Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday – A Little WiPi

GPD Pockets begin shipping! Apache bans Facebook’s license combo, Audacious receives an update and 5 reasons Linux is ready for everyone. All this, plus your feedback!

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GPD Not WIN
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-shipping

Atomic got his and seems not to hate it.
1920×1200 IPS
Intel Atom and 8GB RAM

Krita 3.2.0 Released
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-3-2-0-released/

Fixed the crashes when spawning a second window, eg. an image preview.
If you build Krita against QT 5.7.1 or later the mouse wheel bug is fixed.
And the default setting for multiple instances now works as it should.

Linuxamp
http://audacious-media-player.org/news/42-audacious-3-9-released

Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS.
Improved playlist search bar and Full drag-and-drop capability for playlist entries.
- Welcome to the 21st century, audacious!
It’s Winamp for Linux without the music purchasing ability which ruined Winamp.00

Great Option
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-linux-great-option-anyone/

People, don’t use desktop finance apps in 2017.
I would not say the interfaces are “simple” but different.
Yes, it does come pre installed from a variety of vendors.

No Facebook, No Problem
https://meshedinsights.com/2017/07/16/apache-bans-facebooks-license-combo/

The Apache foundation have banned the “Facebook BSD+Patent Grant” license.
That means you can’t redistribute ReactJS along with anything Apache license, basically.
Facebook reportedly shocked for a whole of 5 minutes until they repackaged everything with lighttpd/nginx/IIS/etc..

postmarketOS fights against planned obsolescence
https://liliputing.com/2017/08/linux-based-postmarketos-project-aims-give-smartphones-10-year-lifecycle.html

I like this idea, but that name needs to change.
Everyone go dig out a 5 or 6 year old phone/tablet and try to use it.
All it does right now is boot.

Testing your overclock from the terminal
https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui

This could be helpful for troubleshooting unstable overclocks.
stress is too mainstream now?
- Apparently not, they’re still using it.
- They just wrapped it in python!
Does not require X.
I guess this would be good for a set it and forget it solution.
I would be interested to get some feedback for next week’s show about who still overclocks and or stress tests their builds in 2017.
- Guilty!

A quick recap of Kratos
https://linuxgamecast.com/2017/08/portable-linux-gaming-entrowares-kratos/

We covered this in detail on LGC Weekly so go back and give that a watch for the full business.

Slice of Pi

How about a little WiPi
http://www.learn.cf/2017/08/create-wi-fi-hotspot-in-less-than-10.html

With a little tinkering you can turn it into a repeater.
And if you have an external WiFi dongle, you don’t need a Pi 3.

WiPi Boss
http://choice.ventures/wifi-boss/

This is nothing new of course, you can get the same basic functionality on any of your PC’s that are ethernet connected to the router.
The Pi Image simply gives you a nice GUI to help you manage new machines.

WHO would use something like this?
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2490088