Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #220 – Email, IoT, Edge, View Source And AwesomeWM is Alive!
220 – Linux For The Rest Of Us
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2019 ANNUAL
TECHCON UNPLUGGED
September 20-22 | Grand Rapids, MI
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Email:
Hey Door,
I’m glad to see LFTROU is back publishing on a regular basis. I recently launched my own Linux-based blog at cvilleFOSS.blog. (I live in Charlottesville, Virginia, hence the name). My focus is on advising self-employed professionals and small businesses on how to incorporate Linux and FOSS into their own work. I myself am a self-employed legal writer.
Regarding your discussion of Homebank on Episode 219, I’d like to suggest another nice piece of accounting software for Linux. For many years I’ve used a command-line tool called hledger (http://hledger.org/) to do all of my business bookkeeping. I plan to do a series of posts about hledger on cvilleFOSS in February. Hledger basically prepares reports based on a plaintext journal file; hledger also has a tool for making the journal entries. What I like about this approach is the journal file does not depend on some third-party or proprietary format (like .qif), so I never lose access to my raw financial data.
Anyhow, keep up the good work with LFTROU and Podnutz!
Skip
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ODROID-H2
Hardkernel has released their first X86 based single board computer, The ODROID-H2, which marks a new era of expandable, customizable SBCs.
https://ameridroid.com/collections/single-board-computer/products/odroid-h2
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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
If we pay for it, we should be able to use it. Perhaps because many free software coders have been outsiders and rebels, less attention is paid to the use of open source in government departments than in other contexts.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source
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hledger.org
Friendly, robust, plain text accounting. hledger is an accounting program, for tracking money, time, or other commodities. It is cross platform and released under GNU GPLv3.
http://hledger.org/
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cvilleFOSS
FOSS stands for free and open source software. This refers to a method of distributing software rather than its price. In fact, there are many companies that make money supporting FOSS.
https://cvillefoss.blog/
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Free software made it on laptops but IoT future is bleak
The biggest problem facing people interested in free and open source software is the lack of alternative firmware for IoT devices, president of the Software Freedom Conservancy Bradley Kuhn told Linux.conf.au in Christchurch on Friday.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-made-it-on-laptops-but-iot-future-is-bleak/
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Bringing open-source rhyme and reason to edge computing: LF Edge
Edge Computing is becoming increasingly important with the rise of 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT). Unfortunately, there’s no standardization to Edge Computing. So far.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/bringing-open-source-rhyme-and-reason-to-edge-computing-lf-edge/
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Paying tribute to the web with View Source
The web isn’t just another software platform. It’s the greatest software platform the world has ever seen. And yet even in its obvious glory, we’re still learning how to be grateful for all its constituent parts. Take View Source, for example. I owe much of my career to View Source.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/paying-tribute-to-the-web-with-view-source/
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Awesome 4.3 Window Manager Brings Better DPI Handling, Widget Improvements
Over two years since the unveiling of the Awesome 4.0 window manager and one and a half years since the Awesome 4.2 release, out today is Awesome 4.3 for this X11 window manager. Awesome 4.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Awesome-WM-4.3-Released
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How I’m (slowly) moving off the cloud with Nextcloud
There was one thing I had in mind when coming up with these goals: I didn’t just want my personal cloud to be private, I wanted it to be convenient. The most important thing here is a proper power supply.
https://medium.com/@rohit_kapur/how-im-slowly-moving-off-the-cloud-with-nextcloud-460118a7723d
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Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for Next-Gen AV1 Codec
Intel published its own open source CPU-based encoder for the next-generation and royalty-free AV1 codec (a codec is a program for encoding / decoding a digital data stream or signal).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-svt-av1-open-source-encoder,38551.html
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Why no one really quits Google or Facebook
Another week, another set of scandals at Facebook and Google. This past week, my colleagues reported that Facebook and Google had abused Apple enterprise developer certificates in order to distribute info-scraping research apps, at times from underage users in the case of Facebook.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/why-no-one-really-quits-google-or-facebook/
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Getting PipeWire
Capture and playback of audio and video with minimal latency. Real-time Multimedia processing on audio and video.
https://pipewire.org/
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PipeWire Should Be One Of The Exciting Linux Desktop Technologies For 2019
One of the Linux desktop technologies that is quite exciting and will hopefully see more widespread adoption this year is the Red Hat backed PipeWire initiative.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PipeWire-2019-Looking-Good
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