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Swap that Space | BSD Now 314

Wes Payne — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:00:20 +0000

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Twitching with OpenBSD | BSD Now 307

Wes Payne — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:01 +0000

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Taking Linux To Heart | LAS 452

chris — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:41:41 +0000

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Runs Linux

The ZeroPhone, Runs Linux

It uses Raspbian Linux, which is currently based on Debian Jessie. This is because it can be tailored to suit our purpose very easily, and will still be /upgradable in the future – this project doesn’t need a separate distribution since that’s prone to obsolescence and is a maintenance nightmare (but I do plan on providing ready-to-go SD card images if the demand is there).

As for the user interface (controlling screen and buttons) – it’s written in Python. I’ll be using pyLCI as a base, but it’s clear for me it needs a rewrite to have all the capabilities a decent mobile phone UI should, and developing a good UI is one of the main goals of this project.

Desktop App Pick

Albert launcher

Access everything with virtually zero effort. Run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more. See wiki for more information.

Spotlight

Kanban Project Management Software

Visualize your work
- Limit your work in progress to be more efficient
- Customize your boards according to your business activities
- Multiple projects with the ability to drag and drop tasks
- Reports and analytics
- Fast and simple to use
- Access from anywhere with a modern browser
- Plugins and integrations with external services
- Free, open source and self-hosted
- Super simple installation
KANBOARD Kanban Project Management Software, a simple visual task board that is FOSS

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Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu

Dell’s Barton George says more Ubuntu-powered Precision workstations will go on sale in the coming months, worldwide, including an Ubuntu version of the company’s stylish newPrecision 5720 All-in-One desktop PC.

Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Progress

You won’t hear about this anywhere else, but it is likely that the version number for the next stable release of MATE Desktop will be _2.0._

Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 a…

Here is a PPA for Brisk Menu. This PPA is compatible with Ubuntu MATE 16.10 and Ubuntu MATE 17.04 daily images.

Feedback:

Chris Asks:

sabnbd in docker?
GitHub – linuxserver/docker-sabnzbd
OSS Dev Patreon or other

Mail Bag

Name: Wolf M
Subject: ArchAnywhere
Message:

Hey guys! So it has been awhile since I worte into you, but I have been watching religiously I promise! LOL. Anyhoo, I stumbled upon something I think is pretty cool and thought I would share it.

So I have been using Arch for a long time and it is my go to distro. I am sure noth of you know that the one of the biggest hurdles against trying Arch for many folks is lack of a HUI installer. Installuing Arch has typically always been done via comman line.
UNTIL NOW!

Introducing ArchAnyWhere! Ok so I found this by accident, but I had to try it. Fortunatley, I had an okd machine sitting around waiting for me to put Linux on it. So I did. This is impressive. Installation of Arch was seamless and fast.

And yes, this is pure Arch, not a derivative. This is simply a graphical installer.
Now I perrsonally will always prefer to install Arch via cli, but this shatters the old barrier, making it easy for “noobs” to give Arch a go. So I just wanted to share.

Always a huge fan,

Wolf Mandraagora

Name: James G
Subject: Getting more from ripped DVDs
Message:

I am in the process of trying to learn as much a I can about setting up content for Plex. A couple of subjects have not turned up much that is helpful in search.

MakeMkv seems to drop many of the extra feature content. Are there options I can use to get makemkv to extract more of the content.

Is there anything that can extract the menu data from a DVD? This would be helpful for naming the extras content. I know I could play the DVD and make notes on the menu. I hope to find ways to do this faster.

Is there a way to either allow Plex to play an .iso or some other format that incorporates the DVD’s original menu?

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Real Life on the Ratel | CR 215

chris — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:29:24 +0000

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Mike shares his recent Linux switch experience & why he thinks it might stick this time. We chew on Verizon buying Yahoo & the grief Marissa Mayer is getting.

Plus we congratulate the winner of last week’s challenge & announce the next one!

