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Dell Precision 'Developer Edition' mobile workstations run Ubuntu Linux and are RHEL certified While Dell is mostly known as a Windows PC manufacturer, the company is also a big proponent of Linux. Its “Developer Edition” models can be configured with Ubuntu, for instance. Of course, despite this branding, non-developers can buy them too. The XPS 13 “Developer Edition” in particular is a svelte machine that should make many home Linux users very happy. In addition to home users, Dell manufactures solid business-class mobile workstations, and the company recently announced four such Linux-powered models. These Precision “Developer Edition” laptops run Ubuntu and are RHEL certified. One of these notebooks, the Precision 3530, is available today, while the other three will be available soon. “Today I’m proud to announce the new the Linux-based Dell Precision Mobile workstation line: the 3530, 5530, 7530 and the 7730. These systems, which represent the fourth generation of the Precision developer editions, come preloaded with Ubuntu and have been RHEL certified. These new thinner, lighter, premium-built Precision mobile workstations feature the latest Intel Core and Xeon processors, blazing-fast memory and professional graphics,” says Barton George, Dell. George further says, “As mentioned above, all four developer editions will be certified for RHEL 7.5 and the needed drivers will be included in the distro. That being said, the AMD and NVIDIA drivers that come with 7.5 are inbox drivers. We will be posting drivers for both graphic cards that will include professional features not included in the inbox drivers.” Source: https://betanews.com/2018/05/27/dell-precision-developer-ubuntu-linux-rhel/
Les stations de travail mobiles Dell Precision 'Developer Edition' fonctionnent sous Ubuntu Linux et sont certifiées RHEL.
Alors que Dell est surtout connu comme un fabricant de PC Windows, la société est également un grand partisan de Linux. Ses modèles «Developer Edition» peuvent être configurés avec Ubuntu, par exemple. Bien sûr, malgré ce marquage, les non-développeurs peuvent aussi les acheter. Le XPS 13 «Developer Edition», en particulier, est une machine de pointe qui devrait faire le bonheur, à la maison, de nombreux utilisateurs de Linux.
En plus des utilisateurs à domicile, Dell fabrique des stations de travail mobiles solides de classe affaires, et l'entreprise a récemment annoncé quatre modèles à conçus pour fonctionner sous Linux. Ces ordinateurs portables Precision «Developer Edition» fonctionnent sous Ubuntu et sont certifiés RHEL. L'un de ces notebooks, le Precision 3530, est disponible aujourd'hui, tandis que les trois autres le seront bientôt.
«Aujourd'hui, je suis fier d'annoncer la nouvelle gamme de stations de travail mobiles Dell Precision basées sur Linux : les 3530, 5530, 7530 et 7730. Ces systèmes, qui représentent la quatrième génération des éditions Precision pour les développeurs, sont préchargés avec Ubuntu et ont été certifiés RHEL. Ces nouvelles stations de travail mobiles Precision, plus fines, plus légères et haut de gamme, sont équipées des derniers processeurs Intel Core et Xeon, d'une mémoire ultra-rapide et avec des graphismes professionnels», explique Barton George, de Dell.
George ajoute : «Comme mentionné ci-dessus, les quatre éditions pour les développeurs seront certifiées pour RHEL 7.5 et les pilotes nécessaires seront inclus dans la distribution. Cela dit, les pilotes AMD et NVIDIA fournis avec la version 7.5 sont des pilotes de boîte de réception. Nous ajouterons des pilotes pour les deux cartes graphiques qui incluront des fonctionnalités professionnelles non incluses dans les pilotes de la boîte de réception».
Source: https://betanews.com/2018/05/27/dell-precision-developer-ubuntu-linux-rhel/
You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened It's time to break out your “Alexa, I Told You So” banners – because a Portland, Oregon, couple received a phone call from one of the husband's employees earlier this month, telling them she had just received a recording of them talking privately in their home. “Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” the staffer told the couple, who did not wish to be fully identified, “you're being hacked.” At first the couple thought it might be a hoax call. However, the employee – over a hundred miles away in Seattle – confirmed the leak by revealing the pair had just been talking about their hardwood floors. The recording had been sent from the couple's Alexa-powered Amazon Echo to the employee's phone, who is in the husband's contacts list, and she forwarded the audio to the wife, Danielle, who was amazed to hear herself talking about their floors. Suffice to say, this episode was unexpected. The couple had not instructed Alexa to spill a copy of their conversation to someone else. “I felt invaded,” Danielle told KIRO-TV. “A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'” The couple then went around their home unplugging all their Amazon Alexa gadgets – they had them all over the place to manage various smart home devices, including a thermostat and security system – and then called the web giant to complain about the snooping tech. According to Danielle, Amazon confirmed that it was the voice-activated digital assistant that had recorded and sent the file to a virtual stranger, and apologized profusely, but gave no explanation for how it may have happened. Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/alexa_recording_couple/
Connaissez-vous cette stupide peur qu'Alexa enregistre tout et qu'il y ait des fuites en ligne ? C'est arrivé comme ça
Il est temps de sortir vos bannières «Alexa, Je vous l'avais bien dit.» - parce qu'un couple de Portland, en Oregon, a reçu un appel téléphonique de l'une des employées du mari ce mois-ci, leur disant qu'elle venait de recevoir un enregistrement d'eux parlant en privé dans leur maison.
