• How to Restore the Legacy System Tray in GNOME Shell

• How To Use YUM History Command To Rollback An Updates In RHEL/CentOS Systems

• YouTube on the Big Screen

• How to Set Up and Use AbanteCart on Ubuntu

• Advanced lm-sensors Tips and Tricks on Linux

• How to find and replace text/IP address with Ansible

• How to find disk I/O latency with ioping monitoring tool on Linux

• How to Rescue, Repair and Reinstall GRUB Boot Loader in Ubuntu

• How to Install WebERP On Ubuntu 16.04

• Manjaro Xfce tweaks - Seasoning and spice

• Using the WordPress App with the Community Blog

• Easy ssh into libvirt VMs and LXD containers

• Fix Xmarks Bookmark Sync to Opera browser.

• Mastering file searches on Linux

• How to Get Desktop Notifications from the Linux Command Line

• CRYENGINE 5.4 Major Release

  Many of you have helped us bring CE 5.4 to release by participating in our Github-powered beta program and test our preview builds. Your feedback, pull requests and open discussions about the builds were invaluable and we want to thank you for your lively participation and collaboration. This is your release as well as ours and we are looking forward to your feedback and ongoing participation in development of CRYENGINE. You are true CryENGINEERS and we are proud and happy to have such a great community by our side.

• CryENGINE 5.4 Now Available With Vulkan Beta Support

  Crytek today has shipped the exciting CryENGINE 5.4 game engine update.

• Unreal Engine 4.18 Preview 1 Is Ready For Game Developers

  Besides the CryENGINE 5.4 release happening today, Epic Games has made public their first preview release of the upcoming Unreal Engine 4.18.

• Unreal Engine 4.18 Preview 1 Released

  The release of Unreal Engine 4.18 is rapidly approaching, with many fantastic updates for you to try out. The first Preview build is now available on the Epic Games launcher, so you can experiment with brand new changes, such as volumetric lightmaps, enhanced static skylight directionality, major clothing tool upgrades, the revamped Physics Asset Editor and Media Framework 3.0. In addition, you can access improved support for both Google's ARCore and Apple's ARKit. The desktop forward renderer on iOS, used in the Wingnut AR demo at WWDC 2017, is now available as well (recommended for devices with an A10 or later processor running iOS 10.3 or newer).

• PlayStation 4 controller support for Fedora Linux

  GNOME developer Bastien Nocera has implemented enhancements to the Bluetooth stack of the Fedora Linux operating system, reported Softpedia.

  The improvements are set to enhance the use of PlayStation 3 DualShock controllers in the GNOME desktop environment.

  The controller is now easier to connect to a PC, but still requires an initial connection via USB.

• Nifty GNOME Global Menu Extension Is ‘Discontinued For the Moment’

  The developer behind the popular Global App Menu GNOME extension has announced it is “discontinued for the moment”.

  Explaining the reasons for his decision on Github, Lester Carballo cites the shift to Wayland (the extension doesn’t work in Wayland for a whole spaghetti heap of technical and ideological reasons) as being the primate motivator to move on.

  Canonical also has no plans to support the unity-gtk-module under Wayland (a crucial component that this extension, and similar app menu implementations, rely on).

• Security updates for Thursday

• [Ubuntu] Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 2017

• The CCleaner Attack Was Worse Than We Knew

• Massive Equifax hack reportedly started 4 months before it was detected

  The first evidence of the hackers' "interaction" with the Equifax network occurred on March 10, according to the report, which cited a confidential note that security firm FireEye sent to some Equifax customers. By then, a critical vulnerability in the Apache Struts Web application framework was already under active exploit on the Internet. Equifax officials have said the Struts flaw was the opening that gave attackers an initial hold in the targeted network.

  Equifax has said that the breach that exposed sensitive data for as many as 143 million US consumers started on May 13 and lasted until July 30. The company didn't disclose the breach until September 7.

  The attackers, according to the WSJ, eventually entered the command "Whoami," giving them the capability to determine the user account they had compromised. It was likely the beginning of months of painstaking hacking as the attackers attempted to escalate their privileges and intrude further into the Equifax network. Sometime between May and late July, the hackers accessed files that contained Equifax credentials and "performed database queries that provided access to documents and sensitive information stored in databases in an Equifax legacy environment," the report said. Eventually, the attackers accessed "numerous database tables in several databases."

