Podcasts about desktop environment

First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren't watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.

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This week, Linux Out Loud chats about what happens if our favorite DE goes away. Welcome to episode 62 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:13 More Monitors Please 00:09:24 Fulltime Linux 00:13:03 VR Gaming PC 00:23:12 Disappearing DE 00:38:44 Game of the Week 00:41:40 Nate going to SELF 00:43:14 New Linux Game 00:48:30 Close Find the rest of the show notes at https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/linux-out-loud/lol-62/ Our sponsor: - Linode - http://linode.com/tux - Bitwarden - http://bitwarden.com/tux Contact info Matt (Twitter @MattTDN (https://twitter.com/MattTDN)) Wendy (Mastodon @WendyDLN (https://mastodon.online/@WendyDLN)) Nate (Website CubicleNate.com (https://cubiclenate.com/))

What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth.

What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth.

Dr. Doug Milburn President and founder of 45 Drives joins the Ask Noah Show to talk storage with their lead storage architect Mitch Hall! -- During The Show -- 01:40 News Wire Red Hat OptaPlanner Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-build-optaplanner-now-available-red-hat-application-foundations) Kubescape SDX Central (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/) Kodi 20 Nexus Liliputing (https://liliputing.com/kodi-20-nexus-media-center-adds-support-for-av1-multiple-instances-of-add-ons-and-more/) GNU Cash 5.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/gnucash-5-0-accounting-software-promises-new-stock-transaction-assistant-more) Libvirt 9 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-9.0) Unity 7.7 Getting UnityX Tux Machines (http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/01/12/Unity_7_7_Desktop_Environment_to_Get_a_UnityX_Flavor_with_Wayla.shtml) Gnome 42.8 Ubuntu Free (https://www.ubuntufree.com/gnome-42-8-enables-atomic-mode-setting-for-nvidia-gbm-improves-wayland-and-amdgpu-support-9to5linux/) EndlessOS Endless OS (https://community.endlessos.com/t/beta-release-endless-os-5-0-0-beta2/19745) MX Linux 21.3 Beta (https://betanews.com/2023/01/15/mx-linux-213-wildflower-debian/) 6.0 Kernel EOL Linux Security (https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/linux-kernel-6-0-reaches-end-of-life-users-urged-to-upgrade-to-linux-6-1) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Sec Lists (https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/20) Kernel Branch to Remove MS RNDIS Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-disable-microsoft-rndis/) System76 Tease Notebook Check (https://www.notebookcheck.net/System76-teases-beefy-Pangolin-Linux-laptop-update-with-Ryzen-7-6800U.681856.0.html) System76 (https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser) ZSWatch GitHub (https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch) 03:50 45 Drives Interview Dr. Doug Milburn - President and Founder Mitch Hall - Lead Storage Architech What is 45 Drives, why did you start 45 Drives? Protocase (https://www.protocase.com/) Backblaze & Netflix Who is your target market? High performance clustering Video production/post production Government General file storage What is your value prop? Typically 1/5 the price Best performance No vendor lock-in Flexibility Expertise - source of knowledge Cloud vs On Prem Storage Cloud works for small data sets with a good "pipe" On Prem is cheaper and more practical for large data sets Why Commit to Open Source? Better model Only right to give back Huston UI Cockpit Modules Benchmark Navigator File sharing Identity ZFS Ceph deploy 45 Drives GitHub (https://github.com/45drives) 45 Drives Repo (ttps://repo.45drives.com/) Huston UI Terminal works GUI works How does 45 Drives Scale? 4 nodes minimum for Ceph Single server Linux & ZFS Can migrate from single server to ceph cluster Look forward Clustering vs Single Server How do you handle data integrity? Get rid of data zoo Harden root Raid - drive failure Off site back up - disaster recovery Snapshots - ransomware ZFS Send/Receive Company Culture I want to create a company I want to work at People are happy when they can contribute/help/serve people Business is a conduit for money Tackle anything but be upfront about capabilities/experience Provide excellent experience and service Customer decides success 45 Drives Cool or Wow Projects CA Wild Fire Project Brain Scanning High Performance Projects Changing the life of small projects -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/321) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they're excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

Also, you have 85 days to get rid of Teams; Discover receives a nice update; and Phosh is looking real promising.

