http://smlr.us with Tony, Mat, and Mary Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 with Tony, Mat, and Mary Sunday Morning Linux Review clean Sunday Morning Linux Review - CC by-nc-sa with Tony, Mat, and Mary Tech News, Linux, Kernel, Open Source http://smlr.us/Shows/smlr-logo.png http://smlr.us/?cat=4 TV-G Metro Detroit, Michigan USA Weekly http://smlr.us/?p=2988 http://smlr.us/?p=2988#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:58 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2988 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2988 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/33M7F6jEm3U Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/33M7F6jEm3U Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: ... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:32:33 http://smlr.us/?p=2951 http://smlr.us/?p=2951#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 05:20:30 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2951 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2951 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:06 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/wCX4xN7w0Og Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:06 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/wCX4xN7w0Og Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:20 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:05 Mary Distro Review Time: 15:30 Tech News: Time: 24:55 Toolbox Time: 47:20 Listener Feedback Time: 56:50 Outtro Music Time: 1:03:20 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:20 Release Candidate: None Mainline: 3.9 Stable Updates: On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:08:34 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.77 With 50 files changed, 242 lines inserted, and 109 lines deleted On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:09:08 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.44 With 73 files changed, 347 lines inserted, and 170 lines deleted On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:09:38 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.12 With 129 files changed, 641 lines inserted, and 320 lines deleted On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:10:10 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.9.1 With 139 files changed, 690 lines inserted, and 341 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: None Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:05 Distrowatch.com 5-5 - aptosid 2013-01 - modern desktop Linux distribution with a choice of KDE or Xfce desktops and the latest Linux kernel, based on Debian's "unstable" branch 5-6 - Kwort Linux 4 -a lightweight CRUX-based distribution (now for 64-bit systems only) with Openbox and a custom package manager called kpkg 5-6 - OS4 13.4 "KDE" - desktop Linux distribution with KDE 4.10.2, based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support release (version 12.04) 5-7 - CrunchBang Linux 11 - 5-7 - openSUSE 12.3 "Edu Li-f-e"- specialist openSUSE variant designed for deployment in educational institutions 5-27 - 5-27 - Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - Mageia - Ubuntu - Mint - Debian - Mary Distro Review Time: 15:30 OpenSuSE Edu LiFE Some of the programs include: Brain Workshop is a free open-source version of the dual n-back brain training exercise. Website: What if a simple mental exercise could improve your memory and intelligence? jMemorize (jMemorize) - A general purpose flash card program Java-Application from 6 years iGNUit (ignuit) - A general purpose flash card program Gnome-Application from 6 years ------------------- Chemtool (chemtool) - A program for Drawing 2D Organic Molecules Gnome-Application from 12 years gElemental (gelemental) - A periodic Table Viewer Gnome-Application from 12 years XDrawChem (xdrawchem) - A 2D molecule drawing program KDE-Application from 12 years ---------------------------------- Euler (euler) - An interactive mathematical programming environment Gnome-Application from 12 years Little Wizard (littlewizard) - Development Environment for Children based on Pascal Gnome-Application from 6 years --------------------------------------------------- GCompris (gcompris) - An educational software suite for young children Gnome-Application from 6 years Childsplay (childsplay) - An educational software suite for young children from 0 years ------------------------------------------------------------ iTalc (italc) - A powerful software for Linux-networks and for teachers using the computer as didactical tool in their lessons Gnome-Application ----------------------------------------------- TuxType (tuxtype) - An educational typing tutor for children from 6 years Klavaro (klavaro) - Typing tutor for young children Gnome-Application from 6 years ------------------------------------------------- K3DSurf (k3dsurf) - A program to visualize and manipulate multidimensional surfaces KSEG (kseg) - A Simulator of Euclidean Geometry KDE-Application from 12 years Multiplication Puzzle (gmult) - A math game to solve a multiplication problem Multiplication Station (MultiplicationStation) - Add, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:09:06 http://smlr.us/?p=2923 http://smlr.us/?p=2923#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 15:21:05 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2923 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2923 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) 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Total Running Time: 1:27:51 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/g6fszXBVWEE Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:35 Mary Distro Review Time: 31:45 Tech News: Time: 46:00 Toolbox Time: 1:01:05 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:12:00 Listener Feedback Time: 1:16:50 Outtro Music Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:00 Release Candidate: None Mainline: On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:56:29 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9 Here is what he said about it: “So the last week was much quieter than the preceding ones, which makes me suspect that one reason -rc7 was bigger than I liked was that people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release, explaining why -rc7 was big enough that I didn't actually want to do a final release last week. Please don't do that. Anyway. Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which makes me much more comfortable doing the final 3.9 release, so I guess the last -rc8 ended up working. Because not only aren't there very many commits here, even the ones that made it really are tiny and not pretty obscure and not very interesting. Also, this obviously means that the merge window is open. I won't be merging anything today, but if you start sending me your pull requests (Konrad already sent in his Xen pull request for the 3.10 merge window a week ago), tomorrow the flood gates start opening..” Stable Updates: On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:05:42 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.76 With 42 files changed, 404 lines inserted, and 120 lines deleted On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:06:14 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.43 With 43 files changed, 421 lines inserted, and 123 lines deleted On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:06:55 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.11 With 49 files changed, 454 lines inserted, and 166 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Comes from Greg Kroah-Hartman “With the Linux kernel merge window opening up, and three -rc stable kernels released, it seems like today is a "stress test the vger.kernel.org zmailer" type of day. Amazed that thing keeps up with the traffic load, great work admins.” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:35 Distrowatch.com 4-29 - ExTiX 13 - remastered Ubuntu with a customised GNOME 3.6 desktop 4-30 - DragonFly BSD 3.4.1 - UNIX-like operating system created in 2003 as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8 4-30 - Clonezilla Live 2.1.1-25 - a specialist live CD designed for disk cloning: 4-30 - Sabayon Linux 13.04 - desktop distribution with a choice of GNOME, KDE, MATE of Xfce desktops, based on Gentoo Linux 5-1 - OpenBSD 5.3 - a free, multi-platform operating system with a strong focus on security and meticulous code review 5-2 - Parted Magic 2013_05_01 - pdated release of a live CD containing useful tools for data rescue and disk management tasks 5-2 - Korora 18 - Fedora-based distribution with a large number of tweaks, tools and extras for improved user friendliness 5-2 - OpenELEC 3.0.2 - bug-fix and security update of the project's specialist Linux distribution featuring XBMC, the open-source entertainment media hub: 5-5 - Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 - the world's largest Linux distribution, Distro of the Week: Tony Sayben - 1522 Debian - 1880 Mageia - 2173 Ubuntu - 2504 Mint - 3546 Mary Distro Review Time: 31:45 OWASP Project http://owasp.org Tech News: Time: 46:00 phpMyAdmin 4.0 Released The well known database administration tool phpMyAdmin has released version 4.0. This is a pretty major rewrite. They have done away with HTML tables and gone with a tree style layout. The new layout is driven by JavaScript. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:27:51 http://smlr.us/?p=2901 http://smlr.us/?p=2901#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 05:29:23 +0000 mat http://smlr.us/?p=2901 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2901 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:03:03 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/y7zsgiH8Cl8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:03:03 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/y7zsgiH8Cl8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:20 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:28 Mary Distro Review Time: 18:00 Tech News: Time: 31:35 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 43:25 Listener Feedback Time: 48:05 Outtro Music Time: 55:50 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:20 Release Candidate: On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:00:43 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc8 This is what he had to say about it: “Yes, I was really hoping (and originally planning) to release 3.9 final this weekend, but we had enough issues that I just didn't feel comfy about it. It was borderline, and none of the issues were huge, and maybe I could have called this just 3.9 and opened the merge window, but hey, another week won't hurt. The bulk of the changes here are networking (both core and drivers), but there's arch fixes (sparc, x86, arm, powepc) and random other stuff. A couple of reverts and some cleanups. The shortlog gives some flavor of the details. Nothing here on its own would have delayed 3.9 for me, but I was hoping for a calmer week. Please don't send me pull requests unless it's something really critical, and let's aim for a nice calm 3.9 release next weekend, ok?” --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.9-rc8 Stable Updates: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:27:22 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.9 With 58 files changed, 405 lines inserted, and 222 lines deleted On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:29:29 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.42 With 39 files changed, 283 lines inserted, and 166 lines deleted On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:30:17 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.75 29 files changed, 227 lines inserted, and 171 lines deleted On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:25:21 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.10 He said: “It fixes a build error in the 3.8.9 release. If you can properly build that kernel, no need for you to upgrade (hint, if you enable CONFIG_NS, you need this release.)" Many thanks to Shea Levy for pointing out the problem.” On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:42:37 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.44 With 91 files changed, 678 lines inserted, and 226 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Comes from Greg Kroah-Hartman “Time to build a kernel: real 665m28.867s user 585m42.150s sys 30m35.120s I don't recommend doing a kernel build for a raspberry pi, on a raspberry pi, unless you have a lot of spare time.” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:28 Distrowatch.com 4-24 - Red Flag Linux 8.0 - a Beijing-based software company specialising in the development of open-source software products for the local market, 4-25 - Ubuntu 13.04 - Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Gnome, and UbuntuKylin 4-26 - SparkyLinux 2.1.1 "MATE" - a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest release of the MATE desktop environment 4-27 - Semplice Linux 4 - fast and light Linux distribution with Openbox, based on Debian's "unstable" branch 4-27 - Descent|OS 4.0 - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution featuring a customised MATE (version 1.4.2) desktop environment Distro of the Week: Tony Ubuntu Gnome - 1827 Fedora - 1994 Megeia - 2827 Mint - 3451 Ubuntu - 3930 Mary Distro Review Time: 18:00 To Be Added Later Tech News: Time: 31:35 German Parliament Says Software Patents Harmful The Bundestag has taken up a motion against software patents. This is what it says: 1) Software patents restrict developers ability to exercise their copyright. It also says that software patents help create monopolies and hurt innovation. 2) Under the European Patent Convention software patents are illegal. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:03:03 http://smlr.us/?p=2907 http://smlr.us/?p=2907#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:54:42 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2907 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2907 0 http://smlr.us/?p=2837 http://smlr.us/?p=2837#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:50:38 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2837 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2837 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:33:15 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/DklbU5eRNm8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:33:15 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/DklbU5eRNm8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 17:40 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 22:30 Mary Distro Review Time: 35:40 Tech News: Time: 1:00:50 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:19:30 Listener Feedback Time: 1:25:25 Outtro Music Time: 1:27:42 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 17:40 Release Candidate: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:30:17 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc7 “Another week, another -rc. This is mostly random one-liners, with a few slightly larger driver fixes. The most interesting (to me, probably to nobody else) fix is a fix for a rather subtle TLB invalidate bug that only hits 32-bit PAE due to the weird way that works. Even then it only hits you if you have some particularly insane mapping patterns, but we *suspect* that this one might be the cause behind google chrome having triggered bugs like chrome: Corrupted page table at address 34a03000 *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000 Bad pagetable: 000f [#1] PREEMPT SMP however, the problem is so rare that we haven't been able to verify that this really fixes it. That said, this bug is much more common (and by "much more common" I mean "still basically impossible to hit unless you were really unlucky") on newer machines that have bigger TLB's and that could happily have run in 64-bit mode without the disgusting abortion that is x86 PAE, and a small part of me feels that anybody who hit this problem on such a machine probably got whatever they deserved. But if you've seen messages like this, and you still run PAE, give the new -rc a try. The rest of the fixes are probably more relevant to most people, but hey, the PAE oen tickles my fancy. Anyway, go out and test regardless of the PAE issue,” --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.9-rc7 Stable Updates: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:46:30 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.74 With 17 files changed, lines 136 inserted, and 194 lines deleted On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:49:45 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.41 With 23 files changed, lines 195 inserted, and 38 lines deleted On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:50:23 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.8 With 37 files changed, lines 335 inserted, and 344 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Comes from Greg Kroah-Hartman “Dear lazyweb, Does anyone know of any good tools to manage and sync ssh keys to different machines other than just using a git repo? I use git for gpg keys, as +Junio C Hamano showed a great way to do that a few months ago, but ssh keys don't seem to be able to work the same way, and surely someone has come up with something better by now?” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: 22:30 Distrowatch.com 4-14 - Network Security Toolkit 18-4509 - a specialist Fedora-based live DVD featuring a collection of open-source network security applications 4-15 - pfSense 2.0.3 - the FreeBSD-based operating system for firewalls 4-16 - Rebellin Linux 1.5 - commercial, desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian "Stable" (the "Synergy" edition) and Debian "Unstable" (the "Adrenalin" variant) 4-16 - OpenELEC 3.0.1 - specialist Linux distribution built around XBMC, the open-source entertainment media hub 4-18 - ROSA 2012 RP2 "Enterprise Desktop" - "Enterprise Desktop" edition, code name "Marathon" and supported with security updates for five years 4-18 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.5 "MATE", "LXDE", "KDE" - three community editions of Manjaro Linux 0.8.5, featuring the MATE, LXDE and KDE desktop environments 4-18 - Scientific Linux 6.4 "Live" - Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1661 Mageia - 1843 Manjaro - 2078 Ubuntu - 2290 Mint - 3391 Mary Distro Review - Rebellin Linux Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:33:15 http://smlr.us/?p=2799 http://smlr.us/?p=2799#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:04:08 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2799 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2799 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:32:45 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/lqJjdPX9pSY - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:32:45 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/lqJjdPX9pSY Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:18 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 15:22 Mary Distro Review Time: 25:38 Tech News: Time: 45:17 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:08:20 Listener Feedback Time: 1:16:20 Outtro Music Time: 1:24:12 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:18 Release Candidate: On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 21:33:14 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc6 This is what he had to say about it: “Things seem to be on track, and it's been a mostly boring week. Lots of small fixes, a few reverts. Networking, some small arch fixes (arm, mips, s390, alpha, tile, x86), drivers, minor filesystem updates (gfs2, ext4, tiny reiserfs xattr fix). Nothing really exciting stands out, I think the appended ShortLog gives a good overview for people who want to wallow in the details.. Things seem to be on track, which means that unless something comes up, rc7 will probably be the last rc as usual,” --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.9-rc6 Stable Updates: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:41:57 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.43 With 71 files changed, 585 lines inserted, and 443 lines deleted On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:32:34 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.7 With 67 files changed, 507 lines inserted, and 341 lines deleted On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:33:14 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.40 With 32 files changed, 191 lines inserted, and 104 lines deleted On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:39:05 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.73 With 25 files changed, 89 lines inserted, and 70 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Comes from Theodore Ts'o “Friends don't let friends use Java... (or enable it anywhere near their client or their browser).” --Theodore Ts'o Distro Talk: Tony Time: 15:22 Distrowatch.com 4-8 - PCLinuxOS 2013.04 - updated version of the project's rolling-release desktop Linux distribution featuring the latest KDE 4-9 - Fuduntu 2013.2 - a user-friendly, rolling-release distribution with the RPM package management system and the classic GNOME 2 desktop 4-10 - Tails 0.17.2 - Debian-based live DVD with focus on user's privacy and anonymity on the Internet 4-11 - Webconverger 19.1 - Debian-based distribution designed for Internet-only web kiosks and featuring the Firefox web browser 4-11 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.5 "Cinnamon" - Arch Linux-based distribution with GNOME 3 and Cinnamon as the core user interface 4-12 -ClearOS 6.4.0 - "Community" edition, a cloud-connected server, network and gateway operating system designed for homes, hobbyists and small organisations 4-12 - Foresight Linux 2.5.3 - rolling-release desktop Linux distribution with Conary package management and a choice of GNOME 2, LXDE and Xfce desktops 4-13 - Pardus Linux 2013 "Community" - the "Community" flavour of Pardus Linux 2013 (or "1.0" as it is called in the announcement). Available in both Turkish and English, the "new" Pardus is a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian's "testing" branch. 