Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist.

Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome.

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Microsoft blocks Linux installations

Microsoft has closed a backdoor left open in Windows RT even though the OS is pretty much dead in the water as Vole can’t be bothered with it any more.

Linux demo of the System Shock remake is now available on GOG

• System Shock by Nightdive Studios — Kickstarter

System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994 built by a team of industry veterans.
Remember Citadel.

• System Shock Demo on GOG.com

After two decades, Nightdive Studios is rebooting and re-imagining the original System Shock. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved while giving today’s gamers the modern look and feel expected from a AAA title.

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kernel-4.6.4-301.fc24 – Fedora Updates System

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4

For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-kernel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware update before installing the kernel.

• You Can Now Use Netflix on Vivaldi and Other Chromium-Based Web Browsers

In other news, your #Chrome browsing data will soon be used for ad tailoring. Time to act surprised, I guess. pic.twitter.com/kd2sgaKtYy

— Philipp Sackl (@phlsa) July 16, 2016

How are they acquiring this browsing data? Is it one of the following?

• People who sign into Chrome
• People who use opt-out services, like:
• “Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”
• “Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar or the app launcher search box”
• “Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”
• “Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google”
• “Protect you and your device from dangerous sites”
• “Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google”

Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard has managed to create a handy script that would allow you to watch Netflix movies on Vivaldi as well as any other Chromium-based web browser.

• Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below. · GitHub

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below.

• AUR (en) – vivaldi-widevine
• AUR (en) – chromium-widevine

​The best Linux laptop: The 2016 Dell XPS 13

Make no mistake about it. The 2016 Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is wonderful. It’s fast, its display is gorgeous, and, at less than three pounds, you can carry and code with it anywhere. But, oh, that price tag!

• Hands-on with the Linux-ready Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition | Opensource.com

Canonical Announces Snappy Sprint Event in Germany to Shape Up Universal Snaps

Today, July 5, Canonical’s David Planella has informed Softpedia about an upcoming event that aims to gather together developers and contributors from various well-known projects to work on shaping up the universal Snaps.

• Off to Heidelberg for a Snappy sprint with Ubuntu, upstream and other flavour…

• Just finished the first cross distro session on Day 2 of the Snappy Sprint.…

Just finished the first cross distro session on Day 2 of the Snappy Sprint. Sitting in this room are representatives from Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementary and Ubuntu. All working together to make sure that Snappy is well integrated into the various distro CI systems and provides a consistent experience everywhere.

• The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubunt…

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubuntu, who’ve been invited to represent their distro or project. Around this table are AppStream, Arch Linux, Debian, elementary​, Fedora, openWRT, openSUSE, KDE and (me behind the camera) MATE. And some +Ubuntu​ of course

• GitHub – ubuntu/snappy-playpen: A place to test, learn creating snaps and share best practices.

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Chris’ VPN Follow Up

• AirVPN – The air to breathe the real Internet

A VPN based on OpenVPN and operated by activists and hacktivists in defence of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship.

• Config Generator – AirVPN

• The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting

Would I finally surrender to Intuit and start using Quicken? Was a Google Docs spreadsheet enough to get me through? I experimented with GNU Cash for a bit and found it very powerful but somewhat difficult to use. A search for other open source tools randomly led me to ledger and my interest was peaked.

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A member of the Vivaldi browser project joins to discuss their new release. The man behind Solus comes on to follow up on our review, discuss the big plans for the future, creating a custom distribution & the problem with derivatives.

GIMP turns 20 this week and we ask if it’s just time to accept that some OSS projects will never topple their commercial competitor & why that’s just fine by us. We’re still thankful for the GIMP.

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• Chapeau 23 Beta 2 is out! | Chapeau

This build is a feature-complete release of the next major version of Chapeau built from Fedora Workstation 23 and includes the latest packages from the RPMFusion testing repos and the Chapeau 23 repo.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Open-Source AMDGPU Linux Driver Released, Supports the Latest AMD GPUs

The announcement has been made on the X.Org Announce mailing list of the X.Org Foundation, and according to Mr. Dänzer, the brand new xf86-video-amdgpu 1.0.0 driver has been forked from the open-source xf86-video-ati AMD Radeon graphics driver to support the AMDGPU kernel driver introduced in Linux kernel 4.2.

