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The Lessons of Jellyfin | LINUX Unplugged 433

Wes Payne — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:30:00 +0000

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Shields Up | Self-Hosted 23

Wes Payne — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

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Comcast’s Next Prey | Tech Talk Today 184

chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:36:24 +0000

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Vulnerabilities in iOS & Android devices announced today, both are in the wild with no fix yet. We’ll share the details. Comcast wants to buy T-Mobile, Microsoft shakes it up, Kodi gets banned & more!

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Kodiculious Review | LAS 357

chris — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:25:36 +0000

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Is Kodi the one true open source home theater system? We look at the latest release of Kodi, formerly known as XBMC. Discuss the projects current state, and what the future release holds.

Plus the BQ Ubuntu Touch devices runs into some GPL issues, Microsoft’s Secure Boot policy change, our picks & more!

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Kodi 14.2 Helix – Release Candidate | Kodi

We are proud to announce the release candidate of Kodi 14.2 in which we further try to improve stability. As you may all know by now, we have a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software we all love. 14.2 will become the the second and final bug-fix release in the Helix range. As we have mentioned in our Kodi 14.0 release announcement, we will be releasing these extra releases to squash down any issues left after the first big release. Below you will find a list of fixes so far. In the Kodi 14.1 release announcement you can find the sum up of previous fixes done in the Helix range.

Fixes so far

* Fix: Application stopped responding on Windows
* Fix: Gap-less playback on MP3
* Fix: Playback of rtmp protocol
* Fix: Scanning of newly added episodes
* Fix: Fix multipath source scanning
* Fix: Loading external subtitles in some cases
* Fix: packaging of PIL module on Android. This fixes some script error when using weather add-on
* Fix: Fix video playback on all platform after refresh rate change
* Fix: Various bugs that were present in PVR add-ons.
* Fix: Save weather location
* Fix: Fix filtering of foreign add-ons
* Fix: FTPS handling
* Fix: use LastWrite instead of ChangeTime for file system on Windows
* Feature: Bump OSX SDK to 10.10

Kodi 14.2 Release Candidate Available

Kodi 14.2 Helix is a stable bug-fix release over the existing Kodi 14 series. The 14.2 version is the second and final planned bug-fix release before Kodi 15. With today’s Kodi 14.2 RC there’s a handful of bug-fixes.

HOW-TO:Install Kodi for Linux – Kodi

The installation instructions within this section reference repositories that are officially sanctioned by Team Kodi.

Downloads | Kodi

Kodibuntu – Kodi

XBMCbuntu is a combination XBMC/operating system for use on PCs that are mainly just running XBMC. It is an alternative to installing Windows or a larger (and sometimes more complicated) Linux-based OS.

Kodi – ArchWiki

Kodi is a free, open source (GPL) multimedia player that originally ran on the first-generation XBox, (not the newer Xbox 360), and now runs on devices running Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android and iOS. Kodi can be used to play/view the most popular video, audio, and picture formats, and many more lesser-known formats, including:

Video – DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, Matroska

Audio – MP3, AAC

Picture – JPG, GIF, PNG

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Desktop App Pick

Pithos

Pithos is a native Pandora Radio client for Linux. It’s much more lightweight than the Pandora.com web client, and integrates with desktop features such as media keys, notifications, and the sound menu.

Weekly Spotlight

Document Freedom

Document Freedom Day (DFD) is the international day to celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards. On this day, people around the globe come together to run local events and let the public know about freedom of information accessibility. Join us by attending an event close to you, help spreading the word or see other ways of how to get involved.

Linux Action Show at LFNW | Offical LAS 2015 Shirt

We are releasing another set of LAS shirts in preparation for LinuxFest Northwest which is at the end of April 2015! We hope to color Bellingham Technical College with LAS supporters donning their favorite Linux podcast!

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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Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality

Should this stand, we can envisage OEMs building machines that will offer no easy way to boot self-built operating systems, or indeed, any operating system that doesn’t have appropriate digital signatures. This doesn’t cut out Linux entirely—there have been some collaborations to provide Linux boot software with the “right” set of signatures, and these should continue to work—but it will make it a lot less easy.

The BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Phone’s Kernel Appears To Be A Toxic Mess

Carsten Munk of the Mer Project and Chief Research Engineer of Jolla has raised some concerns about the Linux kernel used by the BQ Aquaris E4.5 smart-phone running Ubuntu Touch. The kernel appears to have module source-code marked as confidential and other markings that would not comply with the GPLv2 license of the Linux kernel.

In a blog post out today, the Linux Android-based kernel used by Ubuntu on their first smart-phone is difficult to find the official source tree. When finding a kernel source tree for the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition Phone, Carsten was greeted by many “confidential and proprietary” statements from MediaTek, the company whose SoC is powering the phone. In other modules are confidential and proprietary licenses from other vendors too.

Hi all,

Some of you might have seen today’s blog post from Carsten Munk, from the
Mer project, where he pointed to conflicting comments in the kernel sources
of the Ubuntu phone for bq devices.

We are working with bq to understand the situation and planning to publish
the final E4.5 Ubuntu edition sources next week. We are confident that
these will address any questions raised by the preview source tree.

Thanks to everyone who expressed their concerns and your patience as we
resolve this.

Cheers,
David.

Have You Paid Your Linux Kernel Source License Fee?

When asked for source code, MediaTek asks for money. They literally charge a Licensing Fee to device manufacturers for Linux Kernel source code.

DuckDuckGo 2015 Open Source Donations

We just made our Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) donations for 2015, totaling $125,000 across five projects. Thank you for all the community nominations.

Our primary focus this year was to support FOSS projects that are bringing privacy tools to those who need them. We chose four projects we think are of paramount importance to achieving that goal

ownCloud Client 1.8 Has Been Officially Released with New Desktop Sharing Feature

“This release brings a new integration into the operating system file manager. With 1.8.0, there is a new context menu that opens a dialog to allow the user to create a public link on a synced file. This link can be forwarded to other users who get access to the file via ownCloud,” says Klaas Freitag in the official release announcement.

BioShock Infinite Now Available For Linux, Demands Binary Graphics Drivers

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. BioShock Infinite is powered by Unreal Engine 3 and was released for all other platforms in late 2013 while the Linux release is coming one and a half years later. This game used DirectX 11 on Windows while for porting it over to Linux is using eON for translating to OpenGL.

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ownCloud 7 Interview | LAS 324

chris — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:37:55 +0000

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The founder of ownCloud joins us to discuss their latest release, future plans and challenges. And we’ll ask a batch of the tough questions you sent in.

Then we take a look at CRUX, a legendary Linux distribution with an amazing history. Plus an app pick that will instantly tickle your retro bone, a cautious tale…

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Today we’re kicking off our most substantial Ubuntu computer sale of the year.…

About: Crux

CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is keep it simple, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

In short, CRUX might suit you very well if you are:

A somewhat experienced Linux user who wants a clean and solid Linux distribution as the foundation of your installation.
A person who prefers editing configuration files with an editor to using a GUI.
Someone who does not hesitate to download and compile programs from the source.

History of CRUX

Started May 2000
No public releases made during this time
A strong community by 2002, and was responsible for working together and adding important package management features to the distro.
CRUX was built from scratch and has never been based on any other Linux distribution.
Tracked by Distrowatch since 2002-01-14

CRUX vs Arch

Before creating Arch, Judd Vinet admired and used CRUX; a minimalist distribution created by Per Lidén. Originally inspired by ideas in common with CRUX and BSD, Arch was built from scratch, and pacman was then coded in C.
Arch and CRUX share some guiding principles: for instance, both are architecture-optimized, minimalist and K.I.S.S.-oriented.
Both ship with ports-like systems, and, like *BSD, both provide a minimal base environment to build upon.
Arch features pacman, which handles binary system package management and works seamlessly with the Arch Build System. CRUX uses a community contributed system called prt-get, which, in combination with its own ports system, handles dependency resolution, but builds all packages from source (though the CRUX base installation is binary).
Arch officially supports x86_64 and i686 only, whereas CRUX officially offers only x86_64.
Arch uses a rolling-release system and features a large array of binary package repositories as well as the Arch User Repository. CRUX provides a more slimmed-down officially supported ports system in addition to a comparatively modest community repository.

