Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Pre-Installed Application Review (effective for 20.10)

I have had good luck with Kdenlive for many years on several systems (hardware wise) and a very long-lived rolling OS install. On 5/10/2020 at 3:24 PM, "Erich Eickmeyer" wrote:Hi all, So, first with the news: I'm done with the move and configuration of the seed to KDE Plasma. If there's

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 20.04 beta test

Try blocking all blockable ads first: you will save your sanity and your bandwidth. If you still get a crash ads probably are not the culprit. If the site then loads normally, that's another matter. Online ads are infamous for issues including serving malware. Still, nothing beyond the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

That may be practical in the US and Europe, but far less practical for say, an activist media maker in a Rio favela opposing Bolsonaro's efforts to "cleanse" the city of the poor. S/he might be limited to the hardware on hand, and an upgrade requirement will be translated into a change distro or

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

It may take a while for New York City's used electronics to percolate down to thefavelas in Rio or back streets in San Salvador, and longer yet to rural Africaand other places will a smaller population of migrants to the US who can sendstuff home. As a practical matter this may mean using older

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio Handbook

A worry in any distro including WINE in thr default install would be that the distro would no longer be immune to Windows malware, at least not to those varients that run in WINE. A single report of a user's audio files getting encrypted with ransomware would be very bad for the whole distro.

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Possible explanation of my problems with Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and video may require more than 768MB in some cases

A recent round of fixes for another Spectre varient that got backported into linux 1.19 and reverted in 1.20, then revised, and finally a new version written caused major CPU slowdowns but was not reported to balloon memory use. The revised code fixed most of the performance issues by limiting the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

All I've ever noticed is the issue with multiple filemanagers starting at once, but I've only ever extensively used one at a time (normally MATE) so might not spot other issues On 10/11/2018 at 12:31 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" wrote: > >Hi, > >If the below is accurate what issues could be

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

The "main DE's" now are at least GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE,KDE, XFCE,and LXDE and probably more. On 10/10/2018 at 2:11 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" wrote: > >Hi Len, > >Aren’t there just 3 Main DE’s. Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t >you talking about corner cases here? Or are you also taking into

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

The external green drive issue is really a firmware bug, with that 4 second spindown interval that gradually kills the drive unless it is run under very limited circumstances. I would not support removing GVFS from MATE, Cinnamon, or GNOME simply to crutch this situation. The correct fix would be

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

I have never heard of a metapackage for a DE that removes another DE, they just install the selected DE in addition. Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE, which is why forks of GNOME such as Cinnamon and MATE rename every forked package. Metapackages in Debian install packages

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio - hangs on shutdown/restart

I don't see any references in your logfile to mounting or unmounting filesystems, but since it got as far as shutting down or trying to shut down systemd, they should be getting unmounted before the hang. Most linse in your logs were truncated but this line implies you have sucessfully

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio - hangs on shutdown/restart

Might be a kernel hang with your hardware, I've seen such problems come and go with Linux over the years, usually hanging just before poweroff and after all filesystems have been unmounted. I would just power cycle when this happens and treat the machine as usable. If logs show you are NOT

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio For Musicians handbook

I am not on that list and will not be pursuing this matter any farther. > >Luke, > >I understand your frustrations on this, but I'm afraid it will >fall on >deaf ears in this mailing list since the issues don't seem to be >specific to Ubuntu Studio. > >Peter can correct me if I'm wrong, but I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio For Musicians handbook

One place you may need more detail (or to tell people to look online for it is the mess created by UEFI and secure boot for new installs on computers from the Windows 8 and later eras. The advice given about trying from a USB stick and how easy it is applies only to machines with a real BIOS

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Agenda for 2018-05-05/themes

You mentioned getting a dark theme to work well and keep working well. My modded and ported version of the old UbuntuStudio theme works very well for what I use it for (because I myself ensure it does), but last time I tried the "refactoring" branch of Kdenlive a whole section did not work even

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

Moving to MATE would be a great idea., would in my judgement go a long way to restore the UbuntuStudio of old. Rather close in fact to what ended up doing with Debian, with my video and audio programs running over MATE (which I am a developer at these days) and my updated forks of the old GTK and

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Candace

I've always used qjackctl if I needed to set up something non-default in jack, had little trouble with it. Even used it on a netbook for a while to set up sound to deal with mono files (not supported in harware on that machine) by running jack, which was much lighter on that machine running

