Episode 71: News With a Side of GIT
News & Personal Updates
- 0:09:45 mintCast has been named one of the top three Linux podcast in Linux Format’s most recent issue.
Linux Format - 0:13:15 For the second year in a row, Joe “Zonker” Brockmeir, writing on linux.com has included Linux Mint on his annual scorecard of the top Linux distros
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/460661-the-2011-linux-distro-scorecard
- 0:15:37 A potentially landmark case is being argued against the GPL in German courts
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/german-company-claims-it-can-disregard-gpl-re?t51hb&hpg1=mp
- 0:25:29 Dropbox security glitch allowed anyone to access user accounts
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11199
Seven dropbox alternatives
http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/06/7-good-dropbox-alternatives-for-linux.html
- Lightning News round
- 0:28:34 Linux Mint 11 LXDE has completed testing and is approved for RC release (not available just yet)
- 0:30:04 Karen Sandler is named new executive director of the Gnome Foundation
- 0:30:36 91% of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux, compared to 1.6% running Windows
- 0:34:12 Mozilla has released Firefox 5, three months to the day after the release of Firefox 4 and is already in the Mint repositories
- 0:36:14 Apple threatens open source Amahi project with legal action
- 0:46:13 Project ‘Sweettooth’ aims to help Gnome 3 users with easy install of shell extensions
- 0:50:40 Blender 2.58 gets released
- 0:51:05 Synaptic to be dropped from Ubuntu 11.10
Main Topic
- 0:52:24 A quick GIT walkthrough
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The Synaptic issue shows me that once again Canonical seems to be turning their back on users who are familiar with Linux in favor of noobs who haven’t used Linux before. With my using Linux on LiveUSBs (cheap 4gb MicroCenter USBs at that) I frequently have to reburn a flash drive when Mint KDE stops behaving properly, and I rely on Synaptic to be able to make sure the drive can see the repos so I can install Chromium.
Granted, I haven’t fired up Ubuntu in months but I suspect I’m not the only one who needs Synaptic before doing an actual install. Or is my use that different from the norm that it can be ignored?
if apple wants to win a case they should sue amazon for their appstore for Android http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011
Congratulations on your top-three podcast nomination, you guys deserve it.
I have previously used Sparkleshare, but have my woes due to it’s dependency on mono. That, and it’s need of server-side application limits the use to my home-server.
A promising “Dropbox-alternative” is the Syncany project (syncany.org) which doesn’t require server-side applications. It uses any storage you can throw at it. It encrypts data client-side and can even break it into chunks and store the pieces separately on different storage-spaces.
Very interesting features are the possibility of storing bit-chunks in IMAP (ex. Gmail), and even using steganography to store data hidden in images on Picasa.
The project is under development, but the code is ready for use under linux at launchpad.
And keep up the amazing work on your podcast, we appreciate it!
There’s one Git question I wish Harrison had answered: Why would we want to run Git in the first place? I know the answer but others may not.
@all:
Whether there’s a new ‘Cast at the end of the weekend or not I hope you guys (and gals) have the Most Excellent of summer holiday weekends.
Hahaha Boston, why would we have a new Cast for next week?
I think Boston means that he hope we have another Podcast out this week. 😉
Harrison
I just got around to listening to this episode (congratulations on the nod from Linux Format!) and I wanted to make a suggestion based on James’ plea for putting spare CPU cycles to good use. Perhaps in a future episode, you can feature BOINC (http://www.boinc.berkeley.edu/). It’s a distributive computing platform maintained by UC Berkeley that manages a computer’s CPU usage to give some of those spare cycles to various scientific causes of the user’s choosing. The application is configurable and allows the user to throttle or limit usage as needed, or even toss a GPU into the mix as well for even faster data crunching. I like the idea that my computer is advancing the frontiers of science. It makes me feel like I am contributing to some future discovery, and it makes me feel good to give to the scientific causes I believe in, even if there is no Bitcoinage involved.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that BOINC is available in the repos at “boinc-client” and “boinc-manager.”
I like the idea that my computer is advancing the frontiers of science.