not all change is progress
September 19, 2016
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00:05:20 News
00:44:44 PiBakery, Tasksel & Magic Device Tool
00:59:30 Feedback
01:12:22 elementary OS Loki
As well as our regular news and feedback, this show we talk about PiBakery, Tasksel and Magic Device Tool, which are three utilities that could improve your productivity. And also the latest release of elementary OS, which won’t.
00:05:20 NewsThe Document Foundation: Annual Report 2015
Micro Focus to buy HPE arm for US$8.8b
Has HPE bought SUSE? No. But here’s what did happen…
The Linux Foundation and edX Announce New, Free Introduction
to OpenStack Course
Yahoo open-sources Pulsar, a low-latency alternative to
Apache Kafka
Sony wins battle over preinstalled Windows in Europe’s top
court
European court says linking to illegal content is copyright
infringement
European Union plans to offer free Wi-Fi to all
EU ends anonymity and rules open Wi-Fi Hotspots need a
password
10 Years in Prison For Online Pirates a Step Closer in the
UK
Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we’ll still track
you
St Jude sues short-selling MedSec over pacemaker ‘hack’
report
World eats its 10 millionth Raspberry Pi
Look Ma, no hardware! Coding the Raspberry Pi in a web
emulator
Nextcloud Box – a private cloud and IoT solution for home
users
00:44:44 PiBakery, Tasksel & Magic Device Tool
We spoke briefly about three different setup and configuration management tools: PiBakery for the Raspberry Pi, Tasksel for Debian-based distros and Magic Device Tool for mobiles.
00:59:30 Feedback
A huge thank you to all of our Monthly Supporters. Without you, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do.
Will and Campbell Barton got in touch to gently chide us following our recent chat about desktop customisation on Linux, and Campbell also had some advice for Jesse about shell swapping.
In answer to Rolf, Joe and Paddy pointed out that to reach potential new users of Linux we need to be where they are, which is why we decided to frequent a slightly rough new neighbourhood in the social media scene.
Rich and Will pitched in with their thoughts on Sandstorm, a platform that’s more complex and powerful than first meets the eye, and is something we may well return to in a future show.
01:12:22 elementary OS Loki
With 517 days having passed since the release of Freya, our interest was piqued by the recent and well publicised launch by the elementary team of Loki, the latest upgrade to their desktop-focused OS. After well over a year’s worth of development, surely this incarnation of the Mac look-alike would manage to address the shortcomings we noted previously?
Since it seemed like other listeners were interested in Sandstorm I just thought I’d post that the most recent episode of this Python podcast is an interview with one of the Sandstorm developers: https://pythonpodcast.com/asheesh-laroia-sandstorm.html
Jesse, regarding your comments on having the option to customize some aspect of Linux (or any open system), it doesn’t necessarily matter if you have the ability to do the customization as long as someone does. One example would be ad blocking plugins. Not that many people have the ability to write them, but millions of people are able to use them because browsers like Firefox and Chrome allow for customization. Likewise, with the car example, as long as the necessary information is available so that mechanics can service a car I am okay with the situation. As computers get more integrated into cars, I worry about a future where only the car dealer can service a car.
I spoke about Sandstorm at OggCamp last year, and I’m trying to drum up interest in the platform, because I truly think it’s the future of self hosted content, that F/LOSS advocates should be looking to use.
Anyway, I think the following Apps are useful: Hacker Slides (it’s a presentation tool, where you write your slides in markdown), Davros (API compatible with the OwnCloud File Sync), Idea Otter (todo list), Dillinger (markdown notepad), Etherpad (collaborative document editor) and Ethercalc (collaborative spreadsheet).
I was going to write an article for LV about Sandstorm, but I ran out of time due to work stuff at the time and I’ve just never got around to it since.
Where’s the Gab link?
It’s just /linuxluddites
I’d like to hear some discussion about having choice vs synergy on these different open source projects. Right now, I have at least a dozen choices for mail client and even more for browsers. I can make a great case for using Firefox and a fairly good case for using Chrome or Chromium but I have a hard time making a case for the myriad of others. Opera has a great and rich history, but just doesn’t bring my anything that Firefox doesn’t. A part of me would like it if developers put those efforts into the more popular projects. However, I look at the other side of it and like all the choices because that is where new ideas come from. Where is that line?
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