Tyler and Matt discuss desktop environments.  Video version: https://youtu.be/pvz-0Vf_Z7g ===== Thanks to Our Patrons! ==== Tier 7 - Tux Level - Patrons Robert M. Tier 5 Patrons Syd A. Tier 5 Devon, Patrick, Fred, Kramer K., Tri-Devil Tier 4 Patrons Antoine, Unkle Bonehead, KB, Griffs Lounge Tier 3 Patrons Maeglin, Jackson Knife and Tool, Steve A, CyberGuyLinux, Garrick, Samuel, TGB, Keith,  Andy P., Gary A., neil neilypops, Porter Smith, Mike D.  Tier 2 Patrons Mitchel, Joris AKA JDawg, carbondated, Shaun, Jeremy, Odin, Martin, Eduardo S., archsinner, Elliott F., Mislav, eikefo Tier 1 Patrons Marek, Camp514, Joshua Lee, Peter, Crucible, Darkbadits6,  Primus, PM, rlocone, Phillip, Bjarke B., Bruce L. ===== Follow us

Tyler and Matt discuss Desktop Environments and Window Managers along with the news and our Thingies of the week. video version - https://youtu.be/oBOvnN3cHmY ===== Thanks to Our Patrons! ==== Tier 7 - Tux Level - Patrons Robert M. Tier 5 Patrons Syd A. Tier 4 Patrons Devon, Patrick, Fred, Kramer K. Tier 3 Patrons Maeglin, Jackson Knife and Tool, Steve A, CyberGuyLinux, Garrick, Samuel, KB, TGB, Keith,  Andy P. Tier 2 Patrons Mitchel, Joris AKA JDawg, carnondated, Shaun, Jeremy, Odin, Martin, Ross, Eduardo S., archsinner Tier 1 Patrons Marek, Camp514, Joshua Lee, Peter, Crucible, Darkbadits6,  Primus, PM ===== Follow us

On this episode of DLN Xtend we discuss what we see as problems in KDE Plasma. Welcome to episode 74 of DLN Xtend. DLN Xtend is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more. We also take topics from other shows around the network to give our takes. 00:00 Introductions 09:38 Topic- KDE Plasma 29:27 Host Related Interest 41:14 Wrap Up 42:05 Extras Host Related Interests Wendy - ENCODYA - https://www.gog.com/game/encodya - Minigalaxy - https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy Matt - Streets of Rage 4 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/985890/StreetsofRage_4/ Join us in the DLN Community: Discourse: https://discourse.destinationlinux.network/ Telegram: https://destinationlinux.org/telegram Mumble: https://destinationlinux.network/mumble/ Discord: https://destinationlinux.org/discord servers to continue the discussion! Contact info: Matt (Twitter @MattDLN) Wendy (Mastodon @WendyDLN@mastodon.online) Nate (cubiclenate.com)

On this episode of This Week in Linux, Linux Marketshare Hits 1% on Steam Hardware Survey. CodeWeavers announce the latest release of CrossOver 21.0. PulseAudio 15.0 has been released. We check out a new Desktop Environment with UnityX 10. There's some Linux Kernel this week with Paragon's NTFS Driver might make it into the kernel. In App News, we check out Latte Dock 0.10, Gerbera Media Server, and Cozy Audiobook Player. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: DigitalOcean ►► https://do.co/dln-mongo Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil163 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 163 01:12 = Linux Marketshare At 1.0% on Steam Survey 05:31 = CodeWeavers' CrossOver 21.0 Released 07:51 = PulseAudio 15.0 Released 10:52 = DigitalOcean: Managed MongoDB ( https://do.co/dln-mongo ) 12:01 = UnityX 10 Desktop Environment 15:05 = My Firefox Bookmarks Video 15:35 = Paragon's NTFS Driver + Linux Kernel 18:35 = Nest With Fedora Conference 19:36 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 21:34 = Latte Dock 0.10 Released 24:08 = Gerbera Media Server 1.9 26:04 = Cozy Audiobook Player App 27:15 = Linux Foundation Effort For Firefighter Safety 28:57 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

On this episode of This Week in Linux, Linux Marketshare Hits 1% on Steam Hardware Survey. CodeWeavers announce the latest release of CrossOver 21.0. PulseAudio 15.0 has been released. We check out a new Desktop Environment with UnityX 10. There's some Linux Kernel this week with Paragon's NTFS Driver might make it into the kernel. […]

FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance!BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Performance Observability (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-performance-observability/) Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (1/2) (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/advancebsd-thoughts-on-a-not-for-profit-project-to-support-bsd-1-2/) News Roundup Maintainership Change :: Lumina Desktop Environment (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-06-23/) Study the past if you would define the Future (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-07-01/) How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line (https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/) Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID" (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-COVID) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Jim - freebsd kde (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/Jim%20-%20freebsd%20kde.md) michal - zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/michal%20-%20zfs%20question.md) tim - lumina and snapshots (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/tim%20-%20lumina%20and%20snapshots.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of Distro News this week with an update to the Beta for elementary OS 6.0, we'll also check out the latest releases of Regolith Linux, Redcore Linux and Alpine Linux. We've also got some cool hardware news to talk about with an update from Pine64 and the IndieGoGo for the JingPad A1 has launched. Plus I've got a new mechanical keyboard to show you that I guarantee you will make you think "BUT WHY?" We've also got a new Desktop Environment to talk about this week called CuteFishDE. Later in the show, we've also some App News to check out. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil156 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 156 01:09 = Live Streams Are An Adventure :D 01:51 = elementary OS 6.0 Beta 2 Released 05:04 = JingPad: Consumer-Level Linux Tablet 12:25 = Windows 11 Leaked Builds 13:29 = Pine64 June Update 18:52 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 20:40 = CuteFish Desktop Environment 23:46 = Redragon K605 Alien Giant Keyboard 26:25 = ActivityWatch 0.11.0 Released 29:04 = ZombieTrackerGPS 1.08 Released 31:03 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 34:01 = Regolith Linux 1.6 Released 36:29 = Redcore Linux 2101 "Orion" Released 40:55 = Alpine Linux 3.14 Released 42:36 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

Dramatic Increase in Remote WorkforceWorking from home, or is it living at work?  Nearly everyone has been affected, either directly or indirectly, by the shift to remote work.Although remote work had been increasingly common, the pandemic caused a spike that has fundamentally altered attitudes by both employees and employers. FlexJobs.com reports that “a Gartner survey of company leaders found that 80% plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of the time after the pandemic, and 47% will allow employees to work from home full-time. In a PwC survey of 669 CEOs, 78% agree that remote collaboration is here to stay for the long-term. In a recent FlexJobs survey, 65% of respondents report wanting to be full-time remote employees post-pandemic, and 31% want a hybrid remote work environment—that's 96% who desire some form of remote work.” Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Harvey GreenCo-Host: Jirah CoxGuest: Adrian EscobedoGuest: Stephen Miller

On this episode of This Week in Linux, System76 made some waves when they announced their new COSMIC Desktop Environment. Slackware is back with a vengence ok not really with a vengence but Slackware did announce the Be..00ta version of Slackware 15.0. In addition to Slackware, we've also got some other great topics in Distro News this week with Manjaro 21.0, Zorin OS 16 Beta and we're even going to take a look at the latest release of FreeBSD. We've got some more Desktop Environment news with the release of LXQt 0.17 and JDE 2.0. Mailspring Email Client is back in the news with release 1.9 and we're continue the much beloved Legal News section with Xinuos Sueing IBM & Red Hat. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil147 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 147 01:26 = System76's COSMIC Desktop Environment 07:25 = Slackware 15.0 Beta Released 11:03 = LXQt 0.17 Released 13:19 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 14:48 = Manjaro 21.0 Released 19:31 = Zorin OS 16 Beta Released 24:30 = Mailspring 1.9 Email Client Released 29:08 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 31:48 = JDE 2.0 Desktop Released 33:53 = FreeBSD 13.0 Released 35:44 = Xinuos Sues IBM (SCO Case Related?) 43:58 = LLVM 12.0 Released 45:43 = Humble Bundles: Learn Python & More 47:29 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

Matt and Tyler talk about proprietary software on Linux and several other topics including OpenBSD, Crappy webcams, and PopOS's new Desktop Environment **What have we been up to Linux related this Week?** Tyler – Trying Linux / OpenBSD to see what can bring my Acer Aspire One netbook back to life. Matt – Struggling with lighting, crappy webcams, and the lack of good camera software on Linux. --- **Contact Info** Twitter: @thelinuxcast @mtwb  @OfficialZaney on LBRY , https://bit.ly/3dbqbjX on youtube. Subscribe at http://thelinuxcast.org Contact us thelinuxcast@gmail.com Patreon https://patreon.com/thelinuxcast http://facebook.com/thelinuxcast Subscribe on YouTube https://youtube.com/thelinuxcast ---  **Links (One each)** Matt -  [https://9to5linux.com/system76-unveils-cosmic-as-their-gnome-based-desktop-environment-for-pop_os-linux](https://9to5linux.com/system76-unveils-cosmic-as-their-gnome-based-desktop-environment-for-pop_os-linux) Tyler - [https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/](https://www.thedarkmod.com/main --- ### **Main Topic - Is Proprietary Software Garbage?** --- **Apps of the Week** Matt - Castero Tyler - Flameshot Time Stamps 0:00 Intro 1:07 Our Week in Linux 16:47 Contact info 18:17 News Links 32:56 Proprietary Software Good or Bad? 52:20 Apps of the Week 57:06 Conclusion

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project's Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS's return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation. Special Guest: Neil McGovern.