«Débranchez vos appareils Alexa tout de suite», a dit l'employée au couple, qui ne voulait pas être pleinement identifiée, «vous êtes piratés».
Au début, le couple pensait que c'était peut-être un canular. Cependant, l'employée - à plus d'une centaine de kilomètres de Seattle - a confirmé la fuite en révélant que le couple venait de parler de leurs parquets de bois dur.
L'enregistrement avait été envoyé de l'Amazon Echo d'Alexa du couple au téléphone de l'employée, qui est dans la liste des contacts du mari, et elle a transmis l'audio à l'épouse, Danielle, qui a été étonnée de s'entendre parler de leurs planchers. Il faut dire que cet épisode était inattendu. Le couple n'avait pas demandé à Alexa de répandre une copie de leur conversation à quelqu'un d'autre.
«Je me sentais envahie», a dit Danielle à KIRO-TV. «Une invasion totale de la vie privée. J'ai tout de suite dit : Je ne brancherai plus jamais cet appareil, parce que je ne peux pas lui faire confiance».
Le couple a ensuite fait le tour de leur maison en débranchant tous leurs gadgets Alexa d'Amazon - ils en avaient partout pour gérer divers appareils intelligents, y compris un thermostat et un système de sécurité - et a ensuite appelé le géant du web pour se plaindre de la technologie d'espionnage.
Selon Danielle, Amazon a confirmé que c'était l'assistant numérique à commande vocale qui avait enregistré et envoyé le fichier à un étranger virtuel, et a présenté de profondes excuses, mais n'a donné aucune explication sur la façon dont cela s'est produit.
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/alexa_recording_couple/
Fedora 26 Linux to Reach End of Life on June 1, 2018, Upgrade to Fedora 28 Now Released eleven months ago, on July 11, 2017, the Fedora 26 Linux operating system brought the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, the DNF 2.5 package manager, a brand-new partitioning tool in the Anaconda installer for expert setups, as well as the Python Classroom Lab spin designed for educators and students. Almost 10,000 updated packages were published for the Fedora 26 Linux release during its lifetime, which will end this Friday, June 1, 2018. After this date, Fedora 26 users will no longer receive security patches and bug fixes, nor enhancement updates and new packages to its software repositories. Those still running the Fedora 26 Linux operating system on their personal computers have only three days to update to the most recent release, Fedora 28, though they can also update to Fedora 27, which will be supported for at least half a year, until December 2018 or January 2019, depending on the release of Fedora 29. It is recommended that you update to Fedora 28 directly as it's more advanced than Fedora 27, and because it will be supported until summer 2019. Fedora 28 ships with the latest GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, Linux kernel 4.16, and other up-to-date components and the most recent GNU/Linux technologies. Source: https://news.softpedia.com/news/fedora-26-linux-to-reach-end-of-life-on-june-1-2018-upgrade-to-fedora-28-now-521325.shtml
Fedora 26 Linux atteindra la fin de vie le 1er juin 2018, la mise à niveau vers Fedora 28 c'est maintenant.
Lancé il y a onze mois, le 11 juillet 2017, le système d'exploitation Fedora 26 Linux a apporté l'environnement de bureau GNOME 3.24, le gestionnaire de paquets DNF 2.5, un tout nouvel outil de partitionnement dans l'installateur Anaconda pour les installations expertes, ainsi que le Python Classroom Lab spin conçu pour les enseignants et les étudiants.
Près de 10 000 paquets mis à jour ont été publiés pour la version 26 de Fedora Linux au cours de sa durée de vie, qui prendra fin ce vendredi 1er juin 2018. Après cette date, les utilisateurs de Fedora 26 ne recevront plus de correctifs de sécurité et de corrections de bogues, ni de mises à jour d'améliorations et de nouveaux paquets dans les dépôts de logiciels.