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Hoopla:

Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business

Dear Yahoos,

Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business.

Sad Yahoo Sale Confirms That Marissa Mayer Failed

Whatever her future role, the Verizon sale is a blunt admission that Mayer’s grand resuscitation plan for Yahoo failed. She tried valiantly to inject some life into the company—with acquisitions, layoffs, splashy hires, and a way-too-late emphasis on mobile, among other strategies—but ultimately, it wasn’t enough.

Bad press from just the last few months:

Coding Challenge

Going through #CoderRadio coding contest submissions @ChrisLAS @Xaccary pic.twitter.com/qTgO85SdgM

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) July 23, 2016

Kyle’s Python Solution

Episode 215 Katy Perry Coding Challenge

I have a Pery colorful coding challenge for #CoderRadio fans this week @ChrisLAS

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) July 25, 2016

Make Mike an app that creates a Youtube playlist of or otherwise allows him to play his favorite Katy Perry music videos: Dark Horse, Roar, This is How We Do, Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night, International + + Smile and Unconditionally.
The app must take advantage of the browser having his Youtube Red account cached for commercial viewing or he must be able to auth with his Youtube Red account to achieve the same.
All solutions must be tablet friendly

Rocking the Ratel

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Fedora 24: Tokyo Drift | LAS 423

chris — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 17:20:05 +0000

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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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Runs Linux

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.

Mail Bag

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Call Box

Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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Windows XP of the Net | CR 178

chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:04:33 +0000

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Is open source software immoral in some market conditions? The guys debate. Plus Google’s impressive new open source project, standing while you work is going out of style & how to adapt to the changing need of your users gracefully.

Plus is open source on the verge of being outlawed by the TPP? And a few of your great thoughts on Offshoring vs Onshoring.

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Hoopla

Meet the $1,500 Android Wear smartwatch with an Intel CPU

On Monday in New York City, TAG Heuer unveiled the Connected Watch, a $1,500 Android Wear smartwatch made in partnership with Google and Intel.

WordPress now powers 25% of the Web – Is The Market Owned?

The latest data comes from W3Techs, which measures both usage and market share: “WordPress is used by 58.7% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 25.0% of all websites.” While these numbers naturally fluctuate over the course of the month, the general trend for WordPress has been slow but steady growth.

Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine

This software is called _TensorFlow, and in literally giving the technology away, Google believes it can accelerate the evolution of AI. Through open source, outsiders can help improve on Google’s technology and, yes, return these improvements back to Google._

Google built the underlying TensorFlow software with the C++ programming language. But in developing applications for this AI engine, coders can use either C++ or Python, the most popular language among deep learning researchers. The hope, however, is that outsiders will expand the tool to other languages, including Google Go, Java, and perhaps even Javascript, so that coders have more ways of building apps.

TensorFlow.org

TensorFlow(tm) is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google’s Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research, but the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.

Altwork Station computer desk costs $5,900, but lets you work lying down

Altwork says it has taken five years of engineering to get the workstation ready for production. If working while laying down isn’t your thing, the Altwork Station can be locked into a regular sitting position.

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Fedora from the Cockpit | LAS 390

chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:52:02 +0000

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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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Fedora 23 Review

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.

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?

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.
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
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.
Trigger the upgrade process:
- sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
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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Runs Linux

Group of neighbors Runs Linux

1:29

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.

Sent in by Wolf B.

— NEWS —

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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Fedora Developer Roundtable | LAS 343

chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:35:21 +0000

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We talk with five developers from the Fedora project behind some of the recent amazing work that has seen a major milestone release in Fedora 21, treating Fedora more as a product & laying the groundwork for amazing future technologies.

Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical joins us to explain what Ubuntu Snappy Core is & some of it’s killer new features, our picks, news…

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The newer TI-Nspire series of graphing calculators uses modern ARM devices. [Codinghobbit] managed to get Debian Linux running on a TI-Nspire calculator, and has written a guide explaining how it’s done.