4-13 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.5 - a user-friendly distribution with Xfce or Openbox, based on Arch Linux Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1498 Mageia - 1811 PClinuxOS - 2194 Ubuntu - 2437 Mint - 3418 Mary Distro Review - Slitaz Linux Time: 25:38 Allow me to introduce the distro for this week: It's the Simple Light Incredible Temporary Autonomous Zone Linux, or Slitaz Linux. One of our listeners, Guillaume, suggested this distro. I checked it out and decided to take it for a spin. So would Slitaz be the incredible lightness of being or would it be an incredible light-weight? The Vitals: Name: Slitaz Linux Maintainer: Christophe Lincoln (Switzerland)) Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:32:45 http://smlr.us/?p=2773 http://smlr.us/?p=2773#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:53:27 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2773 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2773 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:25:14 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/opFwsEzFs14 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:25:14 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/opFwsEzFs14 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kerne... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:25:14 http://smlr.us/?p=2728 http://smlr.us/?p=2728#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:17:31 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2728 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2728 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) 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Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/guMlTeghw3g Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time:00:09:13 Distro Talk: Tony Time:00:13:31 Mary Distro Review Time:00:27:33 Tech News: Time:00:46:50 Toolbox Time:01:04:01 Listener Feedback Time:01:11:25 Outtro Music Time:01:22:39 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time:00:09:13 Release Candidate: NONE Mainline: 3.9-rc4 Stable Updates: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:55:47 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.42 With 112 files changed, 844 lines inserted, and 445 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:22:57 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.71 With 59 files changed, 353 inserted, and 268 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:23:35 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.38 With 78 files changed, 580 lines inserted, and 411 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:24:16 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.5 With 109 files changed, 778 lines inserted, and 683 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Comes from Theodore Ts'o "So I had always thought that Theodore Ts'o was a reasonably unique name. Aparently not...." --Theodore Ts'o This is referring to the front page of the Phoenix Comicon website where they have the comic book artist Teddy Tso listed as appearing, but with Theodore Ts'o picture. I sent them an email probably as did hundreds of others and the error has been corrected. Distro Talk: Tony Time:00:13:33 Distrowatch.com Mary Distro Review - LXLE Linux Time:00:27:33 This week's review is of Lubuntu Extra Life Extension Linux, or LXLE Linux for short. Before you groan...not another Ubuntu derivative review, let me add that this is a remastered LXLE is based on Lubuntu 12.04 and has been remastered for compatibility with older equipment without sacrificing the environment of programs, features and aesthetics. I wanted to review this distro because it wasn't Lubuntu with a different brand slapped on it. They've assembled some tools and some functionality to LXLE –e.g. QuickStart App Launcher, Random Wallpaper, Fast Forecast, and a snap-like feature which they say makes managing multiple windows easier. The Vitals: Name: LXLE Linux (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension Linux) Maintainer: Unknown Distro Latest Birthday: LXLE Linux 1204 was released on March 24, 2013 Derivative: Lubuntu (Debian) Kernel: 3.2.0-40 Review Desktop: LXDE Live Environment: Since it's a *buntu-based distro, it corectly handled my graphics and wireless. Graphics: ( i915) Wireless:  (iwl3945) The Defaults Browser: Chromium and Firefox Office Suite: LibreOffice 4.0.2 Mail Client: Claws Mail File Manager: PCManFM 0.9.10 What is immediately obvious about this distro is the attractive desktop wallpaper. These wallpapers are beautiful, interesting to look at, etc. The distro maintainer included 50 different wallpaper images in LXLE Linux. Each time you reboot the system, a different wallpaper is selected. Older computers will not feel short-changed at all as far as an attractive desktop display goes. A single LXDE panel at the bottom holds the typical utilities. Icons for the standard tasks and activities are on the left. And what desktop would be complete without a Conky display on the right. It's there on the right, displaying various snippets of system information: uptime and various monitoring functions. The typical things you'd expect to see on Conky. The Install Process: I went quickly to the install phase of my testing. Nothing much to report during this process; remember, it's simply Ubuntu. During partitioning, one of the available file system is btrfs. A couple of things about btrfs, it supports partitions up to 16 exbibytes – ad files up to that size, too. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:24:36 http://smlr.us/?p=2574 http://smlr.us/?p=2574#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:27:14 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2574 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2574 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 2:02:52 - Un-edited Live video – http://youtu.be/Wn_98hpPQYA - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 2:02:52 Un-edited Live video – http://youtu.be/Wn_98hpPQYA Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 12:20 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 15:23 Mary Distro Review Time: 34:27 Tech News: Time: 1:03:25 Toolbox Time: 1:33:33 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:46:33 Listener Feedback Time: 1:51:08 Outtro Music Time: 1:57:17 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time:12:20 Release Candidate: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:16:52 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc3 This is what he had to say about it: “Not as small as -rc2, but that one really was unusually calm. So there was clearly some pending stuff that came in for -rc3, with network drivers and USB leading the charge. But there's other misc drivers, arch updates, btrfs fixes, etc etc too.” On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:41:45 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc4 This is what he had to say about it: "Another week, another -rc. And things haven't calmed down, meaning that the nice small and calm -rc2 was definitely the outlier so far. But I'm optimistic, dammit, and I'm going to keep hoping that things will change, and the upcoming week will be boring and devoid of any real work what-so-ever. It had better be, because it's spring break and the kids are around. Anyway. While it hasn't been as calm as I'd like things to be, it's not like things have been hugely exciting either. Most of this really is pretty trivial. It's all over, with the bulk in drivers (drm, md, net, mtd, usb, sound), but also some arch updates (powerpc, arm, sparc, x86) and filesystem work (cifs, ext4). Go out and test," --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.9-rc3 Stable Updates: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:14:34 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.70 With 41 files changed, 488 lines inserted, and 133 lines deleted On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:15:14 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.37 With 50 files changed, 540 lines inserted, and 156 lines deleted On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:15:54 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.4 With 86 files changed, 903 lines inserted, and 395 lines deleted On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:58:14 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.41 With 100 files changed, 1207 lines inserted, and 544 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This week's quote comes to us from Greg Kroah-Hartman: “I am ignoring your email for more important things...” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: 15:23 Distrowatch.com 3-18 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.4 "Openbox-Lite" - lightweight and minimalist distribution based on Arch Linux 3-18 - CAINE 4.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution with specialist utilities for forensic analysis and penetration testing 3-19 -SparkyLinux 2.1 - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with a choice of Enlightenment, LXDE, MATE or Openbox desktops user interfaces 3-19 - Clonezilla Live 2.1.1-7 - a specialist live CD with useful open-source disk-cloning utilities: 3-20 - AsteriskNOW 3.0 - CentOS-based Linux distribution with Asterisk telephony software, DAHDI driver framework and FreePBX administrative GUI 3-20 - BSD Release: FreeNAS 8.3.1 - open-source storage platform that supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems 3-21 - GParted Live 0.15.0-1 - a utility live CD with specialist tools for hard disk management and data rescue tasks 3-21 - Slackel 2.0 "Openbox" - a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Slackware's "Current" branch 3-22 - Linux Mint 201303 "Debian" - LMDE with MATE and Cinnamon, but no Xfce this time Distro of the Week: Tony Mageia - 1483 Debian - 1605 openSUSE - 1769 Ubuntu - 2030 Mint - 4284 Mary Distro Review - VSIDO Time: 34:27 My distro review this week has been a whirlwind of preparation, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 2:02:52 http://smlr.us/?p=2543 http://smlr.us/?p=2543#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:30:51 +0000 mary http://smlr.us/?p=2543 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2543 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - No un-edited live session this week! Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time:9:30 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: No un-edited live session this week! Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time:9:30 Distro Talk: Mat/Mary Time:12:15 Mary Distro Review Time:32:38 Tech News: Time:51:40 Toolbox Time:Not sure--but it's there some place Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:11:43 Listener Feedback Time:1:12:30 Outtro Music Time:1:16:34 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: Release Candidate: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:24:09 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.9-rc2 Here’s what he had to say about it: “Hey, things have been reasonable calm. Sure, Dave Jones has been messing with trinity and we've had some excitement from that, but Al is back, and is hopefully now busy virtually riding to the rescue on a white horse. But otherwise it's been good for this phase in the rc window. The diffstat is reasonably flat (good sign), with wireless network drivers standing out. And that's mainly due to a new driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A USB gigabit controller. Other than network drivers, we've got some drm updates, md and gpio, btrfs, etworking, arm, sound.. Stuff all over the place, but nothing horribly scary. Considering that some rc2's are too big to post a shortlog for, I'm happy. And let's just keep it that way, ok?” Mainline: 3.9-rc2 Stable Updates: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:47:02 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.3 With 144 files changed, 1052 lines inserted, and 607 lines deleted On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:47:47 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.36 With 45 files changed, 310 lines inserted, and 206 lines deleted On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:48:14 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.69 With 23 files changed, 112 lines inserted, and 34 lines deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time: Distrowatch.com 2013-03-16: IPFIRE 2013-03-15: SLAX 7.0.6 (plus updates) 2013-03-14: Kali Linux 1.0 2013-03-13: OpenSUSE 12.3 2013-03-12: ArtistX 1.4 2013-03-12: Webconverger 18.0 2013-03-11: Trisquel GNu/Linux 6.0 2013-03-11: Porteus 2.0 Kiosk 2013-03-10: Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.3 2013-03-10: GhostBSD 3.0 2013-03-10: Puppy Linux Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1815 LuninuX - 1834 Ubuntu - 2534 Mageia - 3194 Mint - 5157 Mary Distro Review - SolydK Time: This week's review is of what could be considered a relative newcomer into the Linux distro scene—but not really. It was recently set free from a Linux distro, well-known for its minty goodness. And since it's St. Patrick's Day a wee bit o' green is in order. My review this week is of SolydK...and there clearly was a hint of mint evident throughout my testing of SolydK. So would the wearin' o' the green make me want to dance a jig or would I be green with envy for another distro. The Vitals: Name: SolydK (not to be confused with its cousin SolydX. The project, itself, is called SolydXK) http://solydxk.com Maintainer: Schoelje Distro Latest Birthday: Released on 2/28/2013 after LMDE KDE (and XFCE) were officially discontinued by Linux Mint. Derivative: Debian (but also has its roots in Linux Mint) Kernel: 3.2.0-4 Review Desktop: KDE, of course. Live Environment: Booting SolydK was a time consuming affair, taking almost 3:20 minutes to boot to a desktop (3:16 to be exact), and even then it took an addition 10 seconds before I could actually interact with the menu. My graphics and wireless were correctly handled by SK. Graphics: ( nouveau) Wireless:  (iwl4965) When booting completed, and I had a desktop, it looked sharp, polished and ready for prime time. The Defaults Browser: Firefox, Konqueror (Rekonq is not present) Office Suite: LibreOffice Mail Client: Thunderbird File Manager: Dolphin Out of the box, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:19:49 http://smlr.us/?p=2510 http://smlr.us/?p=2510#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:19:58 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2510 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2510 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 53:23 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/uxRRwZl4zuI Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 53:23 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/uxRRwZl4zuI Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:00 Tech News: Time: 18:30 Toolbox Time: 33:00 Listener Feedback Time: 39:25 Outtro Music Time: 48:33 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Release Candidate: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:28:25 PST Linus Torvalds leased kernel 3.9-rc1 Heres what he had to say about it: “... I don't know if it's just me, but this merge window had more "Uhhuh" moments than I'm used to. I stopped merging a couple of times, because we had bugs that looked really scary, but thankfully each time people were on them like paparazzi on Justin Bieber. Special thanks to Peter, Ted and Rafael (and the people who reported the bugs too!) for being so responsive. It could have been so much worse. As usual, there's changes all over the place. We've got two new architectures (metag and arc), and we've got tons of arm work (as usual), with even more platforms falling under the generic umbrella. MIPS tried to keep up by doing whitespace cleanup, but those arm people with their platform changes kept ahead And we've got filesystem updates to just about everything out there, although btrfs (initial raid56 code, snapshot work and fsync performance) and ext4 (hole punching, extent caches, also fsync performance) had the big changes. But most of the updates (~60%) are on the driver side, as usual. The bulk is in GPU, networking, staging, pinctrl, sound, but it's all over. …” Mainline: 3.9-rc1 Stable Updates: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 06:30:53 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.68 With 31 files changed, 287 lines inserted, and 158 lines deleted On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 06:31:36 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.35 With 52 files changed, 318 lines inserted, and 179 lines deleted On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 06:32:15 Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.2 With 80 files changed, 887 lines inserted, and 376 lines deleted On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:36:22 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.40 With 171 files changed, 1634 lines inserted, and 866 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This week is from Greg Kroah-Hartman: “Two different conversations I had a week ago: Linux kernel developer talking to me at ELC: him: "If you put dbus into the kernel, I am going to switch to one of the BSDs" me: "Sorry to hear that, good luck." Email sent to me the next day from a BSD kernel developer: him: "As you want to put dbus into the Linux kernel, we probably want to as well, do you have any objection to us doing this?" me: "Not at all, if there's anything I can do to help out, just let me know." I'm tempted to say something to that first developer now, but I think I'll just sit back and watch this all play out...” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time:8:00 Distrowatch.com 3-3 - PureOS 7.0 - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with a choice of GNOME or Openbox desktop user interfaces 3-4 - sposkpat 1.05 - Single Purpose Operating System. Turns any PC into a distraction-less Patience card game (a.k.a. klondike, solitaire, solitario, pasianssi, пасьянс, bakarkako 3-4 - Proxmox 2.3 "Virtual Environment" - Debian-based virtualisation platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines 3-4 - Springdale Linux 6.4- formerly known as PUIAS Linux and built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 3-5 - Puppy Linux 5.5 "Slacko" - all and fast distribution built from and compatible with Slackware's binary packages - 5-27 - KANOTIX 2013 - Debian-based distribution created for the CeBIT trade show taking place this week in Hannover, Germany 3-9 - CentOS 6.4 - Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 53:24 http://smlr.us/?p=2480 http://smlr.us/?p=2480#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:55:41 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2480 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2480 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:34:49 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/cc8B6KE5Zw4 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:34:49 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/cc8B6KE5Zw4 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 13:10 Mary Distro Review Time: 28:00 Tech News: Time: 50:30 The Toolbox Time: 1:04:14 Screen Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:11:25 Listener Feedback Time: 1:21:34 Outtro Music Time: 1:12:17 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Release Candidate: No release candidate this week. Mainline: 3.8 Stable Updates: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:31:47 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.10 With 79 files changed, 572 lines inserted, and 470 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:11:06 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.8.1 With 191 files changed, 1647 lines inserted, and 991 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:20:18 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.67 With 63 files changed, 572 lines inserted, and 240 lines deleted On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:21:01 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.34 With 104 files changed, 806 lines inserted, and 557 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: No kernel developer quote this week instead let’s talk about the new kernel.org website.  It is very snappy looking an much more user friendly I recommend you go check it out. Distro Talk: Tony Time: 13:10 Distrowatch.com 2-24 - Superb Mini Server 2.0.3 - Slackware-based distribution for servers 2-25 - Tails 0.17 - Debian-based live DVD focusing on user's privacy and anonymity while browsing the world wide web 2-25 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.4 - Arch-based Linux distribution with a choice of Xfce, Cinnamon and Openbox desktop user interfaces 2-27 - Clonezilla Live 2.1.0-26 - live CD with specialist open-source tools for disk cloning tasks 2-27 - Zorin OS 6.2 "Core", "Ultimate" - Although both are based on Ubuntu 12.04, only the "Core" variant can be had for free while the "Ultimate" edition, with extra tools and enhancements, is a commercial product that cost €10 to download. 