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DistroWatch Weekly
A weekly opinion column and a summary of events from the distribution world
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 451, 9 April 2012
Welcome to this year's 15th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! This week's feature story is a first look at Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02, a KDE-centric, rolling-release distribution that has its roots in Arch Linux, but which is now an independent project with some interesting ideas, regular releases, and up-to-date software repository. The longer-than-usual news section provides a feast of information from around the distro world, which includes a report about Ubuntu's new menu system called HUD, an article celebrating 20 years of SUSE Linux, an update on the release schedule of Fedora 17 and Mageia 2, a narrative about Gentoo's controversial April fool's joke, and an interview with Fabio Erculiani, the founder of Sabayon Linux. Also in this issue, an interesting comparison of Scientific Linux with CentOS in terms of errata update speeds, an overview of a server-only distribution called ClearOS, and a new round of tips on using and storing GPG keys. Finally, we are happy to announce that the recipient of the DistroWatch.com March 2012 donation is the GNU ddrescue project. Happy reading!
Reviews: A look at Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02
News: Ubuntu's HUD, 20 years of SUSE, Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 delays, Gentoo's "install wizard", interview with Sabayon's Fabio Erculiani, CentOS vs Scientific Linux, ClearOS overview
Released last week: Puppy Linux 5.3 "Wary" and "Racy", DEFT Linux 7.1
Upcoming releases: Mageia 2 Beta 3
Donations: GNU ddrescue receives €260.00
New additions: LuninuX OS, Phinx Desktop
New distributions: Blender-boot
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Feature Story (by Jesse Smith)
A look at Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02
The Chakra GNU/Linux distribution is a Linux-based operating system which started as a fork of the Arch Linux project. Though the two projects share a history they're separate entities and trying to mix packages or repositories is not recommended. Chakra is a semi-rolling release distro which means the base of the operating system, the foundation, stays fairly stable while the end-user software is continually updated. The idea is to provide a stable operating system with cutting edge applications. This should, in theory, mean we get to use the latest web browser, office software and other programs without worrying about regressions in the kernel or X. Another interesting characteristic of Chakra is that the developers are dedicated to the idea of a pure KDE distribution. A default install of Chakra provides a KDE 4.8 environment without any GTK-based programs. Nor are there GTK-based apps in the project's main software repository. It is possible to add in GTK-based software (such as Firefox and GIMP) through a separate Bundle Manager, but these software bundles are kept apart from the rest of the distribution.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 comes in two different flavours, a "Full" edition which is a 1.4 GB download and a "Minimal" edition which is about 690 MB in size. Both come with a KDE desktop environment, though the CD-sized edition obviously provides fewer applications.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 - the Welcome screen
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When we first boot off the DVD a screen comes up asking which language we'd like to use for our live session. Then Chakra boots into a KDE desktop. In the upper-left corner there's a welcome widget. This widget contains icons for opening the project's website, launching the installer and showing us the the on-line beginner's guide to Chakra. There's also an icon which provides us with the distribution's default passwords since we're logged in as a regular user and need to be root to perform certain tasks. In addition there is a text file provided with a list of packages on the DVD. We'll come back to available software in a moment, but first let's look at Chakra's custom installer.
Tribe is the name of Chakra's installer and it begins by warning us it is still in development and may eat your hamster. (No hamsters were harmed in the making of this review.) Tribe then shows us the project's release notes. On the next screen we're shown a globe and asked to click on the globe to provide our location. The installer then tries to guess our time zone and preferred language. Should the installer guess incorrectly we can over-ride the defaults provided. On the following screen we can create regular user accounts, as many as we want. Then we're asked to partition our hard drive using the KDE Partition Manager. Once we get passed the partitioning section we match up our new partitions with mount points, confirm our choices and Tribe begins copying files to the local drive. Several minutes later we're asked if we'd like to install a boot loader, download GTK bundles or customize the system's ramdisk. Then we're done and we can reboot to experience Chakra running from the hard drive.
The installer has come a long way in the past year or so. The first time I tried Chakra I couldn't get it to install properly and this time around I was able to breeze through Tribe on the first attempt. The controls are pretty straight forward and the installer provides a good deal of flexibility. The only jarring part of the experience was switching over to a separate program to handle partitioning.
Chakra GNU/Linux boots up to a graphical login screen and, once we've signed in, we're presented with the KDE desktop. This time instead of a welcome widget the desktop is occupied by a folder widget. In the widget are icons for accessing our home directory and the trash. At the bottom of the screen we find the application menu, task switcher and system tray. Shortly after logging in an icon appeared in the system tray indicating updated packages were available for my system. Clicking the icon opened the Chakra package manager.
The package manager is, I believe, an application unique to Chakra and its layout is a bit different from what we'd find in most other software managers. The main thing that sets it apart is Chakra's package manager consists of three tabs. The first tab is used, apparently, for news and project announcements. It also contains statistics on available software in the repositories. The second tab is where we handle software and it is what I think of the package manager proper. This second tab allows us to search through applications based on name, status and category. We're shown nice big buttons with clear functionality and everything is nicely labeled. The third and final tab is for community contributed packages. At the time of writing this third screen is empty.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 - managing software packages
Let's go back to the middle tab, which is the most interesting of the three. This middle tab shows us lists of packages in the currently selected category. Packages which have been installed have checks next to them and we can easily mark new software for installation by clicking a box next to the software's name. Up at the top of the window there's a bar of action buttons. One syncs our repository data with the remote servers, another marks all available updates to be installed, another button launches all queued actions. There are other buttons for reporting bugs and managing which repositories are enabled on our system. Generally speaking I found the package manager easy to navigate and it's fairly quick to respond to input. I did run into two concerns.
The first is that the statistics box shows only about 2,800 packages are available. It's not a very big selection compared to other Linux distributions. While most of the basic functionality we might want is included in this distribution some users may find they can't find more obscure software in the repositories. My second concern came when I first tried to perform an upgrade. Upon installing Chakra I found about 80 packages were waiting to be upgraded. I opted to apply all upgrades and, a short time later, the package manager told me it wasn't able to comply due to conflicts in a few KDE packages.
As mentioned before, Chakra GNU/Linux is a KDE/Qt centric distribution, but it does provide a way for users to install GTK-based software. There is a second package manager called the Bundle Manager. This application is much more simple than the regular package manager. We are shown a list of GTK-based software in alphabetical order and, next to each package (or "bundle") is a download button. When an application has been installed, it moves to the top of the list where another button click will remove it. Bundled software can be launched from the application menu or from the Bundle Manager. It seemed to work fairly well and I was able to install, launch and remove the various bundles. Though I did wonder why a different application was being used, after all, GTK-based software could simply have its own repository and be managed from the package manager much like Debian's non-free repository.
The DVD edition of Chakra GNU/Linux comes with a strong collection of software. We're given the Rekonq web browser, the Queassel IRC client and LibreOffice. There's a document viewer, the K3b disc burner and an e-book viewer. The Network Manager and KPPP dialer programs are included to connect us to the Internet. In the multimedia menu we find the Amarok music player, the Bangerang video player and the kdenlive video editor. Several popular media codecs are installed for us and Chakra can play most multimedia files out of the box. A copy of the XBMC media player is included too. There are multiple backup utilities, the Qt Designer app for GUI developers and the GNU Compiler Collection is included.
