Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released, Adds Support for Intel Gemini Lake SoCs

As expected, Linus Torvalds proudly announced today, April 30, 2017, the general availability of the final release of the Linux 4.11 kernel, a major update that adds numerous improvements and new features.

Linux kernel 4.11 has been in development for the past two months, since very early March, when the first Release Candidate arrived for public testing. Eight RCs later, we're now able to download and compile the final release of Linux 4.11 on our favorite GNU/Linux distributions and enjoy its new features.

Prominent ones include scalable swapping for SSDs, a brand new perf ftrace tool, support for OPAL drives, support for the SMC-R (Shared Memory Communications-RDMA) protocol, journalling support for MD RAID5, all new statx() system call to replace stat(2), and persistent scrollback buffers for VGA consoles.

"We still had various smaller fixes the last week, but nothing that made me go "hm... (read more)

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 710

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: TrueOS 2017-02-22News: Debian being ported to RISC-V, plans to disable Debian's FTP services, Debian axing CD sets, Halium community to build common GNU/Linux base for Android phonesQuestions and answers: Anbox, ZFS on root, init software for Linux Mint Debian Edition 3, Debian's....

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Linux Mint 18.2 to Be Dubbed "Sonya," Will Come with Cinnamon 3.4, LightDM

Today being the last day of April, Linux Mint leader Clement Lefebvre published the monthly newsletter of the project to inform the community about what's coming for the popular, Ubuntu-based distribution in May.

The developer starts by warning those who still use the Linux Mint 13 "Maya" release that it reached end of life as it was based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), which also reached end of life on April 28, 2017. Therefore, Linux Mint 13 will no longer receive security updates so you must upgrade to a newer release.

 Then he continued by revealing the codename of the upcoming Linux Mint 18.2 release, which will be "Sonya," to commemorate the name the late wife of Michael Webster, one of the developers involved in the Linux Mint project and other related components, including Cinnamon and Nemo.

"I would like to address my support and my d... (read more)

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Linux Mint Is Adopting LightDM as its Login Manager

Linux Mint is adopting the LightDM display manager to handle user sessions, with a new GUI front-end to the login experience called Slick Greeter.

This post, Linux Mint Is Adopting LightDM as its Login Manager, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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FSearch Beta 2 Released with Wildcard Search Support, More

A new beta release of Fsearch, a fast GTK file search app for the Linux desktop inspired by the Everything Search Engine, is available for testing.

This post, FSearch Beta 2 Released with Wildcard Search Support, More, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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Install 24 Popular GTK Themes With One Command Using This Script

This script will install 24 GTK themes on Ubuntu, Arch and any other GNOME based Linux distribution straight from Git.

This post, Install 24 Popular GTK Themes With One Command Using This Script, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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OpenELEC 8.0.3 Embedded Linux Entertainment OS Adds Mesa 17.0.5 and Linux 4.9.25

The development team behind the OpenELEC project, an open-source embedded Linux entertainment OS, announced today, April 30, 2017, the release and immediate availability of the third maintenance update to the OpenELEC 8.0 series.

OpenELEC 8.0.3 comes one week after the previous point release, OpenELEC 8.0.2, and it brings all the recently released technologies, including the Linux 4.9.25 LTS kernel for both generic and Raspberry Pi builds, Mesa 17.0.5 3D Graphics Library, Samba 4.6.3, MariaDB 10.1.22, connman 1.34,... (read more)

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Linux Kernel 4.4.65 LTS Is a Small Patch with Networking and File System Fixes

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 3.18.51, renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman informed the community earlier today about the availability for download of Linux kernel 4.4.65 LTS.

Coming only three days after the previous patch, in this case Linux kernel 4.4.64 LTS, the Linux 4.4.65 LTS kernel release is a small maintenance update that changes a total of 26 files, with 304 insertions and 78 deletions. We're quite surprise to see it released alone, as until now it was launched along with new versions of the Linux 4.10 and 4.9 kernel series.

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.65 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. The u... (read more)

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Linux Kernel 3.18.51 Released with MIPS, ARM, and CIFS Changes, Updated Drivers

It looks to us like the Linux 3.18 kernel series is not dead, at least not at the moment, as Greg Kroah-Hartman just announced a few moments ago the release of third maintenance update since the branch reached end of life back in February 2017.

That's right, we're talking about Linux kernel 3.18.51, which comes about eight days after the Linux 3.18.50 patch released last week. According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 3.18.51 is here to change a total of 62 files, with 408 insertions and 286 deletions, and users are once again encouraged to update their systems running a kernel from the Linux 3.18 series at their earliest convenience.

