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“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.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

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.

DigitalOcean

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Fedora 25 images are now available in DigitalOcean! Read the Magazine here for useful tips: https://t.co/v8CYGBvlhq

— Fedora Project (@fedora) November 29, 2016

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.

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.

Linux Academy

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The Six Rings of Ubuntu | LINUX Unplugged 130

chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:46:13 +0000

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Why Linux Mint’s X-Apps are a bigger shakeup then you might realize, bricking your laptop with a Linux command & Dell’s new Linux distro.

Plus we celebrate 15 years of VLC, a quick look at Tails 2.0 & more!

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Shout — The self-hosted web IRC client

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Pacman-5.0 Released | Allan McRae

As is becoming tradition, I need to make a blog post to accompany a pacman release! This is a big release with a long awaited feature so it needed a major version bump (and, most importantly, we now are back ahead of the Linux kernel in version numbers).

Here’s What’s New in Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.0 Package Manager

Tails – Tails 2.0 is out

We are especially proud to present you Tails 2.0, the first version of Tails
based on:

GNOME Shell, with lots of changes in the desktop environment.
Debian 8 (Jessie), which upgrades most included software and improves
many things under the hood.

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Your laptop could be bricked with a single Linux command

The directory that destroyed the system, which is at __/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/__stores information and scripts that the computer uses to boot using the more _modern EFI standard, which is a replacement for the decades-old BIOS._

Canonical Is Looking for Participants to a “Ubuntu Apps in Unity 8” Research Study

The research study is lead by Ting-Ray Chang, a user experience researcher at Canonical, and it is targeted mainly at Ubuntu or Fedora user in the London (United Kingdom) area. Why Fedora? That we don’t know!

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X-Apps… The Hell?

Has Mint gone crazy with success?
Linux Mint Is Getting Its Own Apps Starting with the 18.x Branch

“X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. In Mint 18, the ‘X apps’ will allow us to maintain a native look and a good level of integration because they will be used in replacement of GNOME applications which now look foreign (using headerbars and a distinctive layout),” Clement Lefebvre, the leader or the Linux Mint project explained.

The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – January 2016

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Dell serves up its own disaggregated OS

OS10 is based on a native, “unmodified” Linux kernel that can support a broad range of applications and services from the Linux ecosystem, Dell officials say. Dell claims this differentiates it from Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux and HP’s OpenSwitch effort for disaggregated and “open” network operating systems.

Dell to ship XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop with Skylake | Computerworld

The next XPS 13 Developer Edition is “closer” to shipping and so discounts are being offered on older models, George Barton, a senior technologist at Dell, said in a Google+ post. Older models are powered by Broadwell chips, which preceded Skylake.

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Thankfully It’s Open Source | LAS 393

chris — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:42:24 +0000

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It’s a special holiday edition of the Linux Action Show & we get thankful for some super important, innovative, and critically necessary open source projects. We throw out the format and cover many projects listed in our notes & off the tops of our heads.

Plus some really unique weekly picks, through providing feedback…

AND A FEW SURPRISES!

All this week on, the Linux Action Show!

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Projects we are Thankful For

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SimpleScreenRecorder

SimpleScreenRecorder is ‘simple’ in the sense that it’s easier to use than ffmpeg/avconv or VLC, because it has a straightforward user interface.

The input selection page:

Features

Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
Faster than VLC and ffmpeg/avconv.
Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).
Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg/avconv).
Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).
Fully multithreaded: small delays in any of the components will never block the other components, resulting is smoother video and better performance on computers with multiple processors.
Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).
Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, …).
Can show a preview during recording, so you don’t waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.
Uses libav/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).
Can also do live streaming (experimental).
Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don’t want to.
Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

*This is a first class screen capture app. Multithreaded is critical for me (my rig is constantly busy during pre-production). It does a fantastic job at capturing audio playing from video, and multiple ways to select the area I want to capture. This is my secret weapon to capture those un-capturable broadcasts for Unfilter *

Mumble, the open source VoIP solution

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

I might think it has its quirks, but there are tons of reasons to love Mumble. It sounds good, offers great organizational abilities, allows for recording, and we use it every single LINUX Unplugged for our Virtual LUG and Tech Talk Today for insights into the news

Why Noah is Thankful:

An alternative to TeamSpeak that even many TeamSpeak people like better.
Easy to spin up your own server
Has allowed me to develop a group of friends outside the IRC