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

What is probably going on is that linux users are installing the base system, then using online search tools to find what programs they need for their workflow and installing those programs.. On 3/28/2018 at 12:22 PM, pc...@laposte.net wrote: > >"That is something I hope to rectify. Since I have

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Artsy testing

There have been long-standing complaints about Linux systems in general becoming unresponsive when waiting on the hard drive for something. Pretty sure this can't be fixed at the distro level. On 2/14/2018 at 10:34 PM, "Helios Martinez Dominguez" wrote: >

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Our website

First reason is to defeat Verizon's "UIDH" online tracking header https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-header-faqs/ and no doubt to defeat similar tracking that other ISPs will roll out. They are used as unblockable trackers for ad serving partners but do not work with https

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Next cycle

I have never, ever left auto updating turned on because i often can't spare the bandwidth, may be using an IP address I don't want to make non-Tor connections from, or cannot spare the CPU load on the netbook. I have yet to have a use case where I could get away with it on something other than a

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Next cycle

GTK3 itself brings hidpi support to its widgets. That means GTK3 desktops should support it. I only have 1920x1080 as my largest monitor, but GtkInspector allows testing hidpi scaling, with 1.0 and 2.0 times default size options. I can verify that this works in MATE for mate-panel and Caja

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Seeds change

For anything to pull in wine by default is a theoretical security risk, due to the great many cross-platform exploits that then install Windows-only payloads. While most of these would fail on a Linux/wine setup due to not being invoked within wine, a malware author could probably fix that. A

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] -controls

The CPU governor is easily controlled in any DE. Ubuntu offers indicator-cpufreq, which will also work as a tray applet when not in Unity. I've used it in MATE, IceWM, Cinnamon, even gnome-shell so it should have no trouble in XFCE either. Many DE's offer their own CPU governor controls

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

I noticed Kdenlive is at 16.04.3. This is smart, as Kdenlive 16.08 or GIT master is another bugfest when using Movit (GPU effects). Seems to work fine without GPU effects but 16.04 works well both with and without them. On 10/15/2016 at 5:37 PM, "Set Hallstrom" wrote: >

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Important: Ubuntu/Debian Security Hole

I was thinking there is one way to slow down but not stop this attack at the server level, and it works only if the package is both downloaded over https and signed: that is to have the packages and their signing keys on one server and the ssh keys on a physically different box, so any attack

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Important: Ubuntu/Debian Security Hole

This is REALLY ugly, and suggests keyservers be dedicated machines that are not co-hosted with anything and don't co-host anything. Until then it means GCHQ can probably crack Ubuntu's keys if they are hosted in the UK. This sort of thing makes substituting binaries built from alternate source

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Studio?

One issue in audio is that huge numbers of older 32 bit machines considered "slower than smartphones" for huge, JS heavy websites and Internet video are still as good for audio work as they ever were. The very first Pentium 4's were able to run things like Audacity with no video rendering glitches

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Video conferencing - was... something else

One other thing you should check before committing to any kind of video conferencing is that all intended participants have the bandwidth for it, as those without landlines might not. On 7/10/2016 at 4:57 PM, "Len Ovens" wrote: > >On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, lukefro...@hushmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Would Ubuntu Studio Team be Interested in Partnering with New England Conservatory?

There is one limitation to "If the community prefers to use Google Hangouts, it would be highly counterproductive if you did not, particularly if you are a involved in the work being discussed." That is that some people do not have Google accounts and in fact some people cannot make them due

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Would Ubuntu Studio Team be Interested in Partnering with New England Conservatory?

Maybe they should be reminded that they are using Linux every time they connect to a webserver, fire up an Android phone, or even use some embedded systems. In some markets MS has little more market share than Apple had in 1999-and even OSx is just a proprietary Unix with a custom DE and window

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Would Ubuntu Studio Team be Interested in Partnering with New England Conservatory?

