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title: Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users
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<figure class="intro-image intro-left"><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Octocat-640x532.jpg" alt="Cartoon mascot of a cat in an octopus costume, maybe."><p class="caption" style="font-size:0.8em">Octocat, the GitHub mascot. (credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="caption-link" href="https://github.com/">Github</a>)</p>  </figure><div><a name="page-1"></a></div>
<p>The significant change to GitHub announced today by <a href="https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/">CEO Nat Friedman</a> might be the first major change since <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/">Microsoft bought the company last year</a>: free accounts can now create private repositories.</p>
<p>GitHub has become the home for a huge number of open-source projects. Some of these are major, widely used projects such as the <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node">Node.js server-side JavaScript platform</a>, but many of them are small, personal projects, half-written programs, and experiments. These projects are typically open-source not because their authors have any particular desire to share them with the world but because GitHub gave them no choice: free GitHub accounts could only create public repositories.</p>
<p>As such, GitHub represented a trade-off: you could use GitHub's services for free, but you had to share. If you didn't want to share, you had to pay.</p>
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A free project that integrates support for the Exchange Web Service (EWS) into the Evolution email and calendar client


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Wouldn't you love to have MS SQL database server combined with the power, reliability, and security of Linux? It's easier than you thought. Let Jack Wallen show you how.


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Desktops come and go. But when one as beautiful as Deepin Desktop Environment 15.8 comes along, you realize the desktop can be equal parts art and functionality. Jack Wallen explains.


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Jack Wallen shows you how to get Vagrant up and running on the Ubuntu 18.04 platform, for easy VM deployment and development.


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If you've migrated to Fedora Desktop or Server and want to get up to speed with the DNF package manager, Jack Wallen gives you the basics.


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Installing Apache on Fedora Server can be frustrating if you don't know the right commands to run. Jack Wallen helps ease your suffering.


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If you're serving up websites from your Linux data center and using NGINX, you need to enable SSL for a more secure solution.


title: How ASLR protects Linux systems from buffer overflow attacks
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<p>Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems that guards against buffer-overflow attacks. It helps to ensure that the memory addresses associated with running processes on systems are not predictable, thus flaws or vulnerabilities associated with these processes will be more difficult to exploit.</p><p>ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems. It was first implemented on Linux in 2005. In 2007, the technique was deployed on Microsoft Windows and MacOS. While ASLR provides the same function on each of these operating systems, it is implemented differently on each one.</p><p>The effectiveness of ASLR is dependent on the entirety of the address space layout remaining unknown to the attacker. In addition, only executables that are compiled as Position Independent Executable (PIE) programs will be able to claim the maximum protection from ASLR technique because all sections of the code will be loaded at random locations. PIE machine code will execute properly regardless of its absolute address.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331199/linux/what-does-aslr-do-for-linux.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Forget IT -- this guy obviously belongs in sales!
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<p>This pilot fish is an IT team lead, and most of his software developers are fine -- but then there's Fred.</p><p>"He had been a mechanic, and had no real computer training," says fish. "He took a one-week programming class, and then somehow convinced an IT manager that he was a programmer and was hired.</p><p>"I had the honor of being Fred's lead. He knew nothing. Once, when he was having a problem, I told him to copy several lines of code into his program without changing any of them. When he came back and said that it still wasn't working, I found he had totally rewritten it into gibberish.</p><p>"When the project was about to be delivered to the testers, his code <i>still</i> wasn't working. Over the next week, I totally rewrote his code. At least he thanked me.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331158/it-careers/forget-it-this-guy-obviously-belongs-in-sales.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Apple wants to stop you from using dangerous USB-C devices
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<p>Apple wants to make it harder for its customers to use cheap USB-C cables — and it’s for your own good.</p><h2>The risks of USB-C cables</h2>
<p>Cables are complicated, and that’s why friends don’t let friends connect cut-price or otherwise unverified USB-C cables to their systems — and soon, you won’t be able to.</p><p>Apple has warned its users to avoid using low-quality equipment for years. It was only in 2016 that it was revealed that hundreds of chargers at that time sold on Amazon and advertised as being made by Apple were in fact <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3146362/apple-ios/friends-don-t-let-friends-buy-fake-apple-chargers.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">dangerous fakes</a>.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331161/security/apple-wants-to-stop-you-from-using-dangerous-usb-c-devices.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: IDG Contributor Network: 2019 CES: Anticipating a revolution that transcends personal devices
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<p>This year, there are a lot of moving parts regarding personal technology. First, we have the foldable screens coming to smartphones, which will likely migrate to other devices. Second, we are due for a major refresh on existing AR and VR technology, bringing both closer to the mainstream. Third, we have 5G ramping up shifting performance loads from the devices to the cloud. Fourth, we have deep learning replacing machine learning as the primary way we build AI. Fifth, we have the Apple watch, which, in its ultimate configuration, is basically a wrist-mounted smartphone. And finally, we have the disruptions associated with a weakening of Apple and Intel, opening the door for more innovation and some major changes in the existing technology power structure.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331279/consumer/2019-ces-anticipating-a-revolution-that-transcends-personal-devices.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Tech event calendar 2018-19: Upcoming shows, conferences and IT expos
author: Ken Mingis, Sharon Machlis
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    <input type="text" id="cwtablesearchbox" placeholder="Search the table below" size="35"/></p><h4>Tech Events</h4> 
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 <th>Description</th>
 <th>Starts </th>
 <th>Ends </th>
 <th>Location </th>
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  <tr><th><a title="RStudio Conference 2019" href="https://www.rstudio.com/conference" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RStudio Conference 2019</a></th>
<td>Hadley Wickham hosts this conference on all things R and RStudio aimed at helping attendees become better at data science with R.</td>
<td>2019-01-15</td>
<td>2019-01-18</td>
<td>Austin, TX</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="MWC Barcelona" href="https://www.mwcbarcelona.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MWC Barcelona</a></th>
<td>The original Mobile World Congress, now renamed MWC Barcelona, addresses a wide range of mobile topics, from AI to Digital Wellness, Digital Trust and connectivity in general.</td>
<td>2019-02-25</td>
<td>2019-02-28</td>
<td>Barcelona, Spain</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="RSA Conference USA" href="https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RSA Conference USA</a></th>
<td>Expert-led sessions, keynotes and seminars covering the latest cybersecurity developments.</td>
<td>2019-03-04</td>
<td>2019-03-08</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="SXSW" href="https://www.sxsw.com/conference/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SXSW</a></th>
<td>Covering everything from entertainment to entrepreneurship, this sprawling conference has tracks dedicated to Tech Industry &amp; Enterprise, Coding &amp; Development, Blockchain &amp; Cryptocurrency, Health &amp; Medtech, and VR/AR/MR.</td>
<td>2019-03-08</td>
<td>2019-03-17</td>
<td>Austin, TX</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Enterprise Connect" href="https://www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Enterprise Connect</a></th>
<td>Aimed at companies looking to upgrade or replace legacy systems or deploy and integrate next-gen communications and collaboration systems, services, apps and networks.

</td>
<td>2019-03-18</td>
<td>2019-03-21</td>
<td>Orlando, FL</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="AGENDA19" href="http://www.agendaconference.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">AGENDA19</a></th>
<td>Each year the focus of IDG's business leadership conference aligns with the most pressing business and technology issues of the day.</td>
<td>2019-03-18</td>
<td>2019-03-20</td>
<td>Ponte Vedra Beach, FL</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Atlassian Summit" href="https://www.atlassian.com/company/events/summit-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Atlassian Summit</a></th>
<td>Atlassian's annual user conference and biggest global event of the year. Aimed at helping companies transform how their teams work, and tout the company's latest innovations.</td>
<td>2019-04-09</td>
<td>2019-04-11</td>
<td>Las Vegas, NV</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Google Cloud Next " href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Cloud Next
</a></th>
<td>Google Cloud Next is where the company announces all the latest updates to the Google Cloud Platform. The conference also offers educational, networking and hands-on opportunities for its more than 10,000 attendees.</td>
<td>2019-04-09</td>
<td>2019-04-11</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Slack Frontiers 2019 (SF)" href="https://slackfrontiers.com/2019" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Slack Frontiers 2019 (SF)</a></th>
<td>At Frontiers, Slack shares best practices to help leaders and their teams create the right conditions for collaboration. You’ll explore how new ways of working through Slack can accelerate performance, bring bigger gains, and keep your organization competitive as you boldly chart the new frontiers of work.</td>
<td>2019-04-23</td>
<td>2019-04-25</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Facebook F8" href="https://www.f8.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Facebook F8</a></th>
<td>Facebook's F8 event is where the company touts the most innovative product developments in the works, with a focus on what developers need to know.</td>
<td>2019-04-30</td>
<td>2019-05-01</td>
<td>San Jose, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="VRX Immersive Enterprise 2019" href="https://events.vr-intelligence.com/enterprise/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VRX Immersive Enterprise 2019</a></th>
<td>The VRX event offers insights on how companies can navigate the IT and cultural challenges of adding mixed reality to enterprise workflows and processes.</td>
<td>2019-05-21</td>
<td>2019-05-22</td>
<td>Boston, MA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Computex Taipei" href="https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Computex Taipei</a></th>
<td>Based in Asia, this massive technology trade show and expo focuses on information and communications technology, supply chain and IoT ecosystems.</td>
<td>2019-05-28</td>
<td>2019-06-01</td>
<td>Taipei, Taiwan</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Microsoft Inspire" href="https://inspire.eventcore.com/auth/login" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Inspire</a></th>
<td>Microsoft's partner-centric tech conference.</td>
<td>2019-07-14</td>
<td>2019-07-18</td>
<td>Las Vegas, NV</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Black Hat USA" href="https://www.blackhat.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Black Hat USA</a></th>
<td>Four days of hands-on security training followed by the two-day main conference covering the information security research, development and trends.</td>
<td>2019-08-03</td>
<td>2019-08-08</td>
<td>Las Vegas, NV</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="MWC Americas" href="https://www.mwcamericas.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MWC Americas</a></th>
<td>MWC Americas focuses on how mobile is changing the world, with a look at areas such as innovation, policy, networks, media and entertainment and the coming "Fourth Industrial Revolution."</td>
<td>2019-10-22</td>
<td>2019-10-24</td>
<td>Los Angeles, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Dreamforce" href="https://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dreamforce</a></th>
<td>Annual conference for Salesforce customers, featuring keynotes, training, certification opportunities, hands-on demos, and more.</td>
<td>2019-11-19</td>
<td>2019-11-22</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="WWDC" href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WWDC</a></th>
<td>Apple's Worldwide Developers conference, where the company usually showcases updates to iOS and macOS.</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>San Jose, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Google I/O" href="https://events.google.com/io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google I/O</a></th>
<td>Google's annual developer conference offers in-depth sessions on the company's latest developer tools and provides a sneak peek at upcoming products.</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Mountain View, CA</td></tr> <tr><th><a title="Microsoft Build" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Build</a></th>
<td>Microsoft typically uses its annual developers' conference as a showcase for new products and technologies related to Windows and Azure. The event offers attendees hands-on workshops, demos, an expo hall, networking opportunities and more.</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td></tr></tbody></table></aside></div>
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title: Perfect, redefined
author: Sharky
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<p>It's the early days of big-iron computing, when IT is called Data Processing and this programmer pilot fish has a program that has apparently compiled perfectly.</p><p>Well, not exactly. "I had exactly 256 errors in my program," fish says. "The mainframe compiler software used to have only one byte for counting compiler errors. My program took the whole mainframe down -- several times!</p><p>"After they figured out that it was my compilation that took the mainframe down, I got called in to a meeting with my manager and the data center manager.</p><p>"I was told I could only compile my program on weekends, and only under the supervision of the data center manager and his top mainframe programmer!</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331184/application-development/perfect-redefined.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: In 2019, look for AI-enabled mobile devices – and a UEM push
author: Lucas Mearian
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<p>This year, artificial intelligence will continue its push into mobile hardware and enterprise communication devices, challenging IT shops' enterprise mobility management (EMM) capabilities while at the same time offering potential security benefits.<p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331197/enterprise-systems-management/in-2019-look-for-ai-enabled-mobile-devices-and-a-uem-push.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>(Insider Story)


title: Windows 10 1809 adoption remains in the cellar
author: Gregg Keizer
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<p>Microsoft's disastrous roll-out of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update was put into stark focus last week when published data showed its adoption was only an eighth that of its 2017 predecessor.</p><p>According to statistics gathered by AdDuplex, a Lithuanian company whose technology is embedded in thousands of Windows Store apps, Windows 10 October 2018 Update - <i>1809</i> in Microsoft's <i>yymm</i> labeling format - had been installed on just 6.6% of all Windows 10 systems by year's end.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3210805/microsoft-windows/windows-10-october-2018-update-key-enterprise-features.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Windows 10 October 2018 Update: Key enterprise features</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>That was a small fraction of the 53.6% powered by <i>1709</i> - Windows 10's second feature upgrade of 2017 - at the close of that year.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331283/microsoft-windows/windows-10-1809-adoption-remains-in-the-cellar.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Top 4 enterprise tech trends to watch in 2019
author: Michelle Davidson
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<p>If 2018 was the year of the data breach, the thinking among IT pros is that this will be the year companies take concrete steps to prevent future breaches.</p><p>That was the sentiment among tech professionals who took part in a recent <a href="https://twitter.com/IDGTechTalk" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@IDGTechTalk</a> Twitter chat about enterprise tech trends for 2019.</p><p>In fact, a recent <a href="https://twitter.com/IDGTechTalk/status/1075801722952540160" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@IDGTechTalk poll</a> found privacy and security to be the top enterprise tech issue for 2019 (45 percent), followed by artificial intelligence (30 percent), cloud computing (16 percent), and blockchain (9 percent).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331356/blockchain/top-4-enterprise-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2019.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Microsoft is yanking patches already. Make sure automatic update is disabled.
author: Woody Leonhard
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Patch Tuesday coming tomorrow, now’s a good time to make sure you have Windows Automatic Update throttled. Yes, you need to patch sooner or later. No, you don’t need to do it in lockstep with Microsoft’s, uh, exuberant pace.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Case in point: On Jan. 3, Microsoft released 14 non-security Office patches. (Those are patches for the “perpetual” installed “MSI” versions of Office, not the Office 365 Click-to-Run versions. You gotta love the terminology.) The bug fixes covered a range of bugs, most notably including errors in the way Japanese dates are displayed.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few hours later, the Japanese-language blogs </span><a href="https://www.askwoody.com/2019/microsoft-yanks-buggy-office-2010-non-security-patches/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">erupted with reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that four of the new patches — the ones for Office 2010 — caused Excel to throw a Stop error when it was opened. The bad patches:</span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331304/microsoft-windows/microsoft-is-yanking-patches-already-make-sure-automatic-update-is-disabled.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: IDG Contributor Network: How Microsoft lost the wireless smartphone wars
author: Jeff Kagan
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<p>Why, if Microsoft is such a successful company, has it failed in wireless and smartphones over the last decade? Sure, they still lead in operating system wars with Windows and software like Word, but that may have as much to do with lack of real competition than the more important customer satisfaction. So why has the company having so many problems in wireless?</p><p>If we pull the camera back, we can see the wireless and smartphone wars have claimed many victims over the last decade or two. Ten years ago, the smartphone space was led by Blackberry and Nokia. Ten years before that it was Motorola. All have now fallen to the bottom of the list as Apple iPhone and Google Android entered and rapidly grew.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331139/microsoft/how-microsoft-lost-the-wireless-smartphone-wars.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: CES 2019: Apple’s other trade show
author: Jonny Evans
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<p>One week into 2019, and Apple just plugged the news gap with a series of major announcements that put it at the center of a trade show event it doesn’t even exhibit at: CES 2019.</p><h2><strong>What stays on iPhone</strong></h2>
<p>The first warning that 2019 won’t be like every other Consumer Electronics Show came when Twitter was set ablaze with news of Apple’s well-targeted attack ad on the outskirts of the show.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3318243/apple-mac/apples-place-is-in-the-enterprise.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Apple's place is in the enterprise</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>The ad — a <a href="http://fortune.com/2019/01/07/ces-2019-apple-ad-amazon-google/?utm_source=fortune.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=data-sheet&amp;utm_content=2019010712pm&amp;eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%2266bgN3S%2b%2f%2bRezlvxH2PlgqyTrkkPMrpS%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22FO%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22FO_DTA_CF970E1E-B890-456B-B147-251B8A5FF028%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2256962924%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22934368%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22DATA_SHEET%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22201642379%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">huge 13-story black billboard</a> — is emblazoned with the slogan:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331140/apple-ios/ces-2019-apple-s-other-trade-show.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: BrandPost: End Users are Speaking: It’s IT’s Turn to Listen
author: Brand Post
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<p>There’s a quiet crisis throttling productivity, frustrating end users, and vexing IT leaders: Workers aren’t getting what they need from IT to do their jobs. They’re frustrated, avoiding IT, and becoming less engaged with their work.</p><p>The good news is this crisis can be quelled with some simple steps like listening more, asking the right questions, and focusing on the ends — the business objectives — to deploy the means — technology — to empower workers.</p><p>This challenge has become acute thanks to a confluence of trends: digital transformation and changing workforce demographics. Digital transformation has solidified the importance of mobility — with mobile technologies and cloud computing, we work anywhere, anytime. Work isn’t a place: It’s what we do. As younger workers — Millennials, Gen-Z especially — flex their muscles in the workplace, IT leaders face a new set of challenges.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331170/it-industry/end-users-are-speaking-it-s-it-s-turn-to-listen.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Blockchain craze helps push up related salaries
author: Lucas Mearian
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<p>Salaries for blockchain developers are up again, with annual pay soaring by more than $4,000 over the past six months for those in the highest bracket. And the rush to embrace distributed ledger technology is also pushing pay up for related jobs, according to <a href="https://www.e-janco.com/salary.htm" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">a new report</a>.</p><p>The median annual salary for a blockchain developer is now $132,000, with experienced workers commanding upwards of $176,000 a year when they move to new organizations, according to Janco Associates, a management consulting firm that conducts regular salary surveys and updates its report biannually. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331678/blockchain/blockchain-craze-helps-push-up-related-salaries.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Can't stay, gotta fly!
author: Sharky
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<p>This sysadmin works for a non-profit organization on the West Coast, and he keeps strict office hours, reports a pilot fish in the know.</p><p>"He comes in at roughly 10 AM and is out the door at about 2 PM," fish says. "How he's managed to stay so long, we don't know.</p><p>"When his colleagues ask, 'What are you doing in the early morning and most of the afternoon?' he indignantly replies, 'Working from home!'</p><p>"One of his fellow sysadmins has a different explanation: 'He's well-traveled. In the morning he flies in on Alaska time, and in the afternoon he flies out on Florida time.'"</p><p style="font-size: 0.875em;"><strong>Help keep Sharky flying</strong> <i>by sending me your true tale of IT life at <a href="mailto:sharky@computerworld.com" rel="nofollow">sharky@computerworld.com</a>. You can also comment on today's tale at <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113252326043973101081" rel="nofollow"><strong>Sharky's Google+ community</strong></a>, and read thousands of great old tales in the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/search?query=+sharky&amp;s=d&amp;start=0" title="Sharky's archives on easier-to-navigate pages"><strong>Sharkives</strong></a>.</i></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331840/it-industry/cant-stay-gotta-fly.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Microsoft spins off security, compliance bits from Microsoft 365's priciest plan for E3 customers
author: Gregg Keizer
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<p>Microsoft has introduced two add-on plans for corporate customers currently relying on the not-all-of-the-kitchen-sink Microsoft 365 E3 subscription.</p><p>The new deals: "Identity &amp; Threat Protection" and "Information Protection &amp; Compliance." They will be available for purchase as of Feb. 1.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Related: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199247/microsoft-office/microsoft-cheat-sheets-dive-into-windows-and-office-apps.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Microsoft cheat sheets: Dive into Windows and Office apps</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>Although Microsoft didn't say it in so many words, both will be aimed at businesses already subscribing to the $34 per-user per-month Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 plan.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331897/microsoft-windows/microsoft-spins-off-security-and-compliance-bits-from-microsoft-365s-priciest-plan-to-upsell-e3-cus.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: After Apple's guidance revision, time to focus on enterprise
author: Ryan Faas
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<p>To say Apple's <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">statement to investors</a> revising its quarterly guidance <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3330584/mobile-wireless/apple-s-big-miss-it-s-time-to-stop-messing-around.html">got a lot of attention in the tech industry</a> would be an understatement. The statement, which largely focused on iPhone sales in China as a major reason for missing revenue expectations by billions of dollars, quickly became one of the bigger tech and business stories of the new year.<p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331171/apple-mac/after-apples-guidance-revision-time-to-focus-on-enterprise.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>(Insider Story)


