today's leftovers

• KDE Applications 18.04 Brings Dolphin Improvements, JuK Wayland Support

  The KDE community has announced the release today of KDE Applications 18.04 as the first major update to the open-source KDE application set for 2018.

• Plasma Startup

  Startup is one of the rougher aspects of the Plasma experience and therefore something we’ve put some time into fixing [...] The most important part of any speed work is correctly analysing it. systemd-bootchart is nearly perfect for this job, but it’s filled with a lot of system noise.

• Announcing Virtlyst – a web interface to manage virtual machines

  Virtlyst is a web tool that allows you to manage virtual machines. In essence it’s a clone of webvirtmgr, but using Cutelyst as the backend, the reasoning behind this was that my father in law needs a server for his ASP app on a Win2k server, the server has only 4 GiB of RAM and after a week running webvirtmgr it was eating 300 MiB close to 10% of all available RAM. To get a VNC or SPICE tunnel it spawns websockify which on each new instance around 20 MiB of RAM get’s used. I found this unacceptable, a tool that is only going to be used once in a while, like if the win2k freezes or goes BSOD, CPU usage while higher didn’t play a role on this.

• OPNFV: driving the network towards open source "Tip to Top"

  Heather provides an update on the current status of OPNFV. How is its work continuing and how is it pursuing the overall mission? Heather says much of its work is really ‘devops’ and it's working on a continuous integration basis with the other open source bodies. That work continues as more bodies join forces with the Linux Foundation. Most recently OPNFV has signed a partnership agreement with the open compute project. Heather says the overall OPNFV objective is to work towards open source ‘Tip to top’ and all built by the community in ‘open source’. “When we started, OPNFV was very VM oriented (virtual machine), but now the open source movement is looking more to cloud native and containerisation as the way forward,” she says. The body has also launched a C-RAN project to ensure that NFV will be ready to underpin 5G networks as they emerge.

• Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S11E07 – Seven Years in Tibet - Ubuntu Podcast

• Failure to automate: 3 ways it costs you

  When I ask IT leaders what they see as the biggest benefit to automation, “savings” is often the first word out of their mouths. They’re under pressure to make their departments run as efficiently as possible and see automation as a way to help them do so. Cost savings are certainly a benefit of automation, but I’d argue that IT leaders who pursue automation for cost-savings alone are missing the bigger picture of how it can help their businesses. The true value of automation doesn’t lie in bringing down expenses, but rather in enabling IT teams to scale their businesses.

• Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Launches With Secured Kubernetes

  After months of development effort, Kubernetes is now fully supported in the stable release of the Docker Enterprise Edition. Docker Inc. officially announced Docker EE 2.0 on April 17, adding features that have been in development in the Docker Community Edition (CE) as well as enhanced enterprise grade capabilities. Docker first announced its intention to support Kubernetes in October 2017. With Docker EE 2.0, Docker is providing a secured configuration of Kubernetes for container orchestration. "Docker EE 2.0 brings the promise of choice," Docker Chief Operating Officer Scott Johnston told eWEEK. "We have been investing heavily in security in the last few years, and you'll see that in our Kubernetes integration as well."

today's howtos

• The simplest way to make a LiveUSB from within GNU/Linux

  I change distributions like people change socks, because I’m stubborn and refuse to test things through virtual machines and would rather run it pure and dry off my hardware. I have this one unbranded 8gb USB stick that I literally bought (a handful of others of, all lost or dead) out of the back of a van, that I have continued to use for my LiveUSB’s for about five or six years now, and its still kicking. Thankfully, doing this change from distro to distro is incredibly simple, with the use of just a couple quick terminal commands. This will work from within any distribution.

• A quick look at the git object store

• Sidecar container for Python exceptions

• logstash 5.6.9 logstash-input-udp 3.3.1 br0ken

• How to Install Elastic Jamroom on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• More L337 Translations

• Detect a UEFI partition

• LMMS Guide Part 2: Tempo, Time Signatures, Beats and Bass Lines

• Weekly Command: going over Git history with tig

• Install Apache Hadoop on Ubuntu 17.10!

• Gnome: Save And Restore Running Applications And Window Positions With Window Session Manager

• Backup And Restore Application Settings On Newly Installed Linux System

• UEFI booting and RAID1

• How to Install Ubuntu 18.04 Dual Boot with Windows 10

• How to Synchronize Time with NTP in Linux

Debian Milestones and Diversity Update

• 15.010958904109589041

  And yes! On April 15, I passed the 15-year-mark as a Debian Developer.

• 10 years + 1 day

  yesterday 10 years ago I became a Debian Developer.

• Diversity Update

  Which brings us to a panel for the upcoming Debconf in Taiwan. There is a suggestion to have a Gender Forum at the Openday. I'm still not completely sure what it should cover or what is expected for it and I guess it's still open for suggestions. There will be a plan, let's see to make it diverse and great! I won't promise to send the next update sooner, but I'll try to get back into it. Right now I'm also working on a (German language) submission for a non-binary YouTube project and it would be great to see that thing lift off. I'll be more verbose on that front.

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