2-28 - Grml 2013.02 - Debian-based live CD with a collection of specialist GNU/Linux software, tools and scripts designed for system administrators 3-01 - aLinux 15.0 - independently developed distribution (formerly known ad Peanut Linux) designed for ageing computers and featuring the KDE 3.5.10 desktop 3-01 - OS4 13.3 - Xubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution 3-01 - Linux Caixa Mágica 19 - Portuguese Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring the latest GNOME 3 desktop 3-01 - Parted Magic 2013_02_28 - Linux-based live CD with open-source tools and utilities designed for disk management and data rescue tasks 3-01 - Quirky 5.4.91 - minimalist distribution that attempts to explore new avenues and implement unusual ideas. 3-01 - Linux From Scratch 7.3 - a book of instructions on how to build a base Linux system from scratch 3-01 - Puppy Linux 5.5 "Wary", "Racy" - "Wary" and "Racy" editions, special Puppy builds targeting (not only) older computer systems Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1699 Debian - 1758 Ubuntu - 1856 Mageia - 1909 Mint - 3905 Mary Distro Review - Porteus Linux Time: 28:00 Every few weeks, I seem to find a distro that's interesting to explore. For the most part, the distro I review this week falls into the category. Yes, there were a few things that did not go according to plan and I'll talk about them. Porteus Linux is a live, Slackware Linux-based distro that weighs in at a slim 228.4 MB. In a previous incarnation, Porteus was known as Slax Remix, after the other live Slackware Linux-based distro. The Vitals: Name: Porteus Linux (http://porteus.org/) Maintainer: A group of developers Distro Latest Birthday: 2/20/2013 Derivative: Slackware Kernel: 3.7.8 Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:34:49 http://smlr.us/?p=2449 http://smlr.us/?p=2449#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:35:03 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2449 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2449 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 2:02:46 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/GT2ow-lQkmw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 2:02:46 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/GT2ow-lQkmw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 14:00 Mary Distro Review Time: 32:37 Tech News: Time: 1:00:40 Convention Sceen Time: Is it Alive? - Crowd Sourced Time: 1:24:45 Listener Feedback Time: 1:41:41 Outtro Music Time: 1:55:50 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: Release Candidate: Mainline: 3.8 Stable Updates: On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:04 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.65 With 6 files changed, 23 lines inserted, and 11 lines deleted On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:04:44 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.32 With 10 files changed, 43 lines inserted, and 25 lines deleted On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:05:35 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.9 With 12 files changed, 44 lines inserted, and 44 lines deleted On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:20:49 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.39 With 65 files changed, 649 lines inserted, and 605 lines deleted These next two are single-patch updates fixing a buffer overflow in the printk() subsystem. On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:10:38 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.66 With 3 files changed, 19 lines inserted, and 2 lines deleted On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:11:14 PSt Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.33 With 3 files changed, 19 lines inserted, and 2 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “As people seem to be confused about this, I'd like everyone to know that the 3.8 kernel is NOT going to be a longterm kernel release that is supported by me, or by anyone else that I know of. Hopefully this puts a stop to this crazy rumor, if anyone has any questions about this, please let me know, and forward this on to anyone else that needs to see it.”  --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: Distrowatch.com Distrozilla.com/ 2-17 - madeb 2013.02.17 - a full featured distro with MATE desktop based on Debian Sid 2-19 - IPFire 2.13 - a major new update of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls 2-20 - Porteus 2.0 - Slackware-based live CD with a choice of KDE 4, LXDE, Razor-qt and Xfce desktops 2-21 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 - the latest update of the company's enterprise-class operating system 2-21 - MINIX 3.2.1 - updated version of the UNIX-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture 2-23 - SolusOS 1.3 - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with GNOME 2 2-23 - Point Linux 13.02 - a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to combine the power of Debian GNU/Linux with the productivity of MATE 2-24 - SalentOS 12.04.2 - Ubuntu-based lightweight Linux distribution with a choice of Openbox or Razor-qt desktop user interfaces DistroRank Top 5 Debian Arch Red Hat Enteprise Linux Mint Ubuntu Distro of the Week (Distrowatch): Tony Debian - 1570 Manjaro - 1770 Mageia - 1982 Ubuntu - 2277 Mint - 3776 Mary Distro Review - Manjaro Linux Time: Manjaro .... The name sounds exotic...like Mount Kilimanjaro close to what was once known as Zanzibar, present-day Tanzania and Kenya. Actually, Manjaro was started by a defection of some developers from the Chakra project, a cutting-edge, KDE-based distro. After misstating that fact last week, I decided to make amends and review Manjaro this week. So would Manjaro Linux be like a fast cat on the Serengeti or would Manjaro be nothing more than a toothless Lion... The Vitals: Name: Manjaro (http://manjaro.org) Maintainer: Roland Singer and Philip Müller Distro Latest Birthday: Every day could be Manjaro's birthday because it's a rolling release. This one is 0.8, announced on 2/16/2013 Derivative: Arch Linux Kernel: 3.7.7-1 (makes my Kubuntu 3.2.0. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 2:02:46 http://smlr.us/?p=2420 http://smlr.us/?p=2420#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:54:00 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2420 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2420 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:33:40 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/bADUZVqcf9M - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:33:40 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/bADUZVqcf9M Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:50 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 19:15 Mary Distro Review Time: 28:45 Tech News: Time: 53:45 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:17:23 Listener Feedback Time: 1:23:40 Outtro Music Time: 1:28:30 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:50 Release Candidate: There was no release candidate this week. Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:44:54 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.7.7 With 34 files changed, 351 lines inserted, and 434 lines deleted On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:45:36 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.4.30 With 26 files changed, 241 lines inserted, and 362 lines deleted On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:46:16 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.0.63 With 18 files changed, 158 lines inserted, and 339 lines deleted On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:12:26 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.7.8 With 69 files changed, 536 lines inserted, and 290 lines deleted On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:12:53 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.4.31 With 48 files changed, 460 lines inserted, and 283 lines deleted On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:13:23 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman release kernel 3.0.64 With 27 files changed, 306 lines inserted, and 212 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “Too funny...” --Greg Kroah-Hartman What he is referring to is the website http://perl8.org/ and the fact that it redirects to http://www.scala-lang.org/. Distro Talk: Tony Time: 19:15 Distrowatch.com 2-10 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.02 - the project's brand-new series featuring the KDE 4.10 desktop 2-12 - ROSA 2012 "Desktop Fresh GNOME" - desktop-oriented Linux distribution with GNOME 3.6.2 2-14 - OS4 4.0 "Enterprise" - Ubuntu-based distribution for desktops and servers with special enterprise features 2-14 - Ubuntu 12.04.2 - latest update of the distribution's current long-term support version 2-15 - DreamStudio 12.04.2 - an updated build of the project's multimedia distribution based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support (LTS) release 2-15 - Sabayon Linux 11 - Gentoo-based distribution available in GNOME 3, KDE, MATE and Xfce flavours 2-16 - Zorin OS 6.2 "Lite" - updated release of the project's Ubuntu-based lightweight distribution (with LXDE) designed for new Linux users 2-16 - Manjaro Linux 0.8 "MATE" - brand-new new community edition which features the increasingly popular fork of the GNOME 2 desktop Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1815 LuninuX - 1834 Ubuntu - 2534 Mageia - 3194 Mint - 5157 Mary Distro Review - Linpus Linux Time: 28:45 Linpus Linux is on this week's review list. One reason I selected it is the name—Linpus. It's a distro with a name that only a mother could love...or a Taiwanese company of the same name. While researching this distro, I learned that Linpus is more than a Linux distro or project. Linpus is a Taiwan-based Linux vendor with more than 200 employees split between its headquarters in Taipei, and its branch office in Shanghai. So would Linpus be as lively as a dancing dragon at a Chinese New Year celebration or would it leave me feeling like it's last week's chop suey. The Vitals: Name: Linpus Linux Maintainer: Linpus Technologies, Inc. of Taiwan Distro Latest Birthday: Linpus Linux 1.9 Lite was announced on 2/9/13 Derivative: Fedora (rpm-based distro) Kernel: 3.7.2-4 (from uname -a) Review Desktop: Modified Gnome Shell Live Environment: Linpus boots to a polished modified Gnome desktop. Unlike a lot of live environments for distros I have reviewed, the Linpus desktop displays a lot of stuff bu Some people may consider it cluttered and distracting, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:33:41 http://smlr.us/?p=2394 http://smlr.us/?p=2394#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:43:06 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2394 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2394 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:37 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/t58o3qqpVtc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:37 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/t58o3qqpVtc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:05 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:40 Mary Distro Review Time: 15:15 Tech News: Time: 28:40 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 44:40 Listener Feedback Time: 53:55 Outtro Music Time: 1:1:15 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Sound bites by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:05 Release Candidate: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:51:15 EDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc7 This is what he had to say about it: “Another rc from Australia, just before heading back home. It still hasn't been as quiet as I'd have preferred (and with the absolutely horrendous internet access the last week, any pull at all was pretty painful - git is good about network bandwidth use, but it still wants a network that stays up and doesn't lose packets left and right). Anyway, here it is. Mostly driver updates (usb, networking, radeon, regulator, sound) with a random smattering of other stuff (btrfs, networking, so on. And most everything is pretty small.” --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 20:34:17 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.62 With 16 files changed, 70 lines inserted, and 28 lines deleted On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 20:35:00 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.29 With 38 files changed, 208 lines inserted, and 109 lines deleted On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 20:35:43 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.6 With 101 files changed, 756 lines inserted, and 475 lines deleted On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:27:43 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.38 With 137 files changed, 1195 lines inserted, and 480 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “Do not build this code for Windows and then run it as administrator on a Samsung laptop. It really will kill the laptop.” --Mathew Garrett Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:40 Distrowatch.com 2-5 - Parsix GNU/Linux 4.0r2 - desktop distribution and live DVD based on Debian's "testing" branch 2-6 - Frugalware Linux 1.8 - General-purpose distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users 2-7 - Webconverger 17.0 - a specialist distribution designed for web kiosks - now based on Debian's "testing" branch 2-8 - Linpus Linux 1.9 "Lite" - GNOME 3 desktop with HTML 5 widgets and support for touch screens Distro of the Week: Tony Lite - 1628 Ubuntu - 1867 Mageia - 2021 PCLinuxOS - 2035 Mint - 3525 Mary Distro Review - Parsix Linux Time: 15:15 My distro reviews cover some interesting and cutting-edge distros. And some not so. A fair number are newly created works while others have been around for a while. This week's review falls into the second category and takes us to the land of Persia... Parsix Linux has been around for approximately 8 years, since 2005 Parsix GNU/Linux is a live and installation DVD the goal of which is to provide a ready-to-use and easy-to-install operating system. It's based on Debian's testing branch and the latest stable release of the GNOME desktop environment. Extra software packages are available for installation from the distribution's own software repositories. Will Parsix Linux prove to be a prince of a distro or would my magic carpet crash land...let's find out. The Vitals: Name:  Parsix Linux Maintainer: Alan Baghumian Distro Latest Birthday: 4.02r2 code name “Gloria” was released on 2/5/2013 Derivative:  Debian Testing Kernel: 3.2.37 Review Desktop: Gnome 3.4 Live Environment: Parsix boots without a problem to a very serviceable and what looks to be a stock Gnome 3 desktop.  Parsix's wallpaper is true to its roots—a desert scene right out of the Prince of Persia with sandy footprints walking aimlessly across the desert.  A humorous thought of Gnome users wandering around, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:09:40 http://smlr.us/?p=2368 http://smlr.us/?p=2368#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:57:25 +0000 mat http://smlr.us/?p=2368 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2368 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/VfJSrvOI6qU Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/VfJSrvOI6qU Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 9:29 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 12:23 Mary Distro Review Time: 17:05 Interview: Time: 34:49 Tech News: Time: 52:10 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:17:00 Listener Feedback Time: 1:22:35 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:40 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 9:29 Release Candidate: On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:43:33 EDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc6 This what he had to say about it: “It's been a week since -rc5 (perhaps not counting timezone changes), so -rc6 is out now. I have to say, -rc6 is bigger than I'd like it to be. I'd really like things to calm down by rc6, because usually I aim for rc7 to be roughly the last rc in the series, and that means that I don't want to see hundreds of patches. But hundreds of patches it is. Not good. ... So I'm hoping that rc7 would be better quite quite on its own. But since I don't trust you sneaky bastards, I have a CleverPlan(tm) to make *sure* that rc7 will be better and much smaller. That plan largely depends on me being unreachable for the next week due to the fact that there is no internet under water. Paraphrasing the Alien films: "Under water, nobody can read your email". And once I dry off enough, I'm going to be really pissy ("And how is that different from the normal Linus, pray tell?") ... So think twice - or thrice - before sending me patches or a pull request for -rc7... In other words, "It fixes a bug" just isn't good enough. The bug needs to be something that actually matters.” Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:56:58 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.5 With 56 files changed, 491 lines inserted, and 208 lines deleted On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:58:36 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.28 With 27 files changed, 230 lines inserted, and 92 lines deleted On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:59:31 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.61 With 19 files changed, 188 lines inserted, and 44 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "Some Lenovos will only boot Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I recommend drinking, because as far as I know they haven't actually got around to doing anything useful about this yet." --Matthew Garrett Distro Talk: Tony Time: 12:23 Distrowatch.com 1-30 - SparkyLinux 2.1 "Ultra" - a Debian-based lightweight distribution with Openbox as the default desktop user interface 1-30 - Parted Magic 2013_01_29 - Linux live CD with specialist tools for disk management and data rescue tasks 1-31 - PCLinuxOS 2013.02 - "KDE" and "KDE MiniME" editions, version 2013.02, 2-1 - Linux Lite 1.0.4 - Ubuntu-based distribution with a customised Xfce desktop Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1572 Ubuntu - 1842 PCLinuxOS - 2177 Mageia - 2349 Mint - 3675 Mary Distro Review Time: 17:05 Linux Review During last week's episode we briefly discussed the RazorQT desktop. The general consensus, if I recall correctly, is that we were not all that enthusiastic about this lean, QT-based desktop. I reviewed RazorQt 4.1 when I took a look at Siduction Linux back in episode 34. My biggest complaint at the time was the inability to switch mouse buttons if you were left handed. Well one year has passed since I last took a look at RazorQt. Time to see if it's a sharper desktop than it was last year. I am reviewing razorQT via the Linux distro, SalentOS, so there will be a little of both during this week's What's on SDA6. SalentOS claims it's the first distro completely inspired by the Salento region of Italy, a land molded by the sea and wind, steeped in history and art in the south of the Italian peninsula. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:43:22 http://smlr.us/?p=2336 http://smlr.us/?p=2336#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:25:31 +0000 mat http://smlr.us/?p=2336 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2336 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:25 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:25 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 16:55 Mary Distro Review Time: 21:50 Tech News: Time: 37:30 Convention Scene Time: 1:03:36 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:10:10 Listener Feedback Time: 1:22:10 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:35 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:25 Kernel News Release Candidate: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:34 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc5 This is what he had to say about it: “I'll be traveling for LCA next week, so I'm hoping things are quieting down. They did not quiet down much for rc5, though, we still had 300+ commits in this rc. Not that they look all that scary, but there's more movement in btrfs, f2fs, ptrace and module loading than I'd really prefer at this stage. Sure, there's also the usual driver updates - i915 and radeon, usb, serial, yadda yadda. But the drivers actually accounted for less than half of the patch this time around. Go forth and test.” --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:54:20 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.4 With 40 files changed, 341 lines inserted, and 84 lines deleted On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:54:56 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.27 With 28 files changed, 256 lines inserted, and 69 lines deleted On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:56:34 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.60 With 20 files changed, 226 lines inserted, and 60 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “So here was a totally new developer, sending perfect patches, and even revisions of the original patch after feedback, and getting it accepted in just over 24 hours total. I don't think it really gets easier than that from both my end as a maintainer and, hopefully, from the developer end either. The kernel development process works really well, no tools more than just an email client and an editor needed, very low barrier to entry, which is good” --Greg Kroah-Hartman The developer he is talking about is Frans Klaver from xsens.com. Distro Talk: Tony Time: 16:55 Distrowatch.com 1-21 - Snowlinux 4 "Xfce", "E17" - Debian-based 1-23 - BackBox Linux 3.01 - Ubuntu-based distribution and live DVD with a collection of penetration testing, incident response, computer forensics and intelligence gathering tools 1-23 - Netrunner 12.12.1 - Kubuntu-based distribution with KDE 4.9.4 1-24 - Descent|OS 3.0.2 -Ubuntu base system with the latest version of the MATE desktop environment 1-24 - SystemRescueCd 3.3.0 - Gentoo-based live CD with an extensive collection of data rescue and disk management utilities Distro of the Week: Tony SnowLinux - 1627 Ubuntu - 1939 Fedora - 1942 Mageia - 2363 Mint - 3470 Mary Distro Review - Colorwheel Linux Time: 21:50 If you have a friend or family member whom you'd like to move from the Windows world to Linux, you want that transition to be as smooth and transparent as possible. OK, so Slackware is out. They can try Mint, Zorin, etc. This week I have taken a slightly different route by reviewing a less-known distro that also claims to be at least according to the site: “a Windows-friendly system that everyone can use.” The definition of Windows-friendly can be a little hard to determine but it seems to me it should be: a) The desktop should be organized in the familiar Windows way. b) Tools with which users are familiar should be easily available. c)You should be able to install a program simply by double-clicking on it. d) Easy to update the installed OS. Let's see how Colorwheel's Chroma key measures up. The Vitals: Name: Colorwheel Linux (http://colorwheel-os.com/) Maintainer: Not clear but appears to be a 15-year old Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:41:04 http://smlr.us/?p=2308 http://smlr.us/?p=2308#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:14:22 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2308 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2308 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time:1:22:14 - Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:20 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time:1:22:14 Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:20 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:25 Mary Distro Review Time: 28:37 Tech News: Time: 44:32 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:03:45 Listener Feedback Time:1:10:36 Outtro Music Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:20 Release Candidate: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:51:50 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc4 I am going to quote his G+ announcement instead of his LKML announcement because it's funnier. Here you go: "Ho! Apparently I missed talking about 3.8-rc3 here on G+, but by now that's old news, and there's a 3.8-rc4 out already. I'm pretty sure Greg has done a few stable release kernels too that he just forgot to announce, but stable kernels are for wussies anyway, so who cares? Real men and women use the rc kernels, because what's life without a bit of spice and that feeling that you are actually helping test things out? And -rc4 is where you can feel like a manly man (or a womanly woman - of any combination of the two, really, I'm not judgmental) without really having to worry all that much. Because you know that the big stuff has been found, and you can just help make sure we've gotten all the niggling details too. Right?" --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:58:06 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.37 With 56 files changed, 489 lines inserted, and 152 lines deleted On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:11:50 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.3 With 235 files changed, 2062 lines inserted, and 1364 lines deleted On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:12:34 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.26 152 files changed, 1519 lines inserted, and 984 lines deleted On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:13:15 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.59 107 files changed, 730 lines inserted, and 385 lines deleted On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:24:02 EST Paul Gortmaker released kernel 2.6.34.14 With 77 files changed, 764 lines inserted, and 284 lines deleted He also had this comment: "Please also note that there will be a limited number of further updates to the 2.6.34 line -- on the order of one or two more releases. So you may want to start thinking about your upgrade plan." Kernel Developer Quote: “At lunch, overheard a conversation with some people discussing the Sonos music system. I joined in as I finally got one as well and really like it. Turns out they worked at Microsoft and were happy they got a corporate discount through work to buy them. I almost refrained telling them that the device they liked so much runs Linux. The conversation didn't last much longer after that...” --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:25 Distrowatch.com 1-13 - Slackel 1.0 "Openbox" - lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Slackware's "Current" branch 1-13 - Pear Linux 6.1 - Ubuntu remix with a simple but beautiful user interface (a customised GNOME 3) and out-of-the-box support for many popular multimedia codecs: 1-14 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.3 "Openbox" - lightweight Openbox user interface and the Synapse semantic launcher 1-15 - Fedora 18 - Red Hat-sponsored community distribution of Linux 1-15 - Slax 7.0.4 - Slackware-based live CD with KDE 1-17 - CentOS 5.9 - a Linux distribution built from the source code of the recently-released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9 1-17 - CRUX 3.0 - lightweight, x86-64 optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users 1-17 - UberStudent 2.0 "Lightweight" - Ubuntu-based educational distribution designed for learning and teaching academic computing at the higher education and advanced secondary levels Distro of the Week: Tony Ubuntu - 1837 Pear - 2009 Mageia - 2034 Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:22:14 http://smlr.us/?p=2280 http://smlr.us/?p=2280#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:08:16 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2280 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2280 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:23:47 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/6yIO4Vd-c7U - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:23:47 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/6yIO4Vd-c7U Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:25 Mary Distro Review Time: 24:05 Tech News: Time: 35:50 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 58:02 Listener Feedback Time: 1:06:14 Mat's Soapbox Time: 1:12:27 Outtro Music Time: 1:17:35 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:00 Kernel News Release Candidate: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 19:21:23 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc3 Here is what he had to say about it: "The holidays are over, and things are starting to get back to normal. Except for Greg, I suspect, who is probably still digging his way out of his email hole. Anyway, another week, another -rc. A fairly normal-sized one. Most of the changes are in drivers, with the bulk of them being one-liners all over that just remove the last traces of __dev[init|exit]. But apart from that, there are real updates (GPU drivers stand out - mainly radeon and exynos), and some architecture work (arm, powerpc, mips, microblaze), filesystems (f2fs, gfs, cifs, nfs) and networking (netfilter and sunrpc)." Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:13:16 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.7.2 With 140 files changed, 1279 lines inserted, and 748 lines deleted On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:13:57 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.25 With 95 files changed, 992 lines inserted, and 486 lines deleted On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:14:33 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.58 With 53 files changed, 406 lines inserted, and 154 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "Ah, a real time operating system that supports USB and FAT for TI microcontrollers. Wait, I thought we already had one or two of those around here, for free, why would anyone want to create yet-another-operating-system? So sad." --Greg Kroah-Hartmen Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:25 Distrowatch.com 1-6 -Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.01 - the fifth update of the project's "Claire" series featuring the new KDE 4.9.5 desktop 1-7 - Fuduntu 2013.1 - 1-8 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 - 1-9 - OS4 13.2 "OpenDesktop" - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a customised Xfce desktop 1-10 - PelicanHPC 2.9 - Debian-based live DVD that makes it possible to set up high-performance computing clusters in minutes 1-11 - Tails 0.16 - Debian-based distribution with strong privacy and anonymity features while browsing the world wide web 1-12 - Untangle Gateway 9.4 - Debian-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications Distro of the Week: Tony Bodi - 1633 Fuduntu - 1658 Ubuntu - 1762 Mageia - 2159 Mint - 3517 Mary Distro Review Time: 24:05 No official distro review this week due to the short week, but I was able to check the newest version of Slax and successfully install on USB drive --and boot it successfully. Tech News: Time: 35:50 RHEL 5.9 Released This marks the start of Production Phase 2. It reinforces Red Hat's commitment to a 10-year lifecycle by introducing several new features which include, hardware enablement, security, standards and certifications, developer tools, virtualization, and more. Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's Platform Business Unit, Jim Totton, had this to say about it: “Our goal with each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is always to provide a highly flexible and extendable platform that continues to grow with the evolving needs of our customers, while allowing them to migrate to the next major release in their own timeframe. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 is the perfect example of our commitment to providing customers with an extensive product lifecycle, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:23:47 http://smlr.us/?p=2245 http://smlr.us/?p=2245#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:31:03 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2245 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2245 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:28:45 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/us-4M4392uE - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:28:45 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/us-4M4392uE Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:28 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:17 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:00 Tech News: Time: 45:00 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:11:36 Listener Feedback Time: 1:18:17 Outtro Music Time: 1:23:23 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:28 Kernel News Release Candidate: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 19:36:54 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc2 Here is what he said about it: "It's a new year, people are getting back to work, and trying desperately to forget the over eating that has been going on for the last two weeks. And hey, to celebrate, here's -rc2! The patch is fairly small, and largely dominated by the GPU updates and the trivial removal of __devinit/exit in the i2c layer. But there's some filesystem work (ext4, ecryptfs, ceph) and some VM fixes in there to. And some late ARM OMAP cleanups." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.7 Stable Updates: On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:17:42 GMT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.36 With 187 files changed, 1628 lines inserted, and 923 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "A lot [of] SD and MicroSD cards out there are crap^H^H^H^H driven by low prices rather than quality. Here are some good hints for how to check low-end flash devices for sanity before you put precious data on them. (And before you blame the file system for a problem caused by crap storage devices. :-" --Theodore Ts'o And here is a link to the information he is referring to: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2297 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:17 Distrowatch.com 12-30 - AgiliaLinux 8.1.1 - Russian Slackware-derived distribution with a custom, dependency-resolving package manager and support for several pre-configured desktop environments 12-31 - FreeBSD 9.1 - 1-1 - Parsix GNU/Linux 4.0r1 - based on Debian's testing branch and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop 1-2 - Semplice Linux 3.0.0 - based on Debian's unstable branch and featuring the Openbox desktop user interface 1-3 - Ultimate Edition 3.5 - Ubuntu 12.04 remix with KDE as the default desktop 1-3 - Slax 7.0.3 - Slackware-based live CD 1-3 - Snowlinux 4 - Debian-based distribution with MATE (a desktop environment forked from GNOME 2) 1-3 - Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 0.17 window manager Distro of the Week: Tony Bodi - 1495 Ubuntu - 1701 Snowlinux - 1783 Mageia - 2069 Mint - 3588 Mary Distro Review - Agilia Linux Time: 23:00 This week's distro review is of Agilia Linux, a Russian distribution, the download of which—at 3GB—rivaled the size of another Russian product: War and Peace. According to their site, Agilia Linux maintained by a small team of independent developers in their spare time. The entire site is in Russian so I used Google translate to get a better understanding if this distro. However, you know that something was lost in the translation when the purpose of Agilia Linux was translated as “...designed for an advanced, but lazy audience. Do you think they really meant a smart and efficient audience? I am not sure but let's take a look at the vitals... The Vitals: Name: Agilia Linux (best viewed translated in Google Chrome) http://agilialinux.ru/index.php) Maintainer: Small group of dedicated Russian developers Distro Latest Birthday: 8.1.1 on December 30, 2012 Derivative: Originally based on Slackware; Was called Mops Linux before becoming Agilia. Kernel: 3.6.11 Review Desktop: Fluxbox (installed), Gnome (Live), KDE Live Environment: One of the first things you'll notice about Agilia Linux –at least I did—is that it uses OpenRC, an alternate init system, to boot the system, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:28:45 http://smlr.us/?p=2212 http://smlr.us/?p=2212#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:30:24 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2212 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2212 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:19:28 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/gqWv8b31LbA Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:19:28 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/gqWv8b31LbA Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary K... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:19:28 http://smlr.us/?p=2195 http://smlr.us/?p=2195#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:54:51 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2195 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2195 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xYu11808xxI Contact Us: show (at) smlr. http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xYu11808xxI Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: Distro Talk: Tony Time: Mary Distro Review Time: Tech News: Time: Is it Alive? - Mary Time: Listener Feedback Time: Mat's Soapbox Time: Outtro Music Time: Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Kernel News Release Candidate: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:00:58 PST Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.8-rc1 Here is what he had to say about it: "The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing to do than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and play with the most recent rc kernel? This has been a big merge window: we've got more commits than any other kernel in the v3.x kernel series (although v3.2-rc1 was *almost* as big). It's been a rather busy merge window, in other words. The diffstat looks normal: about 63% of the patch being to drivers (staging, networking, scsi, gpu, sound, drbd etc) , 18% architecture updates (with various ARM platform things being the bulk of it as usual, sigh), and the rest being "various", like core networking, filesystems (new f2fs flash-optimized filesystem) and include files etc. I'm appending the "merge shortlog" which is about the only half-way readable automated data I can give you. There's a *ton* of stuff here. Go out and test it, (*) And by "us" I mean mainly people in the same timezone and hemisphere as I am. Because I'm too self-centered to care about anybody else." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: Stable Updates: Kernel Developer Quote: "I wonder how many email systems out there cut at 8 or 32 characters still or have "%" processing still enabled and may also be vulnerable to games" --Alan Cox Time: Distro Talk: Tony Time: Distrowatch.com 12/18 - Clonezilla – 2.0.1.15 12/19 - PC-BSD 9.1 12/19 - IPFire - 2.11 12/19 - Sparky Linux – 2.0.1 12/20 - Rosa - 2012 12/21 Gentoo - 20121221 12/21 – CinnArch - 2012.12.21, 12/21 LinuxMint 14 XFCE Edition 12/21 PF Sense - 2.0.2 12/22 – Netrunner - 12.12 12/22 – Knoppix - 7.0.5, 12/22 – Wifislax - 4.3 12/23 – Linux Mint 14 KDE Edition Distro of the Week: Tony Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon Mary Distro Review - Freezy Linux OK, I will admit to selecting this distro based on its name. Sometimes a name will lead you to an interesting distro and sometimes not. Last week, Linux BBQ caught my eye and provided me with opportunity to review an interesting distro. So would Freezy Linux leave me chillin' and groovin' kind of like the chill on a good beer or would this distro leave me cold. Here we go! First... The Vitals: Name: Freezy Linux Maintainer: Luca Forina Distro Latest Birthday: ? Derivative: Ubuntu Kernel: 3.2.0 Review Desktop: Gnome 3.4.1 Live Environment: Freezy Linux boots easily enough to the live environment. And why shouldn't it—it's the Ubuntu live boot process, complete with the Try Ubuntu or Install Ubuntu options. For a few seconds I thought I had grabbed the wrong CD. But, yes, I wrote Freezy Linux on the CD after I burnt the iso, so it must be Freezy Linux . After booting to live, the first thing I notice is the wallpaper. It's called “Emotion” from VladStudio.com. This wallpaper also was included in the set of desktop wallpapers released for KDE 4.0...yes, that KDE...the one that was not quite ready for prime time. But it does have a crisp look—kinda Freezy and cool, so I move on. The graphics look crisp when they’re rendered through the open source nVidia drivers which also were included. A single panel at the bottom of the screen contains system tray contents and a button for the menu launcher Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:02:41 http://smlr.us/?p=2160 http://smlr.us/?p=2160#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:44:12 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2160 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2160 3 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session part 1 – http://youtu.be/NlUFK7thLPk Un-edited Live session part 2 – http://youtu.be/yrsTyYzZPKc Contact Us: http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session part 1 – http://youtu.be/NlUFK7thLPk Un-edited Live session part 2 – http://youtu.be/yrsTyYzZPKc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:52 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 19:35 Mary Distro Review Time: 27:00 Tech News: Time: 43:25 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 55:43 Listener Feedback Time: 1:01:30 Outtro Music Time: 1:07:17 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:52 Kernel News Release Candidate: No rc we have new baby kernel aaawwww it's so cute Mainline: 3.7 Is out Here is what Linus had to say about it: "Whee. After an extra rc release, 3.7 is now out. After a few more trials at fixing things, in the end we ended up reverting the kswapd changes that caused problems. And with the extra rc, I had decided to risk doing the buffer.c cleanups that would otherwise have just been marked for stable during the next merge window, and had enough time to fix a few problems that people found there too. There's also a fix for a SCSI driver bug that was exposed by the last-minute workqueue fixes in rc8. Other than that, there's a few networking fixes, and some trivial fixes for sparc and MIPS. Anyway, it's been a somewhat drawn out release despite the 3.7 merge window having otherwise appeared pretty straightforward, and none of the rc's were all that big either. But we're done, and this means that the merge window will close on Christmas eve. Or rather, I'll probably close it a couple of days early. For obvious reasons. It's the main commercial holiday of the year, after all. So aim for winter solstice, and no later. Deal? And even then, I might be deep into the glögg." --Linus Torvlads Stable Updates: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:13 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.10 With 29 files changed, 278 lines inserted, and 165 lines deleted On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:47:05 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.23 With 24 files changed, 406 lines inserted, and 191 lines deleted On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:47:49 PST Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.56 With 12 files changed, 55 lines inserted, and 20 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "Congratulations, +Oxfam America --- you've just guaranteed that I won't be donating to you this year. I received the following e-mail SPAM from you: Subject: Did I leave my jacket at your place? It's Aziz Ansari. And of course I didn't leave a jacket at your place. I've never been to your home. But I'm glad you opened this email, because I actually wanted to talk to you about something much more important..... Using cheesy tactics like this is just not cool." --Theodore Ts'o Distro Talk: Tony Time: 19:35 Distrowatch.com 12-09 - Toorox 11.2012 "GNOME" - Gentoo-based distribution and live DVD featuring the GNOME 3.6 12-10 - siduction 12.2.0 - based on Debian's unstable branch and offering four separate editions with KDE, LXDE, Razor-qt and Xfce desktops 12-11 - Slax 7.0 - Slackware-based live CD with KDE 4.9.4 that fits onto a 220 MB CD 12-11 - Webconverger 16.0 - Debian-based live Linux distribution designed solely for accessing web applications 12-11 - LuninuX OS 12.10 - Ubuntu-based distribution with a customised GNOME Shell desktop interface 12-12 - Superb Mini Server 2.0.2 - minor update of the Slackware-based server distribution 12-13 - GParted Live 0.14.1-1 - utility live CD containing tools for disk management and data rescue tasks 12-14 - Univention Corporate Server 3.1 - Debian-based server operating system for enterprises Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1438 Debian - 1481 Ubuntu - 1543 Mageia - 2421 Mint - 4246 Mary Distro Review Time: 17:00  Linux Review This week's review is of a slightly unusual project: Linux BBQ. