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Oct 19, 2018 — by Eric Brown

Cirrus7 unveiled an “AI-Box TX2” mini-PC with a Jetson TX2 module and -20 to 70°C support. The company also offers four, similarly Linux-friendly Kaby Lake-based mini-PCs and a new Gemini Lake model.

Cirrus7 is a German manufacturer of Intel Core based mini-PCs that are available barebone or with pre-installed Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or Windows. Now the company has stepped into the Arm world with a mini-PC based on Nvidia’s Jetson TX2 module.

The AI-Box TX2 has the same rugged, passively cooled hardware design as its earlier 7th Gen Kaby Lake based mini-PCs but is the smallest yet at 155 x 120 x 49mm. It’s also the only one listed with extended temperature (-20 to 70°C) support. The other systems include the Cirrus7 Nimbus v2, Cirrus7 One, and Cirrus7 Nimbini v2, which is also available in an Intel Gemini Lake model (see farther below for details).

AI-Box TX2 from both sides
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The AI-Box TX2 is built around the Jetson TX2 module, which is equipped with dual high-end “Denver 2” Arm cores and 4x Cortex-A57 cores. The 256-core Pascal GPU and it associated CUDA libraries enable a variety of AI and machine learning algorithms used in applications such as drones, robotics, and machine vision.

The Jetson TX2 also supplies the AI-Box TX2 with its memory: 8GB 128-bit LPDDR4 and 32GB eMMC. The AI-Box TX2 offers further storage possibilities with an optional microSD slot and a standard M.2 M-key 2280 slot with SATA and PCIe 2.0 x4, supported with an optional NVMe SSD. It’s unclear if the optional 802.11ac (WiFi 5) with Bluetooth module uses the same slot. In any case, dual SMA connectors are available for antennas.

The AI-Box TX2 is further equipped with GbE, USB 2.0, and 2x USB 3.0 ports. A mini-HDMI 2.0 port supports 4K displays, and there are optional CAN, UART, and I2C interfaces.

The IP40 protected system has an optional redundant power input for a second supply or UPS, as well as an optional DIN-rail power supply. Mounting options include DIN-rail, VESA arm, and wall mounting. The system runs at 8-10W, with a less than 4W idle, says Cirrus7. The highly configurable system can be further customized by special order.

Other Cirrus7 mini-PCs

The other Cirrus7 mini-PCs offer a range of Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake with the exception one of the three Nimbini v2 models, which instead ships with an Intel Gemini Lake chip. We list them here by ascending size:

• Cirrus7 Nimbini v2 Gemini Edition — All the Nimbini v2 models have the same 157 x 157 x 81mm dimensions and are built on Intel NUC baseboards with support for dual 4K displays. The Gemini Edition differs in that instead of Kaby Lake, it offers a choice of Intel Gemini Lake SoCs — the follow-on to the Apollo Lake Atoms. The Nimbini v2 Gemini Edition ships with a GbE port, 4x USB 3.0 ports, a mini-Toslink digital audio jack, and 2x HDMI 2.0a ports for up to [email protected] video.

  Nimbini v2 Gemini Edition from both sides
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  The Gemini Edition starts at 299 Euros ($344) with a dual-core, 2GHz Celeron J4005 with Linux, but no RAM, storage, WiFi/BT module, or mounting options. A minimally configured model with 4GB DDR4 and 120GB SSD would go for 357 Euros, or $410.

  If you move up to a quad-core, 1.5GHz Pentium Silver J5005, you’d add another 69 Euros for a total of $426. RAM options go up to 16GB and storage to 2TB. You can add a SATA drive in addition to the standard M.2 slot, or you can swap out the M.2 for one or two SATA drives.

• Cirrus7 Nimbini v2 Business Edition and Media Edition — Starting at 499 Euros ($573) with a 7th Gen, dual-core, 2.4GHz Core i3-7100U and 4GB DDR4, the Media and Business Edition models share the GbE port, 4x USB 3.0 ports, and M2 storage slots of the Gemini Edition. The Business Edition offers 2x HDMI 2.0a ports while the Media Edition has a single HDMI 2.0a and a USB 3.1 Gen2 port with support for DisplayPort (with i3 models) or Thunderbolt 3 (i5). The Media Edition also provides standard WiFi-ac with Bluetooth 4.2, and you get a choice of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 in addition to the standard Intel Ultra HD 620 GPU.

