A real-world review of the Librem 5! Kali gets a Windows button, rampant penguin-fueled consumerism, open-source farming, and automated Linux deployment.
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Timestamps:
03:57 Slimbook Pro X15
07:27 Glimpse 0.1.0
10:02 Audacity 2.3.3
12:57 Flan scan
15:32 Linux 5.4
21:12 Wayland yet?
25:12 ManGL
27:47 Penguin subtitles
30:42 Left handed Ploopy
33:37 Blender RTX
38:57 Shameless self promotion
41:02 Pi recovery kit
44:12 Emails
Colour key – Venn Jill Pedro
- The Librem 5 first impressions seem to be very positive about the initial “Birch” batch.
- Or at least from several other articles I read, that Librem delivered exactly what they stated.
- Wow, it is thick! Expected though, because beta.
- That is a chonky boy!
- You’re not going to be able to replace your current smartphone with a Librem 5 as it exists today.
- It’s solidly built, minimum wiggle.
- Software is serviceable with the input lag and frame rate seem to be on par with my Nexus 5X running Lineage.
- Power management is nonexistent.
- You can’t use it to make calls.
- Cameras are not working.
- At 15.6 mm thick, 150.2 mm tall, and 75.2 mm wide it is, in fact, thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.
- It comes with a screen protector.
- If you need a mental image of the thickness, it looks like a modern foldable.
- Nothing identifies you as a non-threat like Kali Linux.
- Tails looks like WinXP, so why shouldn’t the other penetration testing and security focused OS Kali Linux look like a Windows variant to? And a more modern one at that!
- Something tells me that package will be available outside of Kali very soon.
- If for nothing else than just to help those people who want to put their family members on Linux and don’t want to hear the “This looks different” line.
- The best feature of Kali Linux 2019.4? XFCE is the default DM.
- And it ships with kernel 5.3.9.
- Also, Microsoft gonna sue somebody.
- Firefox 71.0 has been released with some important new features.
- One of the biggest updates in Firefox is that there is now native MP3 decoding on Linux, Windows and macOS systems.
- The patents on existing MP3 technology have expired!
- It has a new kiosk mode aimed at Enterprise users which can be launched with –kiosk flag at the command line.
- This will open Firefox in an immersive full screen mode suitable for customer-facing displays.
- On behalf of everyone doing video conferencing, can we please have an option to disable that annoy-o-tron?
- Also, want me to become a FoxFire zelout?
- Add support for Jack audio in the builds, something that the Googs has flat refused to do.
- This is just what the Agricultural Tech sector needs to get away from big farming monopolies and expensive proprietary software and hardware.
- I have been noticing all the wonderful farming innovations created because of the Raspberry Pi, and creating FarmOS and unifying them in one place just makes sense.
- Farming requires a lot of tools and having access to the schematics and 3D print files for those can help a lot
- Not to mention allowing people to develop or even fix their existing tools, is much easier and much cheaper if that information is free and open sauce.
- Also, management software can be very expensive so open sauce is great for that too.
- When you need to install 7 Linux.
- A sort of Clonezilla without needing to boot from it.
- I still prefer Clonezilla’s network boot capabilities for this but if you don’t have or don’t want a dedicated laptop with almost 2 TB worth of HDDs filled with images for your home systems, this is a valid alternative.
- If it works as advertised.
- Do you need a handy tool for in-depth analysis of USB HID devices communication?
- Welp, you are in luck!
- Allow me to present Hidviz, a GUI application for in-depth analysis of USB HID class devices.
- Would be nice if it also allowed flipping of firmware switches that it finds but I suppose the viz bit in the name stands for visibility.
- Not only mice, keyboards, joysticks and gamepads can be analyzed, but all USB devices, like more unusual HID devices such as thermometers, blood pressure monitors, and weather stations.
- And remember that reverse engineered USB driver for the VGA to USB device we talked about two weeks ago? HidViz is made for that!
- Great article Vivaldi from one of my favorite web browsers that I am using for my show notes right now!
- This is going on my list of articles to have my students read who are moving over to Linux :-D
- Learn how to use Linux, not a distro.
- Honestly, this is a good suggestion.
- Most people will end up either going with W10 or just move to working on other devices.
- But this specific suggestion from Vivaldi is not bad at all!
- Let’s be honest, the type of person still running Windows 7 is not the type who would be able to install any OS.
- PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin, the open source operating system developed by Apple Inc. that macOS is built upon, more usable by providing bootable ISOs and documentation.
- The closed source elements of macOS, including the Cocoa framework and Aqua GUI are not included.
- So the classic Window Maker user interface is included instead, which is based off the NeXTSTEP window manager after Apple purchased NeXT in 1998.
- I still have PureDarwin Xmas running in a virtual machine on one of my machines when I played with it in 2008.
- Since Window Maker is still my all time favorite X window manager and I live the NeXTSTEP, OpenStep and GNUstep lifestyle, it’s a thing!
- Here is a nice list of the best Linux gifts to buy in 2019 from Steven Vaughan-Nichols.
- A few of these we talked about last year here on LWDW.
- The link for my Linux stuffed Tux from ZaReason has moved:
- You can gift your friend or family member a pass to one of the many upcoming Linux conferences, like SCaLE or LFNW :-D
- And there, they can get tons of free Linux swag, including t-shirts, stickers, hats, flash drives, mugs, speakers, Tux plushies and other goodies. There is a ton of SCaLE swag behind me!
- Speaking of gifts!
Slice of Pi
Jukeberry Pi (Gronkdalonka)
- Dedicated sound card and everything.
- The community around the Phoniebox is so active and fun!
- I love the yearly calendar they produce and the fun creative builds people have done to create their own Phonieboxs.
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