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:11:34 http://smlr.us/?p=2140 http://smlr.us/?p=2140#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:34:41 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2140 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2140 4 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:17 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:17 Distro Talk... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:17:16 http://smlr.us/?p=2112 http://smlr.us/?p=2112#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:15:13 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2112 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2112 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:32:07 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/LTBbojisxW8 - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:32:07 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/LTBbojisxW8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time:18:44 Distro Talk: Tony Time:20:15 Mary Distro Review Time:33:36 Tech News: Time:58:28 Convention Sceen Time:1:12:56 Listener Feedback Time:1:21:15 Outtro Music Time: Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time:18:44 Distro Talk: Tony Time:20:15 Distrowatch.com 11-25 - UberStudent 2.0.4 0 - Ubuntu-based live distribution with software for learning and teaching at the higher education and advanced secondary levels 11-25 - Linux Lite 1.0.2 - Ubuntu-based, beginner-friendly Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop environment 11-26 - Salix OS 14.0 "Xfce" - Slackware-based distribution featuring the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment 11-27 - Clonezilla Live 2.0.1-5 - a new stable build of the project's live CD with specialist open-source software for disk backup and cloning tasks 11-29 - Tails 0.15 - Debian-based live system with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user 11-30 - Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1 - CentOS-based open-source toolkit for real and virtual clusters 11-30 - OS4 13.1 "OpenDesktop" - desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1290 Ubuntu - 1609 Mageia - 2168 Fedora - 2208 Mint - 4022 Mary Distro Review Time:33:36 UberStudent After last week's disappointing experience with Kwort Linux, I decided to go to the other side of the distro bell curve and try something with ultimate, uber, or some other similar superlative in its name. My search lead me to UberStudent. OK, I didn't have to search too much—it was on Distrowatch last week. ÜBER is defined as 1) being a superlative example of its kind or class : super-2) to an extreme or excessive degree : super-. Let's see if UberStudent would be a superlative example of how a specialist Linux distro should be or extreme example of how one shouldn't be. The Vitals: Name: Uber Student 2.0 Aristotle Maintainer: Stephen Ewen is the lead developer. Distro Latest Birthday: 2.0.4 on November 25, 2012 Derivative: Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel: 3.5.0-18 Review Desktop: XFCE (but you can also use Mate) Live Environment: I downloaded the 3+GB version and burnt it to DVD. UberStudent boots to the live environment in a big way. Nice ethereal music sounds as the booting finishes. If you've used Trisquel Linux, you'll know the sound. Correct drivers for my two important functions, graphics and wireless were automatically loaded. Graphics: (nouveau) Wireless:  (iwl4965) The Big Three Default Browser: Chrome and Firefox (with Cheat sheets for both—keyboard shortcuts, etc). The default search engine in Chrome is DuckDuckGo. Office Suite: LibreOffice, although it is scattered across several subcategories in “Education.” It took me a while to find it. (again more cheat sheets) Mail Client: Thunderbird. During configuration, it offered to set up a new email address at hover.com or gandi.net—or I could use my own. Default File Manager: Thunar. The Install Process: The install process is standard Ubuntu, so nothing out of the ordinary. I selected a single partition to install both root file system and home. As the files are copied, the UberStudent slideshow will cycle, distracting you from the time it takes to install 3.5 GB worth of OS and software. I opted for XFCE desktop. And because I was multitasking like I usually do, I accidentally allowed UberStudent to overwrote my grub menu. Oops, I'll need to fix that. Installed Environment: UberStudent boots to a polished desktop, just like its Ubuntu/XFCE counterpart. The desktop is not cluttered—actually contains only three desktop icons: Computer, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:32:07 http://smlr.us/?p=2079 http://smlr.us/?p=2079#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:04:26 +0000 mary http://smlr.us/?p=2079 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2079 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:24:46 - Un-edited Live session (and we mean it when we say "unedited") – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpIzGBU7a4 Contact Us: http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:24:46 Un-edited Live session (and we mean it when we say "unedited") – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpIzGBU7a4 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mary/Kevin Time:13:40; Distro Talk: Mary/Kevin Time:19:55 Mary Distro Review Time:33:20 Tech News: Time:46:58 Listener Feedback Time:1:17:30 Outtro Music Time:1:19:50 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mary/Kevin Time:13:40 Latest Stable Kernel:  3.6.7 Mainline: 3.7-rc6 Distro Talk: Mary/Kevin Time:19:55 Distrowatch.com 11/23 -  Cinnarch 2012 This release contains a number of fixes plus some new features, updated versions of various applications and desktops xorg-server 1.13.0 gnome 3.6.2 cinnamon 1.6.7 nemo 1.1.2 pacmanXG 4.13.7.1 http://www.cinnarch.com/ ============================== 11-21 Bio-Linux TBio-Linux 7 is a full-featured, powerful, configurable and easy-to-maintain bioinformatics workstation. Bio-Linux provides more than 500 bioinformatics programs and a graphical menu for bioinformatics programs. I am including a link to the screenshot directory for Bio-Linux: http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/ An article from Nature magazine describing the role of FOSS in the bio-sciences: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n7/full/nbt0706-801.html ==================== 11-21 IPFire 2.11 Core 64IPFir -  a specialist firewall distribution, with updated intrusion detection software and fixed MAC rules: "Today, we are releasing the 64th Core Update for IPFire 2.11. The Intrusion Detection program Snort has been updated to version 2.9.3.1, the corresponding daq library to version 1.1.1. This enables Snort to work with the latest VRT rule set. Outgoing firewall - the broken MAC rules have been fixed. It was impossible to use the MAC rules to allow hosts to access the Internet. A bigger rewrite of the code fixes this problem and makes the outgoing firewall a bit more performing. http://www.ipfire.org/ ==================== Redo Backup & Recovery 1.0.4 What's new in this release? "Base upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS; percent complete now based on part sizes rather than total number of parts; Windows now have title bars to ease minimizing, maximizing and closing; time is now synced to localtime (hardware clock) after boot; widget theme changed to Bluebird for GTK+ 3 compatibility; now has a helpful beep to indicate when long processes are finished; added alsamixergui to enable mixer button on volume control; drive reset utility can now operate on multiple drives simultaneously; removed Synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size." http://redobackup.org/ http://opendynamo.org/ Create a new website in seconds Backup and restore your entire website Intuitive interface All in a single PHP file ===================================== 11-20 Linux Mint 14:  Clement Lefebvre has announced the final release of Linux Mint 14, code name "Nadia", in MATE (version 1.4) or Cinnamon (version 1.6) editions: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 'Nadia'. For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was able to capitalize on upstream technology which works and fits its goals. After 6 months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, increased stability and a refined desktop experience. We're very proud of MATE, Cinnamon, Workspaces (in Cinnamon) Workspaces are “persistent” in Cinnamon and it will remain there until you decide to delete it. You can log off or even reboot, your workspaces will remain the way you defined them. Per ExtremeTech: “Additionally, Mint has added an overlay called the Workspace On-Screen Display (OSD) that allows switching among different workspaces (think of them like virtual desktops). Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:24:46 http://smlr.us/?p=2066 http://smlr.us/?p=2066#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:11:20 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2066 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2066 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 19:00 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 00:57 Distro Talk: Tony http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 19:00 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 00:57 Distro Talk: Tony T... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 19:00 http://smlr.us/?p=2039 http://smlr.us/?p=2039#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:56:35 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2039 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2039 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:06:04 - Un-edited Live session – No Live Session This Time Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:06:04 Un-edited Live session – No Live Session This Time Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:05 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 19:08 Mary Distro Review Whonix Linux Time: 27:30 Tech News: Time: 41:09 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 53:00 Listener Feedback Time: 56:45 Outtro Music Time: 59:45 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 16:05 Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:06:04 http://smlr.us/?p=2002 http://smlr.us/?p=2002#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:48:25 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=2002 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=2002 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/LOsv9snH3RM Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/LOsv9snH3RM Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:19 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 18:02 Mary Distro Review Time: 28:02 Convention Scene: Tech News: Time: 49:53 Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:08:49 Listener Feedback Time:1:15:29 Outtro Music Time: 1:32:04 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:19 Release Candidate: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:59:49 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.7-rc3 He had this to say about it: "Nothing particularly stands out here. Lots of small fixes, exemplified by the series of memory leak fixes in usb serial drivers. Just a lot of random stuff.. Most of it is drivers (all over: drm, wireless, staging, usb, sound), but there's a few filesystem updates (nfs, btrfs, ext4), arch updates (arm, x86 and m68k) and just random stuff." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:01:41 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.49 With 32 files changed, 545 lines inserted, and 120 lines deleted On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:02:45 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.16 With 50 files changed, 380 lines inserted, and 219 lines deleted On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:03:56 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.4 With 103 files changed, 1060 lines inserted, and 1006 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:34:59 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.50 With 28 files changed, 180 lines inserted, and 152 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:35:48 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.17 With 56 files changed, 468 lines inserted, and 285 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:38:11 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.5 With 98 files changed, 1254 lines inserted, and 960 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "But ah, the ability to configure things. And I have wobbly windows again. I do understand why some gnome people think that KDE may have gone a bit overboard on the configuration ability, though. Because some of the "you can configure everything" things are just odd. Like being able to rotate those desktop widgets any which way you want. "I wonder what that odd rotation thing on the widget control bar does? Whee - trippy"." --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 18:02 Distrowatch.com 10-28 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.10 - KDE-centric desktop Linux distribution 10-29 - Finnix 106 - a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian's testing branch 10-29 - Parabola GNU/Linux 2012.10.17 - Arch-based distribution containing strictly free software only 10-30 - Slackel KDE-4.9.2 - a live Slackware-based distribution with the very latest KDE desktop environment 11-1 - OpenBSD 5.2 - multi-platform BSD-based UNIX-like operating system 11-2 - Tiny Core Linux 4.7 - minimalist but extensible graphical Linux distribution for desktop computers 11-2 - Arch Linux 2012.11.01 - a popular rolling-release Linux distribution 11-3 - DragonFly BSD 3.2.1 - BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4 Distro of the Week: Tony Arch - 1571 Fedora - 1689 Ubuntu - 2020 Mageia - 2883 Mint - 3773 Mary Distro Review - Tiny Core Linux Time: 28:24 There is an old adage that can be applied to this distro: “Packs small and plays big. But I would add one more part-- provided that you can unlock the suitcase. I have to say that TinyCore was an interesting yet, at times, frustrating distro to review. Tiny Core describes itself as the Linux kernel and a set of command-line (text interface) tools. The version I downloaded for the review was the Tiny Core Plus version because I want a graphical interface, darn it! The Vitals: Name: Tiny Core Linux Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:39:36 http://smlr.us/?p=1955 http://smlr.us/?p=1955#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:23:15 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1955 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1955 4 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:16 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/EOmSFK6ST_g Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:16 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/EOmSFK6ST_g Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:52 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:03 Mary Distro Review Time: 26:27 Tech News: Time: 47:22 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:14:05 Listener Feedback Time: 1:21:41 Outtro Music Time: 1:28:56 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:52 Release Candidate: No RC Mainline: 3.6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:23:30 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.3 With 85 files changed, 940 lines inserted, and 297 lines deleted On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:24:17 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.47 With 47 files changed, 480 lines inserted, and 126 lines deleted On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:25:12 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.15 With 71 files changed, 583 lines inserted, and 297 lines deleted On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:44:08 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.48 This is to revert one patch in 3.0.47 Kernel Developer Quote: "So really Rasberry Pi and Broadcom - get a big FAIL for even bothering to make a press release for this, if they'd just stuck the code out there and gone on with things it would have been fine, nobody would have been any happier, but some idiot thought this crappy shim layer deserved a press release, pointless." --Dave Airlie Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:03 Distrowatch.com 10-22 - Zenwalk Linux 7.2 "Live" - "Zenlive" and based on the latest version of Slackware Linux 10-23 - Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise" - "Precise" edition, a small Linux distribution built from Ubuntu 12.04.1 and compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 DEB packages 10-23 - DEFT Linux 7.2 - Ubuntu-based live distribution with a large collection of free and open-source tools for incident response, cyber intelligence and computer forensics tasks 10-24 - Proxmox 2.2 "Virtual Environment" - "Virtual Environment" edition, an open-source virtualization platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines, based on Debian GNU/Linux 10-24 - BackBox Linux 3.0 - Ubuntu-based live DVD designed for penetration testing and forensic analysis tasks 10-25 - CRUX 2.8 - independent and customisable Linux distribution designed for more advanced Linux users 10-26 - Linux Lite 1.0.0 - beginner-friendly Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop environment 10-27 - FreeNAS 8.3.0 - free and open-source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system based on FreeBSD 10-25 - 10-25 - Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1472 Puppy - 1736 Mageia - 2618 Ubuntu - 2725 Mint - 3891 Mary Distro Review-Alien Section OS Time: 26:27 Alien Section OS Linux Review Since it's the season of Hallowe'en and ghosts and goblins, I decided that I wanted a distro that reflected the spirit of the season. What better distro to review than Alien Section OS (http://www.aliensectionos.tk/index.html). According to the distro's site, Alien Section OS is an Openbox operating system based on Crunch-bang/Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. That's right! Instead of a single Linux distro with multiple desktops, we have a single desktop on top of multiple distros—but not at the same time, of course. Now you may be wondering how all of those distros are rolled into a single distro—is it a five-headed ugly alien baby or will is it an attractive sleek spaceship. Let's find out. The Vitals: Name: Alien Section OS Maintainer: Mark Jack Distro Latest Birthday: 7/27/2012 Derivative: Debian Kernel: 3.2.0 Review Desktop: OpenBox Out of the Alien Section OS mother ship we have: Alien Section OS Debian Edition Squeeze Final (stable) , Wheezy (test) Alien Section OS v1.10 Debian Edition Wheezy Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:34:18 http://smlr.us/?p=1893 http://smlr.us/?p=1893#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:00:08 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1893 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1893 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:12:56 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/IZKUSyj_wqY - Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:12:56 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/IZKUSyj_wqY Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Ke... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:12:56 http://smlr.us/?p=1875 http://smlr.us/?p=1875#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:08:14 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1875 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1875 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:21:55 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/nhg4PTmaRZ0 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:21:55 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/nhg4PTmaRZ0 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summar... