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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 40:00 Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:41 No RC release yet 2011/12...

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 51:04 Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 3:39 The latest rc release 3.2-rc6 was announced by Linus at almost ten PM EST on 12/16/2011 There were quite a few file system updates in this release, btrfs and cifs had rather large updates, along with several small updates to ext4. With all of the FS updates this time the bulk of the commits are still drivers with swim3, i915, and eDP leading the pack. There where also some arm and x86 updates as well. This release was smaller than previous ones and Linus says that it does appear to be "calming down". He also says that will definetly be an rc7 but most likely not an rc8. Linus was also a little miffed at some of the other developers and had this to say: "Now, I'll be somewhat generous and just say "ok, people left it to Friday before the holidays to push me stuff", and maybe it's not gaming the -rc cycle, but in general I *hate* it when it seems like people leave their requests to the last moment. So if you did it consciously, please just stop. It would be much nicer to just spread things out, and have developers that track current -git give reactions to things as they come in, rather than having things clump just before the -rc release." Kernel Quote of The Week: “ Last week I took Linus to task for the late RC releases. Then he makes this statement this week about the other developers waiting until the last minute. So this week I am apologizing to Linus and taking the other developers to task. So if you are one of those developers Linus was talking about, knock it off and get this stuff in earlier.” First version of kmod released There is a new library and set of tools for handling kernel modules. The intent of this library is to provide early boot tools, installers, and udev among others an easier method for querying and controlling kernel modules, as opposed to the current method of using modprobe a half a million times. Here is a quote from the project: "In a recent Linux Desktop (and also several embedded systems) when computer is booting up, udev is responsible for checking available hardware, creating device nodes under /dev (or at least configuring their permissions) and loading kernel modules for the available hardware. In a kernel from a distribution it's pretty common to put most of the things as modules. Udev reads the /sys filesystem to check the available hardware and tries to load the necessary modules. This translates in hundreds of calls to the modprobe binary, and in several of them just to know the module is already loaded, or it's in-kernel. With libkmod it's possible for udev with a few lines of code to do all the job, benefiting from the configurations and indexes already opened and parsed." Along with the new library they also provide some work alike programs for insmod, lsmod, rmmod, and modprobe that uses the libkmod. This sounds very exciting and will definitely be a benefit as modprobe will no longer need to be called about a trillion times during boot. Distro News: Tony Time: 7:56 Distrowatch.com 12-18 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.12 - a KDE-centric desktop distribution originally forked from Arch Linux: "The Chakra development team is proud to announce the third and final release of 'Edn' 12-16 - Kororaa Linux 16 - a Fedora-based distribution with separate KDE and GNOME editions 12-15 - GParted LiveCD 0.11.0-2 - 12-14 - Pear OS 3.0 - Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with a Mac OS X-like look and feel (as well as slogan) 12-14 - Untangle Gateway 9.1 - Debian-based distribution for firewalls and gateways 12-13 - Puppy Linux 5.3.1 "Slacko" - Slacko Puppy Linux 5.3.1 is a bug-fix release of the recent 5.3. Distro of the Week: Tony

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 54:32 Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 1:56 Latest RC release is 3.2-rc5 released on Friday 12/9 at 6pm Eastern standard time. It has been slightly over a week since the last rc release. And rc5 is bigger in number of commits. Many of the commits are small, so it is possible that the *diff* will be smaller than both -rc2 and -rc4 were. A big part of this release is that Ingo is back, and had a backlog. That isn't enough to explain it all. There were xfs and btrfs changes, along with network updates, and the usual 50% random driver updates. Greg KH announced the release of the 2.6.32.50, 3.0.13, and 3.1.5 stable kernels 12/9. The 2.6.32.50 kernel had 28 files changed, 164 insertions, and 54 deletions. The 3.0.13 kernel had 93 files changed, 659 insertions, and 201 deletions. The 3.1.5 kernel had 135 files changed, 1170 insertions, and 471 deletions. Kernel Quote of The Week: Hey Linus stop