FFmpeg

Projects using FFmpeg

FFmpeg is used by software such as VLC media player, xine, HandBrake, Plex, Blender, YouTube,[47] and MPC-HC;[48] it handles video and audio playback in Google Chrome,[48] and Linux version of Firefox.[49] Graphical user interface front-ends for FFmpeg have been developed, including Avanti,[50] and XMedia Recode. JavaCV, a Java wrapper for OpenCV, includes a supplementary Java wrapper for FFmpeg.[51]

FFmpeg is used by ffdshow, LAV Filters, GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in, Perian and OpenMAX IL to expand the encoding and decoding capabilities of their respective multimedia platform.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

Not only does it power tons of tools we all love, but it’s one of the most critical piece of machinery in the Jupiter Broadcasting factory. We encode every episode with ffmpeg. It powers critical tools that many JB staffers use every day

Why Noah is Thankful:

Was the first tool I ever used to send a remote video feed to JB
Seems to be limited only by creativity
One of the tools that exemplifies how FOSS tools can far exceed anything proprietary.

youtube-dl

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is not platform specific.

youtube-dl options

Why Chris’ Thankful:

*Meet one of my new best friends. This is one of the best tools of the year, with support for WAY more sites that YouTube, it makes it possible for JB to grab clips from a WIDE range of sources, store them off-line for immediate playback while on air, and convert/transcode them on the fly into a format suitable for us. Updates are quick, and fix issues with reliability. *

Why Noah is Thankful:

Use it daily to download YouTube clips that are bound to be taken off of youtube.
Because it’s CLI and not a browser extension it’s invisible until I need it
Because it’s CLI I can run it in the background and continue work in the browser, or even close the browser without any real consequences.

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

*When working with any kind of long clip, an interview, news report, an episode outtake, Avidemux makes it crazy simple to select JUST the area of the video I want, and copy it out without any quality loss/transcoding. Or I can choose to transcode (say from h.264 video, with mp3 audio in an flv, to vp8, with opus audio, in a webm container) just the portion of the video I want. Another option would be just grabbing an audio portion of a clip, saving it as an MP3, and making an easy ringtone. *

Why Noah’s Thankful:

Allows Chris to edit under Linux.
Any alternative video editor on Linux provides competition to all improve.
No video editor is perfect and so anyone could be “the” video editor under LInux in the near future.

Open Broadcaster Software

What is OBS?

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Supported features include:

Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
File output to MP4 or FLV.
GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

*While I’m not sure it’s quite there yet, this promises to free us from one huge proprietary monster *

Why Noah is Thankful:

One of the big road blocks for JB going all Linux.
Can be installed on practically any machine making remote broadcasting much simpler to plan
Can be used to build appliance like devices
Shortcomings not withstanding it’s usable today

Core Infrastructure Initiative

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The stakes have never been higher for open-source software security. With millions of people around the world relying on open source software — and vulnerabilities like Heartbleed putting everyone at risk — it’s time to change the way we support, protect, and fortify open software.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

HeartBleed reminds us that those core infastrucutre projects are vitally important and need funding just as much as the flashy front end facing projects

Why Noah is Thankful:

*A great start to streamline open source software in a way that will allow it to compete at scale with it’s proprietary alternatives.

Wayland Support is REALLY Taking Off

Toolkit support

Toolkits supporting Wayland include the following:

Clutter has complete Wayland support.[64]
EFL has complete Wayland support, except for selection.[65]
GTK+ 3.10 has complete Wayland 1.2 support.[66]
Qt 5 has complete Wayland support.
SDL support for Wayland debuts with the 2.0.2 release, but as experimental and disabled by default.[67]
GLFW 3.1 will have experimental unadvertised Wayland support.[68]
FreeGLUT has initial Wayland support[69]

Desktop environments supporting Wayland include the following:

KDE support:
- KWin: is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor, but support is incomplete;[70] support for OpenGL ES output was added in 2010,[71] in version 4.7.[72] In January 2013 KWin’s main developer Martin Grässlin started working for Blue Systems with one of the goals being a complete Wayland port.[73] Experimental Wayland support is now working in current KWin 4.11.[74]
- KDE Frameworks 5: it is possible to run most applications built on top of Frameworks 5 under a Wayland compositor, without X11 as X11-dependent codepaths have become optional.[70]
- KDE Plasma 5: is based on Frameworks 5, but as e.g. interfaces between the workspace shell, the compositor (KWin) and the display server are not yet well-defined or implemented up-stream, support is incomplete.[70]
- Calligra Suite already has an unofficial but working port to Wayland.[75]
Glx-Dock has been ported to Wayland.[76]
The Hawaii desktop environment exclusively supports Wayland.
GNOME: In March 2013 GNOME developers announced plans for a complete Wayland port within a year.[77] GNOME 3.10 includes initial support that “will enable the project to fully adopt the next generation display and input technology in the future”.[78][79] The current roadmap targets GNOME 3.18 as the first version to be fully ported to Wayland.[80][81]
MATE: Wayland support is on MATE’s roadmap for “when MATE will become GTK+3 only”.[82]

