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Linux Action News 160 Oct 25, 2020

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Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown.

Plus Edge is out for Linux, and PayPal gets bitcoin fever.

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Ubuntu 20.10 Released, Now Available to Download — Ubuntu 20.10 rides atop the Linux 5.8 kernel, includes the GNOME 3.38 release, has new wallpapers, Active Directory integration (for enterprise users) in the installer, and carries a clutch of updated software, tools, and libraries.
Ubuntu 20.10 Flavours Released
Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds
How to build a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster using MicroK8s
Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart
Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise — It is the world’s first software that runs Windows directly on enterprise Chromebooks―enabling full-featured Windows apps including Microsoft Office and proprietary apps―even when there is not an Internet connection.
youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice — Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, audiovisual works and images, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
How the youTube-dl devs found out about DMCA takedown
Microsoft Edge arrives in preview form for Linux — The release officially supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE. Sadly, there is no love for Pi fans at present; the team are apparently "looking at Arm", but no release has been forthcoming.
We Go Hands on With Microsoft Edge for Linux
PayPal Launches New Service Enabling Users to Buy, Hold and Sell Cryptocurrency — Today announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal account, and signaled its plans to significantly increase cryptocurrency's utility by making it available as a funding source for purchases at its 26 million merchants worldwide.
PayPal and Venmo will offer and accept cryptocurrency for all online payments

Automation Entropy Factor | Self-Hosted 30 Oct 23, 2020

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Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test

Plus a great pick for you pack rats, feedback, and more.

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A Cloud Guru: Demystify the sometimes difficult and deep topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today.
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Google study on disk temps — A 2007 study by Google showed the reverse to be true. Hard drives with average temperatures below 27 °C had a failure rate worse than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50 °C, and a failure rate at least twice as high as the optimum temperature range of 37 °C to 46 °C.
New Hard Drive Rituals — It is for these reasons that I now religiously do not commit any data to a drive until it has undergone at least one full cycle using a tool called badblocks
selfhostedshow/infra: Infrastructure as Code
Using 'sun' as condition fails to allow automation to trigger. — I've been using the Automation UI from the web to create the automation's and so for the conditoin I selected "Sun" and then 'after sunset' and 'before sunrise' but the automation stopped working. I had to use a 'state' condition and use 'sun.sun' and use the state 'below_horizon'
NFS Auto Mount with systemd — Network mount units automatically acquire After dependencies on remote-fs-pre.target, network.target and network-online.target, and gain a Before dependency on remote-fs.target unless nofail mount option is set.
Auto-mounting network file systems with systemd
30mm On-Metal NFC Tag – CloudFree — These blank 30mm circular NFC tags can be written to and read from using the Home Assistant app on NFC-compatible phones.
ESXi on Raspberry Pi — Getting ESXi up and running on one of the Pis was relatively easy but there are a few gotchas.
ESXi Arm Edition - Download
Some history behind getting ESXi-Arm onto the Pi
Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank. — Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.
How fast are your disks? Find out the open source way, with fio — The most reliable way to test disks is down-and-dirty, on the command line.

Leaping Lizard People | Coder Radio 384 Oct 21, 2020

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It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Today's @CoderRadioShow is brought to you by the Lizard people who love @openSUSE! #Linux #SUSE thanks for the SWAG!
Follow up on Oracle v Google — Oracle's best claim for copying of actual code is a complaint that Google improperly combined GPL code into an Apache-licensed software suite, but not even that - it is that Apache Harmony did this and Google copied it inadvertently.
Top Stories: iPhone 12, HomePod Mini, MagSafe Accessories, and More — Apple's media event obviously dominated the news this week
Apple Announces HomePod mini With Spherical Design — Apple today announced the HomePod mini with a new spherical design and the S5 chip at its "Hi, Speed" event.
Dropbox is letting all employees work from home permanently — The company plans to convert its existing offices to coworking spaces to aid in team building and collaboration.
Mike's .vimrc
Micro - Text editor — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

From The Factory Floor | LINUX Unplugged 376 Oct 20, 2020

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We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega.

Plus some important community news, feedback, picks, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-show
1:37 Intro
2:55 Edge for Linux
7:29 Thelio Mega
16:00 NVIDIA's 5.9 Problem
21:02 PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
25:44 Housekeeping
30:17 Ubuntu 20.10: Groovy Gorilla
49:33 Feedback
54:11 Picks
57:37 Post-show

Special Guests: Lindsey Cross and Philip Muller.

