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Links 6/7/2014: Deepin 2014, Calligra 2.8.5



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GNU/Linux



  • Desktop



    • Build the best Linux desktop
      Like all things Linux and open source, users are spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting a desktop environment (or DE). But this choice that many perceive as freedom, others may also see as a little bewildering and confusing.

      Right after making the soul-shaking decision of switching operating systems and installing an unknown system – by hand no less – a new Linux user is then greeted with weird sounding desktops to choose from with names like Gnome (a mini-desktop perhaps?), KDE (Isn't that a double-glazing firm?) and Xfce (No idea). What veteran users herald as Linux's crown jewels, to the innocent newcomer it's like stumbling into a sci-fi convention where everyone is discussing a new TV series that you've never heard of but apparently it's been around for years.






  • Kernel Space



    • Graphics Stack



      • Pixman 0.32.6 Finally Updated
        The last Pixman stable release happened in November of 2013 while out this weekend is finally a new Pixman release.

        While it's been more than a half-year since the last stable Pixman release, the changes for the new v0.32.6 release aren't particularly compelling but still worth pointing out.






  • Applications



  • Desktop Environments/WMs



    • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt



      • NetworkManagerQt 0.9.8.2 is out
        Plasma NM is going to be part of kde-workspace and as you may know NMQt is a dependency for Plasma NM. Plasma 5 release is approaching and since we may not get NMQt ready for KF5 in time we decided to ship a snapshort of NMQt with kde-workspace so that Plasma NM compiles. In the future we will remove the snapshot and rely on the NMQt in KF5.


      • Final updates to section implementation


      • Calligra 2.8.5 Released
        This is the last but one update to the 2.8 series of the Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active released to fix recently found issues. The Calligra team recommends everybody to update.

        Why is 2.8.4 skipped? Shortly before 2.8.4 release we discovered bug that sneaked in 2.8.2 version and decided to skip the 2.8.4 entirely and quickly release 2.8.5 instead with a proper fix. The bug is related to not showing file formats in Save dialogs.


      • Calligra 2.8.5 Released
        The KDE Community has announced the release of Calligra 2.8.5. “This is the last (and last but one) update to the 2.8 series of the Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active released to fix recently found issues. The Calligra team recommends everybody to update,” says JarosÅ‚aw Staniek of Calligra community.


      • opportunities presented by multi-process architectures






  • Distributions



    • Red Hat Family



      • Red Hat Challenge technology competition
        Students from tertiary institutions in seven Asian Pacific countries are invited to attend the 4th Regional Red Hat Challenge - a knowledge-based technology competition.




    • Debian Family



      • I love my MacBookAir with Debian
        I can set the display backlight to zero via software, which saves me a lot of battery life and also offers a bit of anti-spy-acroos-my-shoulder support. WLAN and bluetooth work nicely.


      • Derivatives



        • Canonical/Ubuntu



          • Flavours and Variants



            • Linux Mint 17 KDE Overview & Screenshots
              Linux Mint 17 ‘Qiana’ KDE and Xfce editions were released late last month, just a few weeks after the main editions (Cinnamon and MATE) were put out. This release will have the same lifespan as the distribution which is based on, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, so it will be supported until 2019, for no less than five years.


            • Deepin 2014 Release——Hold Your Dream and Move Forward
              Linux Deepin Project has been officially renamed as “Deepin Project”.


            • Deepin 2014 Linux Distribution Released
              Deepin Linux 2014 is now available as the popular Chinese-developed derivative to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS that features its own lightweight desktop powered using HTML5 and Go with Compiz. The updated desktop in Deepin 2014 is called Deepin Desktop Environment 2.0.












  • Devices/Embedded



    • Linux Foundation introduces Linux for cars
      The connected car is shifting into high gear, and the Linux Foundation wants an open-source platform in the pole position. The non-profit consortium recently announced the debut of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a customizable, open-source automotive software stack with Linux at its core.


    • Linux OS Gets New In-Car Interface: 'Automotive Grade Linux' Launched
      A common, Linux-based software platform for the ‘connected car’ is one step closer, with the release of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) this week.

      AGL claims to be the industry’s only ‘fully open’ automotive platform, allowing carmakers to use a standardised single base upon which to build their own user experiences.


    • Phones



      • Android



        • Build Android, Chrome apps from the Chromebook
          The app allows you to code through HTML, JavaScript and Dart - Google's JavaScript-like language, so there is no Java at this time, but you do get Git support.



        • Google Now Is The Killer App For Android Wear
          In the next few months, Google will get some competition from Microsoft, Apple and a few startups in this space. For better or worse, none of them know as much about you as Google does, so it’ll be hard for them to replicate the Google Now experience. That should give Google a bit of an edge against the competition — unless the iWatch turns out to be so amazing that people will buy it even if it just shows the time and phone notifications.


        • Android Circuit: Samsung's New Galaxy Smartphones, Android Is The Top OS In The US, And The Home Screen On The Front Line
          Taking a look back at the week in news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit focuses on Samsung’s new Galaxy handsets; Android tops the US market share; the Android ‘L’ changes; Google Play Services’ update for Android Wear support; Android Wear apps arrive in the Play Store; the battle for the home screen continues with Aviate; and what happens next in the smartphone world.










