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Friday, December 30, 2021

 

Python 3.6.0 is Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus & Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

Ubuntu Maniac 4:57:00 AM Leave a Reply

Python is an open source, portable, free, customizable, effective and modern programming language that offers a wide range of attractive functionality and allows application developers to create software projects that are fully compatible with all mainstream operating systems.

Command-line options

Default command-line options include optimization of the generated bytecode, optimize generated bytecode and remove doc-strings, usage of non-UNIX forms of #!cmd by skipping the first line of the source, protection from DoS (Denial of Service) attacks by making hash() values of various types be unpredictable, using pseudo-random salt.

In addition, the program will also allows you to add various division options, such as -Qnew, Qwarn, Qold and Qwarnall, issue warnings about incompatible tab usage, run the program in verbose mode, get warnings about Python 3.x incompatibilities, as well as to debug output from parser and ignore PYTHON* environment variables.

What’s New In Python 3.6
New Features

  • PEP 498: Formatted string literals
  • PEP 526: Syntax for variable annotations
  • PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals
  • PEP 525: Asynchronous Generators
  • PEP 530: Asynchronous Comprehensions
  • PEP 487: Simpler customization of class creation
  • PEP 487: Descriptor Protocol Enhancements
  • PEP 519: Adding a file system path protocol
  • PEP 495: Local Time Disambiguation
  • PEP 529: Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8
  • PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
  • PEP 520: Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
  • PEP 468: Preserving Keyword Argument Order
  • New dict implementation
  • PEP 523: Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
  • PYTHONMALLOC environment variable
  • DTrace and SystemTap probing support


New syntax features:
  • PEP 498, formatted string literals.
  • PEP 515, underscores in numeric literals.
  • PEP 526, syntax for variable annotations.
  • PEP 525, asynchronous generators.
  • PEP 530: asynchronous comprehensions.

Install Python 3.6.0 on  Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus & Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak via PPA

To Install/UpdatePython 3.6.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04, you can use J Fernyhough’s PPA at https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/python-3.6 to install Python 3.6:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6

If you are using Ubuntu 16.10, then Python 3.6 is in the universe repository, so you can just run
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 

Porteus 3.2.2 is Available For Download, Update to Kernel 4.9

Ubuntu Maniac 4:06:00 AM Leave a Reply

Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD, with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. The lightweight LXDE is available as an alternative desktop environment

Porteus is on cloud nine to announce the final release of Porteus-v3.2.2 and Porteus Kiosk 4.2. There have been some major changes in the desktop edition since the 3.1 release including:

  • kernel 4.9
  • pulseaudio
  • eudev
  • consolekit2
  • more complete 000-kernel firmware

Other slackware based changes can be found here.

Four desktops are available at this point: xfce4, mate, cinnamon and kde5. The base modules are a little larger than the previous release but contain a more complete set of packages for all round compatibility. For a lightweight locked down version you should try the Porteus Kiosk version.

Updating certain components can now be done from a console.

  • update-chrome
  • update-opera
  • update-firefox
  • update-palemoon
  • update-chromium
  • update-wps-office
  • update-libreoffice

These modules can also be downloaded from our mirrors.

Additional information can be found in the project’s release announcement for Porteus 3.2.2. 
Download (MD5, pkglist): 
Porteus-CINNAMON-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso (272MB, signature)
Porteus-KDE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso (412MB, signature)
Porteus-MATE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso (243MB, signature
Porteus-XFCE-v3.2.2-x86_64.iso (239MB, signature).
 

NodeJs 7.3.0 Updated, Available PPA For Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

Ubuntu Maniac 3:12:00 AM Leave a Reply

As an asynchronous event driven JavaScript runtime, Node is designed to build scalable network applications. In the following “hello world” example, many connections can be handled concurrently. Upon each connection the callback is fired, but if there is no work to be done Node is sleeping.

const http = require('http');
const hostname = '127.0.0.1';
const port = 3000;
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  res.statusCode = 200;
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
  res.end('Hello Worldn');
});
server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
  console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});

This is in contrast to today’s more common concurrency model where OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively inefficient and very difficult to use. Furthermore, users of Node are free from worries of dead-locking the process, since there are no locks. Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, scalable systems are very reasonable to develop in Node.

Read more about NodeJs

Notable changes

  • buffer:
  • buffer.fill() now works properly for the UCS2 encoding on Big-Endian machines. (Anna Henningsen) #9837
  • cluster:
  • disconnect() now returns a reference to the disconnected worker. (Sean Villars) #10019
  • crypto:
  • The built-in list of Well-Known CAs (Certificate Authorities) can now be extended via a NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS environment variable. (Sam Roberts) #9139
  • http:
  • Remove stale timeout listeners in order to prevent a memory leak when using keep alive. (Karl Böhlmark) #9440
  • tls:
  • Allow obvious key/passphrase combinations. (Sam Roberts) #10294
  • url:
  • Including base argument in URL.originFor() to meet specification compliance. (joyeecheung) #10021
  • Improve URLSearchParams to meet specification compliance. (Timothy Gu) #9484


Install NodeJs 7.3.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak via PPA

To Install/Update NodeJs 7.3.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download the the repository key with:
curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add –

Then setup the repository:
$ sudo sh -c “echo deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x yakkety main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list”
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

More info at: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions


Install Using deb Package :

For Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak 32 bit :
wget https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_7.3.0-1nodesource1~yakkety1_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak 64 bit :
wget https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_7.3.0-1nodesource1~yakkety1_amd64.deb

After download is finished, install deb package :
sudo dpkg -i nodejs/nodejs_7.3.0-1nodesource1~yakkety1_*.deb

See about the release 
 

Ruby 2.4.0 is Released, Available PPA For Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivatives

Ubuntu Maniac 2:22:00 AM Leave a Reply

Ruby is a multiplatform, freely distributed, feature rich and open source command-line software that has been designed from the ground up to provide a powerful programming language for developers who want to build application in Ruby.