A copy of the Marble virtual globe is installed, as are the KDE System Settings panel and the KUser account manager. We're given an archive manager, text editor and the KGpg data privacy tool. Flash is available, but doesn't work with the default Rekonq browser. I found that installing another browser, such as Firefox, would automatically support watching Flash content. The WINE Windows compatibility layer is installed for us as is Java. Lurking under the surface, we find the 3.2 version of the Linux kernel. In addition to all of this the application menu contains a sub-menu dedicated to linking users to the project's website. There are menu entries for reporting bugs, visiting the project's forums and accessing the documentation. A nice touch, in my opinion.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 - desktop settings panel
I ran Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 on two machines, my HP laptop (dual-core 2 GHz CPU, 3 GB of RAM, Intel video card) and a generic desktop box (2.5 GHz CPU, 2 GB of RAM, NVIDIA video card). On both machines Chakra worked smoothly, booted quickly and detected all of my hardware. My Intel wireless card was automatically activated and clicking on the Network Manager icon immediately listed local wireless networks. Desktop performance was pretty good, perhaps a little better than normal for a KDE distribution. Chakra is a fairly heavy distribution and, even when sitting idle at the desktop, I found the system used over 300MB of memory.
I'm a fan of the KDE desktop, so it would be easy for me to appreciate Chakra. And, in a lot of ways, Chakra is a good showcase for KDE. The environment is quick to respond, there is a good collection of Qt-based software and, for that matter, there is a good supply of software in the default install. The look and feel of the environment is nice and I like the little add-ons like the drop-down terminal, which is great for performing quick one-off tasks on the command line. Still, there are some problems which kept getting in the way. For instance the KDE Activity Manager kept crashing and throwing up errors whenever I logged in. Right out of the gate I wasn't able to apply all available updates as some KDE packages reported conflicts -- not a good sign in a rolling-release KDE-focused distribution.
There were a few other aspects of the system which I felt weren't ideal, though they were a matter of taste rather than bugs. For example, the main package manager is nicely laid out and easy to navigate. It's a bit like using Synaptic with a more modern interface. Which raises the question in my mind, why create a separate Bundle Manager to handle GTK+-based software when a fourth tab in the main package manager would bring all package management into one application? For that matter, why not simply have GTK+-based software in its own repository and let users enable/disable the GTK+ repository? A lot of users probably don't know what libraries make up their favourite applications and telling them that programs like Firefox and GIMP are somehow different and require a different package manager will be confusing for many.
What I found strange about using Chakra GNU/Linux is that the project has a lot of good ideas and the developers have made a great deal of progress in the past year, but there are these occasional speed bumps. My experience started out well enough, the installer is pretty solid these days, despite its warnings about being under development. The package manager is pretty good, I just wish all software was handled by one app. The included software selection is really good, but I wonder how many users will really prefer having the Rekonq web browser over browsers like Firefox or Chromium just to maintain KDE purity.
Chakra, for the most part, works well and I found their approach to be unique and, in its way, refreshing. Still, if people who are going to give the semi-rolling distro a try should be prepared to do some trouble-shooting and deal with the occasional bug.
Miscellaneous News (by Ladislav Bodnar)
Ubuntu's HUD, 20 years of SUSE, Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 delays, Gentoo's "install wizard", interview with Sabayon's Fabio Erculiani, CentOS vs Scientific Linux, ClearOS overview
Ubuntu's frequent interface changes and redesigns have received much criticism in the tech media, so it can be refreshing to see writers taking a more positive view of those radical ideas that have (or might soon) become standard features on desktop Linux. Ubuntu's upcoming new menu system called HUD is one such example. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen has been highly impressed with HUD, believing that it is light-years ahead of any menu system: "In the end, what HUD does is advance the Ubuntu Unity desktop ahead of the competition. I think we were all fairly certain it was nothing more than a matter of time before Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu developers managed to make the Ubuntu desktop an obvious choice. But most never assumed they would take the Linux desktops light-years ahead of the competition. Bravo to Ubuntu and Unity - what you are doing is nothing short of incredible. You keep up this type of work and there will be no doubt who is the reigning king of the desktop."
The Linux kernel was first announced back in 1991 and it wasn't long after that the first distributions, as we known them today, started integrating the open-source operating system with applications to offer complete "solutions" for end users. One of the first ones on the market was Germany's SuSE (Software und System-Entwicklung), which later evolved into SUSE Linux and openSUSE. In twenty years the small project created by four Linux enthusiasts has grown into a major Linux player, both in terms of home desktop use and enterprise deployment. PCWorld's Katherine Noyes reports in "SUSE Linux: 20 Years and Going Strong": "SUSE Linux, in fact, is not just celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, but on Thursday it also announced that its customer base now numbers 15,000. More than two-thirds of the global Fortune 100 now use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which is also the most widely used commercial enterprise Linux distribution in China, the company says. Walgreens, Sony, Office Depot, and the London Stock Exchange are all among its users, as are five of the top 10 global supercomputers."
Another week and another show-stopper bug that is delaying the much-awaited beta release of Fedora 17. This time the culprit is non-functioning pre-upgrade: "At the go/no-go meeting it was decided to slip the beta by an additional week. Though the QA team was able to get through all validation testing, it was found that pre-upgrade was not functioning at an acceptable level, thus becoming an additional blocker which prevents us from shipping RC3, and necessitating the creation of an RC4. As a result, all major milestones, and their dependent tasks, will be pushed out by one week. The beta will now be looking at an expected release of 2012-04-17, and F17 GA is now scheduled for 2012-05-22. This is the second one-week slip of beta. Adjustments to the full F17 schedule have been completed and now reflect the above beta and GA dates, and high-level milestones have been updated as well on the Schedule wiki page."
Fedora is not the only distribution making adjustments to their release process. Mageia 2, which was originally scheduled for release on 8 May, will also be delayed by one extra week: "After some discussions between the Mageia Council and the Packagers' team, we've decided to make some changes to the Mageia 2 release schedule. There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one being that we feel that the list of important bugs still remaining to be solved needs more time and attention before we release. The bugs mostly relate to the systemd/dracut migration, and changes needed in the installer and drakxtools. While we're working on these bugs, our artwork and documentation and i18n teams will have a little longer to get everything polished and as near perfect as possible; we hope you'll be pleased with the result! We think you'll agree that it's more important to have Mageia stable, than to stick to the original release date."
The release of Gentoo Linux 12.1 on 1 April was accompanied by a controversial announcement about "a Gentoo install wizard", a feature that may be standard in most other Linux distributions, but which is missing from Gentoo due to the project's insistence on catering exclusively for users who are prepared to follow complex documentation. Many people were thus fooled into believing that they can now easily install Gentoo on their system and proceeded to download the 3.4 GB live DVD image - only to be disappointed to find out that the "wizard" is just a link to the Gentoo installation manual. Susan Linton reports in "Gentoo 12.1 Install Wizard: Real or Joke": "There were no new options in boot menu nor the advanced options, but on the desktop was an Install Wizard icon. It looked promising. But alas, it was indeed an April Fool's joke. Upon clicking the icon a little dialog box appears asking 'Are you the wizard?' Then the script was supposed to open Firefox to the Gentoo install handbook. So, yes it was a real icon and a real script designed for fun, but no, it is not an installer. It is probably the 'most intelligent Gentoo Install Wizard yet', but the bar was set pretty low."
