• A macOS Mojave Inspired GTK Theme Appears

  A new GTK theme brings the luscious look of macOS Mojave to the Linux desktop.

  Not that you should be surprised; we’ve written before about how easy it is to make Ubuntu look like a Mac.

  But thanks to this new macOS Mojave inspired GTK theme that fact is truer, and more faithful, than ever.

• Make Ubuntu Look Like macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode

  If you’re a Linux user who likes the look of the dark mode coming in macOS Mojave, you’re in luck: there’s a GTK theme just for you.

  The theme is available on Gnome-Look.org alongside several other macOS inspired themes. You’re looking for the one titled McOS-MJV-Dark-mode, but feel free to download more if you think you might want to switch it up later.

  Installing is a little tricky: you need to create a .themes directory in your home folder, then extract the folder in the downloaded archive into that folder. Next you need to install Gnome Tweaks in the Ubuntu Software Store, which you can use to change the theme. You can also use Gnome Tweaks to move the buttons to the left side of the window, where they belong. Fight me.

• Yahoo Mail gives mobile web experience a makeover, releases Android Go app

• Meet your new favorite sources of free iPhone and Android wallpapers

• OnePlus Camera v2.7.19 adds Google Lens shortcut [APK Download]

• DLive launches blockchain-based livestreaming platform on Android

• 6 tips and tricks for Android Messages for web

• WhatsApp to stop working on millions of older iPhones and Android smartphones

• Linux Foundation Shifts Network Infrastructure to Kubernetes

  The Linux Networking Fund (LNF) is making significant progress toward embracing Kubernetes as a platform for delivering a range of networking services that are expected to be widely embraced by telecommunications carriers and cloud service providers (CSP).

  Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking an orchestration for The Linux Foundation, says the latest Beijing release of the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) contains several modules that have been ported to Kubernetes, with more to follow once the Casablanca release of ONAP is released.

• A Platform Of A Certain Age And Respectability

  But seriously. The many rivals of the OS/400 platform and its follow-ons since that June 21, 1988, launch of the Application System/400 are now gone or not even on life support. We can all rattle them off, but the important ones that drove innovation for OS/400 and its children through to the current IBM i are DEC’s VMS for the VAX and Alpha systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s MPE for the HP 3000 and HP-UX for the HP 9000s, and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris for the Sparc systems. You could throw in SCO Unix, Novell NetWare, and a slew of proprietary operating systems in Europe and Japan, and while you are at it, you should probably also include the IBM System/38’s CPF operating system and the IBM System/36’s SSP operating system. Even OS/2 and its PS/2 platform actually predate the AS/400 by 10 months – and they are long, long gone.

• Uptycs Raises $13M, Launches Osquery-Based Security Platform

  No. 2 is the growing popularity of Mac and Linux-based infrastructure. Traditional enterprise workloads are deployed on Windows, so that’s where malicious activity historically occurred. But now more companies are using Mac infrastructure and transitioning new workloads to Linux in the cloud. Companies need to monitor and secure these environments as well, and Uptycs’ security platform covers all of the above.

• CeBIT 2018: Huawei to roll-out KunLun V5 server

  Huawei is set to launch the latest server in its KunLun mission critical range with the V5, teaming up once more with Suse, further confirming that the company’s Linux Enterprise Server system is its preferred standard for the range.

• Why an Infrastructure Transition is the Perfect Time to Invest in Security

  The idea behind containers has been around since the 1970s, when the technology was first used to isolate application code on Unix systems. However, the use of containers only became widespread in 2013 with the advent of Docker, and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes are even newer than that.

Lutris is quite the handy application I’ve discovered, that helps with organization and installation of games on GNU/Linux, even if they come from multiple sources. One of the project's goals is to support any game that runs on Linux regardless of whether it runs natively, through Wine, or other means.

The main appeal of Lutris is that it provides an interface to manage all games installed on the machine regardless of source. While it is necessary to integrate the games in the application first, doing so is not super complicated. You may add local games right away by selecting them from the local system or visit the Lutris website to add games this way.

