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Welcome to Episode 24 of Destination Linux Rob was unavailable this week due to business so we have two guys helping Co-host today Discussion Dustin www.ubuntubudgie.org Ryan – DasGeek www.youtube.com/c/DasGeek News Ubuntu 17.10 Daily Builds Now Shipping with the GNOME Desktop Instead of Unity Gnome is now the default Desktop LightDM has Gnome as default but also has a Wayland session available Unity session has been removed GDM to replace LightDM Final release date is October 19th 2017 GNOME is now the Default Desktop in Ubuntu 17.10 Daily Builds Ubuntu Works with GNOME to Improve HiDPI Support on Linux Desktop GNOME Shell 3.26 Will Have Translucent Top Bar Top bar will be Translucent by default and turn Opaque when a window is maximized There are extensions that do this right now but it will be default Dash to Dock Now Supports Multi-Monitor Setups Dash to Dock v59 Checkbox to “Show on All Monitors” Replicates the dock on both screens Setting to change the behavior of clicking on an icon with multiple windows open How to Enable Picture-in-Picture Mode in GNOME Shell Install Drop down menu and click the preview on Pick your window Which GNOME Apps Should Ubuntu Include By Default? [Poll] MX-16.1 released with support for Adobe Flash Improved system installer Supports home folder encryption (experimental feature) Fix for partition boot flags for certain systems Autoinstall now works for UEFI systems. Official Adobe Flash included on the iso, with permission from Adobe. MX-Flash is not on the iso and is now deprecated. Adobe Flash package will work with BOTH Firefox AND Chromium (includes original classic NPAPI and the PPAPI plugins ie: pepperflash) New default theme and new MX-Linux wallpapers. MX-Defaultlook and MX Panel Orientation have been merged. MX-Defaultlook now includes options for “top or bottom” placement of the horizontal bar, Improved backup and restore New MX-Packageinstaller, (as a supplement to synaptic) Updated Manual in html and pdf formats. apt-notifier has many bug fixes, right-click menu improvements, and a choice of icon themes under preferences (classic vs. mx16). New MX-Linux sourceforge site for iso hosting. Jessie 8.8 base Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Cinnamon – BETA Release Cinnamon 3.4 Icons can now be automatically aligned on a grid, either in lines or in columns. They can also be automatically sorted in various ways: By name, by size, by type or by modified date. You can also change desktop icon sizes with a click of a button, and desktop icons are now handled in their own separate process, which isn’t tied to other nemo windows. Cinnamon Spices Cinnamon Spices website was rewritten from scratch The goal wasn’t only to make it look better. More secure than before and attempting to guarantee better quality and better compatibility The site supports oauth authentication via Google, Facebook and Github so you can  comment and like your favorite spices The maintenance of the spices themselves was moved to Github and every single change is now reviewed by the Linux Mint team to guarantee spices cannot be used for malicious purposes Anyone can provide bug fixes and translations to Cinnamon spices Both the Authors and the Linux Mint team is now directly involved in the maintenance of all Cinnamon spices. Many spices were removed, many were fixed, many were updated and the team is now able to add support to spices not only for current versions of Cinnamon but even for upcoming ones. We’re getting closer and closer to a situation where everything “just works”, where quality spices are easy to find and where they work in your language. Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” MATE – BETA Release MATE 1.18 with GTK3 Softpedia Article New Features Just one week after the launch of the KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment Bugfixes KDE Plasma 5.10.2 on June 13 KDE Plasma 5.10.3 on June 27 KDE Plasma 5.10.4 on July 18 KDE Plasma 5.10.5 on August 22 Kubuntu Plasma 5.10.1 now in Zesty backports Ubunsys Gives Ubuntu Power Users Easy Access to Scary Options Installed today Needs some work – but is still in dev. Adds PPA’s, etc like welcome. But a 3rd party – may want to check what it is adding. Seems to need a lot of BG access – expected. Some of the option like repairing PPA actually rely on other tools that need to be installed from 3rd party PPA’s – but no dependency, just not found – like the y-ppa-manager, but available in the options to install. Chrome 59 arrives with… Some updates for the other OS’s like mac notifications 30 some bug fixes To avoid over-prompting users, Chrome will now temp stop an origin from requesting a permission following the third dismissal of that permission request. Some cosmetic changes like a material design overhaul in the settings page The Image Capture API allows higher resolution images than before. That means developers get full control over camera settings such as zoom, ISO, and white balance. Seems to be mostly developer related updated Stuff like: vTouch events new worker-src Content Security Policy directive vgetInstalledRelatedApps function (smartly consolidate push notifications) Etc   New SteamOS Stable Release Launches with Linux Kernel 4.11, Mesa Graphics Stack Gaming Mesa 17.1.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Brings 70 Improvements to Linux Gamers Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Requirements for Linux and macOS Revealed Intel vs. Radeon vs. NVIDIA OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Driver Performance klocki is a beautiful casual puzzle game that recently released for Linux    

