mintCast 153: openSUSE 12.3

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  • A Larger Universe – James Gillaspy (amazon.com)

News:

  • 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)

The Main Topic: openSUSE 12.3

Featured Website and Tip:

  • How to restore deleted files on Linux (Thanks to James Eaton) (worldofgnome.org)

Announcements:

  • Ohio LinuxFest, Columbus, OH – September 13-15. (ohiolinux.org)

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mintCast 152: Russ on Ubuntu

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News:

[10:30]

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

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News:

  • 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

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News:

[8:15]

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

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!

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The Main Topic:

News:

  • 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 )
  • Just kidding, but your distro is seriously old. (H-online.com )
  • Steam for Linux comes out of beta, holds a bake sale. (Wired.com )

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mintCast 148: Base The Data

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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)

The Main Topic: Open Source Databases

  • [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)

Featured Website:

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mintCast 147: Screen Recorders

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News:

  • The Document Foundation makes available the final release in the LibreOffice 3.6 line. (Ostatic.com)
  • Fedora To Look At Reviving Apache OpenOffice. (Phoronix.com)
  • OpenSUSE and Fedora dump MySQL, move to MariaDB for next releases. (ZDNet.com)

The Main Topic: Screen Recorders

Featured Website:

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