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation. Special Guest: Neil McGovern.

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation. Special Guest: Neil McGovern.

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Desktop Environment news with the latest release of Xfce with 4.16 and GNOME announced UX Changes Coming to GNOME 40. There's a lot of App News this week with releases for Kdenlive and Darktable, plus we'll check out some new apps such as NeoChat which is a new Matrix client frome the KDE team and a Markdown Editor called Zettlr. We've also got a bit of gaming news this week to check out, for example we got an ODROID powered Nintendo Switch like device and we've got some really interesting gaming updates to the Linux Kernel. Since this is the last episode of the year, you may have noticed the decorations. If you're li.stenting to the audio only edition of the show, this may be an episode you'll want to check out the video to see those decorations, It's quite festive. We've got all that and much more coming up right now on This Week in Linux! All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twinl131 00:00 = Welcome to This Week in Linux 131 01:09 = Special Christmas Intro for TWIL 01:15 = Destination Linux Going Live on January 3rd on DLNLive.com 02:23 = Xfce 4.16 Released 07:00 = Big Shell UX Changes Coming to GNOME 40 12:07 = ODROID-Go Super Portable Gaming Console 15:48 = Digital Ocean - VPS & App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 17:00 = Kdenlive 20.12 Released 21:28 = Darktable 3.4 Released 24:46 = NeoChat 1.0 the KDE Matrix client 27:30 = Zettlr: Markdown Editor for the 21st Century 29:39 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 31:46 = Steam Winter Sale 33:50 = Sony's Official PS5 Controller Linux Driver 35:18 = New Linux Kernel Port for Nintendo 64 37:49 = FrontPageLinux.com 38:46 = Outro Other Videos: 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo Linux Explained - How Some Distros Are Based On Other Distros: https://youtu.be/OWk3D6x64tk 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw Thanks For Watching! Linux #OpenSource #TechNews

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got some big Desktop Environment news with the latest release of Xfce with 4.16 and GNOME announced UX Changes Coming to GNOME 40. There’s a lot of App News this week with releases for Kdenlive and Darktable, plus we’ll check out some new apps such as… Read more

Following Episode 3 this episode answers some of the feedback received regarding ISO files. This link makes a similar point that I have made https://www.maketecheasier.com/how-to-move-from-windows-to-linux that you can use any Desktop Environment you wish for each Linux Distribution. Here Are links to the distros mentioned where you can download, burn, boot, and try. Linux Mint - https://www.linuxmint.com/ Linux Ubuntu - https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Feron OS - https://ferenos.weebly.com/get-feren-os.html Zorin - https://zorinos.com/ Ubuntu Certified Hardware List - https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop Remember,if you are either disabled or elderly you can ring AbiltyNet, a UKcharity, who can make visits to your home, if necessary, or ring you to help you. Their free-phone telephone number is 0800 048 7642. Their email address is enquiries@abilitynet.org.ukand their web address is www.abilitynet.org.uk. And it is all free-of-charge! You may also find in the area where you live a friendly computer club with people who are willing to help – talk to your local council.