title: Microsoft tries to take on the Chromebook once more
author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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<p>If I were in charge of Microsoft, besides fully embracing <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Linux for the desktop</a>, I’d give up on trying to challenge Google’s Chromebooks with lightweight versions of Windows. It hasn’t worked before, and it won’t work now.</p><p>But I’m not in charge of Windows. Indeed, since <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3267577/microsoft-windows/scottgu-we-need-you-please-unscrew-windows.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Terry Myerson was shown the door in March 2018</a><u>,</u> no one in Microsoft’s mahogany row has represented Windows. That lack of top leadership may be why <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3312796/microsoft-windows/what-the-heck-is-it-with-windows-updates.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Windows quality assurance hit new lows </a>with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331920/microsoft-windows/microsoft-tries-to-take-on-the-chromebook-once-more.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Apple has a chance to transform enterprise communications
author: Jonny Evans
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<p>Apple at CES is making its <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3331140/apple-ios/ces-2019-apple-s-other-trade-show.html">consumer-related pitch clear</a>, but if it wants to put <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3330584/apple-s-big-miss-it-s-time-to-stop-messing-around.html">even more life</a> into its <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3326550/apple-discusses-its-approach-to-enterprise-it.html">enterprise sales</a>, it must make FaceTime and iMessage more compatible with other platforms to support next-generation enterprise communications.</p><h2><strong>Enterprises speak to customers</strong></h2>
<p>Enterprises speak to their customers, and while enterprises are certainly (and appropriately) adopting Apple’s solutions across their internal infrastructure, they must still communicate with customers who may be using other platforms.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331939/mobile-wireless/apple-has-a-chance-to-transform-enterprise-communications.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: 7 Android trends to watch in 2019
author: JR Raphael
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<p>Nobody panic, but I'm pretty sure there's been a glitch in the matrix.</p><p>My calendar insists it's 2019, y'see, but my brain is fairly certain that can't be possible. I mean, c'mon: Did another year somehow slip by us already? Has my holiday hibernation time actually come to an end? Are we really, truly at the start of a whole new orbit around that hot, boastful sun of ours?</p><p>Truth be told, I'm pretty skeptical — but until I wake up and determine this is a dream, I reckon we oughta go ahead and act like a new year has begun. And that means it's time to think ahead to the themes and trends we're likely to see taking shape here in the land o' Android over these next 12 months.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331896/android/android-trends-2019.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10: A guide to the updates
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>The launch of a big Windows 10 update like the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3307851/review-windows-10-october-2018-update-delivers-modest-but-useful-tweaks.html">October 2018 Update</a> isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as a major update is released, Microsoft quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features.</p><p>Here we’ve summarized what you need to know about every Windows 10 update being released to the public. First come updates to the currently shipping version of Windows 10 — version 1809, known as the October 2018 Update — with the most recent updates on top. (Note that the October 2018 Update is on a phased rollout, so you may not have received it yet.) Below that are updates to version 1803, known as the April 2018 Update; 1709, known as the Fall Creators Update; and finally updates to version 1703, known as the Creators Update. For each build, we’ve included the date of its initial release and a link to Microsoft’s announcement about it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3199077/microsoft-windows/windows-10-a-guide-to-the-updates.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Office 365: A guide to the updates
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>Office 365 subscribers always have the latest version of Microsoft Office — currently Office 2016. They also get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office 2016 without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing this for you, so you don’t have to.</p><p>Following are key updates to Office 365 for Windows since Office 2016 was released in September 2015 — all the 2017 updates and the most important ones from 2016 and late 2015, with the latest releases shown first. We’ll add info about new updates as they’re rolled out.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3205187/enterprise-applications/office-365-a-guide-to-the-updates.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10 1903 to seize 7GB of user storage space for smoother upgrades
author: Gregg Keizer
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<p>Windows 10's next feature upgrade will commandeer 7GB of a personal computer's storage space to better ensure updates are properly processed, Microsoft announced Monday.</p><p>The drive space, dubbed "Reserved storage," will be set aside starting with what Microsoft will likely name "Windows 10 April 2019 Update" and mark as <i>1903</i> in its four-character <i>yymm</i> label. The feature upgrade may begin distribution in March or April.</p><aside class="fakesidebar"><strong>[ Further reading: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3199125/microsoft-windows/top-30-free-apps-for-windows-10.html#tk.ctw-infsb">Top 35 free apps for Windows 10</a> ]</strong></aside>
<p>"Our goal is to improve the day-to-day function of your PC by ensuring critical OS functions always have access to disk space," Jesse Rajwan, a program manager in the storage and file systems group, said in a Jan. 7 <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2019/01/07/windows-10-and-reserved-storage/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">post to a company blog</a>.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331979/microsoft-windows/windows-10-1903-to-seize-7gb-of-user-storage-space-for-smoother-upgrades.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Mingis on Tech: As blockchain hype cools, a 'trough of disillusionment' for 2019?
author: Ken Mingis
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<p>Ok, so maybe blockchain isn't ready yet to become the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3191077/security/what-is-blockchain-the-most-disruptive-tech-in-decades.html">biggest new technology since the internet</a>.</p><p>But the distributed ledger technology clearly made strides in 2018, when it was embraced by companies <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3309042/blockchain/walmart-sams-club-tell-suppliers-to-get-on-blockchain-network.html">from Walmart</a> to <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3247758/emerging-technology/maersk-ibm-create-worlds-first-blockchain-based-electronic-shipping-platform.html">shipping bigwig Maersk</a> to top tech venders like IBM, SAP, Oracle and <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3321927/emerging-technology/microsoft-launches-blockchain-development-kit.html">Microsoft</a> who see <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3290246/blockchain/oracle-rolls-out-its-own-blockchain-service.html">potential in blockchain-as-a-service</a>. (Walmart's vice president in charge of food safety, Frank Yiannas, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3309656/emerging-technology/qa-walmarts-frank-yiannas-on-the-use-of-blockchain-for-food-safety.html">compared his embrace of blockchain</a> to a "religious conversion.")</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331843/blockchain/mingis-on-tech-as-blockchain-hype-cools-a-trough-of-disillusionment-for-2019.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Details, details
author: Sharky
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<p>It's a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.</p><p>"They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server," fish says. "It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university."</p><p>The team's first job is <i>finding</i> the server -- which turns out to be in the alumni office -- and taking it offline.</p><p>Then they start digging into the security logs. That's when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.</p><p>And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it's not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331904/security/details-details.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Patch Tuesday updates for Win7, KB 4480970 and KB 4480960 knock out networking
author: Woody Leonhard
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s Reboot Wednesday (the day following Microsoft's Patch Tuesday) and, like roses unto spring, bugs are starting to crawl out of the woodwork. This time, if you have a network that uses SMBv2, this month’s Win7 patches may knock your network upside the head.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I first read about it on </span><a href="https://borncity.com/win/2019/01/09/netzwerk-issues-with-updates-kb4480970-and-kb4480960/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Günter Born’s site</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p><blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup) and KB4480960 (Security only) updates were released by Microsoft on January 8, 2018 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The updates seem to cause serious network issues for some people. Network shares can no longer be achieved via SMBv2 in certain environments.</span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3332202/microsoft-windows/patch-tuesday-updates-for-win7-kb-4480970-and-kb-4480960-knock-out-networking.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Enterprise iPhones will soon be able to use security dongles
author: Jonny Evans
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<p>Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.</p><h2><strong>A highly secure proposition</strong></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.yubico.com/2019/01/yubico-launches-the-security-key-nfc-and-a-private-preview-of-the-yubikey-for-lightning-at-ces-2019/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Announced at CES 2019</a>, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3332204/security/enterprise-iphones-will-soon-be-able-to-use-security-dongles.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: IDG Contributor Network: A great start to patching in 2019
author: Greg Lambert
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<p>After a busy year of patches and real challenges to the quality of the update process, Microsoft has delivered a “mild” January Patch Tuesday that addresses 47 unique vulnerabilities. This month, we have one publicly reported vulnerability (<a href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0579" rel="nofollow">CVE-2019-0579</a>) that addresses a problem with the Microsoft<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine" rel="nofollow"> JET</a> engine. No critical updates for Adobe (really!) and a “Patch Now” rating for the Microsoft IE and Edge browser updates. In addition to the normal security and quality updates released this month, Microsoft has published its latest Servicing Stack Update (<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/824684/description-of-the-standard-terminology-that-is-used-to-describe-micro" rel="nofollow">SSU</a>) with<a href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV990001" rel="nofollow"> ADV990001</a> which applies to Windows 10 (all releases), Server 2008 and Server 2016.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3331925/patch-management/a-great-start-to-patching-in-2019.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Microsoft upgrades Teams mobile app to woo frontline workers
author: Matthew Finnegan
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<p>Microsoft has <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/01/09/3-new-ways-microsoft-teams-empowers-firstline-workers-to-achieve-more/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">added a raft of updates to its Teams collaboration tool</a> in a bid to win over “first-line” workers such as retail, healthcare and service staffers. The additions include new mobile app functions, integrations with third-party scheduling apps and an employee “praise” tool.</p><p>Microsoft claims there are more than two billion frontline staff globally – a segment of workers that has received less attention than knowledge workers, who have access to a plethora of digital tools to support workplace communications and productivity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3332149/collaboration/microsoft-upgrades-teams-mobile-app-to-woo-frontline-workers.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10 Redstone: A guide to the Insider Preview builds
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3307851/review-windows-10-october-2018-update-delivers-modest-but-useful-tweaks.html">Windows 10 October 2018 Update</a> (version 1809) started to roll out, the company began work on the next major update to Windows 10, due to be released next spring. As it did with the October 2018 Update, Microsoft has been releasing a series of public preview builds to members of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3014600/microsoft-windows/how-to-handle-windows-10-updates.html?page=2#toc-4">Microsoft's Windows Insider Program</a>.</p><p>After years of using "Redstone" in its code names, Microsoft is changing it up with the next release, which is code-named "19H1" (for 2019, first half) rather than "Redstone 6." What follows is a list of every preview build of Windows 10 19H1 that has been rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring, starting with the most recent. For each build, we've included the date of its release, a summary of what’s in the build and a link to Microsoft's announcement about it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3118132/microsoft-windows/windows-10-redstone-a-guide-to-the-insider-preview-builds.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


title: Windows 10 quick tips: How to share a single PC
author: Preston Gralla
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<p>Two or more people sharing one PC for work sounds like a recipe for disaster. Do you really want a co-worker to read, edit and delete your files and folders; use or delete your applications; or make system-wide customizations?</p><p>In some offices, however, computers need to be shared between two or more workers, or handed off to a temporary worker — without being completely wiped each time. And Windows 10 has great tools for allowing multiple people to share a single PC without any of those problems. In this piece, I'll show you what to do.</p><p><em>This article has been updated for the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3307851/review-windows-10-october-2018-update-delivers-modest-but-useful-tweaks.html">Windows 10 October 2018 Update</a> (version 1809). If you have an earlier release of Windows 10, some things may be different.</em></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3046707/microsoft-windows/windows-10-quick-tips-how-to-share-a-single-pc.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here</a></p></section></article>


guid: https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/1/open-leaders-and-privacy-guide
title: Should open leaders expect to have privacy?
author: arobertson98
url: https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/1/open-leaders-and-privacy-guide
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/privacy.jpg" width="520" height="292" /><p>As the annual Defcon conference <a href="https://defcon.org/">kicked off in Las Vegas this year</a>, I followed its social media accounts full of reminders that if someone wants to find data that you've shared online, that data is findable. Those pictures on your "private" Instagram and those snaps that "disappear" aren't digital secrets. Keeping the parts of our lives that we want to remain private <em>offline </em>is something we must consciously consider.</p>

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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/basic-live-video-streaming-server
title: Create your own video streaming server with Linux
author: RicePRISKYtreat
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/basic-live-video-streaming-server
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
base: https://opensource.com/frontpage
content:
<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/shortcut_command_function_editing_key.png" width="520" height="293" alt="hot keys for shortcuts or features on computer keyboard" title="hot keys for shortcuts or features on computer keyboard" /><p>Live video streaming is incredibly popular—and it's still growing. Platforms like Amazon's Twitch and Google's YouTube boast millions of users that stream and consume countless hours of live and recorded media. These services are often free to use but require you to have an account and generally hold your content behind advertisements. Some people don't need their videos to be available to the masses or just want more control over their content. Thankfully, with the power of open source software, anyone can set up a live streaming server.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/hacking-math
title: Hacking math education with Python
author: Don Watkins
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/hacking-math
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/getting_started_with_python.png" width="643" height="361" alt="Raspberry Pi and Python" title="Raspberry Pi and Python" /><p>Mathematics instruction has a bad reputation, especially with people (like me) who've had trouble with the traditional approach, which emphasizes rote memorization and theory that seems far removed from students' real world.</p>

<p>While teaching a student who was baffled by his math lessons, <a href="https://twitter.com/hackingmath" target="_blank">Peter Farrell</a>, a Python developer and mathematics teacher, decided to try using Python to teach the boy the math concepts he was having trouble learning.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/best-raspberry-pi
title: Top 10 Raspberry Pi stories of 2018
author: ben_nuttall
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/best-raspberry-pi
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/edu_raspberry-pi-classroom_lead.png" width="518" height="292" alt="kids in a classroom learning about Raspberry Pi programming" title="kids in a classroom learning about Raspberry Pi programming" /><p>2018 was a great year for Raspberry Pi .</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/weekly-top-10-january-6
author: Rikki Endsley
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/weekly-top-10-january-6
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title:
Kubernetes for data scientists, Linux philosophy, troubleshooting hardware problems, Python, and more

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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/top-10-faces.png" width="520" height="292" /><p>An article inspired by a <a href="https://opensource.com/tags/kubecon" target="_blank">KubeCon</a> North America 2018 conference talk was our biggest hit last week. Read on to see our round up of top 10 articles.</p>

<p>Would you like to get started writing for Opensource.com in the new year? It's easy. Drop us a note with your article idea and outline:  <a href="mailto:open@opensource.com">open@opensource.com</a>.</p>

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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/cacophony-project
title: Taking machine learning to the birds
author: clare
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/cacophony-project
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/music-birds-recording-520.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Bird singing and music notes" title="Bird singing and music notes" /><p>The <a href="https://cacophony.org.nz" target="_blank">Cacophony Project</a>'s broad vision is to bring back New Zealand's native birds using the latest technology to monitor bird populations and humanely eliminate the introduced predators that are endangering them.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/now-available-open-source-guide-devops-security
title: Now available: The open source guide to DevOps security
author: jhibbets
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/now-available-open-source-guide-devops-security
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/devsecops_getting_started.png" width="520" height="292" alt="Getting started with DevSecOps" title="Getting started with DevSecOps" /><p>The journey to DevOps security, also known as DevSecOps, begins with education, enablement, and empowerment. We've put together this guide to help you get started.</p>
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title: Automating deployment strategies with Ansible
author: jairojunior
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/automating-deployment-strategies-ansible
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
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content:
<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/innovation_lightbulb_gears_devops_ansible.png" width="520" height="292" alt="gears and lightbulb to represent innovation" title="gears and lightbulb to represent innovation" /><p>When you examine your technology stack from the bottom layer to the top—hardware, operating system (OS), middleware, and application—with their respective configurations, it's clear that changes are far more frequent as you go up in the stack. Your hardware will hardly change, your OS has a long lifecycle, and your middleware will keep up with the application's needs, but even if your release cycle is long (weeks or months), your applications will be the most volatile.</p>

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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/inkscape-cheat-sheet
title: Get the Inkscape cheat sheet for advanced graphics editing
author: Jason van Gumster
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/inkscape-cheat-sheet
feedurl: https://opensource.com/feed
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/cheatsheet.png" width="1040" height="584" alt="Cheat sheet general image" title="Cheat sheet general image" /><p>Two-dimensional graphics applications come in two main flavors: those that create and manipulate arrays of pixels (raster images) and those that work with more procedural elements that describe graphical information, points and curves (vector images). Because the latter of the two deals with a more abstract, mathematical representation, vector images are not subject to the quality variations and fuzziness that can come with raster images. This makes them ideal for logos, typography, and general graphic design.</p>
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guid: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/write-for-us
title: Write for us: Our 19 most-popular topics
author: Jen Wike Huger
url: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/write-for-us
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<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/lead-images/programming-code-keyboard-laptop-music-headphones.png" width="520" height="292" alt="woman programming" title="woman programming" /><p>Opensource.com published <a href="https://opensource.com/article/19/1/top-articles">more than 1000 articles last year</a> by talented people in tech from various backgrounds and with various skills. No two writers are the same, and we aim to keep it that way. </p>

<p>Join us in 2019 by making a resolution to pitch an article idea to us. We'd love to have you join the hundreds of writers sharing their expertise with others this year.</p>

<p>It's easy. Here's how to do it.</p>
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title: Distribution Release: CAELinux 2018
author: distro@distrowatch.com
url: http://distrowatch.com/10433
feedurl: https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml
content:
 Joël Cugnoni has announced the release of CAELinux 2018, a new version of the project's Xubuntu-based Linux distribution with a collection of tools designed for computer-aided engineering: "We are proud to announce the new release of CAELinux 2018, which is based on Xubuntu 16.04 and which contains a....


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title: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 796
author: distro@distrowatch.com
url: http://distrowatch.com/10434
feedurl: https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml
content:
 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: FreeBSD 12.0News: Peppermint releases ISO update, the best distro of 2018, roundtable interview with Debian, elementary OS and Fedora leadersOpinion: Musings on distros after prolonged use (2019)Released last week: antiX 17.3, KaOS 2018.12, Calculate Linux 18.12Torrent corner: antiX, CAELinux, Calculate, Chakra, GhostBSD,....


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title: Distribution Release: Funtoo Linux 1.3
author: distro@distrowatch.com
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 Daniel Robbins has announced the release of Funtoo Linux 1.3. Funtoo, a variant of Gentoo Linux, is an distribution that builds packages automatically from the source code. It was launched in 2009, shortly after Robbins left Gentoo Linux, a project he had founded in 2000. Version 1.3 brings....


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title: Distribution Release: Qubes OS 4.0.1
author: distro@distrowatch.com
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 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.0.1, an updated version of the project's security-focused Linux distribution which allows users to "compartmentalise" computing tasks into isolated compartments called qubes. This new release is mostly a bug-fix and security update and is recommended for all new Qubes....