The process uses Ndless, a jailbreak which allows code to run at a low level on the device. Ndless also includes a full SDK, emulator, and debugger for developing apps. In this case, Ndless is used to load the Linux kernel.

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dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security.
Based on the dd program found in the GNU Coreutils
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Hashing on-the-fly – dcfldd can hash the input data as it is being transferred,
helping to ensure data integrity.
Status output – dcfldd can update the user of its progress in terms of the
amount of data transferred and how much longer operation will take.
Flexible disk wipes – dcfldd can be used to wipe disks quickly and with a known
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Image/wipe Verify – dcfldd can verify that a target drive is a bit-for-bit match of the specified input file or pattern.
Multiple outputs – dcfldd can output to multiple files or disks at the same time.
Split output – dcfldd can split output to multiple files with more configurability than the split command.
Piped output and logs – dcfldd can send all its log data and output to commands as well as files natively.

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Announcing Snappy Ubuntu

Guest: Dustin Kirkland (@dustinkirkland)

A new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for the cloud.

Ubuntu Core is a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security guarantees for apps and users — that’s why we call them “snappy” applications.

Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core itself can be upgraded atomically and rolled back if needed — a bulletproof approach to systems management that is perfect for container deployments. It’s called “transactional” or “image-based” systems management, and we’re delighted to make it available on every Ubuntu certified cloud.

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

What if your cloud instances could be updated with the same certainty and precision as your mobile phone — with carrier grade assurance that an update applies perfectly or is not applied at all? What if your apps could be isolated from one another completely, so there’s no possibility that installing one app could break another, and stronger assurance that a compromise of one app won’t compromise the data from another? When we set out to build the Ubuntu Phone we took on the challenge of raising the bar for reliability and security in the mobile market. And today that same technology is coming to the cloud, in the form of a new “snappy” image called Ubuntu Core, which is in beta today on Azure and as a KVM image you can run on any Linux machine.

Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefox

If you’re visiting any Yahoo property today, chances are you’ll see an “Upgrade to the new Firefox” link in the top-right corner of your browser window. The prompt also appears if you’re using Internet Explorer, Opera and even the new Yandex browser. However, the prompt is missing from Safari, which will surely prompt a new round of speculation about Apple’s rumored switch to Yahoo as its default search engine.

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Next Gen Fedora | LINUX Unplugged 70

chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:07:07 +0000

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Fedora’s project lead joins us to discuss today’s Fedora 21 release, the possibility of the project switching to an Intel style Tick-Tock release & what Fedora 22 might look like.

Plus what the Ubuntu Snappy Core announcement means, why it’s a big deal & why it could be amazing for the desktop one day.

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This project aims to create a desktop environment for GNU/Linux systems, mainly for those that runs in low performance devices such as old PCs, Raspberry Pi, embedded devices and others.

It is focused in modularity in order to be lightweight and adaptable, also there will not be fancy graphics. Another important aspect of this solution is the integration with the rest of the system. We aim to provide a desktop environment capable of integrate the different applications in your system.

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Fedora 21 is OUT!

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MatthewMiller – FedoraProject

Fedora Project Leader

It’s here and it is awesome. Announcing Fedora 21!

It’s Here! Announcing Fedora 21! | Fedora Magazine

As part of the Fedora.next initiative, Fedora 21 comes in three flavors: Cloud, Server, and Workstation — whether you’re using Linux on your laptop, using Linux on your servers, or spinning up containers or images in the cloud, we have what you need to be successful.

First Look: Fedora 21 has something for everyone | ITworld

There is something for everyone

Even though Gnome is the default DE of Fedora there are many official spins of Fedora including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE, etc.

The only difference, that I noticed, is that Gnome seems to get more love. Fedora picked popular, and more feature-rich applications over the default Gnome apps for the Workstation. For example, instead of shipping Epiphany it pre-installed Firefox.

