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Assuming I'm reading this right:

D U O V F - Bdale Garbee
D U O V F - Russ Allbery
D U O V F - Don Armstrong
D U O V F - Keith Packard (Intel)
U D O F V - Colin Watson
U F D O V - Andreas Barth
F U D O V - Steve Langasek (Canonical)
F V O U D - Ian Jackson

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/...

D systemd
U upstart
O openrc
V sysvinit (no change)
F requires further discussion

http://www.muktware.com/2014/0...

So assuming left-to-right priority, 2 votes were for "further discussion." So it was more or less a 4-2 vote with 2 abstentions. Langasek's second choice was upstart, and Jackson's second choice was sysvinit. If they both went to the upstart side--which sounds like a quite reasonable outcome to me--we'd be looking at a 4-4 tie. If a tie-breaker is necessary to break deadlock, there is NO WAY you can call it "overwhelming."

Like I said before, 50%+1 (which this vote wasn't, even) is not my definition of "overwhelming." I dare say that most people would call that a majority (more votes than all other choices combined). This is merely a plurality, among a particularly small sample size at that.

Ich kann mit Übersetzungsschwierigkeiten sympathisieren.

You can use GNU/Linux, whether Ubuntu or even better, Trisquel. Another interesting one to try is Fedora: http://www.muktware.com/2012/0... and they also have another. Almost any distro can handle audio, some do this better than others in terms of plugins. This article is a tad dated, but also informative. http://createdigitalmusic.com/... There is no need to go the proprietary route unless you are looking for something very specific.

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YouTube goes 4K at CES, brings royalty free VP9 to fore front

There are some very big players moving in HEVC.

Netflix has tossed their hat in the 4K ring with the announcement of 4K streaming starting next month.

The jump from streaming 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 is not something that can be done by just flipping a switch. First of all, viewers need a 4K TV, which practically no one has yet. PCMag's Chloe Albanesius has informed us that Netflix's 4K content will require ''somewhere between 12 and 15 Mbps'' to stream properly. That;s a pretty serious connection which, again, not many .

By using H.265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) moving forward instead of the currently popular AVC H.264, Netflix thinks they will be able to stream the same quality they currently transmit at half the bitrate. Not only does this mean there's room for higher quality 4K streams, but the current HD content will be transmitted more efficiently.

It's unclear when we'll see 4K streaming available in standalone set-top boxes any time soon, or whether or not it will require new hardware in order to handle the increased resolution in the future, but for now it looks like the TV itself is the home for 4K streaming.

Netflix is bringing 4K streaming to TVs with H.265 and House of Cards [Dec 19]

An alternate submission links to another article about the use of a Debian base system as well as an unofficial torrent.

This claim appears to be mostly based on the fact that Linux Mint, by default, does not install certain updates, because they form a danger to the stability of the system.

While I don't use Debian based distros I would assume that all packages would be updated when their updates become available unless you explicitly forbid this in the apt-get configuration file (yum can do this as well). I can understand blocking a package if it is suspect but a better way would be to remove it.

If the developers don't like Firefox then send out a warning not to use it although it would IMHO make them lose credibility unless they could point to security issues that need addressing. Of course you could always install "Chrome" but do the developers have something against this browser.

Personally under Fedora 19 I use both Firefox (25.0) and Chrome (Version: 31.0.1650.48) which are pretty much the latest releases for that distribution. I also use both browsers for Internet Banking so why can't Mint use the latest version of Firefox, after all it is only a package that does not "taint" the kernel.

From the listing of the Firefox package (remember I am doing this under Fedora 19 however Debian based distros can do this as well):
1) /usr/bin/firefox --- The Firefox startup script, which in-turn points to the binary "/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox".
2) /usr/lib64/firefox --- The directory all libraries are installed under.
3) /usr/lib64/mozilla/extensions --- Any Firefox extensions you may have.
4) /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop --- Firefox desktop configuration.
5) /usr/share/icons/ --- Firefox icons.
6) /usr/share/man/man1/firefox.1.gz --- The manual entry.
That is it and when Firefox is started it runs under the user name (No one in their right mind runs as root ;)). So to the developers of Mint pray tell what issues have you found with Firefox since it could affect all Linux distributions.

I just happen to be researching my next device in another tab - I use a Verizon MVNO - the Galaxy S4 looks like the contender if I can find an unlocked CDMA version of it. I've already accepted the need for a bluetooth mini keyboard and an external battery pack to replace my Droid 3.

Then this came up so I followed links to links to specs. "Ah, I could support CyanogenMod. I don't really need 4G for anything. I'm always in it for the underdog".

But, "oh, no microSD slot."

If anybody has links for how to use an unlocked S4 on Verizon prepaid, much appreciated.