CRUX 3.1 Released July 17th 2014

Toolchain updates

CRUX 3.1 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.19.0, gcc 4.8.3 and binutils 2.24

Kernel

Linux 3.12.24

Xorg

CRUX 3.1 ships with Xorg 7.7 and xorg-server 1.15.1.

CRUX Install:

Very Manual.

Packages in CRUX

The package system (pkgutils) is made with simplicity in mind, where all packages are plain tar.gz files (i.e. without any kind of meta data).

When a package is installed using pkgadd a new record is added to the package database (stored in /var/lib/pkg/db). The basic package system does not have any kind of dependency checking, thus it will not warn you if you install a package that requires other packages to be installed. The included prt-get tool, however, does support dependencies.

Since the package file itself does not contain any meta data. Instead, the package manager uses the package filename to determine the package name and version.
Thus, when installing a package file named bash#2.05-1.pkg.tar.gz, the package manager will interpret this as a package named bash at version 2.05-1.

If pkgadd is unable to interpret the filename (e.g. # is missing or the filename does not end with .pkg.tar.gz) an error message will be printed and pkgadd will abort without installing the package.

Package management frontend: prt-get

To address the different requirements towards package management in CRUX, a number of users started discussion about an advanced package management frontend to pkgutils, with dependency handling and support for large install transactions. The result of this community effort is prt-get, a tool which provides a number of features on top of pkgutils while keeping pkgutils’ original character and power. Its main features are

Dependency handling
Build logging
Powerful search and query functionality

Nowadays prt-get is an official project and tool of the CRUX project.

The Ports System

The term Ports System refers to a remote repository containing ports and a client program capable of downloading ports from that repository. CRUX users use the ports(8) utility to download ports from the repository and place them in /usr/ports/. The ports utility uses rsync(1) or httpup(1) to do the actual downloading/synchronization.

A port is a directory containing the files needed for building a package using pkgmk. This means that this directory at least has the files Pkgfile (which is the package build description) and .footprint (which is used for regression testing and contains a list of files this package is expected to contain once it is built). Further, a port directory can contain patches and/or other files needed for building the package. It is important to understand that the actual source code for the package is not necessarily present in port directory. Instead the Pkgfile contains an URL which points to a location where the source can be downloaded.

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The Future of Desktop Computing? – Computerphile – YouTube

Tablets are taking over from desktop computing but what if we merge the two? This prototype demonstrates something new, that builds upon something centuries old – working with paper on your desk.

How To Install and Configure Syncthing to Synchronize Directories on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

Desktop App Pick

cool-old-term

‘cool-old-term’: This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest we’ve seen yet! | Tech Drive-in

Developed by Swordfish’s Labs, cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

Weekly Spotlight

Toxic

Toxic is a Tox-based instant messaging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.

qTox

Powerful Tox client that tries to follow the Tox UI mockup while running on all major systems.
This GUI uses code from @nurupo’tos ProjectTox-Qt-GUI, in particular the “Core” Toxcore wrapper.
However, it is not a fork.

Features

One to one chat with friends
Group chats
File transfers, with previewing of images
Audio calls
Video calls (alpha)
Tox DNS
Translations in various languages

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OpenSUSE Factory Turns Into Rolling Release Distribution

OpenSUSE Factory will still serve where openSUSE development takes place, but it’s also going to aim for being a distribution on its own as a “tested and stable fresh-daily bleeding-edge distribution.”

Fedora security team is announced

== What are we doing? ==

The Security Team’s mission is to assist packagers in closing security vulnerabilities. Once alerted to a
vulnerability on a package, the security team can help work with upstream to obtain a patch or a new release
of a package. Once we have a patch or a new release we attach it to the vulnerability bug and work with
packagers to get the fix pushed.

== How bad is the problem now? ==

As of a few days ago we had 566 open vulnerability tickets that cover both Fedora and EPEL. The breakdown of
those bugs by severity looks like this:

Critical: 3
Important: 69
Moderate: 366
Low: 128
Answering questions regarding the Fedora Security Team | Sparks’ Open Source and Security Journal

Fedora 21 Has Been Delayed By Three Weeks

At Wednesday’s Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee it was agreed upon to push back the entire release process by three weeks. This three weeks is to give additional time to finish outstanding work prior to the changes freeze and for also then working around Fedora’s “Flock” contributor conference.