Welcome to Episode 23 of Destination Linux News KDE Plasma 5.10 Officially Released, Folder View Is Now the New Default Desktop Simple By Default Powerful When Needed OMGUbuntu KIO GDrive 1.2 released Peppermint 8 Peppermint 8 Linux OS Released, It’s Based on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Linux 4.8 WPS Office’s Linux development has been halted Kingsoft Say WPS Office for Linux Will Continue To Be Updated After all The Road to Xfce 4.14 Desktop Environment Continues, Aiming at Full GTK3 Porting Gaming Feral announce that Dawn of War III will use both OpenGL and Vulkan Middle-earth: Shadow of War Delayed Discussion Google to give 6 months’ warning for 2018 Chrome adblockalypse – report Brave Browser 11 reasons to use the GNOME 3 desktop environment for Linux

  Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 22 for Monday May 29th We’re Back!!!! Patreon Page News KDE 5.10 Enters Beta KDE Plasma 5.8.7 LTS Desktop Environment Released with over 60 Improvements KDE Plasma Is Adding Google Drive Integration Waiter, There’s A Plasma Desktop In My Soup Solus News Telegram Desktop now supports Voice calls OMGUbuntu Article OpenShot 2.3.3 Released, Claims to Solve “Serious Stability Issues” Wannacry Everything you need to know Security Flaw in Ubuntu Login Screen Could Let Anyone Access Your Files Conky Harmattan Adds an Interactive Setup Tool How to Add Folders to Plank, the Popular Linux Dock Vectr launches snap app Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Is Coming to Linux Next month Middle-earth: Shadow of War Open World Trailer August 22, 2017 Destiny 2 Gameplay Reveal Distrowatch ReactOS OBRevenge 2017 05 YouTube Corner Hi Rob and Rocco, Just thought I’d give a shout out to my new favourite podcast, thank you both for all of your hard work, and on your respective YouTube channels too. As self-confessed distro-hoppers I was wondering if you could discuss elementary os and maybe a focus on minimalism in distros – being ill right now gave me an epiphany that I used to distro-hop like crazy until I landed on elementary. When I started using it, I felt trapped because it’s not as flexible as (for example) KDE and hated it until I realised that it has its own work flow that prevented me from breaking it – now I rely on it and can’t imagine switching. Is this minimalist approach key to stability in the Linux desktop? When I can configure a desktop, I find I will and then I inevitably switch to another distro when I break it – but when I can’t tinker with it, I get things done more effectively and am more likely to stick with it. Sorry for the short essay, thanks, and keep up the great work! Kind regards, William Willis Whinn Mentions: Elementary Tweak & Elementary Plus (Missing Icons)

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 21 for 05-12-17 ApricityOS Shuts Down Softpedia Article KDE Plasma 5.9.5, Krita 3.1.3 and digiKam 5.5 Coming Soon to Kubuntu 17.04 Users Krevenge Linux Mint News Linux Mint Is Adopting LightDM as its Login Manager Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre was happy to announce today the official availability of the Cinnamon 3.4 desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. Install Cinnamon 3.4 Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it’s over OMGArticle Opera’s new browser gives you direct access to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram Ubuntu Handbook article OpenShot 2.3.2 Released with Various Bug Fixes NVIDIA 375.66 Driver Released With Fixes, Official GTX 1080 Ti Support NVIDIA 381.22 Linux Driver Released With Updated Vulkan Mesa 17.1 Officially Released with OpenGL 4.2 Support for Intel Ivy Bridge GPUs Feral’s Linux games Keys to the kitty: special Feral Steam Keys gifted to Mesa contributors Install 24 Popular GTK Themes With One Command Using This Script HP has a keylogger in their audio driver Bleepingcomputer article Quidsup’s Video Windows 10S FAQ Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora are all coming to the Windows Store 18 things you should know about using Linux tools in Windows 10