For those who like the concept of Gentoo Linux, but feel intimidated by the complexities of a source-based distro, there is always Sabayon Linux, probably the most usable and active of the many Gentoo-based binary distributions. Last week Unixmen interviewed Fabio Erculiani, the project's founder and lead developer: "Q: There are many rolling-release distributions out there, what makes Sabayon unique? A: All the rolling distros I tried were lacking proper packaging. I mean, with Sabayon you can use both Portage (which is the most powerful source-based package manager out there) and Entropy (which is our binary package manager that works on top of the Gentoo base system). Tell me another distro that has all those things perfectly working together without annoying the advanced user. We spend a lot of time trying to find a good balance between split packages and fat binary blobs. We also spent the last 3 - 4 years working on next-generation binary package management applications and you're going to see the outcome of this effort starting from next month when we'll launch a new 'Google-like' applications management user interface called Rigo."
CentOS used to be the undisputed king of free Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones, but within the last year or so Scientific Linux emerged as a worthy competitor. Comparing the two distributions is unlikely to be easy, but if you are concerned about the speed of security updates, than Scientific Linux seems to be a better choice. Jens Kuehnel has compiled some numbers to illustrate the difference: "I took all the security updates available from an up-to-date RHN Satellite, exported its errata into a CSV file and added the release times from CentOS, Scientific Linux and Oracle Linux (OL). ... During this time Red Hat released 78 errata and I used 76. The average delay for CentOS was 6.58 days and for Scientific Linux 1.33 days. In December 2011 CentOS finally got its build environment and released both 6.1 and 6.2 in little over one week. CentOS really picked up momentum. If you look at the updates between 1 Jan and 1 Apr 2012 the numbers are very close together with 1.27 for CentOS and 0.97 for SL. The choice of Scientific Linux vs. CentOS is really much harder today. But I switched and I don't see a reason to switch back."
While many big Linux distributions develop solutions designed for servers, some users might feel more comfortable choosing a project that actually specialises in developing a server-only distribution, with an intuitive web-based management system. One such project is ClearOS, a well-established venture formerly known as ClarkConnect. Linux.com's Carla Schroder investigates "ClearOS, the Missing Link LAN Server": "ClearOS used to be named ClarkConnect. It was built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. The current stable release is 5.2, which tracks RHEL 5.2. RHEL 6.2 was released in December 2011. ClearOS 6.2 beta 3 came out February 29. So what's up? A lot. The maintainers have given it a major overhaul, which will be revealed in all of its glory in the final 6.2 release, which is scheduled for 'soon'. The Webconfig development framework has been overhauled for speed and more extensibility. A lot of effort has been invested in documenting the ClearOS development process with the goal of making it easier for new developers to come on board. The new ClearCenter Marketplace is the ClearOS application store, a place for outside developers to distribute their wares, both paid and free."
Finally, a quick note on one aspect of open-source operating systems that is and always will be clouded in mystery - the numbers. As we all know, it is impossible to obtain the accurate count of users of Linux distributions, but many developers still try to deliver some figures, often seemingly obtained from thin air. Last week it was the turn of a relatively little-known Ubuntu-based distribution called Zorin OS that claimed to have reached two million users: "We are thrilled to report that Zorin OS has hit an estimated 2 million users after less than 3 years. We announced back in December of 2011 that we have passed the 1 million user milestone and in less than four months the user base has doubled again, underscoring the explosion in popularity of Zorin OS." The brief post makes no mention of the methodology used to count the Zorin OS deployments, it merely gives us a highly unlikely number that seems to serve no other purpose than to inflate the developer's ego. So Linux distro developers, please give up on trying to count your users. And if you really must, at least tell us HOW you counted them, otherwise your claim is just a meaningless bluff.
Questions and Answers (by Jesse Smith)
Where did I leave my (GPG) keys?
Two weeks ago we looked at using the GNU Privacy Guard to encrypt and decrypt files and messages. At the time I mentioned a few ideas in passing, such as securely copying archives to a remote server and keeping private security keys safe. After all, if we lose our private key we can't decrypt messages sent to us nor can we access encrypted file backups. Some people raised questions regarding the use and storage of keys and I will try to answer those questions here.
Perhaps the most important issue is how to make backups of one's keys, especially the private keys. Security keys for GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) are typically stored in our home directory under the hidden .gnupg folder. In the .gnupg directory we will find configuration files, private keys and public keys. It's a good idea to copy the .gnupg directory to another location, such as a USB thumb drive, so we have an extra set of keys in case of hard drive failure.
One reader asked if it was possible to keep GNU Privacy Guard keys in another location, such as on a thumb drive or on a CD, to avoid having them stored locally. This is indeed possible. The GNU Privacy Guard program will, by default, operate on files stored in ~/.gnupg, however it can be made to use keys in other locations. To do this we need to set the environment variable GNUPGHOME. In the bash shell we'd use:
export GNUPGHOME=/path/to/my/keys/
The next time we run GPG it will create and use keys found at that location. To make sure GPG has found our keys we can run the following command and GPG will list any keys it has found:
gpg -k
When we are done using GPG and have unmounted the drive containing our keys, we can run the following command to tidy up after ourselves:
unset GNUPGHOME
In one of my examples two weeks ago I demonstrated using the secure copy (scp) command to copy an archive from the local machine to a remote server, like this:
scp mybackup.tar.gz remote-server.com:
Unfortunately the default behaviour of the secure copy command is to prompt us for a password, which is not suitable behaviour for backup scripts. The good news is it is possible to use keys with OpenSSH too. The keys, once set up, will allow us to login to remote servers and transfer files without requiring us to type in our password. To create a set of OpenSSH keys we need to run:
We will be asked to provide an optional password to protect the key. A moment later we will have our key and now we need to transfer the key to the remote server. We can do that using the following command:
ssh-copy-id myuser@example.com
The above command will copy our key to the remote server example.com. When copying the key it's important the user name we use is our username on the remote server, not on our local machine. For example, if I use the name jesse on my local machine, but my account on the server is jsmith I would use:
ssh-copy-id jsmith@remote-server.com
When we run ssh-copy-id we will be asked for our password on the remote machine. Once the key has been copied we can attempt to login to the remote server to make sure the key is in place:
ssh jsmith@remote-server.com
We should now be able to login without being prompted for a password. We should also be able to copy files over the secure connection without being prompted for a password. This makes scripting a lot easier as we can place lines like the following one in a script:
scp myfile.txt jsmith@remote-server.com:
Typing jsmith@remote-server.com each time we want to connect to the server or transfer a file can get tedious. To get around this I like to set up aliases which will stand in for the full name of the remote machine. For instance, assuming we're using the bash shell, we can add the following line to our ~/.bashrc file:
remote=jsmith@remote-server.com
With the above line in place we can connect to the remote server using:
ssh $remote
and we can transfer files in a similar fashion:
scp myfile.txt $remote:
The above features take just a minute to set up and they can save us a little bit of time each day. Plus they make scripting automated backups easier. Really, it's a win-win situation for us. Now, I want to leave you with one final short-cut. Do you ever find yourself logging into a remote server, running one or two commands and then logging out? Something like this:
(enter password)
Perhaps you're just making sure the server didn't reboot, or maybe you want to see what its CPU load is at the moment. At any rate, it can be inconvenient to type the same commands repeatedly just to check one thing. Using the keys we talked about above and the hostname alias we can run single commands quickly on our remote server like this:
ssh $remote uptime
The secure shell automatically substitutes in our username and the full host name, logs in using our key, runs the uptime command, displays the result and closes the connection. In addition, we can string a series of commands together on one line to be processed by the remote server. The following command will shows us the remote server's uptime, CPU load and a print-out showing disk usage:
ssh $remote uptime\; df -h
I find keys and aliases to be helpful tools, especially when babysitting multiple servers. They provide a lot of short-cuts and cut down on typing (and typos).
Released Last Week
DEFT Linux 7.1
Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 7.1, a bug-fix update to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution designed for forensic analysis, penetration testing and related tasks: "DEFT Linux 7.1 ready for download. The new features for DEFT Linux 7.1 are: Hb4most and xterm problems fixed; GParted bug fix; updated packages: bulk_extractor 1.2.0, guymager 0.6.5, iPhone Backup Analyzer 10/2012, Xplico 1.0; computer forensics side new tools - UsnJrnl-parser, lslnk; Cyber Intelligence side implementations; OSINT Chrome browser - we customized Chrome with several plugins and resources to perform 'open-source intelligence' and related activities; network information gathering - Host, nslookup, Dig, Nmap, Zenmap, Netcat, snmpcheck, Nbtscan, Cadaver, Traceroute, Hping3, Xprobe, Scapy, Netdiscover; wireless information gathering - Kismet; web application information gathering - Whatweb, Cmsident, Dirbuster, Burpsuite...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full list of new features.
Puppy Linux 5.3 "Wary", "Racy"
Barry Kauler has announced that newly updated releases of "Wary" and "Racy" editions of Puppy Linux, targeting older computers, are ready and available for download: "Wary Puppy 5.2.2 was released on 18 November 2011 (also Racy Puppy made his début). Since then, there has been the usual feverish pace of development. We now have a significant upgrade, hence the version jump from 5.2.x to 5.3. Wary Puppy is our build of Puppy Linux targeting older hardware. Racy Puppy made a début at the previous release (5.2.2) and is 'Wary on steroids' -- identical except with later X.Org and kernel, to suit more recent hardware. Version 5.3 has a fairly small number of application upgrades, however there are fundamental changes at the infrastructure level, that is, the 'Woof' level - in particular, pervasive support for internationalization, plus a multitude of bug fixes. There are now 'langpacks' available for many languages." Here is the full release announcement.
Semplice Linux 2.0.2
Eugenio Paolantonio has announced the release of Semplice Linux 2.0.2, a bug-fix and feature update of the project's lightweight distribution (with Openbox) based on Debian's unstable branch: "The Semplice Linux team is proud to announce the immediate release of Semplice Linux 2.0.2, a maintenance release for the 2.0 branch. This release brings many bug fixes to the installer and ships the long awaited modemmanager and mobile-broadband-provider-info with the standard distribution. This means that you can use mobile broadband out of the box (if your modem is supported, of course). In order to bring Semplice to the majority of the hardware out there, we added some more firmware: atmel-firmware, bluez-firmware, firmware-crystalhd, firmware-libertas, firmware-myricom, linux-wlan-ng-firmware, midisport-firmware and zd1211-firmware." Here is the brief release announcement with a couple of errata notes.
Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
ClearOS 6.2-rc1, the release announcement
ROSA 2012-beta, the release announcement
Frugalware Linux 1.7-pre1, the release announcement
Elastix 2.3.0
Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-46
Webconverger 12.3
Upcoming Releases and Announcements
Summary of expected upcoming releases
2012-04-14: Mageia 2 Beta 3
2012-04-17: Fedora 17 Beta
2012-04-26: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 4
2012-04-26: Ubuntu 12.04 (see release schedule)
2012-05-01: OpenBSD 5.1 (see release page)
2012-05-02: Mageia 2 RC
2012-05-15: Mageia 2 (see development planning)
2012-05-22: Fedora 17 (see release schedule)
2012-05-24: openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1
2012-06-04: Frugalware Linux 1.7pre2
2012-06-14: openSUSE 12.2 RC1
2012-07-11: openSUSE 12.2 (see roadmap)
2012-07-23: Frugalware Linux 1.7rc1
2012-08-20: Frugalware Linux 1.7 (see roadmap)
DistroWatch.com News
March 2012 DistroWatch.com donation: GNU ddrescue
We are happy to announce that the recipient of the March 2012 DistroWatch.com donation is GNU ddrescue, a free and open-source data recovery utility. It receives €260.00 in cash.
GNU ddrescue is one of those low-profile tools that most people don't use on a daily basis, but when it is needed, it can save one's bacon: "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, CD-ROM) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue log files, shows log file contents, converts log files to/from other formats, compares log files, tests rescue status, and can delete a log file if the rescue is done. Ddrescuelog operations can be restricted to one or several parts of the log file if the domain setting options are used." Visit the project's home page to learn more.
GNU ddrescue developer Antonia Diaz recently asked for direct donations as a means to fund his work and purchase the necessary hardware: "I would be glad to receive some donations directly for ddrescue because, if my records are correct, I have only received €9.26. This does not even cover the couple of drives I have worn out in the six years I have been developing ddrescue. If you wish, you can donate via PayPal here." Launched in 2004, this monthly donations programme is a DistroWatch initiative to support free and open-source software projects and operating systems with cash contributions. Readers are welcome to nominate their favourite project for future donations. Those readers who wish to contribute towards these donations, please use our advertising page to make a payment (PayPal and credit cards are accepted). Here is the list of the projects that have received a DistroWatch donation since the launch of the programme (figures in US dollars):
2004: GnuCash ($250), Quanta Plus ($200), PCLinuxOS ($300), The GIMP ($300), Vidalinux ($200), Fluxbox ($200), K3b ($350), Arch Linux ($300), Kile KDE LaTeX Editor ($100) and UNICEF - Tsunami Relief Operation ($340)
2005: Vim ($250), AbiWord ($220), BitTorrent ($300), NDISwrapper ($250), Audacity ($250), Debian GNU/Linux ($420), GNOME ($425), Enlightenment ($250), MPlayer ($400), Amarok ($300), KANOTIX ($250) and Cacti ($375)
2006: Gambas ($250), Krusader ($250), FreeBSD Foundation ($450), GParted ($360), Doxygen ($260), LilyPond ($250), Lua ($250), Gentoo Linux ($500), Blender ($500), Puppy Linux ($350), Inkscape ($350), Cape Linux Users Group ($130), Mandriva Linux ($405, a Powerpack competition), Digikam ($408) and Sabayon Linux ($450)
2007: GQview ($250), Kaffeine ($250), sidux ($350), CentOS ($400), LyX ($350), VectorLinux ($350), KTorrent ($400), FreeNAS ($350), lighttpd ($400), Damn Small Linux ($350), NimbleX ($450), MEPIS Linux ($300), Zenwalk Linux ($300)
2008: VLC ($350), Frugalware Linux ($340), cURL ($300), GSPCA ($400), FileZilla ($400), MythDora ($500), Linux Mint ($400), Parsix GNU/Linux ($300), Miro ($300), GoblinX ($250), Dillo ($150), LXDE ($250)
2009: Openbox ($250), Wolvix GNU/Linux ($200), smxi ($200), Python ($300), SliTaz GNU/Linux ($200), LiVES ($300), Osmo ($300), LMMS ($250), KompoZer ($360), OpenSSH ($350), Parted Magic ($350) and Krita ($285)
2010: Qimo 4 Kids ($250), Squid ($250), Libre Graphics Meeting ($300), Bacula ($250), FileZilla ($300), GCompris ($352), Xiph.org ($250), Clonezilla ($250), Debian Multimedia ($280), Geany ($300), Mageia ($470), gtkpod ($300)
2011: CGSecurity ($300), OpenShot ($300), Imagination ($250), Calibre ($300), RIPLinuX ($300), Midori ($310), vsftpd ($300), OpenShot ($350), Trinity Desktop Environment ($300), LibreCAD ($300), LiVES ($300), Transmission ($250)
2012: GnuPG ($350), ImageMagick ($350), GNU ddrescue ($350)
Since the launch of the Donations Program in March 2004, DistroWatch has donated a total of US$31,240 to various open-source software projects.
New distributions added to database
LuninuX OS. LuninuX OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed to be beautiful, clean, simple, fast, and stable.
LuninuX OS 11.11 - an Ubuntu-based distribution with GNOME Shell and Docky
(full image size: 899kB, screen resolution 1280x1024 pixels)
Phinx Desktop. Phinx Desktop is a PCLinuxOS-based live CD. It uses a pure Xfce desktop environment with recommended or default Xfce applications, settings and configurations only.
Phinx Desktop 2012-03 RC1 - a PCLinuxOS-based distribution with a pure Xfce desktop
(full image size: 95kB, screen resolution 1280x1024 pixels)
New distributions added to waiting list
Blender-boot. Blender-boot is an Ubuntu-based live DVD that boots straight into a light environment with Blender already open. It has Dropbox and Ubuntu One for saving files which can be opened easily in another operating system. It has Blender, GIMP, Guake terminal, Chromium browser and more. It's a distraction-free and resource-light distribution designed with Blender and fast rendering in mind.
DistroWatch database summary
Number of all distributions in the database: 716
Number of active distributions in the database: 323
Number of dormant distributions: 63
Number of discontinued distributions: 330
Number of distributions on the waiting list: 274
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1. The principal called …………….. an explanation from the students.
2. I will happily carry ………………. your instructions.
3. The stain wouldn't come ……………..
4. The actor carried ……………….. his role brilliantly.
5. The manager called me …………….. and demanded an explanation.
6. I was called ……………….. to make a speech.
7. How did you come ……………….. that necklace?
8. Fear can bring …………….. a heart attack.
9. Somebody had broken ……………. through the back door.
10. Four prisoners have broken ……………….. of the prison.
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2. I will happily carry out your instructions.
3. The stain wouldn't come off.
4. The actor carried off his role brilliantly.
5. The manager called me in and demanded an explanation.
6. I was called upon to make a speech.
7. How did you come by that necklace?
8. Fear can bring on a heart attack.
9. Somebody had broken in through the back door.
10. Four prisoners have broken out of the prison.