Fedora 21 will not be officially released now until at least 4 November while the alpha release is at 26 August, beta release on 30 September, and the final change deadline on 21 October. The updated Fedora 21 schedule can be found via this Fedora Wiki page.

OMG! Fedora is just getting a security team? Does this mean Fedora has been insecure this entire time?!?

Umm, no, it doesn’t mean that Fedora has been insecure this entire time. In all actuality Fedora is in pretty good shape overall. There is always room for improvement and so we’re organizing a team to help facilitate that improvement.

XBMC Is Getting a New Name – Introducing Kodi 14

We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

Questions for Frank:

What brought about Server-to-Server syncing, and how close to real time is that syncing?
Sleepee asks: Any plans for better auditing on who shared filed. He’s working in an Enterprise, and the management would like some records.
Seal20 asks: I could not find anyway to replace the last closed and evil tool: evernote. I hate it but I couldn’t switch to any other free alternative. Do you plan do include an evernote alternative somewhere down the road?
Seal20 also asks: What about an “owncloud phone” you could rip off an android os from all google or even better start from a firefox os and include all owncloud related apps: cal/carddav sync, owncloud news, sync apps, etc! I and i am sure others will surely pay a premium for this!
pierre4l asks: I wonder whether the focus of OwnCloud is going to be home users wanting to set up their personal cloud servers, or whether it is veering more to the enterprise deployments. Or is it trying to be a solution for all?
OwnCloud apps seems to be really growing. Where do you see OwnCloud apps going? Even casual games on apps.ownCloud.com
autodidactos: I know there are two email client apps available (roundcube and rainloop) but neither seem to be as integrated as an official client would be. Are there any plans for an official OwnCloud email client?

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Switching to Linux | HowTo Linux 1

chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:43:56 +0000

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Chase makes the decision to switch to Linux and Chris helps him get started. Learn how to install Linux from a thumb drive using Windows.

Plus we answer some basic fundamental differences between Windows and Linux.

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LXQt the Xfce Killer? | LAS 312

chris — Sun, 11 May 2014 13:56:14 +0000

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The first big release of LXQt is out, and we give it our first look. Where does this minimal desktop fit? And is it taking a direct shot at XFCE’s crown?

Plus the community demonstrates their passion to Unreal, FireFox OS news AND do YOU trust Btrfs?

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Stefan Wrote in: LXQt, the next Generation???

It has been almost a year since the Razor-qt project and the LXDE-Qt
project decided to merge. Since then, the LXQt desktop has been under
active development by 13 developers and dozens of contributors and
translators.

Aaron Seigo wrote

[with LXQt focus on low system requirements KDE is] able to focus on Plasma as a full-featured, multi-device offering, it shows how collaboration can bring great rewards. How much more exciting than Yet Another Fork with little to no chance of long term survival!”

LXDE, Razor-Qt merge to create awesome LXQt project | Muktware
The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE\’s desktop and file manager
An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to
easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps.
Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already
build on Qt 5!
Ongoing work on Wayland support. Some components, including
PCManFM-Qt, can run on Wayland if QtWayland is available.
Several performance improvements
Experimental Raspberry Pi support
Partial FreeBSD support

Some Numbers About LXQt for Those Who Are Curious | LXDE Blog

Test environment is the latest Debian stable installed in VirtualBox with 512 MB of RAM and 1 CPU core assigned. After cold boot, the memory usage is as follows.

Plain Openbox only: 58 MB
XFCE: 89 MB (with default configuration of Debian)
LXDE (gtk+ 2 version): 78 MB (add 20 MB to openbox)
LXQt: 95 MB (add 37 MB to openbox)

Next-Gen Linux Desktop \’LXQt\’ Available to Test on Ubuntu Through PPA

Bright Future:

Jerome Leclanche writes

“The KDE Project has, in their efforts in building the modular KDE Frameworks, opened new doors for Qt developers working with desktop libraries. KF5 libraries may soon power some LXQt components!

Though it’s not a GTK Holy War

It does not really matter for users what toolkit you’re using given the final result works. Let’s save some time not arguing which is better and focus on what we can do with them.

Siduction LXQt Dev Release

The released image, that is only available for 64-bit for now is a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2014-05-08. They are enhanced with the lightweight LXQt desktop environment, some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.14-3, accompanied by X-Server 1.15.1.

