Here is a next update for my ‘Digital Audio Workstation’ (DAW) software collection.

Today, 28th of May 2020, the Audacity multi-track audio recorder turns 20 years old! This is a nice moment to also release the Slackware packages (only targeting -current, sorry) for their latest and greatest, Audacity 2.4.1 which was released a week ago as a quick bug-fix to the long-awaited 2.4.0.

Along with this new Audacity release, I also have new packages for wxGTK3 (3.0.5.1) which you’ll need for Audacity to show its graphical user interface...

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In homage to the revolutionary age of 1776, System76 revolutionizes open source technology and declares independence from our proprietary rulers. But what are the key ingredients that go into making a computer so revolutionary? The following delicious details outline the qualities we value in all of our computers. Note: Licking your screen is not an effective way to taste the deliciousness of this blog post.

System76 users depend on heavy computational power to get their work done, and in some cases require a literal heavy computer. Our hardware is designed to support top-line processors and graphics cards, allowing you to consistently plow through your workload. We’re not going to call on a sedan to do a bulldozer’s job.

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After our previous general presentation of ZSys, it’s “”“time”“” to deep dive to one of its main predominant feature: state management!

A little technical detour first. as this question will necessarily arise, especially from those familiar with ZFS concepts.

We have purposively chosen the “state” terminology to prevent system administrators and in general, all those familiar with ZFS to confuse if with snapshot datasets.

Basically a state is a set of datasets, all frozen in time (apart from the current state), which regrouped together forms a system “state” that you can chose to reboot on.

Those group of datasets can be either made of snapshot datasets (read only) (which is what most of advanced ZFS users will expect), but it can also be filesystem datasets (read write), made of filesystem datasets clone of the current state datasets. You can boot to any of those.

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Android Studio 4.0 is out today with this IDE bringing a number of improvements for developing Google Android apps...

• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Subversion® 1.14.0-LTS

  The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Subversion® 1.14.0-LTS, the latest release of the popular centralized software version control system.

• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Subversion 1.14.0-LTS
• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Subversion® 1.14.0-LTS
• Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released

  For those making use of the Subversion centralized version control system as an alternative to Git, SVN 1.14 LTS is now available.

  With Subversion 1.14 being an LTS release, a particular emphasis was put on fixing bugs in this open-source VCS but there are also some new features. Subversion 1.14's Python bindings finally support Python 3 while maintaining Python 2 support, a new tool to support deduplication (svnadmin build-repcache), and more.

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The last week has produced a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots bringing the total amount of snapshots for the month to 18.

All 18 snapshots have recorded a stable rating above 91, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer. With 14 of them, recording a rating of 99 and the last two snapshots trending at a 99 rating.

The most recent 202000526 snapshot provided the 3.2.4 release of Wireshark. The new version fixed a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures where it was possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. Linux Kernel 5.6.14 re-established support for RTL8401 chip version. DNS server and client utilities package bind 9.16.3 fixed to security problems and added engine support for OpenSSL Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm implementation. Document viewer evince 3.36.1 updated translations, fixed an incorrect markup in the Czech User Interface and updated the French help image. SSL VPN client package openconnect 8.10 installed a bash completion script and fixed a potential buffer overflow with security communications library GnuTLS. GNOME’s 0.30.10 image organizer shotwell, which was the subject of a recently settled a patient lawsuit, modified web publishing authentication to comply with Google’s requirements.

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• Learning AI at school — a peek into the black box
• Turn Your Raspberry Pi into an Ad-Blocker

  While there are plenty of ad-blockers that can banish adverts from your laptop or computer, these rarely work on other devices, such as smartphones and tablets. This article will show you how to transform your Raspberry Pi into a network-wide ad blocker, using Pi-Hole. Once completed, you’ll be able to block ads across your laptop, computer, smartphone, tablet, and any other device that’s connected to your network.

• BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver

  With the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel merge window one of the features you still won't find in the mainline kernel is the VC4 DRM kernel driver supporting the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC and in turn the Raspberry Pi 4 open-source display support.

  Going back to February have been the VC4 DRM patches for the BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4. Sent out today is the third iteration of those patches albeit too late for seeing it hit DRM-Next in time for Linux 5.8.