• Equifax's Troubles Grow With News of Prior Breach, DOJ Investigation Into Stock Trades

• Equifax Canada says 100,000 Canadians may be affected by cyberattack

• Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

• 8 best practices for managing software patches

• Plenty of blame to go around for Equifax breach

  Mark Sangster, VP and Industry Security Strategist at eSentire, says, “Given the nature of Equifax data and the magnitude of the breach make this a watershed moment in breach detection and response. Many difficult questions will be asked and become the crux of numerous legal actions that will likely stem from this event. The most obvious, is why it took so long to disclose the breach. The risk to consumers begins to drop exponentially as soon as the breach becomes public, and affected companies and consumers can take defensive measures to protect their financial identity and funds.

• Corporate America still using Equifax-like software even after hack

• New alliance advocates the blockchain to improve IoT security, trust

• Newly Launched 'Trusted IoT Alliance' Unites the Industry to Further a Blockchain-based Internet of Things

• 'Trusted IoT Alliance' Launches Effort to Establish a Blockchain-based Internet of Things for the Supply Chain

• 5 Ways Cisco's Trusted IoT Alliance Will Use Blockchain To Make IoT More Secure -- And What It Means For Partners1

• Kali Linux 2017.2 Security OS Released With New Hacking Tools – Download Now!!!

• Kali Linux 2017.2 Ethical Hacking & Pentesting OS Introduces New Security Tools

  Offensive Security announced the release and general availability of the Kali Linux 2017.2 installation images for their advanced penetration testing and ethical hacking GNU/Linux distribution.

  Kali Linux is the successor of the well-known Debian/Ubuntu-based BackTrack ethical hacking and penetration testing distro, and it follows a rolling release model where the user installs once and receives updates forever, or at least until he decides to reinstall.

  If that's the case, the Kali Linux 2017.2 installation mediums are now available for download, and they include a bunch of general performance improvements and bugfixes, along with new security tools. The new images include all the updates pushed through the official channels since April's release of Kali Linux 2017.1.

• NBN launches Tech Lab to collect data and resolve connection issues

• Open source strategies bring benefits, but don't rush in

  When organizations adopt open source strategies, they rarely intend to dive into the source code. That would require hiring internal miracle workers -- an expensive proposition. Instead, they contract for support, usually with a vendor that's a primary contributor to the open source project.

  Often, but not always, this is the company that has many of the original open source project contributors on staff, and continues to make the most commits back to the code base. Sometimes, like with big data analytics, this gets competitive, resulting in several downstream distributions -- each from a different vendor.

• The Symphony Software Foundation: Bringing Open Source To Wall Street

  Whenever banks merge, they typically bring along their overlapping, proprietary software platforms as luggage.

  “In most cases, they don’t merge ... because it’s a massive business and technological endeavor,” Gabriele Columbro, 35, the executive director of the Symphony Software Foundation, told Benzinga.

  “Rather than undertaking massive consolidation projects, open source gives you a way to leapfrog it.”

  It’s one area in the financial services universe in which the nonprofit arm of the messaging platform Symphony Communications is working to bring wider adoption of open source software.

• Unix to GitHub: 10 Key Events in Free and Open Source Software History

• Engineer Spotlight: Brian Gerkey of Open Robotics Talks ROS and Robotics

  This year marks the 10th anniversary of the inception of the Robotic Operating System (ROS) — an open source robotics platform being used around the world in research, industrial, and recreational settings. The premise of ROS is simple: to simplify and standardize robotic programming, enabling faster development of robotic systems through the spirit of open source collaboration.

  On September 21st and 22nd, the Open Robotics (formerly the Open Source Robotics Foundation) will convene for the fifth time for ROSCon 2017. Delegates ranging from students, researchers, industry representatives, and hobbyists/enthusiasts will meet, discuss, and present on a range of topics related to the development of ROS. Even though ROSCon is still a relatively young event, every year it has continued to grow in both number of attendees and sponsors.

• Ericsson CTO: Open source is good but fragmentation, not so much

  Open source, just like standards, can be a good thing as long as there aren’t too many of them, because that can result in fragmentation and too many resources being spread across too many groups, according to Ericsson Group CTO Erik Ekudden.