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Down The Rabbit Hole: Slenderman, Children & The Internet
Expanding on issues raised in the world premiere of the HBO Documentary BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN, this panel explores the increasingly digital world, the potentially dangerous power of memes and the internet's influence on our children. For two little girls from Wisconsin, an online myth they believed had the power to kill them and their families, and led to the tragic stabbing of their best friend. What is the downside to infinite information at their fingertips, 24/7? How do kids understand what they discover online, when their skills of critical thought and analysis are only just developing? How can parents and content creators help them navigate the internet? Panelists from all sides of the spectrum tackle these questions, and the issues of a generation of kids traveling down the digital rabbit hole far enough to find its darkest basement.
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Irene is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose documentaries have shown theatrically, at film festivals and on television worldwide. She has collaborated with global partners, including HBO, Google, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the US State Department, and numerous broadcasters and foundations.
In addition to Beware the Slenderman, Irene most recently made Open Your Eyes, a short film following one Nepali family's struggle to regain their sight, scored by Salman Ahmad and Peter Gabriel. In 2011, Irene was nominated for an Oscar and three Emmys for The Final Inch, about the global effort to eradicate polio. In 2014, her film One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp won the 2014 Prime Time Emmy for Best Childrens Programming. In 2011, she made Saving Pelican 895 which also won an Emmy for its affecting music score and followed the life of a single bird rescued from the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. In 2007, Irene turned the camera on her own family to make her first feature-length documentary Hear and Now, which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, received numerous Audience and Jury awards around the world, a 2008 Peabody Award, and a nomination for Documentary of the Year by the Producer's Guild of America.
Irene's passion for documentary portraiture began as a still photographer following lives of the Deaf and the Blind living in the Himalayas. While living in Kathmandu, she published her first book "Buddhas in Disguise" and made her first film, Isharra. She later returned to New York to produce and shoot award-winning documentaries and work as a Producer with CBS News Sunday Morning.
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Newspapers in the Soviet Union always acclaim Russian inventions, sportsmen, etc., considering them superior to anything that the Americans create. Soviet communist newspapers are full of phrases like: "The best sportsmen at the olympics were the Soviet sportsmen...", "The first man is space, Russian hero, Yuri Gagarin... ", "The best tank in the World, the T-72...", "The biggest country in the World is the Soviet Union...", "The coldest winters are in Siberia...", "We, Russians have the most powerful nuclear weapons...", "Russian vodka is the strongest drink in the World..."...and so on. Everything Russian is the best, fastest, strongest. An international dwarf competition is organized. Each country brings its shortest men to the contest... At the beginning of the contest, the Russian ambassador keeps a speech: "Ladies and gentlemen! Without any doubt, the Russian dwarf is the biggest dwarf in the whole World!" ...no wonder they didn't understand why they lost the competition...
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Your culture and values are unique. But making those values real at scale is a challenge we all share.
Employees want coaching — actionable feedback about their trajectory — as well as transparency and authenticity from their boss.
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PAL Center construction students work on…
PAL Center construction students work on greenhouse
August 7, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
When a "green" greenhouse springs up in the fall in Muscoy, 19-year-old Raymond Lizama and a handful of other youth can claim credit for its completion.
Lizama, a Rialto resident, has been hard at work on the building of the energy-efficient greenhouse, a project of a job-readiness program at San Bernardino's Provisional Accelerated Leaning, or PAL, Center.
Students ranging in age from 18 to 24 put the finishing touches last week on their design: a greenhouse to reduce water waste by catching rainwater and reusing excess water.
"I think it's going to be nice. … Eventually, this will help me get a good job," Lizama said at a groundbreaking for the greenhouse on Thursday.
Through the program, young people who are out of school can enter the construction field. The PAL Center is a nonprofit and charter school.
The students also can earn educational certifications, such as a GED, and find positions in various business sectors.
Lizama said he heard of the program from a friend who had attended the center. His parents, he said, both lost their jobs two months ago, and he was hoping to help his family out. But he could not find any work.
"I've been trying to get any work, random work, to stay busy," Lizama said.
His teacher has been keeping the students busy at the center.
"I wanted them to be able to see something physically grow, something they accomplished bloom before their eyes," said John Burks, a 40-year veteran of the home-construction industry who is teaching the construction and warehousing program at the PAL Center.
When the greenhouse is done, the PAL Center plans to grow plants to use for food and instruction in its culinary program.
But Burks – who left his job last year as superintendent of a home construction company to teach the class – said he hopes that building the greenhouse also gives students an edge when entering the construction field.
"We're trying to get the kids involved in green," Burks said. "That is something that's going to be the wave of the future in the construction field."
The structure, which will stand 16 feet long, 14 feet wide and 10 feet tall, will use two 50-gallon drums on a platform to store rainwater. Through the pull of gravity, water from the drums would flow into sprinklers positioned over the plants.
Along with what they learn, the young workers receive a stipend for the work through government funds, and are responsible for all aspects of the building process, from the write-up of the blueprints to the last patch of soil patted into place.
The project is scheduled to be done in September. But not without helping several people get on track in their work life.
Several students in the class had dropped out of high school and came to the center to receive their GEDs.
Cesar Aguilar, 21, came to the center three years ago in order get his GED and to learn welding. This year, he worked for the U.S. Census Bureau for a month and recently found a part-time job at concert promoter Live Nation. He said he believes the construction class would help him make more money and further his career in construction.
"I'm still young. I have a lot ahead of me," Aguilar said. "I need a good lead."
Burks, who has worked with youth as an assistant pastor and a chaplain for the Ontario Police Department, said he took the job because he has a soft spot for helping young people.
"Being here and having an opportunity to help the kids get back on their feet – we don't just do work, we go hiking, go to ball games – it's an opportunity for me to be a part of someone's life and hand over what I know to somebody else and hope they run with the ball," Burks said.
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/ Corporate / Esri Partners with NLC to Spur Government Innovation
Esri Partners with NLC to Spur Government Innovation
Matt Ball on April 23, 2015 - in Corporate, Design/Engineering
Redlands, Calif.—As part of its commitment to build smart communities, Esri is supporting the National League of Cities (NLC) initiative 2015 Multi-City Innovation Campaign (MCIC). It encourages people to create solutions that will improve the quality of life in cities across the United States. Finalists will be announced April 30.
"Esri's unique experience in the civic innovation field will help make the Multi-City Innovation Campaign a success as the initiative grows and develops in the coming year," said Clarence E. Anthony, CEO and executive director of the National League of Cities. "Our partnership with Esri will help enable a greater number of cities to benefit from sustainable, technology-driven solutions that support smarter and more resilient communities."
This year, developers, innovators, and community leaders are encouraged to create scalable solutions related to public health that will change the way cities serve citizens. Twenty-five participating governments will each provide $5,000 to the winning solution if they choose to deploy it. One of MCIC's finalists could receive up to $100,000 in seed capital from Jumpstart Foundry, a leading accelerator.
Esri encourages participants to use the resources it has made available including open-source code on GitHub,Esri Developer Network (EDN), the ArcGIS for Developers web page, open data for health, and other open datasets.
"With Esri's ArcGIS platform and open datasets, developers can create solutions that transform public health," said Dr. Este Geraghty, chief medical officer at Esri. "Mapping and spatial analyses are essential to effectively managing pandemics and disease as well as creating an environment that promotes healthful living."
MCIC was started in 2014 by four NLC member cities—Boston, Massachusetts; Nashville, Tennessee; Palo Alto, California; and Raleigh, North Carolina—and has been expanded to include 25 cities this year. The program has been recognized as a Bright Idea by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University.
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Chevrolet Volt: 2016 AutoGuide.com Car of the Year Nominee
The 2016 Chevrolet Volt is a huge leap forward and a very strong contender for AutoGuide.com's Car of the Year Award.
Completely overhauled from top to bottom, the Chevy Volt's biggest strength is that it looks and pretty much operates like a normal car, something that can't be said of the new Toyota Prius, which is also a contender in our annual competition.
This new Volt has 53 miles of electric range, which is 15 miles more than the last Volt. More importantly, Chevy says you should be able to drive 1,000 miles between fill-ups if you're charging it every day at home. Charging takes 13 hours with a regular plug, and with a quick charger, it's 4.5 hours.
The Volt is powered by a 1.5-liter four-cylinder range extender, but the real news here is the big bad lithium-ion battery. With the a twin-motor arrangement, it's good for 149 hp and 294 lb-ft of torque in electric mode. What this means is that it's not fast and there isn't a huge amount of passing power on the highway, but it has great off-the-line speed and if you live in the city where cars like this excel, that's all you really need anyway.
One of the Volt's downsides is that it's a nearly $8,000 more expensive than the Prius, but the price disparity makes a lot of sense once you sit inside. The Volt's interior is so much more upscale than the Prius, and it actually looks like a real car and not a spaceship. The interior has a clean, functional and easy to use layout, and the materials are so much more posh than the stuff used in the Prius.
Completely new, it's more efficient, better looking and has more technology than the one that came before it. This Volt takes everything that was good about the first-generation model and makes it even better, but is it good enough to win as our 2016 Car of the Year? Stay tuned. We reveal the winner on December 15.
Read more about the Chevrolet Volt: 2016 AutoGuide.com Car of the Year Nominee at AutoGuide.com.


