● 06.29.13

● Links 29/6/2013: Fedora 19 Due July 2nd, Android 4.3 Ousted

Posted in News Roundup at 10:25 am by Dr. Roy SchestowitzContentsGNU/LinuxGNU/Linux

↺ Logic Supply partners with Linux developer for digital signage, kiosks

Applications

↺ Open Source Dictation: Scoping out the Problem

Instructionals/Technical

↺ How to Set Up a Secure Proxy Server in Ubuntu Linux
↺ Graphos: text alignment and other fixes
↺ All you wanted to understand about sudo vs su in Ubuntu Linux
↺ Improve security with MySQL stored procedures
↺ Buy digiKam Recipes, Get Instant Guide to DSLR Dashboard

Games

↺ Valve’s Source SDK 2013 now supports Linux, OS X and Oculus Rift
↺ Ouya Console Goes on Sale, Quickly Sells Out at Amazon and Target
↺ A dispute at E3 2013 resulted in the police showing up to Ouya’s outdoor exhibit.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

↺ KDE Releases Second Beta Of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.11
↺ QUndoStack versus Kate’s Undo System
↺ qt-signal-tools 0.2
↺ More Software Compositing
↺ Qt 5.2 Plans Are Laid With New Features

Distributions

New Releases

↺ A Quick Look at Linux Deepin 12.12

Red Hat Family

↺ Red Hat’s OpenShift Online Expands the Company’s Cloud Horizons

Fedora

↺ Fedora 19 Go for July 2 Release

Debian Family

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ Mir in Ubuntu 13.10, Benchmarking, and More
↺ Ubuntu Planning on Shipping Mir in 13.10

Flavours and Variants

↺ München and Monaco go Lubuntized
↺ Linux MintBox 2 priced at $600
↺ The MintBox 2
↺ MintBox 2 announced, runs Linux Mint 15 Olivia on a Core i5
↺ Intel Core i5 CPU update sweetens MintBox mini-PC
↺ A Quick Look at Linux Deepin 12.12

Devices/Embedded

↺ Get into Linux in under an hour on a Raspberry Pi
↺ EOMA-68 PC-on-a-card goes dual-core, supports Debian Linux, has new accessories in the works
↺ Tiny control computer runs Linux on Atmel ARM9 SoC
↺ Rugged Mini-ITX board runs quad-core AMD Kabini SoC

Phones

Ballnux

↺ Backup program allows root access to LG smartphones

Android

↺ Android 4.3 Leaked!
↺ New MIPS processors coming, may target Android

Sub-notebooks/Tablets

↺ First Tizen Tablet is a Quad-Core Powerhouse

Free Software/Open Source

↺ Free Software post-PRISM
↺ Adobe open sources Flash C++ compiler

Web Browsers

Chrome

↺ Google adds native Microsoft Word and Excel file editing to latest Chrome OS build

Mozilla

↺ Firefox 22 offers real-time video communications and faster JavaScript
↺ Serious accusations against AdBlock Plus

SaaS/Big Data

↺ Apache gets a PaaS
↺ Upcoming ownCloud Enterprise 5 improves authentication speed
↺ MapR: De-Facto Apache Hadoop Distribution for Big Data Partners?

Healthcare

↺ Two deep dives into open source EHR

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

↺ Your input needed: Questions for panel w/ Eben Moglen, RMS, 4 MEPs
↺ GNU lightning 2 second alpha is available
↺ Hi, I’m Sankha, summer campaigns intern

Programming

↺ Rails 4.0 rolls out to reduce client-side coding

Leftovers

↺ The Big Comparison Of Google Reader RSS Feed Alternatives
↺ A hail and farewell to AltaVista