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author: Jill Franklin
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Several Android Apps Transmitting Sensitive Data to Facebook without Permission, ExTiX Linux Announces Version 19.1 Build 181228, Peppermint 9 Respin-2 Released, Nextcloud Founder's 2019 Predictions and Some Security Updates

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<p>A recent <a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report">Privacy International report</a> reveals that "at least
20 out of 34 popular Android apps are transmitting sensitive information to
Facebook without asking permission, including Kayak, MyFitnessPal, Skyscanner
and TripAdvisor". According to the story on <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/30/more-popular-apps-are-sending-data-to-facebook-without-asking">Engadget</a>,
"The concern isn't just that apps are oversharing data, but that they may be
violating the EU's GDPR privacy rules by both collecting info without consent
and potentially identifying users. You can't lay the blame solely at the feet
of Facebook or developers, though. Facebook's relevant developer kit didn't
provide the option to ask for permission until after GDPR took effect. The
social network did develop a fix, but it's not clear that it works or that
developers are implementing it properly."
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<p>
<a href="http://www.extix.se/?p=506">A new version of ExTiX Linux Live DVD—19.1, build
181228—was released</a> yesterday. According to the author, "The best
thing with ExTiX 19.1 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or
from hard drive you can use Refracta Tools (pre-installed) to create your own
live installable Ubuntu system. So easy that a ten year child can do it!" You
can download ExTiX 19.1 from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/extix">SourceForge</a>.</p>

<p>
The <a href="https://peppermintos.com/2019/01/peppermint-9-respin-2-released">Peppermint
team yesterday announced the release Peppermint 9 Respin-2</a>. This is a
bug-fix release, and it fixes three issues in the <em>installation
routine</em>.
If you have already installed Peppermint 9 Respin successfully
(released December 21, 2018), there is not need to
re-install this version. See the <a href="https://peppermintos.com/release-notes">Release Notes</a> for more
information.
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<p>
<a href="https://karlitschek.de/2019/01/2018-and-2019">Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek posted a look back at 2018 and
thoughts on the future for 2019</a>. He predicts that "2019 will be a very
good year for privacy, open source and decentralized cloud software.
Maybe even the mainstream breakthrough of federated and decentralized
internet services!" He also writes "I think 2019 could be the year where
open source, federated and self-hosted technology hits mainstream, taking
on the proprietary, centralized data silos keeping people's personal
information hostage. Society becoming more critical about data collection
will fuel this development.
If you want to make a difference then join Nextcloud or one of the other
project that develop open source decentralized and federated solutions. I
think 2019 is the year were we can win the internet back!"
</p>

<p>
Security updates were posted this week for Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and
Red Hat. See <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/775852">LWN</a> for links.
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author: Jill Franklin
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Google's Fuchsia OS to Support Android Apps, Linux Servers with Poorly Configured IPMI Cards Prone to Attack, LinuxGizmos' 2019 SBC Catalog Is Out, USB Type-C Becoming More Secure and Epic Games Not Planning to Provide a Linux Version of Its Store

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<p>
Google's Fuchsia OS will have Android app support via Android Runtime.
According to <a href="https://9to5google.com/2019/01/02/android-runtime-app-support-fuchsia">9To5Google</a>,
it was expected that Fuchsia would support Android apps, and now "that
suspicion has been confirmed by a new change found in the Android Open
Source Project, and we can say with confidence that Fuchsia will be capable
of running Android apps using the Android Runtime." The article also notes
that "How exactly Fuchsia will use the Android Runtime from there is still
unclear. This is includes whether the Android Runtime is able to work as
expected to replace Linux kernel calls with equivalents from Fuchsia's
Zircon kernel or if ART will run inside of a Linux virtual machine using
Machina, Fuchsia's virtual machine system."
</p>

<p>
Linux servers equipped with poorly
configured IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) cards are prone
to attack. <a href="https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/linux-servers-appear-most-affected-ipmi-enabled-junglesec-ransomware-attacks">ITPro
Today</a> reports that "since November, black hat hackers have been using
the cards to gain access in order to install JungleSec ransomware that
encrypts data and demands a 0.3 bitcoin payment (about $1,100 at the
current rate) for the unlock key". The post recommends that to secure against these attacks, make
sure the IPMI password isn't the default and "access control lists (ACLs)
should be configured to specify the IP addresses that have access the IPMI
interface, and to also configure IPMI to only listen on internal IP
addresses, which would limit access to admins inside the organization's
system."
</p>

<p>LinuxGizmos has published its <a href="http://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-122-open-spec-linux-hacker-boards">2019
catalog of open-spec Linux hacker boards</a>.
These are all "hacker-friendly, open-spec SBCs that run Linux or Android",
and LinuxGizmos provides "recently updated descriptions, specs, pricing,
and links to details for all 122 SBCs."
</p>

<p>USB Type-C is becoming more secure with the launch of the USB Type-C
Authentication Program. <a href="http://www.eweek.com/welcomead?_qstu=%2Fsecurity%2Fusb-type-c-to-become-more-secure-with-authentication-standard">eWeek
reports</a> that the USB-IF (USB-Implementers Forum) is
"taking a
cryptographic approach to helping protect USB users and devices against
potential risks". In addition, "With the authentication specification,
compliance with USB specifications is validated in an effort to prevent
potentially dangerous devices and chargers from connecting to a system.
The specification can also limit the risk of malicious software that
might be embedded within a USB device from attacking a system. According
to the USB-IF, the authentication specification enables implementors of
the standard to authenticate certified USB Type-C chargers, devices,
cables and power sources."
</p>

<p>
Epic Games says it doesn't currently plan to provide a Linux version of
its store. <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/41-of-steams-most-played-games-in-2018-are-supported-on-linux.13243">GamingOnLinux</a>,
quoted this tweet from Sergey Galyonkin, Director of Publishing Strategy
for
Epic Games, in response to a question on Reddit: "It really isn't on the
roadmap right now. Doesn't mean this
won't change in the future, it's just we have so many features to
implement."</p></div>
      
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author: Jill Franklin
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title:
Linux 5.0-rc1 Released, Scratch 3 and Raspberry Pi, Phoronix Test Suite 8.6-Spydeberg Milestone 1 Is Now Available, Elteria Adventures Coming to Linux and Chromium Now Supports VAAPI in Fedora

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<p><a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/6/178?print=anz">Linux 5.0-rc1</a> was released yesterday. Linus Torvalds wrote: "The numbering change is
not indicative of anything special. If you
want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and
toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0. There's no nice git object
numerology this time (we're _about_ 6.5M objects in the git repo), and
there isn't any major particular feature that made for the release
numbering either. Of course, depending on your particular interests,
some people might well find a feature _they_ like so much that they
think it can do as a reason for incrementing the major number.
So go wild. Make up your own reason for why it's 5.0."
</p>

<p>MIT recently released <a href="https://scratch.mit.edu">Scratch 3</a>, the latest version of its visual
programming language. The <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/scratch-3-resource-upgrades">Raspberry
Pi blog announced</a> it has upgraded to make this a smooth transition for
those who use its <a href="https://projects.raspberrypi.org">free project
resources</a>, "whether that be at a Code Club, CoderDojo, Raspberry Jam, or
at home, so we've been busy upgrading our resources to work with Scratch
3". In addition, "Scratch 3 versions of all projects in the <a href="https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub">Code Club Scratch
Modules 1–3</a> and the <a href="https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/coderdojo">CoderDojo Scratch Sushi
Cards</a> are already live!" See the <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/scratch-3-resource-upgrades">post</a>
for more details
related to Scratch 3 on RPi.</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoronix-Test-Suite-8.6-M1">Phoronix
Test Suite 8.6-Spydeberg Milestone 1 is out</a>. This is the first development
snapshot for the "open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software release
due out later in Q1". New features for the Phoronix Test Suite include
updates for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (and it'll be a fully supported
platform as well), a new "new phoronix-test-suite compare-results-to-baseline
sub-command for comparing two result files with treating the first argument as
the performance baseline and providing various statistics off that", a "new
ShowPostRunStatistics user configuration" and more. You can get the first
development snapshot of Phoronix Test Suite 8.6 at <a href="https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite">GitHub</a>.
</p>

<p><em>Elteria Adventures</em> is "an open-world RPG MMO with world-building
features and it's coming to Linux". <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/elteria-adventures-an-open-world-rpg-mmo-plans-linux-support-and-it-looks-very-interesting.13291">GamingOnLinux
reports</a> that the developer confirmed it will run on Linux, simply saying
""Yes it will. Also on Mac :)" Evidently the Steam page doesn't give many
details on what the game will be like, but GamingOnLinux says "it sounds a bit
like Minecraft mixed with an RPG and it has a bunch of platforming as the
world is built across many floating islands".
</p>

<p>
The Chromium web browser in Fedora now has Video Acceleration API (VAAPI)
support, making "video playback much smoother while using significantly less
resources". Fedora is now the second distribution to include the VAAPI patch
in its official Chromium package. See the <a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/chromium-on-fedora-finally-gets-vaapi-support">Fedora
Magazine post</a> for more info.
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author: Jill Franklin
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title:
GitHub Announces that Free Accounts Now Can Create Private Repositories, Bash-5.0 Released, iPhone Apps Linked to Golduck Malware, Godot Game Engine Reaches 3.1 Beta, NSA to Open-Source Its GHIDRA Reverse-Engineering Tool

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<p>
GitHub's CEO Nat Friedman yesterday announced that free accounts now can
create private repositories (previously only paid accounts could have private repositories). <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/free-github-accounts-now-offer-private-repos"><em>Ars
Technica reports</em></a> that "Now every GitHub account can create an unlimited
number of private repositories. These are still restricted—only three
people can collaborate on these repositories—but a great many of those
projects that once had no option but to be opened up might now be marked as
private." The <em>Ars Technica</em> article also expresses concern that one possibility
with this change is that "programs that would previously have been
published as open source will now be closed up forever".
</p>

<p><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html">Bash-5.0
was released</a> yesterday. This release fixes several bugs and introduces
many new features. From the release announcement: "The most notable new
features are several new shell variables: BASH_ARGV0,
EPOCHSECONDS, and EPOCHREALTIME. The `history' builtin can remove ranges of
history entries and understands negative arguments as offsets from the end
of the history list. There is an option to allow local variables to inherit
the value of a variable with the same name at a preceding scope. There is
a new shell option that, when enabled, causes the shell to attempt to
expand associative array subscripts only once (this is an issue when they
are used in arithmetic expressions). The `globasciiranges' shell option
is now enabled by default; it can be set to off by default at configuration
time."</p>

<p>Security researchers at Wandera recently discovered "more than a dozen
iPhone apps covertly communicating with a server associated with Golduck, a
historically Android-focused malware that infects popular classic game apps."
According to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/05/dozen-iphone-apps-linked-to-golduck-malware/?utm_source=tctwreshare&sr_share=twitter">TechCrunch</a>,
the malware was discovered more than a year ago and affected retro-style games
on Google Play "by embedding backdoor code that allowed malicious payloads to be
silently pushed to the device". See the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/05/dozen-iphone-apps-linked-to-golduck-malware/?utm_source=tctwreshare&sr_share=twitter">post</a>
for more details.
</p>

<p>
Godot, the open-source, cross-platform game engine, <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-1-beta-1">announced it has entered
the beta phase for Godot 3.1</a>. New features include the OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer,
visual shader editor, improved animation editor, WebSockets support and much more.
See the <a href="https://gist.github.com/Calinou/49aefe52ce8f67ffa3f743932123d14f">Changelog</a>
for the full list. Note that this is a <em>beta</em> build and not intended
for use in production.
</p>

<p>The NSA plans to open-source its GHIDRA reverse-engineering tool. <a href="https://itsfoss.com/nsa-ghidra-open-source">It's FOSS reports</a> that
senior NSA advisor Robert Joyce wrote in his <a href="https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us19/agenda/sessions/16608-come-get-your-free-nsa-reverse-engineering-tool">session
description</a> for the March
RSA Conference 2019, "NSA has developed a software reverse engineering
framework known as GHIDRA, which will be demonstrated for the first time at
RSAC 2019. An interactive GUI capability enables reverse engineers to leverage
an integrated set of features that run on a variety of platforms including
Windows, Mac OS, and Linux and supports a variety of processor instruction
sets. The GHISDRA platform includes all the features expected in high-end
commercial tools, with new and expanded functionality NSA uniquely developed.
and will be released for free public use at RSA."
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title:
Qubes OS 4.0.1 Released, Plasma 5.14.15 Is Out, Software Freedom Conservancy Fundraiser, ClearCube Launches C3xPi Thin Client for RPi 3 Model B+ and Ubuntu Touch Announces OTA-7

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<p><a href="https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/01/09/qubes-401">Qubes OS 4.0.1
was released</a> today, marking the first stable point release
in the 4.0 series. Updates include all 4.0 dom0 updates, Fedora 29 TemplateVM,
Debian 9 Template VM, Whonix 14 Gateway and Workstation TemplateVMs, and Linux
kernel 4.14. You can get Qubes 4.0.1 from the <a href="https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads">Downloads Page</a>.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.5.php">KDE yesterday
announced Plasma 5.14.5</a>, the fifth and final point release to
the Plasma 5.14 desktop environment series. According to <a href="https://news.softpedia.com/news/kde-plasma-5-14-desktop-reaches-end-of-life-plasma-5-15-arrives-on-february-12-524470.shtml">Softpedia
News</a>, besides some small but important bug fixes, this release "contains a
total of 61 changes across various components like Plasma Workspace, Plasma
NetworkManager, Breeze GTK, Plasma Discover, and Plasma Desktop". Plasma 5.15,
the start of the next major series,
is scheduled to be released on February 12, 2019.
</p>

<p>
The Software Freedom Conservancy has six more days to collect the remaining
$13,369 of the fundraiser that will be matched by <a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com">Private Internet Access</a> and a
group of generous donors. Go <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter">here</a> to become an official
supporter.
</p>

<p>ClearCube recently launched a C3xPi Thin Client for the Raspberry Pi 3
Model B+, <a href="http://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-3b-based-thin-client-features-dual-hdmi-ports">LinuxGizmos
reports</a>. The C3xPi is $179.95, and ClearCube says it's the "only low-cost, virus-proof,
single-case dual monitor thin client in the market". Go to the <a href="https://www.clearcube.com/c3xpi">product page</a> for all the details.
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-7-release-192">Ubuntu
Touch announced its OTA-7 release</a> yesterday. With this release, users
now can change the keyboard color scheme; a keyboard layout for
Lithuanian was added; the Morph browser received many improvements; and more. See the <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-7-release-192">post</a>
for the full changelog and instructions on how to get OTA-7.
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title: Kodachi Builds Privacy Tunnel for Linux
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			Online and Internet security are not topics that typical computer users easily comprehend. All too often, Linux users put their blind trust in a particular distribution and assume that all Linux OSes are equally secure. However, not all Linux distros are created with the same degree of attention to security and privacy control. A misconfiguration of a firewall, or misapplied Web browser privacy and modem settings, can trash the best-designed Linux safety strategies. Kodachi Linux offers an alternative to leaving your computer privacy and security to chance.
			
			


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title: Where Linux Went in 2018 - and Where It's Going
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			For those who try to keep their finger on the Linux community's pulse, 2018 was a surprisingly eventful year. Spread over the last 12 months, we've seen various projects in the Linux ecosystem make great strides, as well as suffer their share of stumbles. All told, the year wrapped up leaving plenty to be optimistic about in the year to come, but there is much more on which we can only speculate. In the interest of offering the clearest lens for a peek into Linux in 2019, here's a look back at the year gone by for all things Linux.
			
			


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title: ‘Tweet Tray’ is a Distraction-Free Twitter App for Your Desktop
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<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/twitter-head-office-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="twitter head office" />If you like to tweet a lot, but don&#8217;t like the distraction of other people&#8217;s tweets, tirades and trivia, read on. I discovered a marvellous little app called Tweet Tray. Tweet Tray is a desktop Twitter app that lets you to compose new tweets on your desktop, without a web browser, and without any of the social [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/tweet-tray-compose-twitter-app">&#8216;Tweet Tray&#8217; is a Distraction-Free Twitter App for Your Desktop</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=137434
title: Tilix 1.8.7 Released, Here’s How to Install it on Ubuntu
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/z-4bobf6cuY/tilix-terminal-app-new-update-icon
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/tilix-emulator-on-ubuntu-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="tilix emulator on ubuntu" />A brand new version of the Linux terminal emulator Tilix is available to download. Now, chances are you already know about this app. It&#8217;s one of the most popular tiling terminal emulators available for Linux desktops. So good is it that some people think Tilix should be included as part of the GNOME core app suite! However, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/tilix-terminal-app-new-update-icon">Tilix 1.8.7 Released, Here&#8217;s How to Install it on Ubuntu</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=134822
title: Pretend you’re a CLI wizard with Blessed-Contrib
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/5fSjfBQaiWk/blessed-contrib-hacker-terminal
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wargames-norad-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wargames-norad-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wargames-norad-350x200.jpg 350w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />Want to feel like a Hollywood hacker or the sort of super-powered sysadmin that always show up in low-budget cable shows? Then check out blessed-contrib. Blessed-contrib is a Node.js based terminal utility that can be used to create data-rich command line&#160;dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript. All sorts of widgets can be created to relay [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/blessed-contrib-hacker-terminal">Pretend you’re a CLI wizard with Blessed-Contrib</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=137477
title: ‘Cast to TV’ Lets You Stream Media From Ubuntu to Chromecast
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/HX4E1urbIvg/chromecast-tv-gnome-shell-extension
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="350" height="200" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cast-video-linux-chromecast-350x200.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="" />It just got a little easier for Ubuntu users to cast video, music and pictures to a Chromecast equipped TV direct from the desktop. We&#8217;ve previously shown you how to cast video from Ubuntu to a Chromecast using the open-source MKChromecast tool, and the latest versions of the popular VLC media player has Chromecast support [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/chromecast-tv-gnome-shell-extension">&#8216;Cast to TV&#8217; Lets You Stream Media From Ubuntu to Chromecast</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?p=137388
title: 7 Best Games Available on the Snap Store
author: Joey Sneddon
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/6egx-LY7BgI/best-games-for-ubuntu-snap
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od
content:
<p><img width="406" height="232" src="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-406x232.jpg" class="attachment-post-list size-post-list wp-post-image" alt="Linux games available on the Snap store" srcset="https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-406x232.jpg 406w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-350x200.jpg 350w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-300x171.jpg 300w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-768x439.jpg 768w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps-750x429.jpg 750w , https://aozoeky4dglp5sh0-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/game-snap-apps.jpg 840w " sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" />In this post we list the best Ubuntu games that you can install as Snap apps, for free, from the official Snapcraft store on Ubuntu and other Linux distros.</p>
<p>This post, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/best-games-for-ubuntu-snap">7 Best Games Available on the Snap Store</a>, was written by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/author/d0od">Joey Sneddon</a> and first appeared on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk">OMG! Ubuntu!</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120904
title: Tim Cook: “Apple’s Greatest Contribution To Mankind Will Be “About Health””
author: Charanjeet Singh
url: https://fossbytes.com/tim-cook-apples-greatest-contribution-to-mankind-will-be-about-health/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook shed some light on Apple strategies for the year 2019 and beyond in an interview with CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer. In the &#8220;Mad Money&#8221; interview, Tim Cook said that the company would be focusing on bringing new services this year. Cook&#8217;s words become even more relevant in the wake of Apple&#8217;s recent surge in the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/tim-cook-apples-greatest-contribution-to-mankind-will-be-about-health/">Tim Cook: &#8220;Apple’s Greatest Contribution To Mankind Will Be &#8220;About Health&#8221;&#8221;</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120910
title: Apple’s Next Steps: “New Services” Are Coming In 2019
author: Manisha Priyadarshini
url: https://fossbytes.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-new-services/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Towards the end of 2018, we came across the news of Apple planning to launch its TV service. Adding more weight to the news, Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company will announce &#8220;new services&#8221; this year. In an exclusive interview with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money, Tim Cook said, &#8220;You will see us announce [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-new-services/">Apple&#8217;s Next Steps: &#8220;New Services&#8221; Are Coming In 2019</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120936
title: Mark Zuckerberg’s Resolution For 2019 Is To Help Fix Technology
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/mark-zuckerbergs-resolution-for-2019-is-to-help-fix-technology/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Each year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes up new resolutions, and this year too, Zuckerberg has a list of challenges he needs to overcome in 2019. In a lengthy Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, he revealed plans to find answers to various questions related to the world and technology’s place in it, in addition, to continue [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/mark-zuckerbergs-resolution-for-2019-is-to-help-fix-technology/">Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Resolution For 2019 Is To Help Fix Technology</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120947
title: Google Assistant At CES2019: Interpreter Mode, Maps Integration, Travel Assistance
author: Vanshika Malhotra
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
url:
https://fossbytes.com/google-assistant-at-ces2019-interpreter-mode-maps-integration-travel-assistance/