Other software

Other software supporting Wayland includes the following:

Intelligent Input Bus is working on Wayland support, it could be ready for Fedora 22[83]
RealVNC published a Wayland developer preview in July 2014[54][84][85]
Maliit: Maliit, an input method framework, runs under Wayland.[86][87][88]
kmscon supports Wayland with wlterm[89]
Mesa: Mesa, to which AMD and Intel directly contribute to support their graphics processors, has Wayland support integrated.[90] Within the Mesa projects, drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon (freedreno)[91][92] and Nvidia GPUs (nouveau)[93][94] are being developed by Red Hat and community contributors.[95][96]
Eclipse was made to run on Wayland during a GSoC-Project in 2014.[97]

Mobile and embedded hardware

Mobile and embedded hardware supporting Wayland includes the following:

GENIVI Alliance: The GENIVI automotive industry consortium for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) supports Wayland.[98]
Tizen: Tizen up to 2.x supports Wayland in in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) setups[99] and from 3.0 onward defaults to Wayland.[100]
Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi Foundation in collaboration with Collabora released Maynard and work on improving performance and memory consumption, but do not expect to be able to replace X11 as the default display server until later in 2013[101][102]
Sailfish OS: Smartphones from Jolla use Wayland as standard. It is also used as standard when Linux Sailfish OS is used with hardware from other vendors or when it is installed into Android devices by users.[103][104][105]

Wayland Protocols v1.0 Released

The Wayland Protocols 1.0 release includes support for Fullscreen Shell, Input Method, Linux DMA-BUF, Pointer Gestures, Presentation Timing, Text Input, and XDG Shell. All of these protocols are considered unstable for the v1.0 release with no protocols being declared stable yet in this repository.

Why Chris’ Thankful:

*The path to Wayland has been long, and sometimes treacherous. As a long time Linux user it warms my holiday heart to see so much wide spread support, and so much collaboration in moving to Wayland and the future of the Linux graphics stack (also something, something, Mir) *

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This Wheat Farm, Runs Linux

Here’s some videos of Mathew Reimer, a canadian wheat/canola grower using a drone software/hardware to autonomously pilot his tractor. You can see him in his combine harvester running mavproxy drone software on an ubuntubox.

Awesome shot of driverless tractor controlled via Ubuntu Tablet:

Desktop App Pick

Atraci

Atraci is an application for Windows, Mac and Linux that lets you listen instantly to more than 60 million songs (way more than iTunes’s 26 million). It requires no sign up, displays no ads and is 100% safe.

Weekly Spotlight

Sandstorm.io

Install apps to create documents, spreadsheets, blogs, git repos,
task lists, and more as easily as you’d install apps on your phone.

Designed for Humans – It’s as easy as your phone. No command lines, no config files, no database provisioning.
Secure By Default = Sandstorm’s unparalleled security measures keep you safe even when apps are buggy.
Freedom – Run any app you want — even write your own. Don’t get locked into walled gardens.

Sandstorm is open source and can be installed anywhere.

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LAS Jacket Returns!

LAS Jacket Returns! | US

Celebrate your new year with Linux on your mind and on your body!

LAS Jacket in the EU!

We are excited to offer this LAS zip up hooded jacket that will ship from the
EU!

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0 A.D. | A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis”, the nineteenth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. This alpha features building and siege engine capture, a new pathfinder, visual replay and more!

# Why Chris’ Thankful:

*0 AD here is becoming a true blue serious game. Better than commercial stuff.

And it does not get enough attention. I’m thankful this team sticks to their guns, and keeps releasing a better and better product. They are becoming a shining example of what an open source project can be, let alone a game.*

Software Freedom Conservancy

Conservancy needs 750 Supporters to continue its basic community services &
2,500 to avoid hibernating its enforcement efforts! The next 48 supporters who sign up before next Friday will count twice thanks to an anonymous match donor!