working on Subsurface, The Scuba Diving Log that doesn't suck, during the week so you can get the latest RC out before 6pm eastern time so it is easier for me to do these updates. (insert appropriate smiley here) --Mat Enders Distro News: Tony Time: 4:53 Distrowatch.com 12-10 - Semplice Linux 2.0 RC1 - 12-10 - KahelOS 111111 - 12-10 - CentOS 6.1 - 12-06 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - 12-06 - Ultimate Edition 3.0 - 11-06 - TurnKey Linux 11.3 - 11-06 - Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r2 - Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1367 Fedora - 1427 Ultimate - 1742 Ubuntu - 1977 Mint - 4115 Tech News: Time: 15:45 jQuery Tells The Real Story About Plugin Site, or Why You Should Have a Backup More Recent Than a Year Old The jQuery plugins site devolopers have finaly told the real story, in a blog posting. The plugins site went down about a week ago with just this message: "The plugins site is currently unavailable. We've been looking to provide a higher-quality, spam-free expierence at the plugins site for some time and we have decided to temporarily shutter the existing site. We will be providing more details on the new plugins site soon, so that plugin authors can hit the ground running with our new submission process." What really happened was, in an attempt to clean up the spam using Drupal Views Bulk Operations, all of the plugins were deleted. And the only backup was a year old. The developers asked for forgiveness and some help in developing a completely new plugins site. The plugins site needed renovations for quite some time. Due to the spam issue and because of how plugins were manged through the CMS that was cluttered and awkward. They were planning on replacing the site when events caused an imdeiate need. When I say events I mean the accidental deletion and lack of backup was the impetus to move those plans into action. jQuery plugin developers should create a GitHub presence, even if they just mirror their existing source code management. The new site still being developed on github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com/ and there is currently no date for its launch. Download.com accused of wrapping nmap in a "trojan installer" Nmaps author says CBS Interactive and CNET's Download.com are wrapping the open source application in a proprietary installer. In the past, they have never altered the application downloads they serve up, they have been changing that over the last six months. Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon, lays out his issues in a posting to the Nmap Hackers mailing list. He claims the installer does thing like install the 'StartNow' toolbar", makes Bing the default search engine, and then sets the users home page to MSN. This is how a "trojan installer" functions.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 53:36 Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Over 1000 downloads! Kernel News: Mat Time: 0:39 The c...

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 53:21 Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Time: 2:18 Kernel News: Mat The development kernel 3.2-rc3 was released on 11/24: Kernel...

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Time: 0:40 Kernel News: Mat The current development kernel is 3.2-rc2, released on November 15. Being an -rc2 release of a large merge-window, it is reasonably sized. Even though this has been the largest linux-next in the history of linux-next, rc2 has the exact same number of commits since rc1 as there were during the 3.1 release. There are numerous fixes and somw ktest improvements. Stable updates: The 3.0.9 and 3.1.1 stable kernels were released on November 11. Both contain a large quantity of important fixes. Distro News: Tony Time: 2:18 Distrowatch.com 11-19 - Tiny Core Linux 4.1 11-19 - Puppy Linux 5.2.2 "Wary", "Racy" 11-18 - IPCop 2.0.2 - , a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls designed primarily for home and SOHO users 11-17 - Incognito Live System 0.9 - Debian-based live distribution with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user 11-16 - openSUSE 12.1 - one of the oldest and most prominent Linux distributions on the market Distro of the Week: Mint openSUSE Fedora Commodore Ubuntu Tech News: Time: 7:06 Wine 1.3.33 Has Been Released Version 1.3.33 of wine for running Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and MAC OS X has been released. This version has improvements to bidirectional text layout for writing in Arabic. Also some fixes fir WinHTTP proxy, a new version of Wine Gecko 1.4 based on the Mozilla Gecko layout engine, along with many bug fixes. New in this release Text output is now supported in the DIB engine. Improved HTTP proxy support. Several cursor fixes. Actual Android Tablet Beats Microsoft Vaporware Tablet Microsoft has been kicking around the concept of touch-screen for along time with never having developed