Prebanter New artwork Patreon Page Distrowatch FerenOS New Release Mate Revenge News Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Hits the Streets on October 19, with GNOME 3.26 Security Updates for Ubuntu Phone to End in June Install Budgie Desktop 10.3 in Ubuntu 17.04 OMG Article Linux kernel 4.11 released Kdenlive 17.04 released KDE Applications 17.04 Software Suite Officially Released, Here Is What’s New KDE KDE Plasma 5.9.5 Is the Last in the Series, KDE Plasma 5.10 Is Coming End of May Adventure game Syberia 3 looks like it will be heading over to Linux GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA Call Of Duty WW2 Trailer JackFrags Pop Theme Suite: Make Your Ubuntu/Linux Look Like System76 Upcoming Desktop That Slick Thunderbird Mockup? It’s Now a Real Theme Viewer comments I listened to the MP3 ‘Destination Linux Update’ dated 20th April 17 on Podbean.  The last regular episode I had was Number 14 dated 1st April 17.  I’m sorry you’ve been having problems and really like the show.  However, I resubscribed to the show and still had the same episode listings as before. I don’t understand the finer details of podcasting and subscriptions and so I’m wondering how it is that I got nothing from Episode 14 apart from the ‘Update’?  Surely, if I got the ‘Update’, I’d at least get every episode since then? Thanks for bearing with me and for your help in my Linux journey. Best wishes Andrew ——————————————————————————————————————— Hey guys great to see you finally have a real website. And thanks for the referral message. My Podcast Addict still had the old feed and I was beginning to wonder was going on. Enjoy the show, and really enjoy the “safe for work” aspect of the show. And while I listen to other podcasts, many I can’t recommend to others. BTW- The Email link and the Telegram links don’t work. Keep up good work! Thanks, David ——————————————————————————————————————- Hi Rob & Rocco With the never-ending nonsense from YouTube regarding flagging videos for no logical reason, etc. – would ye guys consider moving to another video site? I recommend Dailymotion. Additionally ye could upload your videos (past & future) to archive.org. Torin —————————————————————————————————————– Hi guys Absolutely love the Destination Linux podcast & both of your own YouTube channels. Fantastic work! I’d be interested to find out if either of you have tried Chakra? https://chakralinux.org/ I’ve recently started to run Chakra as my daily driver and find it to be a superb KDE implementation. By far the best Linux distribution to fit my needs. From what I can tell they’ve been going a few years now & came up with the idea of a half-rolling release model long before Linux Mint or KDE Neon. I don’t see many reviews or videos available for Chakra & I believe they deserve much more attention. I’d really appreciate any thoughts or comments! Kind Regards Mark ————————————————————————————————————— Hello:  Rob & Rocco Just wanted to tell you all, that the new Ubuntu Mate 17.04 does not work on my system.  Big deal!  That’s not a deal killer for me i will just use something else. What works for me. ( fedora 25 ) yes like all the distro’s they are all in need of some work. I will say to you guy’s keep doing what you are doing. Your shows are for everyone to enjoy.  And i do, Those who don’t like what you say about distros or the comments, or reviews don’t need to complain. If they want to do a disto review. just jump right in, and do your own assessment of the distros. And they can then put on their big boy pants, and see what happens!  Everyone is a expert but the expert! Love the show, reviews and guests. Keep going it is all good and fun. Jalu ( just a linux user ) Ben S ————————————————————————————————————— Hi guys, great channel – loving the weekly shows. I don’t know if you already have one, but have you considered creating a Patreon page as a way to accept donations? Happy to contribute in a small way, as I’m sure others are, towards the cost of keeping the doors open :-). Keep up the great shows guys. Len Zielenski ————————————————————————————————————— Please pay me back for the time wasted with the long intro and the opening nonsense. Oh, and throw in a few bucks for every “Uh”. ————————————————————————————————————– LazX Hey Rocco, I wanted to give another UPDATE on LADSPA (Pulseaudio Dynamic Range Comression) aka Audio Output Normalization. Laz Instructions for the Fix ============================================================== 1) Make sure gedit is installed (sudo get-apt install gedit) 2) We need to install 3 items: (Synaptic Package Manager recommended) Pulseaudio (if not installed) pavucontrol (if not installed) swh-plugins 3)Type in konsole: sudo gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa *(nano doesn’t work) 4) Scroll to the bottom of the file “/etc/pulse/default.pa” and add the following lines: ### Pulseaudio Dynamic Range Compression .ifexists module-ladspa-sink.so .nofail load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=compressor plugin=sc4m_1916 label=sc4m control=1,1.5,401,-30,20,5,12 .fail .endif 5) Save the file and restart PC 6) Open pavucontrol and choose LADSPA output module (this may not actually look like it’s selected, but the icon of the output device should say “LADSPA stream on” 7) Then set each Application output to the LADSPA module. 8) Done. Your ears will thank you. Pass it on. ================================================================= Thank you for listening and we will see you next time