Lutris simplifies nearly everything. Users can visit the list of support games on the Lutris website, choose to download and install the game (Note: If its a game that must be bought, you must own it first.)

The website lists supported games and where you can acquire or download them. You can use filters on the site to display only free games, games of a genre, or use the built-in search to find games of interest quickly using it.

• Flatpak in detail, part 2

  The first post in this series looked at runtimes and extensions. Here, we’ll look at how flatpak keeps the applications and runtimes on your system organized, with installations, repositories, branches, commits and deployments.

• Flatpak – a history

  I’ve been working on Flatpak for almost 4 years now, and 1.0 is getting closer. I think it might be interesting at this point to take a retrospective look at the history of Flatpak.

• Random Wallpaper Gnome Extension Changes Your Desktop Background With Images From Various Online Sources

  Random Wallpaper is an extension for Gnome Shell that can automatically fetch wallpapers from a multitude of online sources and set it as your desktop background.

  The automatic wallpaper changer comes with built-in support for downloading wallpapers from unsplash.com, desktopper.co, wallhaven.cc, as well as support for basic JSON APIs or files.

  The JSON support is in fact my favorite feature in Random Wallpaper. That's because thanks to it and the examples available on the Random Wallpaper GitHub Wiki, one can easily add Chromecast Images, NASA Picture of the day, Bing Picture of the day, and Google Earth View (Google Earth photos from a selection of around 1500 curated locations) as image sources.

• How to add encrypted ZFS pool on FreeBSD server

• How to Install Apache CouchDB on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• How To Install Cinnamon Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

• How to Setup a Simple Apache Web Server in a Docker Container

• Linux File Server Guide

• What Is A File Extension?

• Upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly boots slowly? Read this.

• Clazy and LibClang for the Rescue

• Linux netstat Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

• QtPad - Modern Customizable Sticky Note App for Linux

  In this article, we'll focus on how to install and use QtPad on Ubuntu 18.04. Qtpad is a unique and highly customizable sticky note application written in Qt5 and Python3 tailored for Unix systems.

• Celebrating 10 Years with KDE

  Of course I am using KDE software much longer. My first Linux distribution, SuSE 6.2 (the precursor to openSUSE), came with KDE 1.1.1 and was already released 19 years ago. But this post is not celebrating the years I am using KDE software.

  Exactly ten years ago, dear Albert committed my first contribution to KDE. A simple patch for a problem that looked obvious to fix, but waiting for someone to actually do the work. Not really understanding the consequences, it marks the start of my journey within the amazing KDE community.

• GSoC 2018 – Coding Period (May 28th to June 18th): First Evaluation and Progress with LVM VG

  I got some problems during the last weeks of Google Summer of Code which made me deal with some challenges. One of these challenges was caused by a HD physical problem. I haven’t made a backup of some work and had to rework again in some parts of my code. As I already knew how to proceed, it was faster than the first time.

  I had to understand how the device loading process is made in Calamares to load a preview of the new LVM VG during its creation in Partition Page. I need to list it as a new storage device in this page and deal with the revert process. I’ve implemented some basic fixes and tried to improve it.

Chip makers are starting to catch on to the advantages of open, however. SiFive has released an entirely open RISC-V development board. Its campaign on the Crowd Supply crowd-funding website very quickly raised more than $140,000 USD. The board itself is hailed as a game-changer in the world of hardware. Developments like these will ensure that it won't be long before the hardware equivalent of LEGO's bricks will soon be as open as the designs built using them.

elementary OS is an open source Ubuntu-based distro and one of the most awesome GNU/Linux distros ever. It has gained a lot of traction over years, coming in at #5 on Distro Watch’s popularity scale with 1,324 hits per day.

elementary OS is usually mentioned only in light of macOS and sometimes Windows, given that it features a beautiful and consistent UI which makes it an ideal replacement; it deserves to stand out more because its active community of developers has not only successfully delivered a unique distro, all of its apps are custom built and they are lovely!

