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After an Ubuntu update goes really bad Chris reflects on how snappy, a transactionally updated version of Ubuntu, could have avoided this problem.

Plus a review of the System76 Meerkat PC, Russia plans to fork Sailfish OS & more!

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Russia’s Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, has taken part in talks to form a consortium that will aid Russia in developing a custom mobile OS, reportedly a forked version of Jolla’s Sailfish OS, to lessen its dependence on Western technology. Nikiforov held a working meeting last week with the leadership of Hong Kong-based Sailfish Holdings, developer of the quietly admired Sailfish OS. Alongside other participants, the parties involved discussed the use of open-source software in the public and private sectors, taking into account technical, economic and political factors, the latter of which is expected to include United States’ interference with exported technologies.

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Of much interest to Linux users will be the landing of improved Linux HiDPI support.

So I feel cool using the terminal, and it honestly feels more efficient half the time to boot. What are some of your must-have/most used terminal applications? I’ve been trolling through the Arch Wiki’s list of terminal apps (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications[1] ), and that’s been a solid jumping off point.

DigitalOcean

June 12-14, 2015

Sheraton Charlotte Airport

Charlotte, NC

SouthEast LinuxFest will be held at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport 3315 Scott Futrell Dr, Charlotte, NC 28208

Linux Academy

Meerkat Review

Few basic features of System76 Meerkat include:

Intel 5th Generation processors, available options i3-5010U and i5-5250U

up to 2 TB of storage (M.2 SATA SSD)

16 GB DDR3 RAM

Graphics Intel HD 5500 and Intel HD 6000 for i3 and i5 respectively

4″ x 4″ in size

WiFi

1 Gb NIC

2 USB 3.0 ports (with one being PoweredUSB)

gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images.

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