Why on Earth are they first going out of their way to buy Ubuntu machines, then installing Windows? Is it an attempt to avoid preinstalled crapware or vendor-provided malicious extras perhaps? Maybe the Lenovo crapware with UEFI driven reinstallation got their attention and they simply don't want

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] image licences

When something is actually released into the public domain it is not under the GPL, CC or any other license and everyone is in fact free to use it for anything and in any way. From what I've heard the reason Linux et all are NOT simply released into the public domain is to prevent an "embrace,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US Wiki/ help regarding data protection

That's true-someone could just check the wrong boxes in Synaptic and have issues. On 6/21/2016 at 2:29 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:13:18 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >>One more point about the various debates here: While Ubuntu with

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US Wiki/ help regarding data protection

One more point about the various debates here: While Ubuntu with Unity has shared personal information, UbuntuStudio has never used Unity and never had the shopping lens or its descendants. On 6/21/2016 at 2:08 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >On Tue, 21 Jun 2016

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US Wiki/ help regarding data protection

The USB stick line of attack has happened, but usually involves ordinary files attacking Windows machines via autorun. USB firmware attacks to exist but are rarely used. There is no way to reduce any risk in life to zero. Snowden was attacking the NSA itself, so yes he needed new USB sticks

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US Wiki/ help regarding data protection

Here is a short, simple overview that could be used as a starting point by nearly anyone able to boot US live: Due to the growth even in open source of applications that "phone home," when it is necessary for privacy or security reasons to be able to deny having produced a media item, it

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio webide background im second try!

Those are pretty and a bit reminescent of one of the early UbuntuStudio backgrounds, though at far higher true resolution. On 6/16/2016 at 9:30 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 13:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> The links: >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Would Ubuntu Studio Team be Interested in Partnering with New England Conservatory?

A "Monsanto sound font" could simply create the sound of someone dying and falling off the toilet from terminal diarrhea with their last words being a reference to corn chips. On 5/29/2016 at 9:18 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >On Sun, 29 May 2016 15:15:47 +0300,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Backports

In the case of Kdenlive, versions 15.08 and later use a different file format. They can read an old project but cannot save back to the old format, saving to the new and renaming the old one as a backup. If the user deletes the backup, then reverts Kdenlive versions 15.04 and earlier cannot open

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

With a too-high Q in an audio amp but short of oscillation you would get "ringing" of the frequency in question and greatly increased amplification of that frequency from the input signal. The level just short of that ringing would be used by a CW (morse code) user in amateur radio to single out

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Fwd: Re: Package Selection for Yakketi Yak

BTW, Kdenlive is actually not as tied into KDE as it used to be, probably due to how the KDE Framework 5 system is set up. I have enough of KF5 and QT5 installed to build Kdenlive but it I tell Synaptic to pull in kde-plasma-desktop it would use nearly another 139MB on disk, so that's a lot of

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Package Selection for Yakketi Yak

Kdenlive just keeps getting better and better. Version 16.04 just came out with all the features of 15.12 and a whole lot more. The last round of updates apparently was guided by some professional video makers in terms of features added. By the time Yakkety comes out 16.08 will be out,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] default screen recorder WAS:Re: Package Selection for Yakketi Yak

This is the first I have heard of it, so no opinion yet. Will have to test it. On 4/25/2016 at 1:59 PM, "Kaj Ailomaa" wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 25, 2016, at 07:53 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >> If Recordmydesktop is dropped it should be replaced. I have >issues with >>

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Package Selection for Yakketi Yak

If Recordmydesktop is dropped it should be replaced. I have issues with it but still use it, as the alternative is to take the time to set up a video camera aligned with the screen. On 4/25/2016 at 11:30 AM, "Set Hallstrom" wrote: > >On 2016-04-25 15:56, Len Ovens wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Nautilus always resets itself to icon-view upon, closing

As for themes, I've kept my modded (blue-green) UbuntuStudio_Legacy port current, supports GTK2, GTK 3.14 through GTk 3.20 and even development GTK 3.21. (GTK 3.14 now deprecated for my other packages due to breakage). You can see for yourself in this package how to support multiple GTK 3

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Nautilus always resets itself to icon-view upon, closing

Have you considered Caja? I believe version 1.12 will be in repo, built with GTK2. On 4/22/2016 at 3:35 PM, "Len Ovens" wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Thomas Pfundt wrote: > >> @ Len: Just a quick remark on the "gear wheel" that you >suggested using: >> I do not see a "gear

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] One week until xenial final relase "RecordMyDesktop"

Video quality can be changed, I normally switch framerate out to 30fps rather than 15 due to my use case. Wonder though if that is a factor in the loss of the last part of the video recorded due to some variable expecting a set number of frames. On 4/16/2016 at 5:29 AM, "Grant Frank Burton"

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] One week until xenial final relase "RecordMyDesktop"

Recordmydesktop has always had problems for me with not saving all of the video stream, I can lose as much as the second half of it in some cases, so I always record longer than I need to as a workaround. On 4/16/2016 at 11:50 AM, "Kaj Ailomaa" wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 16,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wily werewolf audacity alsa sound distorted