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Flying 3D printer, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Atom

Atom is an open source \”hackable text editor for the 21st Century\” developed by GitHub, which is currently in beta.

Atom under MIT

Today, we\’re excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Atom under the
MIT License.

Weekly Spotlight

KaOS | A lean KDE Distribution

KaOS is a build from scratch distribution, every package in every repository is build by and for KaOS. By July 2013 the initial goal of about 1500 packages was reached.

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New Unreal Tournament Game Will Be Available For Linux, Free

It also goes to show how they also believe in Linux to release their engine and new flagship game on Linux.

They want to involve the community in it as much as possible and see what people want from it. They have asked you to go to their forum and let rip on what you want.

Speaking on cost they said it themselves that it will be free. It\’s not \”free 2 play\”, it\’s just 100% free (and no I don\’t mean open-source). That\’s absolutely crazy to have a game as high calibre as Unreal Tournament being free.

They mentioned they will start with Deathmatch and that the game has only started today, so it\’s a long way off.

The Future of Unreal Tournament Begins Today

From the very first line of code, the very first art created and design decision made, development will happen in the open, as a collaboration between Epic, UT fans and UE4 developers. We\’ll be using forums for discussion, and Twitch streams for regular updates.

Development will be focused on Windows, Mac and Linux.

GNOME Wayland Is Approved For Fedora 21

The Wayland change for Fedora 21 is about better supporting GNOME Wayland sessions. Fedora 20 already brought experimental GNOME Shell Wayland support while Fedora 21 is building upon more polished support thanks to upstream improvements landing with GNOME 3.14 due out in September.

It\’s not for sure yet that a Wayland-based environment would replace the X.Org Server by default for Fedora 21, but at least the support will be in good standing.

In time for Fedora 21 will also be X.Org Server 1.16 which integrates basic XWayland support for running X11 applications atop Wayland without requiring separate X.Org patches.

XBMC 13.0 `Gotham` Released

Linux: XBMC now cooperates nicely with the pulseaudio server and provides real pulseaudio support;
- Linux: Improved VAAPI and VDPAU support;
- Linux: added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution);

ZTE Starts Sales of Open C Firefox OS Phone on eBay

ZTE announced today that sales of the ZTE Open C Firefox OS phone have started on eBay. Targeted at first time smartphone users and early adopters wanting to try out Firefox OS, the Open C offers a 3MP camera and 4-inch WVGA screen, and is the first commercially available phone running the latest version of Firefox OS.

First Phone with Firefox OS 1.3 Hits Ebay Priced at $100

The ZTE Open C boasts:

4-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display
A dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU
512 MB of RAM
3-megapixel camera
4 GB of on board storage

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Sabayon Revisited | LAS s31e07

chris — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:54:34 +0000

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We revisit Sabayon Linux, a Gentoo based rolling distribution. Find out the how this distribution has leapfrogged the competition, and where we feel it could use some extra work.

Plus highlights from Linus recent Q&A, Ubuntu One shuts down, XP’s death is near…

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Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon follows the “out of the box” philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.

Sabayon Linux features a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon is available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there is support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.

The installer feels a bit dated.

Uses systemd not OpenRC
Does not assume a tone of big and corporate. Dialogs are clear, and honest. Even a little fun.
Install and Download Process feels dates, download is not user friendly.

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Runs Linux:

The Man who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Apache Wave

Weekly Spotlight

The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

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Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has switched to Google Chromebooks to migrate from Windows XP, which Microsoft will no longer support after 8 April.

The council is working with Google enterprise partner, Ancoris, and its joint venture outsourcing provider, Elevate East London, to roll out 1,500 Chromebooks and 500 Chromeboxes.

Ubuntu One falls from the clouds

But as of June 1st, 2014, syncing will stop. On July 31st, 2014, all data will be wiped. Ubuntu One will be no more.

Ubuntu One storage and music service shut down by Canonical

“As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store,” Canonical CEO Jane Silber wrote. “The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted.”

“Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB–50GB free storage,” Silber wrote. “If we offer a service, we want it to compete on a global scale, and for Ubuntu One to continue to do that would require more investment than we are willing to make.”

Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

The shutdown will not affect the Ubuntu One single sign on service, the Ubuntu One payment service, or the backend U1DB database service.

