Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is!

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Greg Kurtzer - Executive Director of Rocky Linux, a bug for bug red hat compatible distro

Greg's history
Centos history
Rocky Linux now and future
Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermost
There is a google doc for developers who want to help, please be patient lots of responses to go through
Release will be available Q2 2020
Current state of the project

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Walt Caller One

What Protections are in place to protect Rocky Linux from corporate interests

44:00 minutes in

Email 1 Unifi Access Points and NVRs

1) Unifi Access Points

47:00 minutes in 2) What security NVR solution do you recommend?

Use the Synology selector tool
Synology FS6400
Axis Cameras
Geovision cameras
Also take a look at motioneye and motioneyeos

More of a DIY approach but free and flexible

51:00 minutes in

Pick of the Week

Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop.

Underneath the hood

Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend
WebRTC / WebSockets
NodeJS backend
Progressive Web App

51:45 minutes in

Gadget of the Week Playstation 5 Controller

DualSense™ Wireless PS5 Controller

The DualSense wireless controller for PS5 offers immersive haptic feedback2, dynamic adaptive triggers2 and a built-in microphone, all integrated into an iconic design.
Feel physically responsive feedback to your in-game actions with dual actuators which replace traditional rumble motors. In your hands, these dynamic vibrations can simulate the feeling of everything from environments to the recoil of different weapons
Experience varying levels of force and tension as you interact with your in-game gear and environments. From pulling back an increasingly tight bowstring to hitting the brakes on a speeding car, feel physically connected to your on-screen actions.
Available from Sony for $69.99
Linux driver support

From Roderick Colenbrander

Supported in linux *DualSense in both Bluetooth and USB modes *LEDs *Touchpad *Motion Sensors *Rumble
Not supported yet *Adaptive Triggers *VCM based Haptics

These features require a large amount of data and complex data structures. It is not clear how to expose these. The current Evdev and FF frameworks are too limiting. We hope to have a dialog on how to expose these over time in a generic way.

Companies are starting to get it - make a good controller, make the code open so everyone can use it, people will buy your controller.

54:00 minutes in

XFCE 4.16 has been Released!

https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416

The Settings Manager itself received a visual refresh of its filter box *which can now be hidden permanently *Search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive 'Comments' part of each dialog's launcher
Default Applications is a new dialog represents a merger between the previously available 'Mime Settings' and the 'Preferred Applications' dialogs.
Added fractional scaling based on the RandR extension of X11
Added more default keyboard shortcuts out of the box (Examples: for window tiling or to open Thunar)
xfce4-panel
The panel received quite a few noteworthy updates *Animation for autohide and intellihide *New 'Status Tray' plugin that combines both legacy Systray item support with modern StatusNotifier item support *Dark mode support *Launchers showing additional actions on right-click *Window buttons offering to Launch a new instance
XFCE Power Managment was cleaned up
The settings dialog of the power manager was cleaned up and shows either 'on battery' or 'plugged in' settings as opposed to both in a huge table.

DarkTable - 3.4 Encore!

https://www.darktable.org/2020/12/darktable-3-4/

Best professional photography tools out there
This is the second major release of 2020
5,500 commits in 2020!
Many of the computationally-intensive image processing algorithms have been updated to be faster and more scaleable when running on the CPU.
Improved operations to a number of the tools
Releasing the first version of the new user manual, now split into a separate project named “dtdocs”. We have completely reorganised and rewritten the manual into a more maintainable structure using Markdown. This project has involved new content as well as a significant overhaul of the text, making it much easier to read for native English speakers
In addition, filmic RGB version 4 now works with OpenCL and highlight reconstruction is now significantly faster with OpenCL-enabled hardware.
New Module: Color Calibration
Tone Equalizer Improvements
Export Print Sizes
Map View Changes
The global color picker module UI has been overhauled
It is now possible to automatically hide the header buttons on processing modules in the darkroom
Hovering your mouse over the header of a processing module now displays a tool tip providing detailed in-app documentation.

Many users have requested customization of module groups, and now that feature is here! Processing modules in the darkroom can now be assigned to user-defined module groups. This replaces the previous “favorites” group and the “more modules” module with a tool that allows you to create your own module groups and presets based on your work flow.

Feedback

https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nvr_selector

Pick of the Week

https://snapdrop.net/

Gadget of the Week

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20201219062336.72568-1-roderick@gaikai.com/

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