Features, lots of features

Key features include a simple syntax inspired by Ada and Eiffel, operating system independent threading, exception handling capabilities for handling errors, numerous operators, a pure and complete object oriented language, as well as support for adding methods to a class.

Additionally, Ruby features a single inheritance only, true closures, blocks in its syntax, a true mark-and-sweep garbage collector, support for writing C extensions, integers, support for loading extension libraries dynamically, and it doesn’t need variable declarations.

Ruby 2.4.0 is the first stable release of the Ruby 2.4 series. It introduces many new features, for example:

Introduce hash table improvement (by Vladimir Makarov)
Improve the internal structure of hash table (st_table) by introducing open addressing and an inclusion order array. This improvement has been discussed with many people, especially with Yura Sokolov.

Binding#irb: Start a REPL session similar to binding.pry
While you are debugging, you may often use p to see the value of variables. With pry you can use binding.pry in your application to launch a REPL and run any Ruby code. r56624 introduces binding.irb which behaves like that with irb.

Unify Fixnum and Bignum into Integer
Though ISO/IEC 30170:2012 doesn’t specify details of the Integer class, Ruby had two visible Integer classes: Fixnum and Bignum. Ruby 2.4 unifies them into Integer. All C extensions which touch the Fixnum or Bignum class need to be fixed.

Read more About Ruby 2.4.0 Released

How to Install Ruby 2.4.01 on Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA :

To Install/Update Ruby 2.4.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Add Depedencies for Ubuntu :
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Adding  Repository and Install ruby package :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng-experimental 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby2.4
How to Install Ruby 2.4.0 via Deb Package For Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak :

For Ubuntu 32 bit :
wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/brightbox/ruby-ng-experimental/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ruby2.4/ruby2.4_2.4.0-1bbox1~yakkety2_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :
wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/brightbox/ruby-ng-experimental/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ruby2.4/ruby2.4_2.4.0-1bbox1~yakkety2_amd64.deb

Install Package :
sudo dpkg -i ruby2.4_2.4.0-1bbox1~yakkety2_*.deb
After installation in finished, check ruby version on terminal :
 
ruby2.4 -v

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Tuesday, December 27, 2021

 

Latest Kernel 4.10 RC1 is Available For Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Ubuntu Maniac 8:54:00 PM Leave a Reply

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

If you’re watching the Linux kernel scene, you probably know that there have been two weeks since the launch of the Linux 4.9 kernel, which appeared to be the biggest kernel version ever released. This means that the merge window for Linux kernel 4.10, which is not as big as Linux kernel 4.9 was, is now officially closed and it’s time for us to test drive the RC1 milestone.

“It’s Christmas Day, and it’s two weeks since the merge window opened. Thus, the merge window is now closed,” said Linus Torvalds. “On the whole, this wasn’t all that big a release – nothing like 4.9. Although it wasn’t tiny either. I think 4.7 was smaller. 4.8 might have been too. It’s xmas day, and right now I can’t be arsed to actually do the statistics I’d normally do.”

Read : Linux Kernel 4.9.0 Exton is Available For Ubuntu / Debian and Linux Mint
Half of the patch are updated drivers, the rest is just the usual noise

According to Linus Torvalds, half of the Linux kernel 4.10 Release Candidate 1 patch includes updated drivers for various devices. The rest is just the usual noise with documentation, perf tooling updates, and architecture improvements standing out from the crowd. Of course, Linux gamers would be happy to learn that there’s better support for AMD Radeon graphics cards, too.

If you have nothing else better to do on Christmas Day and want to take this first RC of Linux kernel 4.10 for a test drive on your hardware, we invite you to download the source archive right now from kernel.org or via our web portal and compile it yourself. Just please try to keep in mind that this is a very early development build that should not be deployed on production environments.

Read Changelog

How to Install Linux Kernel 4.10 RC1 on Ubuntu Derivative System :

To Install/Update Linux Kernel 4.10 RC1 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
wget www.in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.10rc1
sudo chmod +x kernel-4.10rc1
./kernel-4.10rc1 

Press enter to continue installation :


Please a few minuter until process installation is finished and reboot your computer
sudo reboot
To uninstall it, run this:
sudo apt-get purge linux.image-4.10.0-041000rc1*
sudo update-grub
 

After more than 13 years HandBrake 1.0.0 is Released Again, Many Update For Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Mac OSX

Ubuntu Maniac 8:20:00 PM Leave a Reply


After more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake 1.0.0. Thank you to all of our many contributors over the years for making HandBrake what it is today. 

HandBrake is an open source, free, portable and reliable software project that allows you to convert DVD-Video discs or any other video file from one format to another in an easy and straighforward way. It was originally built for the BeOS operating system, but now runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Features at a glance
Key features include the ability to queue up multiple encoding jobs, support for VFR and CFR, support for chapter and title selection, live video preview, chapter markers, as well as support for average bitrate or constant quality video encoding.

Supports subtitles and video filters
In addition, HandBrake comes with support for various subtitle streams, including SSA, SRT, VobSub and Closed Captions CEA-608, as well as support for video filters, such as deinterlacing, cropping, decomb, scaling, detelecine, grayscale and deblock.