Audacity can set up its own audio device using in Preferences>Devices and will default to using Pulseaudio. On some setups Pulseaudio still has issues for Audacity. To actually be using ALSA directly you have to set it up in Preferences. First, make sure that nothing else is using sound, so

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Kdenlive 15.12 finally in repo

My setup diverged so far from stock Ubuntu I converted my main development machines to Debian Unstable when the Snappy controversy emerged as a precaution against having rolling alpha updating blocked in the future. The panel icon works fine in my setup and I never had issues with the old

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Kdenlive 15.12 finally in repo

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/kdenlive now shows kdenlive 15.12.1-0ubuntu1 so the upcoming LTS won't ship with a bad version of kdenlive. The 15.12 version worked very well for me when GIT master was at that level so I would say people can expect good results with it. There will be a

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Possible Tester

Were those files overwritten, or just on a partition that got formatted or remade? If the partition was not used the files are still there, and even if it was data recovery software like Foremost(in Ubuntu repos) or Photorec can often get back anything that did not get physically overwritten.

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio.org email addresses for team members

At the moment emails from Hushmail still reach the Big Corporate webmailers, don't know how long that will last. Trouble I will have will be dealing with Gmail users who'd really rather Tweet or Facebook anyway, I will have to tell them to check an open email or lose communication with me as I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio.org email addresses for team members

The whole Internet is in the process of dividing between a strictly controlled, monetized/verified corporate network and a non-monetized free network, each of which may eventually be unable to talk to the other. Now is the time to decide which side of that divide you want to be on. It has already

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio.org email addresses for team members

Hushmail had that problem, had to resort to Cloudflare's DDOS protection service, which forced me to use Torbrowser to log in to block Cloudflare from fingerprinting my browser until it was resolved. It was organized crime seeking ransom, which to their credit Hushmail utterly refused to pay,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Application Testing for Ubuntu Studio Xenial 16.04

Kdenlive is STILL version 15.08, which is a buggy mess as well as being old. if that gets to release, anyone wanting to do a complex video in Xenial will need to install from PPA or source. Version 15.08 is OK for simple stuff but gets things like compositing transitions that move on their own

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Default Wallpaper, WAS:Re: ART TEAM ALERT! 16.04 Wallpaper Contest has been decided.

"Found on the Internet" could be those bastards at Getty Images, who would get a lot of free publicity for their extortion letters from a well publicized even though failed demand letter against Canonical. Don't use unknown source images unless everyone involved is OK with standing up to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Manual Test Cases

Exactly which version of kdenlive will be in 16.04? I have been building kdenlive from git master routinely, and here's what I've found: the 15.08 release was a buggy mess, 15.12 is very good, both can handle GPU/Movit effects, and the upcoming 16.04 kdenlive will have many new features which

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Destktop/Window Manager

Too different from the traditional Win95 layout for many power users, and all desktop environments optimized for one fullscreened app at a time are poorly suited to running multiple media applications with drag and drop between them. On 1/28/2016 at 6:01 PM, "Daniel M Gessel"

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntustudio & ubuntu-touch sound files

Those are damned nice sounds. I did download the whole tarball before cleaning out my email account, and immediately played them in Audacious one after another. On 1/12/2016 at 9:34 AM, "C. F. Howlett" wrote: > >> http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/poster/ubuntu-sounds

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 105, Issue 9

You can counter a local block on Archive or any other site by downloading Torbrowser. Few if any national firewalls can defeat Tor and to my knowledge region blocks are not used by Archive, which aggressively pushes fair use doctrine. Even Google's region blocks are defeated by Tor. Places and

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 105, Issue 9

The size of the ubuntu-sounds tarball nearly filled my email account. It is the bottom 25MB free tier as I would never pay for email nor have an account with any ad-supported or PRISM-compliant provider. Please try to avoid sending anything over 10MB to my email or I could lose other emails that

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Why keeping the email thread is important and how to do it

>A Text-marker is the blinking symbol showing where your text will >be >input, once you have clicked inside a text input box. :) > >All you need to do in hushmail to post in the /right/ order, is the >click /bellow/ the quoted text ;) Always knew that only as the cursor. --

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Why keeping the email thread is important and how to do it

I don't even know what you mean by a text-marker. I've never once been employed in an environment involving handling office email, nor ever had wired internet access and used an ISP-provided email reached by an email client. On 12/22/2015 at 4:53 AM, "Ralf Mardorf"