Ceux qui utilisent encore le système d'exploitation Fedora 26 Linux sur leurs ordinateurs personnels n'ont que trois jours pour mettre à jour vers la version la plus récente, Fedora 28, bien qu'ils puissent également mettre à jour vers Fedora 27, qui sera supporté pendant au moins six mois, jusqu'en décembre 2018 ou janvier 2019, en fonction de la sortie de Fedora 29.
Il est recommandé de mettre à jour directement vers Fedora 28 car elle est plus avancée que Fedora 27, et parce qu'elle sera supportée jusqu'à l'été 2019. Fedora 28 est livrée avec le dernier environnement de bureau GNOME 3.28, le noyau Linux 4.16, et d'autres composants à jour et les technologies GNU/Linux les plus récentes.
GNU Emacs 26.1 released
GNU Emacs is a text editor that contains a variety of functions and can be equipped with any extensions through its programming interface. It includes enhancements for such diverse things as compiling and debugging programs, handling e-mail, and supporting the X Window System. For fun and to show what can be done with Emacs Lisp everything, the editor also includes a “psychotherapist” and various games. Emacs also includes a tutorial and documentation. Furthermore, Emacs is universally applicable and also available on many other platforms.
As Nicolas Petton announced, a new generation of applications is available over a year and a half after the last major release. The version 26.1 comes with many innovations and improvements. From the user's point of view, one of the most important new features is the revision of the presentation of content, which among other things should prevent flickering. In addition, the application has been given a limited form of parallelism with Lisp threads. Flymake has been completely redesigned and optional line numbers can be displayed in the buffer.
Other recent additions to GNU Emacs 26.1 include enhancements to TRAMP, which now includes a new Google Drive connection method, a one-line horizontal scrolling mode, and support for 24-bit color on text terminals. Furthermore, Emacs will be delivered with a matching systemd-unit-file.
Source: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/25935/gnu-emacs-261-freigegeben.html
GNOME transitions to GitLab
GNOME is one of the most important open source projects on the planet. Even if you use an alternative desktop environment, such as KDE or Xfce, you cannot deny that GNOME's contributions have largely shaped the path of Linux on the desktop for the better. Don't forget, GNOME is much more than just a DE – many of its apps are essential. That's probably why someone (or something) recently pledged to donate $1 million to it – GNOME's existence and success is a must for the Linux community.
Today, The GNOME Foundation makes a very big announcement – the project has fully transitioned to GitLab. In other words, yes, the GNOME Project is growing up a bit and becoming better organized. This move to the GitLab Git-repository manager is a breath of fresh air, quite frankly, and should really improve collaboration between GNOME Project contributors.
This doesn't mean a lot for end users – at least not directly or initially. Developers and contributors to GNOME, however, should be more productive as a result. After all, you can have all the talent in the world, but without the right tools, they won't reach their top potential. Eventually, end users should benefit from the move to GitLab, as the GNOME Project should progress at a faster pace and yield better results – that seems to be the goal, at least.
Source: https://betanews.com/2018/06/01/gnome-transitions-to-gitlab/
Firefox And Chrome Bug Leaked Facebook Profile Details For Almost A Year
A side-channel vulnerability existed in the implement of the CSS3 feature called “mix-blend-mode.” It allowed an attacker to de-anonymize a Facebook user running Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox by making them visit a specially crafted website.
The flaw, now fixed, was discovered last year by the researcher duo Dario Weißer and Ruslan Habalov, and separately by another researcher named Max May.
The proof-of-concept created by the researchers enabled them to harvest data like the profile picture, username, and ‘like’ status of unsuspecting visitors, the researchers said in their blog post. All of this could be done in the background when a user visits a malicious site.
The visual data leak could happen on websites using iFrames that link to Facebook in the form of social plugins and login buttons. Because of a security feature called same origin policy, websites can’t access the content of iframes directly. The researchers can extract information by creating an overlay on the cross-origin iFrame to interact with the underlying pixels.
While the flaw has been patched for good, the researchers warn that the advanced graphics capabilities added to HTML and CSS could open doors for more attacks like these.
Source: https://fossbytes.com/firefox-chrome-side-channel-attack-leaked-facebook-profile-details/
Linus Torvalds decides world isn’t ready for Linux 5.0
Linus Torvalds has decided the world’s not ready for version 5.0 of the Linux Kernel, so he’s given us version 4.17 instead.
