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Linux Action News 85 Dec 23, 2018

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It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months.

Acquisitions, solid releases, a revolution for gaming, politics in the kernel community, Chrome OS coming of age, and more.

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IBM to Acquire Red Hat — Most significant tech acquisition of 2018 will unlock true value of cloud for business
Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS — The world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc.
Welcome to Fedora CoreOS — This new thing will be “Fedora CoreOS” and serve as the upstream to Red Hat CoreOS.
Red Hat's Stratis Storage Project Reaches 1.0 — Stratis 1.0 was quietly released last week with the 1.0 version marking its initial stable release and where also the on-disk meta-data format has been stabilized.
Microsoft to acquire GitHub — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub
Microsoft joins OIN — Microsoft is joining the Open Invention Network (“OIN”), a community dedicated to protecting Linux and other open source software programs from patent risk.
Microsoft’s Linux powered dev boards, Azure Sphere for sale — Azure Sphere is a solution for creating highly-secured, connected Microcontroller (MCU) devices, providing you with the confidence and the power to reimagine your business and create the future.
Ubuntu 18.04 released — The 'main' archive of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years until April 2023.
Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years — At OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said in a keynote that Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) support lifespan would be extended from five years to 10 years.
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux — Valve announced today a beta of Steam Play, a new compatibility layer for Linux, to provide compatibility with a wide range of Windows-only games.
Steam Machines disappear from Valve's site — Valve is no longer highlighting Steam Machine hardware through the front page of its online Steam store, seemingly putting a final nail in the coffin of Valve's partnership with third-party PC builders.
Steam Link box discontinued — According to Valve, the inventory of Steam Links has fully depleted, meaning this one’s apparently gone for good.
Meltdown and Spectre — Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer.
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs — The revamped Linux code of conduct encourages behaviors like accepting constructive criticism gracefully, using inclusive language, and being respectful of “differing viewpoints and experiences.”
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed — Support for Linux will enable you to create, test and run Android and web app for phones, tablets and laptops all on one Chromebook. Run popular editors, code in your favorite language and launch projects to Google Cloud with the command-line. Everything works directly on a Chromebook.
Chrome OS tablet launched — The Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that turns it into something very closely resembling a laptop.
Chrome OS 70 brings native network file share support — Mr. Beaufort points to a Chromium Gerrit commit that gives details of the feature that shows M70 of Chrome OS will have its NativeSmb flag to set to enabled by default.

Great News, We Lied | User Error 55 Dec 21, 2018

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Whether new users have to suffer the pain of the command line, lying about Santa, and the best tech news of 2018.

Plus we learn whether Dan is a hipster, and more.

00:00:40 #AskError: What will self-driving cars be called?
00:02:02 Lying to children about Santa
00:09:19 Do new users still need to learn how to use the command line?
00:19:36 #AskError: How much do you spend getting your hair cut and how often?
00:23:57 The best tech news stories of the year

Handmade Desktop Linux | LINUX Unplugged 280 Dec 18, 2018

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We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more!

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ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard
Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver
ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2
Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that.
User Error
Linux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season.
LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & Future
LINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory Tour
Meet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 Thelio
Feedback: Xrandr tip for wimpy
Feedback: Try minidlna
ReadyMedia - ArchWiki
Feedback: How can we tolerate systemd?
Microsoft/ethr: Ethr is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
remove.bg: A tool to remove background from image
Streama - Self hosted media server

It's The Culture Stupid | Coder Radio 336 Dec 18, 2018

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Chris is back from his trip to Denver to tour System76’s factory, and what he discovered while he was there was the last thing he was expecting.

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Thelio - System76

Linux Action News 84 Dec 16, 2018

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Intel developers are working to open source the FSP, Fuchsia SDK and device repos show up in Android AOSP, and our BSD buddies have some big news.

Plus the pending removal of the x32 sub-architecture from Linux, why Uber is joining up with the Linux Foundation, and more.