Other spins offer a more vanilla experience of that desktop. In the case of KDE Spin you will get the entire stack of KDE software, such as Kmail, Konqueror web browser and Calligra Office instead of widely used apps like LibreOffice, Thunderbird or Firefox.

I have been using Fedora 21 RC on a test machine for over a week and I am quite impressed with it. If you are aspiring to become a software developer, Fedora would be a great distro to start with.

Need more motivation? Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, runs Fedora on all of his machines.

Now go ahead and download Fedora from the official page.

Announcing Snappy Ubuntu | Cloud | Ubuntu

Ubuntu Core is a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security guarantees for apps and users — that’s why we call them “snappy” applications.

Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core itself can be upgraded atomically and rolled back if needed — a bulletproof approach to systems management that is perfect for container deployments. It’s called “transactional” or “image-based” systems management, and we’re delighted to make it available on every Ubuntu certified cloud.

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Dustin Kirkland is Canonical’s Cloud Solutions Product Manager, leading the technical product strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud commercial offerings.

It’s a Snap!

Snappy introduces transactional updates and atomic, image based workflows — old ideas implemented in databases for decades — adapted to Ubuntu cloud and server ecosystems for the emerging cloud design patterns known as microservice architectures.

Mark Shuttleworth » Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

This is in a sense the biggest break with tradition in 10 years of Ubuntu, because Ubuntu Core doesn’t use debs or apt-get. We call it “snappy” because that’s the new bullet-proof mechanism for app delivery and system updates; it’s completely different to the traditional package-based Ubuntu server and desktop. The snappy system keeps each part of Ubuntu in a separate, read-only file, and does the same for each application.

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Lennart’s Linux Revolution | LAS 342

chris — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:02:07 +0000

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Lennart Poettering shares the surprising origins of systemd, his thoughts on the community reaction & his ideas for a universal Linux software installer. He addresses some common criticism & takes questions from the audience.

Plus Brandon Philips the co-found of CoreOS discusses Rocket & Matthew Miller from the Fedora project talks about the upcoming Fedora 21 release…

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systemd

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. systemd supports SysV and LSB init scripts and works as a replacement for sysvinit.

The Biggest Myths of systemd

Since we first proposed systemd for inclusion in the distributions it has been frequently discussed in many forums, mailing lists and conferences. In these discussions one can often hear certain myths about systemd, that are repeated over and over again, but certainly don’t gain any truth by constant repetition. Let’s take the time to debunk a few of them.

NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2014 about security features in systemd

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systemd – Google+

G+ feed is a handy news feed.

Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems

In a previous blog story I discussed
Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems,
I now want to take the opportunity to explain a bit where we want to
take this with
systemd in the
longer run, and what we want to build out of it. This is going to be a
longer story, so better grab a cold bottle of
Club Mate before you start
reading.

Traditional Linux distributions are built around packaging systems
like RPM or dpkg, and an organization model where upstream developers
and downstream packagers are relatively clearly separated: an upstream
developer writes code, and puts it somewhere online, in a tarball. A
packager than grabs it and turns it into RPMs/DEBs. The user then
grabs these RPMs/DEBs and installs them locally on the system. For a
variety of uses this is a fantastic scheme: users have a large
selection of readily packaged software available, in mostly uniform
packaging, from a single source they can trust. In this scheme the
distribution vets all software it packages, and as long as the user
trusts the distribution all should be good. The distribution takes the
responsibility of ensuring the software is not malicious, of timely
fixing security problems and helping the user if something is wrong.

kdbus · GitHub

Linux kernel D-Bus implementation

V2 Of KDBUS Published For Linux Kernel Review

The second revision to the Linux kernel based D-Bus implementation is now available for review.

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Thursday night posted the “v2” revision of the KDBUS implementation for providing the kernel with a new IPC implementation that resembles the existing user-space D-Bus daemon while adding extra features.

systemd 217 Updated In Debian & Soon Making Its Way To Ubuntu 15.04

systemd 217 brings many features and is currently the latest systemd stable release. Systemd 217 brought its experimental user console daemon, support for job timeouts, logind enhancements, udev updates, KDBUS handling improvements, and a plethora of other work.