Supports a wide range of video file formats
The application has been designed with usability in mind, which means that it comes with support for a wide range of video file formats, including any DVD-like source (VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or VOB file), encrypted DVDs, MKV, MPG, MP4, MOV, AVI, OGG, FLV and WMV.

What’s new in HandBrake 1.0.0

General:
  • New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
  • Completely overhauled the official presets
  • New general use presets for broad compatibility
  • New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
  • New web presets
  • New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
  • Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under “Legacy”
  • New JSON-based preset system including command line support
  • New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
  • Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
  • Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)

Video:
  • VP9 video encoding via libvpx
  • Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
  • Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
  • Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
  • Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
  • New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
  • New Pad filter (command line only for now)
  • New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
  • Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
  • New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
  • Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
  • Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
  • x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
  • High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
  • x264 10-bit
  • x265 10-bit and 12-bit

Audio:
  • Opus audio encoding/decoding via libopus
  • Passthru now supports E-AC-3, FLAC, and TrueHD audio formats

Subtitles:
  • Improved subtitles rendering for some languages via HarfBuzz
  • Miscellaneous subtitles improvements
  • Command line interface:
  • Presets can now be imported and exported from the command line and are compatible with the graphical interfaces
  • Queue exported from the graphical interfaces can now be imported by the command line interface (Linux and Windows only for now)

Build system:
  • Add scripts to manually build and install Mac and MinGW-w64 (compile for Windows on Linux) toolchains
  • Add support for multiple source URLs for third-party downloads
  • Add SHA256 hash verification for third-party downloads
  • Add configure parameter to disable or filter allowed third-party downloads (see configure –help)
  • Use HTTPS everywhere; the few cases where a third-party does not provide packages over https, handbrake.fr does
  • New targets on Mac to install and uninstall after building
  • Add flatpak packaging support (experimental)

Third-party libraries:
Updated libraries:
  • FreeType 2.6.5 (subtitles)
  • Fontconfig 2.12.1 (subtitles)
  • FriBidi 0.19.7 (subtitles)
  • Libav 12 (encoding/decoding/muxing)
  • libass 0.13.2 (subtitles)
  • libbluray 0.9.3 (Blu-ray decoding)
  • libmfx v6.0.0 (Intel QuickSync Video encoding/decoding)
  • libvpx 1.5.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • x264 148 r2708 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 2.1 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)

New libraries:
  • HarfBuzz 1.3.0 (subtitles)
  • libopus 1.1.3 (Opus audio encoding)
Linux:
  • Add options for saving and loading queue files
  • Removed system tray icon due to performance issues on Ubuntu
  • Usability improvements
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Mac:
  • Updated all tooltips
  • Added undo/redo support to the graphical interface
  • Improved drag and drop support
  • Added Open Recent to the File menu
  • Added Add Titles to Queue… to the File menu (batch queueing)
  • Preview prompts to open in an external application when the internal player does not support the format
  • Preview now displays volume and audio/subtitles language selection during playback
  • Picture and Filters settings are now part of the main window
  • Settings are preserved when selecting a new title (instead of reloading the last selected preset)
  • Improved support for importing/exporting comma-separated (.csv) chapter markers
  • Queue is now automatically paused when available disk space is low
  • When Done action can now be changed directly from the Queue window
  • When Done notification is now interactive (reveals the encoded file in Finder)
  • Activity Log window is now searchable (press “?”+”f” to activate)
  • XQuartz is no longer required for subtitle burn-in
  • Updated Sparkle software update library
  • Enabled DSA signature checking for improved security
  • Usability improvements
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Windows:
  • Graphical interface now uses libhb directly, instead of sending commands to the command line interface
  • Encoding can now be paused and resumed
  • Stopping encoding will finalize the partial file to be playable
  • Reduced installer and install size
  • The command line interface is no longer included in the graphical interface installer
  • Update checker now verifies the signature of the update file for improved security
  • Added support for quality-based audio encoding
  • Added ability to import tab-separated (.tsv), XML (.xml), and plain text (.txt) chapter markers
  • Improved the “configure default” options for audio and subtitles
  • Default audio track behavior is now configurable
  • Subtitles burn-in behavior is now configurable
  • Removed DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) hardware-accelerated video decoding
  • Was causing many issues without providing sufficient improvement to decoding efficiency
  • May be added again at a later date if performance and stability improves
  • Usability improvements
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes
Read more about the release announce

How to Install HandBrake 1.0.0 on Ubuntu Derivative System :

To Install/Update HandBrake 1.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update

After adding this PPA to your list of repositories (see “Adding this PPA to your system” below), you can install the HandBrake gtk gui with the command:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

And you can install the HandBrake CLI with the command:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli

After installation s completed, search handbrake on dashboard, like this ;


to remove handbrade, do ;
sudo apt-get remove handbrake-gtk
sudo apt-get remove handbrake-cli

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Sunday, December 25, 2021

 

OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 is Released, Bring Kernel 4.9.0 with BFQ as a default CPU scheduler

Ubuntu Maniac 4:37:00 AM Leave a Reply

Kate Lebedeff has announced the release of OpenMandriva Lx 3.01, an updated build of the distribution’s 3.0 branch, featuring the KDE Plasma desktop, which was originally released in August

 The OpenMandriva distribution is a full-featured Linux desktop and server, sponsored by the OpenMandriva Association. It is based on ROSA, a Russian Linux distribution project which forked Mandriva Linux in 2012, incorporating many of Mandriva’s original tools and utilities and adding in-house enhancements. The goal of OpenMandriva is to facilitate the creation, improvement, promotion and distribution of free and open-source software in general, and OpenMandriva projects in particular.

