Don't count on any (security) updates during the Christmas holidays from Canonical

// Being down voted on /r/ubuntu . somebody doesn't like this news coming out. Posting it here also.

Canonical did not push out "any" security updates this last Christmas holiday season yet some critical fixes should have been pushed a.s.a.p.

The last security update came out on 18 December 2019.

[https://linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ubuntu](https://linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ubuntu)

Looking at the Eoan changes mailing list the last update was pushed on Friday 20 December 2019 and then nothing came out of the company any more:

[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/eoan-changes/2019-December/thread.html](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/eoan-changes/2019-December/thread.html)

Security doesn't stop when you send out all of your workers on holiday leave Canonical!

Its 6 January 2020 09:00 western European time and still no updates.

Ubuntu, The leading operating system, but not during the holidays apparently :(

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Hiri is the Microsoft Outlook Client For Linux

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[Now I can use Ubuntu and still have the Microsoft Exchange Integration](https://preview.redd.it/qce3k1f8e4941.jpg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=045729effb3ce27c3901ba28735b737e7d0047d0)

I am documenting my 2020 goal to use only Ubuntu Linux at work.

[https://johnpili.com/hiri-is-the-microsoft-outlook-client-for-linux/](https://johnpili.com/hiri-is-the-microsoft-outlook-client-for-linux/)

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Major security flaw with Manjaro pamac
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/should-i-be-concerned-if-one-of-my-manjaro-installs-is-updating-without-requiring-a-sudo-password/117999

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What's the most important thing to do before cutting down the electricity?

I'm working on a project, where the device which I'm using would often lose power almost immediately without a warning. It has a "small" capacitor, which can supply power for about a second, or less, which is certainly not enough for a proper shutdown. The device is notified when the main power is off. What is the most important thing to do in that split second? (Unmounting the drive would be I guess a good choice, because the data I'm collecting is pretty much crucial)

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How to make to work properly an active pen on ubuntu

I am looking for an ubuntu version that is able to reach full compability with my stylus : wacom bamboo ink 2.

The features in which i am interested in are :

\- pen autodetection

\- palm rejection

\- pressure identificatione

\- buttons functions

\- etc

My hardware configuration is : HP Pavillion X2 12-b102nl (wacom digitizer).

Once ubuntu is installed, which are the configuration steps needed to make the stylus work?

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What do you think about Google Stadia blaming Linux kernel of their own inability?

Malte Skarupke, game developer at Google Stadia (which so far has been a total disaster) blames the Linux kernel of the latency issues they experienced. This is the post entry:

https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinlocks-and-how-bad-the-linux-scheduler-really-is/

What do you think? This is my view on the issue:

For starters, as far as I'm concerned it is not Linux kernel's bussiness to tell you what synchronisation mechanism to use. But "measuring" spinlocks in user-space is not a good way to go.

Furthermore, if you are really interested in having perfect timing, you should make your threads real-time. The Linux kernel already implements deadline policies that take into account the time constraints (SCHED_DEADLINE) as well as soft real-time policies (rt.c).

From my point of view this is a typical case of someone writing something for Windows and then expecting it to work equally well on Linux.

Edit: Now that I think about it is kind of laughable that they blame some miliseconds lost within the kernel of how slow does their gigantic-Cloud-gaming shit operates.

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Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/06/linux_2020_278_million_lines_of_code_in_the_kernel_13_million_in_systemd/

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lsvine - List contents of directories in a vine-like format

I built [lsvine](https://github.com/autofitcloud/lsvine) to be like [tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(command)) but with the first-level directories distributed horizontally (and dangling downwards, hence like a vine).

Here's a comparison between `ls`, `tree`, and `lsvine.`

# ls testdir/
d1 d2 d3 f1 f2 f3

# tree testdir/
testdir/
├── d1
│   ├── f4
│   ├── f5
│   └── f6
├── d2
│   ├── f7
│   ├── f8
│   └── f9
├── d3
│   ├── d4
│   │   └── f15
│   ├── f10
│   ├── f11
│   ├── f12
│   ├── f13
│   └── f14
├── f1
├── f2
└── f3

4 directories, 15 files


# lsvine testdir/
0_root d1 d2 d3
-------- ---- ---- ----
f1 f4 f7 d4
f2 f5 f8 f10
f3 f6 f9 f11
f12
f13
f14


This format is appealing to me as it compacts the information a bit and displays it in a [trello](https://trello.com)\-like format.

To install it, `pip3 install --user lsvine`

Source is published at [https://github.com/autofitcloud/lsvine](https://github.com/autofitcloud/lsvine)

What do you think?

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Weston added support for HDCP drm
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/48/diffs?commit_id=05dc6b86431fe040f91ca7b4cf122fa9dc4dd8dd

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Can't dual boot anymore

Hello,

I have both Windows 10 and a Linux distro installed on my laptop. A few weeks ago, after an update on Windows 10, I somehow lost the ability to boot on Linux. Usually, when booting, I had the option to choose between both, but now it automatically boots on Windows 10. I'm completely lost on what to do to resolve this. Any clue?

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DragonBox Pyra Project Leader starts shipping devices to pre-order customers!
https://twitter.com/EvilDragon1717/status/1209090532888252417

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Reproducible Builds in December 2019
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2019-12/

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Python2 removal for focal ...
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-January/040869.html

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Old German Linux Documentary
https://invidio.us/watch?v=JNbnW8P_PXs

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Wish I could daily drive Linux on all my devices

I own 2 laptops and a desktop.
My 2nd laptop has deepin installed on it as a main but my main laptop which has a GTX 1050 TI is only dual booting deepin and windows 10.

My desktop is only Windows 10 and all this is mostly due to gaming and VR. I've been looking into maining Linux as a daily driver on all 3 but it just doesn't seem possible cause I love gaming and VR and I've tried steam proton and steam remote play with latest Linux Nvidia drivers but it either doesn't run or runs pretty bad :(

But God damn other than that Linux is simply amazing and I love it

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November and December Update for FreeCAD & Debian Science - Kurt Kremitzki's Blog
https://www.kwk.systems/blog/posts/november-and-december-update-for-freecad-debian-science/

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Malwarebytes Browser Guard (free) on systems that do not meet requirements – Linux, FreeBSD etc.

A question for Linux users of the extension:

* have you found any *Linux-specific* problem with the extension?

I'll cross-post to /r/freebsd …

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Downloads:

* [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/malwarebytes-browser-guar/ihcjicgdanjaechkgeegckofjjedodee)
* [Mozilla](https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/malwarebytes/)

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Enve 2d animation software for linux

[https://github.com/MaurycyLiebner/enve/releases/tag/continuous](https://github.com/MaurycyLiebner/enve/releases/tag/continuous)

​

[https://www.patreon.com/enve](https://www.patreon.com/enve)

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HBO Go now works "natively" on Linux

Pretty sure it didn't work a few weeks ago but I tried it a few days ago and was surprised that it just worked (Fedora 31, Firefox 71.0 -- no Pipelight or Wine or other workarounds). I enabled Widevine DRM, went to [https://play.hbogo.com](https://play.hbogo.com), and signed in using my cable provider credentials (Comcast Xfinity).

I binged on "Chernobyl" and it was mostly fine except for some tearing at fullscreen (Gnome Classic on Xorg -- need to try Wayland).

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Introduction to the Linux goto shell utility
https://opensource.com/article/20/1/directories-autocomplete-linux

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Extending the lifetime of smartphones with Replicant, a fully free Android distribution [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-oio-169-extending-the-lifetime-of-smartphones-with-replicant-a-fully-free-android-distribution

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