a product that is usable by the average user or targeted at the mass market. They are currently working with Samsung (the leading Android phone maker who wrongfuly pays Microsoft a royalty fee for using Android) to release a 40 inch Surface tablet running Windows 7 and the Surface 2.0 software. Ironically, within a week of Microsofts announcement of the vapourware tablet, an actual Android tablet beat Microsoft's surface by creating a bigger, 65-inch, tablet running Android. Ardic Technology's press release has this to say, "We developed what we believe is the world's largest Android touch "tablet". Whether you call it a tablet, smartboard or touch panel, it's the biggest thing running the Android operating system that we know of. The beautiful 65-inch LCD touch screen can be used to do everything that an Android tablet can do: download apps, play games, watch HD movies, browse the web, edit documents, run photo slideshows and more." How it works? The screen is an optical touch screen that supports two-point gestures. The unit itself does not have a processor, memory or hard disk. Just USB and HDMI ports along with a power source. It is powered by a 10-inch Android tablet that utizes an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip with 1GB RAM. The touch screen has a dock with USB (for the touch input) and HDMI (for audio and video). What is clearly evident is that Microsoft's vaporware can't even keep up with Android's reality. You can see a video of the Ardic tablet in action at: wacky youtube URL see the show note for the actual URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X1NyZRX_Tk Berlin court upholds the GPL A DSL router manufacturer lost its case against Cybits, a producer of web-filtering software. The GPL (General Public Licence) was central AVM Computersystems case against Cybits. AVM Computersystems tried to get a legal sanction against Cybits to prevent them from making changes to the code they use in thier routers, a piece of code covered by the GPL in the Fritz!Box product.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Kernel News: Mat Time: 0:45 Kernel release status The current development kernel is 3.2-rc1. It was released on November 7. People should use it and bang on it hard. There shouldn't be anything big and ugly hiding in there, but there is a huge amount of stuff in there. Stable updates: the 2.6.32.47 and 2.6.33.20 stable updates were released on November 7; both contain a long list of important fixes. 2.6.32.48 was released on November 8 to fix some build problems introduced in 2.6.32.47. 2.6.33 users should note that 2.6.33.20 is the final planned update for that kernel. The second half of the 3.2 merge window On November 7 Linus announced the 3.2-rc1 release which closed the merge window. During the two-weeks that the window was open, 10,214 non-merge changesets were pulled into the mainline kernel. Making this the most active merge window ever, beating out the previous record holder (2.6.30, at 9,603 changesets) by quite a bit. Some of the User-Visible changes merged this week were: Processes can now use poll() on files under /proc/sys; the result is the ability to get a notification when a specific sysctl parameter changes. The btrfs filesystem now records a number of previous tree roots which can be useful in recovering damaged filesystems. Btrfs has also gained improved readahead support. The I/O-less dirty throttling patch set has been merged; that should improve writeback performance for a number of workloads. Even though this development cycle was so huge, several trees did not get pulled in. Linus intentionally avoided some controversial ones like FrontSwap and the KVM tool. Others were simply passed over. It is time for this code to stabilize. If things progress in the usual manner then the 3.2 release should be seen sometime in January. Distro News: Tony Time: 5:39 Distrowatch.com 11-11 Parted Magic 11.11.11 - Based on the Linux 3.1 kernel, the new release introduces a new versioning system (the previous version was 6.7) and upgrades a number of the included applications. 11-10 Sabayon Linux 7 "Experimental" - three experimental editions of Sabayon Linux 7, containing the LXDE desktop environment, Enlightenment 17 and the Awesome window manager 11-09 Oracle Solaris 11 - Oracle Solaris 11, a UNIX operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems and known for its scalability and innovative enterprise features 11-08 Fedora 16 - Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat 11-08 CDlinux 0.9.7 - a compact mini live CD featuring the Xfce desktop and just a handful of popular applications 11-07 Fuduntu 14.12 - Linux distribution recently forked from Fedora Distro of the Week: Mint Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu Debian Other Distro News: Linux Mint 12 Preview Finally the Mint people have a preview of Linux Mint 12, codenamed “Lisa”. Even though they stuck with Gnome 