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The new Nicholas Cage movie “Dying of the light” shows a scene where the romanian doctor Iulian Cornel is interrogated in his office, and as you can see from the screenshots he uses Ubuntu with the Ambiance theme.

Desktop App Pick

mkvtoolnix — Matroska tools for Linux/Unix and Windows

MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect
Matroska files under
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OGMtools do for the OGM format and then
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CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

We thought Docker would become a simple unit that we can all agree on.

Unfortunately, a simple re-usable component is not how things are playing out. Docker now is building tools for launching cloud servers, systems for clustering, and a wide range of functions: building images, running images, uploading, downloading, and eventually even overlay networking, all compiled into one monolithic binary running primarily as root on your server. The standard container manifesto was removed. We should stop talking about Docker containers, and start talking about the Docker Platform. It is not becoming the simple composable building block we had envisioned.

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Fedora 21 Is Coming In Just Two Days With Big Improvements

Fedora 21 is the first release of the Fedora.Next initiative that separates Fedora out into three products: Fedora Cloud, Fedora Server, and Fedora Workstation. These new Fedora “products” are fairly self explanatory and it’s the Fedora 21 Workstation that most users will be after who want Fedora as a desktop operating system.

Fedora 21’s Performance Is Close To Ubuntu 14.10

Fedora 21 is due out in a few days and as such I’ve been busy extensively testing and benchmarking this first Fedora Linux update in a year. To not much surprise given the close package versions to Ubuntu 14.10, Fedora 21 isn’t performing very differently from the Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn.

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2K Games Confirms BioShock Infinite On Linux In Early 2015

The folks at 2K Games have confirmed that BioShock Infinite will be released for Linux in early 2015. More details are expected in January.

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What’s Next for Fedora | LAS 326

chris — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:47:47 +0000

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The Fedora Project Lead joins us to explain Fedora.next, their ambitions for the cloud, desktop, and what success means for Fedora.next. Tyler from Arch Assault joins us to update us on the latest from Blackhat, the new developments with their distro, and the what the future holds.

Plus news of the week, our picks, your feedback, and more!

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I’ve been involved in Fedora since… a long time. I helped organize the first FUDCons at Boston University, worked on the original Fedora Legacy project, hacked on Anaconda for Boston University’s remix, and some other stuff (including maintaining a few packages). Now I work for Red Hat and am basically paid to care about Fedora full time, as Fedora Project Leader. I’m involved in the Cloud SIG and hacking on the Fedora Cloud Image. I’m also on FESCo (the Fedora technical steering committee) and generally interested in anything and everything related to Fedora’s success (so, correspondingly, please feel free to complain to me about anything).

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Operational Simulators: Testing solutions on earth before going to space

Spacecraft require constant oversight from ground experts at every moment of their missions.

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Lynis – Security auditing tool for Unix/Linux systems

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DEFT 8.2 ready for download | DEFT Linux – Computer Forensics live CD

Distribution Release: DEFT Linux 8.2 (DistroWatch.com News)

DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customised distribution of the Ubuntu live Linux CD. It is an easy-to-use system that includes excellent hardware detection and some of the best open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics.

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The future of SolydXK | SolydXK

Our main goal is to create a stable and secure distribution for businesses and organizations. We will need to focus on those things that will help us attain our goals. So, we have decided to make some changes:

When Debian’s current testing release (Jessie) becomes stable, our Home Editions and Business Editions will merge and become our new main editions. They will be based on Debian stable. We will provide businesses and organizations a subset of up-to-date software. Additionally, home users will be offered to use a complete set of up-to-date software through our complete backport repository which is not fully tested on SolydXK.
At that time, we will stop providing the Home Editions as semi rolling editions with Update Packs. We will however provide truly rolling editions following Debian testing directly. They will include snapshot ISOs, to be released at regular intervals, maybe twice or three times a year. Other than that, these rolling editions will not be officially supported! They will have to be carried by the community.