Torvalds toyed with the idea of calling this release 5.0, because it passed the six million git objects mark. But he also said version numbers are meaningless and he might not call it 5.0.
The latter has now come to pass: in his regular Sunday afternoon (Pacific Time) state-of-the-kernel update, Torvalds announced that “I really didn't get the feeling that another week would help the release in any way, so here we are, with 4.17 released.”
“No, I didn't call it 5.0, even though all the git object count numerology was in place for that,” he added. “ It will happen in the not _too_ distant future, and I'm told all the release scripts on kernel.org are ready for it, but I didn't feel there was any real reason for it.”
“I suspect that around 4.20 - which is I run out of fingers and toes to keep track of minor releases, and thus start getting mightily confused - I'll switch over. That was what happened for 4.0, after all.”
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/linux_4_17_released/
Ubuntu 18.04-based Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Beta is here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce
Ah, Linux Mint. This operating system has its detractors, but for the most part, it is beloved by both Linux beginners and experts alike. True, most of the praise is due to its excellent Ubuntu base, but the Mint team understands what many other distribution maintainers don't – the overall experience matters. When you install Mint, you are in for a polished treat – it is clear that the developers truly care about the end users.
Today, Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Beta finally sees release. Three desktop environments are available – Cinnamon (3.8), MATE (1.20), and Xfce (4.12). All of these DEs are excellent, but the shining star is Cinnamon. Tara is significant as it is based on the newest Ubuntu 18.04 and will receive updates until the year 2023. The included Linux kernel is version 4.15 and not 4.17 – understandable, as it was only just released.
In Linux Mint 19, the star of the show is Timeshift. Although it was introduced in Linux Mint 18.3 and backported to all Linux Mint releases, it is now at the center of Linux Mint's update strategy and communication. Thanks to Timeshift you can go back in time and restore your computer to the last functional system snapshot. If anything breaks, you can go back to the previous snapshot and it's as if the problem never happened. This greatly simplifies the maintenance of your computer, since you no longer need to worry about potential regressions. In the eventuality of a critical regression, you can restore a snapshot (thus canceling the effects of the regression) and you still have the ability to apply updates selectively (as you did in previous releases).
Source: https://betanews.com/2018/06/04/linux-mint-19-tara-beta/
4MLinux 25.0 Distro Hits Stable with Full Zstd Support, Linux Kernel 4.14.39 LTS
With the 4MLinux 23 series reaching end of life on June 3, 2018, the 4MLinux 25.0 operating system has been promoted to the stable channel in the same day, allowing users to upgrade their installations as soon as possible. 4MLinux 25.0 has been in development for the past six months and includes numerous improvements, updated components, and new features.
Powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.14.39 kernel, 4MLinux 25.0 is the first release of the Linux-based operating system to ship with full support for Facebook's Zstandard (Zstd) data compression algorithm. It also improves handling of CA certificates so you won't have to accept them manually and finally lets users disable the login screen.
The software collection of 4MLinux not only was updated with some of the most recent versions, but it suffered some interesting changes, such as the addition of MPV as default media player with the GNOME MPV front-end. Other media players like SMPlayer, MPlayer, VLC, and Xine can be installed through downloadable extensions.
Intel Claims Its Low Power Display Tech Can Cut Battery Use By 50%
Among many announcements made at Computex 2018, one from Intel could give a sense of satisfaction to the users who concerned about the battery life of the computers. Because, the display is the component that gobbles battery the most.
Intel claims its new tech called Low Power Display can cut the LCD power consumption by half. To bring it to fruition, Intel co-engineered it with Sharp and Innolux. The two manufacturers are developing 1 Watt display panels using the technology.
On paper, this is 3 hours more than what’s said in the case of the recently announced Snapdragon 850 SoC designed for Arm-based Windows 10 PCs.
Intel demoed its tech on a Dell XPS 13 featuring a low power display. It goes without saying that the advantage would be available in upcoming devices. Also, it would require the device to be running Intel graphics.
These power efficient displays could be a part of Intel’s efforts to retain its market. It may not be the very next day, but, Arm-powered PCs could be a potential threat to Intel’s decades of dominance. The company has already lost the battle in the smartphone segment.
Source: https://fossbytes.com/intel-low-power-display-tech-battery-life-half/
Purism's Librem 5 Privacy, Security-Focused Linux Phone Arrives in January 2019
With the promise to be world’s first community-owned smartphone ecosystem, the security and privacy-focused Librem 5 managed to raise nearly $2.5 million during its crowdfunding campaign, and it's now on track to be released worldwide in January 2019 as Purism announces today major strides in manufacturing and development of the mobile device.
