● 01.29.15

● Links 29/1/2015: Android Shipments in 2014 Exceed 1,000,000,000, LibreOffice 4.4 is Out

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Desktop

↺ The 5 best open source email clients for Linux

Kernel Space

↺ As simple As That

Applications

↺ Aptik – Backup Your PPAs, Themes, Icons, And Application Settings In Ubuntu

Instructionals/Technical

↺ How To Install Openfire On CentOS 7
↺ How to Patch Drupal Sites
↺ Upgrading to CentOS 7 – Part Three
↺ An atomic upgrade process for OpenStack compute nodes
↺ Lenovos X1 Carbon 3rd touchpad woes

Games

↺ Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering
↺ Aspyr’s Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It’s Out, We Have Keys For You

Distributions

Reviews

↺ Variety Review – A Wallpaper Manager You Didn’t Know You Wanted

New Releases

↺ GParted Live Now Supports Microsoft’s New Filesystem, ReFS
↺ Papyros Is a Linux OS That Follows Google’s Material Design and It Looks Stunning
↺ BackBox Linux 4.1 released!

Red Hat Family

↺ CoreOS Releases Building Block For Distributed Systems

Fedora

↺ DNF Plugins Extend The Functionality Of Fedora’s Yum Successor

Debian Family

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ 7 reasons why I prefer elementary OS Freya over Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”
↺ Don’t Use Ubuntu, Use Mint – or elementary
↺ OpenJDK 7 Vulnerabilities Closed in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10
↺ Ubuntu Touch Apps Can Now Be Launched In A New Windowed Mode
↺ Ubuntu Users See Private, Hybrid Cloud Expansion
↺ Ubuntu 15.04 Now Based on Linux Kernel 3.18.4, Devs Are Tracking the 3.19 Branch

Flavours and Variants

↺ Introducing BodhiBuilder

Devices/Embedded

↺ Tough multi-display controller runs Linux on i.MX6

Phones

Android

↺ Airdroid – Transfer files between Android Phones/Tablets and Linux (Any Distribution)
↺ Android shipments in 2014 exceed 1 billion for first time
↺ 1B Android phones shipped in 2014, but they don’t all help Google
↺ Android beats iOS for app downloads, but revenues are still a different story
↺ HTC One M8 Android 5.0 Lollipop Update: What U.S. Owners Can Expect
↺ Samsung Galaxy S4 Updated To The Android Lollipop 5.0 OS
↺ Don’t wait for Android 5.0, this app makes your phone look like Lollipop for free
↺ Is this Apple’s secret weapon that could force Android users to buy an iPhone?
↺ Android 5.0.2 Lollipop Problems Frustrating Nexus Users

Free Software/Open Source

Web Browsers

↺ From Opera to… Vivaldi!

SaaS/Big Data

↺ Hortonworks Spreads its Open Source Wings to Bring Governance to Hadoop

Oracle/Java/LibreOffice

↺ LibreOffice 4.4 Released as the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever
↺ The best open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4, gets new release
↺ LibreOffice 4.4 Released With Major UI Revamp

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

↺ GNU Guix 0.8.1 released
↺ Libreboot X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

Openness/Sharing

Open Hardware

↺ Your Open Source 3D Printed Designs Could Save the 3D Printing Community Millions

Programming

↺ LLVM Adds Options To Do Fuzz Testing

Standards/Consortia

↺ YouTube flushes Flash for future flicks
↺ YouTube ditches Adobe Flash for HTML5 on most browsers
↺ 10 capabilities we want to see in HTML6

Leftovers

↺ Looks like those IBM layoffs have started

Health/Nutrition

↺ Have we reached ‘peak food’? Shortages loom as global production rates slow
↺ NHS – Calling for a minor change in Policy..

Security

↺ Security updates for Thursday
↺ The FTC Calls for Lockdown Security on the Internet of Things

Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression

↺ US Drone Strike in Yemen Killed 12-Year-Old Student
↺ CIA operations to aid Syrian rebels go bad
↺ Covert CIA Mission to Arm Syrian Rebels Goes Awry
↺ Exclusive: Obama Cuts Off Syrian Rebels’ Cash
↺ Should The U.S. Military Be Educators?

Transparency Reporting

↺ Open Letter in Defence of WikiLeaks Journalists

Finance

↺ Germans Are in Shock As New Greek Leader Starts With A Bang

PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying

↺ Pat Robertson Advises Elderly Woman to Take Out a Reverse Mortgage to Send His Group Money
↺ How Fox News Is Helping The GOP Disingenuously Rebrand Itself As The Party Of The Middle Class

Privacy

↺ Let’s make being ‘Wrong on Rights’ unelectable
↺ Gag order prevented Google from disclosing WikiLeaks probe for 3 years
↺ Council of Europe: Surveillance is bad and doesn’t stop terrorism

Civil Rights

↺ The Tsarnaev trial and the rest of us
↺ Seth Rogen and Michael Moore banned from steakhouse over American Sniper
↺ Here’s what moviegoers in Baghdad think of ‘American Sniper’
↺ 7 heinous lies “American Sniper” is telling America
↺ Killing Ragheads for Jesus
↺ S.F. public defender detained outside court; office outraged
↺ Sterling Conviction a Victory for Government’s Right to Hide
↺ This is how a police state protects “secrets”: Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence
↺ Eric Holder plugs his legacy on leak cases
↺ VIDEO: CIA Whistle Blower Found Guilty Proves That Using “Proper Channels” Doesn’t Work
↺ CIA Officer’s Conviction to Discourage More Intelligence Leaks
↺ CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling found guilty on all counts
↺ The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling
↺ ACLU asks judge to block attempt to repossess copies of CIA torture report
↺ ACLU: Don’t Let Senate Block Full CIA ‘Torture Report’ Release
↺ Meet the CIA’s secret protector: Why Sen. Richard Burr is its favorite “overseer”
↺ Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
↺ CIA: A spy agency gone rogue?
↺ US Incarceration System Facilitates Breakdown of Society
↺ US Spy Agency CIA Heading For A Shake Up: Top Spy To Step Down
↺ Spy panel shakeup will add focus on cyber, CIA
↺ LoBiondo named chairman of House CIA subcommittee
↺ LoBiondo named chairman of the House Subcommittee on Central Intelligence Agency
↺ Former CIA spies come in from the cold as Hollywood players
↺ Feinstein Slams CIA Report as Error-Riddled
↺ Feinstein Disputes CIA Report on Spying on Senate
↺ Feinstein offers 15 point rebuttal to report on CIA
↺ Egypt’s War on Atheism

Internet/Net Neutrality

↺ Google reveals where AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable will next offer Gbps broadband
↺ Defending net neutrality is a fight for human rights

DRM

↺ Drone maker DJI will disable its units over Washington, DC, after White House crash

Intellectual Monopolies

Copyrights

↺ Canadian Government Spies on Millions of File-Sharers

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