Black Friday Deal for Software Freedom! – Software Freedom Conservancy

One of our Supporters has generously come forward to offer an anonymous match donation. We have one week to sign up 83 Supporters and have their donations count twice (making it a match of $10,000 for Conservancy). If you sign up as a Supporter now, we’ll add you as a Supporter on the left of our status bar, but on the right you’ll also see the match decrease our goal by one. So, during the match, you’ll be counted both as a Supporter and to reduce the overall target from the other direction!

Help us take advantage of this opportunity and reach our goal of 2500 Supporters to save enforcement! Sign up as a Supporter now!.

Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Compliance Lawsuit

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit
against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.
This is the regretful but necessary next step in both
Hellwig and Conservancy’s ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply
properly with the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), the license of Linux and many other
Open Source and Free Software included in VMware’s ESXi products.

Hellwig, a key Linux kernel developer and one of the earliest members of
Conservancy’s GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers, has
publicly denounced VMware’s misuse of GPL-licensed code since 2007. In 2011, Conservancy discovered that VMware had failed to provide nor offer any source
code for the version of BusyBox included in VMware’s ESXi products (as
required by BusyBox’s license, GPLv2). Conservancy began in early 2012
negotiations with VMware to seek compliance on all GPL’d components in the
ESXi project. Progress was slow through 2012 and 2013.

VMware sued for failure to comply with Linux license | ZDNet

Why Chris’ Thankful:

Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware to enforce the GPL license of BusyBox, and the Conservancy’s support of it could be have long term ramfications for future ablity to encofce the GPL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 – A major desktop milestone

So many of you have probably seen that RHEL 7.2 is out today. There are many important updates in this release, some of them detailed in the official RHEL 7.2 press release.

One thing however which you would only discover if you start digging into the 7.2 update is that its the first time in RHEL history that we are doing a full scale desktop update in a point release. We shipped RHEL 7.0 with GNOME 3.8 and in RHEL 7.2 we are updating it to GNOME 3.14. This brings in a lot of new major features into RHEL, like the work we did on improved HiDPI support, improved touch and gesture support, it brings GNOME Software to RHEL, the improved system status area and so on. We plan on updating the desktop further in later RHEL 7.x point releases.

RedHat / Fedora

About RedHat

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, Inc., a provider of powerful IT automation solutions designed to help enterprises move toward frictionless IT. Ansible’s automation capabilities, together with Red Hat’s existing management portfolio, will help users drive down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments. With today’s announcement, Red Hat expands its leadership in hybrid cloud management, OpenStack and containers.

Why Noah is Thankful:

One of the largest open source companies that has not let it’s profits get in the way of it’s commitment to free and open source software
Saved me from Windows, and made me believe there was hope for Linux as a desktop
A core group of people that are doing every day what many companies fractions of their size say isn’t possible for “big companies”
Maker of Fedora

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Outstanding SCALE 13x | LAS 354

chris — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:05:33 +0000

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Exclusive interviews from the Southern California Linux Expo. We chat with elementary OS, VLC, Firefox, System76 & many more.

Plus the big news for Ubuntu MATE, XFCE, Gnome & others.

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Runescape, Runs Linux

Jagex, makers of the smash hit Runescape, deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000e to speed up its big data analytics platform and improve gamers’ experience.

Desktop App Pick

Brasero

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Weekly Spotlight

Krita 2.9: The Kickstarter Release

The culmination of over eight months of work, Krita 2.9, is the biggest Krita release until now!

Krita Feedback

Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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Ubuntu MATE Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor

The Ubuntu MATE Linux distribution is now an official Ubuntu flavor, joining the likes of Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Kylin.

Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft — Backchannel — Medium

Dan Gillmor

Meanwhile, I’ll keep encouraging as many people as possible to find ways to take control for themselves. Liberty takes some work, but it’s worth the effort. I hope you’ll consider embarking on this journey with me.

Xfce 4.12 released

Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce
the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that
supersedes Xfce 4.10.

Xfce 4.12 tour – Xfce

GNOME 3.16 Might Just Be The Best Version Yet

Next month’s GNOME 3.16 release due March 25, shows no sign of being any different. GNOME developer Matthias Clasen recently shared GNOME 3.16screenshots on his blog to show off some of the progress made this cycle.

