Emails from Unklebonehead & Rhett Microsoft Brings exFAT to Linux Pinebook Pro Available Now Gamepad Support Comes To Linux In Steam Proton
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Software Spotlight: Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor (recommended by a member of our community Dark1)
Tips & Tricks: - Keep your data safe on the cloud! - Privacy is important! Nothing is better to protect privacy than encryption. - Containers: EncFS / CryFS - KDE Vaults & CLI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxf0km0loO4
This clip is from Destination Linux 361, to watch the full episode go to https://youtu.be/h_9o8RBMsnA
For show notes and other ways to enjoy the show, go to https://destinationlinux.net/361
Our Software Spotlight this week comes from the community. Jason sent us these awesome suggestions:
“I have found some incredible software for Linux including…”"
System Monitoring Center - A complete set of monitoring utilities in one for the cpu, memory, disk, network, gpu, and sensors. There are even features to manage processes and services. You can also view user and system information. (may not be active anymore, but worth a try)
Link: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.hakandundar34coding.system-monitoring-center
R-Linux - Complete data recovery with the ability to scan, recover, backup and image important data with many features.
Link: https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw1guPDp0vI
Jonathan Riddell
http://jriddell.org/about-me/
About Jonathan
Canoeist, Quaker and Computer Person.
Former developer of Kubuntu
The first Ubuntu Core Developer
Current developer of KDE Neon
Owner of consultancy firm Edinburgh Linux
https://www.edinburghlinux.co.uk/
Works with Blue Systems
http://www.blue-systems.com/#openModal
Contributing author to: Linux Desktop Hacks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688515.Linux_Desktop_Hacks
Social Media
Twitter
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Facebook
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Google Plus
https://plus.google.com/+JonathanRiddell
Topics
KDE
https://www.kde.org/
KDE Neon
https://neon.kde.org/
KDE Applications
https://www.kde.org/applications/
KDE Goals for 2018
https://dot.kde.org/2017/11/30/kdes-goals-2018-and-beyond
KDE Slimbook
https://neon.kde.org/slimbook
Plasma Mobile
https://plasma-mobile.org/
Pinebook
https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqN1JkqsRvY
Welcome to Episode 63
Your hosts this week are Rocco, Ryan, Zeb and Michael and this is Destination Linux.
Show Note Links
Shoutout
Karl Schneider
https://karl-schneider.deviantart.com/
Distro News
Ubuntu Mate 18.04 New Layout
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-mate-18-04-lts-will-ship-with-a-new-default-layout-called-familiar-520281.shtml
Antix 17.1 Released
https://antixlinux.com/antix-17-1-released/
Zorin OS 12.3 Released
https://fossbytes.com/zorin-os-12-3-linux-download-features/
Zorin OS Blog
https://zoringroup.com/blog/2018/03/15/zorin-os-12-3-released-a-stronger-more-versatile-system/
LG Open Sources webOS
http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2018/03/webos-enters-next-phase-as-global-platform-under-lgs-stewardship/
Linux Mint Is Slow But Will Get Faster
https://betanews.com/2018/03/18/mint-linux-slow-fast/
Linux Mint Blog
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3525
Nathaniel Graham Details KDE Improvements
https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/this-week-in-usability-productivity-part-10/
Gnome 3.28 Released
https://fedoramagazine.org/gnome-3-28-released-coming-fedora-28/
Umm, GNOME Shell Has a Rather Big Memory Leak
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/gnome-shell-has-a-memory-leak-and-it-might-not-be-fixed-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts?
Omarine Linux Release
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=omarine
Software News
Canonical Announces Mozilla As A Snap
http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-officially-announces-mozilla-s-firefox-as-a-snap-app-for-ubuntu-linux-520302.shtml
Mozilla Joins Opt Out Party
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/20/mozilla_firefox_test_of_privacy_mechanism_prompts_privacy_worries/
Gaming
What Have I Been Playing: Mighty No. 9
http://store.steampowered.com/app/314710/Mighty_No_9/
Battle Royal Browser Based Game - Survivio
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looking-for-a-battle-royale-game-that-works-on-linux-2d-browser-based-survivio-is-one.11419
http://surviv.io
http://surviv.io
Battle Royal Browser Game - Unsung Heroes
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/need-more-battle-royale-action-on-linux-battle-royale-unsung-heroes-is-another-one.11425
https://bruh.io
https://bruh.io
Do Video Games Make You Violent?
https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/03/18/210243/new-study-which-made-90-adults-play-gta-or-the-sims-3-for-at-least-30-mins-every-day-for-2-months-finds-no-significant-changes-in-their-behavior?
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Zeb can be found on youtube
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This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we are speaking with Scott McCarty of Red Hat about their latest RHEL innovations. Then we talk a little Dungeons & Dragons with a callout to the community to get a D&DLN live session going. Plus we've also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you're brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.
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On this special episode of Destination Linux, we are joined by a friend of the show, Liam from GamingonLinux.com to discuss the hottest topics in Linux Gaming! We also cover some interesting discussion topics about Security, Linus's response to the community reactions, big mistakes we've made as Linux users, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new project Solid. Then we'll end the show with our Tips, Tricks and Software Spotlight picks. All that and much more!
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Topics covered in this episode:
Ubuntu, Debian and Others Leave Users Vulnerable
Linus Torvalds Speaks Out
A Whole New World Wide Web
What's your biggest mistake in Linux that caused major system issues?