When we found out we're visiting the legendary rice terraces, we thought it was perfect for the creative collaboration we had been meaning to do. Here is a special Al Amin x Explore Philippines video team-up, featuring Banaue, with a special participation of cover boy Sam Gogna and the very hospitable Ifugaos. Shout out to travel, drone video and photo specialist Al Amin for this awesome work!
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The Good News about Egypt from it's Coptic Patriarch, Leader of Egyptian Christians
by Steve Ray on July 5, 2013
Coptic Patriarch Hopeful After Egyptian President Deposed
Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak Believes Country is Now On The Right Track
By Junno Arocho Esteves
CAIRO, July 04, 2013 (Zenit.org) – Patriarch of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak expressed his support for the ouster of Mohamed Morsy as president of Egypt by the Egyptian military.
"We have been celebrating since yesterday evening. We did not sleep. The people of Egypt have peacefully regained their country. And therefore showed the world that they are civilized people, in spite of the great problems they face," Patriarch Sidrak told Fides News Agency.
The end of Morsy's presidency followed after weeks of public protests against a perceived government monopolization by the Muslim Brotherhood, the former president's political party.
The Egyptian military deposed Morsy and set about establishing an interim government with the assistance of opposition parties and religious leaders in an effort to stabilize the country which has suffered weeks of turmoil in the wake of violent protests. Adly Mansour, head of the Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, was appointed interim president until elections are scheduled.
"Several signals show that we are on the right track. We will not repeat the mistakes made in the past. This time, they have well prepared the next steps, today the new interim President Adly Mansour swears in, and gradually steps will be taken towards the full restoration of democratic order".
Despite his optimism at the new turn of events, Patriarch Sidrak conveyed his concern with situations affecting the nation. "We cannot say that we do not have fears. The economic situation is worrying and makes everyone more at risk of being manipulated by the sirens of propaganda. Morsy's militant supporters feel they have lost, and this can trigger feelings of revenge. We must convince them that there is also place for them in the Country and that no one rejects them, but they should be and behave as Egyptians, as fellow citizens of all the other Egyptians, and not aim at establishing religious despotism."
The Coptic Patriarch explained that while most Egyptian citizens would "never accept to go back" the how the government was run under Morsy's party, the fact remains that at least 5 million citizens "will continue to support the radical beliefs of the Muslim Brotherhood."
"They should not be excluded from the political scene," Patriarch Sidrak stressed, "but they must behave like a political party, and not as a means to impose religious hegemony. Everyone can live their own religious faith in the mosque or church, without imposing on others religious precepts."
The Ugly Truth of Racism in America: What the Zimmerman Trial is Again Revealing – link fixed
This article by Fred Reed entitled "Riots" is a sad but all to accurate read.
Watching the Zimmerman trial, I wonder whether we may not be in for big trouble. Racial hostility is much higher in the United States than it is allowed to appear. In the Twittersphere there is much traffic from blacks, saying that if Zimmerman walks, they will kill him themselves, riot, or kill random whites. On many sites around the web, whites of a sort not found on NPR are saying, "Bring it on." This is not your granny's recipe for domestic tranquility.
Let's not kid ourselves. Race underlies almost everything in this country that spends half its time denouncing racism. This is true of trials, and particularly true of show trials. When the police who beat Rodney King, were acquitted by a white jury, the cops being clearly guilty, blacks burned Los Angeles. When OJ Simpson, clearly guilty, was acquitted by a black jury, whites didn't burn anything, but were angry and perfectly aware that the verdict was political.
The prosecution's case against Zimmerman is so weak that unless the fix is in, he will walk. Katie, bar the door.
How did we get here? It's a long story.
An important part of the world view of blacks is the belief that whites enslaved them. This makes sense if you believe a race is a coherent being with a life stretching over the centuries, as a man's life stretches over decades. (Compare The Jews Killed Christ. "Gosh, Rachel. You don't look old enough. You sure you did it?")
It makes no sense to whites who reflect that no white in America has ever owned a slave, and no black has ever been one. Blacks know this, but it is hard to focus anger on things done by dead whites long before you were born…
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Song Cycle is the debut album by American recording artist Van Dyke Parks, released in November 1967 by Warner Bros. Records. With the exception of three cover songs, Song Cycle was written and composed by Parks, while its production was credited to Warner Bros. staff producer Lenny Waronker.

