Instructions on how to use LXC (Linux Containers) to run GUI applications within a container. The example shows how to run chromium with X11 and GPU-accelerated.
Create container:
Install needed tools:
Map UID and GID ramges:
Set UID/GUID ranges for container:
Mount X11 socket and .Xauthority file:
Passthrough GPU device:
Check results with:
Now we can install and run chromium browser inside:
Naivecoin is an open source implementation of a cryptocurrency. It includes all the major components needed to build a cryptocurrency such as a miner and the blockchain. If you’ve been reading about BitCoin and other cryptocurrencies and still don’t quite understand how they work, you should check out the code in Naivecoin.
Sometimes to understand a concept we have to implement it ourselves. Or in this case, we can use someone else’s implementation as a live simulation that we can watch and read through the code.
Naivecoin is written in Node.js which should make it easy for everyone to learn from. It is short and the author aims to keep it as small as possible.
We had a blog post about Copay, a shared bitcoin wallet. It would be cool to see someone implement a shared wallet for NaiveCoin. Another idea is to add smart contracts to NaiveCoin.
If you have an idea for how a cryptocurrency could be better, you can use Naivecoin as a basic implementation and proof of concept.
When doctors would go into the system, vouchers would sit alongside patient information, it would be non-obvious or hidden and it would look like part of the software:
The Star had found that brand name drug companies paid Telus to digitally insert the vouchers so that the prescription is filled with their product instead of the lower-cost generic competitor that pharmacists normally reach for.
What’s troubling is that Telus would send data about usage of the vouchers back to the marketing/advertising companies:
Telus said drug manufacturers paying to have their vouchers in the EMR receive “aggregated and anonymized, province-level statistics” on the total number of vouchers printed off for their products
Riot.im is out with version 0.12 for web and desktop. It is another fine example of an open source Slack (or HipChat) alternative (we’ve covered one Slack alternative before, Zulip). In this latest version they include widgets which are a way of sharing app integrations embedded within a Riot.im chat room.
Widgets are embedded and pinned to the top of your Riot.im chat room. This makes them visible at all times to everyone in the chat room. Similar to pinning a particular message.
The widgets included in this release are:
There’s an ability to add custom widgets so I’m hoping someone creates a custom widget for Kolab Now (which is a free/open source alternative to Google Docs).
The bigger news? Riot.im has support for proper video conferencing with Jitsi! Jitsi is free/open source video conferencing software that is compatible with WebRTC and is scalable and matches what the big players of video conferencing (Skype, Zoom) are offering.
Riot.im promises the same thing as Slack except in a nicer, more hackable free/open source package. Riot.im is a client for the Matrix group chat server. Matrix is the free/open source infrastructure for setting up a Slack/HipChat alternative. There are other clients available for it. Matrix can be viewed as an alternative to XMPP/Jabber and as an upgrade to IRC.
You can support Matrix and free/open source chat/communications infrastructure by donating here through Liberapay (or Patreon or sending cryptocurrency like BitCoin or Ethereum BTC 1LxowEgsquZ3UPZ68wHf8v2MDZw82dVmAE, ETH 0xA5f9a4f9E024F6D727f7afdA9257e22329A97485).
Liberapay is a recurrent donation platform, similar to Patreon, GoFundMe and other platforms. What makes it different is that LibreaPay is a non-profit organization and they fund themselves rather than charging transaction fees (though you will still get charged payment processing fees).
The source code for their platform is also open source. The code for Liberapay is available on Github.
What’s nice about Liberapay is that it’s easy to use, the transaction fees are non-existent and it gives users of free/open source software another platform on which to support developers. Recurring donations are sponsorships of a project. OpenCollective is a similar platform that we’ve covered before.
This is a headline I thought I would never see but the world has really changed with Microsoft seeming to fully embrace open source!
I’ve personally known a few .NET shops that would do well to consider moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL); Linux servers are easier to automate and administer than Windows servers. With Red Hat’s support, it becomes even easier.
Oracle has decided to concentrate on entering the cloud computing market, competing against Amazon, Google and Microsoft and to do this, they’ve decided to make Java EE (Enterprise Edition) fully open source: https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/opening-up-java-ee