Linus Torvalds not happy with systemd author Kay Sievers

Linus Q&A at Portland Linux Users Group

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Unplugging 2013 | LINUX Unplugged 21

chris — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:31:36 +0000

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In the final moments of 2013 our virtual LUG shares their expectations and predictions for 2014. We’ll debate some of the most anticipated changes.

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Into 2014

NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

Mail Sack:

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Question for next week:

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Reader Replacements for Linux | LAS s27e07

chris — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:13:52 +0000

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Build your own Google Reader replacement, or check out one of the hosted options. Will run down the list of the candidates we think have the best potential to replace Google Reader on Linux.

Then: The week’s Mir headlines have brought out the trolls, we’ll tackle one of the Linux community’s biggest problems: the community.

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Google Reader Replacments for Linux:

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Self Hosted RSS Readers:

WikiStart – Tiny Tiny RSS

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

Tiny Tiny RSS Ubuntu PPA

Tiny Tiny RSS version to a PPA, which should make it a lot easier to install in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04

TT-RSS – ArchWiki

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

UpdatingFeeds – Tiny Tiny RSS

You have to setup one of this methods before you can start using tt-rss properly, otherwise your feeds won’t be updated.

Run update daemon if you are allowed to run background processes on your tt-rss machine. Otherwise, use one of the other methods. On Debian, official packages have cronjob-based updating setup out of the box.

selfoss

The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Remote Hosted:

Go Read is a web-based RSS reader. It is designed to be as useful as Google Reader.

NewsBlur

NewsBlur is free on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android. By subscribing to a
premium account, you support a growing service and unlock a few restrictions.

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Mir To Ship As Default Display Server in Ubuntu 13.10
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Media Streaming on Linux | LAS s27e06

chris — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:36:52 +0000

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Stream video from your Linux box, to any device in your house, and out. We’ll cover some of the best solutions to stream and organize your media.

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Your Living Room, Runs Linux:

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REDISCOVER YOUR BOXEEBOX

Plex Labs

The Plex Media Server is now available for various flavors of Linux, including Ubuntu, Slackware, and ReadyNAS. Since the packages have very few external dependencies, they may work on other flavors of Linux as well. Get your penguin on, and serve up your media in style!

Plex for Connected Devices

Extend the functionality of connected TVs and add low cost streaming devices to your home theater with Plex for Connected Devices. Why buy another computer when a Roku, Google TV, PS3, Xbox 360 or Smart TV will stream media directly from your
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In a Future LAS we’ll take a look at using Amahi

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Zorin OS – Home

Zorin OS is a multi-functional operating system! Designed specifically for Windows users who want to have easy and smooth access to Linux.

Zorin OS 7 Wants to Replace Windows 8 and Mac OS X

Highlights of Zorin OS 7:

• Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.8;
• Pidgin has replaced Empathy;
• Steam for Linux has been implemented in the distribution;
• The Zorin Look Changer has been integrated Zorin OS 7. This feature will allow users to choose between the Windows 7, XP and GNOME 2 graphical interfaces, in Core, and between Mac OS X, Unity and Windows 2000 interfaces in Zorin OS Ultimate.

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Google Docs Alternative | LAS | s25e06

chris — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:25:11 +0000

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Google Docs has some powerful features, collaborative editing being chief among them. This week we’ll show you why Etherpad Lite is more than just multiplayer notepad.

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The Open Google Docs Replacement:

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Up front: This is really focused on Google Docs’ collaborative features. As I have found these to be particularly a powerful competitive advantage of Google Docs. If you haven’t tried it, try it during your next meeting, or brainstorming session, or maybe just grocery shop list making from separate rooms. TRY IT!

First launched in November 2008, the software was acquired by Google in December 2009 and released as open source later that month. Several services now use the Etherpad software, including PiratePad, Telecomix Pad, Framapad, Mozilla Pad (MoPad), PrimaryPad, TypeWith.me, Sync.in, TitanPad and iEtherPad.com. Further development is coordinated by the Etherpad Foundation.

Etherpad Lite is an almost complete rewrite of the original Etherpad software, based on different technical foundations and written by different authors. While the original Etherpad is written in Scala and has quite big system requirements, Etherpad Lite is written in server-side JavaScript using node.js. The original realtime synchronization library (called Easysync) remains the same.