The album draws from a number of American popular music genres, including bluegrass, ragtime, and show tunes, and frames classical styles in the context of 1960s pop music.  The material utilizes unconventional song structures, and lyrically explores American history and culture, reflecting Parks' history working in both the film and music industries of Southern California.

Upon its release, Song Cycle was largely acclaimed by critics despite lukewarm sales, and later gained status as a cult album. In 2017, Song Cycle was ranked the 93rd greatest album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.

Background

In Los Angeles during the mid-1960s, Van Dyke Parks became known as an in-demand session pianist, working with such artists as The Byrds, Tim Buckley, and Paul Revere & the Raiders.  At the same time, he had been unsatisfied with contemporary pop music and its increasing submissiveness to the British invasion, going so far as to say, "apart from Pet Sounds I didn't find anything striking coming out of the United States." Wanting to give "an American experience which would be uniquely disassociable from the Beatles/British pop viewpoint," he was involved with numerous works that would indulge his interest in Depression-era American pop and folk music, such as co-writing and arranging much of Harpers Bizarre's second album Anything Goes; releasing his own singles "Come to the Sunshine", "Number Nine", and most notably providing lyrical content to the Beach Boys' album Smile.

For his collaborations with Brian Wilson, Parks was signed as a recording artist by Warner Bros. Records. The label reportedly expected that Parks could deliver a smashing commercial success on par with the Beach Boys at that time. During this epoch, Parks visited Frank Sinatra, who was dispirited by the rise of rock music, and was considering retirement. To help alleviate this, Parks pitched his brother Carson's song "Somethin' Stupid" as a duet for Sinatra and his daughter Nancy. Reportedly on Lee Hazlewood's advice, Sinatra recorded "Somethin' Stupid", and it became his first million-selling single. This bought credit for Parks at Warner Bros, and they proceeded to fund Parks's one single: an instrumental cover of Donovan's 1965 song "Colours". It was credited to "George Washington Brown"—a fictitious pianist from South America—to protect his family from the potential infamy of his "musical criminology". "Donovan's Colours" received an ecstatic two-page review by Richard Goldstein, which convinced the label of Parks's ability.

After Parks signed a solo contract with Warner Bros, he formed part of a creative circle that came to include producer Lenny Waronker and songwriter Randy Newman. Parks subsequently abandoned the Smile project, leaving the album forever unfinished by the Beach Boys.

Recording
The album's sessions cost more than US$35,000 (exceeding US$ today), making it one of the most expensive pop albums ever recorded up to that time — in 1967, the typical budget for a pop studio album was about $10,000 (US$ today). The producers were able to make early use of an eight-track professional reel-to-reel recorder, which was used to mix second generation four-track tape that had been transferred from another four-track recording for overdubs. Parks has added that the bulk of the album was done "before Sgt. Pepper reared its ugly head", and that Randy Newman had written "Vine Street" especially for him. Many Los Angeles recording facilities were used, not because of any particular sound preference, but to maximize studio time. Song Cycle contained experimental production and recording methods, including varispeed and regenerated tape delay. Audio engineer Bruce Botnick is credited for inventing the "Farkle" effect, an ingenious modification to a Sunset Sound Recorders echo box. The Farkle effect was used most prominently on violins, harps, and the intro to "The All Golden", and involved very thin splicing tape folded like a fan attached to a tape overhead.

The album opens with a recording of guitarist Steve Young performing "Black Jack Davy", a 17th-century ballad.

Release
The album had the provisional title Looney Tunes, a nod to the cartoons produced by Warner Brothers' film division. According to Parks,

Released in November 1967, Parks later expressed that the album hadn't turned out exactly as he wanted, saying "An album with no songs was entirely unintentional," and considered the album more of a learning exercise "made with a mindset about the importance of studio exploration."

Reception

In his column for Esquire, music critic Robert Christgau felt that Song Cycle "does not rock" and had "serious reservations about [Parks'] precious, overwrought lyrics and the reedy way he sings them, but the music on this album is wonderful." Warner Bros. press sheets advertised Song Cycle as "the most important, creative and advanced pop recording since Sgt. Pepper." Although it received good reviews upon release, Song Cycle sold slowly, and took at least three years to pay for the original studio sessions. AllMusic's Jason Ankeny has described the album as

In response to the poor sales of the record after its release, Warner Bros. Records ran full page newspaper and magazine advertisements written by staff publicist Stan Cornyn that said they "lost $35,509 on 'the album of the year' (dammit)." The ad said that those who actually purchased the album had likely worn their copies out by playing it over and over, and suggested that listeners send in worn out copies to Warner Bros. in return for two new copies, including one "to educate a friend with." Incensed by the tactic, Parks accused Cornyn of trying to kill his career. Excerpts from positive reviews were reprinted in these ads, which included statements written by the Los Angeles Free Press ("The most important art rock project"), Rolling Stone ("Van Dyke Parks may come to be considered the Gertrude Stein of the new pop music"), and The Hollywood Reporter ("Very esoteric").

Many musicians cite the album as an influence, including producer and songwriter Jim O'Rourke. O'Rourke worked with Parks and harpist Joanna Newsom on Newsom's record Ys.  Joanna Newsom sought out the partnership with Van Dyke Parks after listening to Song Cycle.

Track listing

Notes
"Van Dyke Parks" (credited as 'public domain') is actually an interpretation of "Nearer, My God, to Thee", "accompanied by the sound of rushing water".

Personnel
 Van Dyke Parks – main performer, vocals
Additional musicians and production staff

 Lenny Waronker – producer
 Ron Elliott, Dick Rosmini – guitar
 Misha Goodatieff – violin
 Virginia Majewski – viola
 Carl Fortina – accordion
 Nicolai Bolin, Vasil Crlenica, William Nadel, Allan Reuss, Leon Stewart, Tommy Tedesco – balalaika
 Don Bagley, Gregory Bemko, Chuck Berghofer, Harry Bluestone, Samuel Boghossian, Dennis Budimir, Joseph Ditullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Nathan Gershman, Philip Goldberg, Armand Kaproff, William Kurasch, Leonard Malarsky, Jerome Reisler, Red Rhodes, Trefoni Rizzi, Lyle Ritz, Joseph Saxon, Ralph Schaffer, Leonard Selic, Frederick Seykora, Darrel Terwilliger, Bob West – strings
 Gayle Levant – harp
 Norman Benno, Arthur Briegleb, Vincent DeRosa, George Fields, William Green, Jim Horn, Dick Hyde, Jay Migliori, Tommy Morgan, Ted Nash, Richard Perissi, Thomas Scott, Thomas Shepard – woodwind
 Billie J. Barnum, Gerri Engeman, Karen Gunderson, James and Vanessa Hendricks, Durrie and Gaile Parks, Julia E. Rinker, Paul Jay Robbins, Nik Woods – choir
 Hal Blaine, Gary Coleman, Jim Gordon, Earl Palmer – percussion
 Steve Young – folk ("Vine Street" introduction tape)

References

Bibliography

External links
33 blog page: "Van Dyke Parks – Song Cycle, by Richard Henderson.