Leftovers



  • Science



    • The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers
      Hong Kong has one of the world's best subway systems. It has a 99.9 per cent on time record – far better than London Underground or New York's subway. It is owned and run by MTR Corporation, which also runs systems in Stockholm, Melbourne, London and Beijing. MTR is now planning to roll out its AI overseer to the other networks it manages.




  • Health/Nutrition



  • Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression



    • VIDEO: Calif. officer beating woman on roadside
      A cellphone video depicting a California Highway Patrol office punching a woman along the side of a freeway Tuesday evening has the agency investigating accusations of excessive force.


    • CIA interrupts info about secret overseas nuclear project
      The Washington Post has published an exclusive report about the US National Security Agency’s surveillance activities, but withheld information of “considerable intelligence value,” including a secret overseas nuclear project.


    • Communication breakdown


    • Extend NATO's umbrella to Montenegro and Macedonia
      In reacting to Moscow's aggression in Ukraine, President Obama has reassured exposed NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia of firm U.S. support. But he has shown little inclination to show needed leadership by putting another integral element of NATO policy on the agenda of September's Cardiff summit — enlargement of the alliance.


    • The Cost of Iraq War Immunity
      If Official Washington were not the corrupt and dangerous place that it is, the architects and apologists for the Iraq War would have faced stern accountability. Instead, they are still around – holding down influential jobs, making excuses and guiding the world into more wars, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes.


    • Ukraine's 'Terrorists' Talk.
      A 41-minute documentary has been produced and is online, "Ukraine Crisis Today," interviewing "terrorists" (as our side calls them) who have been bombed by the Ukrainian Government. We -- that is, the United States -- installed this Ukrainian government, on February 22nd, in a coup (falsely presented as a democracy movement, but run actually by the U.S. CIA and two Ukrainian fascist parties) against Ukraine's democratically elected President, Viktor Yanukovych. The government that we installed is now bombing the areas of Ukraine where the voters had voted overwhelmingly for Yanukovych, in Ukraine's last national election, which took place during February 2010. Our side calls the residents of the Yanukovich-supporting areas "terrorists." Those are the people our Ukrainian regime bombs.


    • Kiev promises war against Russia?


    • NYT Dishes More Ukraine Propaganda
      The mainstream U.S. media continues to sell the American people a one-sided storyline on the Ukraine crisis as the Kiev regime celebrates a key military victory at Slovyansk, an eastern city at the center of ethnic Russian resistance to last February’s violent coup that ousted elected President Yanukovych.


    • The world’s most dangerous ideology
      Halliburton, which offers a myriad of services, including oil field work, plus construction work, benefits when countries are “bombed to the stone age,” since those same countries need to be rebuilt. Angelo Young describes the war-profiteering in Cheney’s Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion On Iraq War...




  • Transparency Reporting





  • Finance



    • 2014 Job Creation Faster in States that Raised the Minimum Wage
      At the beginning of 2014, 13 states increased their minimum wage. Of these 13 states, four passed legislation raising their minimum wage (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island). In the other nine, their minimum wage automatically increased in line with inflation at the beginning of the year (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington state).


    • It's time to revive public ownership and the common good
      It might sound like an oxymoron, but this is a positive article about public services. So effectively has the coalition rebranded an economic crisis caused by private greed as the consequence of public ownership, that nationalisation has come to be seen as a universally discredited hangover from bad old Labour. So while current Labour is considering taking back parts of the rail network into public ownership the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, last weekend was intoning the neoliberal catechism: "I don't want to go back to the nationalisation of the 1970s."




  • Censorship



    • Keith Vaz criticises Home Office for losing sex abuse files
      Files which may be linked to child abuse claims seem to have been lost "on an industrial scale" at the Home Office, the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee has said.

      The Home Office has said its own review last year found that 114 potentially relevant files could not be located.

      Keith Vaz MP said it was "a huge surprise" that so much potential evidence had gone missing.

      Lord Tebbit said he hoped any review would be conducted quickly.

      Number 10 has rejected calls for an over-arching public inquiry into historical child abuse claims.
    • What Google isn’t doing with requests for search redaction
      Newspapers are now accusing Google of censoring their articles every time that a search result is being removed in relation to one of their articles. However, what the very lazy journalists are not doing is testing the search results to see if any of the key figures are likely to have gained the redaction, at least not before telling the world about it.


    • Being an annoying person is a crime now, as it should be
      A law against being annoying in public was recently approved by the British House of Commons and sent to the House of Lords, which vetoed it. This was no surprise since Lords themselves are horribly annoying, with their castles and silly titles. (For example, does “Lord Privy Seal” means what it says, which is “Lord Toilet Sea-Mammal”?)


    • Colleges are slowly taking away your First Amendment rights


    • The right to be forgotten will turn the internet into a work of fiction
      We will all die, and we will all be forgotten, in the end. I'm still unsophisticated enough to find that sad. But society seems fairly stoical about it, to say the least. These days thousands are campaigning for "the right to die" and "the right to be forgotten" as if they're genuinely worried it might otherwise not happen.





  • Privacy



  • Civil Rights



  • Internet/Net Neutrality





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