Work on 3.01 releases has further improved stability and performance with freshly updated software.
The 3.01 release brings a number of major fixes since 3.0 release:

– updated software
– new drivers and kernel – better support for newer hardware
– many bugs fixed
– stable Plasma running on Wayland

OpenMandriva Lx is a cutting edge distribution compiled with LVM/clang. Combined with the high level of optimisation used for both code and linking (by enabling LTO) used in its building, this gives the OpenMandriva desktop an unbelievably crisp response to operations on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop which makes it a pleasure to use.
The latest release of all the KDE applications is there to support the desktop and help give you a consistent feel.

Main features:
  • KDE Plasma 5.8.4
  • KDE Frameworks 5.29.0
  • KDE Apps 16.08.3
  • Qt Framework 5.6.2
  • Kernel 4.9.0 with BFQ as a default CPU scheduler
  • Systemd 232
  • Xorg 1.19.0
  • Mesa 13.0.2
  • Wayland 1.12.0
  • LLVM/clang 3.9.1
  • F2FS support – A filesystem for SSD
Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): OpenMandrivaLx.3.01-PLASMA.x86_64.iso (2,018MB, torrent, pkglist).
 

Parrot Security OS 3.3 is Released, Bring Kernel 4,8 and fix minor MATE bugs

Ubuntu Maniac 3:13:00 AM Leave a Reply

Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot Security OS 3.3, a new release of the project’s Debian-based, specialist distribution with a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy and cryptography

 Parrot Security OS is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.

Parrot 3.3 released. We are sorry for all the silence behind our development process these days, but we were secretly working on two main projects, the perfect plan to conquer the world and the new Parrot 3.3 release which fixes many minor but unpleasant bugs and introduces many many updates. This release is not a definitive goal; it is just a working snapshot of the bigger work we are doing for parrot 3.4 that will be released very soon

See the release announcement and changelog for more details

Parrot Release changelog
This file contains the changelog of the Parrot Security distribution

  • include linux 4.8 kernel
  • fix touchpad/multitouch support
  • fix mismatching kernel installer
  • update anonsurf
  • fix minor MATE bugs
  • include GCC 6.2
  • update metasploit-framework 4.13
  • switch to php 7
  • upgrade most of the tools to their latest version
 Parrot Security OS is available in several editions

Friday, December 23, 2021

 

Linux Kernel 4.9.0 Exton is Available For Ubuntu / Debian and Linux Mint

Ubuntu Maniac 5:45:00 AM Leave a Reply

Linux Kernel 4.9 Now Unofficially Available for 64-bit systems, on Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 “Jessie,” Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” (a.k.a. Debian Testing), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10, Linux Mint 18, and recently released Linux Mint 18.1

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.


As expected with any new Linux kernel release, Arne Exton forks it for distribution across all of its supported Linux-based operating systems. The first one to ship with the final Linux 4.9 kernel was ExTiX 17.0, but it looks like you can also install this custom kernel on various Ubuntu or Debian-based distros, including Linux Mint.

“I have compiled yet another Ubuntu/Debian kernel for 64-bit systems. This time kernel 4.9.0-11-exton, equivalent to kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 4.9 released 161211,” said Arne Exton in the announcement. “My self-compiled Ubuntu kernels can be used in all types of modern Ubuntu systems, including Mint.”

Here’s how to install Linux kernel 4.9 on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint

According to the developer, you can install and use his custom Linux 4.9 kernel, which appears to have been compiled only for 64-bit systems, on Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 “Jessie,” Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” (a.k.a. Debian Testing), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10, Linux Mint 18, and recently released Linux Mint 18.1, open terminal and follow this command :

Download exton kernel :
wget http://www.exton.se/LINUX/ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton.zip

Extract File kernel :
unzip ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton.zip

Set Permission for kernel file :
sudo chmod +x ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton

Change directory to install latest kernel :
cd ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Please a Few minuter untill installation is finished, and reboot your ubuntu system :
sudo reboot

and check ubuntu kernel version, open terminal and follow the command :
uname -a

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

Thursday, December 22, 2021

 

OpenShot Video Editor 2.2 is Available PPA For Ubuntu Derivatives

Ubuntu Maniac 6:26:00 AM Leave a Reply


OpenShot Video Editor is an open source non-linear video editor software, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework.

OpenShot aims to create an simple, yet powerful video editor, with a focus on “User Interface”, “Work flow”, and “Stability”.

OpenShot has many great features, such as trimming and arranging videos, adjusting audio levels, transitions between videos, compositing multiple layers of video, chroma-key / green screen effect, and support of most formats and codecs.

What really sets OpenShot apart from other video editors is the easy-to-use user interface. We have worked very hard to create a video editor that everyone can enjoy!

