LWDW 126: Dual Booting Heathens

Kdenlive tests the future, GIMP receives a speed bump, hipster-pixel browsing and Pi powered rovers. All this plus your emails.

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News

Anti-RISC-V smear
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/

- Really ARM?
- That was some 90s era FUD that would make Microsoft blush.
“RISC-V is an open-source processor core specification, overseen by the non-profit RISC-V Foundation, with freely available implementations”
- 5 attack points
  - Cost
  - Ecosystem
  - Fragmentation
  - Security (I’m not joking)
  - Design assurance.
“Our intention in creating a webpage to offer key considerations around commercial RISC-V based products was to inform a lively industry debate,”
Well, no matter your intentions all you did was give RISC-V a gang of free advertising.

KDENLive Testing
https://kdenlive.org/en/2018/07/kdenlive-test-the-future/

Still has issues with the A/V thumbnails disappearing on the timeline.
Finally, like the more industry standard editors, the video and audio seperate automatically in the timeline!
Overall, seems much faster at previewing video clips.
Now you can preview clips with lower resolution playback. This is essential for editing high res video.

Openshot update
https://www.openshot.org/blog/2018/06/30/openshot-242-released-more-effects-more-stable-more-fun/

There is an appimage available.
It don’t work, but it’s there.
Works for me on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
One of the reasons why I don’t like using OpenShot–the audio editing is not good.
The creator, Janathon Thomas, knows that audio editing is a weak point with OpenShot and improvements are being worked on.
- Audio playback and editing is so much better.
- Auto Audio Mixing works well.
The beauty of OpenShot is that it is easy to learn and use.
It has to be STABLE to be useable.
Moved their development to GitLab.
Better export dialogue.
7 new effects.

Dual booting heathens
https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2018/7/robolinux-lets-you-easily-run-linux-and-windows-without-dual-booting

Sooo it lets you create a windows VM with Virtualbox?
Is there a distro that you can’t do that with?
I remember playing around with this several years ago and thinking that it’s easier to teach someone how to use VirtualBox in Linux, then installing a seperate distro for it.
Wait, the author tested this in a VM? Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.
They have something called Stealth VM that offers a semi-automated VM install.
I agree /w Jill.
If you have the know how to install Linux setting up a VM is no longer outside your wheelhouse.

Speedy GIMP
https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/07/04/gimp-2-10-4-released/
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gimp.GIMP

Much faster start time, because the font library doesn’t have to load before GIMP loads.
Thanks to Jehan Pagès and Ell, GIMP now performs the loading of fonts in a parallel process, which dramatically improves startup time.
Font Tagging added. This is a feature used a lot in Photoshop.
Better PSD support.
A common use case for the Measure tool is getting GIMP to calculate the angle of rotation, when horizon is uneven on a photo. GIMP now removes the extra step of performing rotation manually: after measuring the angle, just click the newly added Straighten button in the tool’s settings dialog.
You can try out the new hotness wicked-easy by using the officially maintained flatpak from Flathub.

Modern text-based browser (RTheren)
https://www.brow.sh/

Didn’t make with the working on Antergos (ARCH!!1!):
- https://imgur.com/a/YWpcKO8
Crashes on 18.04 as well.
Headless firefox from a VT is still a neat idea.
Works for me on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in XTerm.
Loads Firefox APIs in the terminal, which allows it to view HTML5, CSS, Javascript, videos etc, of modern day browsers.
Reduces bandwidth and memory usage while browsing.
A nice alternative to the CLI browsers lynx or elinks, but not as fast.
Oh, pretty, it looks like it calls to libcaca for rendering!
If you ever wanted to know what a particular webzone looked like with a hipster-pixel filter well, there you ho.

Ubuntu GERTY
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/07/cimon-astronaut-ai-runs-ubuntu

AI Assistant for Astronauts on the International Space Station that runs Ubuntu!
CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON)
CIMON can see, hear, understand and speak with astronauts.
And is voice controlled, so it frees up hands when important tasks need to be performed.
Awesome use of IBM Watson.
And, yes, Ubuntu has been replacing all those Windows laptops on the space station the last few years, so linux is not just in the backend anymore.
CIMON uses the cloud and that brings up an important question.
Should we call it the Space Cloud?
Nexus has a nice ring to it.

Lock bug
https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-bug-allows-anyone-with-physical-access-to-bypass-your-lock-screen

Something something disk encryption.
Works by removing the hard drive while the system is suspended.
Instead of using Ubuntu’s default screensaver try running XScreenSaver standalone.
This is similar to the bug that hit OSX several years ago, but that one didn’t require you to remove the hard drive.
“We’re unlikely to fix this, since having physical access means an attacker could simply access the hard disk directly or replace the password on it and unlock the computer.”
- A whole lot if THIS!

Slice of Pi

Turtle Pi
https://github.com/turtleRover

GigaPi
https://hothardware.com/news/gigabyte-single-board-pc-is-like-raspberry-pi-on-steroids-with-quad-core-intel-cpu-and-dual-lan

$200?
Hahahahahahahaha yeah, no.
Might as well buy an Intel NUC.
If I’m going to drop that kind of coin might as well pony up the extra $200 and pick up the AMD Ryzen V1000 APU board from Sapphire.

Feedback

Standardize
https://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?IhCcjrM