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Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux - Microsoft Edge Blog — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions.
System76 unleash a quad-GPU Linux monster with the ‘Thelio Mega’ — System76 say that the Thelio Mega is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation primarily made for deep learning and scientific computing.
Thelio Mega - System76
NVIDIA Doesn’t Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month — Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available.
You may want to avoid Linux Kernel 5.9 if you want fully supported NVIDIA drivers
Frogging-Family/nvidia-all: Nvidia driver 450 to 396 series AIO installer
PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition | PINE64 — This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Manjaro’s development team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a sleek-looking Manjaro logo on the back-cover.
Manjaro ARM Alpha1 with Lomiri (PinePhone) - ARM / Releases - Manjaro Linux Forum
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Ubuntu 20.10 Release Date & New Features (Updated) - OMG! Ubuntu! — Desktop lead Martin Wimpress has teased full Ubuntu desktop support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB), much to the delight of the Raspberry Pi fan base.
Linux 5.8 Released, This is What’s New - OMG! Ubuntu!
GNOME 3.38 Release Notes
Groovy Gorilla Release Notes
Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend - Phoronix
Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer - Phoronix — The Ubiquity installer user interface allows specifying the domain, administrator, and password as well as a test for the domain.
Feedback: ESXi Arm Fling
Pick: badblocks — badblocks is a program to test storage devices for bad blocks.

Linux Action News 159 Oct 18, 2020

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The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6.

Plus, our thoughts on Apple's seeming abandoning of CUPS, the latest and greatest open source podcast player, and an important show update.

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Plasma 5.20: One absolutely massive release — A massive release, containing improvements to dozens of components, widgets, and the desktop behavior in general.
KDE Plasma 5.20 is Here – And It's an Epic Update
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade — To mark the 20th anniversary of Apache OpenOffice, the project's main rival, LibreOffice, published a letter asking OpenOffice to tell its users to switch
Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux — The flaw resides in BlueZ, the software stack that by default implements all Bluetooth core protocols and layers for Linux. Besides Linux laptops, it's used in many consumer or industrial Internet-of-things devices. It works with Linux versions 2.4.6 and later.
Intel Blows the Coms Again
Greg K-H on Twitter — "They are now claiming you need a 5.10 kernel or newer to solve this. 5.10 will be released at the end of December 2020. Intel knows better, and knows how to do this properly, this feels malicious at this point..."
CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up — The open-source CUPS code-base is now at a stand-still. There was just one commit to the CUPS Git repository for all of 2020.
Has Apple abandoned CUPS?
LPC 2020 - Open Printing MC - YouTube
OpenPrinting News - September 2020
Antennapod 2.0 Released — AntennaPod version 2 released with a range of new features, bug fixes and improvements. Below you’ll find an extensive list of highlights, with each time the Pull Request ID.
AntennaPod
AntennaPod - Apps on Google Play
AntennaPod | F-Droid

Wrong About Pop! | LINUX Unplugged 375 Oct 14, 2020

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We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:44 Intro
0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:39 Plasma 5.20
7:50 Kernel 5.9
8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm
15:28 SPONSOR: Linode
18:54 Big News for Nebula
22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel
27:40 Housekeeping
29:31 Pop!OS Exit Interview
31:44 Pop!OS Full-Time Staff
34:49 Pop!OS: The Last Ten Percent
37:46 Pop!OS: A Very Unique Distribution
43:13 Pop!OS: Driving Hardware Sales
47:40 Pop!OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand
49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released
50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic
53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
56:16 Pick: Autotier
59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1
1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors
1:01:10 Outro
1:03:18 Post-Show

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Linux5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
Great News for Nebula
Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
Mobile Nebula on the App Store
LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
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Unplugged Core Contributors
Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
Feedback: TLP Magic
Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

Java Justice | Coder Radio 383 Oct 13, 2020

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We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

Plus we answer great feedback and chew on the future of Windows 10.

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record — After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.
The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux — The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. - Wikipedia
Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google — Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.
Oracle vs Google - Android chief Rubin quizzed over Java emails
Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name
The Mike Dominick Show Episode 39: Martin Wimpress of Canonical

Linux Action News 158 Oct 11, 2020

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NextCloud makes some significant changes, and we share our reaction; IBM is planning to split into two, but we have some questions, and Firefox may soon display sponsored "top sites."

Plus Nvidia's Jetson Nano release and the freaky future of low-level AI, and our thoughts on Coninbase's recent news.

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