GNOME 3.16 sightings

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Desktopaholics Anonymous | LINUX Unplugged 47

chris — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:30:10 +0000

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We come clean on our struggle with loving every Linux desktop, until we start up the hate. Plus we discuss the huge news for CoreOS and take a closer look at OwnCloud 7’s server-to-server syncing.

Plus troubleshooting KDE sound problems and a new community initiative!

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FU:

I feel Chris and Matt’s pain about Phonon and audio in general on KDE. Is there anything close to a solution?
My Linux Mint 17 KDE desktop – as mentioned on Linux Unplugged 47
Mark sends in an update about CoreOS:

CoreOS gets $8 million to bring a specialized Linux OS for server deployments to the mainstream

CoreOS, the company that makes a scalable version of Linux custom tailored for servers, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round and is now offering support services for companies that might need help getting their server operating systems off the ground. The new commercial-help service is called CoreOS Managed Linux, which the company describes as being an “OS-as-a-service” offering that provides organizations with constant patches and updates in case they don’t want the responsibility for having to deal with that type of admin work themselves.

The monthly charges for the service can range anywhere from $1,000 to $100,000, depending on the number of servers one has, said Polvi.

When asked about current competitors in the field, Polvi named a few, noting that Red Hat’s Project Atomic is “a direct response to CoreOS.” Red Hat is also a member of the Docker governance board.

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ownCloud 7 introduces server to server sharing — allowing you to mount a share from another ownCloud instance and seamlessly collaborate on and share files from within your own ownCloud — essentially combining private clouds into a public cloud. You can even have the folder locally synced through the client. No need to create user accounts on your or the other instance — just, once, add the shared folder into your ownCloud.

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Backing up Blu-Ray on Linux | LAS s28e02

chris — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:56:12 +0000

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Backup Blu-Ray Under Linux

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MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere.

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HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder
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The Process

Start Make MKV Before your load the disk
Choose your titles – This is a tricky job under Linux. Most the time it’s obvious.
Once its done the resulting MKV will be huge. You could keep this, it’s an unencumbered copy of the blu-ray, and is the same quality.
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Exploits for Sale | TechSNAP 50

chris — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:34 +0000

Does your government use taxpayer money to buy exploits from the open market? We’ll share the details, malware is being spread via Skype, and we’ve got great news for VLC users!

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French Security Firm Vupen discovers and collects zero day exploits then sells them to intelligence agencies

At Google’s recent hack-a-thon, they offered $60,000 for each bug in Chrome that hackers disclosed to them, so that they would fix them
Vupen (whose name stands for “vulnerability research” and “penetration testing”) was at the conference, and had an exploit for Chrome, however they said “We wouldn’t share this with Google for even $1 million, We don’t want to give them any knowledge that can help them in fixing this exploit or other similar exploits. We want to keep this for our customers.”
Vupen claims to only sell to NATO governments and their partners and that they have a strict policy of only dealing with democratic governments, however they admits that their exploits could fall into the wrong hands
Many make analogies of Vupen as a Cyber Warfare Arms Dealer
The problem with selling weapons is that they can then be transferred to other parties, a situation illustrated last year when telecom surveillance gear from Blue Coat Systems was sold to a United Arab Emirates firm but ended up being used to tracking political dissidents in Syria
Governments pay a $100,000/year subscription for access to the catalogue of zero day exploits
Each individual exploit must be purchased separately and is not sold exclusively, meaning that the other Vupen customers have access to it as well
Vupen claims to have off the self undisclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word, Adobe Reader, Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and every major browser
Most exploits sell for far in excess of the 6 figure subscription you pay just to find out about their existence
When Vupen started in 2008 the company and its researchers initially worked with some software vendors to patch the flaws. However after taking $1.5 million in venture capital from 360 Capital Partners and Gant & Partners, the firm found that it could earn far more by keeping its findings under wraps and selling them at a premium

Anti-dissident Malware spread via Skype in Syria

Hackers loyal to the government of Syria have taken to spreading malware to dissidents via Skype
The tool that purports to allow you to change your MAC address to better hide your identity and avoid detection by the government, is actually a standard RAT trojan, and gives the attacks full control over your system, including keylogging and access to your documents
The trojan connects to a command and control server in Syria hosted in an IP range belonging to the Government Owned Syrian Telecommunications Establishment
Other malware also distributed via skype chats carries a facebook icon, but installs a different malware variant
The attackers seem to be using Skype as a method of social engineering and tricking users in to running the files, they do not appear to have exploited Skype in any way.