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Why keeping the email thread is important and how to do it

In Firefox on the Web with Hushmail there is no "reply to list" function. Hushmail blocks unpaid users from access other than by the webpage, so email clients don't work. The latter ia probably true of other webmails as well for unpaid/bottom tier accounts. >[snip] When replying to messages,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 104, Issue 32

Artwork and even software can be posted to Archive.org. I have a whole set of debian packages for MATE built with gtk3 plus my modded "UbuntuStudio Legacy" GTK 2/3 and icon themes there: https://archive.org/details/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme I don't see any reason

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Documentation: Tutorial Videos

Speaking of Kdenlive, kdenlive 15.12 just came out, it is free of most of the bugs that made 15.08 so difficult to deal with. I've had good luck with it myself and recommend it. Presu That brings up the backport issue: a backport of 15.12 into Wily would make Wily a lot more useful for video. I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Documentation: Tutorial Videos

Videos can be posted to Archive.org, which also will make a .ogv derivative of it. Unlike Youtube, Archive does not seek record company licenses, block on a per-country bases, nor scan content for 3ed party content. No law requires Youtube to do it eithert due to the DCMA "safe harbor"

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio and Pulseaudio

One use case for Pulse is recording the audio output of another application that won't work with Jack. Makers of "consumer" soundcards and onboard audio stopped including recording the output as a hardware option at about the time Windows Vista came out, and removed support for existing cards

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

This sounds like what happens when you remove a kernel with /boot not mounted. On 12/10/2015 at 9:28 AM, "Len Ovens" wrote: > >On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:39:13 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: >>> I haven't actually used a vanilla Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Gedit

One other point: compiz still has lots of issues with client-side decorated apps like Gedit, for users of Unity or MATE/compiz. Although a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436553 claims it is fixed, only some parts of the problem were fixed, In gtk versions 3.16 or higher, compiz fails

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Gedit

Ubuntu has stayed with gedit 3.10 all the way through using parts of GNOME 3.16 for good reason. Later versions are much harder to use, GNOME has become known for designing only around one particular workflow concept. Pluma now builds quite well with gtk3 or with gtk2 if the newly released 1.12

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] kdenlive

The 15.08 version is VERY buggy, it is the embryo of something great yet to come. The 15.04 version is very stable-but not included in ANY version of Ubuntu. Probably can still be fished out of the Sunab PPA from last April or so for 15.04. I work with kdenlive every couple days and build it

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] CyberSec For Creative Humans

How well does this work for recovering a viable still from an H264 video? Remember we are talking about software recovery after all deletion of files followed by overwrite of all available space (newly and otherwise) with random numbers. This takes 4 dd runs on a 16GB chip. I've still been

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Krita - Was: PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

I had no trouble using GIMP for photoediting even on Pentium III class machines. None of the photos were larger than 6MP however. On 10/29/2015 at 7:38 AM, "set" wrote: > >On 2015-10-29 12:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Gimp (and PhotoShop) are for painting/drawing too. >>

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

I agree with this. No way in Hell I would set up a machine for my sister with Debian Unstable, and not one of the Ubuntu flavors are involved in the whole Unity controversy. The needs of a hacker preferring a rolling release and those of a Window refugee are nearly opposite oneanother On

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

One limiting factor will be that I do not have the bandwidth to download the latest .iso's to check installation details so I will have to refer to external postings for things like setting up encryption. None of the realtime audio issues affect making news audio or video, so many of the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

You are so right about mobile phones and tablets-they are incredibly dangerous and thus I do not own one. Even a dumb phone is kept batteries out unless making a call, which has to be done from places my presence can be admitted to. When I think of online activism, I am speaking of organizing

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

Simplest approach: US on a non-networked, encrypted desktop to make media and strip metadata that can identify cameras, plus a laptop used with TAILS to handle posting the materal from offsite connections. On 10/29/2015 at 4:47 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >> On

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

An update of Firefox that diabled NoScript or Canvasblocker would make the browser no longer usable for security work. If the lack of updates is unsafe than NO version of Firefox would remain useful. On 10/29/2015 at 5:02 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >> On

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] CyberSec For Creative Humans (was: PR)

Yes-a secure, untraceable posting requires that the user do absolutely NOTHING else in the entire session. There are multiple security levels in question here, from a high school student blowing the whistle on a "gropy" principal to releasing video of police brutality in a corrupt town (or

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] CyberSec For Creative Humans