content:
<p>The CES 2019 event is going on in full swing and being a part of it, Google has made a bunch of big and small announcements for Google Assistant. Let&#8217;s take a quick look at all of them: The New Interpreter Mode  The search giant has added various new features to its Google Assistant; the first one being [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/google-assistant-at-ces2019-interpreter-mode-maps-integration-travel-assistance/">Google Assistant At CES2019: Interpreter Mode, Maps Integration, Travel Assistance</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=108333
title: 10 Best Kodi Repositories For 2019 To Download Popular Addons
author: Anmol Sachdeva
url: https://fossbytes.com/8-best-kodi-repositories-for-downloading-popular-addons-2018-list/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>With online streaming becoming popular by the day, there has been a rise in the portals and apps that allow you to stream content in a hassle-free manner. Now, to watch the content from different sources, you would need a centralized media player and this is where Kodi comes into the picture. Kodi has been [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/8-best-kodi-repositories-for-downloading-popular-addons-2018-list/">10 Best Kodi Repositories For 2019 To Download Popular Addons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120967
title: WhatsApp To Soon Add Fingerprint Integration For Extra Security
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/whatsapp-fingerprint-integration/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is known for being home to several new features every now and then. Taking this forward, the app is soon to receive a new update which will lead to new features. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp for Android is testing version 2.19.3 and is likely to add a new authentication feature to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/whatsapp-fingerprint-integration/">WhatsApp To Soon Add Fingerprint Integration For Extra Security</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120981
title: Sex Toy Wins Award At CES But Taken Back Deeming It Immoral
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/sex-toy-wins-award-at-ces-but-taken-back-deeming-it-immoral/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>CES or the Consumer Electronics Show is arguably the biggest tech tradeshow ever. Every year witnesses the launch of innovative tech, and this year too, one piece of tech was supposed to debut at the event but did not. Lora DiCarlo (a company owned by Lora Haddock) was awarded the CES 2019 Innovation Awards in [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/sex-toy-wins-award-at-ces-but-taken-back-deeming-it-immoral/">Sex Toy Wins Award At CES But Taken Back Deeming It Immoral</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120992
title: New “Behind OLED” Face ID Sensor Could Significantly Change iPhone Design
author: Anmol Sachdeva
url: https://fossbytes.com/behind-oled-face-id-sensor-change-iphone-design/
feedurl: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fossbytes
content:
<p>AMS, a company that supplies sensors to Apple for iPhone and iPad, has developed a new ambient light/proximity sensors that could eliminate the notch. As reported by Reuters, dubbed &#8220;Behind OLED,&#8221; this new sensor can work from behind the screen and thus there would be no need to place the sensors in the notch. Not [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/behind-oled-face-id-sensor-change-iphone-design/">New &#8220;Behind OLED&#8221; Face ID Sensor Could Significantly Change iPhone Design</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: https://fossbytes.com/?p=120986
title: Netflix Reveals Another Secret ‘Bandersnatch’ Ending You’ve Probably Missed
author: Manisha Priyadarshini
url: https://fossbytes.com/netflix-secret-bandersnatch-ending-you-probably-missed/
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<p>So, you&#8217;ve probably finished watching Netflix&#8217;s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. You followed all the flowcharts and cheat sheets floating on the internet. And you&#8217;ve probably read all the spoilers as well to unlock as many possible scenes and endings that are known. But those who think they are finally at peace with the &#8220;Choose Your Own Adventure&#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/netflix-secret-bandersnatch-ending-you-probably-missed/">Netflix Reveals Another Secret &#8216;Bandersnatch&#8217; Ending You&#8217;ve Probably Missed</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


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title: RBI Allows Tokenization Of Card Transactions In India; Issues Guidelines
author: Vanshika Malhotra
url: https://fossbytes.com/rbi-allows-tokenization-of-card-transactions-in-india-issues-guidelines/
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<p>The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted permission for tokenization of debit, credit, and prepaid card transactions in India. The allowance of tokenization will add an additional layer of safety and security while conducting transactions via cards. For the unacquainted, tokenization is the process of providing unique alternate code, known as tokens in place of the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com/rbi-allows-tokenization-of-card-transactions-in-india-issues-guidelines/">RBI Allows Tokenization Of Card Transactions In India; Issues Guidelines</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fossbytes.com">Fossbytes</a>.</p>


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264685
author: Jill Franklin
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264685
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content: News briefs for January 8, 2019.
title:
GitHub Announces that Free Accounts Now Can Create Private Repositories, Bash-5.0 Released, iPhone Apps Linked to Golduck Malware, Godot Game Engine Reaches 3.1 Beta, NSA to Open-Source Its GHIDRA Rev


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264697
title: How to install XAMPP on Debian 9
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264697
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
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Apache Friends has developed XAMPP which stands for Cross-Platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. By using this software you can test your web applications on your local system.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264694
title: Mozilla Firefox 65 Promises Enhanced Security for Linux, Android, and macOS
author: Marius Nestor
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264694
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
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A new major Firefox version is expected to land at the end of January 2019 with some interesting changes and new features as Mozilla continues to improve the security and reliability of its open-source web browser.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264693
author: Rikki Endsley
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264693
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
title:
Kubernetes for data scientists, Linux philosophy, troubleshooting hardware problems, Python, and more

content:
An article inspired by a KubeCon North America 2018 conference talk was our biggest hit last week. Read on to see our round up of top 10 articles.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264696
title: How to Install PyCharm on CentOS 7
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264696
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
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PyCharm is an intelligent and fully featured IDE for Python developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS etc. You can also extend PyCharm features by using plugins.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264691
title: Linux 4.20, EU Bug Bounties, MIPS Open Source, Syncthing, Mixxx, SuperTux | This Week in Linux 49
author: Michael Tunnell (TuxDigital)
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264691
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content:
also on TWinL 49: Necuno Mobile follow-up, Distro News: Septor Linux, OviOS, One Laptop Per Child; App News: Darktable, RawTherapee, KStars; Linux Gaming news and much more!


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264690
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264690
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
title:
Fedora Updates Chromium With VAAPI Support, Here's How To Enable Hardware-Accelerated Video Decoding

content:
Chromium was updated in Fedora with a patch that enables VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support. When VAAPI is used, the video playback should be smoother, while also using less CPU and improving the power usage.  This article explains how to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding on Fedora with Intel graphics, as well as enabling it for h264 videos, for both Intel and AMD graphics, and forcing YouTube to use h264 instead of VP8/VP9.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264702
title: Raspberry Pi 3B+ based thin client features dual HDMI ports
author: Eric Brown
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264702
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ClearCube has launched a “C3xPi Thin Client” follow-on to its original Raspberry Pi based thin client with a faster RPi 3 B+ with GbE and dual-band WiFi-ac, plus a second HDMI port for dual displays and Citrix HDX support. ClearCube’s new reboot of its C3Pi Thin Client, which shipped with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model [[he]#8230[/he]]


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264692
title: KDE Plasma 5.14 Desktop Reaches End of Life, Plasma 5.15 Arrives on February 12
author: Marius Nestor
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264692
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the fifth and final point release to the KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment series, Plasma 5.14.5.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264686
title: How to Install NextCloud 15 on Ubuntu 18.04
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264686
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
Nextcloud is a free and open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform based on PHP. It is a great alternative to some of the popular services of this type, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OwnCloud, etc… With Nextcloud you can easily store the data on your Ubuntu 18.04 VPS, create and manage your contacts, calendars, todo lists, and much more. In this tutorial we will install Nextcloud version 15 on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS, which is a major release and it comes with a lot of new features and improvements.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264671
title: Top 10 Raspberry Pi stories of 2018
author: Ben Nuttall
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264671
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content:
2018 was a great year for Raspberry Pi .  2018 was a great year for Raspberry Pi . The community celebrated our sixth birthday by coordinating 150+ community-led Raspberry Jam events around the world (coming up again for our seventh birthday), and launched some new products, including the Pi 3 Model B+ and Model A+, as well as a TV HAT and PoE HAT.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264729
title: Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) Open Source Project
author: TriggerMesh
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264729
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Today Triggermesh announced the TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (TriggerMesh KLR) open source project. The project aims to provide complete portability of Amazon Lambda functions to Knative native enabled clusters, and Knative enabled serverless cloud infrastructure without the need to rewrite these serverless functions. Knative, the Google Cloud-led Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads, was announced last year.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264687
title: Linus Torvalds Finally Kicks Off Development of Linux 5.0, Coming March 2019
author: Marius Nestor
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264687
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
After a long wait, we will finally be able to run the long-anticipated Linux 5.0 kernel on our Linux-powered computers as Linus Torvalds kicked off 2019 with the development cycle of Linux kernel 5.0.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264703
title: Microsoft Lowers GitHub Private Repositories Price to Free
author: Christine Hall
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264703
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
When I asked for input about the new GitHub pricing on Twitter, one follower immediately responded, "'Private' and 'free.' They always forget the quotes."


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264724
title: Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools
author: Steve Emms
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264724
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Popular lossless compression tools include gzip, bzip2, and xz. When compressing and decompressing files these tools use a single core. But these days, most people run machines with multi-core processors. You won’t see the speed advantage modern processors offer with the traditional tools. Step forward modern compression tools that use all the cores present on your system when compressing files, offering massive speed advantages.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264723
title: The Best Open-Source Software to Try in 2019
author: Robert Zak
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264723
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
There is so much open-source software that it can be difficult to find the best one. Here is some of the best open-source software to try in 2019. 


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264721
title: Taking machine learning to the birds
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264721
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
The Cacophony Project&#039;s broad vision is to bring back New Zealand&#039;s native birds using the latest technology to monitor bird populations and humanely eliminate the introduced predators that are endangering them.read more


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264727
title: Fix Windows 10 Or 8 Partition Mounted As Read-Only On Linux When Dual Booting
author: Logix
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264727
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
Users dual booting Windows 10 or 8 and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE and so on, will sometimes noticed that the Windows partition is mounted as read only, allowing access to files from the Windows partition, but denying the creation of new files and folders, or modifying existing files. Here are some solutions.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264726
title: If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Donâ€™t Have Any
author: Doc Searls
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264726
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
If you think regulations are going to protect your privacy, you’re wrong. In fact they can make things worse, especially if they start with the assumption that you have no privacy besides what you get from other parties.


guid: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264719
title: Automating deployment strategies with Ansible
author: bob@lxer.com
url: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264719
feedurl: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
content:
When you examine your technology stack from the bottom layer to the top—hardware, operating system (OS), middleware, and application—with their respective configurations, it&#039;s clear that changes are far more frequent as you go up in the stack. Your hardware will hardly change, your OS has a long lifecycle, and your middleware will keep up with the application&#039;s needs, but even if your release cycle is long (weeks or months), your applications will be the most volatile.read more


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=35893
title: Midori: A Lightweight Open Source Web Browser
author: Abhishek Prakash
url: https://itsfoss.com/midori-browser/
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content:
Here's a quick review of lightweight, fast, open source web browser Midori that has returned from the dead.


guid: https://itsfoss.com/?p=36806
title: NSA to Open Source its Reverse Engineering Tool GHIDRA
author: Ankush Das
url: https://itsfoss.com/nsa-ghidra-open-source/
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content:
NSA is going to open source its software reverse engineering framework known as GHIDRA. It will be available to the public for free.


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411198
title: DuckDuckGo denies using fingerprinting to track its users
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/duckduckgo-fingerprinting-accusation/
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Responding to a forum post that accused it of "fingerprinting users", privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are unfounded and that it is not tracking its users. The allegation was made after the Firefox extension CanvasBlocker showed a warning to users. The suggestion of fingerprinting -- gathering as much information as possible about a user through their browser to create a unique identifier that can be used for tracking -- is clearly something that would seem to sit in opposition to what DuckDuckGo claims to stand for. The company CEO says the accusation is simply wrong. See also: Google&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/duckduckgo-fingerprinting-accusation/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411202
title: Roku reaches impressive milestone -- more than 27 million active accounts
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/roku-27-million-active-accounts/
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content:
In 2019, streaming media is ubiquitous. It seems like everyone has a Netflix account -- not to mention Hulu, Spotify, YouTube, and more. Hell, as more and more people cut the cord, even live TV is being streamed over the internet. If you are a big fan of consuming media, you are definitely alive at the right time. Of course, to enjoy streaming media, you need hardware to do so. Many TVs are "smart" these days, meaning they have the ability to access services without the need of a media box. With that said, smart TVs are often quite dumb&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/roku-27-million-active-accounts/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411213
title: Android Q could well have a native, system-wide dark mode
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/android-q-dark-mode/
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If you want to be part of the in-crowd, adding a dark mode to your software is essential. Google has already shown a lot of love for gothic hues, and it looks set to continue this with Android Q -- or Android 10, if you prefer. Over on the Chromium Bug Tracker, Google worker Lukasz Zbylut appears to confirm that Android Q will feature a system-wide dark mode, with all preloaded apps offering the option natively. See also: Dark mode is coming to Chrome in Windows 10 soon Google: adding Dark Mode to apps saves battery Privacy International investigation finds&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/android-q-dark-mode/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411218
title: How AI will -- and won't -- dominate customer service in 2019
author: Michael Klazema
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/how-ai-will-and-wont-dominate-customer-service-in-2019/
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Is artificial intelligence the future of customer service, or is it the jump-the-shark moment that slows our society’s reliance on technology and automation? It’s fair to say that 2018 didn’t make the answer any more evident. In 2019, most businesses will seek a balance between the added efficiency and responsiveness that AI customer service can provide and the human touch that customers still value. There are two significant areas where businesses are finding success with AI in customer service: chatbots and data. Expect to see both areas grow in 2019 as companies look for ways to serve their customers more&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/how-ai-will-and-wont-dominate-customer-service-in-2019/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411220
title: Email: Year in review 2018
author: Anthony Chiulli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/email-year-in-review-2018/
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2018 is has come to a close. Many experts are making predictions for 2019, but I think it’s important to learn from the past.  Let’s take a look back at all of the major email industry events of 2018. There were plenty of changes amongst mailbox providers that kept marketers and deliverability professionals busy. Providers like Gmail and Oath (AOL, Yahoo and Verizon mail) went through significant changes this year, including: In January, the migration of AOL and Yahoo mail began as AOL started moving their mail domains’ MX records to point to OATH’s new combined servers. By February, AOL&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/email-year-in-review-2018/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411231
title: Samsung's affordable 'Notebook Flash' Windows 10 laptop is adorably cute
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/samsung-notebook-flash-awwww/
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content:
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show hasn't officially started yet (it begins tomorrow), but there are already tons of new products being announced in anticipation. Quite frankly, there is too much stuff being unveiled lately, making it not much more than a bunch of noise. Trying to keep up with all the new products is an exercise in frustration -- I wouldn't be mad if CES was canceled forever. There are so many new Windows 10 laptops this year, for instance, that it can be hard to get excited over them. And yet, one has managed to tickle my fancy. No, it&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/07/samsung-notebook-flash-awwww/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411251
title: Microsoft now lets everyone create unlimited private GitHub repositories for free
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/github-free-private-repositories/
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Since Microsoft bought GitHub last year there have been a few changes here and there, but the company has just announced something pretty major. While it previously cost $7 per month to create a private repository, now it is possible to create an unlimited number free of charge. There is a slight caveat, of course. Private projects are limited to up to three collaborators before a charge is applicable. Microsoft has also announced a new service, GitHub Enterprise, which brings together Enterprise Cloud (previously known as GitHub Business Cloud) and Enterprise Server (previously, and confusingly, known as GitHub Enterprise). For&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/github-free-private-repositories/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411256
title: NSA plans to release tool for reverse-engineering software
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/nsa-reverse-engineering-tool-ghidra/
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content:
It feels like it has been a while since we've had any NSA-related news -- interest in mass surveillance has been overtaken by other concerns. After a series of Vault 7 leaks from WikiLeaks about the organization, the NSA is now planning to release its GHIDRA framework, designed to reverse-engineer malware and other software, later in the year. The framework will be available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and it is set to be demonstrated and publicly released at the RSAConference in March. While it might seem like a bad idea to release a tool that can be used to&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/nsa-reverse-engineering-tool-ghidra/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411259
title: Toshiba unveils 16TB MG08 CMR HDD
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/toshiba-16tb-mg08-hard-drive/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
As consumers use less and less local storage because of the cloud and streaming media, you would expect manufacturers to stop focusing on massive hard disk drives. After all, solid state drives are faster, albeit much more expensive from a capacity standpoint. And yeah, long gone are the days where PC manufacturers touted massive local disk capacity as a selling point. But still, there is a need for cost effective hard drives for data centers, servers, and more. Hell, there are professionals -- such as media creators -- that can benefit from a roomy hard drive as well. Thankfully, companies&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/toshiba-16tb-mg08-hard-drive/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411271
title: Yubico reveals its first Lightning security key for iOS devices
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/yubikey-for-lightning/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Yubico offers a selection of security keys that can protect your data and which work with a growing number of popular apps and websites. They can replace passwords, or provide easy -- and strong -- two-factor authentication (2FA). Today at CES, Yubico revealed a private preview of YubiKey for Lightning, bringing the company’s physical token authentication to iPhones for the first time Wondering why it has taken so long for Yubico to support iOS? The company says that historically Apple’s mobile operating system has presented its developers with "some challenges", but it’s finally managed to surmount those. It received approval&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/yubikey-for-lightning/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411274
title: VisionTek launches Thunderbolt 3 Mini eGFX enclosure -- add a desktop graphics card to your laptop
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/visiontek-thunderbolt-3-mini-egfx/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Thunderbolt 3 is great for many reasons -- it is fast, uses the USB-C connector, and allows you to expand the capability of your laptop. It used to be notebook owners were very limited for gaming, for instance, as you couldn't upgrade the graphics. Even if you opted for a quality mobile GPU from, say, AMD or NVIDIA, it still wouldn't compare to a high-end desktop graphics card. With Thunderbolt 3, however, you can easily add a top-tier desktop GPU to your laptop by leveraging an enclosure. Today, VisionTek launches a new such enclosure, and it looks amazing. I tried&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/visiontek-thunderbolt-3-mini-egfx/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411292
title: Future versions of Windows 10 will reserve 7GB of storage to prevent big updates failing
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/windows-10-reserve-7gb-of-storage/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
Previous feature updates for Windows 10 tended to fail if you didn’t have enough free storage for the task. The onus was on users to free up the required space manually before the update could go ahead, but that’s about to change. In the next big feature update, version 1903 (codenamed 19H1), due out in the spring, Windows 10 will automatically reserve enough space to ensure the update can complete without problems. This might be 7GB, but it could be more, "based on how you use your device". This 'reserved storage' won’t be used exclusively for big updates though, it&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/windows-10-reserve-7gb-of-storage/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411301
title: Satechi launches a pair of elegant USB-C power delivery travel chargers
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/satechi-usbc-pd-travel-chargers/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
content:
There are a lot of devices that charge with USB-C these days. With that said, there are many that don't. It is for that reason that it is wise to get a charger that offers both USB-C and USB-A charging ports. This way, you increase the possibility that you charger will not only meet your needs, but the needs of friends and family too. You can be seen as a super hero to your significant other while on vacation, for instance, when your charger can juice up essentially any device. Today, popular company Satechi launches two such chargers, and they&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/08/satechi-usbc-pd-travel-chargers/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=410378
title: SMB Wi-Fi done right: 7 best practices you likely aren't following
author: Derrick Wlodarz
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/smb-wi-fi-done-right-7-best-practices-you-likely-arent-following/
feedurl: https://betanews.com/feed/
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If there is one thing that doesn't shock me anymore, it's the fact of how prevalent and pervasive incorrectly deployed Wi-Fi is across the small to midsize business (SMB) landscape. The sober reality is that Wi-Fi has an extremely low barrier to entry thanks to a bevy of options on the market. But a well-tuned setup that accounts for proper coverage levels, speeds, and client counts in a measured manner is almost as much of an art as it is a science. Hence why more often than not, clients are calling us for an SOS to help save them from&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/smb-wi-fi-done-right-7-best-practices-you-likely-arent-following/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411325
title: After its profit warning, Apple slashes iPhone production by 10 percent
author: Mark Wycislik-Wilson
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/apple-reduces-iphone-production/
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It's not all that long since Apple celebrated becoming a trillion dollar company, but then just last week it issued a profit warning and its value plummeted. Hot on the heals on this comes the news that Apple is cutting production of new iPhones for the current quarter by a significant amount. The Nikkei Asian Review reports that Apple is slashing production of its current trio of iPhone models by 10 percent in the January-March quarter. See also: New Apple support page addresses the issue of bent iPad Pros Shares plummet following Apple's profit warning, blamed on China, lower iPhone&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/apple-reduces-iphone-production/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411330
title: Toshiba announces BG4 96-layer 3D flash NVMe SSD with up to 1TB capacity
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/toshiba-bg4-96-layer-3d-flash-nvme-ssd/
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Today at CES 2019, Toshiba announced a new SSD series. Designed primarily for PC manufacturers, the "BG4," as it is called, is an NVMe SSD that features 96-layer 3D flash and up to 1TB capacity. While the drive is not necessarily intended for consumers to buy directly, it will undoubtedly find its way to them through PC purchases. So yes, it is OK to be excited for it, folks -- especially since it is significantly faster than its predecessor, the BG3. ALSO READ: Toshiba unveils 16TB MG08 CMR HDD "This new series of single package SSDs, featuring PCIe Gen3 x4 lanes, offers&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/toshiba-bg4-96-layer-3d-flash-nvme-ssd/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411227
title: In defense of private companies: Creating a cyber risk-aware culture
author: R. Borelli/J. Bernard
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/creating-a-cyber-risk-aware-culture/
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Each year, the amount of investment organizations -- big and small -- are making to protect their most valuable assets with technological and physical safeguards continues to grow by staggering amounts. Yet, with just one click or touch, an unsuspecting employee can expose a company to cyber spying, ransomware or outright theft. Private companies are aware of various risks posed to their businesses both from external threat actors (e.g., business/political rivals, organized cyber criminals) and from their own personnel (e.g., disgruntled employees). This year, 38 percent of mid-market and private leaders ranked cybersecurity as a top information technology (IT) investment&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/creating-a-cyber-risk-aware-culture/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411357
title: What does IT performance really mean?
author: Josh Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/what-does-it-performance-really-mean/
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IT is moving into the future, growing beyond its traditional role to become a center of innovation -- so then why are conversations about IT performance stuck in the past? Too often, the discussion starts with the hard numbers of quantitative performance, what I call "speeds and feeds": details like what kind of processor, memory size, disk I/O or throughput. The problem is that using these metrics to evaluate the performance of your IT -- whether solutions, service providers or the organization itself -- comes hopelessly short of determining the value that IT is bringing to its new task of&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/what-does-it-performance-really-mean/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411363
title: Lexar unveils 1TB 633x SDXC UHS-I card -- yes, a terabyte!
author: Brian Fagioli
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/lexar-1tb-633x-sdxc-uhsi-card/
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Goodness gracious -- we have come such a long way with storage. Floppy disks, which were still prevalent in homes and universities less than two decades ago, held just 1.44 MB of data. Flash storage changed everything, however, as diminutive USB thumb drives and storage cards offered ever-expanding capacities. Quite frankly, it is unreal to see how many files can be held on a card that is smaller than a postage stamp these days, such as micro SD. For photographers, full-sized SD cards still reign supreme, and today, Lexar unveils a new card with an insanely large capacity -- 1TB. Yes,&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/lexar-1tb-633x-sdxc-uhsi-card/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