Health/Nutrition

↺ 120,000 People Cut Off From Aid

Security

↺ Google’s Transparency Report shows malware spread

Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression

↺ U.S. Begins Shipping Arms for Syrian Rebels
↺ American killed in Egypt rival demonstrations
↺ US student among dead as riot-ridden Egypt descents into ‘security crisis’
↺ Governor seeks to delay freeing 10K Calif. inmates
↺ Hollywood helped Adolf Hitler with Nazis’ propaganda drive, academic claims
↺ Rogue drone crashes, gives up operator’s secrets
↺ Drone protest planned at Horsham Air Guard Station
↺ The NYPD Embedded Four CIA Officers After 9/11
↺ UK ‘must come clean’ on GCHQ support for CIA drone strikes, says Reprieve
↺ Assange: US waging war against whistleblowers
↺ CIA Report to US Congress Justifies Torture Programs
↺ CIA Presence in NYPD Leads to Charges of Domestic Spying
↺ CIA Classifies NFL As Domestic Terrorist Organization
↺ Polish Authorities Must Ensure Independent Investigation Into Secret CIA Prison – OpEd
↺ Pentagon Helicopters Purchased from Syrian Enabler May Never Fly
↺ Senate lays out $625.1 billion for the National Defense Authorization Act

Cablegate

↺ More leaks on way, says Assange
↺ More details in the pipeline, Assange pledges
↺ Julian Assange To Appear On ABC News’ ‘This Week’
↺ Revealed: WikiLeaks volunteer and Assange confidant doubled as FBI mole
↺ Manning trial: Judge rules WikiLeaks tweets relevant to ‘aiding the enemy’ charges
↺ Edward Snowden’s exposé ‘tip of the iceberg’: Assange
↺ WikiLeaks volunteer was a paid informant for the FBI
↺ WikiLeaks volunteer snitched for the FBI
↺ Report reveals identity of FBI informant infiltrated into ‎Wikileaks
↺ WikiLeaks volunteer claims he was paid $5,000 as an FBI mole
↺ Bitcoiners donate to WikiLeaks to support Edward Snowden
↺ WikiLeaks’ Baltasar Garzón, the man Edward Snowden wants on his side

Finance

↺ Will the Fed chair finally crack down on Wall Street?
↺ Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?
↺ U.S. feds make their first-ever Bitcoin seizure

Censorship

↺ Dentist Threatens Patient Who Left Yelp Criticism With Criminal Charges

Privacy

↺ Who is Leaking More: Edward Snowden or the Government Officials Condemning Him?
↺ The Daily News has officially committed this week the most heinous act in contemporary journalism.
↺ Senators’ letter to US director of national intelligence James Clapper
↺ Ex-Microsoft adviser backs Snowden leaks
↺ Royal Family granted new right of secrecy
↺ Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day
↺ The NSA Can’t Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner
↺ Guardian editors discuss NSA surveillance with Charlie Rose – video
↺ India’s new surveillance network will make the NSA green with envy
↺ U.S. Prism, Meet China’s Golden Shield
↺ What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter
↺ If PRISM doesn’t freak you out about cloud computing, maybe it should, says privacy expert
↺ Why Monopolies Make Spying Easier
↺ Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden Urge President Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum
↺ Revealed: Whistleblower Edward Snowden posted comments attacking citizen surveillance while working for CIA
↺ Senators accuse government of using ‘secret law’ to collect Americans’ data
↺ Stellar Wind: NSA collected US email records for more than two years under Obama
↺ Total Surveillance
↺ Contra George Mitchell, NSA Surveillance Is Not a Minor Issue
↺ Obama Defends NSA Surveillance, But Is Anyone Buying It?

Civil Rights

↺ Secret no-fly list blamed for American’s Bangkok nightmare
↺ NPR: And Now, for Balance, Bigots and Big Coal
↺ Charges finally dropped against eighth-grader who wore NRA shirt to school
↺ Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months

Intellectual Monopolies

Copyrights

↺ The Miracle in Marrakesh: Copyright Reform to End the “Book Famine”
↺ Police plot against intellectual property profiteers
↺ UK Government Announces New Intellectual Property Crime Unit

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