Podcast Season 3 Episode 6
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Title: RFC 5322
In this episode: Linux Mint has a new sponsor. Freya has been released, there’s a new beta of Thunderbird and brief SSL woes for Manjaro. Microsoft enters Core OS territory and Debian has a new project lead. We’ve also got some lovely Finds and a super-positive Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Linux Mint’s main sponsor is a leading VPN provider called PrivateInternetAccess. Elementary OS ‘Freya‘ has finally been released, but you need to navigate a payment form to get to the download. A $100,000 Kickstarter campaign to create a OLPC-alike ‘Computer for the Entire World‘ has been launched. Called Endless Computer, the OS is buit around Fedora and Gnome. Mozilla’s email client, Thunderbird, has a new beta despite not being developed by the Mozilla Foundation itself. Microsoft has released Windows Nano Server, a stripped down version of Windows for containers. The SSL certificate for Manjaro Linux’s website had expired and the original workaround was to put your system date back. And Neil McGovern has been elected the new project leader for Debian.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Mike:
- Pressing Alt+S in the multi-system emulator Mednafen lets you rewind time by pressing backspace.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <Devilment> I finded that one can use scp to copy btwn two other servers than the one you’re on.
- <pwaring> Someone is doing a .NET implementation for LLVM.
- Graham:
- Send multimedia player control instructions through DBUS from the command line with playerctl.
- Ben:
- Docker containers can run on a Raspberry Pi.
- Mike:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: What’s your dream distro?
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Ciou! 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: 54:20
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.
Instead of email, if you don’t like that, then why not use Telegram? OSS and available on all platforms. http://www.telegram.org
Telegram has some open source parts, but (as far as I’m aware), it’s not fully open source yet. The creators have made some vague commitments to open it up more, but until I can host it myself on code I’ve built from source, I can’t consider it open.
That said, it does look like one of the best closed source options. I don’t use it yet, but I will look into it.
No need to pussyfoot around it Ben, tell it like it is: a messaging service that is basically pinky-swearing that everything is secure. Until they open source it, it isn’t fit for purpose.
New Type Of eMail ? Have you not heard of darkmail ?
Fin out Where’s that Up to ?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative
I must admit, I thought that this was just a project to make an anonymous client for regular webmail. However, I’ve just taken a look and it seems that they’re trying to develop a fully secure e-mail replacement that looks a lot like what I want.
Fingers crossed it delivers as promised.
Just looking forward to what’s in the latest podcast. Cheers guys, love your work. Take an extra week if you need to because every podcast is precious listening. all the best,
Mihaly