Well, it's probably because of something like this which makes it look like Red Hat possibly trying to influence a partner to put a competitor at a disadvantage:

http://www.muktware.com/5872/intel-red-hat-working-enabling-wayland-support-gnome

It seems more like Intel don't want to maintain Mir and would rather just maintain Wayland, which makes sense from their perspective, you can't expect them to maintain support for every display server and the fact that their drivers are open source means the display server author can maintain their own patches for the driver putting the onus on them instead.

I still don't understand how they intend it to work with AMD and nVidia, are those companies offering to maintain Mir support in their drivers?

Well, it's probably because of something like this which makes it look like Red Hat possibly trying to influence a partner to put a competitor at a disadvantage:

http://www.muktware.com/5872/intel-red-hat-working-enabling-wayland-support-gnome

Praise for chromecast among whom? I think the corporate media really pushed the thing to where it got initial traction, but it appears that the development community is turning against it with the lockdown on unauthorized streaming content.

From Google "We’re excited to bring more content to Chromecast and would like to support all types of apps, including those for local content. It's still early days for the Google Cast SDK, which we just released in developer preview for early development and testing only. We expect that the SDK will continue to change before we launch out of developer preview, and want to provide a great experience for users and developers before making the SDK and additional apps more broadly available."

http://www.muktware.com/5860/confirmed-chromecast-will-be-able-play-local-content-go-ahead-and-order-yours

Its on the front page of Slashdot...I find it a little peculiar you have not read it.

http://www.muktware.com/5239/how-install-kde-plasma-active-nexus-7

You know, Pixar use RHEL for workstation :
http://www.muktware.com/5536/pixar-animation-studios-uses-red-hat-enterprise-linux

Now, if this is classified as mission critical or not is a whole debate, but there is desktop that are important for business or you are losing time. Likely less than a server serving several clients of course, but no one will deny that some workstation exist and need to be up or you are losing money ( think trader for example ).

Sure, sure, the recent 100% CPU load on screenlocking bug on KDE 4.10.x for some people was really fun, I suppose.

No idea what you're talking about. I tried googling it but found nothing.

I have no idea what kind of "crucial for productivity" you need to update that often from the damn desktop /environment/.

I was referring to PIM applications. If you could read, you'd knew that.

As for the PIM if you value your crucial thing - just don't use KDE PIM period. It's just that bad.

Kontact 4.10 is great: http://www.muktware.com/5567/future-and-kde-pim – 4.8 however was only the second release with the new foundation. It contained bugs related to mail filtering. These bugs are all fixed in 4.9.x or 4.10.x, as far as I'm aware.

Evolution 3.6 also bought nice improvements.

As for non-PIM productivity applications: GNOME Boxes 3.4 is a mere tech preview. 3.8 is the current and much better release. GNOME Web is now based on WebKit2 which is a great improvement security-wise.
As I previously wrote: QtWebKit 2.3 has also been released with many important bug fixes but Debian 7.0 sticks blindly to QtWebKit 2.2. EVERY Qt-based application that uses WebKit to render some content has grave security risks with 2.2.

http://www.muktware.com/4529/why-google-killing-open-document-formats

Canonical is behaving very "weird" lately.

This is an interview with Jonathan Riddell, the lead on Kubuntu [1].

Quotes:

"I only had contact with the Linux Mint developer recently when Canonical claimed that they needed a licence to use the compiled packages from Ubuntu. This is a dangerous misunderstanding of copyright licencing from a company which should understand it. I advised Linux Mint to say some rude things to Canonical but I think they're too polite for that."

"Canonical has the trademark of Kubuntu so they had to get a trademark licence from Canonical which took many months of long and slow negotiations. It was very frustracting to have Canonical be the blocker for part of the Ubuntu community since Canonical should be an enabler for the Ubuntu community (at least when we don't compete directly). So we did look at changing the name of Kubuntu but were told by Mark we'd be kicked out the project if we did that which would be a worst case scenario for everyone."

"Since then Canonical has started asking for donations when downloading Ubuntu and one option is to give "Better support for flavours like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu Slider thumb". Kubuntu has never received any of these funds or seen any better support, so this is a disappointing case of fraud."

[1] http://www.muktware.com/5369/how-will-changes-ubuntu-affect-kubuntu-exclusive-interview-jonathan-riddell

The press has stopped listening to Mr Mueller, but there are still some lazy bloggers out their which take the bait. Mr Mueller when you point a finger at someone else the rest of the four fingers point at you and looking at your monotonous track-record (which is getting painfully boring). Mr Mueller should add a disclaimer to all of your posts that he gets paid by Microsoft and Oracle so people know "For someone so concerned with "integrity" it is utterly unusual to write extremely biased blogs against a particular party (Android in this case) only to be hired as a consultant by the opposition parties (Microsoft and Oracle in this case)."

The problem is Unity isn't even good on tablets or phones or whatnot. There was a story a few weeks back that revelead that much. So, the problem is Unity is a piece of crap that sucks for regular desktops and for tablets. It is just awful and should be "taken to a farm upstate" (read: shot in the face with a .50 gauge rifle)

sfcrazy writes with news that Linus pulled a patch by Igno Molnar to remove support for the 386 from the kernel.