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SparkyLinux Now Powered by Linux 4.10.13, Budgie Desktop Removed from Repos

The Polish developers of the Debian-based SparkyLinux operating system are ending the month of April by informing the community about everything good or bad that happened to their open-source project during the last few weeks.

First thing first, the distribution is now powered by the latest stable kernel, Linux 4.10.13, so you are urged to update your SparkyLinux installation as soon as possible, and remember to reboot the machine after installing the new kernel. Enlightenment's EFL libraries were also updated, to version 1.19.0.

The team also managed to rebuild the Calamares installed to disable LUKS encryption in the autopartitioning option, as well as to sync SparkyLinux's repositories with the ones from the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system, and Calamares is used for the live s... (read more)

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LibreELEC-Based Lakka 2.0 Officially Released with Raspberry Pi Zero W Support

After being in development for the past six months, the Lakka team announced that their OpenELEC-based operating system for single-board computers reached 2.0 milestone.

That's right, Lakka 2.0 is officially out, and the biggest change of this major release that includes numerous new features, support for new hardware, support for new game engines and emulators, as well as lots of under the hood improvements and bug fixes, is the rebased from OpenELEC to LibreELEC.

"This new version of Lakka is based on LibreELEC instead of OpenELEC. Almost every package has been updated," reads the release announcement. "We are now using RetroArch 1.5.0, which includes so many changes that listing everything in a single blogpost is rather difficult."

Here's what's new in Lakka 2.0

Prominent new features of Lakka 2.0 include RetroArch 1.5.0, which alone ships with many changes like a s... (read more)

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Distribution Release: Lakka 2.0

Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer (such as a desktop PC or Raspberry Pi) into a full blown game console. The project has release Lakka 2.0, which contains many updated packages. This new version of Lakka is based on LibreELEC while past versions....

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CloudLinux 6 Gets New Beta Kernel to Backport a Fix for R1Soft's Backup Solution

After announcing earlier this week the availability of a new Beta kernel for CloudLinux 7 and CloudLinux 6 Hybrid users, CloudLinux's Mykola Naugolnyi is now informing us about the release of a Beta kernel for CloudLinux 6 users.

The updated CloudLinux 6 Beta kernel is tagged as build 2.6.32-673.26.1.lve1.4.26 and it's here to replace kernel 2.6.32-673.26.1.lve1.4.25. It is available right now for download from CloudLinux's updates-testing repository and backports a fix (CKSIX-109) for R1Soft's backup solution from CloudLinux 7's kernel.

If you're running CloudLinux 6 and you want to install this new Beta kernel version on your environment, you'll need to run the following commands in a terminal emulaor or the virtual console, which you can activate with the ALT+F2 keyboard shortcut. Please reboot your installations after installi... (read more)

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Raspbian PIXEL Fork Lets You Install and Run the Operating System on a PC or Mac

After announcing the availability of new builds of his AndEX Nougat 7.1.1 Android-x86 fork that lets users run Android 7.1.1 on their PCs, now Arne Exton released a custom build of Raspberry Pi Foundation's Raspbian PIXEL image.

Raspberry Pi Foundation recently updated their Debian-based Raspbian operating system for Rasperrby Pi single-board computer with the latest version of the PIXEL desktop environment, a fork of Xfce, but it didn't ship with an disk installer, so Arne Exton saw an opportunity to refresh his custom Raspbian with PIXEL build.

"I saw immediately that there was no installer included, which I thought was a little disappointing. Come to think of Refracta tools, which work very well in Debian and Ubuntu," said Arne Exton in the read more)

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Ubuntu 17.10 Won't Ship with Upstart and CGManager as Unity 8 Is Being Dropped

Canonical's Dimitri John Ledkov informs the Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Touch communities that the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system will drop support for the Upstart init daemon and CGManager project.

Both Upstart and CGManager were key components for the next-generation Unity 8 user interface that Canonical built for its mobile and convergence vision. Unfortunately, as you already know, Unity 8 will no longer be developed, nor the Unity 7 interface for that matter, as future Ubuntu releases move to GNOME 3.

Previous Ubuntu Linux releases shipped with Upstart and CGManager, but the projects were kept in maintenance mode as they were only used for the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS and the Unity 8 desktop session to provide user session supervisor, as well as to implement application lifecycle.

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Ostatic and Archphile Are Dead

OStatic ceased publication without warning or explanation in February. Archphile yesterday announced on Twitter that its “officially dead.”

Ostatic, the once popular website for news and information about Linux and open source, has disappeared from the face of the earth. Also gone, Archphile, an Arch Linux-based distro targeting audio playback quality for ARM devices.

