KDE wants to become a safe haven for Windows 7 refugees, Linus doesn’t want you using ZFS, hardware accelerated VP9 comes to Chromium, and a Pi powered luggable.
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Timestamps:
04:10 KDE haven for Windows 7
08:35 XFCE 4.15 updates
12:15 Firefox 0-day
14:30 Aoede Linux
19:15 Linus on ZFS
24:05 Huawei’s Linux distribution EulerOS
26:15 VP9 hardware acceleration for Chromium
30:35 Pi Cyberdeck
34:35 Active suspension Oldsmobile Dynamic 88
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
- Yesterday Microsoft stopped providing updates for Windows 7, so let’s try to migrate them to something better!
- The Plasma desktop is a great choice for Windows 7 refugees because it has the same menu layout and look and feel of a classic Windows desktop.
- The Plasma team have started a campaign, and need help with ideas, organization and getting the word out, or you can help by telling your friends, coworkers, family . . .
- But honestly, at the same time, why should we be trying to make the Linux desktop experience for new Windows users look the same as Windows.
- Linux has so many diverse desktops that are easy to use, and with the popularity of ChromeOS, Android, iOS etc. users are used to using different desktop interfaces.
- Mate, Budgie, Cinnamon, Gnome, Pantheon are also great for Windows users migrating to Linux.
- It starts out explaining why we didn’t see much in the way of maintenance releases for 4.12.
- Most of the time was spent getting everything over to GTK3.
- Client-side decorations have shown up in libxfce4ui for 4.15.
- With the change, almost all dialogs will be converted to using CSD by default without any code changes in existing projects.
- 4.15 will also have an improved “About Xfce” dialog, default dark mode, and only themes that support GTK3 will be sown in the appearance dialog.
- There will be improvements to the “Display” dialog which will show Aspect Ratio and Preferred Mode settings.
- And the Directory Menu plugin now allows you to directly create Folders and Files.
- Big honking zero-day that you should have already patched.
- Make sure to update your Firefox Browser to 72.0.1.!
- Mozilla found a vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in “targeted attacks” against users.
- This has been accomplished with Firefox’s just-in-time compiler, which speeds up performance of JavaScript to make websites load faster.
- And in doing so, can allow malicious JavaScript code to run outside of the browser on the host computer.
- Having an audio engineering Arch based distro makes sense so you can get the latest updates on audio software.
- I use Arch based EndeavorOS on one of my machines so I can test the latest animation and video editing software.
- It’s an Arch based distribution in the vein of the Ubuntu Studio, AV Linux, and KXStudio.
- It comes in 32 and 64-bit flavours.
- It ships with the LXDe Desktop but you can swap that for XFCE or Gnome.
- As someone who deals with audio from time to time…
- The filesystem is safe to use on a technical merit.
- Linus doesn’t trust Oracle.
- Torvalds was responding to a question late last week regarding a recent update to the Linux kernel breaking the third party ZFS module.
- “If somebody adds a kernel module like ZFS, they are on their own. I can’t maintain it, and I can not be bound by other people’s kernel changes.”
- Then went on to say
- “There is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it’s OK to do so and treat the end result as GPL’d.”
- Linus was correct, of course, about the licensing issues, but not when he stated:
- “Don’t use ZFS. It’s that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel… [the] benchmarks I’ve seen do not make ZFS look all that great. And as far as I can tell, it has no real maintenance behind it any more…”
- Honestly, this does seem to be a maintenance issue, but saying that ZFS is a “buzzword” is inaccurate.
- ZFS is heavily used in production, and is one of the reasons why Canonical has included this progressive snapshotting filesystem in their latest Ubuntu 19.10 release.
- Based on Cent but aimed at enterprise on ARM64.
- Huawei offers a CentOS based enterprise Linux distribution called EulerOS. Recently, Huawei has released a community edition of EulerOS called openEuler.
- Due to the trade blacklisting of Huawei by the US government, the source code is available at Gitee, a Chinese alternative of Microsoft’s GitHub.
- As we talked about last September here on LWDW, Huawei is now selling their beautiful Matebook laptops at VMALL, Huawei’s ecommerce marketplace in China, with the Debian i386 based Deepin Linux preinstalled.
- This experimental patch was developed primarily by analyzing FFMpeg and Chromium VP9 code and allows hardware acceleration of VP9 Profile 0 8-bit on Linux for supported NVIDIA cards.
- The goal is to reach video hardware acceleration feature parity with Windows on Chromium or Firefox on Linux distributions officially.
- Also, getting 8k video hardware acceleration working like it does on Windows.
- Playing 4k videos from YouTube definitely can be an issue on Linux, even with the highest end hardware.
Slice of Pi
- Awesome! A 3D printed homebrew machine running a RasPi!!
- This Raspberry Pi 4 computer looks like a smaller version of my so called 80 pound portable Texas Instruments 286 from my collection.
- Although, this one is inspired by William Gibson’s 1984 sci-fi classic Neuromancer.
- And for those of you who can’t afford to do this on your own car IRL . . .
- Behold, the super scale ’63 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 wagon.
- An Arduino reads data from a triple-axis accelerometer in real time, and adjusts a servo on each wheel accordingly, also in real time, to mimic a real car throwing its weight around on a real suspension system.
- Dude has not released a parts list.