  “We can’t spread ourselves too thin, so we are focusing of course on open source as it’s relevant to network platforms”—and that includes everything from the cloud side to management and control, he told FierceWirelessTech on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCA).

• The Faces of Open Source: Harald Welte

  Harald is the original GPL enforcer. He reached out to companies and brought the GPL to court for the first time, way back in the early 2000s. His activities, initially seen as controversial, ultimately led to much greater and improved dialogue between companies and the community-at-large, not least because it cast the GPL as a solid, simple legal document, with terms that a court could rule on.

  One of Harald's most noticeable characteristics is his calm, measured, and carefully considered approach to matters. His passion for free software is genuine, but he is not driven by passion alone. He has clear, thoughtful arguments for issues that he engages with, and he often provides insight in an accessible manner. While he is far too modest to use the term, Harald is a thought-leader in open source, and this is one of the interviews I was most excited to shoot.

• eLife and Coko partner to deliver open-source submission and peer-review platform

  The new platform will help streamline communications between authors, editors and reviewers at all stages of the submission and review process.

  eLife and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) have announced a partnership to build a user-driven, open-source submission and peer-review platform.

 

• KDE: Randa 2017! KDE Neon Snappy and more

  Another successful Randa meeting! I spent most of my days working on snappy packaging for KDE core applications, and I have most of them done!

• Open Source Summit: Day 2 features TensorFlow, BlockChain, and HitRecord [Ed: Microsoft interjected (money talks!) its lies into Open Source Summit]

  The actor and founder of HitRecord Joseph Gordon-Levitt kicked off the second day of the Open Source Summit. His open creative community, HitRecord, allows for the evolution of open source film projects. We learned how a company is using BlockChain to fight poverty while keeping plastic out of the ocean, and about how Microsoft and Google are now more deliberate about how they create a culture of openness inside and outside their companies.

• Ceph Meetup Berlin - Followup: librmb

• SUSECON - librmb

• JASK's Rod Soto and Joe Zadeh to Unveil Open-Source Home Network Security Solution at DerbyCon 7.0

• IBM open-sources WebSphere Liberty code for building Java cloud-native apps

• IBM open sources Liberty codebase to boost microservices and cloud-native app development

• IBM open sources WebSphere Liberty code

• IBM releases WebSphere Liberty code to open source

  IBM today is moving the code that underlies its WebSphere Liberty solution for development using Agile and DevOps methodologies to GitHub, where it will be available this week under the Eclipse Public License v1.

  The Open Liberty project is working to create a new runtime for Java microservices that can be moved between different cloud environments, according to Ian Robinson, an IBM distinguished engineer and the chief architect of WebSphere. Open Liberty will be the basis the IBM’s continued development of its Liberty product – the codebase is the same — and will be fully supported in commercial WebSphere licenses. It can be downloaded at openliberty.io.

• Valve Is Collaborating On GPUVis For Tuning Radeon Linux VR Performance

  One of the many interesting talks at yesterday's XDC2017 conference was Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais talking about GPUVis.

• GPUVis, an open source Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView

  It seems Valve have been busy. GPUVis is a Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView on Windows. It's supposed to help track down Linux gpu and application performance issues.

• Intel Preps Their First Batch Of Graphics Changes For Linux 4.15

  The first batch of drm-intel-next changes are ready to be queued in DRM-Next as feature work for eventually merging to mainline come the Linux 4.15 merge window.

• Announcing Intel® Clear Containers 3.0!

  The Clear Containers team has been working on the next generation of Clear Containers and today that work culminates in the release of Clear Containers 3.0!

  Today’s release presents a generational and architectural shift to utilize virtcontainers, a modular and hypervisor agnostic library for hardware virtualized containers. Clear Containers 3.0 is written in Go language and boasts an OCI* compatible runtime implementation (cc-runtime ) that works both on top of virtcontainers, and as a platform for deployment.

• Intel Unleashes Clear Containers 3.0, Written In Go

  Clear Containers 3.0 as Intel's latest Linux container tech is now written in the Go programming language rather than C. They are also now making use of virtcontainers as a modular and hypervisor agnostic library for hardware-virtualized containers. Clear Containers 3.0 also adds support for a virtio-blk storage back-end and other improvements for security and performance.