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 19 with Ikey Doherty of Solus for 4-24-17 News It’s Now Super Easy to Make Ubuntu Look like Windows Enjade Wants to Recreate the Unity Desktop on KDE Plasma You Can Sync GNOME Extensions Between Desktops using Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox 53.0 Web Browser Drops Linux Support for Older Processors Firefox 53 with 2 new compact themes Install Wire Encrypted Messaging App On Linux Ubuntu OMGubuntu Article Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland Ubuntu 17.10 Is Named ‘Artful Aardvark’ Distrowatch Rosa Desktop Fresh R9 Plasma 5 & KDE4 versions Download Deepin 15.4 Update system installer with full screen support. It provides a fuzzy background, facilitate auto detection of location and time and also provide QR code scan feature for providing feedback. Ships Linux Kernel 4.9.8 which has more drivers for modern hardware components. It provides better stability and reliability Better font rendering which resolves popup hints. Enables ability to set different backgrounds in each virtual desktop Provides better gesture support. Optimized hot corner experience and better interaction design A new collection of beautiful wallpapers. Ikey Doherty Solus Budgie Improvements A new Alt + Tab window switching feature. This was a long awaited feature in budgie desktop and it was developed by offering a prize. Budgie 10.3 provides more options for customization. You can customize clock applet. Also, raven – the control cum notification center – includes a new option to switch window controls to either left or right. budgie 10.3 includes integration with recent release of gnome stack, ie, gnome 3.22+ Art work download is supported with MprisClient and it addresses a bug which was more visible with Spotify. Resolved the inability to pin GNOME Twitch via the Icon Tasklist Resolved incorrect vertical alignment of the Clock Applet Now ensure tray icons are evenly spaced, as a result of syncing our natray with upstream gnome-panel. Improvements have been made to the Places applet Solus Releases ISO Snapshot 2017.04.18.0 Bulletproof boot management out-of-the-box, leveraging clr-boot-manager to enable the maintenance and garbage collection of kernels, as well as configuration of the bootloader the latest Mesa, 17.0.4 Linux Driver Management  

