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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS!

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Pre-Show:

Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail. It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features.

The $85 Chromebit is a 75 gram (or 2.6 ounces) stick that you can plug into any HDMI port — whether that’s a regular computer screen or that large TV in your living room. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage (in the form of relatively cheap and slow eMMC storage) and 2GB of RAM.

Highlights of UUMATE include the Google Chrome web browser, Kdenlive video editor, PeerGuardian privacy-oriented firewall application, Steam for Linux, Syncthing file sync utility, TeamViewer remote control software, Wine 1.7, Compiz for beautiful desktop effects, as well as numerous sound events enabled by default.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Linux Academy

Engineers are now coming up with crazy solutions to a typical problem. Vulnerable software that’s spreading around the web in containers.

CoreOS says over 80 percent of Docker images stored in its Quay service are still vulnerable to the infamous Heartbleed bug, for example.

Clair can scan containers for known vulnerabilities and then alert developers of potential issues. CoreOS is getting this data from the vulnerability databases of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian.

DigitalOcean

SteamOS Getting off to a rocky start…

Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.

Watch out for the old school shill: Dean Takahashi has authored very Microsoft focused books, and writes a lot about MS, such as – Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution

“We met with Valve about our reservations concerning the limitations of SteamOS with high-end PC builds, and they agreed they were not issues that could be overcome in time for us to launch a Steam Machine this year,” said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon. “But they were genuinely interested in working to address them in future SteamOS builds. So the option for us to produce a Steam Machine is still open, and our Tiki PCs have been in production for years as Windows systems and are always ready. But for now, we’ve put our plans to offer a Steam Machine on hold.”

Time to get a Steam Machine – https://t.co/O7owod66BT — Christian Schaller (@Uraeus2) November 11, 2015

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