LINUX Unplugged

There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years. Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live.Sponsored By:Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Creepy, fascinating demo gets inside a catTrouble at CopperheadOSKDE Plasma 5.13: Fast, Lightweight and Full Featured.Winepak Could Make it Easier to Install Windows Apps on Linux Acer Chromebook 13 & Chromebook Spin 13 will apparently support Linux apps at launch Mars Opportunity rover is in danger of dying from a dust stormDriving the Mars Rovers | Linux JournalJuly Content Launch is COMING SOON!Refer a friend contest starts today, June 11 and ends July 11, 2018Write for DOnationsHow to Verify Downloaded Files | DigitalOceanTexas LinuxFest: Where’s the Linux?frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be. Plus we’ve found a great batch of Linux apps you're going to want to try, NextCloud turns two, big changes to the KWin project, and the details on Samsung’s Chromebook Plus landing Linux app support.Sponsored By:Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Facebook made an AI that convincingly turns one style of music into anotherMicrosoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billionGitHub: Interest from Google and others, revenue about $300 millionMoving the pfSense® Documentation to GitHubHello, GitHub | @natfriedmanSeem like Atom will stay aliveThe Cost of Developers – Stratechery by Ben ThompsonHow To Use the GitLab One-Click Install Image to Manage Git Repositories | DigitalOceanHow To Install and Configure GitLab on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOceanStepping down as maintainerSamsung’s Chromebook Plus now supports Linux appsCelebrating 2 years NextcloudScoot Your Boots Down to Texas Linux Fest!Steam for Windows soaked in WINE and SnappedTrack Mania Nations Forever soaked in WINE and Snapped for LinuxOverload on GOG.comGiteaPulseAudio-dlnawtf: A personal information dashboard for your terminal.Learn more about the best Motorola phone around in our Moto G6 review

After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope. Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt networking, and our results from the best Linux laptop for 2018.Sponsored By:Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Anonymous Donor Pledges $1M Donation Over Two Years – GNOMEThunderbolt Networking on LinuxMajor Release Endless OS 3.4JB Telegram Texas GroupJB Texas Shirt! — For the first time JB will be present at Texas Linux Fest June 8 & 9. (Event info: https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/) We'd love to see as many of these shirts (or any other JB shirt) at the fest!​Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud2018 KDE Connect Development SprintBcachefs File-System Is Working On Going Upstream In The Linux KernelNetBSD Network Stack AuditslowmoVideo: Official slowmoVideo repositoryFedora 26 end of life approachingSome Of The Features Expected For Fedora 29SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics now officially supports Linux with a big updateDownloads - RED Digital CinemaThis 38-inch Curved Monitor from LG has a Ryzen CPU and Supports UbuntuDell Unveils New Ubuntu LaptopsBest Linux Laptop for 2018 - Results - Straw PollDom's List

What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week. Plus Gnome’s performance hackfest, Mycroft goes Blockchain, and what’s behind Tesla’s big GPL dump.Sponsored By:Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:JB Texas ShirtTennibot is a really cool Ubuntu Linux-powered tennis ball collecting robotTennibot: The World’s First Robotic Tennis Ball Collector by Tennibot — KickstarterCongratulations to Tesla on Their First Public Step Toward GPL Compliance - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom ConservancyRetro-inspired arcade racer Slipstream to release May 21st, developed on Linux | GamingOnLinuxBlockchain for Mycroft: Following up on our token discussionDon’t expect Ubuntu maker Canonical to IPO this year | TechCrunchshortcutdGnome Performance hackfestRust code in Qt and QML Nextcloud 13: How to Get Started and Why You Should | Linux JournalNotes for NextCloudQOwnNotes - cross-platform open source plain-text file notepadCloudNotes - ownCloud Notes on the App StoreBest Linux Laptop for 2018 - Straw Poll — POLL: Best Linux Laptop for 2018 Lenovo ThinkPad X270 ThinkPad X1 CarbonSystems Developed by and for Developers | DellOryx Pro - System76 LaptopsLibrem 15 – Purism2018 System76 Oryx Pro laptop giveaway | Opensource.com