• Raspbian Renamed as Raspberry Pi OS, New 64-Bit Beta Available Now

  With the launch of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 computer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation also unveiled today the renaming of their Debian-based Raspbian Linux operating system as Raspberry Pi OS.

  Developed in-house by the Raspberry Fi Foundation as the primary operating system for the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computers, Raspbian is based on the well-known Debian GNU/Linux operating system and uses a modified LXDE desktop environment called PIXEL or simply the Raspberry Pi Desktop.

  In an attempt to make Raspbian more popular and bump its adoption amongst the ever-growing Raspberry Pi community, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has decided to change the name of their GNU/Linux distribution after more than five years to Raspberry Pi OS.

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• How to Enable SSH Service in Ubuntu 20.04
• How to Fix ‘Folder Color’ Files Extension in Ubuntu 20.04
• How to Use the Powerful Xargs Command in Linux [Explained with Examples]
• How to Install Java Runtime in Ubuntu
• Using Curl to make REST API requests
• How to install Minecraft on Pop!_OS 20.04
• How to Install Microsoft OneNote in Linux
• How the fabric8 Maven plug-in deploys Java applications to OpenShift
• How To Linux Hard Disk Encryption With LUKS

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Maximator: evropsko elitno združenje za prisluškovanje

• Matej Huš :: 28. maj 2020 ob 18:28
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Slo-Tech - Od Snowdnovih razkritij pred sedmimi leti vemo za obseg sodelovanja, ki ga okviru zavezništva Petero oči na področju obveščevalnih službi izvajajo Avstralija, Kanada, Nova Zelandija, Velika Britanija in ZDA. Do letos pa je bilo precej manj znano dejstvo, da podobna združba obstaja tudi na Stari celini. Maximator je ime evropskega petčlanskega krožka, v katerem sodelujejo Danska, Francija, Nemčija, Nizozemska in Švedska. Prvi je o Maximatorju pisal Bart Jacobs z Univerze Radboud v nizozemskem Nijmegenu. Več na Slo-Techu.

• Viking strategy game Northgard gets a map editor, Steam Workshop support

  Northgard, the excellent real-time strategy game about warring viking tribes from Shiro Games just got another huge free update to expand what's possible with it.

  With the all-new Map Editor you can create, alter, and transform custom battlefields. Various parts of maps can be changed like placing resources, strategic structures, terrain elevation and more. It's a full built-in tool that's going to be a map makers dream for Northgard. Shiro said you can externally modify other parts of the game too like unit data and scripting to make entirely new parts like victory conditions. This also comes with Steam Workshop support for easy sharing and downloading.

• Steam Cloud Gaming confirmed with Steam Cloud Play

  According to new Steam documents, Valve will be launching Steam Cloud Gaming soon with a Beta of Steam Cloud Play.

  It will require developers to opt in, and they're required to support Cloud Saves (or another online save method), otherwise gamers will lose their data. Developers will continue to be paid the same way, since users still need to buy the games on Steam.

  Before you get too excited though, the documents say the first service connecting with it will be NVIDIA GeForce NOW. For Linux gamers then, it means next to nothing since NVIDIA have been silent on any plans for Linux support with it. However, it's clearly early on and Valve are still building features and adding to their server capacity.

• Build a Raspberry Pi 4 Retro-Gaming Console with RetroPie (Complete Guide)

  I love Linux, and I love retro-gaming, and in this video I show you how to create your very own retro-gaming console with RetroPie on the powerful new Raspberry Pi 4.

• Drox Operative 2 gets an action-packed trailer

  Coming soon is Drox Operative 2 from Soldak Entertainment, a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy.

  It was supposed to be releasing yesterday, May 27 but with delays to the Steam review process everything has been a bit delayed. On top of that, Soldak had their build rejected initially according to a blog post due to some minor issues that needing sorting. Drox Operative 2 might release this week, next week or later. Sometime soon, whenever Valve get to approvals again.

• Dungeons of Clay has a wild style and a lot of action

  The latest game from ShotX Studio has been announced with Dungeons of Clay, an ever-changing action-platformer dungeon crawler and it looks great.

  Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.

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  It's coming to Linux, just like their previous titles...

• Onsen Master is a hot spring customer management game

  You've built cities, managed theme parks and run across kitchens to prepare dishes but have you managed a hot spring before? I sure haven't and Onsen Master looks and sounds amusing.

