll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Faces of FreeBSD continues

• Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia
• Gives some information about how she got into BSD
• \”I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn\’t booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out.\”
• She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation
• We\’ve also got one for Kevin Martin
• Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company
• \”FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community.\”

OpenPF?

• A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest
• What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD\’s firewall?
• Similar to portable OpenSSH or OpenZFS, there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue
• Right now FreeBSD 9\’s pf is old, FreeBSD 10\’s pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD\’s pf is old (but they\’re working on a fork) and Dragonfly\’s pf is old
• Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’
• Not likely to happen any time soon, but it\’s good food for thought

Year of BSD on the server

• A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD
• 2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10\’s amazing new features
• This author was particularly taken with pkgng and the more coherent layout of BSD systems
• Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread, \”Why did you choose BSD over Linux?\”
• Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send \’em to your friends

Getting to know your portmgr

• This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team
• He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team
• Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time
• Lots of fun trivia and background about him
• Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is…

This episode was brought to you by

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The future of FreeBSD\’s binary packages, ports\’ features, various topics

Tutorial

Binary upgrades in OpenBSD

• Using a third party script, binary upgrades in OpenBSD are easy
• It automates a lot of the manual work and saves time – great for large deployments

News Roundup

pfSense december hang out

• Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post
• \”This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics\”
• Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store
• We\’re planning on having a pfSense episode next month!

BSDMag December issue is out

• The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December
• Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, \”unix basics for security professionals,\” some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH

OpenBSD gets tmpfs

• In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs
• To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current
• Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan
• Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide

PCBSD weekly digests

• Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land..
• 10.0-RC2 is now available
• The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out

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• The jail tutorial and disk encryption tutorial have gotten some improvements and updates
• Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
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• Happy new year everybody!

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Ubuntu 13.04 was nearly the release that wasn’t, but now it looks like it could be the next great desktop. What happens when you hit the top, and loose your focus?

We’ll answer why even though this release gets two thumbs up, it still leaves us feeling a little disappointed.

Plus our interview with an independent distro builder, and where he finds his motivation to fight the big dogs, Netflix’s HTML5 plans, open source taking over the world…

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