What’s new in OpenShot Video Editor 2.2

Performance / Caching:
  • Over the past few months, improvements to performance have been my top priority. In some cases, performance is improved more than 10x compared to OpenShot 2.1. Adding huge images to your timeline is now fully optimized, and won’t slow you down. Editing HD videos (5K, 4K, 2.5K, and 1080p) is vastly improved. A new caching engine was built from the ground up, and supports both memory and disk back-ends, depending on the user’s needs. This can be configured in the Preferences, under “Cache”. Also, opening huge projects (with hundreds of files / clips) has been optimized and is up to 10x faster.
Improved Stability:
  • Many critical bugs have been fixed related to seeking, missing frame detection, and AVPacket scope, which results in a much more stable engine, especially on slower systems. Also, compatibility has been improved for Linux AppImage and OS X (10.9+) App Bundles.
Keyframe Enhancements:
  • Keyframes are used in the animation system in OpenShot, and have received some major upgrades. Support for CSS syntax (quadratic bezier curves) now allows a %-based approach to setting the curve handles. This is very useful, and better than the previously hard-coded values. Also, 28 curve presets have been added for common things like ease-in/out, bounce, etc… Many other improvements have been made to Keyframes, such as better undo/redo support when dragging property values (in the property editor), rendering color keyframes on the timeline, and improved frame detection when using the property editor (i.e. adding a keyframe for the currently selected frame).
Error Handling / Reporting:
  • Our library (libopenshot) and Python UI (openshot-qt) have improved error handling, and can now detect stack-traces for crashes and exceptions (on Linux, Mac, and Windows). Not only can it pull out the stack-trace, but it can send that anonymously to the OpenShot website back-end, so I can quickly identify where crashes are happening and more quickly fix them. In other words, OpenShot 2.2 now has real-time error reporting, which I’m really excited about. This can be disabled in the preferences, along with metric reporting. It also contains no personal information, just a basic stack trace of what function crashed.
New Title Templates:
  • Many Kickstarter backers requested new title templates to be added to OpenShot. I am proud to announce that all new titles are now included in OpenShot 2.2. We have some really nice additions, such as Film Ratings, TV Ratings (small corner rating), and more!
Infrastructure Improvements:
  • One of the most challenging aspects of running an open-source project such as OpenShot, is the large amounts of data (downloads, installers, etc…). We had been using Amazon S3 previously, and our monthly costs skyrocketed to over $1000 just for data transfer. So, we’ve moved our installers into GitHub (which ironically happens to also be powered by S3), and our installer-related data transfer costs have gone to $0! So, a huge thanks to GitHub for being awesome!
  • We have also integrated torrents into our build server, and all major releases now include torrents (on our download page), to help further distribute our data transfer.
Read the Release Announce


Misc / Bug Fixes:
  • Selection handles (in progress)
  • Ability to disable unit tests (useful for distros that have a broken unittest++ library)
  • Broken Ubuntu 16.10 PPA fixed
  • Fixed bug when opening .OSP projects via command line
  • Disabled SSL validation (not used anyway)
  • Fixed bug when opening legacy 1.4.x project files that contain UTF-8 encoded characters
  • Preferences now save settings on close of dialog (and persist even if a crash follows)
  • Added FileVersion and custom icon to Windows installer (more polished)
  • Ability to drop a file directly on the timeline (without dropping it in your Project Files first)
  • Fixed bug where the tutorial does not find the correct widget
  • Began work on a new help manual using sphinx (not quite ready yet)
  • New 2.5k and 4k profiles added
  • Fixed margins on OS X and Windows around QDockWidgets
  • Fixed bug when switching between Thumbnail and Detail views
  • Alpha backgrounds have been fixed on all Blender animated titles
  • Recently opened menu logic has been fixed
  • Translations updated for 70+ languages



Install/Update OpenShot Video Editor 2.2 on Ubuntu 17.04, Zesty Zapus, Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA :

Because it is available via PPA, installing OpenShot Video Editor 2.2 on Ubuntu 17.04, Zesty Zapus, Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak,Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, Like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

to remove, do :
sudo apt-get remove openshot-qt
 

Install WineHQ .2.0 RC2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, 16.10 Yakkety and Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty

Ubuntu Maniac 5:42:00 AM Leave a Reply

Wine stands for “Wine is not an emulator” and it is an open source command-line software that’s capable of translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly for integrating Windows applications into your Linux/UNIX desktop. For regular Linux users, the above means that the Wine software will allow them to run applications which are designed to be installed only on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

It’s not a virtual machine or an emulator
However, Wine should not be confused with a virtual machine or an emulator. It provides binary compatibility, support for graphics, sound interaction, as well as support for modems, networks, scanners, tablets, keyboards, and other devices. The software’s API allows developers to integrate Wine in their projects, and as a result, numerous graphical user interfaces, both free and commercial, appeared on the Internet over the years.


The Wine development release 2.0-rc2 is now available.
What’s new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc2 :

  • Hitman: Blood Money crashes when changing screen resolution
  • TIE Fighter: Collector’s Edition Crash – ‘Escape Menu’ Freezes Application.
  • Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 does not load with timeout error
  • wintrust:softpub crashes on Windows 8
  • sharing violation and prompt for copy /B file1+file2 file1
  • Cannot install download-audiograbber.exe
  • Ride : The motorcycle game does not start
  • user32:input fails on non-qwerty keyboards
  • shell32:assoc regression (privilege issue)
  • wininet:url regression caused by new cross-compiler
  • Wrong colors on i915 and similar GPUs in GTA Vice City
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla fails to start with DX11 renderer
  • R32/R16 typeless formats generate incomplete FBO errors when used as a render target (Gauntlet, WoW with D3D11 renderer)
  • gcc6: d3drm build warnings
  • Helldivers gives this error when trying to run on MacOS
  • Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum crashes on exit
  • winhttp:winhttp test regression (test_secure_connection)
  • webservices:writer test regression in test_datetime
  • Pasting into IDA Pro stops working on macOS
  • Regression in wininet crashes skype


Install/Update Wine 2.0 RC2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA :

Because it is available via PPA, installing Wine 2.0 RC2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, Like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends wine-staging
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging

to remove, do:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds

After install completed, run the command on your ubuntu terminal :
$ sudo su
#winecfg

Compile WineHQ From Source code :
$ wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0-rc2.tar.bz2
$ sudo tar jxf wine-2.0-rc2.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-2.0-rc2/
$ sudo apt-get install flex bison
# ./configure –without-x –without-freetype
# make
# make install

Configuring Source :



If already install, you just to update and upgrade :
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
 

Nmap 7.40 Released, Install on Linux Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint From Source Code

Ubuntu Maniac 4:39:00 AM Leave a Reply

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).