Distrowatch reviews FuryBSD, LLDB on i386 for NetBSD, wpa_supplicant as lower-class citizen, KDE on FreeBSD updates, Travel Grant for BSDCan open, ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail, and more. Headlines Distrowatch Fury BSD Review (https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200127#furybsd) FuryBSD is the most recent addition to the DistroWatch database and provides a live desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. FuryBSD is not entirely different in its goals from NomadBSD, which we discussed recently. I wanted to take this FreeBSD-based project for a test drive and see how it compares to NomadBSD and other desktop-oriented projects in the FreeBSD family. FuryBSD supplies hybrid ISO/USB images which can be used to run a live desktop. There are two desktop editions currently, both for 64-bit (x86_64) machines: Xfce and KDE Plasma. The Xfce edition is 1.4GB in size and is the flavour I downloaded. The KDE Plasma edition is about 3.0GB in size. My fresh install of FuryBSD booted to a graphical login screen. From there I could sign into my account, which brings up the Xfce desktop. The installed version of Xfce is the same as the live version, with a few minor changes. Most of the desktop icons have been removed with just the file manager launchers remaining. The Getting Started and System Information icons have been removed. Otherwise the experience is virtually identical to the live media. FuryBSD uses a theme that is mostly grey and white with creamy yellow folder icons. The application menu launchers tend to have neutral icons, neither particularly bright and detailed or minimal. LLDB now works on i386 (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/lldb_now_works_on_i386) Upstream describes LLDB as a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built on top of LLVM/Clang toolchain, and features great integration with it. At the moment, it primarily supports debugging C, C++ and ObjC code, and there is interest in extending it to more languages. In February 2019, I have started working on LLDB, as contracted by the NetBSD Foundation. So far I've been working on reenabling continuous integration, squashing bugs, improving NetBSD core file support, extending NetBSD's ptrace interface to cover more register types and fix compat32 issues, fixing watchpoint and threading support. The original NetBSD port of LLDB was focused on amd64 only. In January, I have extended it to support i386 executables. This includes both 32-bit builds of LLDB (running natively on i386 kernel or via compat32) and debugging 32-bit programs from 64-bit LLDB. News Roundup wpa_supplicant is definitely a lower-class citizen, sorry (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=158068418807352&w=2) wpa_supplicant is definitely a lower-class citizen, sorry. I increasingly wonder why this stuff matters; transit costs are so much lower than the period when eduroam was setup, and their reliance on 802.11x is super weird in a world where, for the most part + entire cities have open wifi in their downtown core + edu vs edu+transit split horizon problems have to be solved anyways + many universities have parallel open wifi + rate limiting / fare-share approaches for the open-net, on unmetered + flat-rate solves the problem + LTE hotspot off a phone isn't a rip off anymore + other open networks exist essentially no one else feels compelled to do use 802.11x for a so called "semi-open access network", so I think they've lost the plot on friction vs benefit. (we've held hackathons at EDU campus that are locked down like that, and in every case we've said no way, gotten a wire with open net, and built our own wifi. we will not subject our developers to that extra complexity). KDE FreeBSD Updates Feb 2020 (https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/02/08/freebsd.html) Some bits and bobs from the KDE FreeBSD team in february 2020. We met at the FreeBSD devsummit before FOSDEM, along with other FreeBSD people. Plans were made, schemes were forged, and Groff the Goat was introduced to some new people. The big ticket things: Frameworks are at 5.66 Plasma is at 5.17.5 (the beta 5.18 hasn’t been tried) KDE release service has landed 19.12.2 (same day it was released) Developer-centric: KDevelop is at 5.5.0 KUserfeedback landed its 1.0.0 release CMake is 3.16.3 Applications: Musescore is at 3.4.2 Elisa now part of the KDE release service updates Fuure work: KIO-Fuse probably needs extra real-world testing on FreeBSD. I don’t have that kind of mounts (just NFS in /etc/fstab) so I’m not the target audience. KTextEditor is missing .editorconfig support. That can come in with the next frameworks update, when consumers update anyway. Chasing it in an intermediate release is a bit problematic because it does require some rebuilds of consumers. Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2020-February/001929.html) Hi everyone, The Travel Grant Application for BSDCan 2020 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend BSDCan through our travel grant program. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel expenses for attending conferences related to FreeBSD development. BSDCan 2020 applications are due April 9, 2020. Find out more and apply at: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/grants/travel-grants/ Did you know the Foundation also provides grants for technical events not specifically focused on BSD? If you feel that your attendance at one of these events will benefit the FreeBSD Project and Community and you need assistance getting there, please fill out the general travel grant application. Your application must be received 7 weeks prior to the event. The general application can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/QzsOMR8Jra0vqFYH2 Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail (https://dan.langille.org/2020/02/01/creating-a-zfs-dataset-for-testing-iocage-within-a-jail/) Be warned, this failed. I’m stalled and I have not completed this. I’m going to do jails within a jail. I already do that with poudriere in a jail but here I want to test an older version of iocage before upgrading my current jail hosts to a newer version. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 py36-iocage-1.2_3 py36-iocage-1.2_4 This post includes my errors and mistakes. Perhaps you should proceed carefully and read it all first. Beastie Bits Reminder: the FreeBSD Journal is free! Check out these great articles (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/browser-based-edition/) Serenity GUI desktop running on an OpenBSD kernel (https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1224205573656322048) The Open Source Parts of MacOS (https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos) FOSDEM videos available (https://www.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/bsd/) Feedback/Questions Michael - Install with ZFS (http://dpaste.com/3WRC9CQ#wrap) Mohammad - Server Freeze (http://dpaste.com/3BYZKMS#wrap) Todd - ZFS Questions (http://dpaste.com/2J50HSJ#wrap) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag.