I’ve been meaning to write about the demise of Ostatic for a month or so now, but it’s not easy to put together an article when you have absolutely no facts. I first noticed the site was gone a month or so back, when an attempt to reach it turned up one of those “this site can’t be reached” error messages. With a little checking, I was able to verify that the site has indeed gone dark, with writers for the site evidently losing access to their content without notice. Other than that, I’ve been able to find out nothing.

Even the site’s ownership is shrouded in mystery. The domain name is registered to OStatic Inc, but with absolutely no information about who’s behind the corporation, which has a listed address of 500 Beale Street in San Francisco. I made an attempt to reach someone using the telephone number included in the results of a “whois” search, but have never received a reply from the voicemail message I left.

Back in the days when FOSS Force was first getting cranked up, Ostatic was something of a goto site for news and commentary on Linux and open source. This hasn’t been so true lately, although Susan Linton — the original publisher of Tux Machines — continued to post her informative and entertaining news roundup column on the site until early February — presumably until the end. I’ve reached out to Ms. Linton, hoping to find out more about the demise of Ostatic, but haven’t received a reply. Her column will certainly be missed.

Another sudden departure

Yesterday, I found out about another sudden ending of an open source project, when a follower on Twitter directed my attention to a tweet posted yesterday to the account of a Linux distro reading: “Archphile project is officially dead. Thank you very much for your support all these years!” This followed a tweet posted on March 14 that read “#Archphile distro is alive!”

Hmmm…

I didn’t know anything about this project — I couldn’t find a listing for it on Distrowatch — but I thought it odd that a project would go dark with so little fanfare. A quick Google let me to the project’s website, which is now blank, other than a cool “so long” graphic and an email address, presumably to the project’s developer. I sent an email. If I hear back, I’ll let you know.

This graphic, and an email address, is all that’s on the website for the, presumably defunct, Archphile project,

Another quick Google led me to a blog post from 2015, a listicle called Pro Audio Linux Distributions, which included the project with this brief listing: “Archphile: a Arch Linux image targeting audio playback quality for ARM devices. Didn’t try it yet.”

Assuming that the project had some users, no matter how few, it would be nice if the developer had given a little more warning. But that’s just me.

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This Custom Android-x86 Build Puts Android 7.1.1 on Your PC, with Linux 4.11 RC7

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton was happy to announce the release of a new build of his custom built Android-x86 project that lets uses runs the latest Android mobile operating system on their personal computers.

Dubbed AndEX Nougat 7.1.1, the project was recently updated to build 170426, after it received a few revisions at the end of last week, specifically builds 170423 and 170422, both of which added most of the changes, updated packages, and improvements listed below.

Shipping with either the Linux 4.11 RC7, Linux 4.10.11, or Linux 4.4.62 LTS kernels, AndEX Nougat 7.1.1 Build 170427 comes with the GAPPS (Google Apps) package ... (read more)

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Clear Linux Announces Intel Clear Containers 2.1.6 with Docker 17.04.0 Support

Clear Linux's Kent Helm was proud to announce the release and general availability of Intel Clear Containers 2.1.6, a maintenace update that promises to improve compatibility with recent Docker releases, but also adds various bug fixes.

In terms of compatibility, Intel Clear Containers 2.1.6 adds support for Docker 17.04.0-ce open-source container engine, which updates its development to be on par with the enterprise edition of Docker, as well as to lay the groundwork for Intel Clear Containers to become a plugin for Docker's enterprise edition.

Intel Clear Containers 2.1.6 also improves compatibility with the CRI-O (Container Runtime Interface) project and Kubernetes CRI by fixing pod containers' runtime list, the intra-pod containers volume support, the addition of CRI-O integration tests, as well as the ability to create cgroups for both containers and pods.

It adds support for OCI Runtime... (read more)

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Oracle Outs VirtualBox 5.1.22 and 5.0.40 Maintenance Releases to Fix ALSA Issues

Oracle released two new maintenance updates of its open-source and cross-platform virtualization software, VirtualBox 5.1.22 and VirtualBox 5.0.40, for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Both VirtualBox 5.1.22 and VirtualBox 5.0.40 are bugfix releases that come about ten days after the launch of the previous updates, in this case VirtualBox 5.1.20 and VirtualBox 5.0.38. They include pretty much the same changes with small exceptions.

