mintCast 153: openSUSE 12.3

Posted on March 21, 2013 by mintCast

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A Larger Universe – James Gillaspy (amazon.com)

News:

Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute. (pyfound.blogspot.com)
British government mandates ‘preference’ for open source. (computerweekly.com)
Ubuntu, Shuttleworth & rolling releases. (markshuttleworth.com) (zdnet.com)
Samsung to launch Tizen OS phone in 2013; DoCoMo plans to sell it. (itworld.com)
More Raspberry Pi manufacturing shift to the UK. (zdnet.com)

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mintCast 152: Russ on Ubuntu

Posted on March 14, 2013 by mintCast

News:

[10:30]

Gnome co-founder explains why he dumped Linux for Mac. (tirania.org) (infoworld.com)

Linus switches back to a Gnome 3 desktop. (zdnet.com)

Linux founder loves his Chromebook Pixel. (tgdaily.com)

Linux triumphant: Chrome OS resists cracking attempts. (zdnet.com)

The Main Topic: Ubuntu – Where’s It Going?

Ubuntu Mir: Is This the Future of Linux Everywhere? (wired.com)

Ubuntu Linux developer squabbles go public (zdnet.com)

Three Proposals To Consider For Ubuntu Releases (phoronix.com)

Ubuntu is not a community distribution (linuxbsdos.com)

Mark Shuttleworth Says He’s Not Impressed by the Rolling Release Model (softpedia.com)

Mark Shuttleworth Goes Blogging On Ubuntu Defense (phoronix.com)

Ubuntu To Investigate Digital Rights Management (phoronix.com)

KWin won’t support Mir (muktware.com)

Canonical loses work from top Compiz developer (phoronix.com)

Clem talks to Muktware about Mint and Mir, and repeats his thoughts in blog comments (muktware.com) (blog.linuxmint.com) (ubuntu.com)

Linux Mint “Not in the Business of Picking Winners”, Continues With Xorg. (thepowerbase.com)

Featured Website: Linux In The Hamshack

Check out K5TUX and friends as they cover the world of amateur radio and Linux. (lhspodcast.info)

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mintCast 151: SolydXK

Posted on March 7, 2013 by mintCast

News:

Clem details MDM login screens built with HTML5. (Blog.LinuxMint.com )

Canonical takes the lid off of Mir. (Phoronix.com )

HP to offer all-in-one Ubuntu computer for sale in UK. (OMGUbuntu.co.uk )

Steam for Linux continues to grow, challenges Steam for Mac adoption numbers. (Webupd8.org )

The Main Topic:

Interview with Schoelje discussing the new SolydXK distro. (SolydXK )

Tip and Website in one:

notify-send

It allows you to send notifications to the desktop and works in most DE’s. I use it in my scripts to let me know where they’ve got to and what is being done, also it adds a flair of professionalism to my home-grown code!!

An example use would be;

notify-send -t 5000 ‘Backup Script’ ‘The backup has completed successfully’

Which would then show a title and main notification for 5 seconds;

Title – Backup Script,
Main notification – The backup has completed successfully.

You can, as with all Linux commands, get fancy and add variables and other inputs. Thanks to Beardy Jesse for this Tip and Website.(ss64.com )

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mintCast 150: Podcasting With Jack

Posted on February 28, 2013 by mintCast

News:

[8:15]

Linux Mint Debian 201303 RC released! (blog.linuxmint.com)

The Unofficial LMDE KDE distro breaks away, becomes a real Official Distro – SolydXK. (solydxk.com)

The Python Foundation provides an update on its trademark dispute while Simon Phipps offers a clear write-up of what happened. (pyfound.blogspot.co.uk) (infoworld.com)

LG acquires WebOS, while HP introduces an Android powered tablet. (techcrunch.com) (engadget.com)

Yet another Raspberry PI (unofficial) manual. (makeuseof.com)

Gramps Garage: coreboot

[33:20]

coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload.(http://www.coreboot.org)

The Main Topic: Building a Jack-based Podcasting Server

[42:00]

Jack Audio Connection Kit — JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). JACK was designed from the ground up for professional audio work, and its design focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation. (http://jackaudio.org/)

ArtistX is based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux and contains nearly all the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Linux computing platform. (http://artistx.org/)

