NVIDIA drops 32-bit support, KDE travels back in time, Grsecurity gets slapped and Wayland hates zombies. All this plus your emails!
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News
Ha HA!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/grsecurity_defamation_perens_dismissed/
- The judge denied the SLAPP claim in the best possible way.
- “…the plaintiffs [GR Security] have not shown a probability of prevailing on their claims.”
- HAH!
- Breaking: Expressing an opinion alone does not amount to intentional commerce disruption.
- With luck they will now catch a clue and drop this nonsense and they should.
- Why? Because this has harmed their company far FAR worse than anything Bruce Perens could have done.
- In closing: Dear Grsecurity, quit acting like absolute tools #comeatmebro
Xdate
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-December/002830.html
- Fixes and more fixes.
- Adam Jackson says there will probably be another 1.19 release with the remainder of the patches from Master.
- If you were expecting new features, you will have to wait until the 1.20
- Fixed a non-argb cursor conversion /w xwayland and speaking of.
Not dead yet
https://blogs.s-osg.org/wayland-zombie-apocalypse-near/
- That’s an odd way to fix zombie object issues.
- Instead of killing the zombie object, it changes it to a generic zombie and when the compositor sends the delete request it deletes the generic zombies.
- Since this wasn’t a fix, Derek sent another round of patches to create a zombie per object which respect the delete request from Wayland.
- army of bespoke zombies would make a proper band name,
Cliiiiick
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7lb5l7/new_screenshot_alternative_for_wayland/
- If you don’t want to use the default screenshot tool in your Wayland session, you don’t have much of a choice.
- “now master works with Ubuntu 17 Gnome Wayland (it should)”
- Well? Does it work or not?
- gnome and plasma desktop only
- If you were thinking Wayland still has a looong way to go well, claim your prize.
- Also, something something security argument.
RIP32
http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-is-ending-gpu-driver-support-for-32-bit-operating-systems/
- They will keep the security patches until 2019, at which point those will drop too.
- I like to play the FSMs advocate on things like this but I’m unable to come up with a reason to maintain 32-bit driver support.
Official Atom
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2956#issuecomment-353225330
- Tried the *.deb and it installed without issue.
- Oh look, electron nope.
- The *.deb uninstalled with issue,
Jack 3
http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/News/?action=view&url=jack2-1912-release-and-future-plans
- As someone who has been using Jack for the last three days I believe myself fully qualified to speak on behalf of the community.
- JACK1 is in bug-fix mode only.
- From now on the focus will be on JACK2.
- Development of new features will happen in the JACK2 codebase.
Decided lack of Linux BOB
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/12/19/why-hasnt-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-happened-yet/
- Why?
- Because Linux does not ship preconfigured enmass like windows.
- Until that changes there will be no Year of the Linux Desktop, period.
- You could pretend it was other factors at play… but you’d be wrong.
Remember when KDE was good?
http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=319
- If you think the Trinity Desktop is not retro enough, there you go!
- Damn kids, with their new fangled KDE2 nonsense.
Oh look, it’s useful now
https://ubports.com/blog/latest-news-1/post/android-apps-on-ubuntu-touch-with-anbox-107
- We mentioned Anbox a while back but the main issue still stands.
- The Play store is not installed by default and there is no easy way to do it.
- And Google could frown on that and nope it.
- You could use F-Droid or other third party stores, but that’s not where the meat of Android is.
Try try again
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile-os-and-web-services-in-the-public-in
- Do I need to explain why these projects never work, again?
- I’m sure Google’s lawyers will have something to say about that logo.
Trouble
https://github.com/gulzar1996/auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic
- This is a fantastic idea to let your loved ones know you care about the pointless things they share on social media.
- That is, until you get caught.
- And you gonna get caught, eventually.
Slice of Pi
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/26/fast-3d-printing-with-raspberry-pi-but-not-how-you-think/
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