Nmap 7.40 is here exactly two months after the release of Nmap 7.31, and promises to bring a bunch of exciting new features and goodies that ethical hackers, penetration testers, and security researchers will most definitely love, including the new “–defeat-icmp-ratelimit” option that dramatically reduces UDP scan times.

For starters, Nmap 7.40 ships with twelve new NSE scripts, including cics-enum for enumerating CICS transaction IDs, cics-user-enum for brute-forcing usernames for CICS users on TN3270 services, fingerprint-strings for printing ASCII strings found in service fingerprints, and vtam-enum for brute-forcing VTAM app IDs for TN3270 services.

The new ip-geolocation-map-bing and ip-geolocation-map-google NSE scripts will help you render IP geolocation data as images via the Bing Maps and Google Maps APIs, and ip-geolocation-map-kml records IP geolocation data found in a KML file. Furthermore, nje-pass-brute is capable of brute-forcing an NJE node’s password.

There’s also ssl-cert-intaddr for searching for private IP addresses in TLS certificate fields and extensions, tn3270-screen for displaying the login screen from mainframe TN3270 Telnet services, including hidden fields, as well as tso-enum and tso-brute for enumerating usernames and brute-forces passwords for TN3270 Telnet services.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to monitor service and host uptime, manage service upgrade schedules, do network inventory, discover available hosts on a network based on raw IP packets, as well as to discover running services and operating systems on a specific network.

In addition, it supports a wide range of advanced network mapping techniques, including ping sweeps, TCP/UDP port scanning mechanisms, as well as the ability to scan networks of hundreds of thousands of computers.

What’s new in Nmap 7.40


  • [Windows] Updated the bundled Npcap from 0.10r9 to 0.78r5, with an improved installer experience, driver signing updates to work with Windows 10 build 1607, and bugfixes for WiFi connectivity problems. [Yang Luo, Daniel Miller]
  • Integrated all of your IPv4 OS fingerprint submissions from April to September (568 of them). Added 149 fingerprints, bringing the new total to 5,336. Additions include Linux 4.6, macOS 10.12 Sierra, NetBSD 7.0, and more. Highlights: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2016/q4/110 [Daniel Miller]
  • Integrated all of your service/version detection fingerprints submitted from April to September (779 of them). The signature count went up 3.1% to 11,095. We now detect 1161 protocols, from airserv-ng, domaintime, and mep to nutcracker, rhpp, and usher. Highlights: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2016/q4/115 [Daniel Miller]
  • Fix reverse DNS on Windows which was failing with the message “mass_dns: warning: Unable to determine any DNS servers.” This was because the interface GUID comparison needed to be case-insensitive. [Robert Croteau]

[NSE] Added 12 NSE scripts from 4 authors, bringing the total up to 552! They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below:

  • cics-enum enumerates CICS transaction IDs, mapping to screens in TN3270 services. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • cics-user-enum brute-forces usernames for CICS users on TN3270 services. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • fingerprint-strings will print the ASCII strings it finds in the service fingerprints that Nmap shows for unidentified services. [Daniel Miller]
  • [GH#606] ip-geolocation-map-bing renders IP geolocation data as an image via Bing Maps API. [Mak Kolybabi]
  • [GH#606] ip-geolocation-map-google renders IP geolocation data as an image via Google Maps API. [Mak Kolybabi]
  • [GH#606] ip-geolocation-map-kml records IP geolocation data in a KML file for import into other mapping software [Mak Kolybabi]
  • nje-pass-brute brute-forces the password to a NJE node, given a valid RHOST and OHOST. Helpfully, nje-node-brute can now brute force both of those values. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • [GH#557] ssl-cert-intaddr will search for private IP addresses in TLS certificate fields and extensions. [Steve Benson]
  • tn3270-screen shows the login screen from mainframe TN3270 Telnet services, including any hidden fields. The script is accompanied by the new tn3270 library. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • tso-enum enumerates usernames for TN3270 Telnet services. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • tso-brute brute-forces passwords for TN3270 Telnet services. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • vtam-enum brute-forces VTAM application IDs for TN3270 services. [Soldier of Fortran]
  • [NSE][GH#518] Brute scripts are faster and more accurate. New feedback and adaptivity mechanisms in brute.lua help brute scripts use resources more efficiently, dynamically changing number of threads based on protocol messages like FTP 421 errors, network errors like timeouts, etc. [Sergey Khegay]
  • [GH#353] New option –defeat-icmp-ratelimit dramatically reduces UDP scan times in exchange for labeling unresponsive (and possibly open) ports as “closed|filtered”. Ports which give a UDP protocol response to one of Nmap’s scanning payloads will be marked “open”. [Sergey Khegay]
  • [NSE][GH#533] Removed ssl-google-cert-catalog, since Google shut off that service at some point. Reported by Brian Morin.
  • [NSE][GH#606] New NSE library, geoip.lua, provides a common framework for storing and retrieving IP geolocation results. [Mak Kolybabi]
  • [Ncat] Restore the connection success message that Ncat prints with -v. This was accidentally suppressed when not using -z.
  • [GH#316] Added scan resume from Nmap’s XML output. Now you can –resume a canceled scan from all 3 major output formats: -oN, -oG, and -oX. [Tudor Emil Coman]
  • [Ndiff][GH#591] Fix a bug where hosts with the same IP but different hostnames were shown as changing hostnames between scans. Made sort stable with regard to hostnames. [Daniel Miller]
  • [NSE][GH#540] Add tls.servername script-arg for forcing a name to be used for TLS Server Name Indication extension. The argument overrides the default use of the host’s targetname. [Bertrand Bonnefoy-Claudet]
  • [GH#505] Updated Russian translation of Zenmap by Alexander Kozlov.
  • [NSE][GH#588] Fix a crash in smb.lua when using smb-ls due to a floating-point number being passed to os.time (“bad argument”). [Dallas Winger]
  • [NSE][GH#596] Fix a bug in mysql.lua that caused authentication failures in mysql-brute and other scripts due to including a null terminator in the salt value. This bug affects Nmap 7.25BETA2 and later releases. [Daniel Miller]
  • The –open option now implies –defeat-rst-ratelimit. This may result in inaccuracies in the numbers of “Not shown:” closed and filtered ports, but only in situations where it also speeds up scan times. [Daniel Miller]
  • [NSE] Added known Diffie-Hellman parameters for haproxy, postfix, and IronPort to ssl-dh-params. [Frank Bergmann]
  • Added service probe for ClamAV servers (clam), an open source antivirus engine used in mail scanning. [Paulino Calderon]
  • Added service probe and UDP payload for Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC), a secure transport developed by Google and used with HTTP/2. [Daniel Miller]
  • [NSE] Enabled resolveall to run against any target provided as a hostname, so the resolveall.hosts script-arg is no longer required. [Daniel Miller]

