A distribution of Linux built to survey and track speech, we go into the surveillance marvel that is Red Star OS. Solus hits 1.0 & we bring on some of the team to tell us all about it.

Plus Mozilla has a new… Distraction? We debate their merits of rumored new Firefox OS powered hardware.

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• Pirate Bay co-founder builds device that costs the music industry $10,000,000 a day

The ‘Kopimashin’, seen in the video below makes 100 copies of the Gnarls Barkley song ‘Crazy’ and sends them all to /dev/null — a technical term meaning the files are deleted as soon as they are saved.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Solus 1.0 Released

The Solus Project is proud to announce the release of the first version of its operating system, Solus, on 27th of December, 2015. Solus 1.0 is codenamed Shannon after the longest river in Ireland.

Solus 1.0 is the result of over eight months of work, coalesced from over a dozen contributors, over 2000 package builds, a rewrite of the premier desktop environment Budgie, and more.

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Unfortunately, although Facebook initially announced that they would provide USD50,000 of support per year, they have since rescinded.

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How Red Star OS Spies on Users

• North Korea’s indigenous computer operating system reflects Kim Jong-un’s authority

Two German researchers — Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess — pulled apart the North Korean operating system, which closely resembles Apple’s Mac OS X, during a presentation at Chaos Communication in Hamburg.

• North Korea’s Linux-based Red Star OS is as oppressive as you’d expect

A pair of German researchers have just given the code a once over — and as you’d expect, it’s locked down and oppressive, and worse than just a weaker version of other Linux distros. It’s geared toward enabling and maintaining a total surveillance state, all while giving the illusion of technological progress to its citizens.

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Exclusive: Mozilla working on a tablet a stickTV, an intelligent keyboard and a router

We mentioned earlier that Mozilla’s Firefox os isn’t dead. Mozilla has some great plans for firefox os. These internal documents obtained by Hypertext shows the future of Mozilla Firefox preparing detailed OS beyond smartphones and include Panasonic TVs & these documents detail the new plans of Mozilla.

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It was a huge OSCON this year, and we have a bunch of great interviews from the floor. We’ll feature some amazing Linux powered gadgets, exciting hardware, and our massive interview with Todd Weaver, the man behind Purism Librem 13 and the Librem 15 Linux laptops.

Plus our thoughts on the Plasma Phone, the Linux distro adding secret watermarks to files & more!

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• Big week for open source news: Round up of OSCON announcements | Network World

Some of the Interviews this week

let us know if you like these broken out, its a lot of work!

Check LINUX Unplugged for more OSCON 2015 Exclusives!

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• Radical Bomb: Project: Arcade Machine Complete

I am finally (mostly) finished with my arcade cabinet, so I thought I would do a break down of my process along with general thoughts about how things went with each step. For the most part I followed this tutorial from instructables.

Desktop App Pick

• Unified Remote – Remote Control App for your Computer

Turn your smartphone into a universal remote control.

• AUR (en) – unified-remote-server
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Plasma Mobile, a Free Mobile Platform

Plasma Mobile offers a Free (as in freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling, customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile is Free software, and is now developed via an open process. Plasma Mobile is currently under development with a prototype available providing basic functions to run on a smartphone.

• KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile

• plasma-mobile

Plasma Phone and KWin | Martin’s Blog

Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files

ERNW security analyst Florian Grunow says that North Korea’s Red Star Linux operating system is tracking users by tagging content with unique hidden tags. He particularizes that files including Word documents and JPEG images connected to but not necessarily executed in Red Star will have a tag introduced into its code that includes a number based on hardware serial numbers. Red Star’s development team seems to have created some quite interesting custom additions to Linux kernel and userspace, based on which Grunow has written a technical analysis.

• RedStar OS Watermarking – Insinuator

Knights of the Old Republic Sequel Comes to Mac and Linux

The story of KOTOR 2 is set five years after the first game. The Sith Lords have all but eradicated the Jedi Knights in the galaxy, save one: you. As you take on the role of the last remaining Jedi Knight, struggling to connect with the Force, you’ll decide whether to follow the light side or embrace the dark and determine the fate of the galaxy in the process.

Terraria For Linux

we have decided that we will conduct our first ever Open Beta around the Mac and Linux versions of Terraria!

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