  Nimbini v2 Media Edition (left) and rear view of Nimbini v2 Business Edition
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  The Media Edition offers additional optional USB 2.0 ports, while the Business Edition instead offers optional serial ports or a serial/USB combo. Like the Gemini Edition, the Business Edition lets you add a SATA drive or swap out the M.2 to enable one or two SATA drives while the Media Edition is limited to adding a single SATA drive to the standard M.2. The Business Edition also adds Intel vPro for remote access and security tasks.

• Cirrus7 Nimbus v2 — This 220 x 220 x 65mm mini-PC offers a choice of Kaby Lake chips and starts at 499 Euros ($573) with a 2.7GHz dual-core Celeron G3930T and 4GB DDR4. The system is equipped with 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, and single 4K ready DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI (with audio) ports. It offers the same M.2/SATA storage options as the Nimbini Gemini and Business editions, and also provides RAID 0/1 support. Options include extended and extreme cooling systems, WiFi/BT, a serial port, and VESA.

  Nimbus v2 (left) and One
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• Cirrus7 One — The One is the largest and most expensive member of the Cirrus7 family. The 218 x 218 x 108mm system starts at 689 Euros ($792) starting with a 7th Gen, dual-core 2.9GHz Celeron G3930, which has a 51W TDP instead of 35W on the Nimbus’ base level Celeron G3930T. The base price also includes 8GB DDR4, expandable up to 32GB.The only standard ports that are listed are HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPorts with audio and 4K support plus a dual-link DVI port. However, the photo shows other ports, which appear to include a GbE port, 6x USB ports, a PS/2 port, eSATA, and audio jacks. Two antenna connectors are onboard for the standard WiFi/BT 4.0 module. There’s a standard DVD/DC burner tray, and you can load up to three 2.5-inch SSDs or HDDs with RAID 0/1/1+/5. You can even choose an LED effect lighting option.

Further information

At publication time there was still no product page for the AI-Box TX2, but the company informs us it is available upon request starting at 800 Euros ($919) plus shipping. Pricing for the Cirrus7 Nimbini v2, Nimbus v2, and One systems are shown farther above, as well as in the product pages linked to from the Cirrus7 website.

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In real life pentesting scenarios, the antivirus is an added layer of security, which we have conveniently ignored so far. However, in this tutorial we will see how we can encrypt the payload and make it harder for the AV(antivirus) to detect it.

Prerequisites

You should know how the basics of generating payloads using metasploit, i.e. have a basic idea about pentesting. I have covered these already, and won’t do so again.

If you haven’t got the prerequisites covered, I’d suggesting you start by hacking into an unpatched Windows XP machine.

Install Veil-evasion

This is one the rare moments when you actually have to install a hacking tool in Kali Linux. That said, the process is incredibly simple, and a simple apt-get will work.

 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install veil-evasion

 

Type veil-evasion in the terminal and you’ll be asked if you want to continue with the installation.

Type y. Wait for the installation to finish. It could take a while. The installation would ask you to install Python & Ruby (don’t change installation directories even if it says that Python is already installed), which is just a matter of clicking next and finish.

Veil Evasion – Creating a simple payload

Type veil-evasion on the terminal to start it.

1) Type list to see available payloads.

 

list

2) Use any payload you want to. I’m using python/shellcode_inject/flat. Type

use python/shellcode_inject/flat

3) You can use set option to change any values you want to change. We don’t need that right now. Type info to see the settings you can change.

info

4) Type generate

generate

5) Choose option 1

6) Press enter, or if you want to use some other exploit, then type it’s name.
7) Enter LHOST (listener IP, i.e. your IP from ifconfig) and LPORT (any unused port works), enter any extra msfoptions you want to enter (not required here). Enter any name you want.

8) Give your payload a name. Then choose 1 or 2 for Payload creation method. I chose 1.

Your payload will get generated in a bit. Don’t upload it to online scanners, since they distribute it to different AV companies and the detection rate increases.

PS: If you are having issues, scroll down to the troubleshooting section below.

Veil Evasion – Creating An encrypted payload

Let’s try to create an encypted payload, one which will be undetectable by most AVs.

We’ll use AES encryption to encrypt the payload. This is a pretty strong algorithm and should provide pretty low detection rate.

