Manjaro straightens the Office! Xfce 4.14pre3 gets powerful, apt vs apt-get explained, and Xibo goes Snap.
Timestamps:
03:07 Manjaro & FreeOffice
06:02 Switching from Ubuntu
11:13 Libreoffice vulnerability
14:07 KDE zero day
17:53 XFCE 4.14 Pre 3
21:18 Apt apt-get explained
24:44 Xibo Snap
30:31 Predator Pi
33:45 Emails
Subscribe:
Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday
LinuxGameCast LLP
A weekly dose of all thing Linux and open source with a slice of Pi for good measure.
Listen:
Download:
Subscribe Spotify | Pandora | TuneIn | RSS | More
Colour key – Venn Jill Pedro
Manjaro FreeOffice (RTheren)
- That got sorted with a quickness.
- There will now be an option during setup.
- No money exchanged hands.
- That said, internet gonna internet.
- I am glad this got sorted and am looking forward to what the partnership between Softmaker and Manjaro will bring.
- So it’s not installed by default and FreeOffice themselves are letting people save documents to the relevant formats.
- All in all, not a bad day to be an internet troll.
- The author Tim Anderson thought that making a separate ODF document with macros, such as ODFM would be a good idea, like the docm Word counterpart introduced in Office 2007. I agree, in light of this vulnerability.
- The Document Foundation, fix this! I don’t want my “turtle graphics” in LibreOffice having any similarity with infected Microsoft Office Clippy macros.
- You’d think with Microsoft’s history of macros, the LibreOffice people would have been extra careful.
- A malicious .desktop can load arbitrary code just from the thumbnailer when searching for whatever was put into the icon= field
- Person who revealed this on Twitter did so deliberately without going to the developers first.
- This is a person with an agenda.
- So, as it currently stands, if you use KF 5.60 or lower you’re vulnerable.
- Which is basically everyone running the current stable versions.
- Support for the long awaited xfce4-screensaver which is integrated with the Xfce desktop, utilises Xfce libraries and the Xfconf configuration backend was added in this release.
- The xfce4-panel has had many bug fixes to its plugins as well, including tasklist fixes for the new group indicator, directory-menu and clock.
- Like that of xfmw4, the xfce4-panel also has compositing issue fixes and includes fallback for missing icons.
- I really want to kill compton in favour of xfmw4 but until they sort the Chrome scroll chugging it will remain.
- It’s the final pre-release for the new version.
Switching from Ubuntu to Manjaro
- I like what the author Dave Mckay states: “Manjaro feels like driving a go-kart you’ve built yourself. Ubuntu feels like a big, comfy, well-stocked RV. There’s something to be said for both approaches.”
- To be truthful, most Linux distros are zippier then Ubuntu if you compare the default desktops GNOME to GNOME, but if you use the lower memory desktops like I do, Fluxbox, Wmaker, xfce you don’t notice much of a speed difference between distros.
- Gnome is slow on any distro.
- Yes, having 24 enabled daemons vs 90 could have some impact on overall speed.
- Fedora has 89 for anyone playing the home game.
- One of the benefits of running an Arch based distro is the wiki.
- I was okay with this until the the “better 3rd party software repos”
- That’s… debatable.
- I’ve always wondered if there was any real difference between the two.
- For the end user, yeah, not much of one.
- Apt was made to simplify things and 90% of the time I remember to leave out the -get.
- Same here Venn, and the same thing happened to me also with the introduction of Aptitude, which I rarely used . . .
- I still prefer the verboseness of apt-get to apt, but I do like the progress bar in apt, nice touch!
- Using apt-get is like riding a bicycle for me and is one of the reasons that Debian and its derivatives are my favorite distros.
- It’s not a bad idea to make subtle changes to the CLI tools.
- I guess aptitude was too much of a mouthful… fingerful?… to type down everytime.
- It should be renamed last-resort.
- The popular and powerful digital signage platform Xibo comes to Linux because of popular demand and launches as a snap!
- Xibo’s Content Management System can be self-hosted or cloud based.
- Xibo also supports the Linux based LG webOS smart TVs and Samsung’s Tizen smart TVs, which are some of the top selling TVs in the industry.
Slice of Pi
- Give your robot a pair of eyes, using Pis.
Feedback
- Short answer: Any class-compliant interface made in the history of ever will work with Jack on Linux.
- The exception being interfaces that require additional software to run built-in effects and the like.
- Pro audio recording (emphasis on recording, I don’t know the situation with beep boop music) under Linux is extremely mature.
- Despite the self proclaimed “professionals” who bought a Scarlett 2i2 tinker-toy claiming otherwise.
- Ardour will record as many tracks as your CPU can handle.
- We have a dedicated Jackbox recording 6-tracks and processing 11 right now.
- And for those of you wondering why we’re talking about Firewire in 2019 remember this.
- Audio tech moves at a glacial pace compared to PC hardware.
- Not broke, don’t fix, is very much law in this realm.
- If you are buying a “pro” interface in 2019 it’s going to be Thuderbolt or Firewire, not USB 2.
- https://www.linuxmusicians.com
- GVFS has given me nothing but headaches with Thunar.
- SFTP or SSHFS is my go-to for GUI remote management.
- As for mass deletion, that’s something I’ve never tried in Thunar.
- More of a rm *.* type.
- I have also had Thunar crash when deleting lots of files, but mostly now use PCManFM and emelFM2 as my file managers of choice.
- The upcoming XFCE 4.14 like we just talked about is supposed to have a lot of Thunar bug fixes, and hopefully will fix some of the crashing.
