We almost forgot OpenVPN and ZeroTier.

@steve said:

• New Languages - American English (en_US), Japanese (jp), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms)

I suppose we need to support you yanks at some point.

Softopedia has a early look at where Ubuntu is going.

@g.jacobse the Ribbon Toolbar was the major feature of MS Office 2007.

This is a sweet project. Nothing small, good luck.

I kinda liked seeing everyone. Was very welcoming.

Kind of surprising but I guess two decades of doing the same thing wears you out.

Anyone coming into this thread and missing the other announcements, here is the product that was once TrueCrypt, now fully restored.... https://ciphershed.org/

Might as well be us!

Softopedia ran an article on Linux desktops today. What is interesting is, of course, the screen shots.

Neither Target nor Experian are companies entrusted with data. One is just a retailer and the other is a company that collects, often false, credit data against the will of the people. Experian's customers aren't the people and so it feels no responsibility beyond what is legally enforced which is nearly nothing.

PowerShell! Everyone loves a PS talk. My guess is that there should be more than one. Maybe an entry level one to get people started then a more advanced one that focuses on a specific PS topic or task.

Two low cost new Chromebooks from Toshiba have been announced. Just $250 and $320 for the two models.

Had not seen this before. Interesting that you can run a local emulator.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh403989.aspx

Maybe a few "101" sessions would make sense then?

You could have a Storage 101 and a Virtualization 101 and maybe even a Linux 101 for people to get a taste of when and where to think about deploying Linux and to get a feel for the state of the Linux ecosystem as it stands today.

Raspian, the official OS for the Raspberry Pi, has a new default web browser replacing Midori, Epiphany. The biggest improvements are in speed, it launches up to three times faster than its predecessor and can play YouTube videos in 720p.

Azure has its own object storage mechanism (similar to Swift in OpenStack or S3 in Amazon AWS) so to allow you to learn or test behavior they have an emulator so that you can mimic that storage locally.

I've never heard White Castle or Krystal described quite that way.

http://linuxgizmos.com/mips-aims-new-64-bit-warrior-cores-at-mobile-devices/

Looks fairly interesting.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Also, any general advice on managing vendor remote access to get the right balance between security and simplicity. Am I being too paranoid/controlling?

Not at all. External vendors, for the most part, need to be tightly controlled. If you have a full time MSP that you trust and is part of your normal support, that's different, you'd treat them like internal staff. But for software or appliance vendors that only need access once in a great while and only for special things they should expect tight gateways controlling their access and no privacy.