OpenArtist: A Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It tries to combine free software into a suite for creative people. Driven by the fact that there are so many cool applications out there, but most people do not know them, openArtist tries to be a complete package of creative software.. (http://openartisthq.org/)

Linux Mint 13 w/ KXStudio. (http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/)
- Components of the “mintCast Streaming Server”:
  - Linux Mint 13 Xfce
  - KXStudio repos
  - KXStudio desktop
  - KXStudio Audio base package
  - KXStudio artwork
  - KXStudio low-latency Kernel – wanted realtime but video issues prevented
- Applications used for streaming:
  - Cadence (and Claudia) – http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/KXStudio:Applications:Cadence
  - Internet DJ Console – http://idjc.sourceforge.net/
  - Mumble – http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
  - Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
  - Darkice – http://code.google.com/p/darkice/

Featured Website: Penguin Producer

[1:30:25]

The Penguin Producer is a website dedicated to the advancement of Linux as a viable media production platform. Whether you want to make movies, podcasts, or music; whether it’s intended to be recorded or streamed live, you can find tips, tricks, tutorials, and tool documentation here that can help you bring on your “A Game” in Linux. (http://www.penguinproducer.com/)

Tip:

[1:32:10]

Hat-tip to Beardy Jesse for this tip… auto-complete bash commands from history. (linuxfordummies.org)

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mintCast 149: Extra! Extra!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by mintCast

The Main Topic:

News:

Python trademark is at risk in Europe. (Pyfound.blogspot.co.uk )

With Samsung support, Tizen hits 2.0. (TGDaily.com )

Opera browser to switch to actively support Chromium project, switch to webkit. (Techcrunch.com )

Microsoft Office not coming to Linux. (ZDNet.com )

Retail copies of Office 2013 tied to single computer forever. (Geek.com )

Google says that RHEL 6 is obsolete. (Muktware.com )

Just kidding, but your distro is seriously old. (H-online.com )

Fighting Robocalls with a Raspberry Pi. (Arstechnica.com )

KDE 4.10 gets released. (H-online.com )

Upgrade Mint 13 or 14 to KDE 4.10. (Noobslab.com )

Vivaldi tablet not dead yet. (Liliputing.com )

While the Pengpod starts shipping. (Pengpod.com )

Steam for Linux comes out of beta, holds a bake sale. (Wired.com )

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mintCast 148: Base The Data

Posted on February 12, 2013 by mintCast

News:

[13:45] The Linux Foundation Secure Boot System released. (phoronix.com)

[16:40] Linux developers working on uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot fixes. (zdnet.com)

[22:37] Steam Can Now Be Repackaged In Linux Distributions. (phoronix.com)

[25:00] Microsoft Bringing Office to Linux? (omgubuntu.co.uk)

The Main Topic: Open Source Databases

[30:50] LibreOffice Base. (libreoffice.org) — Tutorial (gofree.com)

[41:50] SQL — A special-purpose programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s. (wikipedia.org)

[47:20] MySQL (mysql.com)

[50:00] MariaDB (mariadb.org) (montyprogram.com) (askmonty.org) (wikipedia.org)
- Fedora News (fedoraproject.org) (phoronix.com) (securitronlinux.com)
- openSUSE News (muktware.com) (michal.hrusecky.net)

[53:30] PostgreSQL (postgresql.org) — License (opensource.org)

[55:33] SQLite (sqlite.org)

Compare MySQL to PostgreSQL and SQLite. (wikivs.com) (linuxjournal.com) (databasejournal.com)

[1:01:20] NoSQL Databases (wikipedia.org)

[1:04:26] CouchDB (couchdb.apache.org) (wikipedia.org)

Featured Website:

[1:17:00] Linux Journal’s Events Directory. (linuxjournal.com)

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mintCast 147: Screen Recorders

Posted on February 7, 2013 by mintCast

News:

The Document Foundation makes available the final release in the LibreOffice 3.6 line. (Ostatic.com)

LibreOffice 4.0 is just around the corner. (ZDNet.com) (4.0 Release Notes) (4.0 Release Download)

Fedora To Look At Reviving Apache OpenOffice. (Phoronix.com)

OpenSUSE and Fedora dump MySQL, move to MariaDB for next releases. (ZDNet.com)

The Raspberry Pi shows its legs; stays in the news 11 months after first release. (Ostatic.com) (NYTimes.com) (Endgadget.com)