Help Fedora test Wayland!

Before GNOME on Wayland becomes default in Fedora, we need to ensure the transition is smooth and the user won’t recognize a difference. So we need reports on deficiencies that occur on Wayland but not X11. Kamil Páral of the Fedora QA team has written a comprehensive guide how to debug Wayland-related problems.

• the-art-of-command-line/README.md at master · jlevy/the-art-of-command-line · GitHub

Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we’ve found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

Antergos Linux Close to ZFS Support

ZFS kernel modules were added in preparation for ZFS support in Cnchi v0.14

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hey alan your troubles are over!

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A New Web Browser for Our Friends Vivaldi – For Linux

Vivaldi launches its first beta

After 50 snapshots and 4 Technical previews, Vivaldi has now reached Beta.

We cannot thank you enough for all the support we have gotten from our community. We couldn’t have done it without you. Special thanks goes to the Sopranos (our volunteer test team) for always being willing to test our internal builds and give us valuable feedback.

Download Vivaldi Beta from here and spread the word for us

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This Week in Solus #11 | Solus Project

We are also planning on rolling out Budgie Next this week.

Christmas

Many of you have been curious when Solus 1.0 will be out. It was announced by Ikey that, assuming Murphy doesn’t interfere again, we will have Solus 1.0 out before Christmas!

VeltOS

VeltOS is sporting the beautiful and easy-to-use Budgie Desktop, themed with Numix. Budgie is built to stay out of the way of you and your programs, allowing you to focus on the task at hand.

VeltOS does not come with bloatware—only what you need. If there is anything we forgot, chances are one of the thousands of applications available for Arch Linux will suit your needs.

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Is it time to accept sometimes OSS tools won’t ever be good enough?

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next?

This week GIMP celebrates its 20th anniversary. There has been a lot of excitement, but there are also some concerns about project’s future. Some reasonable, difficult questions have to be addressed.

LibreOffice getting ready for the next 1,000 hackers

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The extraordinary growth of LibreOffice developer’s community, with a monthly average of over 16 new hackers contributing to the code since September 2010, is the result of a global mentoring effort by some of the project founders. After five years and 1,000 new developers, though, the complexity has changed, and the project needs to invest on mentoring a new generation of coders.

Tired of the 1990s look of LibreOffice? Here’s how you can contribute.

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A new browser called Vivaldi is on the scene with Linux support out of the box. Our virtual lug makes the case why it might be worth giving a try!

Plus a quick Linux laptop update, a surprise for Matt, your feedback & more!

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• Linux Kernel Development Halted.

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• Lumina

• Kid’s first enthusiasm of Linux

• Arch + BSD?

• Dell XPS 13 Review The Laptop To Beat

Vivaldi: A New Chromium-Powered, Multi-Platform Browser

Vivaldi is currently offered as a tech preview and is powered by Chromium with a number of features that reminisce Opera’s glory days, among them are the speed dial and mouse gestures. Vivaldi also adds in new features like allowing multiple tabs to be combined into one tab stack, support for note-taking within the browser, and other improvements to its Chromium base. Vivaldi was started by Jon von Tetzchner, the former CEO of Opera who hasn’t been with the firm for a few years.

• AUR (en) – Search Criteria: Vivaldi

Thanks Matt!

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960: A Great $200 GPU For Linux Gamers Review – Phoronix

• EVGA GeForce GTX 960

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Canonical hopes to smash crowdfunding recordings with their massive Ubuntu Edge campaign. We’ll share our thoughts on this effort, what the impacts are if it succeeds or fails, and why even an Ubuntu critic should be paying attention

Plus our reactions to ReactOS, a big batch of your emails…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

Plus our reactions to ReactOS, a big batch of your emails…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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