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20 Years of GIMP
by Peter Reutemann 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

'Back in 1995, University of California students Peter Mattis and Kimball Spencer were members of the eXperimental Computing Facility, a Berkeley campus organization. In June of that year, the two hinted at their intentions to write a free graphical image manipulation program as a means of giving back to the free software community. On November 21st, 20 years ago today, Peter Mattis announced the availability of the "General Image Manipulation Program" on Usenet (later "GNU Image Manipulation Program"). Over the years, GIMP amassed a huge amount of new features designed for all kinds of users and practical applications: general image editing, retouching and color grading, digital painting, graphic design, science imaging, and so on. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, there is an update of the current stable branch of GIMP. The newly released version 2.8.16 features support for layer groups in OpenRaster files, fixes for layer groups support in PSD, various user interface improvements, OSX build system fixes, translation updates, and more.' -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/11/22/2019259 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Fwd: [Roundcube Announce] Roundcube Webmail 1.2-beta out now
by Simon Green 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Good morning all, Roundcube 1.2-beta has been released, Among other enhancements, this release supports either server side or client side PGP encryption. As far as I know, this is the first open source web based e-mail client that does so. -- Simon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Roundcube Announce] Roundcube Webmail 1.2-beta out now Date: 24/11/2015 5:15 am From: Thomas Bruederli <thomas(a)roundcube.net> We're proud to announce that the beta release of the next major version 1.2 of Roundcube webmail is out now for download and testing. With this milestone we introduce new features primarily focusing on security and PGP encryption: * PHP7 compatibility * PGP encryption * Drag-n-drop attachments from mail preview to compose window * Mail messages searching with predefined date interval * Improved security measures to protect from brute-force attacks And of course plenty of small improvements and bug fixes. The PGP encryption support in Roundcube comes with two options: Mailvelope -------------- The integration of this browser plugin [1] for Firefox and Chrome comes out of the box in Roundcube 1.2 and is enabled if the Mailvelope API is detected in a user's browser. See the Mailvelope documentation [2] how to enable it for your site. Read more about the Mailvelope integration and how this looks like in Alec's blog [3]. Enigma plugin ------------------- This Roundcube plugin adds server-side PGP encryption features to Roundcube. Enabling this means that users need to fully trust the webmail server as encryption is done on the server GnuPG and private keys are also stored there. In order to activate server-side PGP encryption for all your users, the 'enigma' plugin, which is shipped with this package, has to be enabled in the Roundcube config. See the plugin's README for details. Also read Alec's blogpost about the Enigma plugin and how it works [4]. Both encryption features are pretty new and not yet perfectly documented. We'd much appreciate your feedback and your contribution to the end-user documentation [5] or our wiki page [6]. IMPORTANT: with this version, we finally deprecate some old Roundcube library functions [7]. Plugin developers, please test your plugins thoroughly and look for deprecation warnings in the logs. These function will be removed in the final 1.2.0 release and can therefore render plugins dysfunctional. See the full changelog on trac.roundcube.net [8] and download the new packages from https://roundcube.net/download Please note that this is a beta release and we recommend to test it on a separate environment. And don't forget to backup your data before installing it! Enjoy and please share your experience either through our mailing lists or as comments in the blog posts mentioned above. Kind regards, Thomas [1] https://www.mailvelope.com [2] https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help#watchlist [3] https://kolabian.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/mailvelope-integration-pgp-encryp… [4] https://kolabian.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/enigma-plugin-pgp-encryption/ [5] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Online_Help [6] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Dev_Encryption [7] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/program/include/bc.p… [8] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog

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Rebel Geeks: Meet Your Maker
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Some on this list should be interested in this series on Al Jazeera called “Rebel Geeks”. The episode this week featured Massimo Banzi, one of the founders of Arduino, at the Maker Faire in Shenzhen, China. It also talks about the Safecast project, which was a volunteer group that came together in the wake of the Fukushima disaster to provide radiation data more extensive than anything the Government was able to offer. You can watch it on-line here <http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rebelgeeks/2015/11/technology-maker-mov…>.

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Linux Mint 1.73 BETA
by Peter Reutemann 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" BETA is out, using Cinnamon and MATE: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2937 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2938 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Open source projects rely on donated time—what motivates participants?
by Peter Reutemann 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

"Open source software packages like WordPress and Firefox have been major influences on modern computing. In statistics, open source software known as “R” has become the most popular environment for statistical computation and data analysis. A recent paper in PNAS studied the developers who make this software so successful to understand what motivates them and why they find contributing satisfying." -- source: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/open-source-projects-rely-on-donated… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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The Dirk And Linus Show Comes To Seoul
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Snippets from <http://lwn.net/Articles/662106/>: Is there anybody out there who understands the entire kernel? Linus said that nobody does. There are some people who have a good overview of the whole kernel, and Linus, at least, generally knows who to blame for any specific problem. But with a project the size of the kernel it's not possible for anybody to have a deep understanding of the whole thing. ... With regard to how an aspiring kernel developer should start, Linus has always said the same thing: he can't tell developers what to do. It is important, instead, that developers work on things they *want* to do. ... How many kernel compiles has he done? It used to take about twelve minutes to compile a kernel; over time, the kernel has gotten bigger, but the hardware has gotten faster; the current time is about 22 minutes for an allmodconfig kernel. He does about ten builds per day during the merge window, a couple otherwise. Kernel development has been happening for about 8800 days; the bottom line, Linus guessed, was about 100,000 compiles. ... What about the Git project — what made that project successful? Linus gave a lot of credit to BitKeeper which, despite its licensing issues, changed how the kernel community did development. Git, of course, is an [Linus Torvalds] improvement on BitKeeper, but BitKeeper showed the benefits of distributed development when nobody else was working in that area. Once Git was around, its use by the kernel community helped it to spread quickly. Its immutable object model turned out to make it easy for service providers to use, enabling companies like GitHub. Ten years ago, developers were resistant to thinking about source-code management issues; Git forced them to look at it and to realize how much better distributed source-code management is. Git was not the first in this area, but it was the one that created wide awareness of a better way of doing things.

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WLUG AGM next Monday
by Peter Reutemann 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hi everyone Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is next week on Monday. Agenda (preliminary) - President's Report - Treasurer's Report - Election of 2016 Committee - Consumption of pizza http://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/events/226192341/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Calibrate your Monitor with these Open Source Tools
by Peter Reutemann 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

"What is seen on your display and what the image should look like can be two quite different things. If you value image quality and accuracy, calibration of your monitor will be important. Anyone involved in digital photography, graphic design or artwork will recognise the importance that their monitor is producing the best results, showing true colors and black levels. The following open source tools are invaluable for anyone looking for accurate color reproduction." -- source: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/calibrate-your-monitor-with-these-… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Sourceforge going mubar?!
by Ian Young 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Anyone happen to know whether Sourceforge is more than usually impaired at the moment (messed up beyond all recognition)? Any download I attempt is extremely slow, this from two networks. And Australia seems to been excised from the map of mirrors. Don't even get me started on the wall to wall advertising, and the cumbersome process of displaying info on whatever project one is trying to d/l after a d/l has commenced.

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Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support
by Peter Reutemann 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

"Linux 4.4-rc1 has been released. New features of Linux 4.4 include a Raspberry Pi kernel mode-setting driver, support for 3D acceleration by QEMU guest virtual machines, AMD Stoney APU support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 support, expanded eBPF virtual machine programs, new hardware peripheral support, file-system fixes, faster SHA crypto support on Intel hardware, and LightNVM / Open-Channel SSD support." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/11/16/0313205 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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