Podcast Season 3 Episode 10
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Title: Sourceforced
In this episode: SourceForge relocates to Mount Doom, GEGL gets an awesome upgrade, Cinnamon 2.6 has been released and Apple is going open source. Plus there’s a lack of neurons, more finds and the internet infamous Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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SourceForge continues its crash and burn strategy of force feeding advertising into open source projects, this week it’s the turn of nmap. The generic graphics library, GEGL – as used by The Gimp – has just had its first update and includes threading and loads of new filters. Version 2.6 of the GTK3-based desktop, Cinnamon, has been released. Apple is going to open source its Swift 2 programming language. A Spanish military plane has crashed and a deleted configuration file is a suspected cause. And there’s a new Ubuntu Phone, the Aquaris E5 HD, this time with a 5 inch screen.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <Stilvoid> docker-compose is the bee’s knees.
- <Stilvoid> The (not) markup language, yaml, is wonderful.
- <Stilvoid> Here’s a self-written command-line tool for parsing HTTP requests.
- <Devilment> Today is the start of the Steam summer sale.
- Mike:
- Lemon Pi, an unofficial quad-core Raspberry Pi-alike, is being crowdfunded.
- Users of wireless mice and keyboards that need a unified receiver from Logitech may find Solaar useful.
- Graham:
- Synthesise sounds and generate drone music with DIN is Noise.
- Ben:
- data.gov.uk/apps contains a list of utilities that use the UK Government’s Open Data.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Should FOSS licenses block adware?
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No neurons this episode. Let Mike know if you’d like yours vocalised next episode with an email to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 48:40
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.
RE installing software on OS X, use homebrew. All command line driven and installs basically like any Linux package manager. You can even install GUI programs that normally come as a DMG using caskroom (http://caskroom.io/).
It’s not as nice as a normal Linux desktop, but it combines the Unix roots with something that can work with nearly all office requirements (e.g. Windows and Office).
Following up on the conversation at the end of the show:
I’d recommend Chocolatey to my unenlightened, Windows-using friends.
https://chocolatey.org/
A possibly interesting note:
Some time ago (perhaps ~2008, on a Malaysian Airlines flight, probably a 747) I was fascinated to watch the in flight entertainment system being booted – and even more surprised to see a penguin in the upper left corner!
I didn’t even know about Linux at the time…
More recently, I was on an Air New Zealand 777-200. One of the consoles/thin clients was trying to boot off the network, and failing. It was running (a presumably ancient version of) WinCE!
Late comment because I heard the podcast while away.
DRONES ARE AWESOME.
I much prefer Eliane Radigue to a quadcopter.