'Made into a concise list is a number of features that GNOME
developers want to see landed within the Linux kernel, in hopes of
kernel developers eventually tackling these wish list features that
could help not only GNOME but other desktops too.
Bastien Nocera wrote to the kernel mailing list explaining, "GNOME has
had discussions with kernel developers in the past, and, fortunately,
in some cases we were able to make headway. There are however a number
of items that we still don't have solutions for, items that kernel
developers might not realise we'd like to rely on, or don't know that
we'd make use of if merged."
Among the features sought after in the kernel include a hibernation
mode not using SWAP space, native hybrid suspend support in the
kernel, a connected stand-by suspend mode, screen backlight
guidelines, time changes for files/folders within a sub-directory,
LinuxApps containers support (OverlayFS and KDBUS), memory compression
being enabled by default for capable hardware, and various other
changes. '
-- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgxOTI
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"In San Francisco on Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said
something that was more than a little surprising: Microsoft loves
Linux. The operating system once described as a "cancer" by Nadella's
predecessor, Steve Ballmer, is now being embraced with open arms (if
not extended), at least when it comes to Redmond's Azure cloud
platform. Nadella told us that some 20 percent of VMs on Azure use the
open source operating system."
-- source: http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/792539
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"GNOME is cool and beautiful, and the default Adwaita theme has
matured greatly since it was introduced in GNOME 3.0. In fact, the
Adwaita theme in Fedora 21 is now looking better than ever. However, I
have used it for a long time, and I kinda feel like using a different
theme — After all, who doesn’t like to have a change once in a while?
So, I decided to put new life into my desktop, and my search ended
with the great moka project."
-- source: http://fedoramagazine.org/rejuvenate-your-fedora-desktop-with-moka/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi there
We've got a WLUG meeting coming up next Monday - due to Labor Day a
week earlier that usual.
'Greg B.: A talk with an overview of the so-called "Crypto2.0" open
source projects that are attempting to be overlays for the bitcoin
network. Why does bitcoin need overlays and possible future directions
in cryptofinance in general? A brief round-up of the emerging
Crypto2.0 projects out there, Counterparty, Mastercoin, Bitshares,
Ripple, Stellar, Next and CoinSpark. Then a more in-depth discussion
of Open-Transactions (openTXS).
Peter R.: Running OwnCloud on a Raspberry Pi.'
http://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/events/212122742/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
'It appears that systemd is still a hot topic in the Debian community.
As seen earlier today, there is a new movement shaping up against the
adoption of systemd for the upcoming stable release [of Debian],
Jessie. They claim that "systemd betrays the UNIX philosophy"; it
makes things more complex, thus breaking the "do one thing and do it
well" principle.'
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/1944226
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Scott James Remnant, now Technical Lead on ChromeOS, was a Debian
developer before that. That's how he became involved from the
beginning (becoming Developer Manager, and then serving on the
Technical Board) on the little derivative distribution that Mark
Shuttleworth decided to make of Debian Unstable, and for which the
name Ubuntu was eventually chosen. On this date in 2004, Ubuntu 4.10
-- aka Warty Warthog, or just Warty -- was released, and Remnant has
shared a detailed, nostalgic look back at the early days of the
project that has (whatever else you think of it ) become one of the
most influential in the world of open source and Free software. I was
excited that Canonical sent out disks that I could pass around to
friends and family that looked acceptably polished to them in a way
that Sharpie-marked Knoppix CD-ROMs didn't, and that the polish
extended to the installer, the desktop, and the included constellation
of software, too."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/1356248
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Jasper St. Pierre who we're usually talking about on Phoronix due to
his GNOME contributions related to Wayland support, shared today he's
come up with a new animated image format to compete with GIF.
While GIF is technologically out-of-date with its compression support
and other features, alternative animated image file formats like APNG
and MNG haven't taken off. However, Jasper ended up devising a new
image format called XNG. XNG doesn't impose any restrictions, can
support more complex functionality, and will work existing HTML5
browsers of today. "
-- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgxNjc
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The main differences between the B+ and the Raspberry Pi model B are
the new model has:
- four USB ports (versus two in the model B)
- a microSD card (versus a full size SD card in model B)
- a video jack integrated with the audio jack (versus two separate
jacks in the model B)
- GPIO pins extended to 40 pins (versus 26 pins in the model B)
- lower power consumption
- four mounting holes
What has not changed:
- The price, it is $35 USD
- The amount of RAM, it has 512 Mb"
-- source: http://opensource.com/life/14/10/reviewing-new-raspberry-pi-b-board
All in all, sounds like very reasonable changes - especially the 4 USB
ports. Though would have preferred 1GB of RAM. :-)
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The Anonabox router project, currently being funded through a
Kickstarter campaign, has surpassed its original $7,000 crowdfunding
goal by more than 10 times in just one day. The open source router
device connects via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet cable making it harder for
your IP address to be seen. While there have been other Tor-enabled
routers in the past, they aren't small enough to fit in a shirt pocket
like the Anonabox and they haven't offered data encryption on top of
the routing network. The device, which is being pitched as a way for
consumers to securely surf the web and share content (or allow
businesses to do the same), is also being directed at journalists who
may want to share stories in places where they might otherwise be
censored."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/14/0035226
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