guid: https://betanews.com/?p=411361
title: Microsoft releases Windows 10 19H1 Build 18312
author: Wayne Williams
url: https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/microsoft-releases-windows-10-19h1-build-18312/
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We’re only nine days into 2019, and Microsoft is rolling out the second 19H1 build of the new year to Insiders on the Fast ring. Build 18312 gives users access to the new 'reserved storage' feature which we covered yesterday. This reserves around 7GB of storage on Windows 10 systems to guarantee day-to-day smooth running, and also to ensure that large updates don't fail on systems with limited free space. To try it out though, you will need to run through this quest which will give you access to it in the next flight. If you run the quest before&#8230; <a href="https://betanews.com/2019/01/09/microsoft-releases-windows-10-19h1-build-18312/" rel="nofollow">[Continue Reading]</a>


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title: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa: Hands-on with an impressive new release
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A new Linux Mint release is always good news. I have tried this one as a fresh installation, as an upgrade from 19.1 Beta and as an upgrade from both 19 and 18.3. Here are the results.


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title: Mozilla: Open-source Thunderbird getting new look, better Gmail support, encryption
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content: Thunderbird developers promise to make the neglected open-source email client easier to use.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-open-source-thunderbird-getting-new-look-better-gmail-support-encryption/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Google's futuristic Fuchsia OS will run Android apps
url: https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-futuristic-fuchsia-os-will-run-android-apps/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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Google's mystery Fuchsia operating system will be able to run Android apps, if it's ever put on devices.


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title: The top 5 Linux and open-source stories of 2018
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Linux overcame massive hardware security problems while Microsoft -- yes, Microsoft -- made its biggest ever open-source software move.


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title: It's a Linux-powered car world
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It's not just Tesla with Linux under the hood. Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and Toyota, to name a few, all rely on Linux.


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title: Most home routers don't take advantage of Linux's improved security features
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content: Router firmware rarely includes ASLR, DEP, or RELRO protections, study finds.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/most-home-routers-dont-take-advantage-of-linuxs-improved-security-features/#ftag=RSSbaffb68


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title: Inside Ubuntu's financials
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Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, is private, but it does share some of its financial results. Here's what they tell us about this leading Linux company.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Aquantia-AQtion-MultiG-Mobos
title: Aquantia Announces Multi-Gig Ethernet Controllers, Coming Soon To ASUS Boards
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2019 is looking to be the year where we will finally see Multi-Gig Ethernet controllers appearing on desktop/enthusiast motherboards rather than Gigabit Ethernet controllers. Aquantia is using CES to show off its new Multi-Gig controllers and has already courted ASUS to use their chips on forthcoming motherboards...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-DNF-UUID-User-Proposal
title: Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users
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Fedora developers are looking at implementing a per-system UUID identifier leveraged by the DNF package manager in order to more accurately count their user-base...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-10-Testing-Secure-Boot
title: Debian 10 "Buster" Working To Have UEFI SecureBoot In Good Shape
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While most major Linux distributions have been supporting UEFI SecureBoot for years already in order to work nicely on modern locked-down (generally Windows pre-loaded) PCs, Debian stable releases have yet to properly support SecureBoot but that should be changing with this year's release of 10.0 Buster...


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title: Linux 5.0 File-System Benchmarks: Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS
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With all of the major file-systems seeing clean-up work during the Linux 4.21 merge window (now known as Linux 5.0 and particularly with F2FS seeing fixes as a result of it being picked up by Google for support on Pixel devices, I was curious to see how the current popular mainline file-system choices compare for performance. Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS were tested on a SATA 3.0 solid-state drive, USB SSD, and an NVMe SSD.


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title: GNUstep Starts 2019 With Improvements To This Open-Source Apple Cocoa Implementation
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GNUstep, the long-standing implementation of Apple's Cocoa/Objective-C frameworks as open-source and supported on Linux, BSDs, and other platforms, started off 2019 with some new releases. GNUstep GUI 0.27, GNUstep Base 1.26, and GNUstep GUI Backend 0.27 are the new releases out today...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bash-5.0-Release-Candidate
title: Bash 5.0 Release Packing Many Changes & A Lot Of Fixes
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The release of the upcoming GNU Bash 5.0 shell release is now available. Bash 5.0 is packing various fixes over Bash 4.4 but also a number of new features and improvements to better conform to POSIX specifications...


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title: Intel Offers Update On 10nm Icelake & Announces Lakefield, Snow Ridge During CES 2019
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Intel's CES 2019 press conference is now wrapping up with some interesting announcements and other new information to relay, some of which was also covered at last month's Intel Architecture Day event in California but under NDA until now...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.x-Release-Schedules
title: Mesa Driver Releases For 2019 Get Plotted Out From 19.0 To 19.3
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With Mesa3D having a nice release rhythm going on now for their quarterly, time-based release cycles, all of their planned major release dates for the year are now published...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-GNOME-3.32
title: To No Surprise, Fedora 30 Will Target GNOME 3.32
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New Fedora releases go hand-in-hand with the latest and greatest GNOME releases. But as a formality, the change proposal has been submitted to officially approve shipping Fedora Workstation 30 with the GNOME 3.32 desktop...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc-Next-First-Linux-5.1
title: DRM Graphics Drivers Already Queuing Changes For Linux 5.1
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While the Linux 5.0 kernel merge window (nee Linux 4.21) just closed this past Sunday, already there are Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates queuing for DRM-Next to then premiere with the Linux 5.1 kernel cycle in about two months...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Ready-To-Git
title: LLVM Is Nearly Finalized On Its Repository Conversion To Git
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A new conversion process has wrapped up for the LLVM Git repositories in their migration from Subversion. Unless there are any new, last-minute objections, the conversion is considered final and ready to be made official...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Godot-3.1-Beta-1
title: Godot 3.1 Reaches Beta As One Of The Most Promising Open-Source Game Engines
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Godot-3.1-Beta-1
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The developers behind the open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D Godot game engine have placed a release freeze on the upcoming Godot 3.1 with today's beta reveal...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Optimized-GCC-Firefox
title: Fedora's Firefox To Stick With GCC Over Clang, Beefed Up By LTO/PGO Optimizations
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Optimized-GCC-Firefox
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Last month Fedora developers were planning on building their Firefox package with Clang rather than GCC to follow the move by upstream Mozilla in transitioning their production builds from being built under GCC to LLVM Clang. But now Fedora has reversed course and will continue building with GCC though now benefiting also from PGO and LTO optimizations...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-2019.Q1.1-Driver
title: AMDVLK 2019.Q1.1 Radeon Vulkan Driver Build Now Available For Ubuntu
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AMD developers have now offered up an AMDVLK Vulkan driver build for Ubuntu as a Debian package based upon yesterday's source drop...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27373
title: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Linux Performance From Gaming To TensorFlow & Compute
url: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27373
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Yesterday NVIDIA kicked off their week at CES by announcing the GeForce RTX 2060, the lowest-cost Turing GPU to date at just $349 USD but aims to deliver around the performance of the previous-generation GeForce GTX 1080. I only received my RTX 2060 yesterday for testing but have been putting it through its paces since and have the initial benchmark results to deliver ranging from the OpenGL/Vulkan Linux gaming performance through various interesting GPU compute workloads. Also, with this testing there are graphics cards tested going back to the GeForce GTX 960 Maxwell for an interesting look at how the NVIDIA Linux GPU performance has evolved.


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-GCN-Still-GCC9-Hope
title: Radeon GCN Compiler Back-End Might Still Be Merged For GCC 9
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-GCN-Still-GCC9-Hope
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The AMD Radeon "GCN" compiler back-end to the GCC open-source code compiler might still be merged ahead of the GCC 9 stable release due out in April...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Released
title: Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Rolls Out With Keyboard Improvements, Browser Fixes
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Released
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After being in testing over the holidays, Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 via the UBports community is now officially out today...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.0-Possible-SPIRV-Clover
title: SPIR-V Clover Support Might Still Land For Mesa 19.0, Working Towards Nouveau OpenCL
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.0-Possible-SPIRV-Clover
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One of the major open-source GPU compute driver initiatives going the past year has been the Red Hat folks working on adding Nouveau SPIR-V support as part of allowing GPU compute to work for this open-source NVIDIA driver. By longtime Nouveau contributor Pierre Moreau has also been work on adding SPIR-V support to Clover, the Gallium3D OpenCL state tracker...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-73-Linux-Mojo-Video-Dec
title: Chrome 73 Enabling The Mojo Video Decoders For Linux
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-73-Linux-Mojo-Video-Dec
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The upcoming Chrome 72 release enables the "Mojo Video Decoders" by default on Windows while that milestone is set to be realized for Linux systems with the following Chrome 73 web-browser update...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ANV-Aims-TF-For-Mesa-19.0
title: Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Aiming For Transform Feedback In Mesa 19.0, Helping DXVK
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ANV-Aims-TF-For-Mesa-19.0
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With Mesa 19.0 entering its feature freeze in three weeks, the race is on for finishing up OpenGL/Vulkan driver changes to make it in this next quarterly installment of these 3D open-source Linux graphics drivers...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Touch-Mir-Ways-Out
title: It's Still A Slow Process For Ubuntu Touch Moving To Mir 1.x / Wayland
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Touch-Mir-Ways-Out
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Given yesterday's release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-7, you might be curious how this UBports project is moving along with their adoption of the modern Mir 1.x that provides Wayland support... Unfortunately, it will still be a while before that is being shipped in production on Ubuntu Touch...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Automotive-Suite-5.12
title: Qt May Soon Be Appearing In More Vehicles With Qt Automotive Suite 5.12
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Automotive-Suite-5.12
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After releasing Qt 5.12 a month ago, The Qt Company is using CES week to announce Qt Automotive Suite 5.12. This is the company's effort for getting their UI toolkit within more vehicles/automobiles for forming next-generation digital cockpits...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-AES-Encryption-2019
title: Another Attempt At Adding Encryption Support To Btrfs
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-AES-Encryption-2019
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While the Btrfs file-system supports many next-gen features from SSD optimizations to transparent file-system compression to snapshots, it hasn't natively offered any encryption support. There have been Btrfs encryption attempts in the past, but nothing that has panned out in mainline short of running Btrfs atop dm-crypt. A new patch series was published overnight having another go at adding AES encryption to Btrfs...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Clang-8.0-Branch-Next-Week
title: LLVM Clang 8.0 Is Branching In A Week With Intel Cascade Lake Tuning & More
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Clang-8.0-Branch-Next-Week
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There is just one week to go until LLVM 8.0 and sub-projects like the Clang 8.0 C/C++ compiler will enter its feature freeze ahead of next month's official 8.0.0 milestone...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Livepatch-Atomic-Replace
title: Linux Kernel Live-Patching Continues Work On Atomic Replace & Cumulative Patches
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Livepatch-Atomic-Replace
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Not making it for the Linux 5.0 kernel but continuing to be revised is atomic replace functionality for the livepatching code. The Linux livepatch atomic replace feature allows for cumulative patches and the ability to remove a patch lower in the stack / patch series...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoenix-Does-LVFS
title: Firmware Vendor Phoenix Tech Joins The LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoenix-Does-LVFS
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Last month firmware vendor AMI joined the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) while today the other big firmware vendor, Phoenix Technologies, is also backing LVFS for their OEM/ODM partners that want to distribute firmware update capsules on this RedHat-based service...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-Possible-For-Fedora
title: Fedora Developers Look At Packaging Up The Radeon Open Compute Stack (ROCm)
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-Possible-For-Fedora
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While the ROCm "Radeon Open Compute" stack has been fully open-source for a while and in recent months even able to work fine off a mainline Linux kernel, a barrier to its adoption has been officially just have binaries produced by AMD for RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu and not seeing these components including its OpenCL driver available through Linux distribution repositories. Fortunately, in 2019, that may finally be changing...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Librem-5-EOY2018-Update
title: Purism Shares The Progress Made On Their Librem 5 Smartphone For The End Of 2018
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Librem-5-EOY2018-Update
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The folks at Purism have shared their latest status update on the Librem 5 Linux-powered, security-minded smartphone they plan to begin shipping in the months ahead...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-CES-2019-Keynote
title: AMD CES 2019 Keynote: Say Hello To Radeon 7 As 2nd Gen Vega
url: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-CES-2019-Keynote
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While Monday was the Intel keynote at CES 2019, this morning AMD took the spotlight with Lisa Su's keynote in Las Vegas...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.31.4-Released
title: GNOME 3.31.4 Released As A Big Step Towards GNOME 3.32
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GNOME 3.31.4 is out today as their latest development snapshot towards this March's GNOME 3.32 desktop release. GNOME 3.31.4 comes with several exciting additions ranging from enhancing its default web browser to the GNOME Boxes virtualization component enabling 3D/OpenGL support with VirtIO-GPU...


guid: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenChrome-Needs-2019-Atomic
title: Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux
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It's been over a decade since VIA x86 hardware has been relevant and with that their Unichrome/Chrome integrated graphics chipsets, but the effort still isn't over for trying to get the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver into the mainline Linux kernel for these vintage systems...


