Episode 214 – Dirty Cow and Yakety Yak
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Un-edited Live session –
Recording from the Podcast Detroit Studios: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/event/sunday-morning-linux-review/
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Summary
Listener Feedback
Time:20:40
Distro Fever
Time:27:30
Tech News:
Time:34:40
Outtro Music
Time:1:12:00
Intro:
Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, and Mary Tomich
Sound bites by Mike Tanner
Listener Feedback
Time:20:40
Distro Fever
Time:27:30
Tech News:
Time:34:40
Drawing Network Diagrams with Open Office VRT Network Extension
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/vrt-network-equipment
Dirty COW was Livepatched in Ubuntu within Hours of Publication using 16.04 as long as you were using the Canonical Livepatch Service.
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/10/dirty-cow-livepatched-in-ubuntu.html
Phronix did a performance comparison NVIDIA Linux Vulkan Performance vs. RADV / AMDGPU-PRO
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-pro-radv&num=2
Google deep learning produced AI-generated, human-independent encryption
https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/28/google-ai-created-its-own-form-of-encryption/
Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak
Linux Kernel 4.8. Ubuntu 16.10 ships with Linux Kernel 4.8 out of the box. …
Nautilus 3.20. …
Extra job for Systemd. …
Changes to GPG. …
GNOME 3.20.
https://fossbytes.com/7-best-features-in-ubuntu-16-10-yakkety-yak/
Linux Kernel Swear Count
http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
Linux has been above 2% market share for 3 months now, which means we have more market share than Windows Phone users. Net Market Share bases its data on the number of visitors to a 40,000 websites globally.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Linux&qpcustomb=0
Lenovo Yoga 900-13ISK2 received a bios update to allow Linux to be installed
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/Yoga-Series/yoga-900-13isk2/downloads/DS119354
The Friday 10/21/16 massive DDOS attack
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hackers-ddos-attacks-1.3817392
Wordpress, WIX and the GPL
https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/
WIX Response to GPL claims
http://www.wix.com/blog/2016/10/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo-avishai-abrahami/
Outtro Music
Time:
Halloween night (2013) – by Efrem Scacco https://www.jamendo.com/track/1074137/halloween-night
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