Podcast Season 3 Episode 4
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Butterfly Kernel
VMware has waded into a lawsuit with the Software Freedom Conservancy. Lenovo has been spying on its Windows users. There are now over 1,000 Linux games on Steam and relax, the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology has said Tor can’t be stopped. Plus there’s even more news, lots of discoveries, a couple of Neurons and a divisive Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Software Freedom Conservancy is supporting kernel hacker Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware in a GPL Compliance lawsuit. Lenovo has been installing a root certificate for SSL to facilitate a man-in-the-middle attack on Microsoft Windows users. There are now over 1,000 games for Linux on Steam. The Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology has said a ban on Tor is technically infeasible in its report on the darknet and online anonymity. Dell starts selling Ubuntu laptops in Columbia, Equador and Peru. From Monday, Ubuntu 15.04 switches to systemd. And the imminent version 4 of the Linux kernel will have ‘no-reboot-needed‘ patching.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Andrew:
- In LibreOffice Calc, when you narrow the columns it doesn’t abbreviate the numbers, it rounds them up!
- Andrew:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <einonm> Get a great set of connection statistics using Netalyzr
- <Devilment> Not sure if I’m late for the FotF, but I found http://cron.schlitt.info useful when constructing bizarre crontab schedules
- <Stilvoid> My find: cyanogenmod is *nice*
- Graham:
- There’s a KDE graphical configuration panel for systemd that’s now available for the latest KDE releases.
- Mike:
- extundelete is a great way of undeleting files that also attempts to restore a file’s original filename (thanks to Mr Bruce Wolf).
- Ben:
- Lenovo’s N20 is a great little Chromebook.
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Huge thanks to both Xan and Phil the Sheep for their thoughts. If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:10:10
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
I have never used it (don’t have an iPod) but it appears Banshee (http://banshee.fm/support/faq/) can be used to download podcasts and transfer them to an iPod / iPod touch.
I think Banshee is still a default application on Linux Mint, so it won’t even require you to install any software.
I have an ipod nanoy thing (not sure which model, got it as a giveaway). I use gtkpod to add/remove music, although it can be a bit buggy 😛
Listing to MintCast, a host mentions that he has to use gtkpod for his partners LinuxMint machine so she can use the iPod still.
On my on experience, I can say I’ve been using Windows less and less to play games. From all the games I’ve been playing nowadays, 40% are available for Linux. Those that aren’t abailable are a few tripe A games (one from EA, one from Ubisoft and a race simulator).
So I think the good news is not that “people are turning to linux as a game machine”, but Linuxers aren’t switching to windows just to play some games.
In your discussion on flattr you mentioned that there is no method of automatic payment but there is – if you click on a flattr button for a second time then you subscribe to that project meaning you automatically flattr them each month.
It’s not a perfect system (for me I would like to vary the amount I can give to each project – maybe flattring a project multiple times to give them twice, three times, etc as much – instead of everyone getting an equal portion of my pot) but I’ve not seen anything else that makes micro-donations so easy to do. I would be interested in hearing from a project’s perspective about how useful it is on the receiving end.
Photorec isn’t part of ddrescue – but it does get a mention in a boxout in the ddrescue tutorial in issue #13 😉
It’s from the same author as TestDisk, which I suspect is the other application you were thinking of, as they’re often bundled together in the same package.
Hi Ben, To delete on your Chromebook you need to hold the ALT+backspace. Another useful one is ALT+Search gives you CAPS LOCK.
On your Chromebook press Ctrl+Alt+? to see the shortcuts on the screen.
Check out https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183101?hl=en for more.
There is a great android podcast reader for android called antennapod. It is available via F-driod and open source. I use it to listen podcasts on my daily comute.
Regarding the iPod, I am using Linux Mint and an iPhone, and I cannot recommend any Linux software for managing your media on the iPod/iPhone. I tried a lot of different iTunes replacement alternatives, but none of them was satisfying. Instead, I would suggest either installing iTunes in a Virtual Machine (with Windows), or using the iPod without any PC connection. What I am doing at the moment is downloading podcasts, apps and music directly to the iPhone, so most of the time I don’t need a PC connection. Downloading photos and videos from the iPhone/iPod is easy with Linux Mint, since you can do this using just the file manager. The only time I really need iTunes is for making a backup or restoring a backup. So maybe once every 3 months I start VirtualBox with Windows XP and iTunes, save a complete backup of the iPhone, and that’s it.