At first I thought I was going crazy. If Linux "pulled a patch by Igno" to remove 386 support, then that would mean that he prevented the patch going in. So why does he add "Good riddance" at the bottom?

So then I read the second link and it actually says:

Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux kernel, (actually Ingo Molnar) has pulled the plugs on Intel's 386 processors.

I've been here a while and this is the first time I can remember that I've seen a story on Slashdot state the complete opposite of what actually happened. Geeeeesh.

Microsoft has also banned any GNU GPLv3 licences for these binaries.

'When you get to this stage, you also have to certify that the binary " to be signed must not be licensed under GPLv3 or similar open source licenses". I assume the fear here is key disclosure but it's not at all clear (or indeed what "similar open source licences" actually are).'

Despite Canonical and Red Hat having some kind of inexplicable anti-KDE agenda, KDE remains widely popular because it is a first class product of a strong, independent community of skilled developers with taste.

Recently you spoke out about software patents and the patent process. But I was interested in what you said about how "nasty" copyright issues could get. You use SCO as the obvious nightmare case but what about violations against open source licenses like the GPLv3? Would you care if someone forked the Linux kernel and made major modifications to it and started selling it without releasing the code to the customers? What does your ideal situation look like for open source and commercial closed source? Would you just copy the Finnish model and aren't you afraid American experts are just as daft as American juries?

This is flat out bullshit.

http://www.muktware.com/news/3273/linux-33-will-let-you-boot-android-greg-kh

Linux 3.3 will allow you to boot Android unmodified.

http://www.muktware.com/news/3012

The news was on most of the major sites, except slashdot.

Someone below said Android:

does not match what people would define as "Linux"

...but they refused to define who the people are and what their definition of Linux is.I'm going to put this argument not just to bed, but in its damn grave once and for all.

Let me quote someone for you all, Linus Torvalds, you know, the guy who created Linux from scratch and named it after himself (emphasis added):

In a separate incident Linus Torvalds the father of Linux expressed his anger at Google. Linus accused Google of undermining the role of Linux in Android. Due to Google's marketting of Android, apart from the tech-sisterhood, no one knows that Android is Linux. To give Linux its credit Linus is asking Google to call it Linux/Android or Android+Linux.

"I don't care if you put cart in front of horse or horse in front of cart. If you want to go somewhere you have to keep them together." ...

When RMS was asked to further explain his point, he said. "I have maintained from the very beginning that when you refer to whole system you must call it GNU+Linux or GNU/Linux but when you are referring only to the kernel its Linux and not GNU/Linux."

http://www.muktware.com/blogs/01/2011/943/richard-m-stallman-says-its-linux-not-gnulinux-linus-upset-android

Is it GNU/Linux? No. Is it Linux? YES. And going further, And speaking in reference to someone's claim that Google Android violated the GPL (emphasis added):

It seems totally bogus. We've always made it very clear that the kernel system call interfaces do not in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL, and the kernel details are exported through the kernel headers to all the normal glibc interfaces too. The kernel headers contain various definitions for the interfaces to user space, and we even actively try to make sure that the headers can be used by user space (and try to mark which of the headers are expected to be usable in such a way). Exactly because we know user space needs those details in order to interact with the kernel.
So I haven't looked at exactly what Google does with the kernel headers, but I can't see that they'd want to do anything fundamentally different from glibc in this respect.

Of course, we do have our own 'internal' headers too, and we have stuff that is meant to be relevant only for the kernel. But there would be no point for Google to even use those, since they are useless outside of the kernel, so I don't see what the whole brouhaha would be all about. Except if it's somebody politically motivated (or motivated by some need of attention). If it's some desperate cry for attention by somebody, I just wish those people would release their own sex tapes or something, rather than drag the Linux kernel into their sordid world.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24557/Torvalds_Android_GPL_Claims_quot_Totally_Bogus_quot_
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/014223/Linus-Says-Android-License-Claim-Is-Bogus

So, please, please, if you don't know what what you are talking about, refer to Linus and even RMS (shudder) who BOTH call Android Linux. So much so that RMS clarifies exactly how to call it Linux and Linus is pissed that it isn't named Linux!

DEBATE F%&^ING OVER! QED!

Firefox and Opera are NOT supporting h264 in the video tag.

Mozilla’s Robert O’Callahan wrote a big “Thanks Google!” on his blog and said that he is “surprised” and “delighted” that Google has made that decisions. “Incidentally, it’s also a good day for us at Mozilla: the pressure that was building on us to support H.264 should ease off considerably,” he wrote

http://www.conceivablytech.com/5155/business/mozilla-celebrates-google-webm-delays-firefox-4-beta-9/

Also Opera's support for h264 has nothing to do with money.

Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, "Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM.

http://www.muktware.com/n/12/2011/661