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:21:55 http://smlr.us/?p=1841 http://smlr.us/?p=1841#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:56:38 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1841 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1841 3 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/-aPY85Mrfsw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/-aPY85Mrfsw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 18:38 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:54 Mary Distro Review Time: 30:46 Tech News: Time: 46:17 Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:13:20 Listener Feedback Time: 1:20:58 Outtro Music Time: 1:36:41 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 18:38 Kernel News Release Candidate: No release candidate. Mainline: 3.6 is released Here is what Linus had to say about it: "The shortlog below is obviously just the log since -rc7, the changes in 3.6 since 3.5 are too many to list. There haven't been any huge new architectures or filesystems, it's all "solid progress". That may not sound all that exciting, but the devil is in the details, and there's a lot of small fixes all over." --Linus Torvalds Stable Updates: On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:16:25 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.5 With 283 files changed, 2763lines inserted, and 1499 lines deleted On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:17:13 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.12 With 235 files changed, 2304 lines inserted, and 958 lines deleted On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:17:47 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.44 With 139 files changed, 1031 lines inserted, and 544 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “I wish there were more people in the legal profession like Judge Posner. The man has his head screwed on right!” --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:54 Distrowatch.com 9-30 - Hanthana Linux 17 "LXDE" - "LXDE" edition, a lightweight live CD built from Fedora 17 and featuring the LXDE desktop environment 10-1 - Fuduntu 2012.4 - rolling-release distribution forked from Fedora 10-2 - OS4 13 "OpenDesktop" - "OpenDesktop" edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop 10-2 - Absolute Linux 14.0 - lightweight desktop distribution based on Slackware Linux and featuring the IceWM window manager 10-3 - CAINE 3.0 - Ubuntu-based live DVD offering a complete digital forensic environment in a friendly graphical interface 10-5 - Cinnarch 2012.10.01 - Cinnarch is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the user-friendly Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME Shell) as the graphical desktop 10-6 - AriOS 4.0 - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a highly customised and enhanced GNOME Shell Distro of the Week: Tony OpenSUSE - 1616 OS4 - 1806 Ubuntu - 1983 Mageia - 2591 Mint - 3052 Mary Distro Review Time: 30:46 Absolute Linux Review This week's review is of Absolute...Linux. Not to be confused with the vodka maker, Absolut, but I have to admit I wondered wondered how an Absolut-designed vodka bottle would look. Tux on the rocks, anyone? OK enough of that. On to my review. The Vitals: Name: Absolute Linux Maintainer: Paul Sherman Distro Latest Birthday: 14.0 was released 10/2/2012 Derivative: Slackware Kernel: 3.2.29 Review Desktop: IceWM Live Environment: There is no live environment for Absolute Linux. You boot to the installer menu. The Big Three Default Browser: Chrome Office Suite: Abiword (the key with this distro is light-weight) Mail Client: Mail notification Setup window—for Gmail or other mail client but no email client is installed by default. Default File Manager: SpaceFM 0.8 (GTK-based app so it has a nautilus look to it. It's a tri-panel file manager with directory tree, device list, and navigation panel.) The Install Process: The install process starts with this notice: Remain calm while your machine is assimilated. So, I followed that instruction and my machine was indeed assimilated into a no-frills install process. The standard options are available during install, partition management, keyboard, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:46:05 http://smlr.us/?p=1816 http://smlr.us/?p=1816#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:19:47 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1816 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1816 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/qnrNA0uXYmY Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/qnrNA0uXYmY Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:15 Mary Distro Review Time: 8:10 Linux (etc) Convention Scene for October 2012 Time: 18:00 Tech News: Time: 22:30 Listener Feedback Time: 33:18 Ohio Linux Fest 2012 Recap Time: 37:45 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:15 Distrowatch.com 9:23 - ArtistX 1.3 - Ubuntu-based live DVD packed with free software for creating audio, video and graphics media files 9-23 - Slackware Linux 14.0 - Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1815 LuninuX - 1834 Ubuntu - 2534 Mageia - 3194 Mint - 5157 Mary Distro Review Time: 8:10 The Distro Drive-by edition of What's on sda6. A special edition for the 2012 Ohio Linux Fest Each week, I select a distro to review. This week I am doing something a little different—Distro Drive-by. No, it's not a segment where I shoot a couple of Distros and drive away at a high rate of speed. It's a series of quick summaries of recent distros, designed to inform and hopefully entertain. Our first drive by is Cr OS Linux (spelled C-r-O-S) – formerly known as Chrome OS Linux. This distro claim to fame is that it's built around the revolutionary Chromium browser then the site goes on to say it: ...provides a lightweight Linux distribution similar to Google Chrome OS for the best web browsing experience on any x86 PC, netbook or notebook. To reduce confusion, it posts a disclaimer that “Chrome Linux is not related to Google,” despite the fact Google Chrome's logo is prominently displayed on the project link I clicked from Distrowatch . Wow, I thought. Is this a browser-based OS, ala netbook style? Perceptions don't meet reality here. It seems that “being built around the revolutionary Chrome browser” means that you boot into a traditional desktop with an open Chrome browser. The Chrome instance does contain a robust set of Google tools, but there didn't seem to be anything revolutionary to see here. Aside from that disappointment, there are a few interesting things about this distro that I'd be remiss for omitting. 1. CroOS Linux was built via the OpenSuse builder service, so OpenSuSe branding is prevelant. 2. It uses Cinnamon for its desktop (1.6) 3. It uses the 3.4.6 Linux kernel. 4. It sports a dashboard and social toolbar, but it's only available when the Chrome browser is open. This dashboard allows you to connect to Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn. The dashboard also contains a chat client, news summary video (BBC), Youtube video channel, and games. There was nothing here that made me think wow—I gotta get this. 5. The most interesting feature of this distro is the InSync beta 5 client for Google drive. I have a couple of Google accounts and supplied a set of credentials for one of them. Insync automatically added my Google documents that I had on-line to the Insync home folder. Very slick.I wa impressed. 6. Lastly, my wireless did not work with CrOS Linux. http://susestudio.com/a/jMOVxa/cr-os-linux http://getchrome.eu --------------------- The next drive-by is Zest Linux. With a name like Zest you know it has to be refreshing. It is if you're into keyboard window managers. As the distro's philosophy section of their web site notes: Zest was built mainly for the Linux enthusiast. In fact it is more of a console based system and many commands have to be actually typed. The GUI features a wallpaper, and the dwm window manager including a simple status bar and a mouse pointer. (And let me tell you they're doing you a favor by including desktop wallpaper) Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 46:06 http://smlr.us/?p=1783 http://smlr.us/?p=1783#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:19:30 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1783 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1783 3 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/H3Rd9oS--D8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/H3Rd9oS--D8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:31 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:52 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:15 Tech News: Time: 49:04 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:05:57 Listener Feedback Time: 1:16:55 Outtro Music Time: 1:39:30 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:31 Release Candidate: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:59:09 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.6-rc6 This is what he had to say about it: "Fairly normal statistics: two thirds drivers, with the remaining third being a mix of architecture updates, filesystems (gfs2 and nfs) and random core stuff (scheduler, workqueue, stuff like that)." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:06 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.30 With 168 files changed, 1543 lines inserted, and 577 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This weeks quote comes to us from none other then Linus himself. "Minky has gone from catching shrews to catching (and bringing inside) this thing. It was adorable, but compared to shrews the young ground squirrel was (a) fast as heck, and (b) much smarter. Which made it much harder to catch-and-release. Dammit, Minky." --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:52 Distrowatch.com 9-16 - Hanthana Linux 17 - Fedora-based distribution on a 3.5 GB live DVD with a large number of applications, media codecs and custom artwork 9-18 - Superb Mini Server 2.0.0 - Slackware-based server distribution 9-19 - Tails 0.13 - Debian-based live DVD with a strong focus on Internet privacy 9-19 - Snowlinux 3 "E17" - Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop: 9-20 - GeeXboX 3.0 - Linux media centre distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers 9-20 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.1 - Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the latest Xfce desktop 5-27 - Distro of the Week: Tony Sabayon - 1602 Ubuntu - 1678 Fedora - 1853 Mageia - 1931 Mint - 2919 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:15 Linux Review I can't hear with that tinfoil hat covering my ears.. Qubes OS is a security-oriented Linux distribution whose main concept is "security by isolation." They accomplish this goal by using domains implemented as lightweight Xen virtual machines. Think of a series of separate silos, each with its own set of folders, applications, etc. Its goals are contradictory but Qubes seems to pull it off—for the most part. Strong security through domain isolation but making it as seamless a desktop experience as possible. They pull it off through clever architecture. The Vitals: Name: QubesOS Maintainer: Joanna Rutkowska (and others) Distro Latest Birthday: 1.0 on 9/4/2012 Derivative: Fedora 17 (64-bit based) Kernel: 3.2.7-10 Review Desktop: KDE Live Environment: There is no live environment. The boot menu only provides for install options. Qubes can be installed on an external USB disk if someone wants to try it. They don’t recommend installing Qubes in a virtual machine, such as on VMWare, Parallels or Virtual PC. I agree. I tried it. It didn't work. The Install Process: The install process for Qubes was generally typical, aside from a screen that asked whether I wanted to use the standard set of default virtual machines Qubes provides (aka AppVMs), only the system VMs (networking and firewall) or I preferred to create my own. There is a virtual machine template which allows you to easily create additional virtual machines if you need them. The template is based on the 64-bit version of Fedora 17 If you select the standard VMs, when Qubes reboots after install you will have:: Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:45:15 http://smlr.us/?p=1708 http://smlr.us/?p=1708#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:03:49 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1708 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1708 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:42:57 - Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/A1950JVeQQ8 Contact Us: show at smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:42:57 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/A1950JVeQQ8 Contact Us: show at smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:52 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:48 Tech News: Time: 31:49 Kevin on Android and Apple Time: 46:45 Listener Feedback Time: 1:18:14 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:53 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:52 Release Candidate: Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: On Wed Sep 12 2012 - 11:04:27 EDT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.29 With 84 files changed, 1673 lines inserted, and 555 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:38:39 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.43 With 47 files changed, 259 lines inserted, and 150 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:40:04 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.11 With 88 files changed, 540 lines inserted, and 307 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:40:46 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.4 With 114 files changed, 881 lines inserted, and 504 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This weeks quote is from Alan Cox "Swansea at it's best, just post tourist season. Lots of sun but not blazingly hot, sea, sand and quiet. Fresh made Lebanese lamb bi ajine from the marvellous Lebanese pastry shop in town and Joe's ice cream. Alas the one thing it won't do is magically finish the accounts for me so back to the paperwork." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:48 Distrowatch.com 9-09 - PureOS 6.0 - desktop Linux distribution with GNOME 3 based on Debian's "testing" branch 9-10 - Epidemic GNU/Linux 4.0 - Debian-based Brazilian desktop Linux distribution featuring the KDE desktop and a number of user-friendly enhancements 9-11 - IPFire 2.11 Core 62 - a specialist distribution of Linux for firewalls 9-12 - Parted Magic 2012_09_12 - a specialist live CD providing utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks 9-13 - Super OS 11.10 - an Ubuntu-based distribution with extra applications, media codecs, browser plugins and other enhancements 9-13 - Zentyal 3.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution for small business servers 9-13 - Bodhi Linux 2.1.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 17 desktop 9-14 - openSUSE 12.2 "Edu Li-f-e" - "Edu Li-f-e" edition, an openSUSE variant specifically tailored to schools 9-15 - Sabayon Linux 10 - Gentoo-based distribution with a choice of four desktop environments (GNOME 3, KDE, MATE and Xfce) 9-15 - Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.6 - live CD with a goal of allowing users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their credentials and private data to malware, key loggers and other Internet-era ills. Distro of the Week: Tony PCLinuxOS - 1795 Ubuntu - 1858 openSUSE - 1954 Mageia - 2090 Mint - 2904 Tech News: Time: 31:49 Intel says Clover Trail Atom CPUs can't run Linux Intel sits in a pretty dominant position in the chip making business, with the exception of one sector: mobile devices. For smartphones and tablets ARM is the market leader due to its low power, high performance chip designs working so well for those form factors. Intel hopes to change that with the introduction of the next Atom chip, codenamed Clover Trail. But even before the Clover Trail processors are available, Intel has limited the market for them by stating Clover Trail Atom chips will only work with Windows 8. In other words, they won’t run Linux and Intel wont support them running Linux. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-says-clover-trail-atom-cpus-cant-run-linux-20120914/ Do Your SSL Certs Meet Microsoft's New Requirements? Warning from Microsoft to the entire Internet: make sure that your digital certificates are at least 1024 bits. As of Oct. 9, 2012, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:42:57 http://smlr.us/?p=1678 http://smlr.us/?p=1678#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:57:52 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1678 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1678 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:22 - Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/N126dsvJP48 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:22 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/N126dsvJP48 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:53 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:27 Mary Distro Review Time: 19:23 Tech News: Time: 37:43 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 49:47 Listener Feedback Time: 59:45 Outtro Music Time: 1:06:56 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:53 Release Candidate: On at, 8 Sep 2012 23:43:45 Linus Torvalds released kernel Linux 3.6-rc5 But there was no announcement Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: none Kernel Developer Quote: Is from Greg Kroah-Hartman “"Real" boats all lined up in the harbor, and Kay Sievers trying to paddle away from me as fast as possible” Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:27 Distrowatch.com 9-01 - OLPC OS 12.1.0 - Linux distribution created under the initiative of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to provide children in developing countries with low-cost laptops 9-01 - Zorin OS 6.1 "Educational Lite" - "Educational Lite" edition, a lightweight Lubuntu-based distribution specially created for deployment in schools 9-02 - Liberté Linux 2012.3 - Gentoo-based live CD distribution with strong Internet privacy features 9-02 - Linux From Scratch 7.2 - a book of instructions on how to build a base Linux system from scratch by utilising an existing Linux system or a live CD 9-02 - SolusOS 1.2 "Legacy" - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with GNOME 2 9-03 - Slackel KDE-4.8.5 - Slackware-based desktop Linux distribution 9-03 - SystemRescueCd 3.0.0 - live CD containing a large number of data rescue and disk management utilities 9-04 - Qubes OS 1.0 - Fedora-based security distribution for the desktop with a number of isolated domains implemented as lightweight virtual machines running under Xen 9-05 - openSUSE 12.2 - 9-06 - Kiwi Linux 12.08 - Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with many popular extras, such as browser plugins, media codecs, archiving tools, etc 9-06 - Ubuntu Christian Edition 12.04 - Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution designed for Christians, as well as churches, Bible study schools and other religious organisations 9-07 - Network Security Toolkit 2.16.0-4104 - a Fedora based live DVD with a good collection of open-source network security applications 9-08 - PCLinuxOS 2012.09 "KDE FullMonty" - Linux distribution with a special desktop layout and a large number of applications 9-08 - Arch Linux 2012.09.07 - 9-08 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 - an updated build of the project's distribution featuring the new KDE 4.9.1 desktop Distro of the Week: Tony PCLinuxOS - 1268 Ubuntu - 2045 Mageia - 2246 openSUSE - 2759 Mint - 2947 Mary Distro Review Time: 19:23 Turnkey Linux Review 100 distros of Linux on the wall; 100 distros of Linux. Take one down, boot in the cloud, 99 distros of Linux on the wall... I must confess that preparing this Linux distro review was one of the most interesting and fun activities I have had to date, except when I won that bet with Mat! What I found so fun about Turnkey Linux is that it's not really a single distro, but over 100 specially constructed, ready-to-use distros. These distros are special purpose distros—preloaded with an application package tuned and ready to go. For this week's Linux review I had to throw out my standard format—you know where I tell you the default browser, mail client, office suite, etc., because it didn't apply. The Vitals: Name: Turnkey Linux Maintainer: Alon Swartz and Liraz Siri Distro Latest Birthday: 12.0 on 8/30/2012 Derivative: Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 (transitioned from Ubuntu with this release) Kernel: 2.6.32 Review Desktop: N/A Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:13:22 http://smlr.us/?p=1637 http://smlr.us/?p=1637#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:00:34 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1637 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1637 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/Nioc4U_gKS8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/Nioc4U_gKS8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 22:19 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 24:58 Mary Distro Review Time: 40:08 Mary Convention Scene Time: 58:10 Tech News: Time: 1:06:21 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:29:39 Listener Feedback Time: 1:31:52 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:00 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 22:19 Release Candidate: No rc this week Mainline: 2.5 Stable Updates: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:47:50 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.42 with 21 files changed, 283 lines inserted, and 279 lines deleted On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:48:46 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.10 With 37 files changed, 408 lines inserted, and 339 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Todays quote comes from Greg Kroah-Hartman. "Today was a new one, someone emailed asking questions about a kernel "assignment" that was being asked of them by a company to determine if they had kernel development skills to get a job with them. Now I suppose you can say that asking the community to do your work for you is a valuable kernel development skill, but for some reason, I don't think that this is what the employer was looking to try to determine..." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 24:58 Distrowatch.com 8-25 - Zorin OS 6.1 "Lite" - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution for featuring the LXDE desktop 8-26 - wattOS R6 - a lightweight and energy-efficient, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution (with LXDE) designed for older computers 8-27 - Scientific Linux 6.3 "Live" - 8-27 - KNOPPIX 7.0.4 - Debian-based live distribution with LXDE as the default desktop and a separate edition for visually impaired computer users 8-28 - Tiny Core Linux 4.6 - a minimalist but extensible Linux distribution with a simple and fast graphical user interface 8-29 - Turbolinux 12.5 - a Japanese operating system for desktops and embedded systems. one of the world's oldest surviving Linux companies in the world 8-29 - Descent|OS 3.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) desktop environment 8-30 - SchilliX 0.8 - OpenSolaris-based (text mode-only) live CD 8-30 - TurnKey Linux 12.0 - library of Debian-based virtual appliances, integrating the best open-source software into ready-to-use solutions Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1234 Zorin - 1347 Ubuntu - 2038 Mageia - 2547 Mint - 2982 Mary DistroReview Time: 40:08 Adonis Linux Review Is that a distro in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? In Greek mythology, Adonis was the god of beauty and desire, a central figure in various mystery religions. Adonis is also a Linux distribution with the ultimate goal to provide a highly customizable system that leaves the user in control. Would this distro be a god of beauty and desire? We shall see... The Vitals: Name: Adonis Aurora Alpha Maintainer: Barry Martin Distro Latest Birthday: Submitted to Distrowatch on June 1, 2012 Derivative: Currently Ubuntu but the web site indicated the possibility of switching to Debian. Kernel: 3.2.0 Review Desktop: Cinnamon but plans to add others Live Environment: Live boot took approximately 2.5 minutes. (I don't think I've mentioned my timing parameter—it's when I can open the start menu, I consider the system booted –at least enough to be useful.) The Adonis desktop was clean, but it had a dark theme...lots of grey and black. There was an install icon on the desktop (Thanks!). Oops, the Ubuntu icon is still showing! Speaking of logos, the Adonis logo is kind of interesting. It's the word “Adonis”which was shaped by using the Debian logo in various shapes and forms. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:44:18 http://smlr.us/?p=1589 http://smlr.us/?p=1589#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:08:39 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1589 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1589 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:26:46 - Un-edited Live session http://youtu.be/i9NVPU7gLus Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:26:46 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/i9NVPU7gLus Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Sum... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:26:46 http://smlr.us/?p=1537 http://smlr.us/?p=1537#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:54:54 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1537 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1537 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:01 - Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/kUhOguNwkKA Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:09:01 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/kUhOguNwkKA Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary... Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:09:01 http://smlr.us/?p=1515 http://smlr.us/?p=1515#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 04:00:11 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1515 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1515 4 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:27 - Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/wVmqDw23_64 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:27 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/wVmqDw23_64 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:44 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 11:27 Mary Distro Review Time: 20:40 Tech News: Time: 35:39 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 47:32 Listener Feedback Time: 55:24 Outtro Music Time:1:13:27 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:44 Release Candidate: No new release candidate Mainline: 3.6-rc1 Stable Updates: On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:04:32 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.26 With 11 files changed, 8 lines inserted, and 33 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:56:18 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.40 With 57 files changed, 351 lines inserted, and 171 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:57:35 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.8 With 128 files changed, 1154 lines inserted, and 673 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:58:30 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.1 With 145 files changed, 1270 lines inserted, and 729 lines deleted On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:49:56 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.27 With 76 files changed, 862 lines inserted, and 455 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: --Alan Cox on his love of epub3 and Gnome3 "epub 3 even includes javascript which must be almost a sufficiently bloated and stupid idea that Gnome3 will be running to adopt epub3 for its help file format" Distro Talk: Tony Time: 11:27 Distrowatch.com 8-04 - Bridge Linux 2012.8 "Xfce" - an Arch-based distribution and live CD 8-04 - Arch Linux 2012.08.04 - new installation CD/USB image for Arch Linux, version 2012.08.04: 8-07 - antiX 12 - Debian-based distribution designed to run efficiently on older and low-specification computers 8-07 - NetSecL OS 4.0 - openSUSE-based Linux distribution featuring the LXDE desktop and a number of extra security features 8-07 - ROSA 2012 "GNOME" - "GNOME" edition, a Mandriva-based Linux distribution featuring the GNOME 2 desktop 8-08 - Scientific Linux 6.3 - an enterprise-class distribution built from source package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 8-09 - LinHES 7.4 - Arch-based distribution centred around MythTV and designed for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) 8-09 - Untangle Gateway 9.3 - Debian-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications Distro of the Week: Tony Damn Small - 1462 Ubuntu - 1613 Arch - 2001 Mint - 2978 Mageia - 3168 Mary Distro Review Time: 20:40 PCLinuxOS XFCE Review Is That all there is.... A few months ago someone suggested I take a look at PCLinux OS. Rather than use the well-worn KDE and Gnome desktops, I decided to give LXDE a whirl this week. . Vitals: Name: PCLinuxOS Maintainer: Not known Distro Latest Birthday: 2.00 Stable on July 24, 2012 Derivative: Independent but originally forked from Mandriva Kernel: uname -a tells us that PCLinuxOS uses the 3.2.18 kernel Review Desktop: XFCE Obtaining/Downloading: No problem downloading or burning—except for the fact I had run out of CDs and had to use a DVD to burn the CD-sized ISO to disk. Live Environment: I had a problem-free boot to PCLinuxOS's XFCE desktop. I was prompted to apply updates in two phases using Synaptic. There was a problem with Caliber e-reader which appeared to resolve itself. At least I took no action after acknowledging it. Must have been the system. Before I started exploring, I confirmed that both wireless and my video display were working properly. No problem whatsoever; PCLinuxOS handled both easily and correctly PCLinuxOS's version of XFCE looked pretty standard. The LXPanel at the bottom contained the standard icons for the most part. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:13:27 http://smlr.us/?p=1484 http://smlr.us/?p=1484#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:00:44 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1484 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1484 2 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:23:47 - Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nXX8p0emWGw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page - http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:23:47 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nXX8p0emWGw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 13:33 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:46 Tech News: Time: 36:50 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 52:06 Listener Feedback Time: 1:04:09 Outtro Music Time: 1:16:51 Kde Release Party Picture Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Release Candidate: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:17:59 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.6-rc1 He had this to say -- "Yeah, it's actually only just over 12 days since 3.5 was released, but I hate the people who send me last-minute pull requests, so I like pulling the rug out from under people who plan on doing their pull request in day 13 of the 14-day merge window. If that was your plan, screw that. ... Anyway, on to the stuff merged. As usual, even the shortlog is too big to usefully post, but there's the usual breakdown: about two thirds of the changes are drivers (with the CSR driver from the staging tree being a big chunk of the noise - christ, that thing is big and wordy even after some of the crapectomy). Of the non-driver portion, a bit over a third is arch (arm, x86, tile, mips, powerpc, m68k), and the rest is a fairly even split among fs, include file noise, networking, and just "rest". …" Mainline: 3.6-rc1 Stable Updates: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:22:40 BST Ben Hutching released kernel 3.2.24 With 110 files changed, 1212 lines inserted, and 835 lines deleted On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:18:37 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.7 With 27 files changed, 183 lines inserted, 74 lines deleted On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:48:36 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.39 With 38 files changed, 826 lines inserted, and 355 lines deleted On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:50:06 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.25 With 90 files changed, 1263 lines inserted, and 589 lines deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time:13:33 Distrowatch.com 7-29 - Kororaa Linux 17 - Fedora-based distribution optimised for desktop computing (codename 'Bubbles') 7-30 - Vine Linux 6.1 - the oldest and most prominent community distribution of Linux in Japan (code-named "Pape Clement") 7-30 - Parted Magic 2012_07_28 - a specialist live CD with a large collection of utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks 7-31 - Stella 6.3 - CentOS remix designed specifically for the desktop - with GNOME 2 8-03 - IPFire 2.11 Core 61 - specialist Linux distribution for firewalls 8-04 - ClearOS 6.3.0 "Community" - CentOS-based distribution for servers 8-04 - Toorox 08.2012 "Xfce", "Lite" - Gentoo-based live DVD Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1246 Zorin - 1277 Ubuntu - 1667 Mint - 2978 Mageia - 3149 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:46 Luninux Review Send in the Clones Originally called aBsolutex3, Luninux started as a hobby in November 2010. The distro was submitted to DistroWatch under the name of Sn0wL1nuX, however when Lars Torben's SnowLinux was introduced, the project decided to change the name of the distro to LuninuX OS to avoid any confusion. Vitals: Name: LuninuxOS Maintainer: Not known Distro Latest Birthday: 12.00 Stable on July 24, 2012 Derivative: Ubuntu 12.04 – which was obvious when I clicked on the details icon in the system settings area. (Big Ubuntu Logo) Kernel: 3.2.0-27-generic (uname -a) Review Desktop: Customized Gnome 3 shell Obtaining/Downloading: 1.2GB DVD downloaded from Luninux site without a problem. Live Environment: I loaded Luninux to my Dell. Desktop is Gnome3 that has been customized to resemble a Mac interface. Docky configured with 3d, depth-of-vision panel, all shiny and nice, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:23:47 http://smlr.us/?p=1459 http://smlr.us/?p=1459#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:56:04 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1459 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1459 3 http://smlr.us Downloads: - MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:13 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nAzWpFicpcc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:13 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nAzWpFicpcc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:30 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:46 Mary Convention sceen Time: 17:38 Kevin O'Brien - OLF Promo Mary Distro Review - What's on SDA6 Time: 42:32 Tech News: Time: 1:02:00 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:11:55 Listener Feedback Time: 1:17:14 Outtro Music Time:1:23:39 Penguinarium Pictures Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:30 Release Candidate: Mainline: Stable Updates: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:16:41 Greg Kroah-Hartman Released stable kernel 3.4.6 With 39 files changed, 459 lines inserted, and 155 lines deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:46 Distrowatch.com 7-22 - Arch Linux 2012.07.15 - Since Arch Linux is a strictly rolling-release distribution, this release merely provides an updated system installer and it does not represent a new Arch Linux "version" in the traditional sense of the word. 7-23 - openmamba GNU/Linux 2.0.10.1 - an updated version of the project's independently developed distribution featuring the KDE desktop and using the RPM package management format 7-23 - Peppermint OS Three - a major new version of the project's lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Lubuntu 7-23 - Linux Mint 13 "KDE" - the "KDE" edition of Linux Mint 13 7-25 - VortexBox 2.1 - a Fedora-based distribution designed to turn an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox 7-26 - Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution and live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop 7-27 - LuninuX OS 12.00 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a customised GNOME 3 desktop 7-27 - Zorin OS 6 "Educational", "Gaming" - Ubuntu-based distribution, designed for students and gamers 7-28 - BigLinux 12.04 - Kubuntu-based Brazilian distribution for the desktop (with support for Portuguese and English languages) 7-28 - Calculate Linux 12.0 - Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers Distro of the Week: Tony Peppermint - 1401 Arch - 1699 Ubuntu - 1715 Mageia - 2885 Mint - 4121 Mary Convention sceen Time: 17:38 Texas Linux Fest 2012, August 3 & 4, 2012 Norris Conference Center San Antonio, TX The TX Linux Fest covers a wide spectrum of Linux and open source software topics. One of the speakers this year is Joe (Zonker)Brockmeier who will speake about How to Create Your Own Cloud. http://2012.texaslinuxfest.org/ Open Help Conference & Sprints, August 10-15, 2012 Newport on the Levee (Newport KY) Cincinnati, Ohio The Open Help Conference will bring together leaders in open source documentation and support, as well as people from across the technical communications industry interested in community-based help http://openhelpconference.com/ 12th Annual Linux Kernel Summit, August 27 - 29, 2012 Sheraton San Diego · San Diego, CA The Linux Kernel Summit brings together the world's leading core kernel developers to discuss the state of the existing kernel and plan the next development cycle. This is an invitation-only conference. Linux Plumbers conference 2012, August 29-31, 2012 - Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina San Diego CA The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux — kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc. http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/ Kevin O'Brien - OLF Promo Mary Distro Review - What's on SDA6 Time: 42:32 Openmamba Review ± The openmamba web site proudly announces its ready-to-use operating system for notebooks, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:31:13 http://smlr.us/?p=1436 http://smlr.us/?p=1436#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:36:49 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1436 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1436 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:24:40 - Un-edited Live session http://youtu.be/4f4JIvUUJDM Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:24:40 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/4f4JIvUUJDM Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:41 Distro Talk: Tony Time:10:19 Mary Distro Review Time:17:43 Tech News: Time:35:04 Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:04:36 Listener Feedback Time:1:10:06 Outtro Music Time:1:18:19 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:41 Kernel News Release Candidate: none Mainline: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:16:00 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.5 Here's what Linus had to say about it. "Changes all over with almost 60% of the patch being drivers (mainly networking, GPU, media and sound, but it's all over), 20+% arch updates, and 20% being "rest" (fs, core kernel code, core networking, tools, docs). It's been fairly calm, so there shouldn't be any huge surprises there. As usual, you can find descriptions of the new stuff on sites like H-Online or Kernelnewbies. Stuff like filesystem tweaks, CoDel, structured logging, firewire target mode etc etc. Go for it!" Stable Updates: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:22:51 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.23 With 56 files changed, 439 lines inserted, and 184 lines deleted On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:15:53 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.38 With 18 files changed, 233 lines inserted, and 159 lines deleted On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:16:41 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.6 With 39 files changed, 459 lines inserted, and 155 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Greg Kroah-Hartman had this to say about people who write closed source drivers. "There's a special circle in hell for closed source driver authors, isn't there? If not, what do I need to do to get one created?" --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro Talk: Tony Time:10:17 Distrowatch.com 7-15 - VectorLinux 7.0 64bit - Slackware-based distribution optimised for business and office use. Today Robert Lange announced the first 64-bit edition of VectorLinux 7.0 Standard under the name "VLocity": 7-15 - GParted LiveCD 0.13.0-1 - a live CD based on the Debian unstable release with graphical tools for disk management and data recovery. 7-17 - Sophos UTM 9 - a network security solution previously known as Astaro Security Gateway and now called Sophos Unified Threat Management 7-17 - Linux Deepin 12.06 - one of the most active community distributions in China 7-18 - SystemRescueCd 2.8.1 - a Gentoo-based live CD with specialist utilities for data rescue and disk management tasks, has been released 7-21 - FreeNAS 8.2.0 - Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system based on FreeBSD 7-22 - Linux Mint 13 "Xfce" - the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 13, codename Maya Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1213 Arch - 1317 Ubuntu - 1547 Mint - 2981 Mageia - 3173 Mary Distro Review Time: 17:43 Mageia Review Or...Two Birds; One Stone—and the breakfast was tasty. Anyone who's listened to the last couple of months knows that Mageia has been sitting near the top of the Distrowatch list. As a son of Mandriva, it's a popular distro. So popular that Mandriva, themselves, announced that they plan to use Mageia as a technical platform for their new Business Server product. Plus Mageia won me breakfast. Vitals: Name: Mageia Maintainer: French nonprofit organization of elected contributors. Distro Latest Birthday: Mageia 2.0 was released on on 5/22/12 Derivative: Fork of Mandriva. Kernel: 3.3.6 (via uname -a) Review Desktop: LXDE/Gnome 3 Mageia has two download mediums-One is a live-CD with either KDE or Gnome as the desktop. The other is a 3.4GB DVD with practically everything. I also downloaded and installed the DVD version, initially installing LXDE. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:24:40 http://smlr.us/?p=1402 http://smlr.us/?p=1402#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:40:42 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1402 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1402 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:363:20 - Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/6RKrvzWVT5E Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:363:20 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/6RKrvzWVT5E Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:35 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 11:41 Mary Distro Review Time: 21:35 Tech News: Time: 42:10 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:06:30 Listener Feedback Time: 1:17:56 Outtro Music Time: 1:24:47 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:35 Release Candidate: None Mainline: None Stable Updates: None Kernel Developer Quote: Linus Torvalds on idiots who follow him "Guys, I just disabled comments (and deleted the ones that got through before that) on the previous posting, because quite frankly, I'm fed up with people who follow me and then decide that I must be a moron, and don't even bother reading the post. So here's a hint: if you think I'm a moron who doesn't find "settings", please unfollow me now." Distro Talk: Tony Time:11:41 Distrowatch.com 7-10 - CentOS 6.3 - Enterprise-class Linux distribution derived from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 7-11 - OS4 12.5 - Linux distribution previously known as PC/OS that is based upon Ubuntu and is built for fun, compatibility, security, and mobility 7-13 - Finnix 105 - live CD distribution for system administrators based on Debian's testing branch 7-14 - Parted Magic 2012_07_13 - Live CD with utilities for disk management and data rescue Distro of the Week: Tony Ubuntu - 1575 CentOS - 1755 OS4 - 1937 Mageia - 2666 Mint - 2936 Mary Distro Review - What's On sda6 Time: 21:35 Netrunner Review Is that an ancient alien there or are you just happy to see me... Net-runner caught my eye when it appeared on Distrowatch a couple of weeks ago. After all, how many distros do you know that are based on Kubuntu. That's right, not many. So I decided to give Net-runner a spin. First... Vitals: Name: Netrunner (http://www.netrunner-os.com/) Maintainer: Blue Systems (also the organization that maintains Kubuntu) Distro Latest Birthday:Net-runner 4.2 ( Dryland – Second Edition) announcement on 6/20/12 Derivative: Kubuntu ( but the road leads back to Debian) Kernel: 3.2.0-26 (via uname -a) Review Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 The download is 1.5GB of pure KDE. Would my experience with this distro be disappointing or would I continue to enjoy KDE, the Kool Desktop Environment as I like to call it. Booting to the live environment was uneventful. Five icons adorn the desktop: My Computer – I almost did not open this icon, thinking it's just a file manager view of the contents but it was more than that. Think of the KDE info center with battery, display, OS, disk, CPU information, etc., all handily located in one spot. Runners-ID (a cloud storage solution) with 1GB of free storage. Uh, someone better tell them the going rate is 5GB of free storage. But I signed up and immediately placed a test document in my cloud storage place. No fuss; no muss. Web Accounts icon – allows you to configure your accounts: Google, Facebook, Owncloud, Runners-ID. I tried ownCloud and got the following message: “WebAccounts requires to have access to” along with a retry button. But there was no place to enter my ownCloud credentials if I had them. I clicked retry and figured would lead to nowhere. It did. Stupid is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. So I quit clicking retry. One last thing about Web Accounts and the retry to nowhere message that would appear—it would bounce around from one account to another. First was ownCloud, then it was Google. The concept is great—but the execution on Net-runner is buggy. Add Network drive – you can add a Samba share if you have one available.. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:33:20 http://smlr.us/?p=1364 http://smlr.us/?p=1364#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:01:59 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1364 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1364 0 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Google Hangout links for the Live show: Episode 039 - 1 : http://youtu.be/bcVG_ggsQhA Episode 039 - 2: http://youtu.be/Kvluyg66EXE http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Google Hangout links for the Live show: Episode 039 - 1 : http://youtu.be/bcVG_ggsQhA Episode 039 - 2: http://youtu.be/Kvluyg66EXE Total Running Time: 1:18:06 Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 3:15 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 4:46 Mary Distro Review Time: 13:07 Tech News: Time: 22:30 Mozilla OS Right Around The Corner A Big Bug Hit Linux Last Weekend From The Why Are You Running Windows Bag Mozilla Says Thunderbird Is As Good As It’s Going To Get Linux central to Higgs Boson discovery KDE Korner Google asks Oracle for $4 million in legal fees KDE’s Dolphin file manager needs additional hands Crop circles in the shape of the Ubuntu logo appears in Italy Is it Alive? - Mary Time:50:13 Listener Feedback Time: 57:11 Mat's Soapbox Time: 1:07:05 Outtro Music Time: 1:12:48 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 3:15 Release Candidate: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:01:27 Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.5-rc6 This is what Linus had to say about it. "there's mainly some btrfs and md stuff in here, with the normal driver changes, arm updates and some networking changes. And a smattering of random stuff (including docs etc). None of it looks very scary, it's all pretty small, and there aren't even all that many of those small changes." Stable Updates: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 02:13:17 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.22 There were 47 files changed, 298 insertions, and 143 deletions Distro Talk: Tony Time: 4:46 Distrowatch.com 7-1 - Ultimate Edition 3.4 - based on Ubuntu 12.04 and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop 7-02 - Fuduntu 2012.3 - rolling-release distribution originally forked from Fedora 7-02 - DoudouLinux 1.2 - Debian-based distribution designed for children 7-03 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.07 - final update of the project's "Archimedes" series of distribution releases featuring the KDE 4.8 desktop 7-04 - Porteus 1.2 - Slackware-based minimalist live CD set with a choice of KDE 3 (Trinity), KDE 4, Xfce and LXDE desktops Distro of the Week: Tony Ultimate - 1527 Ubuntu - 1652 Commodore - 1825 Mageia - 2329 Mint - 2873 Mary Distro Review Time: 13:07 Review of PureOS 5.0 After recently seeing PureOS on Distrowatch, I decided to take a look at this French-based distro. It's been around for three years and I figured that it might be a pleasure to review. Vitals: Name: PureOS (French) Maintainer: Marc Poirette Distro Birthday: 5.0 announcement on Sunday, 24 June 2012 Derivative: Debian (Testing branch) Kernel: 3.3.6 (via uname -a) Review Desktop: Gnome 3.4 (KDE and XFCE also are available) So off I went to pureos.org and downloaded version 5.0, a 921MB file that I fully expected to be pure fun to use and review. The PureOS 5.0 live DVD boots to a grub menu from which you can select your country. After you've done this, your language and keyboard are assumed to be what's predominant in the selected country. Makes pure sense to me. The GRUB-style menu also displays in bold, courier text at the bottom of this screen, the credentials for both the root user and the “guest” user. This approach was a nice convenience and made it easy for me to remember. The live DVD boots to the Gnome desktop 3.4 desktop but, unfortunately for me, it wasn't purely Gnome 3.4 because it had the classic Gnome 2 look. This situation was most likely due to my Nvidia card not being handled at all by PureOS. The video resolution options presented to me when I checked were 1024x768 and 800x600. How 1999-ish! To take a page from the Prince song: “we're going to render like it's 1999—you get the picture...I didn't. Old, tired-looking was the only way to describe the less-than-crisp display. PureOS isn't the first non-proprietary distro I have installed and reviewed. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:18:06 http://smlr.us/?p=1299 http://smlr.us/?p=1299#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:33:12 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1299 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1299 0 http://smlr.us *** Update *** Because of Editing error I have fixed the download file. If you downloaded the show before July 3nd, 12:37 US Eastern time and experianced problems hearing the show please download the new files here Downloads: http://smlr.us *** Update *** Because of Editing error I have fixed the download file. If you downloaded the show before July 3nd, 12:37 US Eastern time and experianced problems hearing the show please download the new files here Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) *** Update *** Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 15:22 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 16:59 Mary's whats on sda6 Time: 27:28 July Convention Scene Time: Tech News: Time: 43:31 EU Upholds €860 million Microsoft Fine Asus Selling A Linux Netbook Android Updates 8 Ways to Tweak and Configure Sudo on Ubuntu Krita on Windows, the Next Step KDE Announces 4.9 RC1 From the Linux Format podcast KDE Now available On Raspberry Pi SMBs Prefer Debian on File Servers GRUB 2.00 released Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:05:53 Listener Feedback Time: 1:12:46 Mat's Soapbox Time: 1:19:28 Outtro Music Time: 1:23:34 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 15:22 Release Candidate: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:11:34 Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.5-rc4 After we recorded so we did not mention it and there is a new RC this week also. On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:55:14 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.5-rc5 This is what he had to say about it: "So nothing really worrisome in here. Despite the networking merge (which tends to be fairly big), -rc5 is a smaller patch than -rc4 was, even if there are a couple more commits in there. So things seem to be going in the right direction. So: networking updates, media fixes, some small arch updates (x86, arm, ppc), and some random noise. Let me (and lkml) know if you have any pending regressions." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.5-rc5 Stable Updates: No stable update Kernel Developer Quote: "Things not to do when cleaning up after the bathroom floor saga #1 let the water dribble out of the old. U bend when you pick it up" --Alan Cox Distro Talk: Tony Time:16:59 Distrowatch.com 6-25 - siduction 12.1.1 - a minor update of the project's 12.1 version released a month ago, based on Debian's unstable branch 6-27 - Parted Magic 2012_06_26 - specialist live CD with utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks 6-27 - Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-67 - 6-29 - Oracle Linux 6.3 - enterprise-class distribution based on the recently-released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1328 PureOS - 1503 Ubuntu - 1839 Mageia - 2220 Mint - 3001 Mary Distro Review Time: 27:28 A Terrible Linux Review It might not be so bad if I could get it installed... The Linux distro review planned for this week is Terrible. What could make a review of a distro terrible? Inability to install to the hard drive? Wireless that doesn't work? The distro's name is Terrible? Huh? That is correct. This week's review is of a distro called Terrible Linux. I discovered it on Distrowatch's list of submitted distros. With a name like Terrible you have to be good. Since the last couple of reviews had gone without a hitch, it was time to take this buggy off road for a little adventure. Vitals: Name: Terrible Linux (BTW—If you Google “terrible linux” you'll get some interesting results. The top five I found will be in the show notes, including this interesting link: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124287-the-worlds-slowest-linux-pc.) Maintainer: Remy van Elst Age: Most recent birthday was 5/1/12 when v0.0.3 was released Derivative: Yes-Debian (6.0.5) Kernel: 2.6.32.5 (as noted by uname -a) Desktop: XFCE 4.6.2 – which had no fewer than 11 icons on it for such things as PAC, Midori, FileZilla, Terminal, Home, Minecraft, etc. Kupfer was an icon on the upper pane. Other software installed: ClawsMail Midori/Chrome (No Firefox) LibreOffice 3.5.2 (prompted to download new version 3.5.4) Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:30:34 http://smlr.us/?p=1259 http://smlr.us/?p=1259#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:07:09 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1259 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1259 1 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:19:55 Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:13 Distro Talk: Tony Time:15:34 Mary Distro Review Time:29:09 Zorin Tech News: http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:19:55 Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:13 Distro Talk: Tony Time:15:34 Mary Distro Review Time:29:09 Zorin Tech News: Time:42:00 US Top Of Top500 List Again Surface Crashes During Debut Ala Windows 98 Judge Calls US Patent System Chaos Canonical Comes Up With Their Own Secure Boot Solution Humble Indie Bundle V Generates Five Million USD Fedora 18 Will Preview A New Package Manager Visualizing Botnets Pktstat ROSA Icons Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:00:00 Listener Feedback Time:1:06:48 Mat's Soapbox Time: Outtro Music Time:1:13:37 Funky Banane - Hippie House Jam Band Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:13 Release Candidate: No release canidate as of this recording Mainline: 3.5-rc3 Stable Updates: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:35 BDT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.21 There were 76 files changed, 707 files inserted, 274 files deleted On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:25:12 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.4 There were 69 files changed, 384 files inserted, 247 files deleted On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:25:51 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.36 There were 23 files changed, 133 files inserted, 85 files deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Linus had this to say about a recent patch for monitor detection: "I'd suggest that if you see no other connectors at all, *then* you might say "ok, let's assume that we have a VGA monitor behind a broken KVM switch". At that point, at least that assumption doesn't make things worse for anything else that you know is there. And if people have truly undetectable VGA hardware in addition to another (detectable) output, I would suggest that you tell them to force it with xrandr. Again, there's no way in hell I will accept the idiotic argument that my old working single-monitor setup should be broken because the i915 driver decided that I *might* have a second monitor on VGA despite everything else saying that is not the case." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 15:34 Distrowatch.com 6-18 - Liberté Linux 2012.2 - lightweight and easy-to-use Gentoo-based live medium with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments 6-18 - Zorin OS 6 - Ubuntu-based distribution created with beginning Linux users in mind 6-19 - Superb Mini Server 1.6.6 - Slackware-based distribution for servers 6-19 - Salix OS 13.37 "Live MATE" - Slackware-based live CD featuring the MATE desktop 6-20 - ROSA 2012 "LXDE" - a Mandriva Linux fork featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop environment 6-20 - Snowlinux 2 "KDE" - Debian-based distribution showcasing the KDE 4.4.5 desktop 6-21 - Netrunner 4.2 - Kubuntu-based distribution providing the very latest KDE 4.8.3 desktop 6-21 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 - the latest update of the company's enterprise-class operating system 6-22 - Pinguy OS 12.04 - Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a customised GNOME Shell user interface 6-22 - 6-22 - Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1511 Ubuntu - 1545 Zorin - 1686 Mageia - 2206 Mint - 3002 Mary Distro Review Time: 29:09 What's on sda6: Zorin OS 6 This week's distro visiting sda6 is ZorinOS6. I decided to do something a little bit different this week. Zorin,like a few other distros, has a lite version and a 'pro' or premium version if you want to donate ten Euros to the project. I decided to donate the 10 Euros and download the mega-ultimate version. All 3.5 GB of it. Let's get this baby downloaded. My fast-as-heck Internet connection was feeding me bits at the paltry rate of 150 kb/sec. Holy dial-up, Batman! Six hours later I had my download and I burned the DVD. The Live boot: The DVD was so jam-packed with software, Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:19:55 http://smlr.us/?p=1205 http://smlr.us/?p=1205#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:12:58 +0000 Tony http://smlr.us/?p=1205 http://smlr.us/?feed=rss2&p=1205 4 http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:14:34 Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:55 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:18 Mary's What's on sda6 Time: 16:57 Sabayon http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:14:34 Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:55 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:18 Mary's What's on sda6 Time: 16:57 Sabayon Tech News: Time: 32:10 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 58:24 Listener Feedback Time: 1:03:06 Outtro Music Time: 1:10:14 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:55 Release Candidate: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:59:39 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.5-rc3 This is what Linus had to say about it: "The week started calm with just a few small pulls, with people apparently really trying to make my life easier during travels - thank you. But it kind of devolved at some point, and I think more than half the pull requests came in the last two days and they were bigger too. Oh well... Go get it, --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.5-rc3 Stable Updates: These updates are a week old because of our recording schedule making last weeks recording on Saturday morning. On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:51:55 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.2 91 files changed, 669 files inserted, and 408 files deleted On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:52:40 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.34 52 files changed, 374 files inserted, and 198 files deleted Now back to the regular swing of things with these updates. On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:39:50 PDT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.20 92 files changed, 607 files inserted, and 435 files deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This weeks quote comes from Linus himself. "In other words, I do not see open source as some big goody-goody "let's all sing kumbaya around the campfire and make the world a better place". No, open source only really works if everybody is contributing for their own selfish reasons. " --Linus Torvalds For another excellent quote from Linus watch the video of his Q&A at Alto University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA at about 49 minutes in. Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:18 Distrowatch.com 6-09 - Sabayon Linux 9 - a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers 6-10 - SystemRescueCd 2.8.0 - a Gentoo-based live CD with specialist utilities for data rescue and disk management tasks, has been released. 6-16 - Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.5 - a Linux live CD with a goal of allowing users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their credentials and private data to malware 6-17 - Tails 0.12 - a Debian-based live DVD project with the goal of enabling users to surf the Internet anonymously. Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1815 LuninuX - 1834 Ubuntu - 2534 Mageia - 3194 Mint - 5157 Mary's What's on sda6 Time: 16:57 Sabayon Linux 9 Review Il dessert è meraviglioso, ma cosa succede con quel gnome...? What's not to like about a Linux distribution that derives its name from an Italian dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, and sweet wine. So, it was very easy for me to select this dessert distro, as I like to call it, for this week's visit to sda6. If you're a connoisseur of Italian sweets you've already guessed this week's review topic: Sabayon Linux 9.0. First the ingredients in 9.0: 3.4 ounces of Linux kernel One cup of Gentoo-hardened profile A healthy dose of a new package manager GUI – RIGO (more on that later) Top it off with a choice of three flavors GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3 and XFCE 4.10, and you have a tasty treat. I downloaded the Gnome version. Firing up this 1.7GB DVD was a pleasure, compared to a few of my recent testing systems. No problems with graphics or wireless...and the Sabayon desktop looked great. The boot menu on the live DVD sports the regular entries plus an option to boot directly to the XBMC media center. Being the eye candy person I tend to be, I chose that option. Sunday Morning Linux Review clean 1:14:34