At the creation level, the value is in having software that does not require activation. That rules out paid software like Windows video editors (and lightworks) and sound editors. It also rules out Windows. If someone installs US from a new iso on an offline machine, there is no network and

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

The commercial. ad-supported social networks are so dangerous that I not only do not use them but actually block both Google and facebook in /etc/hosts. I've even asked people I work with not to post photos containing me to Facebook due to their facial recognition database. It would seem to be

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Documentation for 16.04

Google docs should be avoided simply due to Google's massive tracking and presumed sale of personal information to ad networks. When someone I work with sends a link to a Google doc, I can't open it because it won't work on Tor browser and I keep Google blocked in /etc/hosts to prevent them from

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Call for Final Beta Testing

Some "hybrid UEFI" boards are really picky about what they will boot from! I've got one that can boot UDB sticks but usually rejects the CD or DVD drive no matter what is on the disk, and also rejects some older USB images that work in other machines. Before condemning the motherboard, put a

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Artwork license

That's a good point. Consider this scenario: People put their names on everything. and the software is used by insurgents against a repressive regime. Unable to catch the insurgents, the regime in question simply goes after any and all persons whose names can be tied to the work, copyright

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

Those who expect paid service quality are probably better off paying for it. On the other hand, Windows 10 is so malicious they will need to pay for 3ed party tech support to stop the spying. Maybe direct them to a known good Ubuntu or Mint LTS, then to paid apps that run on it and have paid tech

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Off-topic: Elementary OS

That is so true! For years I used Audacity in UbuntuStudio to make radio pieces about exactly that sort of thing. Someone mentioned the "loudness wars," well you would not believe how much compression is needed for a low powered station (especially AM) when there is no analog compressor/limiter in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] "elementary OS" ... ONE Ubuntustudio user's thoughts ...

For something totally tuned and optimized to one system and one user, the usual recommendation is something like Gentoo. probably better for my uses but no way in hell I'd want to have to tech support this for someone else. For those who are not hackers, Ubuntu-based distros still have a lot

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

In my experience if you want to use Linux in general it pays to pre-research any new or newly purchased hardware and screen out things like Nvidia graphics that work poorly with FOSS software and drivers. For instance, I would not accept any camera that wrote only to an internal hard drive unless

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

Not everyone has ever used a Windows or MAC workstation, I've done low power radio audio and activist video on Audacity and Kdenlive respectively. I do not have money to buy paid software, nor do I trust closed packages not to phone home with my sensitive raw material. In audio I have added

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

There is another advantage of going independent: you can decouple your fate from that of the underlying distro. If something happens to Canonical (or to Debian) there are more options that way. Same if the underlying distro makes changes not compatable with your goals. With Ubuntu now providing

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

The linked post or one of it's replies warns of bricking windows, if it is moved off the disk, the exe file executed from the windows drive, and installer mode selected. I have no idea if that is true or not, but be sure to do any testing of this beyond the reboot greeter on an expendable

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

Has anyone with a Windows box tested it lately? On 8/21/2015 at 10:39 AM, Jimmy Sjölund ji...@sjolund.se wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Anyone feel any love for wubi at all? If not, I will make sure it is removed from Ubuntu Studio at least.

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] continued as per request, from IRC

All of the debates about Ubuntu and things like privacy only concern the Unity DE and all that phone-centric stuff. UbuntuStudio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu at all should be considered exempt. The only worry there is if they will be around in the future if either Canonical runs into too much

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

There's enough buggy UEFI setups out there that I advise people to never buy new anymore without searching the exact model they plan to buy online along with the word Ubuntu and/or Linux to see what pops up. Long has this been so for printers and wireless devices, not it's also true for laptops,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PS: Green hard disk drives

The Green drives are considered to have buggy FIRMWARE, the 4 second spindown interval being just too short and causing huge problems is desktop use. The idle3-tools package contains a utility to allow resetting or disabling this time sudo apt-get install idle3-tools will bring this into

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Where do we get information about Ubuntu's systemd?

This same issue also exists between Ubuntu and Debian, causing unsolvable time differences between the two on a dual booting machine. I didn't know that timedatectl was simply being ignored in Ubuntu! What I would want would be a hardware clock that the OS can't change, set to local time in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

I've played with other browsers (rekonq in particular) but never found a way to keep them from coming up unique in Panopticlick. Thus they are too easily tracked and can only be used with websites known not to contain any ads, trackers, or 3ed party analytic tools. One of the problems is that

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