[NSE] Revised script http-default-accounts in several ways [nnposter]:

  • Added 21 new fingerprints, plus broadened 5 to cover more variants.
  • [GH#577] It can now can test systems that return status 200 for non-existent pages.
  • [GH#604] Implemented XML output. Layout of the classic text output has also changed, including reporting blank usernames or passwords as “”, instead of just empty strings.
  • Added CPE entries to individual fingerprints (where known). They are reported only in the XML output.
  • [NSE][GH#573] Updated http.lua to allow processing of HTTP responses with malformed header names. Such header lines are still captured in the rawheader list but skipped otherwise. [nnposter]
  • [GH#416] New service probe and match line for iperf3. [Eric Gershman]
  • [NSE][GH#555] Add Drupal to the set of web apps brute forced by http-form-brute. [Nima Ghotbi]

Drupal added to the set of Web Apps brute forced by http-form-brute

Nmap 7.40 is a major release of the widely-used security scanner, and among other exciting new features implemented we can mention support for brute-forcing Drupal sites by http-form-brute, a greatly improved http-default-accounts script with 21 new fingerprints and many other goodies, and support for service probe for ClamAV servers.


How to Install Nmap 7.40 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint (Ubuntu Derivative System) :

To install and update Nmap 7.40 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download :
wget https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.40.tar.bz2

Extract Tarball : 
bzip2 -cd nmap-7.40.tar.bz2 | tar xvf –

Move to folder nmap :
cd nmap-7.40

Configure and Install :
./configure
make
sudo su
make install

after you installed nmap, check your nmap version. open terminal and follow the command :
sudo su
nmap –version

to remove, do :
sudo apt-get remove nmap 
 

ExTiX 17.0 is Released, Bring New Kernel, 4.9 & KDE Frameworks 5.26.0

Ubuntu Maniac 2:43:00 AM Leave a Reply

Arne Exton has announced the release of a new version of the Debian- and Ubuntu-based ExTiX distribution. The new release, version 17.0, ships with the KDE desktop environment and is available in a single, 64-bit x86 build


A new version of ExTiX – The Ultimate Linux System. You can call it ExTiX 17.0 KDE Live DVD. (The previous version was 16.4 from 160731). The best thing with ExTiX 17.0 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Tools (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu system.

 ABOUT

ExTiX 17.0 KDE DVD 64 bit is based on Debian 8.6 Jessie/Debian 9 Stretch and Ubuntu 16.10. The original system includes the Desktop Environment Unity (Ubuntu). After removing Unity I have installed KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 with KDE 4.16. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

Used KERNEL

My special kernel 4.9.0-11-exton corresponding Kernel.org’s kernel 4.9 – latest as of 161221. You can download kernel if you want to use it in another Ubuntu/Debian system. Extract ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton.zip with the command unzip ubuntu-kernel-64bit-4.9.0-11-exton.zip.




What’s new in Linux kernel 4.9 ?

NEWS ABOUT ExTiX 17.0 Build 161221 with the KDE Desktop environment and Refracta Tools
  • ExTiX KDE is based on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak. KDE 4.16 is used as Desktop environment. All packages have been updated to the latest version by 161221. Kernel 4.9.0-11-exton is used. (Kernel.org‘s latest kernel 4.9).
  • Google Chrome is used as Web Browser, which makes it possible to watch Netflix movies. It is not possible in Firefox (in Linux).
  • I have also installed BlueGriffon Web Editor. BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it’s a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards. Only to be compared with Dreamweaver. (In my opinion).
  • Other included important/useful packages are: LibreOffice, Thunderbird, GParted, Brasero, SMPlayer, GCC and other compilation tools so that you can install packages from source. Furthermore “all” multimedia codecs. Everything the average Linux user could wish for I would say.
  • The best thing with ExTiX 17.0 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Tools (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu system.
Read more about the release Announcement

Monday, December 19, 2021

 

FlightGear 2016.4.3, Flight Simulator For Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

Ubuntu Maniac 8:58:00 AM Leave a Reply

FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator.  It supports a variety of popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world.  Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated and open flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, pilot training, as an industry engineering tool, for DIY-ers to pursue their favorite interesting flight simulation idea, and last but certainly not least as a fun, realistic, and challenging desktop flight simulator. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.