The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out. Plus a fantastic batch of community news and updates, some cool tools, and we discuss if it’s time to give up the Qt or GTK purist lifestyle.Sponsored By:Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:ArchiveOSGNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Binary Apps from Nautilus general: Don't allow launching binaries or programs in generalDeep Dive: New bookmark sync in NightlySystem76 and the LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — tl;dr: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFSSystem76 Blog — System76 and LVFS - What Really Happened — Wednesday there was an unfortunate message posted from Richard Hughes regarding his firmware service.GS Connect as part of 18.10Trust and security in the Snap Store | Ubuntu blogMalware Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store — A pair of (seemingly normal) apps hosted by the Canonical-backed app hub were discovered to contain a сryptocurrency miner disguised as the “systemd” daemon.Plasma Sprint in Berlin | KDE.news — During the sprint, the Plasma team was joined by guests from Qt and Sway WM. Discussion topics included sharing Wayland protocols, input methods, Plasma Browser Integration, tablet mode for Plasma's shell, porting KControl modules to QtQuick, and last but not least, the best beer in Berlin.Example Ubuntu System ReportPurism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled - Phoronix — Intel politely asked Purism to remove this document which Intel believes may conflict with a licensing term. Since this post was informational only and has no impact on the future goals of Purism, we have complied. IArchive: Intel FSP reverse engineering: finding the real entry point! – PurismIs the "either all GTK or all Qt" mentality still relevant today?The Microsoft cyber attack | DW Documentary - YouTube

Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux. Plus a ton of app picks this week, community news, and more.Sponsored By:Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Wave-share: Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.Chrome OS is getting full-fledged Linux apps — Chrome, Android, and now Linux all together in one placeWho controls glibc? [LWN.net] — Toward the end of April, Raymond Nicholson posted a patch to the glibc manual removing a joke that he didn't think was useful to readers. The joke played on the documentation for abort() to make a statement about US government policy on providing information about abortions. As Nicholson noted: "The joke does not provide any useful information about the abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc". On April 30, Zack Weinberg applied the patch to the glibc repository.Microsoft's most popular SQL Server product of all time runs on Linux • The Register — SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft's most successful server product ever,Windows2usb: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux (MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS) — Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux (MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS)Cue the Cosmic Cuttlefish — If I had one big thing that I could feel great about doing, systematically, for everyone who uses Ubuntu, it would be improving their confidence in the security of their systems and their data. It’s one of the very few truly unifying themes that crosses every use case.Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git — Now, 14 years later, we have a few new kinds of magic to draw on, and perhaps Ubiquity NG could take advantage of them.stress-ng — stress-ng can stress various subsystems of a computer. It can stress load CPU, cache, disk, memory, socket and pipe I/O, scheduling and much more. stress-ng is a re-write of the original stress tool by Amos Waterland but has many additional features such as specifying the number of bogo operations to run, execution metrics, a stress verification on memory and compute operations and considerably more stress mechanisms.Castero: Command line podcast client — Command line podcast clientFedora Atomic Workstation becomes Team Silverblue [LWN.net] — we'd like to inform you about a rebranding effort for the Fedora Atomic Workstation that we (Fedora Atomic Workstation SIG) have initiated. The name we have chosen is "Team Silverblue".Red Hat kicks off 25th year summit with big IBM cloud deal | WRAL TechWire — IBM is expanding its partnership with Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), and moving more of its software portfolio to Red Hat’s application containers, the companies said at Red Hat Summit 2018, Tuesday.Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform | CoreOS — With the acquisition, Container Linux will be reborn as Red Hat CoreOS, a new entry into the Red Hat ecosystem. Red Hat CoreOS will be based on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and is expected to ultimately supersede Atomic Host as Red Hat’s immutable, container-centric operating system.Donnie Berkholz on Twitter: "“Red Hat CoreOS ... is expected to ultimately supersede Atomic Host.” —Follow the community. Good move. #rhsummit… " — “Red Hat CoreOS ... is expected to ultimately supersede Atomic Host.”What is Fedora Cloud? — Fedora Cloud provides few different images of Fedora Project which can be consumed in private and public cloud infrastructures. The following list contains the different kind of images available for the users.Cockpit Project — Cockpit Project — Cockpit is a server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux servers via a web browser.floccus – Add-ons for Firefox — Sync your browser bookmarks with Nextcloud Google Cloud Platform Blog: Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime — We’d like to introduce gVisor, a new kind of sandbox that helps provide secure isolation for containers, while being more lightweight than a virtual machine (VM). gVisor integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, making it simple and easy to run sandboxed containers in production environments.

Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever. Plus some important community news, some Darktable tips for beginners, and some select clips from this year’s LinuxFest Northwest. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Sponsored By:DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedTing: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Announcing the release of Fedora 28 — Fedora 28 Workstation has big news too. For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers. Fedora Atomic Host — This is our first release of Fedora 28 Atomic Host!What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation — Battery life on laptops running Fedora Workstation is improved with various hardware power-saving features now enabled by default. Google Just Forked a Popular GTK Theme — Not just any GTK theme but one forked from the Material Design inspired Adapta GTK theme.Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? — The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPFVoidLinux Serious Issues — The current project leader has disappeared. We have had no contact with him since the end of January.darktable 2.4.3 released | darktable — We’re proud to announce the third bugfix release for the 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.3!LFNW 2018 - Images | Brent Gervais Photography — Great photos from LinuxFest Northwest 2018Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Top 10 Major ChangesUbuntu Budgie 18.04 Official Flavor Debuts as First Long-Term Supported Version — Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS official flavor will be supported for three years, until April 2021, and ships with the latest Budgie Desktop 10.4 "Irish Summer" desktop environment by default, accompanied by GNOME 3.28 applications.Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver — GNOME Initial Setup was chosen for this job as we will be exploring how to integrate more features of the tool during the 18.10 cycle.

We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat. Plus the quiet shuttering of the Windows division inside Microsoft, and how they could help save Linux from Apple.Sponsored By:Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedTing: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:A Modular and Open Source Router is Being Crowdfunded — A company from the Czech Republic is trying to raise money to bring a modular and open source router to the public. It has a number of features that can’t be found in the current line up of routers available for purchase.Terminal app appears in Chrome OS Dev, hints at future Linux application support — More evidence of this feature has appeared in the Chrome OS Dev channel, as reported by several Reddit users. A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature. TBlloc | Back to the root — Blloc is a plain and minimalistic smartphone combining a power saving operating system with efficient hardware and an easy to use messaging platform, it’s built to be the perfect communication and productivity tool that you can rely on every day.The state of Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28 — The GNOME shell bits to enable Thunderbolt 3 support were merged some time ago and made it into 3.28. This means that the GNOME shell will act as authorization agent and will automatically authorize new thunderbolt 3 devices — if the user has administrator rights, is currently logged in and the session is unlocked. IRe-evaluating Ubuntu's Milestones — I do not believe there have been any -1s to this proposal from any flavor, nor from the Release Team, so I think it's time to move forward with it.Microsoft is ready for a world beyond Windows - The Verge — The first big clue about the OS’s future is that Microsoft’s “Windows and Devices Group” is now “Experiences & Devices,” and it includes Windows, Office, and Surface. Microsoft’s Office chief, Rajesh Jha, is now in charge of this entire division, with Joe Belfiore delegated to lead the Windows experiences.Microsoft reorg shakes up Windows group, Windows leader Terry Myerson departs | Ars Technica — The WDG is no more. The group is being split up. Windows chief Terry Myerson is leaving as Microsoft reorganizes — platforms. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and devices group, is leaving the company.Microsoft’s latest reorganization puts cloud over Windows | The Seattle Times — Microsoft's latest reorganization focuses on its cloud and productivity software technology.The End of Windows – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — And so we reach last week’s announcements: the Windows division is no more. It is an incredibly meaningful milestone, yet anticlimactic at the same time, thanks to Nadella’s careful management. It is worth noting, though, that Nadella had one critical ally in this journey: Wall Street.Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Stories — Moving forward, Rajesh Jha will expand his existing responsibilities to lead a new team focused on Experiences & Devices.The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak – Georges Stavracas — It almost feels like there’s a wall between the community and the users of what this community produces. Which is weird. We are an open community, with open development, no barriers for new contributors – and yet, there is such a distance between the community of users and the community of developers/designers/outreachers/etc.Progress on Plasma Wayland for 5.13 - subdiff — First of all support for screencasts had to be added to KWin and KWayland. This was done by Oleg Chernovskiy. KDE - KBackup - Backup Program — KBackup is an application that lets you back up any folders or files in a tar archive to a local folder, e.g. a locally mounted device like a ZIP drive, USB stick, etc. or a remote URL.Bionic Beaver - Kubuntu — The Plasma 5.12 LTS series is the default in this version of Kubuntu

Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement. Plus a bunch of community news, a string of app picks, and maybe even a concerned rant.Sponsored By:Linux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedTing: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Utopian - Rewarding Open Source ContributorsLinus Buzzkills 5.0 — But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You have been warned.gotop — A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning OS Gets New Massive Deployment BitTorrent Mechanism — However, one of the most interesting feature of the Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38 release is a new massive deployment mechanism based on the BitTorrent technology. fontfinder — A Google font browser for your GTK desktop, written in Rust Kdenlive in Paris — Our team will dedicate this time to discuss near and long term goals, review the application workflow with professional editors, work on the major 18.08 release and much more.Microsoft's Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows — Microsoft is creating here is Azure Sphere OS, a new operating system aimed at tiny MCU-based IoT devices that is based on Linux.Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure — Azure Sphere has three components. First is a new class of microcontrollers (MCUs) that supports seven critical hardware features that Microsoft says are a necessary foundation to build secure systems. These include support for unforgeable encryption keys protected by hardware, the ability to update system software, and hardware-enforced compartmentalization between software components. Galen Hunt at Microsoft Research — I am part of the launch team for Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies organization (MSR NExT). I am manager of the Operating Systems Technologies Group. The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices — Our group has begun a research agenda to bring high-value security to low-cost devices.

We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet. But we start with a bunch of important community news, including what looks like ZFS on Linux’s first major bug, the future of Elementary OS apps, and a proposal to revamp Ubuntu’s betas.Sponsored By:Ting: Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!DigitalOcean: Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounpluggedLinux Academy: Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:LinuxFest Northwest 2018 — LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at BTC. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!Disappearing files ZFS On Linux Bug — Data loss when copying a directory with large-ish number of files. For example, cp -r SRC DST with 10000 files in SRC is likely to result in a couple of "cp: cannot create regular file `DST/XXX': No space left on device" error messages, and a few thousand files missing from the listing of the DST directory. The offending commit — Trying to solve an issue for case insensitive filesystems They limited the attempts to expand the ZAP to 2, which is not enough. Valve's Pipe Has Something Linux in it... — We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yetNVIDIA will end 32-bit OS GeForce support this month — It will halt GeForce GPU driver support at the end of April, meaning users will lose access to new GeForce Experience features and game ready updates. Moreover, NVIDIA will end security updates by January 2019, so continuing to use your 32-bit OS with a GeForce card beyond that date could actually put it at risk.The New HandBrake is Great! — The HandBrake Team is pleased to present HandBrake 1.1.0. This major release includes new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements for issues affecting previous HandBrake releases. Plasma-Vault — Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults Offline Vaults for an extra layer of protectionLatte-Dock — Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoidsFalkon — Cross-platform Qt Web Browser