Apache License version 2.0 on December 17, 2009.

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Linux Hits the FAN | LAS | s24e10

chris — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:55:11 +0000

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Monitor the end of the world from your Linux box. This week, we’ll show you how easy it can be to setup fully automated monitoring using Nagios and some easy to use front-end tools.

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FAN « Fully Automated Nagios
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Android XBMC with Jupiter Broadcasting
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Geeknote – Evernote console client for Linux, FreeBSD, OS X
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Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08

chris — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:17:21 +0000

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We take a look at Sabayon 9, is this distro a real challenge to Arch Linux? Or just a re-skinned distro spin. Tune in to find out!

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This “smart TV” from a Spanish hospital, Runs Linux

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More and more of the folks we consider trend setters in our audience have begun singing the praises of Sabayon

Install:

The installer has a lot of powerful options, though the UI is not awesome.
The install process seems fairly easy, you’d never realize this was Gentoo.

General use:

Login screen is sliiiick
Update manager is really cool, showing the icon, name, and description of each package being updated.
Rigo Application Browser is simple, but exposes solid nerd features.
- Rigo shows helpful warnings from the repo
Entropy is the package manager.
equo is the command line package manager that uses binaries. You can also use emerge, but keep them in sync.
Picking great default apps is BACK!
- Chrome
- Clementine
- VLC for Media Playback
- Great KDE Menu organization
- God Dammit I love the terminal defaults
ZFS on Gentoo/Sabayon

Matt’s Howto:

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1) Install Teeworlds. This is easy to do, just install it from the software center or via apt-get.

2) Use Audacity to take an existing MP3 and convert it into a wav file, via the ‘export to’ option. You will name the new wav file music_menu.wav as this is the file we’ll be working with.

3) Next, open up a terminal window and paste in the following:
sudo apt-get install wavpack

4) Assuming your wav file is saved to your Desktop, use the following comanand to convert the wav file into a wv file, so it works with the game.

cd Desktop

(In a single line in the terminal, space between -o and /home)
wavpack /home/$USER/Desktop/music_menu.wav -o /home/$USER/Desktop/music_menu.wv

5) With the new wv file created, you can now move the file into the appropriate directory.

sudo mv music_menu.wv /usr/share/games/teeworlds/data/audio/music_menu.wv

6) After closing the terminal, start the Teeworlds game and the music you hear, should be the same as the mp3 you converted into a wav, and then into a wv file.

Heads up — I’ve read you can export to wv from Audacity, however I’ve had no luck with it personally — so try this approach instead.

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Raspberry Pi First Look | LAS | s22e06

chris — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:44:48 +0000

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We’ve got our hands on the Raspberry PI! Find out what you can expect from this crazy tiny device!

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New ASUS Netbooks Run Linux

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Setting the PC to stolen worked as expected, however the alerts to the thief, on screen did not.
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JB on Your TV | In Depth Look

chris — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:28:51 +0000

Chris shows you three easy ways to get Jupiter Broadcasting shows on your home TV. Plus a quick call out for any developers who would like to help Jupiter Broadcasting build apps for their favorite device!

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ATOM Powered Theater PC | In Depth Look

chris — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:29:39 +0000

Can an a silent ATOM CPU powered computer, with no moving parts make the ultimate home theater PC (HTPC). Chris sets out to build a proof of concept, and documents his findings, and thoughts!

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FreeBSD 9.0 Review | LAS | s20e03

chris — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:35:18 +0000

Turns out FreeBSD is still a thing you can think about download! We take a look at version 9.0! And marvel at its new anti-crash-usb-thumb-drive removal technology!

Plus Red hat’s big release that require it’s customers to use Microsoft Windows.. A little LESS, kinda!