Liam from GamingonLinux.com joins us this week for Linux Gaming news!:
- Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine
- Life is Strange 2 confirmed to be coming to Linux in 2019 from Feral Interactive
- The developer of 'Limit Theory' is throwing in the towel, releasing the source code
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Tips & Tricks:
xdotool - This tool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension and other Xlib functions.
Software Spotlight:
We received a couple e-mails from our listeners on additional options from our Catfish and Find tip.
- Torin recommended using Searchmonkey as another alternative to Catfish
- Michael recommended using ‘fd’ as an alternative cli based search tool
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiM3ryRgp3U
just a quick chat with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical / Ubuntu.
I also did an interview with Mark during the summit so lookout for that soon!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6-XlgtLipw
Destination Linux 182: Security Keys, Disk Encryption & Two Factor Authentication (2FA)
https://destinationlinux.org/episode-182 - Hosted by Ryan, Noah & Michael
Coming up on this week’s episode of Destination Linux: Google & Canonical are teaming up to bring Flutter to Linux for a cross-platform game changer. How Important is Disk Encryption & Security Keys - should you be using them or do you just prefer being hacked? We've got community feedback, a DRM FREE Game called Drox Operative and our beloved tips/tricks and software pick. All of this and so much more on this week's Destination Linux.
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Full Show Notes (for links and such)
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00:00 Intro
01:06 What's New with Noah
01:10 Ubiquiti Discontinues Their UniFi-Video Products
07:30 What's New with Michael
07:42 DLN Xtend gets 2 New Hosts
08:23 What's New with Ryan
08:50 PyCharm Impresses Ryan With Their Customer Support
12:19 Community Feedback: Josh lets us know Collabora via Nextcloud has become so much easier these days
15:40 Canonical & Google team up to bring Flutter Apps to Linux
20:13 Michael expresses his frustrations with False Claims about Snaps
21:18 Michael: Snaps having a company backing it is a good thing
23:00 Discussion: are these cross-platform frameworks going to bring more Proprietary software or more Open software?
23:30 Is it better to advocate for only Open or try to convince companies in phases?
27:46 Security Advisory of the Week: Disk Encryption & Should You Do It?
34:41 Main Topic: Two Factor Authentication (2FA) - Tips On How To Protect Your Accounts
50:08 Gaming on Linux: Drox Operative 2
51:28 Software Spotlight: Solfege - Ear Training Program
52:32 Ryan shows off his harmonica skills
53:02 Tip of the Week: How To Reset A Forgotten Root Password?
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Welcome to Episode 59 for 2-26-18
Your hosts this week are Rocco, Ryan, Zeb and Michael and this is Destination Linux.
This week we cover
Ubuntu Adds Minimal Installation Option 18.04
https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2018/02/19/ubuntu-adds-new-minimal-installation-option-for-fewer-preinstalled-packages/
Users Upgrading can Opt-In instead of Opt-Out for data collection
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-in-18-04-upgrades
Fossbytes article
https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-new-minimal-installation/
OMGUbuntu Article
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option
Plasma and Solus 4 Updates
https://solus-project.com/2018/02/14/plasma-and-solus-4-updates/
Plasma – The road to perfection is paved with bugs
http://www.ocsmag.com/2018/02/16/plasma-the-road-to-perfection-is-paved-with-bugs/
Plasma 5 perfection: call for development
https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/plasma-5-perfection-call-for-development/
This week in Discover (and Kirigami!), part 6
https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/this-week-in-discover-and-kirigami-part-6/
GNOME 3.28 Beta Released With Many Improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.28-Beta-Released
UBports Continues Working On Unity 8, Developer ISO Coming
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UBports-Developer-ISO-Coming
Unity8 on the Desktop
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/unity8-on-the-desktop-95
Canonical Donates Phones To UBports
http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-donates-ubuntu-phones-to-ubports-to-continue-ubuntu-touch-development-519877.shtml
Purism Plans To Bring Convergence to Its Linux Phones & Laptops
http://news.softpedia.com/news/purism-plans-to-bring-convergence-to-its-pureos-linux-phone-and-laptops-519543.shtml
Why You Shouldn't Use Waterfox Palemoon or Basilisk
https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use-waterfox-pale-moon-or-basilisk/
SMPlayer 18.2.2 Released
http://www.noobslab.com/2018/02/smplayer-1822-released-install-in.html
KDE Amarok Music Player Receives Revived Port To Qt5 / KF5
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Amarok-Qt5-KF5-2018-Revised
Kdenlive Beta via AppImage
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/next-gen-kdenlive-beta-available-testing
Snapd 2.31 Gets Better Wayland Support Via Mir
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-Snapd-And-Another-Dev
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_Global_Offensive/
Feral Gives Another Gift To Linux: Total-War-Britannia-Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Total-War-Britannia-Linux
WHAT THE GOLF? A silly physics-based anti-golf game will support Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/what-the-golf-a-silly-physics-base
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https://destinationlinux.org/episode-117 - Hosted by Ryan, Zeb, Noah & Michael
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ChrisWereDigital
MX Linux 18.2 Released
AV Linux New Release
GIMP 2.10.10 Released
OBS 23.1 Released
2nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ PRO and AMD Athlon™ PRO Mobile Processors
ARM Based Laptops Heat Up With Red Hat
Ubuntu Working On ZFS Install Support
Aspyr Media Confirms DLC For Borderlands Coming to Linux
SuperTuxKart More Updates
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Software Spotlight:
Key-Mon
Tips & Tricks:
wget and curl
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