1) Select the payload (this step is the only difference between the encrypted payload and simple payload)

 

use python/shellcode_inject/aes_encrypt

Don’t be confused by the directory at which I currently am in (/Veil-Evasion/Setup) in all the screenshots. I created a troubleshooting section below for which I was in this directory, and never switched back to home directory. This doesn’t change anything.

2) Look at the parameters/options that we can choose

info

3) Change anything you want to change. I’m not changing anything and using all the default options.
4) Generate the encrypted payload.

generate

5) Choose option 1, press enter for default payload. Follow the same procedure as the previous case. Choose the LHOST, LPORT.

6) Give your payload a name. I call it veiled.

7) Choose 1 (pyinstaller).

Generated executable can be seen here-
/usr/share/veil-output/compiled/veiled.exe

This is the second payload I created with the name veiled so it got changed to veiled1.exe

That’s it, you now have a payload that can bypass a lot of AVs easily.

Troubleshooting

If you’re getting this error

ERROR: Can’t find python.exe in /root/.config/wine/veil/drive_c/Python27/

Then it means apt-get failed you, and there are some uninstalled/mis-configured dependencies

Try this solution-

git clone https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion.git

It’s going to be approximately a 300 MB download.

then

 

cd Veil-Evasion/setup/

then

./setup.sh -c

This step may take some time. You’ll have to wait.

You’ll have to install a lot of stuff including python, ruby, etc. with Wine

then

cd ../setup/

then

python update.py

This should fix the issues.

Tinkering

I just generated an encrypted payload without a lot of tinkering. You can play with the options, try out everything that veil offers, and get a much more ‘veiled’ payload. As far as bypassing antiviruses is concerned, experimentation is key. Keep trying out different options till one generates a payload that your target AV won’t detect.

 

What to expect

Imagine your created payload is FUD (fully undetectable). Let’s reiterate the steps you performed-

1. Figured out how to use Kali (live USB, dual boot, VM, doesn’t matter).
2. Completed the steps given in a very easy to follow tutorial (I hope it was easy to follow).

Now ask yourself how hard it was to do the above steps, and how many people would be able to do it. Let’s say 1 in every 100 persons who tries to do the steps 1 and 2 succeeds. This would mean, one in every 100 persons who wants to write a virus/payload/trojan that cannot be detected by any antivirus, would succeed. Would you want to live in a world where there are viruses which can’t be detected by AVs, and these can be created by anyone with a bit of brain, internet access, and odds (1 against 100) in his favor?

Obviously not. The antivirus companies constantly keep evolving their algos, and the good ones would detect veil payloads. If you are clever, you can make the payload such that it’s detected only by very few AVs, but making a completely undetectable payload is hard, as it should be. There are crypters available, which are not free of cost, which encrypt your payloads, and then they are FUD for a short while at least. However, just like searching google for hack facebook and typing the username on a bogus website doesn’t give you the password of a facebook account, simple stuff like this won’t make an invincible payload. However, since you did do a lot of genuine work, the payload can certainly bypass a lot of common AVs, and with a bit of effort, you can probably make it almost FUD.

So no, your payload won’t be perfect, and yes, it’s a good thing.

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You may have tried different icons themes for your desktop and maybe you may have favorite one but it is good idea to always give a try to new things. If you are Android user then you may love these icons on your desktop. These icons are not extracted from Android OS or any Android rom but designed to give flavor of Android to Linux Desktop. These icons are based on Oranchelo icon theme which you may have seen and used it already. These icons fits with any kind of theme whether it’s light or dark, also it works with most desktop environments such as: Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce, Mate, Unity, Lxde and so on (except KDE).

If you are using Ubuntu/Linux or any Ubuntu based distribution then we have icons ready to install via PPA and if you are using other Linux distribution then you can

download

icons and save in one of these location

~/.icons

or

/usr/share/icons

. Current this icon pack is in active development which means you can contribute to the icons by any means either submitting bug or creating icons, for more details contact author.

Available for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic/18.10/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 19/18/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install AndroNet Icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That’s it

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New distribution images for the Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian operating system appeared on their Download page a week or so ago. The dates of the new images are 2018-10-09 for the Raspbian-only version, and 2018-10-11 for the NOOBS (Raspbian and More) version.