The Main Topic: Screen Recorders

RecordMyDesktop

Cinnamon Desktop Recorder (a.k.a. Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R)

Kazam

Istanbul

FFMPEG

Avidemux

Featured Website:

Jonathan Nadeau’s Sonar Project: (The Sonar Project)

Bonus Website: HPR Stallman interview: (Hacker Public Radio)

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mintCast 146: Fedora 18 The Spherical Cow

Posted on January 31, 2013 by mintCast

News:

[11:25] Linux Mint 15 will be named “Olivia” and should be available at the end of May 2013. (blog.linuxmint.com)

[13:25] Steam and Gaming on Linux Mint. (blog.linuxmint.com)

Valve ports Half-Life and Counter Strike to Linux. (geek.com)

Even Steam on LMDE? (thanks mockturtl) (forums.linuxmint.com)

[20:25] Clem previews the new LMDE installer. (blog.linuxmint.com)

[20:40] Microsoft produces study that shows Munich would’ve saved more with Windows but won’t release it in its entirety. (itworld.com) (h-online.com)

[31:08] Facebook’s open source for profit. (thanks Sid32 & the mintCast Reddit) (nytimes.com) (opencompute.org)

[34:10] Ubuntu considers “huge” change that would end traditional release cycle. (arstechnica.com) (extremetech.com)

Ubuntu not switching to rolling release model…yet. (omgubuntu.co.uk)

The Main Topic: Fedora 18 – Spherical Cow

[40:00] Is Fedora 18 Linux ‘The Worst Red Hat Distro Ever’? (internetnews.com)

Fedora 18 Installation Guide. (docs.fedoraproject.org)

Fedora 18 Release Notes. (docs.fedoraproject.org)

Cinnamon proposed to replace Gnome Shell as default on Fedora 19. (linuxbsdos.com)

Featured Website: The Fedora Project

[1:44:00] fedora – Freedom. Friends. Features. First. (fedoraproject.org)

Tip: Fedora Utils

[1:44:23] Fedora Utils lets you install codecs and additional software that Fedora doesn’t want to ship, like MP3 codecs, Adobe Flash, Oracle Java etc. It can also fix problems, tweak and cleanup your system, show system information and much more with just few clicks. (satya164.github.com)

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mintCast145: Freedom

Posted on January 24, 2013 by mintCast

News:

The Mint team is working on a Cinnamon Screensaver and lock screen for Mint 15. (ReviewLinux.com)

Latest version of Nemo gains new features. (Webupd8.com)

The SolusOS team has decided to fork gnome classic (also known as fallback) to create “Consort”. (SolusOS.com)

What’s with the maple leaf on Canada’s new currency?. (BBC.co.uk)

Freedom… Information, Software and Everything:

Free Software Foundation

Software in the Public Interest, Inc

GNU.org thoughts on Free Software

Eben Moglen explains freedom and free software:

(Slashdot.org)

(YouTube.com)

Featured Website:

Free Software Foundation

The GNU Operating System

The Geek Stuff

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mintCast 143: Mint 14 KDE and Xfce

Posted on January 9, 2013 by mintCast

News:

Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 6 is now avaiable for download. (Linuxmint.com)

Ouya Gaming Console Showing up in Videos Around the Web. (Ostatic.com)

Ohio LinuxFest looking for ideas. (OhioLinux.org)

Fedora 18 delayed yet again. (LinuxUser.co.uk)

The Raspberry PI gets an open source educational manual. (Raspberrypi.org)

The Main Topic:

Linux Mint 14 Xfce and KDE reviews

Website of the Podcast:

Floss Manuals(flossmanuals.net)

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source software together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses those tools. They include authors, editors, artists, software developers, activists, and many others. There are manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source softwares, about how to do things (like design or stay safe online) with open source software, and manuals about free culture services that use or support free software and formats.

Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, to add a more detailed explanation, to write a new chapter, or to start a whole new manual on a topic.

Tip of the Podcast:

A great bash history expansion trick is “!$” which expands into the last argument of last command. For example, say you ran the following command “ls /usr/share/doc/apt/examples” to see what is in that folder. Then you realize that you want to run “ls -l” instead. Rather than typing the whole command and path over, you can just type “ls -l !$”. Convenient, huh?

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