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The University of Windsor, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

Significant Other Pleaser Free
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Random Distro Of The Day

Tails

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FreeBSD 9 Review:

UFS Softupdate Journaling
The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports softupdates journaling. It introduces a intent log into a softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need for background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdown
This new feature means that a fsck after an unexpected reboot is no longer required. In modern FreeBSD only a basic preen was required, and then a full fsck would take place on a snapshot of the file system, in the background after the system had finished rebooting. With the new softupdate journaling (basically an intent log), a full fsck is no longer required at all
Journaling support is enabled by default on all newly created file systems, and can be enabled on existing UFS2 partitions using tunefs(8)
Full TRIM support for SSDs
The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports the TRIM command when freeing data blocks. The TRIM-enable flag makes the file system send a delete request to the underlying device for each freed block
TRIM support can also be enabled during newfs(8) or on an existing file system with tunefs(8)
ZFS Upgraded to v28
ZFS v28 introduces support for data deduplication, triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3), snapshot holds, log device removal, zfs diff, zpool split, zpool import -F, and read-only zpool import
The zpool(8): utility now supports a zpool labelclear command. This allows to wipe the label data from a drive that is not active in a pool
HAST Improvements
The Highly Available Storage daemon now supports data checksumming (crc32 or sha256) and compression (zero hole or lzf) and improved security
Introduction of the GEOM RAID class graid(8)
Which supports:
- RAID0
- RAID1
- RAID1E
- RAID10
- SINGLE
- CONCAT
It also supports the on disk formats for:
- Intel RAID BIOS
- JMicron RAID BIOS
- NVIDIA MediaShield RAID BIOS
- Promise and AMD/ATI RAID BIOS
- SiliconImage RAID BIOS
Additionally, geom_map(4) allows specific areas of a device to be mapped as separate devices, especially useful for embedded flash storage
GEOM also support the following classes: CACHE, ELI, JOURNAL, LABEL, MIRROR, MOUNTVER, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID3, SCHED, SHSEC, STRIPE and VIRSTOR
NFSv4 with ACLs
In addition to NFSv2 and v3,
New utmpx(3) user accounting system
5 new TCP congestion control schems
The FreeBSD TCP/IP network stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion control algorithms to be implemented as dynamically loadable kernel modules
The following kernel modules are available as of 9.0-RELEASE: cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_cubic(4) for the CUBIC algorithm, cc_hd(4) for the Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_htcp(4) for the H-TCP algorithm, cc_newreno(4) for the NewReno algorithm, and cc_vegas(4) for the Vegas algorithm.
An h_ertt(4) (Enhanced Round Trip Time) module has been added, which allows per-connection, low noise estimates of the instantaneous RTT in the TCP/IP network stack.
New CAM based disk subsystem
The ATA/SATA disk subsystem has been replaced with a new cam(4)-based implementation. cam(4) stands for Common Access Method, which is an implementation of an API set originally for SCSI–2 and standardized as “SCSI–2 Common Access Method Transport and SCSI Interface Module”
The ada(4) driver now supports per-device write cache control. New sysctl(8) variables kern.cam.ada.write_cache and kern.cam.ada.N.write_cache settings of 1 enables and 0 disables the write cache, and –1 leaves the device default behavior. sysctl(8) variables can override the configuration in a per-device basis (the default value is –1, which means to use the global setting)
New Resource Accounting and Limiting APIs
RACCT is a new resource accounting API has been implemented. It can keep per-process, per-jail, and per-loginclass resource accounting information
The new resource-limiting API RCTL works in conjunction with the RACCT resource accounting implementation and takes user-configurable actions based on the set of rules it maintains and the current resource usage
Full USB3 support
OpenSSH upgraded to 5.8p2 with HPN for faster transfer speeds
OpenResolv to manage resolv.conf for multiple interfaces
Support for SHA–256 and SHA–512 cryptographic password hashing
sh updated
new arithmetic expression handling imported from dash (which is originally from NetBSD ash)
changes to the way builtin commands relate to PATH env
fixed various other bugs
Capsicum Capability Mode
New Sandboxing and compartmentalization framework from Cambridge University
Improved privilege separation in OpenSSH and DHClient
Replacement of various GPL tools and utilities with BSD licensed ones to avoid GPLv3
libreadline
grep
llvm/clang imported, will eventually replace gcc 4.2 (last GPL v2)
compiler-rt replaced libgcc

If you are using an older version of FreeBSD, the FreeBSD-Update tool can do a quick in-place upgrade using bsdiff binary patching.

As always, instructions for installing the OS and Packages, securing and managing your system can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook

PC-BSD 9.0 Released!
FreeBSD 9.0 LAS VM Torrent Username: jblive password: jblive rootpassword: jblive
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