  With gameplay that seems to resemble the idea of Overcooked that looks like it could be a lot of fun, as you rush around to prepare ingredients to heal up your visitors across the fantasy island of Izajima. You're tasked with reconnecting "the communities that surround each onsen, and discover the supernatural world that they've long since been disconnected from".

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Following our initial Core i5 10600K and Core i9 10900K Linux benchmarks last week, here is a much larger comparison I have been working on since then in looking specifically at the Ryzen 9 3900X and 3950X against the Core i9 10900K. It's the largest to date with nearly 400 benchmarks being tested, most of them real-world test cases.

As the first open-source code drop in two weeks, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 is out today as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver stack for Linux...

In traditional build tools like Make, targets and dependencies are always files. Imagine if you could specify an entire tree (directory) as a dependency: You could exhaustively specify a "build root" filesystem containing the toolchain used for building some target as a dependency of that target. Similarly, a rule that creates that build root would have the tree as its target. Using Merkle trees as first-class citizens in a build system gives great flexibility and many optimization opportunities. In this article, guest author David Röthlisberger explores this idea using OSTree, Ninja, and Python.

It's been a while since hearing of OpenVG as The Khronos Group's hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics API. But today they announced a "Lite" version of OpenVG 1.1...

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (dovecot, dpdk, knot-resolver, and unbound), Mageia (ant, libexif, and php), SUSE (libmspack), and Ubuntu (php5, php7.0, php7.2, php7.3, php7.4 and unbound).

Version 20.05 of the Genode open-source operating system framework is now available with many improvements...

For those making use of the Subversion centralized version control system as an alternative to Git, SVN 1.14 LTS is now available...

• The EPO Became a Very Radical Institution
• Allegations That Microsoft Will Ruin Besieged Clinics and Hospitals to Retaliate Against Those Who Name the Culprit
• Microsoft Has Ideas…
• ZDNet Proves Our Point by Doing Not a Single Article About Linux (RC7), Only About Linus and Windows Clickbait Junk
• UPC Lies That Make One Laugh…
• Canonical Continues to Help Promote Windows Instead of GNU/Linux or Ubuntu
• GNEW Seedlings vs. Free Software Deforestation
• IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
• IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
• Links 27/5/2020: CoreOS Container Linux Reaches Its End-Of-Life, 2020 GNOME Foundation Elections Coming

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• Android TV’s Ambient Mode starts rolling out support for Google Photos
• Mi TV Stick, Xiaomi's New Android-Based Streaming Device, Launching Soon: Report
• HBO Max is now available for $14.99/mo on Android, Android TV, and more platforms
• How to enable SD card storage for Android apps like Netflix or Plex on your Chromebook
• Android Fans Just got a Texting Upgrade. T-Mobile and Google Join Forces to Expand Rich Messaging (RCS)
• Today’s Android game/app deals + freebies: Dark Quest 2, Home Workouts, more
• OPPO Find X2, X2 Neo, X2 Lite, and Moto G7 Android 10 kernel source code now available
• OnePlus releases Android 10 update for OnePlus 5, 5T smartphones
• Android 10 for the Mi Mix 3 5G and Mi Mix 2 remains a pipe dream, but MIUI 12 could be on the cards
• Huawei P20 Pro and Mate 10 start getting EMUI 10 (Android 10) globally
• ColorOS 7 based on Android 10 coming to these Oppo phones in India
• German intelligence services find Berserk Bear in German infrastructure. Android vulnerabilities reported. Notes on COVID-19.
• Google Docs get new ‘document status’ indicator online, Android search bar
• Google accused of illegally tracking Android phone users
• New – AWS Amplify Libraries for Android and iOS
• ESET scores high in inaugural Android Security Apps for Corporate Users test

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Package management is one of the important features of any Linux distro that eases the method of Linux apps installation and maintenance. Different Linux distros follow different methods to package and distribute software.

But the same feature sometimes becomes a stumbling block for some people switching to different Linux distributions. They find it hard to understand the new package manager and fail to install the applications. To resolve such issues with multiple package managers, Linux distro has evolved to produce universal package management systems such as Snap, Appimage, and Flatpak.

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