LWDW 158: Hot Pi’s

Ubuntu 18.04.2 is ready for public consumption, Kali goes Bananas, System76 refreshes their Serval line, and PulseEffects 4.5 switches things up.

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Ubuntu 18.04.2 has been released with several important upgrades.
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS ships with Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish graphics stack and the 4.18 Linux kernel, so we will get a new kernel and updated Xserver, Wayland and Mesa drivers.
Ten year support cycle for Ubuntu 18.04, till 2028!
Like we talked about last week, it was postponed a week due to a boot bug.
This of course also applies to all the distros which use the LTS as a base.
So if you’re running KDE Neon and want that newer kernel or mesa without resorting to PPAs, now you can haz.
“All these have already been battle-tested in Ubuntu 18.10”
- I would argue this.

Metasploit 5.0 is a massive update that includes database and automation APIs, new evasion capabilities, and usability improvements throughout.
2019.1 also includes updated packages for theHarvester, DBeaver.
here are no longer separate Raspberry Pi images for users with TFT LCDs because reasons.
Banana Pi and Banana Pro can now enjoy 4.19 goodness.
Metasploit hasn’t had a major release since 2011.
- …hasn’t seen a major release since 2011.*
This is just the major version number bump.
In fact, if you install Metasploit from your distro repo, you’ll see an update for it daily.

I kinda wanna look at that 17.3” panel running at 144Hz.
Pricing starts at a “modest” $2’000!
As someone who carries around a portable workstation, an Asus ROG 17.3 inch laptop, or what I like to call my beast, the Servel would be good for me!
I use it for my animation work and for remote broadcasts on LGC.

AMD better be taking notes. <-
A little bit of code to introduce the concept of different memory regions, and a simple buddy allocator to manage them.
It’s going to be interesting to see what comes from a ground-up discrete GPU implementation.
Intel understands where the money is, in calculating big data and rendering in Linux.
Better and more efficient memory calculation is the future of GPUs, just as multicore processing was for CPUs.

We’ve mentioned the Academy Software Foundation before.
OpenColorIO has been free to the public but now the ownership has moved to the ASF.
Used to create movies like “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Hotel Transylvania 3,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” to the open source community.
A color management framework for visual effects and animation.
OpenColorIO is natively supported in Blender.
OpenEXR is another project due up on the list.
This is exactly why the ASWF was formed, to help unify, advance and help with software licensing for open source software in the TV/film industry.
OpenColorIO is the animation and visual effects equivalent to the Adobe and the Pantone color management systems for digital photography, printing, paints etc.
Supports all the popular Foundry software used in the industry, including Nuke, Modo, Katana, and Mari animation and visual effects software. Many of which I use and teach.
All the Foundry animation software, and most of the other industry standards used in the film industry is run and rendered in CentOS/RHEL 6 Linux! Many now support Ubuntu as well.
I like this trend! More of this please!

Almost a year ago we talked about Pulse effects
Now it comes back with automatic sink detection and it applies the effects you had previously set for it.
A new graphics equalizer with options to show/hide bars borders in the spectrum and to change their line widths, as well as a switch to enable/disable linear gradient.
Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications.
It’s like a stripped down set of Calf Studio Plugins for pulse without the hassle of install Jack.

For those of you who consider Slackware the new kid.
Yggdrasil, basically implementing the Ubuntu and WINE philosophies before either of these were a thing.
These are the earliest Linux distros, the one’s who started it all, before our mainstream distros we all know and love came to being.
Starting back in 1992, the first known distro-like tools to get access to Linux were released by HJ Lu on two 5.25” floppy disks.
- HJ Lu, or Linux 0.12, consisted of a “boot” disk and a “root” disk.
- To install it on a hard drive you had to edit the master boot record with a hex editor.
TAMU Linux was the first Linux distribution to include the X Window System, instead of text based, and was developed in May 1992 by the Texas A&M Unix & Linux Users Group.
Still have my copy of TAMU Linux on floppies that I downloaded from my brothers BBS. Lots of the early Linux distros could be found on BBSs, including LInus Torvald’s first prototypes of LInux.