First ever trans-arctic fibre lines will be installed this summer

The cables are called Artic Fibre and Arctic Link and will cross the Canadian Northwest Passage. A third cable, ROTACS (Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Submarine Cable System), will skirt the north coast of Scandinavia and Russia.
The completed cables are estimated to cost between $600 million and $1.5 billion each
The new cables will reduce the internet latency between London, England and Tokyo, Japan from the current average of 230 ms by approximately 60ms (30%) to 170ms
The reduced latency will benefit financial markets and automated trading as well as increasing the available bandwidth
These new fibres will also offer much needed redundancy, currently all fibre between Europe and Asia goes through choke points in the Middle East or the Luzon Strait between the Philippine and South China seas

Feedback:

Q: (Bilbo) How does HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) work?
A: ScaleEngine has offered an HLS stream for JupiterBroadcasting for quite some time, but HLS was only implemented by Apple’s iOS at the time. Since then, some Android 3.x and all Android 4.x devices have added support for the protocol. This week, version 2.0.1 of VLC was released which fixed the last remaining bug that prevented the stream from working. It is now possible to watch the live stream reliably from your desktop via VLC, as well as from most mobile devices and tablets. Unlike the original VLC stream we offered, which used the RTSP protocol, the HLS stream is much smoother. RTSP used separate connections for audio and video, which could cause them to get out of sync, and RTSP was notorious for working poorly through NAT.

And HLS stream relies on a process called packetization, where the live video stream is divided into separate small files, called segments. The default segment size is 10 seconds. So in an HLS stream, the first request to our server returns a playlist, detailing the different streams that are offered (if multiple bit rates are offered, if there is an audio only version, etc). Your device then creates a session and requests the appropriate stream playlist. This playlist will contain the most recent segments of the live stream, and look something like this:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:3
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:698
#EXTINF:3,
media_698.ts?wowzasessionid=418744583
#EXTINF:3,
media_699.ts?wowzasessionid=418744583
#EXTINF:3,
media_700.ts?wowzasessionid=418744583

As you can see here, the playlist contains 3 segments, each 3 seconds long. Your client will start by requesting the first, and continue requesting each segment on the playlist (the number of segments on the playlist is adjustable server side). Once your client has requested all of the segments on the last playlist, it will request the next playlist, which will contain new segments.

Your player will start playing as soon as the first segment is ready, and will continue adding new segments to the end of the buffer as it plays, attempting to keep up or ahead of the playback.

This effect can be best demonstrated by the VLC debugging output:

info: HTTP Live Streaming (videocdn-us.geocdn.scaleengine.net:1935/jblive-iphone/live/jblive.stream/playlist.m3u8)
info: Meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: Choose segment 0/3 (sequence=774)
info: downloaded segment 774 from stream 0
info: downloaded segment 775 from stream 0
info: playing segment 774 from stream 0
info: downloaded segment 776 from stream 0
info: playing segment 775 from stream 0
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: – segment 777 appended
info: downloaded segment 777 from stream 0
info: playing segment 776 from stream 0
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: – segment 778 appended
info: downloaded segment 778 from stream 0
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: playing segment 777 from stream 0
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: – segment 779 appended
info: downloaded segment 779 from stream 0

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info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: – segment 784 appended
info: playing segment 783 from stream 0
info: downloaded segment 784 from stream 0
info: Reloading HLS live meta playlist
info: Live Playlist HLS protocol version: 1
info: updating hls stream (program-id=1, bandwidth=875507) has 3 segments
info: – segment 785 appended
info: downloaded segment 785 from stream 0
info: playing segment 784 from stream 0

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For reference, the peak output of ScaleEngine on Wednesday afternoon was 6273 megabits/second, but most of the 6 gigabits of that was streaming video
ScaleEngine services more than 3 billion HTTP requests per month with a peak in excess of 1800 requests per second
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Fedora 14 Review | Linux Action Show | s14e04

chris — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:37:19 +0000

Fedora 14 lands and we share our impressions of this Linux power house!

THEN – The Free Software Foundation has dropped a bomb on the VLC community, but we have to ask: what are the real motivations behind their latest attack!

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The Computer Action Show! Season 2 Episode 1

chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:02:28 +0000

This week on, The Computer Action Show!

We update you on the news from the last two weeks, discuss the VLC projects new video editor, have a chuckle over the new SpamAssassin bug that’s effecting all email from 2010, and it wouldn’t be a news update without something new from those crazy kids over at Psystar – Are they switching to Linux?

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