Freya Beta 1 Available for Developers & Testers | elementary OS

As tempting as it might be, we strongly recommend against using this beta in a production environment. A few more stages remain in the development process wherein we’ll be addressing serious bugs before the final release. That said, this post is going to be more technical and focus on things that are important to developers. We’ll save announcing all the cool new user-facing features for our final release.

Elementary Freya running on a HP Chromebook, thought you guys and gals might appreciate this.

Red Hat Releases Project Atomic

In April, Red Hat released Project Atomic, a prototype system for running Docker containers. This is Red Hat’s response to the interest in CoreOS a system for hosting Docker containers based on ChromeOS.

Project Atomic is not intended to be another operating system

The core of Project Atomic is the package installation system, rpm-ostree, which takes the packages from Fedora (or potentially another distro in future), and acts as a “Git for operating system binaries”, allowing different collections of packages, or operating installs, and switch atomically between them. Switching still requires a reboot, but you can revert to any old version if there is a problem.

Like CoreOS, systemd is the core running the processes. In order to run distributed applications, Project Atomic uses Geard, a project from Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS framework. Geard will be the basis of the next generation of OpenShift, and is integrated with systemd

Also included is a browser based graphical management tool, called Cockpit, to manage both the Project Atomic host and the running containers, and manage resource usage. Again this is beta code, and the Project Atomic install is the recommended way of using it.

OpenGL 4.5 released—with one of Direct3D’s best features

The newest version of the industry standard 3D programming API. The new version contains a mix of features designed to make developers’ lives easier and to improve performance and reliability of OpenGL applications.

The big feature in OpenGL 4.5 is Direct State Access (DSA).

ArchAssault

The ArchAssault Project is an Arch Linux derivative for penetration testers,
security professionals and all-around Linux enthusiasts. This means we import the
vast majority of the official upstream Arch Linux packages, these packages are unmodified
from their upstream source. While our Arch Linux base is primarily untouched, there are times
were we have to fork a package to be able to better support our vast selection of tools.
All of our packages strive to maintain the Arch Linux standards, methods and philosophies.

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High-End Linux | HowTo Linux 3

chris — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:13:52 +0000

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Chase and the crew visit Pogo Linux and learn about the Linux powered solutions they build for large scale Linux deployments and the type of systems that run the world’s scientific labs, governments and mission critical infrastructure.

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Pogo Linux, Inc.

Founded in 1999, Pogo Linux, Inc. is an open-source systems integrator based out of Seattle, WA. With a multi-OS focus and in-house technical expertise, they offer a wide range of workstations, servers and network storage solutions for the technology needs of IT departments in organizations of all sizes With many options available in the commodity hardware market, the search for a reliable technology partner can be a challenge.

Over the course of their 15 years in business, IT departments in small- and mid-sized organizations – including SMBs, Fortune 1000 corporations, government agencies and higher education – have turned to Pogo Linux for all their technology infrastructure needs.

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Hardware for a Software Defined World. We build trusted open server and storage hardware solutions backed by personal support at hpogolinux.com

Pogo Linux Technology Blog l | The latest in Open Source servers, workstations and storage technologies.

Pogo SSD Week continues as HostingCon kicked off yesterday, and other goodies on their blog!

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Meet the Dockers | LINUX Unplugged 16

chris — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:02:01 +0000

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A new version of Docker was just released, we bring on the CTO and Founder of Docker to chat about the big features all Linux users can look forward to.

Plus building the perfect Linux workstation, your feedback, and much more!

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Docker 0.7 is finally here! We hope you\’ll like it. On top of countless bug fixes and small usability improvements, it introduces 7 major features since 0.6.0

Disadvantages from moving away from AUFS?
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Docker is a powerful tool for many different use cases. Here are some great early use cases for Docker, as described by members of our community.

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