Whether Linux is inherently secure, the next phase of online interaction, and wasting our free time. Plus where to focus your contributions, and a tricky hypothetical question. 00:00:53 Without security through obscurity, would Linux make for a more secure desktop than Windows etc? 00:08:19 #AskError: Would you rather be old and rich or young and poor? 00:18:37 What will the next form of social interaction online look like? 00:27:18 #AskError: If you had to choose between contributing to an Ubuntu flavour or the desktop environment it uses, which do you contribute to? 00:31:17 Do you need to structure your free time in order not to waste it?

Venkat Venkataraju principal software engineer from Yubico joins us this hour to share the exciting new features and functionality Yubico is bringing to the table! Project Links: Website: https://www.yubico.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Yubikey Github: https://github.com/yubico Twitter: https://twitter.com/yubico Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Yubico Project Links: Website: https://www.yubico.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Yubico -- Side Notes -- Gimp : https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/ Gnome : https://feaneron.com/2019/04/05/rewarding-our-friends-of-gnome/ Project Spotlight: The Shell: https://github.com/vicr123/theshell "theShell" is a GPL-3.0 licensed Desktop Environment written using the Qt toolkit for those wanting a simple desktop. theShell is only tested on Arch Linux. Your mileage may vary on other distributions. -- Calls -- Chaz - Ubuntu 19.04 NVidia Drivers Nathan - DMX Lighting Carey - Church Wifi Question -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/123) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

Adding glue to a desktop environment, flashing the BIOS on a PC Engine, revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer, An OpenBSD WindowMaker desktop, RealTime data compression, the love for pipes, and more. ##Headlines ###Adding Glue To a Desktop Environment In this article we will put some light on a lot of tools used in the world of Unix desktop environment customization, particularly regarding wmctrl, wmutils, xev, xtruss, xwininfo, xprop, xdotools, xdo, sxhkd, xbindkeys, speckeysd, xchainkeys, alttab, triggerhappy, gTile, gidmgr, keynav, and more. If those don’t make sense then this article will help. Let’s hope this can open your mind to new possibilities. With that in mind we can wonder if what’s actually needed from a window manager, presentation and operation, can be split up and complemented with other tools. We can also start thinking laterally, the communication and interaction between the different components of the environment. We have the freedom to do so because the X protocol is transparent and components usually implement many standards for interfacing between windows. It’s like gluing parts together to create a desktop environment. The tools we’ll talk about fall into one of those categories: Debugging Window manipulation Simulation of interaction Extended manipulation Hotkey daemon Layout manager ###Flashing the BIOS on the PC Engines APU4c4 I absolutely love the PC Engines APU devices. I use them for testing HardenedBSD experimental features in more constrained 64-bit environments and firewalls. Their USB and mSATA ports have a few quirks, and I bumped up against a major quirk that required flashing a different BIOS as a workaround. This article details the hacky way in which I went about doing that. What prompted this article is that something in either the CAM or GEOM layer in FreeBSD 11.2 caused the mSATA to hang, preventing file writes. OPNsense 18.7 uses FreeBSD 11.1 whereas the recently-released OPNsense 19.1 uses HardenedBSD 11.2 (based on FreeBSD 11.2). I reached out to PC Engines directly, and they let me know that the issue is a known BIOS issue. Flashing the “legacy” BIOS series would provide me with a working system. It also just so happens that a new “legacy” BIOS version was just released which turns on ECC mode for the RAM. So, I get a working OPNsense install AND ECC RAM! I’ll have one bird for dinner, the other for dessert. Though I’m using an APU4, these instructions should work for the other APU devices. The BIOS ROM download URLs should be changed to reflect the device you’re targeting along with the BIOS version you wish to deploy. SPECIAL NOTE: There be dragons! I’m primarily writing this article to document the procedure for my own purposes. My memory tends to be pretty faulty these days. So, if something goes wrong, please do not hold me responsible. You’re the one at the keyboard. ;) VERY SPECIAL NOTE: We’ll