guid: 916485 at https://www.linux.com
title: MIPS Joins RISC-V as Second Open Source Alternative to Arm
author: Data Center Knowledge
url: https://www.linux.com/news/mips-joins-risc-v-second-open-source-alternative-arm
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The open source silicon space has suddenly become more crowded. Shortly before Christmas, Silicon Valley AI startup Wave Computing, which is developing hardware for running deep learning applications in data centers and offices, announced plans to open source its MIPS instruction set architecture, or ISA, under what it's calling the "MIPS Open" program.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 917713 at https://www.linux.com
title: It's a Linux-Powered Car World
author: ZDNet
url: https://www.linux.com/news/its-linux-powered-car-world-1
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Linux is everywhere including your car. While some companies, like <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-is-under-your-hood/">Tesla, run their own homebrew Linux distros</a>, most rely on <a href="https://www.automotivelinux.org/">Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)</a>. AGL is a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open platform for connected cars with over 140 members.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 917433 at https://www.linux.com
title: LF Networking Moving Forward to Consolidate Open Source Networking Efforts
author: EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
url:
https://www.linux.com/news/lf-networking-moving-forward-consolidate-open-source-networking-efforts-0

content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In January 2018, the Linux Foundation <a href="http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/linux-foundation-creates-new-umbrella-lf-networking-fund-for-open-source-networking-projects.html">announced</a> a major reorganization of its networking efforts under the umbrella organization known as LF Networking. A year later, it's an effort that continues to advance.</p>
<p>In a video interview, Arpit Joshipura, General Manager for Networking at the Linux Foundation, said there has been positive momentum in the LF Networking effort. </p></div></div></div>


guid: 917429 at https://www.linux.com
title: 7 CI/CD Tools for Sysadmins
author: OpenSource.com
url: https://www.linux.com/news/7-cicd-tools-sysadmins-1
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) have all existed in the developer community for many years. Some organizations have involved their operations counterparts, but many haven't. For most organizations, it's imperative for their operations teams to become just as familiar with CI/CD tools and practices as their development compatriots are.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 917435 at https://www.linux.com
title: Kubernetes Federation Evolution
author: Kubernetes
url: https://www.linux.com/news/kubernetes-federation-evolution
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Deploying applications to a kubernetes cluster is well defined and can in some cases be as simple as <code>kubectl create -f app.yaml</code>. The user’s story to deploy apps across multiple clusters has not been that simple. How should an app workload be distributed? Should the app resources be replicated into all clusters, or replicated into selected clusters or partitioned into clusters? How is the access to clusters managed? What happens if some of the resources, which user wants to distribute pre-exist in all or fewer clusters in some form.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 917431 at https://www.linux.com
title: The Many New Features & Improvements of the Linux 5.0 Kernel
author: Phoronix
url: https://www.linux.com/news/many-new-features-improvements-linux-50-kernel-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.0-rc1, what was formerly known as <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&amp;q=Linux+4.21">Linux 4.21</a> over the past two weeks. While the bumping was rather arbitrary as opposed to a major change necessitating the big version bump, this next version of the Linux kernel does come with some exciting changes and new features (of course, our Twitter followers <a href="https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1081573866554699777">already have known Linux was thinking of the 5.0 re-brand from 4.21</a>).</p></div></div></div>


guid: 918449 at https://www.linux.com
title: Entroware Launches Ubuntu Linux All-In-One PC With 6-Core Intel CPU
author: Forbes
url: https://www.linux.com/news/entroware-launches-ubuntu-linux-all-one-pc-6-core-intel-cpu-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Entroware, a UK-based PC manufacturer specializing in custom Linux systems, just rolled out their new <a href="https://www.entroware.com/store/ares">Ares PC</a>. It's a stylish-looking AIO that ships with <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/28/linux-for-beginners-understanding-the-many-versions-of-ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> or Ubuntu MATE and should be a great fit for classrooms, home office and business use. I have a review system on the way, but until it arrives let's see what's under the hood and breakdown the various loadouts.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 918305 at https://www.linux.com
title: Kubernetes Dominates in IT Job Searches
author: SDx Central
url: https://www.linux.com/news/kubernetes-dominates-it-job-searches-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a class="a-l" href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/aws-plan-battle-google-using-kubernetes/2017/07/" title="Does AWS Plan to Battle Google Using Kubernetes?">Kubernetes</a> was the dominant technology skill requested by IT firms in 2018, according to a new report from jobs board Dice.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 918973 at https://www.linux.com
title: Roles and Responsibilities of Cloud Native DevOps Engineers
author: The New Stack
url: https://www.linux.com/news/roles-and-responsibilities-cloud-native-devops-engineers-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cloud Native DevOps is a relatively new collection of old concepts and ideas that coalesced out of a need to address inadequacies in the “old” way of building applications. To understand what Cloud Native DevOps engineers do on a daily basis, one needs to understand that the objective of the Cloud Native model is to build apps that take advantage of the adaptability and resiliency that are so easy to achieve using cloud tools. There are four main concepts that serve as the basis of cloud native computing: Microservices, Containers, CI/CD, and DevOps.</p></div></div></div>


guid: 918977 at https://www.linux.com
title: Unit Testing in the Linux Kernel
author: Linux Journal
url: https://www.linux.com/news/unit-testing-linux-kernel-0
feedurl: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
base: https://www.linux.com/feeds/news/rss
content:
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Brendan Higgins</strong> recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as <strong>perf</strong>, <strong>autotest</strong> and <strong>kselftest</strong>. The whole issue of testing is very dear to kernel developers' hearts, because Linux sits at the core of the system and often has a very strong stability/security requirement. Hosts of automated tests regularly churn through kernel source code, reporting any oddities to the mailing list.</p></div></div></div>


title: Tropico 6 release delayed until March, Linux still confirmed for same-day support
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tropico-6-release-delayed-until-march-linux-still-confirmed-for-same-day-support.13305

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tropico-6-release-delayed-until-march-linux-still-confirmed-for-same-day-support.13305

content:
<p>Tags: Delayed, Humble Store, Steam, Simulation, Strategy, Coming Soon</p><p><p>Kalypso Media sent word today that El Presidente has been delayed, so now Tropico 6 is going to be releasing in March. Specifically, March 29th.</p>

<p style="text-align:center"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/519376326id13305gol.jpg" /></p>

<p>Here&#39;s what they told us:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>After going through rigorous in-house testing and taking on board all the feedback collected from the closed beta and the wider <em>Tropico</em> community, <strong>Tropico 6</strong> is shaping up to be a great game. However, great is not enough when it comes to El Presidente. As always, Kalypso is striving to deliver an outstanding gameplay experience to make <strong>Tropico 6</strong> the best in the series to date, and as such has taken the difficult decision to move the release of the PC, MAC and Linux versions to 29th March in order to allow sufficient time to implement as much of the fans&rsquo; feedback as possible and work on final balancing and polishing to raise the level of quality expected from this flagship brand to what the <em>Tropico</em> fans and community deserve.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Another interesting move is that their managing director, Simon Hellwig, also <a href="https://blog.kalypsomedia.com/en/open-letter-to-the-tropico-community/" target="_blank">wrote an open letter</a> to the community to apologise.</p>

<p>Can&#39;t argue with that. Delays happen and when you&#39;re doing it as a directly result of feedback from people testing, that&#39;s a good sign that they&#39;re doing the right thing to make a quality game.</p>

<p>To make up for it, anyone who has pre-ordered it by 7PM CET/6PM UTC on January 10th will get the first DLC for free. That&#39;s a nice gesture for those who did already give their money.</p>

<p>As a reminder, at release it will feature:</p>

<ul>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Play on large archipelagos for the first time in the series. Manage multiple islands at the same time and adapt to various new challenges.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Send your agents on raids to foreign lands to steal world wonders and monuments, to add them to your collection.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Build bridges, construct tunnels and transport your citizens and tourists in taxis, buses and aerial cable cars. <strong>Tropico 6</strong> offers completely new transportation and infrastructure possibilities.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Customize the looks of your palace at will and choose from various extras.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify"><strong>Tropico 6</strong> features a revised research system focusing on the political aspects of being the world&rsquo;s greatest dictator.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Election speeches are back! Address the people and make promises that you can&rsquo;t possibly keep.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Co-operative and competitive multiplayer for up to four players.</li>
</ul>

<p style="text-align:justify">If you are interested in pre-orders, you can do so on <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/store/tropico-6?partner=gamingonlinux" target="_blank">Humble Store</a> and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/492720/Tropico_6/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: First-person base-building survival game 'Volcanoids' is making great progress on a Linux version
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/first-person-base-building-survival-game-volcanoids-is-making-great-progress-on-a-linux-version.13306

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/first-person-base-building-survival-game-volcanoids-is-making-great-progress-on-a-linux-version.13306

content:
<p>Tags: Coming Soon, Steam, Indie Game, Survival, Adventure, Steampunk</p><p><p>I often find it hard to hold in my excitement about certain games, Volcanoids is one of them as it looks completely awesome. A game with steampunk-like massive moving drills you build your base on, sign me up doc!</p>

<p>We <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/volcanoids-the-base-building-survival-game-has-a-positive-linux-update.13271" target="_blank">mentioned recently</a> their progress towards getting a Linux version was going well and now they&#39;ve updated us again. Writing once again on their Steam forum topic, they <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/app/951440/discussions/0/1743353164097107475/?ctp=2#c1743356517529315049" target="_blank">said this</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong>Progress update 2:</strong><br />
We will be releasing Linux support in upcoming update 1.13<br />
Minimum requirement is OpenGL Core 4.3<br />
<br />
Black screen startup issue has been fixed, shader compilation has been moved into loading screen (when going from menu to game).<br />
<br />
The game loads 30-120s slower than on Windows, because OpenGL shader binaries are HW / Driver specific and we cannot compile them during build.<br />
<br />
We hope to address this issue by using Vulkan graphics API. Vulkan implementation is in progress, but not ready for release yet, there are rendering artifacts.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>They also mentioned in another post &quot;Sooner we finish Vulkan the better.&quot; due to shader compiling. Really great to get some insights into how development is going, I wish more developers were so open like this.</p>

<p>As a reminder, their trailer is blow:</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7c-WOmpx00"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/S7c-WOmpx00/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>I&#39;m hoping to be able to take a look at this as soon as the Linux build is available, will keep you posted. I&#39;m sure many of our readers are itching to try this one. It&#39;s just the fact that these massive drills are both your base and transportation by the looks of it, as they burrow deep into the ground and it looks so fun!</p>

<p>You can follow and wishlist on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/951440/Volcanoids/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: Jackbox Games now officially support Linux with all their Party Packs
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jackbox-games-now-officially-support-linux-with-all-their-party-packs.13307

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jackbox-games-now-officially-support-linux-with-all-their-party-packs.13307

content:
<p>Tags: Party Game, Humble Store, Steam, Indie Game</p><p><p>Have to hand it to the folks over at Jackbox Games, they&#39;re certainly putting in the effort here. They now officially support Linux with all their Party Pack games and more.</p>

<p>Firstly, as a reminder, since late 2017 they&#39;ve been rolling out beta versions of their games. None of them were advertised and they did this quietly to gather feedback while having a chat with us over emails. Starting with The Jackbox Party Pack 4 in <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-jackbox-party-pack-4-has-a-beta-available-for-linux-gamers.10935" target="_blank">December 2017</a> and then later doing the <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-jackbox-party-pack-2-3-are-both-now-in-beta-for-linux.10994" target="_blank">same for more</a> and so on.</p>

<p>The Jackbox Party Pack 5 actually released with Linux support back in October last year, which was awesome to see and shows how serious they are.</p>

<p>So now we have these titles <em>officially</em> supported on Linux as of yesterday:</p>

<ul>
	<li>The Jackbox Party Pack</li>
	<li>The Jackbox Party Pack 2</li>
	<li>The Jackbox Party Pack 3</li>
	<li>The Jackbox Party Pack 4</li>
	<li>The Jackbox Party Pack 5</li>
	<li>Drawful 2</li>
	<li>Fibbage XL</li>
	<li>Quiplash</li>
</ul>

<p>Good stuff! Hopefully this trend will continue now they&#39;ve got most issues ironed out. What&#39;s also really nice (and shows their commitment) is that they actually dropped Adobe AIR in favour of a native engine as well.</p>

<p>Find their games on <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&amp;partner=gamingonlinux&amp;developer=Jackbox%20Games%2C%20Inc." target="_blank">Humble Store</a> and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/developer/jackboxgames" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: Paradox Interactive have purchased the rights to Prison Architect from Introversion
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/paradox-interactive-have-purchased-the-rights-to-prison-architect-from-introversion.13308

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/paradox-interactive-have-purchased-the-rights-to-prison-architect-from-introversion.13308

content:
<p>Tags: Misc, Indie Game, Simulation, Strategy, Press Release</p><p><p>This is a very curious one, Paradox Interactive have just announced that they&#39;ve acquired Prison Architect from Introversion Software.</p>

<p style="text-align:center"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/1736628463id13308gol.jpg" /></p>


<blockquote>
<p>Paradox will take ownership of <em>Prison Architect</em> on all current and any future platforms, including Windows, MacOS, and Linux PCs, and Switch, Xbox and PlayStation consoles, in addition to their ongoing publishing of <em>Prison Architect: Mobile</em> on iOS and Android tablets. This acquisition also allows Paradox to continue development of <em>Prison Architect</em> going forward, and to explore opportunities with the wider &ldquo;Architect&rdquo; IP in the future.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>From that same release, Introversion&#39;s co-founder Mark Morris said he felt they had taken it as far as they could and that they&#39;re &quot;eager to see where a team like Paradox can take it next&quot;. This also gives Introversion room to breathe life into their next project (and no doubt plenty of money to help too&hellip;).</p>

<p>I&#39;m a big fan of the game myself, I&#39;ve sunk many great hours into it and having it in the hands of Paradox who&#39;ve supported Linux very well over the years is a good fit I think. Paradox support their titles for many years after release, far longer than a lot of others do and that makes me happy about the future of Prison Architect.</p>

<p>You can find Prison Architect on <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/store/prison-architect?partner=gamingonlinux" target="_blank">Humble Store</a>, <a href="https://www.gog.com/game/prison_architect?pp=b2a10a6c3dcadb10c8ffd734c1bab896d55cf0ec" target="_blank">GOG</a> and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/Prison_Architect/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p>

<p>It will likely show up on Paradox&#39;s own store sometime soon, perhaps this is another step towards a larger push for their own store? They do already have their <a href="https://play.paradoxplaza.com/" target="_blank">own launcher</a>, which supports Linux. It wouldn&#39;t surprise me if we saw them acquire more across this year.</p></p>


title: Cultist Simulator to get a free update this month with a new game mode and challenges
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/cultist-simulator-to-get-a-free-update-this-month-with-a-new-game-mode-and-challenges.13309

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/cultist-simulator-to-get-a-free-update-this-month-with-a-new-game-mode-and-challenges.13309

content:
<p>Tags: Coming Soon, Update, Steam, GOG, Itch.io, Humble Store, Simulation</p><p><p>Weather Factory have announced that Cultist Simulator is to get a free update later this month to expand what you can do and become even further.</p>

<p><u>See Also</u>: <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/we-review-cultist-simulator-a-game-from-the-creative-talent-behind-sunless-seas.11878" target="_blank">Scaine&#39;s review of Cultist Simulator</a> for our thoughts on it.</p>

<p>Here&#39;s the key features they told us coming with this update:</p>

<ul>
	<li>MAJOR VICTORIES: You achieved immortality? Well done. Now, the hard bit. Play as your own Apostle, executing a doomsday plan to make your immortal character something like a god. Pursue the path of Grail, Lantern or Forge. Assemble the Great Feast; open a door into light; or Bring the Dawn.</li>
	<li>MOAR LORE: Delve even further into the rich lore of Cultist Simulator. What is the Dawnbreaker Device? Where is the flaw in the world to be found? What is the Third Mode of the Tricuspid Gate? Who are the avid, ancient, brilliant women who call themselves the Ligeians... and why are they helping you?</li>
	<li>IMMORTAL ENEMIES: They&rsquo;re here to prevent your greater ascension, and add challenge and replay value while they&#39;re at it. These powerful NPCs make Detectives and Rivals look like playground bullies. See your loved ones kidnapped; your finances shredded; your affairs exposed to the public; your dreams become a battleground. Confront them in person, if you dare.</li>
</ul>

<p>Trailer if you&#39;ve not seen it before:</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heaH_KvB4eU"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/heaH_KvB4eU/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>The update is due out on Tuesday, January 22nd and will be live sometime around 11AM PDT / 7PM UTC.</p>

<p>At the same time they&#39;re also releasing Cultist Simulator&rsquo;s 15-track OST which will also be available across various stores.</p>

<p>Find it on <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/store/cultist-simulator?partner=gamingonlinux" target="_blank">Humble</a> <a href="https://www.gog.com/game/cultist_simulator?pp=b2a10a6c3dcadb10c8ffd734c1bab896d55cf0ec" target="_blank">GOG, </a><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/" target="_blank">Steam</a> and <a href="https://alexiskennedy.itch.io/cultist-simulator" target="_blank">Itch</a>.</p></p>


title: Slime Research, a physics-based slimey puzzle-platformer is out in Early Access
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/slime-research-a-physics-based-slimey-puzzle-platformer-is-out-in-early-access.13310

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/slime-research-a-physics-based-slimey-puzzle-platformer-is-out-in-early-access.13310

content:
<p>Tags: Steam, Indie Game, Early Access, Itch.io, Platformer, Puzzle</p><p><p>Slime Research from developer Schism LLC is a bit of an odd one, now available in Early Access with Linux support.</p>

<p><u>Note</u>: Key provided by the developer.</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwCnUKUm6k"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/YUwCnUKUm6k/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>It&#39;s an odd game where you control the core of a slime with a body that only loosely follows you around. You can also change colour, which enables you to leave your body. It&#39;s pretty weird and currently rather simplistic but it does offer an interesting gameplay idea in a rather rough shell.</p>

<p>While I definitely like the idea, I&#39;m not even remotely sold on the level design. It doesn&#39;t currently feel like it makes enough use of the slime mechanics, at all. Every level felt too easy and I&#39;m not exactly the brightest bulb in the house when it usually comes to such games.</p>

<p>There was only one single time I was confused and that&#39;s simply because the game didn&#39;t tell me the controls (you need to go into the options for that, otherwise it doesn&#39;t tell you a thing), so I later found out you can also pull the slime body towards you after you&#39;ve left it. This is important to know, since you can leave your body on a button to open a door, place your core on another button to keep it open and then pull your body back towards you to finish the level.</p>

<p>They&#39;re estimating that their stay in Early Access will remain until the end of 2019, so they have plenty of time to improve and expand upon their idea here. I&#39;m keen to see it expand but it does need some much more interesting levels and more of them considering I finished it in about 30 minutes.</p>

<p>Find it on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/966180/Slime_Research/" target="_blank">Steam</a> and <a href="https://nanimonull.itch.io/slime-research" target="_blank">itch.io</a>.</p></p>


title: Critters for Sale, an incredibly strange point and click short-story has a Linux version
author: liamdawe
feedurl: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
guid:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/critters-for-sale-an-incredibly-strange-point-and-click-short-story-has-a-linux-version.13311

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/critters-for-sale-an-incredibly-strange-point-and-click-short-story-has-a-linux-version.13311

content:
<p>Tags: Adventure, Indie Game, Free Game, Itch.io, Point & Click</p><p><p>If you&#39;re in the mood for a story that&#39;s a little different, with a presentation that&#39;s rather unique then take a look at Critters for Sale.</p>

<p>Currently, only the Snake story is available. Critters for Sale will eventually comprise of five short stories, each being set in a different era and location. It will touch on themes like time travel, black magic, immortality and more.</p>

<p>While free, the developer does accept donations through itch with the &#39;pay what you want&#39; model, which will help them finish more of it.</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30TbreAWXE"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/K30TbreAWXE/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>A note for NVIDIA users: It does have a Unity game engine bug, where the bottom part of the screen gets a little distorted. The same issue I reported on and <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/theres-another-better-workaround-for-the-unity-graphical-glitches-with-nvidia-on-linux.13216" target="_blank">gave a fix here</a>. In short, launch it with this added to the end:</p>

<p><code>-force-glcore42 -force-clamped</code></p>

<p>So, from terminal you would simply do this in the downloaded folder:</p>

<p><code>./Critters\ for\ Sale.x86 -force-glcore42 -force-clamped</code></p>

<p>Once you do that, it&#39;s all good.</p>

<p>It&#39;s very cleverly done and the distorted visual style is certainly creepy, I&#39;m just not entirely sure on the legalities of it considering what it does. I don&#39;t want to spoil it but if you play it you will understand.</p>

<p>I think if they manage to expand it (I felt it was far too short) on top of adding more chapters it could really be something.</p>

<p>Find it on <a href="https://sonoshee.itch.io/critters-for-sale" target="_blank">itch.io</a>.</p></p>


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title: How to enable Steam Play (Proton) directly in SteamOS
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<p>Tags: Steam Play, SteamOS, HOWTO</p><p><p style="text-align:center"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/1385263488id13295gol.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align:center"><strong><em>How-To: Enable Valve&#39;s Proton Compatibility Tool in SteamOS</em></strong></p>

<hr />
<p>As we all know, in August of 2018, Valve rebranded Steam Play and released Proton, a forked version of Wine which includes DXVK, into the Linux Steam client. This allowed users to very easily run Windows-only games, without the hassle of vanilla Wine and DXVK.&nbsp;Sadly however, this option to enable Proton is still non-existent within Big Picture Mode, which also affects&nbsp;SteamOS. While this may appear odd at first, the speculation is that this will be added in when Proton is no longer in Beta, and a possible major update to SteamOS will boast the ability to play Windows titles commercially. Perhaps that could also be a sign of new Steam Machines?</p>

<p>However, what about those of us&nbsp;who&nbsp;already use&nbsp;SteamOS? Don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s a pretty painless process to enable. With a little terminal trickery, we can turn existing Steam Machines and/or SteamOS powered computers into early prototypes of what Valve may be trying to achieve in the future, and discover some pretty shocking and exciting things under the hood.&nbsp;</p>

