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February 22, 2016
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0:01:17 News
0:40:10 Ubuntu Touch Redux
1:04:39 Feedback
1:09:50 Korora 23
With Canonical’s marketing team in full overdrive for Mobile World Congress, following the news we fire up the latest Ubuntu Touch images to see how well the convergence hoopla meshes with delivered reality. And, after your feedback, we put the Fedora-based Korora 23 under the spotlight.
0:01:17 News
Samsung ports Tizen to Raspberry Pi to spur adoption
Manjaro Now Available for Raspberry Pi
Raspbian Now Ships With Experimental Support For The New VC4
OpenGL Driver
Google Releases ION OpenGL Open-Source Library
Vulkan
1.0 Specification Released: Drivers & Games Inbound
SamsaraJS library takes on performance issues
Meet
Linux’s little brother: Zephyr, a tiny open-source IoT
RTOS
ARM Announces New Cortex-R8 Real-Time Processor
OpenKey – The Two-factor Authentication & Password
Solution
Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S packaging will double as VR
goggles
Is Docker ditching Ubuntu Linux? Confusion reigns
Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You
ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!
ZFS Licensing and Linux
A
Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength
Backdoored Linux Mint, and the Perils of Checksums
Mint forum users should change their
passwords
Pwn2Own organisers decide to
stop shooting fish in a barrel
Tory government’s war on porn: Age verification proposed for
all smut sites
HMRC is to tax OpenStack cloud with UK citizens’ data
0:40:10 Ubuntu Touch Redux
With Ubuntu gearing up for an important few days at Mobile World Congress 2016, we thought it time to revisit Ubuntu Touch to see exactly how well the platform, and particularly the convergence vision, was shaping up.
1:04:39 Feedback
A huge thank you to Robert Forster and Matthew Vaughan for your PayPal donations, and to all of our regular Monthly Supporters — thanks, guys!
We didn’t receive a vast amount of feedback about the last show, but our thanks go out to Topikissa, Morten and Will for their comments, and to Sean Champ on Facebook.
1:09:50 Korora 23
Waiting on the RPM Fusion team for three months can’t have been much fun, but eventually they caught up with Fedora which meant that Korora 23 was able to be pushed out of the door. And with Korora offering several variants, your Luddites got to report back on both the base distro, plus three different sets of desktop candy.
You nailed it guys, “[zfs] is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel” is a hotly contested claim. The question of whether or not kernel modules comprise a derivative work (namely by using the public API of kernel) is pretty important, and it is the reason for the creation of the CDDL in the first place (it makes it explicit that drive modules are *not* derived).
I also heard elsewhere in the recent ZFS licensing discussion that one of Sun’s goals with the CDDL was to make an open source license that was not compatible with the GPL, though maybe that was a flippant comment.
Best gag I read regarding the mint screw up was on lwn. Linux “Polo” Mint – the distribution with a hole.
Mint should just be an Ubuntu ppa. It’s a shame the Ubuntu licence recompile kerfuffle a few years back didn’t shut the operation down really.
Ed Bott on TWiT #550 tried to spin the Mint security fail into a fantasy about why “The Year of the Linux Desktop” is always a year away as if lack of preinstallation and MS monopoly had nothing to do with it. This from a Windows user. If security was the main issue people wouldn’t still be using Windows XP! Also, if people are worried about the torrent, there are multiple files with SHA256 hashes from various sources that confirm the legitimacy of the iso torrent, a torrent which is date stamped well before the attack; it stretches credulity to think those various sources were all compromised by an attacker to confirm a fake torrent with a fake date stamp.
There is something to be said for a big distro with lots of people running security. Sad that the Mint fiasco will hurt small distros as potential users shy away from gaping secutity holes because of lack of manpower.
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