It’s excellent for both Linux beginners and pros which is evident in how artistically comprehensive their online documentation. The team succeeded it keeping to the 3 core rules of their design philosophy which are: “concision”, “avoid configuration” and “minimal documentation”.

• Red Hat to expand in downtown Raleigh

• Dropkick Murphys rock Red Hat Amphiteater

• Red Hat Unveils Next-Generation Process Automation Offering

• Red Hat unveils nextgen process automation manager

• Next DevNation Live: Advanced Microservices Tracing with Jaeger, June 21st, 12pm EDT

  A significant challenge of moving from a traditional monolithic application design to a microservices-based architecture is the ability to monitor the business transaction flow of events throughout your entire distributed system. Join us for the next online DevNation Live on June 21st at 12pm EDT for Advanced Microservices Tracing with Jaeger, presented by Red Hat software engineers Pavol Loffay and Juraci Paixão Kröehling.

• Fedora Magazine: Welcome to Fedora CoreOS

• Red Hat, Smart Global, Kroger Earnings; Stress Tests: Investing Action Plan

• Red Hat (RHT) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

• Raymond James Downgrades Red Hat Ahead Of Q1 Print

• Oracle, Micron, FedEx and More Earnings Coming This Week

• Reviewing Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) & Match Group (MTCH)

• Head to Head Survey: Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) and Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

• Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. Purchases 66,750 Shares of Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat, Inc. (RHT): Stock under Close Observation:

• Supermicro, Red Hat and Solarflare Set World Record Performance Mark with Double-Digit Latency Improvement on Financial Applications

• Red Hat Inc. (NYSE:RHT) 1Q19 earnings preview

• May This Data Fuel Up Investor’s Confidence – Red Hat Inc (NYSE: RHT)

• Google Finally Launches a Podcast App for Android

• Android 8.1 hitting unlocked and Amazon Prime Moto X4 variants

• How to Delete Browsing History on Android

• TouchPal built an AI for its alternative Android keyboard

• Android 8.1 Oreo now rolling out to Moto X4 unlocked and Prime Exclusive variants

• Google is updating Android Messages to take on iMessage — here's why that's significant

• Oppo And Vivo Are Setting The Pace For Android And Apple

• How to install a VPN on Android TV

• Microsoft employees protest over ties with US immigration agency as controversy grows over families torn apart at border

  More than 100 Microsoft employees have protested against the company's work with US immigration, following a "zero tolerance" policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents.  

  The controversy surrounds a $19.4 million contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the use of Microsoft's cloud computing software by the US border agency.

  "We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits," states the letter, which is addressed to company CEO Satya Nadella.

• Rugged NVR system for buses has 10x GbE ports for IP cameras

  Lanner’s Linux-friendly “V6S” vehicle surveillance NVR computer runs on a Core i7-7600U CPU, and offers 10x PoE-ready GbE ports, 2x mini-PCIe slots, 2x swappable SATA bays, -20 to 60°C support, and shock/vibration resistance.

  We’re a little leery of surveillance systems with video analytics that focus on interior public spaces, such as the buses where Lanner’s V6S will store and process video feeds from Ethernet-connected IP cameras. Yet, we can also see the potential for devices like the V6S to save lives, and we’re always suckers for cool technology running Linux.

• Why Android No Longer Needs a Cache Partition

• Android Messages For Web Is Officially Released: Now Send Messages From Your Desktop

• Android Messages for Desktop Now Rolling Out Worldide as a Web-Based Service

  It would appear that Google's long-anticipated Android Messages for Desktops feature that let you text from the web on your personal computer is finally rolling out to users worldwide.

• Google’s AI-Powered ‘Podcasts’ App Is Here For Android UsersDead

• Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33 Released

  We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33.