2 in their last release they realize that this is not a workable situation. So they are moving to Gnome 3 in Mint 12. With some fantastic add ons. The good things about Gnome three are most importantly it is shiny, then it is also elegant, modern, and sleek. However there are also some problems. It changes the way people use their computers. We are currently used to working in a task centric environment. But in Gnome 3 we are asked to switch to an application centric environment. In other words switching between applications instead of windows. It does not do multitasking well you can't see open windows or the system tray icons among other things. The mint guys have come up with an excellent solution. They have developed a way for you to interact with your computer the way you want to, the traditional way and the new way.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 Format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Kernel News: Mat Kernel development Kernel release status The 3.2 merge window is still open, so there is no development kernel prepatch as 11/3. Stable updates: No stable updates have been released in the last week. The 2.6.32.47 and 2.6.33.20 updates are in the review process as of 11/02; they are due on or after November 4. Both are significant updates with over 100 fixes. 2.6.33.20 is expected to be the last update for 2.6.33 (for real this time); realtime users are encouraged to move to 3.0, which will be supported as a long-term release. Linus released the 3.1 kernel and opened the 3.2 merge window on October 24 while attending the 2011 Kernel Summit. As of this 11/03, nearly 8200 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline tree. A number of significant trees have yet to be pulled. This looks like it could be the busiest development cycle ever. Industrial I/O Subsystem The industrial I/O subsystem has been in the staging tree for a fairly lengthly time. This is a framework for drivers of sensors that measure data in quantities like voltages, temperatures, acceleration, deceleration ambient light, wind speed, and others. For some time now there has been disagreement about how sensors like these fit into the kernel; IIO, should provide an answer. The core IIO code reflects the fact that it sat out of tree for an extended period of time. Lately there has been a concerted effort to bring the staging tree up to snuff, with quantifiable results. The core set of IIO patches, according to maintainer Jonathan Cameron, is now ready to move from staging into the mainline tree. There are basicly two kinds of IIO sensors simple low bandwidth and complex high bandwidth. The first move is for the first kind of sensors and should live entirely in sysfs, at /sys/bus/iio/devices. The initial plan is to move the core interface into the mainline tree, with the simpler cleaner drivers to follow. As of 11/03 the IIO code has not been pulled into 3.2, it could however happen at anytime. Some of the most significant user-visible changes merged for 3.2: Proportional rate reduction, is now a part of the TCP stack, which is an algorithm for faster recovery after transient network problems. Persistent alias names support for disk devices has been added to the block layer. The extended verification module subsystem was merged, which uses the trusted platform module to protect a system against offline modifications to files. The CFS bandwidth controller was merged, wich allows an administrator to set maximum CPU usage for groups of processes. The s390 architecture now has kernel crash dump support. Distro News: Distrowatch.com 11-05 Elastix 2.2 11-05 Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.11 11-03 OLPC OS 11.3.0 11-03 GParted LiveCD 0.10.0-3 11-03 IPFire 2.11 11-02 Scientific Linux 5.7 "Live" - installable live CD, live DVD and mini live CD images based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 11-02 SystemRescueCd 2.4.0 - specialist live CD containing a large collection of open-source utilities 11-02 Kwort Linux 3.2 - CRUX-based desktop distribution (with Openbox) designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users 11-02 ArchBang Linux 2011.11 - ightweight distribution with Openbox, based on Arch Linux 11-02 ALT Linux 6.0.0 "Centaurus" - a Russian general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers 11-01 AV Linux 5.0.2 - Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of audio and video production software 11-01 Alpine Linux 2.3.0 - a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on uClibc and BusyBox 11-01 OpenBSD 5.0 Distro of the Week: Mint Ubuntu Fedora openSUSE Debian Other Distro News: Tech News: New $89 BeagleBoard -BeagleBone- runs full Linux OS

Download in Ogg format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Kernel News: Mat The Current Development kernel 3.2 The 3.1 kernel is out, released by Linus on 10/24. Some of the big features in this slightly delayed release ar...