<hr />
<p style="text-align:center"><em><strong>STEP ONE: Enable SteamOS Beta Updates</strong></em></p>

<p>No, I don&#39;t&nbsp;mean opting into the Steam beta within BPM (Big Picture Mode), which can be done in the settings. But rather instead the SteamOS beta, which you have to do completely within the desktop mode. This is so you get the more recent 2.166 &quot;brewmaster_beta&quot; version of the underlying operating system, which includes updated NVIDIA and Mesa drivers that was released back in August last year, which Valve have sadly not yet pushed out for everyone.</p>

<p>First and foremost, you have to &quot;<em>Enable Access To The Linux Desktop&quot;,&nbsp;</em>in the Interface tab in the settings menu. Then, exit to the desktop.&nbsp;</p>

<p>To continue, you need to open a terminal emulator. You can use Gnome Terminal or Xterm. In my experience, using Gnome Terminal just hangs and never opens, so optionally find&nbsp;xterm within your&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>usr/bin&nbsp;</em>folder, which is in&nbsp;your&nbsp;<em>home&nbsp;</em>folder. To make this easier in future, you&nbsp;might want to&nbsp;pin that&nbsp;xterm to your&nbsp;favorites.</p>

<p>Once Xterm is open type:</p>

<pre>
passwd</pre>

<p>Which will allow you to set the root/sudo password for desktop mode. After that, enter the following consecutively:</p>

<pre>
<code>sudo apt install steamos-beta-repo

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt dist-upgrade
</code></pre>

<p>Optionally, you can also type in the following commands to clean your system of now obsolete files:</p>

<pre>
<code>sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt autoclean</code></pre>

<p>Reboot the system and congratulations!&nbsp;You are now running SteamOS in Beta! However, we still need to enable Proton.</p>

<p>You might want to&nbsp;check to see if your system is indeed running in Beta. You need to go into the&nbsp;<em>Settings&nbsp;</em>menu in Big Picture Mode, enter the&nbsp;<em>System&nbsp;</em>tab, and on the right hand side you should see your Steam Machine&#39;s internal specifications, which down towards the bottom should list the driver version.</p>

<hr />
<p style="text-align:center"><strong><em>STEP TWO: Enable Proton Via The Standard Steam Window</em></strong></p>

<p>Lastly, we need to enable Proton, which can only be done via the standard desktop Steam window, due to BPM missing it. To do this, exit back into desktop mode, open your terminal of choice. Now enter the following commands in order for us to restart Steam with the standard desktop window.</p>

<pre>
sudo -i -u steam</pre>

<p>The command above gives us, the &#39;desktop&#39; account, with access to control&nbsp;the elevated SteamOS account.</p>

<p>Next, we need to kill Steam and restart it. Enter the following commands:</p>

<pre>
pkill steam
steam</pre>

<p>Steam should now show the standard update window that desktop users see upon clicking on / starting Steam. Sometimes after doing this process for the first time, Big Picture will take over. No worries, just exit and try it again and it will work.&nbsp;</p>

<p>From the standard desktop window, we can just click on&nbsp;<em>Steam&nbsp;</em>in the upper left hand corner, go all the way down to the&nbsp;<em>SteamPlay&nbsp;</em>tab, and we can enable Proton just like standard users on other distros.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Exit Steam and type the following command:</p>

<pre>
sudo reboot</pre>

<p>You can now use Big Picture Mode as usual, but now with the option&nbsp;to install Windows only titles! SteamOS even has the ability to type in launch commands, which you can find after clicking on a game. Some games will require special commands and this is what leads me into the final section of this article.</p>

<hr />
<p style="text-align:center"><strong><em>STEP THREE: Wonder What&#39;s Next!</em></strong></p>

<p>To conclude this article, let&#39;s revisit where I said in the introduction that we&#39;d find some pretty shocking things going on with SteamOS.</p>

<p>After enabling the SteamOS Beta and Proton, I discovered that many games, such as GTA V or Slender: The Arrival, which required things such as&nbsp;<em>mscorefonts&nbsp;</em>or other various dependencies, along with special launch commands, worked right out of the box with minimal bugs on SteamOS! Every other distro I&#39;ve tried has required extra work from the user on many titles, these included. GTA V worked near flawlessly and didn&#39;t need the fixes listed on GitHub and by other various community outlets. This was the same for Outlast 2, Slender: The Arrival, Bully Scholarship Edition, and many other Windows games I tested. To further prove SteamOS is the epicenter for Valve&#39;s Linux innovations, (<a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-confirms-their-continued-support-for-linux-gaming.11530" target="_blank">as stated by a valve employee</a> when asked about the removal of Steam Machines from the hardware tab on the Steam Store) I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 19, and sure enough, GTA V and other titles needed the listed fixes in order to work.</p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p></p>


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title:
Smith and Winston, the beautiful voxel-based twin stick shooter with a focus on exploration is now on Steam

url:
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<p>Tags: Itch.io, Steam, Early Access, Twin-stick shooter, Action</p><p><p>I&#39;ve been <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/smith-and-winston-a-metroidvania-styled-twin-stick-shooter-in-a-voxel-world-has-linux-support.12760" target="_blank">massively impressed</a> with my time spent in Smith and Winston, which just made its way onto Steam for some Early Access fun.</p>

<p><u>Note</u>: Key provided by the developer.</p>

<p>I&#39;ve seen before in our comments how some are tired of &quot;voxel&quot; stuff but honestly Smith and Winston is one of those that really do it justice. The world looks absolutely beautiful and it&#39;s especially fun when you totally smash it all to pieces since it&#39;s largely destructible. Just don&#39;t fall out the world and lose one of your precious hearts, it&#39;s easy to do when you&#39;re on a destruction spree, it&#39;s just too fun.</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZsUh4glUI"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/_UZsUh4glUI/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>While it is a twin-stick shooter, it&#39;s not simply a button masher. That&#39;s a fair amount of &quot;kill all the things&quot; but the exploration side to it is lovely too (one I hope they expand some more!).</p>

<p>Absolutely worth a look right now, I&#39;ve loved what it has to offer so far and I&#39;m genuinely excited to follow it along in development. Although, it won&#39;t be for long as they&#39;re estimating a full release in February this year. It is still missing a fair bit of planned features though like the campaign mode, split-screen co-op and so on which they will roll out over the next couple of months.</p>

<p>Just a note for those with gamepads, it wouldn&#39;t detect my Steam Controller at all until I went into the settings and manually changed it to &quot;Xinput Controller&quot; and then restarted the game. This might act differently in the Steam version, I have it on itch.</p>

<p>Find it now on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/942250/Smith_and_Winston/" target="_blank">Steam</a> and <a href="https://executionunit.itch.io/smith-and-winston" target="_blank">itch.io</a>.</p></p>


title: Fruit Tower Defense might not look like much but it's surprisingly good
author: liamdawe
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<p>Tags: Indie Game, Steam, Tower Defense</p><p><p>Fruit Tower Defense from developer Fratboy Entertainment is a title you could easily skip over and disregard due to the style but it&#39;s actually quite good. <u>Note</u>: Key provided by the developer.</p>

<p>It&#39;s not graphically impressive in any way but it more than makes up for this with the challenge.</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfIDWrl0ym4"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZfIDWrl0ym4/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>I&#39;ve been playing it through on the Medium difficulty and honestly I&#39;m surprised by it, I&#39;ve actually enjoyed it. While there&#39;s not a huge amount of levels, there are quite a lot of waves per level so you get some good time with it. It&#39;s kicked my butt a good few times too, making me stop and think about my strategy and not many TD titles actually make me do that.</p>

<p>There&#39;s two areas of the game it doesn&#39;t do too well though. Placing towers was a little finicky, since it wants you to drag and drop them, being able to just click and place would simply work better. The other is the descriptions of your towers, they don&#39;t give you the best idea of their strengths and weaknesses leaving you to figure that out mostly for yourself.</p>

<p>Only had one technical issue, which is where it turns off my second monitor. Very minor and ALT+TAB brings it back so not a big issue.</p>

<p>It&#39;s cheap too at around &euro;3.29/$3.99/&pound;2.89! Find Fruit Tower Defense on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/911760/Fruit_Tower_Defense/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: An updated Steam Client is out, should be more responsive when downloading
author: liamdawe
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<p>Tags: Steam, Valve, Apps</p><p><p>Valve have now rolled out the latest stable update to the Steam Client which includes some nice fixes and improvements.</p>

<p>One issue I certainly noticed, since I am downloading games pretty much all the time is how often the Steam Client became unresponsive while downloading. Valve have improved this in the latest build, which is great.</p>

<p>Additionally, they fixed an issue where sometimes the recently played games list was truncated to 5 items, a rare crash was fixed where getting a local network address failed on a local network connection and a fix for when you&#39;re trying to buy or sell items in the overlay which might result in an empty browser window when Family View was active.</p>

<p>For Steam Input, they&#39;ve added support for the PDP Faceoff Wired Pro Controller, the PowerA wired/wireless GameCube Style controllers and PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controller.</p>

<p>Also, the Steam community header is now hidden when in Big Picture chat. Full details <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/47430/" target="_blank">available here</a>.</p>

<p>Hopefully sometime later this year we might finally see the modern Steam client Valve have talked about (and leaked) a few times.</p></p>


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title:
Eastshade, the open world adventure where you're a travelling artist has a new trailer and release date

url:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/eastshade-the-open-world-adventure-where-youre-a-travelling-artist-has-a-new-trailer-and-release-date.13315

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<p>Tags: Open World, Adventure, Exploration, Indie Game, Steam, Coming Soon</p><p><p>Eastshade certainly looks like a wonderfully peaceful experience and the new trailer show it off rather well, it&#39;s releasing soon too on February 13th.</p>

<p>Check out the stunning new trailer:</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBhVvHGqV4"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2fBhVvHGqV4/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>Considering how impressed I was with their previous game Leaving Lyndow, I&#39;m pretty interested to see what they can do with a much bigger game and better Linux support (<a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/eastshade-an-absolutely-gorgeous-looking-adventure-game-about-a-travelling-painter-will-come-to-linux.11384" target="_blank">see here</a>).</p>

<p>It will feature:</p>

<ul>
	<li>A peaceful open-world exploration-adventure full of character</li>
	<li>Compose paintings anywhere in the world and offer them to the locals to unlock secrets and gain items</li>
	<li>Acquire crafting materials and schematics to surmount obstacles and solve quests</li>
	<li>Make friends along the way through fully-voiced dynamic conversations and unlockable topics</li>
</ul>

<p>Considering most open world experiences end up full of combat, it could be an interesting break for those who&#39;ve grown tired of the destruction.</p>

<p>Find it on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/715560/Eastshade/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: Happy Room, a game of completely mindless fun that works well on Linux
author: liamdawe
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<p>Tags: Indie Game, Steam, Action, Gore</p><p><p>Happy Room, a game you might not have heard of and you will be forgiven for that (I hadn&#39;t either) as it released in 2016. Turns out, they added a Linux version just after release so we completely missed it. A bit of a warning though, it&#39;s certainly not one to show a younger audience.</p>

<p><u>Note</u>: Key provided by the developer to our <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4218320/" target="_blank">Steam Curator</a>, be sure to follow us!</p>

<p>It&#39;s a game of mindless violence, as you throw test subject after test subject around a chamber for science as you subject them to all kind of explosions and stuff.</p>

<p>While it released back in 2016, it&#39;s still being updated. It had a big updated in December last year, adding in a new game mode, new weapons to unleash on your test subjects and the ability to save a quick gif as I shall demonstrate below:</p>

<p style="text-align:center"><a data-fancybox="images" href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/13011679841547034960gol1.gif" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/13011679841547034960gol1.gif" /></a></p>

<p>It gets a lot more amusing later on too, that was a very early part of the game with little available to me. Crossbow unlocked you say? Show me more!</p>

<p>I will openly admit that Happy Room gave me a rather large amount of laughs. I&#39;m not sure if that&#39;s the devil inside me wanting to get out or I just needed a break from everything else but I enjoyed it. Seriously, at one point I was nearly crying with laughter at just how long some of it can go on for, especially amusing when you think it&#39;s all over and a Crossbow has just one more bolt to throw.</p>

<p>Giving off some of the same ridiculous vibes as a game like Goat Simulator, I thought I would get bored of it within 30 minutes. There I was though, two hours later still going. It helps that there&#39;s some interesting challenges you need to accomplish, some of these are surprisingly difficult as the physics don&#39;t react the exact same way every time which increases the hilarity of it when something completely unexpected happens.</p>

<p>You even get to upgrade your various tools of pain too.</p>

<p>Find Happy Room on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/550010/Happy_Room/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim with an aim of becoming immortal is coming to Linux
author: liamdawe
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<p>Tags: Indie Game, Steam, Coming Soon, Strategy, Cyberpunk, Simulation</p><p><p>Quite a surprise turned up in my inbox recently. Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim that looks really good is releasing with Linux support next month.</p>

<p>Funded with help from <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1870604859/spinnortality-a-cyberpunk-management-game/description" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> (one we missed) back in December 2017, they also had a grant from the Austrian government.</p>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAb1fZ3duZU?rel=0&amp;start=1"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/sAb1fZ3duZU?rel=0&amp;start=1/0.jpg" alt="youtube video thumbnail"><br />Watch video on YouTube.com</a>

<p>The developer says games can take anywhere between 8 to 20 hours and it will feature:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Achieve immortality with cutting edge tech.</li>
	<li>Bribe politicians, spread fake news, rig elections.</li>
	<li>Research horrific products; market them so they&rsquo;re irresistible.</li>
	<li>Sell products such as metacritic for friendships, sentient social media profiles and an &lsquo;auto-career&rsquo; service.</li>
	<li>Crash stock markets, trigger riots or topple governments.</li>
	<li>Pursue world-shaping agendas.</li>
	<li>Exploit specific cultures with targeted marketing.</li>
	<li>Use media control to warp culture or run PR campaigns.</li>
</ul>

<p>If you&#39;re interested, they have an older beta available on <a href="https://jamespatton.itch.io/spinnortality-test" target="_blank">itch.io</a>. The older beta did have an issue of having no mouse input when in fullscreen, a pretty old Unity game engine bug. Hopefully the release is using a newer build of Unity so we don&#39;t have to deal with that. It does work fine in windowed mode though, so I was able to check out some of the gameplay.</p>

<p>I do quite like the style and gameplay of this one, there&#39;s not actually many games that focus on the themes this touches on in such a management sim so it&#39;s pretty exciting. If you grow old and die, it&#39;s game over. So your main focus is to keep away from death&#39;s door using whatever means necessary.</p>

<p>You can follow it along on <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/822990/Spinnortality__cyberpunk_management_sim/" target="_blank">Steam</a>.</p></p>


title: AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
author: liamdawe
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<p>Tags: AMD, Hardware</p><p><p>Something that could be rather exciting for AMD enthusiasts, AMD has officially revealed the AMD Radeon VII at CES 2019. On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming.</p>

<p>Getting ahead of the curve a little here, the Radeon VII is built on 7nm which makes it the first consumer-level GPU to be built with it which is interesting. AMD say it&#39;s built on an &quot;enhanced second-generation AMD &lsquo;Vega&rsquo; architecture&quot; and it seems it will be a decent boost over the current Radeon RX Vega 64.</p>

<p style="text-align:center"><a data-fancybox="images" href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/9720951201547064004gol1.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/9720951201547064004gol1.png" /></a></p>

<p>When compared directly with the RX Vega 64, AMD said it performed up to 27% higher in Blender, up to 27% higher in DaVinci Resolve and they saw up to 62% higher performance in the OpenCL LuxMark compute benchmark.</p>

<p>Some more specs:</p>

<ul>
	<li>60 compute units</li>
	<li>3840 stream processors running at up to 1.8GHz</li>
	<li>16GB of HBM2 memory (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory)</li>
	<li>1 TB/s memory bandwidth</li>
	<li>4,096-bit memory interface</li>
</ul>

<p>When it comes to gaming, that was also mentioned as well of course. It&#39;s nice to see Vulkan mentioned along side DirectX too! Naturally, they&#39;re only going for big Windows games right now but they did say it offered &quot;35 percent higher performance in Battlefield V, and up to 42 percent higher performance in Strange Brigade 1&quot; over the Vega 64 which is quite impressive.</p>

<p>The&nbsp;Radeon VII will be available February 7, 2019 for around $699 USD.</p>

<p>Additionally, they&#39;ve teamed up with Google to power Project Stream, Googles new cloud gaming service using their Radeon Pro GPUs.</p>

<p>On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming. They will also be built on 7nm tech, based on the Zen 2 core architecture and AMD say it&#39;s the &quot;world&#39;s first&quot; to support PCIe 4.0 connectivity. Sounds like it&#39;s going to be a beast, as they did a preview of it against an Intel i9 9900k where the Ryzen processor came out on top while also using around 30% less power.</p>

<p style="text-align:center"><a data-fancybox="images" href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/20969255031547064056gol1.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/article_media/20969255031547064056gol1.png" /></a></p>

<p>They&#39;re launching the AMD Ryzen 3000 series sometime in the middle of 2019.</p>

<p>For notebook/laptop users, they also revealed the 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Mobile processor with Radeon Vega Graphics coming to a range of devices from companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo and Samsung throughout 2019.</p>

<p>You can see their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bibZyMjY2K4" target="_blank">CES 2019 video here</a>.</p></p>