use the mSATA drive for swap space, just in case. Should the swap space be used, it will destroy whatever is on the disk. ##News Roundup Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer! Even though Cisco equipment is very capable, it tends to become End-of-Life before you can say “planned obsolescence”. Websites become bigger, bandwidths increase, and as a side effect of those “improvements”, routers, firewalls, and in this case, intrusion prevention systems get old quicker and quicker. Apparently, this was also the case for the Cisco IDS-4215 Intrusion Detection Sensor that I was given a few months ago. I’m not too proud to admit that at first, I didn’t care about the machine itself, but rather about the add-on PCI network card with 4 Fast Ethernet interfaces. The sensor has obviously seen better days, as it had a broken front panel and needed some cleaning, but upon a closer inspection under the hood (which is held closed by the 4 screws on top), this IDS consists of an embedded Celeron PC with two onboard Ethernet cards, a 2.5″ IDE hard disk, a CF card, and 2 PCI expansion slots (more on them later). Oh, and don’t forget the nasty server-grade fan, which pushed very little air for the noise it was making. ###An OpenBSD desktop using WindowMaker Since I started using N?X, I’ve regularly used WindowMaker. I’ve always liked the look and feel, the dock system and the dockapps. It may look a bit oldish nowadays. And that’s enough to try to change this. So here it is, a 2019 flavored WindowMaker Desktop, running on OpenBSD 6.4/amd64. This configuration uses the Nord color-scheme, the Adapta-Nokto-Eta GTK theme and the Moblin Unofficial Icons icon set. I did remove applications icons. I just don’t need them on the bottom of the screen as I heavily use “F11” to pop-up the windows list. To be able to do that and keep the dockapps, I tweaked my ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes and created a ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/Nord.themed/style. And here it is, the NeXT OpenBSD Desktop! ###RealTime Data Compression In a previous episode, we’ve seen that it is possible to create opaque types. However, creation and destruction of such type must be delegated to some dedicated functions, which themselves rely on dynamic allocation mechanisms. Sometimes, it can be convenient to bypass the heap, and all its malloc() / free() shenanigans. Pushing a structure onto the stack, or within thread-local storage, are natural capabilities offered by a normal struct. It can be desirable at times. The previously described opaque type is so secret that it has no size, hence is not suitable for such scenario. Fortunately, static opaque types are possible. The main idea is to create a “shell type”, with a known size and an alignment, able to host the target (private) structure. For safer maintenance, the shell type and the target structure must be kept in sync, by using typically a static assert. It will ensure that the shell type is always large enough to host the target structure. This check is important to automatically detect future evolution of the target structure. ###For the Love of Pipes My top used shell command is |. This is called a pipe. In brief, the | allows for the output of one program (on the left) to become the input of another program (on the right). It is a way of connecting two commands together. According to doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/, the origin of pipes came long before Unix. Pipes can be traced back to this note from Doug McIlroy in 1964 ##Beastie Bits Installation Notes for NetBSD/i386 0.9 Porting Zig to NetBSD - a fun, speedy port NNN - Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager Release v2.3 eta - A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process A FreeBSD User Tries Out…NetBSD 8.0 Faster vlan(4) forwarding? FuguIta - OpenBSD 6.4 Live System Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client HOWTO set up QEMU with HAXM acceleration on NetBSD README: gcc 7 switch coming to a port near you! ##BUG Calendar ChiBUG, Chicago, USA: Tuesday, February 26th 18:00 at the Oak Park Library CharmBUG, Baltimore, USA: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 19:30 at Columbia Ale House NYCBUG, New York, USA: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 18:45 at Suspenders KnoxBUG, Knoxville, USA: Monday, February 25, 2019 - 18:00 at iX Systems offices BSDPL, Warsaw, Poland: February 28, 2019 18:15 - 21:00 at Wheel Systems Office ##Feedback/Questions Sam - Customizing OpenBSD ports source code Frank - Rivalry Linux & BSD Zach - mysql/mariadb tuning Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag.