Download in Ogg format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Kernel News: Mat The current development kernel is 3.1-rc10, released on October 17. There hasn't been much going on - some small MIPS updates are the bulk of this release candidate. The rest are some small driver fixes, and some last-minute btrfs and xfs fixes. Expect the final 3.1 release sometime in the near future. Stable updates: the 3.0.7 update was released on October 17 with a moderately-sized set of important fixes. 42 existing files in the kernel were changed 262 new files were inserted into the kernel 302 old files were deleted from the kernel Greg Kroah-Hartman at SUSE had this to say about the current stable release “I've had some boot problems with this kernel, and I can't seem to narrow the issue down, but I think it's due to something not related to the kernel itself, but am not positive. Please test to verify that I didn't mess something up.” 2011 Kernel Summit draft agenda posted The 2011 Kernel Summit will be held on October 24 and 25 in Prague. The draft agenda has been posted at "http://ksummit2011.kernel.org/agenda" Distro News: http://distrowatch.com/ 10-20 - Kororaa Linux 15.1 Based on Fedora 10-20 - blackPanther OS 11.1 Based on Mandriva 10-19 - Sabayon 7 "Core" - Review on Linux Today 10-15 - Freenas 8.02 Previous week: Linex and Puppy Distro of the Week: Ubuntu Mint Lubuntu Fedora Debian Other News: Linux Mint developers make GNOME 3 edition plans "Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint Founder and lead developer, has announced that his project has started work on a GNOME 3 edition of its next major release, version 12. The new edition will initially be developed alongside the GNOME 2.32-based release which will remain as the default desktop environment of Mint. Tech News: Libra Office anounces plans to develop ports for Android and web. ICANN is Taking Over the Olson Time Zone Database ICANN has anounced that it is taking over the Olson time zone database that was shut down recently because of a lawsuit leveled against it. ISP Config 3 on Ubununtu 11.10 How to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. Microsoft is trying to get manufacturers to use "Secure Boot" to prevent unsigned code from booting on machines. This means no dual booting or even solo booting Linux on these new machines. Please copy and paste the below link into your browser and sign the petition. Keep feredom alive. http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement "Secure Boot" or "Restricted Boot"? This is not really new as discussion has been going on since June. It is however coming to a head and there is a lot of misinformation out there about it. What is not misinformation is: In order to get Win 8 certification the hardware has to ship with secure boot enabled Win 8 certification does not require that Secure Boot be able to be disabled by the end user ( many hardware manufacturers are already saying that disabling will not be an end user option) Win 8 certification does not require that the system ship with any other keys other than MS ones When a system ships with secure boot enabled (with the ability to disable it turned off) and only includes MS keys then only MS OS's will boot on that hardware The problem is not secure boot itself as that actually is a pretty good thing. And is being worked on in Linux. The problem is with the keys and who controls them. Will the manufacture control them and only they will say what boots? Will the end user be given control and allowed to say what boots? This is the reall issue,

Download in Ogg format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Kernel News: Mat The Current Development kernel remains 3.1-rc9 The Stable release is 3.0.7 Distro News: http://distrowatch.com/ 10-13 Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot 10-12 VectorLinux 7.0 RC3.4 10-11 Sabayon Linux 7 10-10 Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 10-10 Bodhi Linux 1.2.1 10-10 Frugalware Linux 1.6 Pre 1 Distro of the Week: Ubuntu Fedora Mint Debian Arch Other News: Next Ubuntu Version Named “Precise Pangolin” Tech News: Intellectual Ventures Files Patent suit Against Motorola Mobility HP’s Cloud to Be Powered by Ubuntu Rackspace Aims to Spin Off OpenStack into a Foundation Rackspace and NASA apparently plan to give the governance of the OpenStack project over to an independent foundation: Linuxtoday.com has a Microsoft advertisment for Office 2011! Other Talk: Gnome 3 vs Unity vs KDE Plasma Active for touch screen?