It would appear that Purism already managed to finalize the specifications for Librem 5's hardware platform, placing an order to its manufacturer for developer kits that have the same base specifications as the final design of the mobile phone. Also, they managed to finalize the case design and UI shell of Librem 5, as well as the Contacts and Calls apps.
Promising to give users the freedom they need and complete control over their mobile phones, Librem 5 will bear features not seen in mainstream smartphones, including encrypted calling, native VoIP (Voice over IP) capabilities, end-to-end encrypted storage, SMS, and email, preconfigured VPN services, support for a wide-range of Linux-based operating systems, and a slot for an encryption smartcard.
The device will also support GSM, UMTS, 3G, 4G, and LTE mobile networks, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connections, and have hardware kill switches for the camera and microphone to prevent privacy breaches. The Librem 5's source code will be publicly available after launch to allow users to modify it as they see fit or to develop additional apps and services for the mobile phone.
Canonical Announces Ubuntu for Amazon’s Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Officially launched on Tuesday, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is engineered to deliver Kubernetes, the open-source and production-grade container orchestration tool as a managed service on the AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud computing services. As Ubuntu is the most widely used container host operating system, especially for Kubernetes deployments, it can now be used to host containers in Amazon’s EKS.
Designed for container portability, Ubuntu on EKS promises a set of great optimizations over Ubuntu on AWS. Among these, we can mention up to 30 percent faster kernel boot speeds, i3.metal support, better i3 instance class support with NVM Express (NVMe) storage disks for extreme IO, Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) with support for up to 25 Gbps network interfaces, as well as continuous security updates and image maintenance to address critical flaws.
In the private infrastructure, the Ubuntu on EKS container hosts offer the same runtime dynamics as those of other Ubuntu-based Kubernetes deployments. It consists of worker nodes created using Canonical's brand-new minimal Ubuntu base image designed to dramatically shrink both the security cross-section and the image size for Ubuntu on AWS. This makes it easier to customize Ubuntu EKS container host nodes to match your enterprise needs.
Support for Linux 3.2 and 4.1 finished
With a total of 151 modified files, 1139 insertions, and 583 deletions, Linux 3.2.102 was released as probably the last planned version of the kernel released in 2012. As Ben Hutchings writes on the kernel mailing list, “in all likelihood,” official support for the long-term kernel ended. Of course you can not be sure of that, because unexpected gaps or other circumstances could lead to Linux 3.2 still undergoing another update. However, users should not rely on it and update their systems as soon as possible.
Also users of Linux 4.1 are to subject their systems to an update. As with Linux 3.2, the release of a new version - in this case Linux 4.1.52 at the end of May - also marks the cessation of support. This can be checked, for example, on “Active kernel releases”, where only four supported versions can still be found.
In addition to the kernel 3.16 maintained by Ben Hutchings, which will be updated until at least April 2020, users will also be able to access the Greg Kroah-Hartman supported kernel versions 4.4, 4.9 and 4.14. With version 4.9, however, it should be noted that it will only be supplied with updates for a good half a year. Alternatively, LTS kernel variants of the distributors can be imported or adapted. These are maintained directly by the manufacturers and are subject to other support periods. Details and support periods can be found in the corresponding products.
Source: https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/25965/unterst%C3%BCtzung-f%C3%BCr-linux-32-und-41-beendet.html
GitLab Ultimate and GitLab Gold for open source projects for free
Microsoft's announced acquisition of Github, due to be completed by the end of the year, has triggered a lot of speculation and reaction. The most plausible theory of why Microsoft is spending $ 7.5 billion on the platform is the lock-in effect created by the proprietary code that powers Github. Projects that use Github can not switch to another platform without leaving much of their data behind, including all information and discussions about errors and user preferences. Because there is no way for Github to export this data. Already years ago, the FSF had warned against dependence on a provider and pointed out that Github does not even begin to fulfill its criteria for “ethical” project hosting sites.
In response to the increased interest, GitLab has now announced that its fee-based project hosting packages GitLab Ultimate and GitLab Gold are now free for open source projects and educational institutions. GitLab Ultimate is a package that runs on customer-owned servers while GitLab Gold runs on GitLab servers. Entitled are all non-profit educational institutions and all open source projects with OSI recognized free licenses. Again, the exclusion of projects that achieve profit directly with the software applies. Compared to the freely available community edition of GitLab both packages contain additional functions, only support is excluded. If support is needed, it can be purchased for five percent of the regular price, $ 4.95 per user per month.