The common changes of both releases are fixes for two potential, rare hang and crash storage issues, both of which occurred under rare circumstances. Notable here is that the rare crash could occur when during various file maintenan... (read more)

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Kirigami 2.1 Open-Source Framework for Convergent Mobile and Desktop UIs Is Out

KDE's Paul Brown announced the general availability of version 2.1 of the open-source Kirigami UI framework for producing convergent user interfaces for mobile and desktop environments.

Kirigami 2.1 is here three and a half months after the launch of Kirigami 2.0 as the project's most mature version to date. Prominent features include ItemViewHeader, a standardized title for ListViews, which can be customized with a background image that uses a parallax effect when scrolled and the header is adjusted accordingly. Multiple behaviors can be set for this component.

Kirigami 2.1 also ships with ApplicationItem, a root element that can be used for QML applications that are a hybrid of QML and QWidgets, allowing the main view to be either QQuickWidget or QQuickView, as well as PageRow, a public element that can be used directly in any application, for any context.

"In fact, today's release has benefited from the feedback from the Subsurface Mobile community -- the most ... (read more)

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Kubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zaphod - Kawabuntu!

What is the answer to Linux, multiverse and constant forking? It's all here in this long, thorough and enthusiastic review of Kubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus 64-bit edition, tested on a laptop with UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT, 16 partitions, and multiple instances of Windows and Linux, covering live session, installation, and post-install use, including look & feel, numerous usability improvements, seamless Wireless and Bluetooth, Samba sharing, Wireless but no Samba printing, partitioning, slideshow, multimedia - HD video and MP3 playback including external devices, smartphone support - Windows Phone and Ubuntu Phone, package management, default and extra applications, excellent hardware support, drivers, seamless suspend & resume, low resource usage, smooth performance, responsiveness, good battery life, crisp fonts, some customization, small problems, and more. Boom!

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It's Official: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Linux OS Reached End of Life

Canonical, through Adam Conrad, informed us today that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now officially dead, reaching end of life on April 28, 2017.

If you're still using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your desktop or server systems, it's time to upgrade to a newer, supported release. You can choose to upgrade to either Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), which will be supported for two more years, until April 2019, or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), supported until April 2021.

"This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent last month to confirm that as of today (April 28, 2017), Ubuntu 12.04 is no longer generally supported.  No more package updates will be accepted to the 12.04 primary archive, and it will be copied for archival to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks," said Adam Conrad.

Canonical offers Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

If you don't want to upgrade to a newer Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Sup... (read more)

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A Simple, Straightforward Clipboard Manager for GNOME

Clipboard Manager extension for Gnome Shell is a no-frills clipboard manager for GNOME. It adds an indicator menu to the top panel and caches your clipboard history. There’s nothing extra; no regex searching, or cross-device, multi-sync or pan-dimensional magic. Just a simple, easy to access clipboard history. I’ve never been a particularly big clipboard fan. I typically only […]

This post, A Simple, Straightforward Clipboard Manager for GNOME, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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Wine 2.7 Has Improvements for Adobe Photoshop CS6, iTunes & Direct3D 11 Shaders

The Wine 2.7 development release was just released today, April 28, 2017, coming about two weeks after the previous milestone to fix various bugs reported by users lately with some Windows games and apps, as well as to add more improvements.

Prominent features of Wine 2.7 include support for UDP and TCP connections in the WebServices component, better support for HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) settings, support for the latest versions of OSMesa, more Direct3D 11 shader improvements, partial re-implementation of the GLU library, as well as better window management on macOS operating systems.

Bug fixes are present for a bunch of Windows games, including Need for Speed: Carbon demo, Stronghold 2, Purge, DiRT 3, Quantum Of Solace demo, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Nox (GOG), Transc... (read more)

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Distribution Release: IPFire 2.19 Core 110

IPFire is an independently developed Linux distribution with security and firewall configuration in mind. The distribution can be managed through a web-based interface. The IPFire project's latest release, IPFire 2.19 Core Update 110, features on-demand IPsec VPNs and performance improvements for DNS queries. "This is the official release....

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Canonical Releases Snapd 2.25 Snappy Daemon for Ubuntu Linux, Here Is What's New

Canonical's Snappy team, through Michael Vogt, announced today, April 28, 2017, the release and immediate availability of the Snapd 2.25 Snappy daemon for all supported Ubuntu Linux OSes, as well as other GNU/Linux distributions.

Snapd 2.25 comes about 17 days after the release of Snapd 2.24, and adds a bunch of improvements and new features worth a mention. For example, it improves the aliases implementation and channels support (tracks), for which the development team provides detailed information here and here.

It also introduces more spread tests to improve testing, adds fine-grained seccomp support to the quotactl and ioctl components, implements per re... (read more)

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