1967 debut albums
Warner Records albums
Van Dyke Parks albums
Albums produced by Lenny Waronker
Concept albums
Avant-pop albums
Baroque pop albums
Art rock albums by American artists

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MANSFIELD, OH - The Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State Mansfield is proud to present Lifted, an exhibition exploring image-based appropriation in the digital age. The exhibition will highlight twelve artists from across the United States who re-work images they take from the internet.
The exhibition will take place February 4 - March 7, 2019 at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery (Room 145 Ovalwood Hall, 1760 University Drive, Mansfield, OH 44906). The Gallery will host a free, public reception on Monday, February 4 from 12:35 - 1:30 pm.
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As we already know, the seventh house of a horoscope primarily deals with the marriage of the native; accordingly the placement of any benefic planet in this house in a horoscope or any type of good things happening to the lord of this house in a horoscope can bless the native with good results related to his marriage. Hence when benefic debilitated Saturn being the lord of the seventh house is placed in the ninth house of a horoscope, the native under its effect may witness many types of good results through his marriage depending on the overall tone of his horoscope. Therefore some natives under the effect of such benefic debilitated Saturn may get married to people holding posts of power and authority in the house of government, some of these natives may get married to rich and established people and some other such natives may get married to people who may be famous by virtue of being actors, singers, writers, musicians, sportspersons and other such types of celebrities.
The placement of benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house of a horoscope can also take some natives to foreign lands and it can get them settled there permanently on the basis of their marriages if their overall horoscopes are supportive. For example, if benefic debilitated Saturn is placed in the ninth house of a horoscope in the sign of Aries, benefic Moon is placed in the seventh house of this horoscope in the sign of Aquarius and benefic exalted Venus is placed in the eighth house of this horoscope in the sign of Pisces, the native may settle abroad on the basis of his marriage. The native blessed by such benefic debilitated Saturn and other benefic planets may get married to a foreign citizen and he may settle in a foreign country permanently, if there are no opposing influences in his horoscope. For instance, if a benefic Rahu is placed in the first house of this horoscope in the sign of Leo along with benefic Mars; and Ketu is placed in the seventh house of this horoscope in the sign of Aquarius along with benefic Moon, the native may not settle abroad on the basis of his marriage.
The native blessed by such benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house and other benefic planets mentioned in this example may get married to a foreign citizen but he may not settle in a foreign country on the basis of such marriage. Instead, the life partner of this native may get settled in the country of this native by virtue of such marriage. However if instead of being placed in the first house of this horoscope, a benefic combination of Mars and Rahu is placed in the ninth house of this horoscope in the sign of Aries along with benefic debilitated Saturn; and benefic Ketu is placed in the third house of this horoscope in the sign of Libra, the native may get married to a foreign citizen and he may settle in the country of origin of his wife. The combined effect of such benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house and other benefic planets may bless the native with a good marriage and the native may also come across very good success and growth in the field of his profession due to the blessings of all these benefic planets. As more benefic planets add to this horoscope, the native blessed by benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house and all other benefic planets may benefit even more through his foreign settlement on the basis of his marriage.
Benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house of a horoscope can also bless the native with good results through many fields of profession, apart from giving good results related to marriage. Hence the natives under the effect of this benefic influence may engage in a number of professional spheres and they may achieve the amount of success through them, as allowed by their overall horoscopes. Some of these natives may achieve posts of power and authority in the house of government through jobs or through politics depending on the overall tone of their horoscopes. For example, if benefic debilitated Saturn is placed in the ninth house of a horoscope in the sign of Aries, benefic Rahu is placed in the eighth house of this horoscope in the sign of Pisces, benefic Ketu is placed in the second house of this horoscope in the sign of Virgo and benefic Venus is placed in the fourth house of this horoscope in the sign of Scorpio, the native may become a revenue officer. The native under the combined effect of such benefic debilitated Saturn and other benefic planets may get blessed with a post of authority in the revenue department and he may earn good amount of money, success and recognition through this field of profession.
At the same time, if benefic Mars is placed in the ninth house of this horoscope in the sign of Aries along with benefic debilitated Saturn; and a benefic combination of Sun and Mercury is placed in the fifth house of this horoscope in the sign of Sagittarius when all other planets are placed in the already mentioned houses, the results may improve a lot. The native blessed by such benefic debilitated Saturn and other benefic planets may achieve success in some competitive exams held for selection in the revenue services and he may get selected for the highest possible direct rank in the revenue services, by virtue of such success. This is due to the fact that the addition of a benefic combination of Sun and Mercury to the fifth house of this horoscope may add more authority to this horoscope and the presence of a benefic combination of Mars and debilitated Saturn may form Neechbhang Rajyoga in the ninth house of this horoscope.
As benefic Mars is the planetary lord of the sign Aries, its placement with benefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house may cancel the debilitation status of Saturn and these two planets may form Neechbhang Rajyoga in the ninth house of this horoscope, which may bless the native with top class authority through revenue services, as indicated by the overall tone of his horoscope. Hence the native under the effect of such benefic debilitated Saturn and other planets may achieve the highest possible direct rank in the revenue services and he may earn very good amount of money, success and recognition as a revenue officer. As more benefic influences add to this horoscope, the native blessed by such benefic debilitated Saturn and other benefic planets may achieve even better results through this field of profession. For example, the presence of benefic Jupiter in the first house of this horoscope in the sign of Leo can bless the native with even better results through this field of profession. Similarly, the presence of benefic Moon in the ninth house of this horoscope in the sign of Aries along with benefic debilitated Saturn and Mars or the presence of benefic Moon in the eleventh house of this horoscope in the sign of Gemini can bless the native with even more success and authority as a revenue officer.
On the other hand, malefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house of a horoscope can trouble the native with problems related to profession, finances, reputation, health, lifespan, marriage and many other types of problems. As a result, the natives under the effect of this malefic influence may come across some of these bad results depending on the overall tone of their horoscopes. Such malefic debilitated Saturn can cause many problems in the marriage of the native due to which some natives under its effect may not get married on time and they may witness delay in their marriages on account of various reasons. In extreme cases when supported by other malefic influences in a horoscope, the placement of malefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house of a horoscope in the sign of Aries can make the native wait till his age of 36 or 42 in order to get married or such native may not get married at all.
For instance, if malefic debilitated Saturn is placed in the ninth house of a horoscope in the sign of Aries along with malefic Jupiter, malefic Rahu is placed in the first house of this horoscope in the sign of Leo and a malefic combination of Venus and Moon is placed in the sixth house of this horoscope in the sign of Capricorn, the native may not get married till has age of 42 or he may not get married at all. Malefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house can also cause problems in the marriage of the native after it has happened and such problems may intensify if there are some other malefic planets in one such horoscope. In extreme cases when supported by other malefic planets, malefic debilitated Saturn in the ninth house of a horoscope can break more than one marriage of the native under its influence on account of various reasons depending on the overall tone of his horoscope.


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The debut studio album by livefromthecity. Includes appearances from Tyhir Frost, VO, Jasiri X, Soulja Buck, Jordan Montgomery, Patience Roya'l, and Inky.
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The NHL Lockout has cost hockey fans, and players, over 400 games, but could it soon be over?
The NHL players and owners met for over 10 hours on Tuesday of this week, and reports say they are close to an agreement.
So far, the lockout has seen the cancellation of 422 games, including the 2013 Winter Classic. So if the two sides were to come to an agreement, would you go right back to watching, or would you be a little angry for both sides taking away the game you loved for so long?


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Considering that we are only shortly after the effective date of the 2015 B2C VAT changes in the European Union, the VAT Committee's Working Paper provides a very interesting read. The document can be accessed here.
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