• Solaris 11.3 SRU 33 Better Deals With ZFS Sending Of Compressed Data & More

  Oracle Solaris 11.4 is still being prepared for release but in the meantime there is now the thirty-third stable release update for Solaris 11.3.

• Apple fined $9m for misleading Australian customers with faulty iPhones and iPads

   

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched legal action in April 2017, claiming Apple had misled consumers about their warranty rights by routinely refusing to inspect or fix faulty devices without charge if they had been repaired by a third party.

• Apple hauled into US Supreme Court over, no, not ebooks, patents, staff wages, keyboards... but its App Store

  The US Supreme Court will scrutinize an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, opening the door for the computing giant to escape censure over its app store policies and potentially millions of dollars in claims.

  The lawsuit claims that Apple – which has had its fair share of legal challenges from alleged wage fixing to defective keyboards – has a monopoly on the app market, partly demonstrated by the fact it is able to claim a 30 per cent commission on all sold applications.

  That monopoly is used to kill off competition, the suit claims, by only allowing apps that are approved by Apple onto the App Store, with Apple insisting on exclusive distribution through its store as a condition of approval.

• Where in the DevOps cycle do you do security?

• LibreOffice Picks Up A Native "KDE 5" File Picker

  Several months back LibreOffice developers began working on better integration with KDE Plasma 5 and that has advanced again today with now having a native file picker.

• Going In-Depth With Flatpak For Sandboxed Application Packaging

  Red Hat / GNOME developer veteran Matthias Clasen has recently begun a series of blog posts going in-depth with Flatpaks for those wondering how this application deployment technology is taking over the Linux desktop.

  Last week Clasen penned the initial piece for explaining bundles, runtimes, and extensions in the Flatpak realm.

• Epiphany 3.29.3 Picks Up A Reader Mode, Finally Disables NPAPI Plugins

  Epiphany 3.29.3 is now available as the latest version of this GNOME Web Browser.

  Being in the middle of the GNOME 3.30 development cycle, the Epiphany 3.29.3 release is made up of many changes. First up, Epiphany now has an experimental reader mode that is inspired by Mozilla's Firefox reader mode. When viewing page sources in Epiphany, it will also now display within the web browser itself rather than the text editor.

• Linux Gets Experimental Support For In-Kernel Hibernation Encryption

  Intel's Chen Yu has sent out a set of patches providing experimental support for in-kernel encryption support for hibernation.

  In particular, this encryption support is about encrypting the hibernation image that is saved to the disk for the hibernation process. There are third-party ways to encrypt the hibernation image with an encrypted SWAP while this new code thanks to Intel is integrated within the kernel. Besides the kernel bits are also user-space code needed for generating the encryption key.

• Coreboot Now Supports Directly Booting To A Linux Kernel FIT Image

  Coreboot's latest development code now supports parsing and booting of FIT payloads. FIT in this context is a Flattened Image Tree that leverages DeviceTree.

  As of Tuesday in Coreboot Git is handling for booting of FIT payloads, which in turn basically means a Linux kernel image as a payload for Coreboot to boot directly upon hardware initialization.

• Open Source Skills Soar In Demand According to 2018 Jobs Report

• New 2018 Open Source Technology Jobs Report Released Today: Rapid Growth in Demand for Open Source Tech Talent

• Another stepping stone forward (SysV 2.90)

  Today I uploaded a new minor release of SysV init - version 2.90. This snapshot mostly fixes typos (in the source and Makefile), cleans up some old files and variables we were not using anymore, and adds some documentation. Basically, this is a house-keeping update.

• SysVinit 2.90 Released With Fixes & Better Support For Newer Compilers

  It's been a while since last having anything to report on the SysVinit init system for those wishing to live in a systemd-free world, but a new release is now available.

• Fedora IoT and Home Assistant

• How to change the hostname on Ubuntu 18.04

• Troubleshooting Open vSwitch DPDK PMD Thread Core Affinity

• Systemd Services: Monitoring Files and Directories

• Wget Command Examples

• Getting started with React Native animations

• Anatomy of a perfect pull request

• Red Hat unveils next-generation process automation offering

  Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, has announced the launch of Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7, a comprehensive, cloud-native platform for developing business automation services and process-centric applications across hybrid cloud environments.