There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim. We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many people in many areas.

 Read the Features

 Download Main Program
Important Information

  • If you have a slow/expensive net connection, prefer physical media, or want to help the FlightGear project, FlightGear is available for purchase.
  • For a complete FGFS manual, please refer to the official FlightGear Manual or download the PDF Version.
  • If you have trouble connecting, please visit one of our FTP mirrors
  • Caution: Check the version numbers of the following prebuilt packages. There is can be a delay between the official release and when the ready to run binaries of the same version become available.


Features:


  • Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.
  • Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
  • Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)
  • Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)
  • Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
  • World scenery fits on 3 DVD’s. (I’m not sure that’s a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.
  • Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
  • Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
  • Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.
  • Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.


 What’s New:

Improved modularization
Atmospheric Light Scattering
Improved performance, reduced memory occupancy
Usability

  • A new tool allowing joystick configuration in-sim, making it easier for new users to configure their joysticks as they wish and get flying!
  • The Nasal Console has been improved to support copy/paste, making Nasal script development easier.
  • The About dialog now includes additional system information, and the ability to copy information to the clipboard, making remote diagnosis of users problems faster and more straightforward.
  • The Select Airport option now displays an overhead view of the selected airport, allowing users to preview their new location, and making it easier to choose the correct runway or parking position.
  • In-sim checklists have been introduced for a number of aircraft.
  • An in-sim documentation browser is included, so users can more easily browse all the documentation available in the base package.

Internationalization

  • The FlightGear Manual is now included in both English and French.
  • System messages on startup are available in eight languages, just like the in-sim menu.

Complete release notes here.

How to install FlightGea 2022.4.3 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

To Install FlightGea 2022.4.3 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flightgear

To remove :
sudo apt-get remove flightgear

Sunday, December 18, 2021

 

Lutris, a gaming platform For Ubuntu / Debian Flavours Like a Steam

Ubuntu Maniac 11:25:00 PM Leave a Reply

Lutris is a gaming platform for GNU/Linux. Its goal is to make gaming on Linux as easy as possible by taking care of installing and setting up the game for the user. The only thing you have to do is play the game. It aims to support every game that is playable on Linux.



Features

  • Manage your Linux games, Windows games, emulated console games and browser games
  • Launch your Steam and Desura games
  • Community-written installers to ease up your games’ installation
  • More than 20 emulators installed automatically or in a single click, providing support for most gaming systems from the late 70’s to the present day
  • Download and play libre and freeware games

There’s a lot more to come, here are some of the planned features that you can expect in future versions:

  • Humble Bundle and GOG support
  • Mass import of emulator ROMs using the TOSEC database
  • Game saves management
  • Archive your installation files on external or network drives for a fully automatic installation procedure
  • Joystick configuration GUI with keyboard mapping features
  • Community features: friends list, chat and multiplayer event planning

Read more for manual how to using Lutris


How to install Lutris on Ubuntu / Debian :

To Install Lutris on Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18, Debian 8 (Jessie) and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Debian
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_8.0/ ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_8.0/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add –

For Ubuntu
ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != “14.04” -a $ver != “16.10” -a $ver != “15.10” -a $ver != “16.04” ]; then ver=16.04; fi 
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/ ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add –

After setting up the repository
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lutris

After installation is completed, open ubuntu dasshboard and search Lutris :

 

Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.8.15 Stable on Ubuntu 16.10, ubuntu 16.04, ubuntu 15.10 and Linux Mint 18

Ubuntu Maniac 4:53:00 PM Leave a Reply

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

“I’m announcing the release of the 4.8.15 kernel. All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman in the release announcement for Linux kernel 4.8.15. “The updated 4.8.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.8.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”

Users of the Linux 4.4 LTS and 4.8 kernels must update immediately
According to their appended shortlogs and the diffs since the previous versions, Linux kernels 4.8.15 and 4.4.39 LTS are here to introduce a bunch of architecture updates, for PowerPC (PPC), SPARC, ARM64, x86, PA-RISC, and m68k, improve the ACPI, SCSI, crypto, DAX, and NVDIMM device drivers, add a couple of fixes to the Ceph and FUSE filesystems, as well as update the networking stack with B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced and CAN changes.

Many GNU/Linux distributions are still using kernel packages from the Linux 4.8 and 4.4 LTS series, despite the fact that Linux kernel 4.9 is out, so you should update your system to Linux kernel 4.4.39 LTS and/or Linux kernel 4.8.15 as soon as they land in the stable software repositories of your favorite distro, or upgrade directly to Linux kernel 4.9, which might just be the next LTS (Long Term Support) branch. Either way, you can download these new builds right now from kernel.org.

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How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.15 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.15 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download script :
wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.8.15-stable

 Set Permission :
sudo chmod +x kernel-4.8.15-stable

Run Script to installation process :
./kernel-4.8.15-stable

Press enter to continue :


Installation is completed, reboot your ubuntu system :



How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.15 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using manual download :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.15 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu i386 system :
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-headers-4.8.15-040815_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-headers-4.8.15-040815-generic_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-image-4.8.15-040815-generic_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_i386.deb

For Ubuntu amd64 system :
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-headers-4.8.15-040815-generic_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-image-4.8.15-040815-generic_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.15/linux-headers-4.8.15-040815_4.8.15-040815.201612151231_all.deb

Update and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.8.15 (Stable)
# sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :
# sudo update-grub
# sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.