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title: New Game, Old Ways: Cramming an NES Game into 40 kB
author: Dan Maloney
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/new-game-old-ways-cramming-an-nes-game-into-40-kb/
feedurl: https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/
content:
<p>Why would anyone bother to create new content for a console system that&#8217;s staring down its 40th birthday? Perhaps just for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM" target="_blank">the challenge of fitting a game into 40 kilobytes of storage</a>.</p>
<p>That at least seems to be the motivation behind [Morphcat Games] pending release of <em>Micro Mages</em>, a new game for the Nintendo Entertainment System console that takes its inspiration from <em>Super Mario Bros</em>. The interesting bit here is how they managed to stuff so much content into so little space. The video below goes into great detail on that, and it&#8217;s a fascinating lesson in optimization. The game logic itself is coded in assembler, which of course is far more efficient than higher level languages. Even so, that took 32 kB of ROM, leaving a mere 8 kB for background elements and foreground sprites.</p>
<p>Through a combination of limited sprite size, tiling of smaller sprites to make larger characters, and reusing tiles by flipping them horizontally or vertically, an impressively complete palette of animated characters was developed. Background elements were similarly deconstructed and reused, resulting in a palette of tiles used to generate all the maps for the game that takes up just 60 bytes. Turning those into playable levels involves more mirroring and some horizontal shifting of tiles, and it looks like quite an engaging playfield.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morphcat-games/micro-mages-a-new-game-for-the-nes/updates" target="_blank">Yes, there&#8217;s a Kickstarter</a> for the game, but we&#8217;re mainly intrigued by what it takes to cram a playable game into so little space. Don&#8217;t get us wrong &#8211; we love <a href="https://hackaday.com/2017/04/23/this-hacker-fit-an-entire-retropie-in-an-altoids-tin/">the Retro Pie builds</a> too, but seeing the tricks that early game developers relied upon to make things work really gets the creative juices flowing.</p>
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<p>[Keith O] dug up this gem for us. Thanks!</p>


guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=333171
title: Three Dimensions: What Does That Really Mean?
author: Jenny List
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/three-dimensions-what-does-that-really-mean/
feedurl: https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/
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<p>The holy grail of display technology is to replicate what you see in the real world. This means video playback in 3D &#8212; but when it comes to displays, what is 3D anyway?</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need me to tell you how far away we are from succeeding in replicating real life in a video display. Despite all the hype, there are only a couple of different approaches to faking those three-dimensions. Let&#8217;s take a look at what they are, and why they can call it 3D, but they&#8217;re not fooling us into believing we&#8217;re seeing real life&#8230; yet.</p>
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<h2>My Superpower: I See Things Different (But So Do Many Others)</h2>
<p>When you share a secret with the world you lose all element of surprise, but this one&#8217;s too good to keep under wraps. I have a genuine bona-fide superpower, one that all those comic-book authors would have no doubt incorporated into their characters had they only thought of it.</p>
<figure id="attachment_335132" style="width: 319px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg" target="_blank"><img data-attachment-id="335132" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/three-dimensions-what-does-that-really-mean/jenny-editing-hackaday/" data-orig-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg" data-orig-size="773,1000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Moto G (4)&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1533628635&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.44&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="jenny-editing-hackaday" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=309&#038;h=400" data-large-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=483" class="wp-image-335132 size-medium" src="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=309&#038;h=400" alt="A strabismus is no barrier to writing, 3D vision not required!" width="309" height="400" srcset="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=309&amp;h=400 309w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=618&amp;h=800 618w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/jenny-editing-hackaday.jpg?w=193&amp;h=250 193w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A strabismus is no barrier to writing, 3D vision not required!</figcaption></figure>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty mundane really, no radioactive flies or anything were involved, instead I have a thing called a strabismus. It&#8217;s a congenital condition, my left eye looks about 20 degrees to the left of centre, and the superpower it conveys is that I can see over my shoulder to something of what is happening behind me. I should have a cape or something, but sadly our Hackaday overlords&#8217; budgets don&#8217;t stretch that far.</p>
<p>In reality having peripheral vision that stretches at its leftward extreme much further than everyone else&#8217;s isn&#8217;t much use beyond a party trick, but having a strabismus has another more significant effect. Since the two views on the world that my brain could see while it was developing in my very early childhood were not aligned with each other, I don&#8217;t have stereoscopic vision. A quick read around the subject reveals that I share this to some extent  with as many of 12% of people, so perhaps quite a few readers will understand. That&#8217;s not to say that I and people like me inhabit a 2-dimensional world as if viewing it through a TV screen though. Instead we see in 3D in a different way to people with stereoscopic vision, and as a result the subject of 3D imaging has become something of a personal fascination.</p>
<h2>Types of 3D Displays</h2>
<p><strong>Stereoscopic Displays</strong> | If you think of a 3D display, the chances are you will first imagine a stereoscopic one. Watching <em>Avatar</em> in a cinema with a set of polarised glasses perhaps, or even the vomit-inducing Nintendo Virtual Boy console. Your brain is being tricked into believing it has a 3D object in front of it through the means of each of your eyes being individually fed a view of the same scene but from slightly different viewpoints. It&#8217;s easy to make a stereoscopic imaging system for the relatively trifling expense of an extra camera and a bit of display trickery, and delivering the correct image to each eye is a long-ago-solved problem.</p>
<figure id="attachment_335133" style="width: 410px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg" target="_blank"><img data-attachment-id="335133" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/three-dimensions-what-does-that-really-mean/volumetric-3d-object/" data-orig-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg" data-orig-size="961,918" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="volumetric-3d-object" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=400&#038;h=382" data-large-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=654" class="wp-image-335133 size-medium" src="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=400&#038;h=382" alt="A 3D object on a spinning-helix volumetric display we featured back in 2015." width="400" height="382" srcset="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=400&amp;h=382 400w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=800&amp;h=764 800w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=250&amp;h=239 250w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=768&amp;h=734 768w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/volumetric-3d-object.jpg?w=654&amp;h=625 654w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A 3D object on <a href="https://hackaday.com/2015/10/29/3d-printed-helix-displays-graphics-in-3d/">a spinning-helix volumetric display we featured back in 2015</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Parallax Displays</strong> | There is of course another type of 3D imaging, that which uses parallax to give an impression of 3D. With these images there is an impression of 3D gained as you move around an object. The movement reveals sides of it that were previously hidden, and your brain uses that store of information to infer a 3D shape. This can be as simple as one of those novelty printed images that breakfast cereals used to give away for children with a plastic lenticular lens, it can be a holographic image, or an advanced electronic display system such as a rotating volumetric display or a flat lenticular display as Alex Hornstein <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/11/21/supercon-alex-hornsteins-adventures-in-hacking-the-lightfield/">demonstrated at our recent Superconference</a>. It&#8217;s true to say that if such a display has enough resolution it could also be a stereoscopic one in that a different point of view could be presented to each eye, but since this approach works even when they lack that resolution it&#8217;s safe to say that parallax alone conveys enough for the brain to be fooled into seeing in 3D.</p>
<p><strong>Hybrid Approaches</strong> | Finally there are displays that combine both stereoscopic and parallax effects to generate a 3D image. Immersive VR using a set of goggles such as one of the Oculus products provide the viewer with a primary stereoscopic image whose parallax changes as the point of view moves. The parallax effect is however not there with the primary aim of providing a 3D image, instead it is part of the effect of moving around the immersive world.</p>
<h2>Perhaps All We Need is Parallax</h2>
<p>As somebody without stereoscopic vision I have no use for 3D movies or headsets. I do however find myself in a unique position to evaluate the effectiveness of the parallax effect delivered by those display technologies that support it, because I can do so without the distraction of stereoscopy. My perceived 3D is perhaps best imagined as being done in software, I know the mug of tea next to my keyboard is a 3D object because my brain knows from experience that mugs usually are 3-dimensional, and it has learned to interpolate dimensions and distances from that experience supplemented by parallax information delivered as I move my point of view. It&#8217;s not perfect, for example I have a problem with fast moving objects such as a thrown ball, and for some reason I often grasp an inch short of drawer handles, but it&#8217;s otherwise pretty good. I am told that some people who grow up with stereoscopic vision but who then lose sight in one eye as adults do not successfully evolve this software 3D, it would be interesting to hear from readers with experience in the comments.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_335134" style="width: 410px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg" target="_blank"><img data-attachment-id="335134" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/three-dimensions-what-does-that-really-mean/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208/" data-orig-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg" data-orig-size="700,535" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="The_National_Archives_UK_-_WORK_25-208" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg?w=400&#038;h=306" data-large-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg?w=700" class="wp-image-335134 size-medium" src="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg?w=400&#038;h=306" alt="Festival Of Britain visitors watch a 3D presentation in 1951. The National Archives UK [OGL]" width="400" height="306" srcset="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg?w=400&amp;h=306 400w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg?w=250&amp;h=191 250w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/the_national_archives_uk_-_work_25-208.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Festival Of Britain visitors watch a 3D presentation in 1951. The National Archives UK [<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_Archives_UK_-_WORK_25-208.jpg" target="_blank">OGL</a>]</figcaption></figure>However for &#8220;in-brain software 3D vision&#8221; to work there has to be real parallax rather than just a semblance. The Oculus presents me with a very confusing image of two jarringly different stereoscopic views, and when I cover one eye to see only one picture I enter a very bizarre world of two dimensions with a few objects popping out in full 3D. These stereoscopic views are a one-size-fits-all viewing experience. If your visual cortex is accustomed to seeing from a different perspective from what you&#8217;re presented (and of course everyone&#8217;s wetware is slightly different so this will affect everyone) the perfect effect can never quite be reached.</p>
<p>A hackspace acquaintance had a 1st generation Oculus Rift dev kit a few years ago and we all had a try on an early demo set in an office. There was a house of cards on the desk, and for me it was as if I was seeing the room in 2D as if on a TV screen, with an unexpected full-3D house of cards jutting out of the scene.  The parallax effect was probably slightly distorted compared to the real world or maybe it lacked sufficient resolution for me to be able to interpolate 3D from the whole scene, instead for other users the device is almost wholly reliant on the stereoscopic effect. By comparison the parallax-only technologies present a good impression of 3D to my perception. Laser holograms and volumetric displays produce the effect of a real almost graspable object within their space, as do lenticular displays with the strength of the effect being dependent on their resolution.</p>
<p>What this tells me with my unusual experience on the matter is that all the information required for complete 3D display perception is present as much in a parallax based view as it is in a stereoscopic one. And what several generations of the 3D cinema fad since the 1950s should also tell us is that while stereoscopic 3D unquestionably works for those with the ability to perceive it, it consistently fails to become popular while it requires the viewer to wear glasses or headsets. Plus, once you move your head, the lack of parallax data breaks any illusion of depth that had been created.</p>
<h2>3D is So Close, Yet So Far Away</h2>
<p>We are now several years into the easy availability of VR headsets and headset attachments for mobile phones, yet it&#8217;s still extremely rare to encounter someone actually <em>using</em> one. Sure we&#8217;ve all given it a try, but even with a significant amount of content now available in stereoscopic form it&#8217;s questionable whether they&#8217;ve moved beyond the same level of novelty that 3D glasses in the cinema had. To steal a phrase from <em>The X files</em>, I want to believe when it comes to 3D displays, but my eye condition notwithstanding, I think we still have a way to go.</p>
<p>Header image: Matthew Henry [<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beard-eyewear-htc-vive-373905.jpg" target="_blank">CC0</a>].</p>


guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=339949
title: Delta Robot Is Sorting Golf Balls And Taking Names
author: Lewin Day
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/delta-robot-is-sorting-golf-balls-and-taking-names/
feedurl: https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/
content:
<p>It&#8217;s a common situation faced by every hard-working American &#8211; you get home after a long day at the calcium mines, and find yourself stuck with a pile of colored golf balls that simply aren&#8217;t going to sort themselves. Finally, you can put away your sorting funnels and ball-handling gloves &#8211; <a href="https://youtu.be/Tg7quTMk-_k" target="_blank">[Anthony] has the solution</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; it&#8217;s a delta robot, tasked with the job of sorting golf balls by color. A Pixy2 object tracking camera is used to survey the table, with the delta arms twitching around to allow the camera to get an unobstructed view. Once the position of the balls is known, a bubble sort is run and the balls rearranged into their correct color order.</p>
<p>[Anthony] readily admits the bubble sort is very inefficient at this task; it was an intentional choice so it could be later compared with other sorting methods. [Anthony] also goes into detail, sharing the development process of the suction gripper as well as discussing damping methods to reduce noise.</p>
<p>Delta machines are always fun to watch, and are a good choice for sorting machines. <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/12/28/dainty-delta-is-about-as-small-as-a-robot-can-be/">We&#8217;ve seen some really tiny ones, too.</a> Video after the break.</p>
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guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=334648
title: Morse Code Keyboard 1939 Style!
author: Al Williams
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/morse-code-keyboard-1939-style/
feedurl: https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/
content:
<p>If you want to learn Morse code and you don&#8217;t have a teacher, you&#8217;d probably just head over to a website or download a phone app. Before that, you probably bought a cassette tape or a phonograph record. But how did you learn Morse if you didn&#8217;t have any of that and didn&#8217;t know anyone who could send you practice? Sure, you could listen to the radio, but in 1939 that might be difficult, especially to find people sending slow enough for you to copy.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Wireless-World/30s/Wireless-World-1939-08.pdf" target="_blank">Wireless World for August 3rd, 1939</a>, has the answer in an article by [A. R. Knipe] on page 109. While you probably wouldn&#8217;t use it today, it is a great example of how ingenious you can be when you don&#8217;t have an Arduino and all the other accoutrements we take for granted today.</p>
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<h2>A Little Help From Your Friends</h2>
<p>The idea was to build something so that your friend, your mom, or your little sister could be imposed upon to send code to you even though they didn&#8217;t know it. From the article:</p>
<blockquote><p>The greatest handicap to the learning of Morse is undoubtedly the lack of a skilled operator to work the key so that proper receiving practice may be obtained.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg" target="_blank"><img data-attachment-id="340122" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/morse-code-keyboard-1939-style/created-with-gimp-5/" data-orig-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg" data-orig-size="1033,725" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Created with GIMP&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Created with GIMP&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Created with GIMP" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=400&#038;h=281" data-large-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=800" class="alignleft wp-image-340122 size-medium" src="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=400&#038;h=281" alt="" width="400" height="281" srcset="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=400&amp;h=281 400w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=800&amp;h=562 800w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=250&amp;h=175 250w, https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mor-3.jpg?w=768&amp;h=539 768w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a></p>
<p>The device contained a buzzer and a battery along with terminals for a key. Across the key though were two connections. One went to a &#8220;signal plate&#8221; made of brass or tin. This plate sat on a baseboard and above the plate were strips of wood. The other connection goes to a stylus which could be nothing more than a piece of wire wrapped up.</p>
<p>Under the strips of wood is a stencil made of paper or empire cloth which is &#8212; apparently &#8212; some sort of oil-treated cloth used as an insulator. The stencil has holes in it corresponding to each letter. The person sending you the practice code simply moves the stylus over the right part of the stencil using the wood strips as a guide.</p>
<h2>Pros and Cons</h2>
<p>Almost anyone could build something like this. You could probably use scrap wood, wire, and metal. You&#8217;d have to buy the battery and maybe the buzzer. But this would have been well within the technical capabilities of even a young person in 1939. With the proper use of screws you probably didn&#8217;t even need to solder.</p>
<p>Obviously, there are some limitations to this method. The speed could be spotty if you don&#8217;t do a nice steady glide across the stencil. The spacing between characters is probably going to be erratic as your accomplice searches for the next letter.</p>
<p>However, what a clever solution! Sure, today you could devise many other ways to have people send you Morse code or write (or download) a program to send your favorite website or RSS feed. There&#8217;s also plenty of code practice resources around. But if you didn&#8217;t have that, this would solve your problem.</p>
<h2>Other Training Aids</h2>
<p>This reminded us of the <a href="http://www.telegraphkeys.com/pages/omnigraph.html" target="_blank">Omnigraph</a> which was a common way to learn code way back in 1904 and beyond. These used a clockwork spring and a metal disk (effectively a cam) to operate contacts.</p>
<p><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='800' height='480' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/90NvDJMb8Tk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></p>
<p>The military had a great interest in training Morse code operators at one time. They had machines that used inked paper tape like the TG-34-A in the video below. There was also the Instructograph (second video).</p>
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<p>It is hard to remember when knowing Morse code was a hot job skill and not just a hobby. Then again, if <a href="https://hackaday.com/2016/02/17/faxing-in-1843/">telegraph faxing</a> had caught on, all those operators would have been out of work even sooner. Of course, Morse might still come in handy if you get <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/04/13/another-reason-to-learn-morse-code-kidnapping/">kidnapped</a>. If you want to learn the sending part, the military film below might not be your best bet, but it is entertaining.</p>
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guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=339968
title: The T-Pain Toy Is Now a Guitar Effect
author: Lewin Day
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/the-t-pain-toy-is-now-a-guitar-effect/
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<p>T-Pain is rapper hailing from Florida, who made his name through creative use of the Autotune effect. Nobody quite does it like T-Pain to this day, but kids the world over got the chance with the release of the &#8220;I Am T-Pain&#8221; microphone, which puts effects on the user&#8217;s vocal to make them sound as fly as possible, batteries not included. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xInrDTNQoQo" target="_blank">In the spirit of musical exploration, [Simon] decided it would be interesting to turn the effect into a guitar pedal.</a></p>
<p>Initial plans were to wire the microphone to an input jack, and the speaker to an output jack, but things didn&#8217;t remain so simple. The toy comes with a line-in and a headphone jack already, but the wiring scheme is strange and one of the inputs can also act as an output under certain conditions. [Simon] took the kitchen sink approach, throwing a bunch of jacks at the circuit and putting it all in a pedal case with some knobs to twiddle some parameters.</p>
<p>The final result is a warbly, lo-fi vibrato when a guitar signal is fed in. It&#8217;s quite different from how the original toy sounds, but recalls us somewhat of the <a href="https://hackaday.com/2012/08/23/playing-with-dsp-and-building-a-guitar-pedal/">Anti-nautilus pedal</a> when used in conjunction with a looper. Video after the break. <span id="more-339968"></span></p>
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guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=339788
title: Glasses Frames Crafted Out Of Wood
author: Lewin Day
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/glasses-frames-crafted-out-of-wood/
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<p>Most glasses and sunglasses on the market make use of metal or plastic frames. It&#8217;s relatively easy to create all manner of interesting frame geometries, tolerances can be easily controlled for fitting optical elements, and they&#8217;re robust materials that can withstand daily use. Wood falls short on all of these measures, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t use it to make a beautiful pair of glasses.</p>
<p>ZYLO is a company making wooden eyewear, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUURW-F-BF8" target="_blank">this video from [Paide] shows the build process in detail.</a> Modern tools are used to make things as efficient as possible. Parts are lasercut and engraved to form the main part of the frames as well as the temples (the arms that sit over the ears to hold them on your face). A special jig is used to impart a curve on the laminated wood parts before further assembly is undertaken. Metal pre-fabricated hinges and screws are used to bolt everything together like most other modern sunglasses, but there&#8217;s significant hand finishing involved, including delicate inlays and highlighting logo features.</p>
<p>In contrast, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwOsvOb19M" target="_blank">Manuel Arroyave works very differently in the creation of his Cedoro glasses</a>. Sheets are first laminated together, before the shape is roughed out by a special horizontal axis milling setup. Even small details like the hinges are delicately hand-crafted out of wood and fitted with tiny wooden dowels.</p>
<p>It goes to show that there&#8217;s always more than one way to get a job done. We&#8217;re tempted to break out the laser cutter and get started on some custom shades ourselves. Perhaps though, you&#8217;re too tired to put your sunglasses on by yourself? <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/06/13/automatic-sunglasses-for-the-lazy-hacker/">Nevermind, there&#8217;s a solution for that, too.</a> Video after the break.</p>
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guid: http://hackaday.com/?p=339752
title: Smartphone App Uses AR to Visualize The RF Spectrum
author: Dan Maloney
url: https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/smartphone-app-uses-ar-to-visualize-the-rf-spectrum/
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<p>Have you ever wished you could see in the RF part of the radio spectrum? While such a skill would probably make it hard to get a good night&#8217;s rest, it would at least allow you to instantly see dead spots in your WiFi coverage. Not a bad tradeoff.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="340138" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2019/01/09/smartphone-app-uses-ar-to-visualize-the-rf-spectrum/ar-wifi/" data-orig-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/ar-wifi.gif?w=800" data-orig-size="225,375" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="ar-wifi" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/ar-wifi.gif?w=800?w=225" data-large-file="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/ar-wifi.gif?w=800?w=225" class="size-full wp-image-340138 alignright" src="https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/ar-wifi.gif?w=800" alt=""   />Unwilling to go full [Geordi La Forge] to be able to visualize RF, [Ken Kawamoto] built the next best thing &#8211; <a href="https://kenkawakenkenke-en.hatenablog.com/entry/2019/01/06/231619" target="_blank">an augmented-reality RF signal strength app</a> for his smartphone. Built to aid in the repositioning of his router in the post-holiday cleanup, the app uses the Android ARCore framework to figure out where in the house the phone is and overlays a color-coded sphere representing sensor data onto the current camera image. The spheres persist in 3D space, leaving a trail of virtual breadcrumbs that map out the sensor data as you warwalk the house. The app also lets you map Bluetooth and LTE coverage, but RF isn&#8217;t its only input: if your phone is properly equipped, magnetic fields and barometric pressure can also be AR mapped. We found the Bluetooth demo in the video below particularly interesting; it&#8217;s amazing how much the signal is attenuated by a double layer of aluminum foil. [Ken] even came up with an Arduino with a gas sensor that talks to the phone and maps the atmosphere around the kitchen stove.</p>
<p>The app is called <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ken.arsensor" target="_blank">AR Sensor</a> and is available on the Play Store, but you&#8217;ll need at least Android 8.0 to play. If your phone is behind the times like ours, you might have to settle for <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/06/20/desktop-radio-telescope-images-the-wifi-universe/">mapping your RF world the hard way</a>.</p>
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title: Thunderbird is go for 2019 with improved security and Gmail support
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title: NSA will open source a tool for malware disassembly and reverse engineering
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