Late Night Linux Late Night Linux – Episode 09
Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and more on LNL 09.
News
Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written
Drupal needs a decent HR department
Mastodon is the latest social media fad, despite having been around for several years under different names. It might not last
Substantial update to Windows Subsystem for Linux
Entroware
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Jesse’s black box
Jesse tells us about the Raspberry Pi that he doesn’t connect to a network and asks whether it’s OK to avoid updates.
Admin
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Updates on the Ubuntu announcement
Ubuntu GNOME to merge with the main edition
Phones and tablet will only receive security patches until June 2017 (2 more months)
UBports to carry on with Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8; will integrate Anbox
Staff layoffs and CEO to leave
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM seems to only be aimed at servers
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