• Interactive Email Comes To Android

• [Humor] The Samsung Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy Note 8 Violate Android's Compatibility Requirements

• The Android-killing iPhone is finally here, and it's not the iPhone X

• All it took was $1.1 billion for a part of HTC to be a part of Google

• Android One comes to the US at last with the Moto X4

• How Akira Toriyama Designed Android 21

• Google tightens grip on Android hardware with HTC deal

• Android 8.0 Oreo could soon be coming to a Samsung Galaxy S8 near you

• Celebrating ten years of Android and Android Guys: Giveaway week 4- Fitness

• Android slingers tout mobes with customized baked-in big-biz configs

• Chromebook Owners Will Soon Be Able to Monitor CPU and RAM Usage in Real-Time

  Chromium evangelist François Beaufort announced today that Google's Chrome OS engineers have managed to implement a new feature that will let Chromebook owners monitor the CPU usage, RAM, and zRam statistics in real-time.

  The feature was implemented in the Chrome Canary experimental channel and can be easily enabled by opening the Google Chrome web browser and accessing the chrome://flags/#sys-internals flag. There you'll be able to monitor your Chromebook's hardware and see what's eating your memory or CPU during heavy workloads, all in real-time.

  "Chrome OS users can monitor in real-time their CPU usage, memory and zRam statistics thanks to the new internal page chrome://sys-internals in the latest Canary," said François Beaufort in a Google+ post. "For that, enable the experimental chrome://flags/#sys-internals flag, restart Chrome, and enjoy watching real-time resource consumption."

• Tracking Protection for Firefox for iOS Plus Multi-Tasking in Focus for Android New Today

  Across the industry, September is always an exciting month in mobile, and the same is true here at Mozilla.

  Today, we’re launching the newest Firefox for iOS alongside an update for the popular Firefox Focus for Android, which we launched in June.

Greg Kroah-Hartman published on Wednesday new maintenance updates for various of the supported Linux kernel branches that he maintains, including the Linux 4.12 series, which appears to have reached end of life.

A year-long project to determine how high-performance computers can perform in space has just cleared a major hurdle -- successfully booting up on the International Space Station (ISS).

This experiment conducted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NASA aims to run a commercial off-the-shelf high-performance computer in the harsh conditions of space for one year -- roughly the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars.

I am pleased to inform that Qt 5.6.3 has been released today. As always with a patch release Qt 5.6.3 does not bring any new features, just error corrections. For details of the bug fixes in Qt 5.6.3, please check the change logs for each module.

• Quantum Replica, a game of fast-paced stealth and metroidvania action releases for Linux next year

  Quantum Replica [Steam], another game from publisher 1C Company, who've teamed up with developer ON3D will bring some fast-paced stealth and metroidvania action to Linux when it releases next year.

• Shotgun Farmers adds a 'Gromato Launcher' that launches exploding tomatoes

• Post apocalyptic open-world survival game 'Ashworld' launches on Steam

  Ashworld [Official Site] is the latest game from indie developer Orangepixel. It's a post apocalyptic open-world survival game and it's actually pretty good.

• The Journey Down: Chapter Three has officially launched to conclude the series

• There's so many Linux games on sale right now, it's a good time if you're skint

• Organics sighted, marking for destruction - Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn released along with a free patch

The US Internal Revenue Service has ushered in a new and much more favorable treatment for free software projects seeking to have 501c3 tax exempt non-profit organizations of their own. After years of suffering from a specially prejudicial environment at IRS, free software projects—particularly new projects starting out and seeking organizational identity and the ability to solicit and receive tax-deductible contributions for the first time—can now do so much more easily, and with confident expectation of fast, favorable review. For lawyers and others counseling free software projects, this is without question “game-changing.”

At SFLC, we have ridden all the ups and downs of the US tax law’s interaction with free software non-profits. When I formed SFLC—which in addition to being a 501c3 tax-deductible organization under US federal tax law is also a non-profit educational corporation under NY State law—in 2005, we acquired our federal 501c3 determination in less than 70 days. Over our first several years of operation, we shepherded several of our clients through the so-called “1023 process,” named after the form on which one applies for 501c3 determination, as well as creating several 501c3-determined “condominium” or “conservancy” arrangements, to allow multiple free software projects to share one tax-deductible legal identity.