As usual, the Release Notes give a (very brief) overview of what is new and different in this release. If you are interested in this sort of thing, it would be worthwhile to bookmark that page, because the notes for each new release are simply added there, rather than being in a separate document for each release. It currently contains notes going back to 2013-09-10, and it makes for some interesting reading about how Raspbian has evolved over the past five years.

In a nutshell, this release includes:

• a number of changes to the “first-run/startup wizard”, which is not surprising since that was just introduced in the previous release
• a couple of interesting changes which look to me like they are responses to potential security problems (password changes now work properly if the new password contains shell characters? Hmmm. I wonder if this came up simply because some users were having trouble changing passwords, or because some clever users found they could use this to attack the system? Oh, and who ever thought it was a good idea to display the WiFi password by default?)
• updates to the Linux kernel (4.14.71) and Pi firmware
• various other minor updates, bug fixes, new versions and such
• removed Mathematica
• Raspberry Pi PoE HAT support

Those last two are the ones that really produced some excitement in the Raspberry Pi community. Just look at that next to last one… so innocent looking… but then go and look at the discussion in the Pi Forums about it.

For those who might not be familiar with it, Mathematica (and the Wolfram language) is a technical computing system that is very widely used in both education and industry. It has been included on the Raspberry Pi since the beginning, and when you consider that a normal “desktop” license costs €160 for a “student”, or €345 for “home and hobby”, it’s an exceptionally good deal to get it for free with a $35 Raspberry Pi. That makes it a bit easier to understand why some users would be upset about it being removed.

SEE: 20 quick tips to make Linux networking easier (free PDF)

The initial response from the Pi Foundation was that removing it from the base distribution saved about 600MB in the installation image, and the original contract was for five years and that has expired now anyway.

After quite a bit more discussion, it was finally determined that the license has actually been renewed, so Mathematica (and Wolfram) will still be available on the Raspberry Pi, but it isn’t included in the current installation images. It is still available in the Raspbian repositories, and now there is even a “Download Installation Script” button on the aforementioned Wolfram Raspberry Pi page. Oh, and from what I just saw in a recent interview with Eben Upton, they may add it back to the installation image as well.

The other issue, related to the last item in the list above, is the recently released Raspberry Pi PoE HAT. This is an add-on board which allows the Pi to be powered via the ethernet cable. Again, for those who may not be familiar with the concept, this requires that you use a wired network connection (duh!), and it requires that you connect the ethernet cable to a power-providing source, which means a network switch or hub specifically designed to provide power this way.

This time, the problem was (is) that, well, it just doesn’t work very well. Or sometimes not at all. But sometimes, for some people in some installations, it works just fine. Confused? You should be, because absolutely everyone else who is involved in this certainly is. You can read the entire discussion in the Pi Forums — and if you are a technically interested person, it makes for some fascinating reading. As far as I understand it at this point, they have determined that there is something wrong with at least some of the PoE boards, at any rate, they are offering full refunds to anyone who wants them, and they are promising that the problem will be fixed in a new version of the board, which will hopefully be available reasonably soon.

SEE: How to find files in Linux with grep: 10 examples (free PDF)

Remember, though, that “reasonably soon” involves modifying the design to fix whatever the “real” problem is (and as far as i can tell, it’s still not certain that is known at this point), then going through initial manufacturing, testing, final manufacturing and distribution. So I don’t expect to see any new products until at least after the New Year.

Until then, the product status on the Pi Foundation web page has changed back to “Coming Soon”, and most (but unfortunately not all) resellers have stopped offering the existing boards.

One last thing I want to say about all of this. Some people have taken one or both of these situations as an opportunity to bash the Raspberry Pi and the Pi Foundation (again). I find that to be extremely unfortunate. I have been a huge fan of the Raspberry Pi since the first time I ever saw one (well, read about one, actually).

I think they do a great job, and their dedication to both the product and their users has been fantastic. Yes, there are a few things about it which could be improved; yes, there are now alternatives available which are “better” in various ways. But no one works harder than the crew at the Pi Foundation, and no one has contributed anywhere near as much to education as they have with the Picademy, or to children and hobbyists through their events, code clubs and such.

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This tutorial shows you how to install Kazam screen recorder and explains how to record screen in Ubuntu. The guide also lists useful shortcuts and handy tips for using Kazam.

Kazam is one of the best screen recorders for Linux. To me, it’s the best screen recording tool. I have been using it for years. All the video tutorials on YouTube have been recorded with Kazam.