An interview with Ken Moore about the Lumina Desktop Environment.File Info: 28Min, 14MB.Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk244/bsdtalk244.ogg

This week on the show, it's all about Lumina. We'll be giving you a visual walkthrough of the new BSD-exclusive desktop environment, as well as chatting with the main developer. There's also answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Portscout ported to OpenBSD (http://blog.jasper.la/portscout-for-openbsd/) Portscout is a popular utility used in the FreeBSD ports infrastructure It lets port maintainers know when there's a new version of the upstream software available by automatically checking the distfile mirror Now OpenBSD porters can enjoy the same convenience, as it's been ported over You can view the status online (http://portscout.jasper.la/) to see how it works and who maintains what (http://portscout.jasper.la/index-total.html) The developer who ported it is working to get all the current features working on OpenBSD, and added a few new features as well He decided to fork and rename it (https://jasperla.github.io/portroach/) a few days later *** Sysadmins and systemd refugees flocking to BSD (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/2fgb90/you_have_your_windows_in_my_linux_or_why_many/) With all the drama in Linux land about the rapid changes to their init system, a lot of people are looking at BSD alternatives This "you got your Windows in my Linux (http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/you-have-your-windows-in-my-linux-249483)" article (and accompanying comments) give a nice glimpse into the minds of some of those switchers Both server administrators and regular everyday users are switching away from Linux, as more and more distros give them no choice but to use systemd Fortunately, the BSD communities are usually very welcoming of switchers - it's pretty nice on this side! *** OpenBSD's versioning schemes (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-version-numbers) Ted Unangst explains the various versioning systems within OpenBSD, from the base to libraries to other included software In contrast to FreeBSD's release cycle, OpenBSD isn't as concerned with breaking backwards compatibility (but only if it's needed to make progress) This allows them to innovate and introduce new features a lot more easily, and get those features in a stable release that everyone uses He also details the difference between branches, their errata system and lack of "patch levels" for security Some other things in OpenBSD don't have version numbers at all, like tmux "Every release adds some new features, fixes some old bugs, probably adds a new bug or two, and, if I have anything to say about it, removes some old features." *** VAXstation 4000 Model 90 booting NetBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLsgFPaMPyg) We found a video of NetBSD booting on a 22 year old VAX workstation, circa 1992 This system has a monstrous 71 MHz CPU and 128MB of ECC RAM It continues in part two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKzDXKmn66U), where we learn that it would've cost around $25,000 when it was released! The uploader talks about his experiences getting NetBSD on it, what does and doesn't work, etc It's interesting to see that such old hardware isn't necessarily obsolete just because newer things have come out since then (but maybe don't try to build world on it...) *** Interview - Ken Moore - ken@pcbsd.org (mailto:ken@pcbsd.org) The Lumina desktop environment Special segment Lumina walkthrough News Roundup Suricata for IDS on pfSense (http://pfsensesetup.com/suricata-intrusion-detection-system-part-one) While most people are familiar with Snort as an intrusion detection system, Suricata is another choice This guide goes through the steps of installing and configuring it on a public-facing pfSense box Part two (http://pfsensesetup.com/suricata-intrusion-detection-system-part-two/) details some of the configuration steps One other cool thing about Suricata - it's compatible with Snort rules, so you can use the same updates There's also another recent post (http://www.allamericancomputerrepair.com/Blog/Post/29/Install-Snort-on-FreeBSD) about snort as well, if that's more your style If you run pfSense (or any BSD) as an edge router for a lot of users, this might be worth looking into *** OpenBSD's systemd API emulation project (http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/14/09/08/0250207/gsoc-project-works-to-emulate-systemd-for-openbsd) This story was pretty popular in the mainstream news this week For the Google Summer of Code, a student is writing emulation wrappers for some of systemd's functions (https://twitter.com/blakkheim/status/509092821773848577) There was consideration from some Linux users to port over the finished emulation back to Linux, so they wouldn't have to run the full systemd One particularly interesting Slashdot comment snippet (http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5663319&cid=47851361): "We are currently migrating a large number (much larger than planned after initial results) of systems from RHEL to BSD - a decision taken due to general unhappiness with RHEL6, but SystemD pushed us towards BSD rather than another Linux distro - and in some cases are seeing throughput gains of greater than 10% on what should be equivalent Linux and BSD server builds. The re-learning curve wasn't as steep as we expected, general system stability seems to be better too, and BSD's security reputation goes without saying." It will NOT be in the base system - only in ports, and only installed as a dependency for things like newer GNOME (http://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/09/07/systemd-in-gnome-3-14-and-beyond/) that require such APIs In the long run, BSD will still be safe from systemd's reign of terror, but will hopefully still be compatible with some third party packages like GNOME that insist on using it *** GhostBSD 4 previewed (http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2014/05/19/preview-of-ghostbsd-4-0/) The GhostBSD project is moving along, slowly getting closer to the 4 release This article shows some of the progress made, and includes lots of screenshots and interesting graphical frontends If you're not too familiar with GhostBSD, we interviewed the lead developer (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_03_12-ghost_of_partition) a little while back *** NetBSD on the Banana Pi (http://rizzoandself.blogspot.com/2014/09/netbsd-on-banana-pi.html) The Banana Pi is a tasty alternative to the Raspberry Pi, with similar hardware specs In this blog post, a NetBSD developer details his experiences in getting NetBSD to run on it After studying how the prebuilt Linux image booted, he made some notes and started hacking Ethernet, one of the few things not working, is being looked into and he's hoping to get it fully supported for the upcoming NetBSD 7.0 They're only about $65 as of the time we're recording this, so it might be a fun project to try *** Feedback/Questions Antonio writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s28iKdBEbm) Garegin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21Wfnv87h) Erno writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2Fzryxhdz) Brandon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ILcqdFfF) ***

In this episode: a look at the Xfce Desktop Environment and alternative file managers to use with Xfce such as Emelfm2, Rox-filer, PCManFM, and the Gentoo file manager; two listener tips; listener feedback.