But by the middle of the Obama Administration’s first term, our ability to get new 501c3 determinations from the IRS largely ceased. The Service’s Exempt Organizations Division began scrutinizing certain classes of 1023’s particularly closely, forming task forces to centralize review of—and, seemingly, to prevent success of—these classes of application. In our practice on behalf of free software projects seeking legal organization and tax exemption, we began to deal with unremitting Service pushback against our clients’ applications. Sometimes, the determination to refuse our clients’ applications seemed to indicate a fixed political prejudice against their work; more than once we were asked by IRS examiners “What if your software is used by terrorists?”

Rennes, France’s eleventh largest city, aims to get rid of IT vendor lock-in. To begin with, the city will switch to Zimbra, an open source-based collaboration and email solution. Next year, it will commence a feasibility study into other free and open source software applications, including office productivity tools.

Via: Thin Edge Of The Wedge

• Red Hat expands its pioneering patent promise to the open source community

  Open source software business Red Hat this morning announced a big expansion of its patent promise, its commitment to not assert its patents against free and open source software which it launched in 2002. The expansion of the promise means that it now extends to all of Red Hat’s patents and so offers further defensive cover to the open source community.

  Red Hat claims that the new promise is significantly broader than the original agreement with the new version covering more than 99% of open source software compared with 35% for the original. The new promise also specifically covers permissive licences which, in recent years, have over taken copyleft licences as the most popular type of open source agreement.

• Red Hat’s Patent Promise covers permissively-licensed code, offering broad protection for open innovation

  Red Hat announced on Thursday a significant revision of its Patent Promise, helping to protect open innovation. That promise, originating in 2002, was based on Red Hat’s intention not to enforce its patents against free and open source software.

  The expanded Patent Promise, while consistent with Red Hat’s prior positions, breaks new ground in expanding the amount of software covered and otherwise clarifying the scope of the promise. Red Hat believes its updated Patent Promise represents the broadest commitment to protecting the open source software community to date.

• Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise [Ed: Red Hat should toss out all the software patents, in case of takeover]

  Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a significant revision of its Patent Promise. That promise, originating in 2002, was based on Red Hat’s intention not to enforce its patents against free and open source software. The new version significantly expands and extends Red Hat’s promise, helping to protect open innovation.

  In its original Patent Promise, Red Hat explained that its patent portfolio was intended to discourage patent aggression against free and open source software. The expanded version published today reaffirms this intention and extends the zone of non-enforcement. It applies to all of Red Hat’s patents, and all software licensed under well-recognized open source licenses.

  The expanded Patent Promise, while consistent with Red Hat’s prior positions, breaks new ground in expanding the amount of software covered and otherwise clarifying the scope of the promise. Red Hat believes its updated Patent Promise represents the broadest commitment to protecting the open source software community to date.

• How 10,000 people helped us rediscover our purpose [Ed: Red Hat openwashing again]

• Red Hat (RHT) to Report Q2 Earnings: Will it Beat Estimates?

• SEC reveals it was hacked, information may have been used for illegal stock trades

• Manchester Police still runs Windows XP on 20 per cent of PCs

  The Met has recently signed a deal with storage company Box which will, amongst other things, reduce the amount of data held locally.

• Manchester police still relies on Windows XP [Ed: update below]

  The BBC has appealed against its refusal to provide an update.

• NBN leverages open source software to analyse faults

  A new NBN initiative will use a range of open source projects including Apache SPARK, Kafka, Flume, Cassandra and JanusGraph to help analyse and improve the end user experience on the National Broadband Network.

  The government-owned company today announced it was launching a new ‘Tech Lab’, which it hopes will provide insights into pain points for customers on its network and help resolve faults sooner.

• 5 Ways to Secure Wi-Fi Networks

  Wi-Fi is one entry-point hackers can use to get into your network without setting foot inside your building because wireless is much more open to eavesdroppers than wired networks, which means you have to be more diligent about security.

  But there’s a lot more to Wi-Fi security than just setting a simple password. Investing time in learning about and applying enhanced security measures can go a long way toward better protecting your network. Here are six tips to betters secure your Wi-Fi network.

Slack is distributing open Linux-based versions of its technology that are not digitally signed, contrary to industry best practice.

The absence of a digital signature creates a means for miscreants to sling around doctored versions of the software that users wouldn't easily be able to distinguish from the real thing.

El Reg learned of the issue from reader Trevor Hemsley, who reported the problem to Slack back in August and only notified the media after a promised fix failed to appear.