  Process Automation Manager is the next generation of Red Hat’s business process management (BPM) offering, Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, and enables organisations to streamline, automate, measure and continuously improve business operations.

• 3 reasons cost isn't the best motivator for moving to the cloud [Ed: Red Hat's latest cloudwashing]

• Red Hat extends new licence terms to all GPL projects

  Open source vendor Red Hat has changed its licensing and in future all company projects that choose to use the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or the Lesser General Public Licence version 2 will have to include language from the GPLv3 that provides violators with time to rectify their offence.

  The GPLv2 and the LGPLv2 have language in them that says anyone who violates the terms of the licences immediately becomes non-compliant and does not have any means of redeeming themselves.

  The GPLv3 gives an offender time to come into compliance, with there being mechanisms for licence reinstatement when compliance errors were promptly fixed.

• Red Hat (RHT) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

• Red Hat Downgraded, Cloud Computing Growth May Hit Legacy Software

• Stocks Extend Losses On Trade War Fears; Boeing, Red Hat, Alibaba Fall

• Option Market Alert: Red Hat Inc Implied Price Swing Hits An Amplified Level

• An Interesting Valuation Case? – Emerson Electric Co. (EMR), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• Debian Installer Buster Alpha 3 release

  The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third alpha release of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster".

• Debian Installer Buster Alpha 3 Released

  The third alpha release of the Debian Installer to be used by Debian 10 "Buster" is now available for testing.

  There are many changes to this updated Debian Installer with the last alpha release being from last December. This newest Debian Installer for Buster now uses Cryptsetup 2.0, updates to the Linux 4.16 kernel (rather than 4.13), locale choosing improvements, various flash-kernel updates, debootstrap improvements, and other changes.

• Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2018

• GSoC Status Update - First Month

  In the past month I have been working on my GSoC project in Debian’s Distro Tracker. This project aims at designing and implementing new features in Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams to track the health of their packages and to prioritize their work efforts. In this post, I will describe the current status of my contributions, highlight the main challenges, and point the next steps.

• I'm going to DebCamp18, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• [Older] Linux Mint vs Ubuntu

  There probably aren't two Linux distributions more closely related than Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Actually, the two are so close to one another, there's serious debate about whether or not they are the same distribution.

  Linux Mint takes Ubuntu and adds some extra polish to it. Mint has a different default configuration, some additional packages, and its own desktop environments. Otherwise, it's the same distribution as Ubuntu.

• Sculpt for The Curious

  Sculpt for The Curious is the second development stage of the Genode-based general-purpose OS used at Genode Labs. Compared to the initial version, which was targeted at early adopters only, the new version invites a broader user base to explore the system. It comes in the form of a ready-to-use disk image for a bootable USB thumb drive.

• Genode-Based Sculpt OS Now Available With Easy-To-Use Disk Image

  Sculpt OS is striving to become a general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS framework. The second release of Sculpt OS is now available and it's much easier now to try out.

  Sculpt OS relies upon Genode's micro-kernel architecture, sandboxed drivers, and other modern approaches for providing a unique OS on commodity PC hardware.

• Bitfi and McAfee Announce First Truly Unhackable and Open Source Crypto Wallet

  Bitfi, a global payments technology company working to enable businesses and consumers to participate in the digital currency economy, today announced Bitfi Wallet – the first unhackable, open source hardware wallet with an accompanying dashboard that features wireless setup and support for many popular cryptocurrencies and crypto assets, including Monero, a fully decentralized private cryptocurrency that has previously never had a hardware wallet solution.

• Call for Code is open and organizations are lining up to join the cause

  Today is the first official day of Call for Code, an annual global initiative from creator David Clark Cause, with IBM proudly serving as Founding Partner. Call for Code aims to unleash the collective power of the global open source developer community against the growing threat of natural disasters.

