Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday: AAC! Fedora

Ubuntu 17.10 is out! WPA2 gets cracked, Fedora adds AAC, and a ARM64 netbook you might actually want. All this plus your emails.

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17.10 gets official
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-17-10-release-date

Everyone get out there and test it!
I will wait a few weeks until the big bugs or sorted.
October 19 — Final Release
Ubuntu 17.10 will use GNOME as the default desktop environment
Let us know how it borked your system.
Did the upgrade to the full release version (or as close as you can get) on the 32 bit version I have on the Thinkpad and nothing is broken.
That said, that’s 12 year old hardware.

It’s a Ubuntu based distro, of course they are.
So they haven’t dun integrated them in the OS , and Canonical added them to the oversight committee. Seems legit.
They haven’t begun integrating snap building into their infrastructure.
This is all theory.

The fixie of browsers
https://blog.qutebrowser.org/qutebrowser-v100-released.html

Aac! Fedora…
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/10/12/aac-support-will-be-available-in-fedora-workstation-27/

For what bizarre moon reason was AAC not included?
- Because the version they’re now shipping is the Fraunhofer one.
It’s nice that we’re getting some out of the box support for more codecs on fedora. Now I don’t have to mess with gstreamer-plugins-ugly. Now I can take it out of my setup ansible book
They are shipping a “crafted” version that may or may not work because Fedora BS.
Just keep using the one you’ve been using.

Arm64 netbook
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/teres-i-do-it-yourself-open-source-laptop-update/

In theory, this seems like an awesome thing.
Cheap 64 bit ARM DIY laptop is something I’d very much like to see take off.
Not just for the sake of it being what it is but the kind of mods and custom stuff which could spring up around it.
Similar to the RasPi but more focused on actual computing rather than a base for embedded projects.
This wasn’t what I wanted when I mentioned an arm laptop last week
I was thinking more along the lines of an octo/deca-core box with at least 8GB of ram, some proper SSD storage and a decent display
- Maybe some expansion slots for some nifty coprocessors
As a DIY project, it is pretty neat though
The laptop comes with pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Mate, Firefox browser.
This is a tinker-toy (not in a bad way) so don’t expect to replace your daily driver?
This thing got a price?

New release of Dragonfire open source virtual assistant runs fully on local
https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire

The disembodied head thing is super creepy
You can now pretend you have your own gimped Jarvis that you can order around
Kinda wanna play around with it in order to make it say some messed up stuff
Like screaming at your mobile device only to have it ignore you 90% of the time?
Want to replicate that experience on your desktop?

FYI
https://www.krackattacks.com/

The affected CVEs are: CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13082, CVE-2017-13084, CVE-2017-13086, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088
Many manufactures have started pushing updates over the last couple of weeks. Check with your manufacturer for router updates that mention the above CVEs.
Should you panic, no.
If you can’t patch your device, make sure you’re using SSL, SSH, VPNS and whatever other encrypted hoopajoop you can to protect your traffic.
And remember kids, proper design is done with the expectation that components will fail.
Credit to Ubuntu for having a patch out same-day.