today's leftovers
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Flickergate: Users Put Surface Pro in Freezer to Fix Issue Microsoft Ignores
A screen flickering issue impacting Microsoft’s Surface Pro is pushing owners to some extreme workarounds, including putting their devices in freezers.
As weird as this may sound, this solution solves the problem temporarily, removing the flickering completely and returning the display to normal.
A group of Surface Pro owners launched a website called “Flickergate” to explain the issue in detail and to emphasize that Microsoft has until now ignored all reports despite hundreds of post being published on its very own forums. One such thread on Microsoft Community has no less than 140 pages of users complaining about the issue since early 2017.
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Containers from user space
In a linux.conf.au 2018 keynote called "Containers from user space" [...]
Frazelle started by noting that she has recently moved to Microsoft — "selling out has been amazing"...
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Too many lords, not enough stewards
For anyone who has followed Daniel Vetter's talks over the last year or two, it is fairly clear that he is not happy with the kernel development process and the role played by kernel maintainers. In a strongly worded talk at linux.conf.au (LCA) 2018 in Sydney, he further explored the topic (that he also raised at LCA 2017) in a talk entitled "Burning down the castle". In his view, kernel development is broken and it is unlikely to improve anytime soon.
He started by noting that this talk would be a "rather more personal talk than others I give". It is his journey from first looking in on the kernel in high school to learn how operating systems work. The kernel developers were his heroes who created this awesome operating system by discussing things out in the open.
Eventually he started scratching his own itch in the graphics subsystem, which led to him getting hired to work on Linux graphics professionally on a small team. He got volunteered to be the kernel maintainer for that team, which grew from three to twenty people in a year or two. In that time he learned the tough lesson that "leading teams is leading people". But he has learned that the way kernel maintainers work is making developers unhappy, including him. The talk would be a look at how he learned just how broken things are.
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Media Subsystem Changes Head Into Linux 4.16: NVIDIA Tegra Decoder, Xbox One TV Tuner
While the Linux 4.16 merge window is nearing the end of the line, there still are some feature updates still being sent in, including a big batch of media subsystem changes sent in on Tuesday.
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RadeonSI VCN Encode Now Supports HEVC Main
More video acceleration related commits landed in the Mesa 18.1-dev Git tree this week.
The code that was merged on Monday by AMD's Boyuan Zhang allows for HEVC/H.265 GPU-accelerated video encoding when using the VCN block. The "Video Core Next" hardware is initially just found on Raven Ridge APUs but almost certainly coming to next-generation discrete GPUs.
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How to set up LXD on Civo (new UK VPS provider)
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CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 17.1.0 for Linux and MacOS
I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 17.1.0 for both macOS and Linux. CrossOver 17.1.0 has many improvements to the core Windows compatibility layer and also specific enhancements for several popular applications.
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Quarter Window Tiling Support added to the MATE Desktop
Support for quarter window tiling has been added to the MATE desktop. The feature is one of several improvements shipping in the latest stable release of the ‘retrospective’ desktop environment, which was forked from GNOME 2 back in 2011. Specifically its MATE’s window manager Marco that’s been gifted support for ‘quadrant window tiling’.
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MATE 1.20 Released With HiDPI Abilities, Global Menu Support
After nearly one year in development, lead MATE developer Martin Wimpress has announced version 1.20 of this GNOME2-forked desktop environment.
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Updates on the Endless App Center / GNOME Software
The great majority of my work at Endless is to (try to) tame GNOME Software and apply the changes that make it what we simply call “the App Center” (repo here) in the Endless OS.
This is a lot of work and usually I’d love to share more often what I am doing but end up neglecting the blog due to the lack of time. So here’s a summary of what I have done the past few months. -
Manjaro XFCE Linux Review – For The Record
Manjaro XFCE Linux Review. Today I take a look at Manjaro XFCE and I must say, there’s a lot to like about it. I also share some tidbits that I like about this release in addition to some issues I didn’t quite understand as well.
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Kali Linux 2018.1 Released For Ethical Hackers — Download ISO And Torrent Files Here
In 2016, Offensive Security–the developer of Kali Linux ethical hacking distro–decided to switch to a rolling release model. However, from time to time, they keep releasing the Kali snapshots with all the latest patches, fixes, and updates. Following the same tradition, the developers have pushed the first snapshot for 2018.
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OSMC's January update is here
OSMC's January update is ready with a wide range of improvements and fixes to keep your OSMC device running in tip-top shape.
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ASU student named finalist for Red Hat’s 'Women in Open Source' award
When a teenaged Nikki Stevens built her first website, she did not foresee the barriers she would encounter in pursuit of her newfound passion. Now a doctoral candidate with Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, she has founded two organizations, works a lucrative career as a technical architect and freelance software engineer and has been selected as a finalist for Red Hat’s “Women in Open Source Award.”
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Investor Watch: Looking at the Numbers for Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
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Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 February 2018
Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases.
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LXD weekly status #33
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Deal Alert! Get exclusive offers on Samsung wearables this Valentine
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