CrossOver comes to android! KDE gets productive, Ubuntu lawyers up, and GNOME cooks.
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Cross Droid
https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-android
- WINE proper is also getting android support in a coming release, so don’t fret poor people
- I wouldn’t trust your little android x86 tablet to play skyrim or the like, but if you have a windows app you’d like to take on the go without having to deal with windows 10, this might be up your alley
- Their claims of the apps working though, I feel, are a bit stretched.
- Which ones? Limbo and Wizard101? Those aren’t very demanding games
- On the videos, we can see they had installed Left4dead but they didn’t demo it, probably because it didn’t run so well
- I’m more talking in a general wine sense, but sure.
- Are they going to do something about the Android taskbar? That’s a deal breaker when playing games.
- That is often the responsibility of the people developing the ROM.
- So no, Crossover isn’t going do anything to it if the functionality isn’t there.
- It’s a good initiative but Android devices with x86 aren’t that common
- “Games from your Steam library will run with CrossOver Android at native speeds.”
- Bold claims, considering that’s not the case in desktop Linux either.
KDE… Productivity… same sentence… WAT?
http://blog.broulik.de/2016/12/productivity/
- TIL you can make screenshots of windows with <Super>+<PrintScreen> or selection with <Shift>+<PrintScreen> … on Gnome … while reading something about KDE.
- The drag n’ drop from notifications is good stuff
- The other feature which lets you launch applications with <Super>+number is much less interesting IMO, mainly because it requires me to count stuff. I’ve never used that feature in Unity and I don’t use motions with numbers in vim. What I’m saying here is: I can’t count.
- They promise lots of goodies but they only mention 2 and one of them is redundant when you can set keyboard shortcuts for everything already.
Kodi Kids Chorus
https://kodi.tv/a-new-webinterface-called-chorus2/
- Not available for Kodi 16.1 but you can use Chorus 1 which is also quite good
- Sure beats having to install a dedicated remote on every Android device
- Pretty handy if you want to change stuff up and you can’t find the TV keyboard, but you do have your tablet or phone handy.
- Seems like something that should’ve been promoted a bit earlier than this though
- I keep forgetting Kodi is XBMC.
Become a Stallmanyte
https://my.fsf.org/join
- Can we stop /w the coloured hair?
- Rassum frassum making me go buy a neon wig….
- ^ Racist.
- GPL enforcement needs some muscle, so donating to the cause isn’t a bad thing. Plus I hear at the top tier, they actually mail you a piece of stallman’s beard
- Can we stop with the webcam privacy stickers? What’s the point of running Linux if you don’t trust your system?
- My Webcam is only plugged into this box when we’re doing a show.
- And the laptop has an HyperX sticker over its.
- I trust my system, I don’t trust the proprietary firmware webcams come loaded with.
Solus
https://github.com/solus-project/solbuild/releases/tag/v1.1.0
- So if I’m reading this right, this is the Solus equivalent of mock
- So that’s why Ikey wanted to get rid of Pip in G+
Cooking with Gnome
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/12/02/gnome-loves-to-cook/
- Disclaimer: this is somewhat of a competitor to a product I’m building
- The UI is very primitive but ok, it’s the very first release so I’ll give them a pass
- But to share recipes, you have to create an issue on Gnome’s Bugzilla?
- What kind of idea is that? Are they from the 90s? Haven’t they heard about web APIs?
- I like the idea and I like native apps but some things don’t fit right as desktop applications.\
- I just use google for recipe hunting. I don’t really think I need an application for it
- Hells to the this^
- Herr Chef may have some objections to either though. Needs more mustard
- I will submit a few hot sauce sammich recipes.
- Flatpack? I was told Snappacks were the future.
- I’ve had servers from OVH with Ubuntu installed on it that fit the description quite well.
- The kernel was patched and cgroups wasn’t available, making it impossible to run containers until the kernel was reverted to the stock version.
- There was also some sketchy files that weren’t supposed to be here.
- I don’t know if Mark is referring to OVH but if he isn’t and if they wasn’t changed their ways, they should be sued as well.
- As a company attempting to play ball with the big boys, they will have to inevitably resort to the same types of behaviors we often condone from those other companies.
- But as long as Canonical keeps a pretense of being open and makes its decisions public before taking action, I’ll take them over Microsoft or Apple any day of the week.
- It’s also nice to see what seemed like admittance that Canonical doesn’t get the same “respect” as RHEL or Microsoft.
- I guess it fits the underdog comment from the top of the article. Shrewd, Mark! Real shrewd.
- Gotta love the subtle push for their partner program
- This kind of shit is problematic. Even at the desktop level, I”m against custom install images
- The fact that linux works out of the box in any number of setups should be embraced. Everything should be upstreamed. UBUNTU….
Mir Lutris
http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2016/12/03/mircade/
- Interesting project to see what games can run on Mir
- The launcher itself is very basic, you can read the whole source code in a few minutes but it’s good to see that running games is making some progress
- I lack the setup to be able to test this so I welcome anyone to try this and send us some feedback about it.
- Love watching all of this effort being put forward for what is essentially nothing
- What’s it like working on a project that you know will never become a thing.
Limited
https://github.com/chozabu/LinNetLim
- This tool can be used to monitor and limit download and upload rates
- Do not use if you have a custom iptables setup! This will wipe any custom rules (from the mangle table, and probably others too)
- Sorry brad, not interested
- Ideally you would want this QOS done at the gateway level IMO.
AMD Presentation PDF Leaked
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/5gulgr/new_amd_driver_to_support_freesync_on_linux/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0uKOxJkKhQkM29VaWFENEpaakU/view
- Is the Crimson ReLive edition going to be another joke/lie AMD tells Linux users, just like the first Crimson drivers?
- I like the one slide (53) that has the big ol pile of cocaine dumped on the GPU. That’s how you squeeze performance out of hardware
Slice of Pi
PlexPi
http://www.howtogeek.com/283136/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-cheap-plex-player-with-rasplex/
- I’ve actually used rasplex when the TV box was out of commission. It’s a cheap DIY solution for an HTPC
- I’d stick with the wired connection though
- Hope it is better than the Plex web player
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