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 18 with Michael Tunnell for 4-17-17 News Ubuntu Snaps to Integrate Fully with GNOME and KDE “Snaps continue for Ubuntu and other distributions (now Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and others). They will also integrate fully with GNOME, KDE, and I hope Elementary, MATE, etc. too,” said Mark Shuttleworth. “They are an amazingly clean way to deliver apps and since most of the major software companies target Ubuntu this is a good way to enable other distros to benefit too.” It’s Official: You Can Now Install Snap Packages on Fedora Linux Distributions Windows 10 Creators Update general rollout begins with a privacy dialogue Anbox – Android in a Box Ubuntu CEO Jane Silber Steps Down Ubuntu 17.04 Release Notes Ubuntu Mate Release Notes Ubuntu Gnome Announcement – Merging Kubuntu Release Notes Upgrade Instructions kdesudo “do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f DistUpgradeViewKDE” Ubuntu Budgie Release Notes Ubuntu Kylin Release Notes OBRevenge 4-8-17 Release with the announcement of the end of support for 32bit Linux Guest Michael Tunnell History of using Linux “Producer Michael” on LUP Currently involved in many projects, Ubuntu Mate, Antergos, Tux Digital with a new News show called This Week In Linux Ubuntu CEO Change Ubuntu’s choice of going with Gnome and Why not KDE? Or Why not Mate? General Konversation You can contact or check out Michael Tunnell’s work by visiting one of the links below. Website Tux Digital Twitter Google+ Company Website Viewer Comments and Email BA471 https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-alpha-available-now/ Version 26 comes with a lxqt spin aswell. Canonical cuts down employees after quiting unity https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/canonical_cuts_jobs_with_unity_bullet/ Kernel 4.12 adds support for upcoming amd vega gpu’s https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/commit/?h=drm-next&id=8cd3ac52963f2e99f4c21d1c9ce89531ce66c2d6 Enough for the next show? Hope so :p cheers ========================================== Hi there I’m on 16.04.2 lts I always used to have this problem. Instead of a reboot I found online (can’t remember where) using ‘Sudo systemctl restart network-manager’ Worked and prevented a reboot. The problem stopped recently for me. However my upgrade to 16.04.2 coincided with a change of ISP and router. Didn’t think until I listened to this episode that I hadn’t pinned the problem to the router or wifI driver (I use broadcom with kernel firmware) All the best Jim ===================================================== Hi, destination linux is really a great , show! i wanted to comment on the kde sound switching issue. when you click on the sound icon in system tray, switch to the applications tab, there you can drag an drop the application sounds to your audio devices, there are also options in the sound settings, to change the behavior of the switching (change just one application or change all apllications at once for exampe). keep on the great work. greetings from germany Björn

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 17 with Carmine for 04-14-17 Ubuntu Mate 17.04 Refinement Brisk Menu New Theme Polished Icons Carmine or TOS from Total OS Today History Youtube Channel Youtube Community Guidelines Unity vs Gnome Ubuntu & Canonical Where is The Perfect Smartphone Podcasts Carmine TOStoday Google+

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 16 with Jody James for 4-10-17 Website We have a brand new website up and running which is destinationlinux.org where you can find all the information you will need about each podcast including the vidcast of the show. You can also find out how to contact us through Email or our social links. Youtube Woes Youtube pulled down 3 of our vidcasts for violating community guidelines. We appealed all three and they were put back up but as of the airing of this show, our channel is still under video upload restriction because of it. Guest Jody James OBRevenge History How You got started in Linux Starting OBRevenge Updates to OBRevenge Concentration on speed Running Openbox Window Manager Panel Switcher Extras: Driver Manager, Welcome Screen Future for OBRevenge Compiz Window Manager OBR Installer Controlled Updates Jody James OBRevenge Google+

Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 15 with Martin Wimpress for 04-07-17 History When did you start using linux How did you become THE mate guy Ubuntu Podcast One of our favorites What is the back story behind “The distro that shall not be named” Mate 1.18 What are the benefits of using GTK3 Was there work done on the fonts The Panel has a more cohesive feel to it? Is this all because of GTK3? Ubuntu 17.04 Software Botiuque Updated A suggestion for a new category for Icons and Themes (Already Implemented) PowerPC being removed from 17.04 archive Future What is ahead for 17.10 What are the upcoming developments for Brisk What is the Development process and how do you prioritize what gets done If people want to help out or contributeSide NotesObs Studio not installing newest version from the PPA obs-studio: Depends: libfdk-aac0 (>=0.1.1) but it is not installable (Updated Soon)Brisk menu is not integrated with the places or system so you can’t just hover across all three like you can with applications Thank you Martin for spending some of your time with us Martin Wimpress Ubuntu Mate Ubuntu Mate Blog Twitter Google+