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Intel Working On Open-Sourcing The FSP — Firmware support package (FSP) for initializing the Intel silicon - the CPU, memory controller, chipset.
Intel introduces the deep learning reference stack — The Deep Learning Reference Stack is highly-tuned and built for cloud native environments.
Uber brings Horovod project for distributed deep learning to Linux Foundation — Uber has used Horovod to support self-driving vehicles, fraud detection, and trip forecasting. Contributors to the project include Amazon, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia.
The x32 subarchitecture may be removed — The x32 subarchitecture is a software variant of x86-64; it runs the processor in the 64-bit mode, but uses 32-bit pointers and arithmetic.
Android Open Source Project now includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’ — This means that everyone who downloads AOSP, going forward, will download these two Fuchsia related repos.
FreeBSD 12.0 released — The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/12 branch.
Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276

Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276 Dec 13, 2018

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FreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more.

Keeping up with Kubernetes | TechSNAP 392 Dec 12, 2018

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A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong.

Plus the biggest stories out of Kubecon, and serverless gets serious.

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Everything that was announced at KubeCon
CNCF to Host etcd — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project.
Introduction to Knative — Knative is a framework from the folks at Google and Pivotal focused on “serverless” style event driven functions.
IBM Embraces Knative to Drive Serverless Standardization — Knative is not the first open-source functions-as-a-service effort that IBM has backed. Back in 2016, IBM announced the OpenWhisk effort, which is now run as an open-source project at the Apache Software Found.
How Google Is Improving Kubernetes Container Security — "We go beyond what's in open source and put additional restrictions in place to secure users"
Demystifying Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105 — With a specially crafted request, users that are authorized to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to a backend server can then send arbitrary requests over the same connection directly to that backend, authenticated with the Kubernetes API server’s TLS credentials used to establish the backend connection.
The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver
Crossplane: An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
security.christmas — This year we will prepare you for the Christmas celebration, by giving you small presents of knowledge every day, which will teach you about the world of security.
Introducing the Helm Hub — This hub provides a means for you to find charts hosted in many distributed repositories hosted by numerous people and organizations.

WireGuardians of the Galaxy | LINUX Unplugged 279 Dec 11, 2018

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We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?
Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby
Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution
Streama: Self hosted streaming media server.
Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster
Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello
Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies
Mike's systemd udev fix
Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
LinuxFest Northwest 2019
WireGuard for iOS - TestFlight
How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff
Use Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter
sshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
corkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies

Everyone’s Going Chrome | Coder Radio 335 Dec 11, 2018

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Estimates can be a very tricky thing to get right, but they are vitally important. Peter Kretzman joins us to make it all a bit easier and clearer.

Plus Chris thinks he knows why Microsoft is willing to kill off their Edge browser engine and switch it out for Chromium. But can he convince Mike?

Special Guest: Peter Kretzman.

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Electron — The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Atom editor and many other apps.
Visual Studio 2019
Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements
The case against #NoEstimates: the bottom line
Recommended reading for the CTO/CIO
LinuxFest Northwest

Linux Action News 83 Dec 09, 2018

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Microsoft is moving to Chromium, and Mozilla isn't too thrilled about it.

Plus the Kernel team's clever Spectre slowdown fix, Emby goes proprietary, Steam Link lives on, and more.

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Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base — Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.
Mozilla not exactly thrilled about it — Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet.
Chrome and Firefox to have native Arm builds on Win10 — Mozilla announced today it is working on bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM. The organization is doing so in cooperation with Qualcomm.
WordPress 5 Released — The new block-based editor won’t change the way any of your content looks to your visitors. What it will do is let you insert any type of multimedia in a snap and rearrange to your heart’s content.
Emby becomes proprietary — we are modularizing and open sourcing as many standalone components as we possibly can.
Spectre slowdown fix — Linux 4.20-rc5 addresses the performance issue by making the security defense optional.
NVIDIA open sources PhysX — We’re doing this because physics simulation — long key to immersive games and entertainment — turns out to be more important than we ever thought.
Steam Link lives on via the Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch

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