Ubuntu 17.10 Beta 2 goes full Wayland, Linux gets a new digital painting tool, Microsoft puts a ring on it, and googling tips for hipsters.
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17.10 Beta 2 goes full Wayland
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/ubuntu-17-10-beta-2-download
The following Unity desktop features are no longer available in Ubuntu 17.10:
- Global Menu
- HUD
- Dash or Scopes
- Unity Quicklists
- Sound Menu
- GNOME 3.26, login and lock screen, LightDM and the Unity Greeter are no longer included.
- Ubuntu 17.10 uses Wayland
- 17.10 still includes a X.org session by default and for anyone playing games this will be known as Step 1.
Skype keeps on trying
https://blogs.skype.com/news/2017/09/29/introducing-a-preview-of-the-next-generation-of-skype-for-linux/
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/collaboration/7077/microsoft-unveils-preview-of-skype-for-linux
- Thins brings screen sharing, group chat and “cloud technology”
- You lot have been trying to make electron Skype workable for over a year.
- Original link is dead. Googling will find you the download page.
- Still works on this end.
- This is the version of Skype microsoft unveiled to Windows and Mac users in August before pushing out the Linux version.
- The general consensus is that everyone seems to hate it.
- Business as usual for Skype since Microsoft bought it, then!
- I still maintain that this project is only staffed with disliked interns.
- Seriously, Disord (another electron bit-o-nope-) is actually usable and provides audio that rivals OG Skype.
Microsoft wants to help
https://opensource.org/node/901?imm_mid=0f6cbd&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20170930
- MS is now a Premium Sponsor.
- Can we finally forgive them for allying with SCO and buying a “UNIX” license back in 06?
- They released .NET in 2014
- And Visual Studio Code and Typescript as of late.
- Looks like they are trying to sort Alt+Tab funkyness with vulkan.
- DP connected monitors should finally reliably resume from sleep.
- I installed it and it works.
- I always disable sleep on my desktop, because if it’s on I want it to stay on.
- Haven’t really seen any other issues, so as far as I can tell should be safe to update.
- But some people in the forums have reported issues with not being able to see power output with nvidia-smi and external monitor misbehaving on an Optimus laptop.
Gmail gets a fixie
https://medium.com/@stessyco/gmail-from-the-command-line-with-mutt-mac-os-x-92d047bcd74f
- The stupid but neat section came early this week.
- However this is reinventing the wheel since setting up Gmail in Alpine take a whole 2 seconds.
But wait, there’s more
https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v3.4
- Now this project will save your sanity if you deal with a bunch of headless boxes.
- Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal.
- Ever googled with Lynx? Don’t.
- Use this.
We are the 4.83%
https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/10/02/linuxs-market-share-really-doubled-two-months/?amp=1
- According to NetMarketShare, Linux peaked at 6.91% share in September
- Come end of October, if these numbers hold up, Linux will have surpassed Windows 8 and is quickly encroaching on Mac.
- Back to school Chromebooks.
- Were done here people, hit the lights on the way out.
S3TC Patent Expired and to be merged into Mesa
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-October/171265.html
- Up to this point most distros didn’t included S3TC support by default in their version of mesa because of the patent.
- But that’s expired now so, and as this patch seems to be designed for it, Mesa will include it by default going forward.
- Barring any weirdness, of course.
My Hangouts solution
https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts
- Bit of a hack to get the OATH but aside from that it’s legit.
- Yes, I’m still bitter about Google pulling Hangouts from G+
- Yes I know about the browser plugin, it’s rubbish.
- There are 2 browser plugins and one is crap, yes.
- The other I use because it does keep Hangouts in the tray with new message notifications.
VPaint
https://www.patreon.com/borisdalstein
https://www.vpaint.org/
- “Ex-Pixar dev creates graphic design and 2D animation software, puts it on Patreon (RTheren)”
- It works on 16.04 as they say it should: https://i.imgur.com/bd5pvTM.png
Slice of Pi
UnidirectionalPi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/adafruits-read-only/
- This is also a must for anything IOT that faces the internet.
- It’s also very useful for running a kiosk type thing when running a Pi as the backbone.
FingerPi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspireader-fingerprint-scanner/
- The whole build costs around $160
Feedback
Slimboko
https://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?sbf7OWl
Power
https://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?tWxkyL3
Spooky
https://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?mjezsxa
- Listen, in 2017 it’s perfectly acceptable to be attracted to another man voice #KissKiss