Some of the main features of Kazam are:

• Record entire screen, part of screen, application window or all screens (for multi-monitor setup)
• Take screenshots
• Keyboard shortcut support for easily pausing and resuming while recording screen
• Record in various file formats such as MP4, AVI and more.
• Capture audio from speaker or microphone while recording the screen
• Capture mouse clicks and key presses
• Capture video from webcam
• Insert a webcam window on the side
• Broadcast to YouTube live video

Like the screenshot tool Shutter, Kazam is also not being actively developed for the last couple of years. And like Shutter, the present Kazam release works just fine.

I am using Ubuntu in the tutorial. The installation instructions should work for other Ubuntu-based distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS etc. For all the other distributions, you can still read about using Kazam and its features.

Install Kazam in Ubuntu

Kazam is available in the official repository in Ubuntu. However, the official repository consists Kazam version 1.4.5, the last stable version of Kazam.

Kazam Version 1.4.5

Kazam developer(s) also worked on a newer release, Kazam 1.5.3. The version was almost sable and ready to release, but for unknown reasons, the development stopped after this. There have been no updates since then.

You can use either of Kazam 1.4.5 and 1.5.3 without hesitating. Kazam 1.5 provides additional features like recording mouse clicks and key presses, webcam support, live broadcast support, and a refreshed countdown timer.

Kazam Version 1.5.3

It’s up to you to decide which version you want to use. I would suggest go for version 1.5.3 because it has more features.

You can install the older Kazam 1.4.5 from the Software Center. You can also use the command below:

sudo apt install kazam

If you want to install the newer Kazam 1.5.3, you can use this unofficial PPA that is available for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sylvain-pineau/kazam
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install kazam

You also need to install a few libraries in order to record the mouse clicks and keyboard presses.

sudo apt install python3-cairo python3-xlib

Recording your screen with Kazam

Once you have installed Kazam, search for it in the application menu and start it. You should see a screen like this with some options on it. You can check the options as per your need and click on capture to start recording screen with Kazam.

Screen recording with Kazam

It will show you a countdown before recording the screen. The default wait time is 5 seconds and you can change it from Kazam interface (see the previous image). It gives you a breathing time so that you can prepare for your recording.

Countdown before screen recording

Once the recording starts,the main Kazam interface disappears and an indicator appears in the panel. If you want to pause the recording or finish the recording, you can do it from this indicator.

Pause or finish screen recording

If you choose to finish the recording, it will give you the option to “Save for later”. If you have a video editor installed in Linux, you can also start editing the recording from this point.

Save recording

By default it prompts you to install the recording in Videos folder but you can change the location and save it elsewhere as well.

That’s the basic you need to know about screen recording in Linux with Kazam.

Now let me give you a few tips on how to utilize more features in Kazam.

Getting more out of Kazam screen recorder

Kazam is a featureful screen recorder for Linux. You can access its advanced or additional features from the preferences.

Accessing Kazam preferences

Autosave screen recording in a specified location

You can choose to automatically save the screen recordings in Kazam. The default location is Videos but you can change it to any other location.

Autosave in a chosen location

Avoid screen recording in RAW mode

You can save your screen recordings in file formats like WEBM, MP4, AVI etc. You are free to choose what you want. However, I would advise avoiding RAW (AVI) file format. If you use RAW file format, the recorded files will be in GBs even for a few minutes of recordings.

It’s wise to verify that Kazam is not using the RAW file format for recording. If you ask my suggestion, prefer H264 with MP4 file format.

Don’t use RAW files

Capture mouse clicks and key presses while screen recording

If you want to highlight when a mouse was clicked, you can easily do that in the newer version of Kazam.

Record mouse clicks

All you have to do is to check the “Key presses and mouse clicks” option on the Kazam interface (the same screen where you press Capture).

Use keyboard shortcuts for more efficient screen recordings

Imagine you are recording screen in Linux and suddenly you realized that you have to pause the recording for some reasons. Now, you can pause the recording by going to the Kazam indicator and selecting the pause option. But this activity of selecting the pause option will also be recorded.

You can edit out this part later but it unnecessarily adds to the already cumbersome editing task.

A better option will be to use the keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu. Screen recording becomes a lot better if you use the shortcuts.