  Even as we prepare to accept submissions from technology teams around the world, the response from the technology community has been overwhelming and today I am thrilled to announce two new partners joining the cause.

• Getting started with Open edX to host your course

  Now in its seventh major release, the Open edX platform is a free and open source course management system that is used all over the world to host Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as smaller classes and training modules. To date, Open edX software has powered more than 8,000 original courses and 50 million course enrollments. You can install the platform yourself with on-premise equipment or by leveraging any of the industry-leading cloud infrastructure services providers, but it is also increasingly being made available in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model from several of the project’s growing list of service providers.

  The Open edX platform is used by many of the world’s premier educational institutions as well as private sector companies, public sector institutions, NGOs, non-profits, and educational technology startups, and the project’s global community of service providers continues to make the platform accessible to ever-smaller organizations. If you plan to create and offer educational content to a broad audience, you should consider using the Open edX platform.

• Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup time: June 22nd starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT/16:00 UTC

• Xapian Joins Conservancy as a Member Project

  Software Freedom Conservancy proudly welcomes Xapian as Conservancy's newest member project. Xapian is a probabilistic information retrieval library that allows developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.

  Conservancy, a public charity focused on ethical technology, is the home of over forty member projects dedicated to developing free and open source software. Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella, allowing member projects to operate as charitable initiatives without having to independently manage their own corporate structure and administrative services.

  "We've spent the past 18 years at Xapian developing a technologically mature software package," said Olly Betts, Xapian's Project Lead. "We're excited about how Conservancy can help us extend that maturity to our project governance."

• Python and Bash - Contenders for the most used scripting language

  Packt Publishing, publisher of software learning resources, has revealed the results of its 2018 Skill Up survey in a new report.

  From what programming languages, frameworks, and libraries are most used, to job satisfaction, attitudes to management and what it’s like to work in the software industry today, the report offers a snapshot of what matters to software developers in 2018.

Lew Tucker is a busy man. Aside from his day job as VP and CTO for Cloud Computing at Cisco, Tucker also sits on the board of directors at both the OpenStack Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, giving him a unique perspective on both organizations.

Some in the industry have positioned Kubernetes as a competitive replacement for OpenStack, but that's not what Tucker sees. In a video interview, Tucker explains where the intersection currently exists between OpenStack and Kubernetes and why he expects both to be successful.

• Vulkan Display Extensions To Be Used By SteamVR Merged Into Mesa RADV/ANV

  Keith Packard's long in development work for improving the Linux display stack infrastructure for better dealing with VR head-mounted displays is about rounded out with the new Vulkan extension support being merged into Mesa.

  Just over a year ago famed X developer Keith Packard started contract work for Valve to improve the plumbing around the Linux/X.Org support for virtual reality HMDs for better performance and better integration. Within the Linux kernel and the X.Org Server he's worked and landed the DRM leasing support of outputs to let a VR compositor (Steam VR) have direct access to the output, "non-desktop" quirk handling so VR HMDs don't become mapped as part of a standard Linux desktop, and related work.

• A Slew Of AMDGPU DC Updates Published, Further Improvements For Raven Ridge

  There hasn't been a new AMDGPU DC code drop in a while as AMD developers work to improve their internal processes, but hitting the wire today is a set of 51 new patches for this "display code" stack that work on a variety of improvements.

• Sway 1.0 Wayland Compositor Nears With Floating Windows, Tablet Support & More

  The release of the Sway 1.0 Wayland compositor is inching closer with the recent third alpha release. Sway for the uninformed is a very promising i3-compatible Wayland compositor.

  Earlier this month Sway 1.0 Alpha 3 was released to succeed the second alpha release from the month prior. Sway 1.0 is succeeding the Sway 0.15 changes with a great deal of improvements. Most notably with the 1.0 series is now requiring the WLROOTS modular Wayland compositor library.