While Kazam is running, you can use the following hotkeys:

• Super+Ctrl+R: Start recording
• Super+Ctrl+P: Pause recording, press again for resuming the recording
• Super+Ctrl+F: Finish recording
• Super+Ctrl+Q: Quit recording

Super key is the Windows key on your keyboard.

The most important is Super+Ctrl+P for pausing and resuming the recording.

You can further explore the Kazam preferences for webcam recording and YouTube live broadcasting options.

Do you like Kazam?

I am repeating myself here. I love Kazam. I have used other screen recorders like SimpleScreenRecorder or Green Recorder but I feel a lot more comfortable with Kazam.

I hope you like Kazam for screen recording in Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. I have tried highlighting some of the additional features here to help you with a better screen recording.

What features do you like about Kazam? Do you use some other screen recorder? Do they work better than Kazam? Please share your views in the comments section below.
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GNOME Boxes is an open source application that allows users to access remote or virtual systems. It is distributed as part of the GNOME project and uses the well known Qemu software for the actual virtualization.

Features at a glance

The application can be used to connect to a local virtual machine, connect to a work machine from home, view, access and use remote systems, as well as local and remote virtual machines.

In addition, the program allows users to access, view and use virtual machines that are stored on removable media like USB sticks or external hard disk drives, as well as to configure access for various software on a local virtual machine.

Furthermore, GNOME Boxes can be used to view, access and use shared machines and connections, share connections, search for connections, upload and publish virtual machines, and organize favorites.

Designed for GNOME

The user interface follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) and presents users with an empty window, where their only choice is to press the “New” button in order to create a box.

Getting started with GNOME Boxes

Creating a box will enable users to use another operating system directly from your current session, as well as to connect to an existing machine over the network, or create a virtual machine that runs on top of your computer.

It supports ISO images, pause, resume and force shutdown of existing virtual machines. Another interesting feature is that it doesn’t create virtual hard disk images on your local disk drive, instead it starts the boot medium image immediatelly.

While its run-time dependencies include shared-mime-info, among its build-time requirements we can mention Qemu, Vala, GTK+, Clutter-GTK, GUdev, as well as the libvirt-glib and libosinfo libraries.

Bottom line

Summing up, GNOME Boxes is a very good replacement for the old Vinagre application that was used under the GNOME desktop environment to connect to remote machines through SSH, RDP, Spice and VNC protocols, as well as for Oracle’s VirtualBox virtualization software.

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Watch the keynotes LIVE next week at Open Source Summit & ELC + OpenIoT Summit Europe.

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Binary Domain is a 3rd person team action shooter. Play as Dan Marshall and lead his team through high-tech Tokyo in 2080. Literally command your team members with voice commands as you encounter intelligent robot armies that have no fear of death. Upgrade your teams weapons & abilities and lead them through and underground wasteland with no hope of survival.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Binary Domain in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Binary Domain. Other versions may require additional steps.Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 18.3 64-bit

PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0

Wine Installation
Click Tools

Select “Manage Wine Versions”

Look for the Wine Version: 3.0

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com

Click Install Steam

Do not click “Install Steam Now”

It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click “Windows” under the green button

Navigate to your desktop

Click Save

PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux

Click Install

Click “install a non-listed program”

Click Next

Select “Install a program in a new virtual drive”

Click Next

Name your virtual drive: binarydomain

Click Next

Check all three options:

 

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 3.0

Click Next

Select “32 bits windows installation”

Click Next

Configure WineApplications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7

Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows

Click Ok

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL’s)

Check the following libraries:

 

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and installInstalling Steam
Click Browse

Navigate to your desktop

Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open

Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license…

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the “X” to close Steam login

PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe

Click Next

Name your shortcut: Binary Domain

Click Next

Select “I don’t want to make another shortcut”

Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux

Click Configure

General Tab
Wine Version: 3.0

Arguments: -no-dwrite
This fixes any missing font problems

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wineDisplay Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Steam Server Error
Before launching Steam you will get a Server Error for every game

Navigate to your game’s wineprefix:

 

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/alienbreed3/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/config/
Open config.vdf with a text editor

Copy this code below

Code:

“CS” “valve511.steamcontent.com;valve530.steamcontent.com;valve548.steamcontent.com;valve539.steamcontent.com;valve519.steamcontent.com;valve555.steamcontent.com;valve504.steamcontent.com;valve529.steamcontent.com;valve558.steamcontent.com;valve500.steamcontent.com;valve561.steamcontent.com;valve532.steamcontent.com;valve540.steamcontent.com;valve502.steamcontent.com;valve544.steamcontent.com;valve528.steamcontent.com;valve556.steamcontent.com;valve520.steamcontent.com;valve542.steamcontent.com;valve538.steamcontent.com;valve551.steamcontent.com;valve521.steamcontent.com;valve564.steamcontent.com;valve516.steamcontent.com;valve535.steamcontent.com;valve541.steamcontent.com;valve533.steamcontent.com;valve536.steamcontent.com;valve557.steamcontent.com;valve559.steamcontent.com;valve537.steamcontent.com;valve508.steamcontent.com;valve525.steamcontent.com;valve565.steamcontent.com;valve566.steamcontent.com;valve514.steamcontent.com;valve545.steamcontent.com;valve517.steamcontent.com;valve547.steamcontent.com;valve549.steamcontent.com;valve503.steamcontent.com;valve515.steamcontent.com;valve506.steamcontent.com;valve562.steamcontent.com;valve526.steamcontent.com;valve543.steamcontent.com;valve522.steamcontent.com;valve518.steamcontent.com;valve509.steamcontent.com;valve550.steamcontent.com;valve552.steamcontent.com;valve505.steamcontent.com;valve553.steamcontent.com;valve512.steamcontent.com;valve546.steamcontent.com;valve554.steamcontent.com;valve510.steamcontent.com;valve563.steamcontent.com;valve501.steamcontent.com;valve531.steamcontent.com;valve523.steamcontent.com;valve524.steamcontent.com;valve507.steamcontent.com;valve560.steamcontent.com;valve567.steamcontent.com;valve513.steamcontent.com;valve1601.steamcontent.com;valve164.steamcontent.com;valve1615.steamcontent.com;valve1602.steamcontent.com;valve1604.steamcontent.com;valve1608.steamcontent.com;valve1603.steamcontent.com;valve1606.steamcontent.com;valve1609.steamcontent.com;valve1618.steamcontent.com;valve1617.steamcontent.com;valve1613.steamcontent.com;valve1607.steamcontent.com;valve1611.steamcontent.com;valve1614.steamcontent.com;valve1619.steamcontent.com;valve1616.steamcontent.com;valve1612.steamcontent.com;valve1610.steamcontent.com;valve165.steamcontent.com;valve1605.steamcontent.com;valve954.steamcontent.com;valve955.steamcontent.com;valve904.steamcontent.com;valve901.steamcontent.com;valve957.steamcontent.com;valve953.steamcontent.com;valve956.steamcontent.com;valve950.steamcontent.com;valve905.steamcontent.com;valve952.steamcontent.com;valve902.steamcontent.com;valve907.steamcontent.com;valve958.steamcontent.com”

Go to the line

“InstallConfigStore”
{
“Software”
{
“Valve”
{
“Steam”
{
“CM”

Paste in a new line under the “CM” line with all the IP Addresses

Save config.vdf

Launching Steam
Select Binary Domain

Click Run

Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click “Login to existing account”

Login

Find Binary Domain in your Library

Click Install

Uncheck “Create desktop shortcut”

Uncheck “Create start menu shortcut”
Click Next

Click Finish

Wait for Binary Domain to download

Click Play

If you get a DOT Net Framework 3.5 error

Click OK

Optimization
Select Configure at Launch

Click Graphics Configuration
Adjust:

• Resolution
• Antialiasing
• Shadow Quality
• SSAO Quality
• Motion Blur
• VSync
• Windowed Mode
• Field of View

Click “Save and Quit”

Click Play again

Check “Play Binary Domain”
Click Play

Conclusion
Binary Domain is a DirectX 9 game and runs beautifully with Wine 3.0 in fact it probably runs on any version of Wine. Definitely give the newest version a try as well. The only issue I experienced was that typical mouse-look problem where it was extremely sensitive. You can see it in the video. So I turned down the sensitivity in-game and that helped a bit.

Gameplay video

 

Screenshots:

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Here are the first of our benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card that launched this week. In our inaugural Ubuntu Linux benchmarking with the GeForce RTX 2070 is a look at the OpenCL / CUDA GPU computing performance including with TensorFlow and various models being tested on the GPU. The benchmarks are compared to an assortment of available graphics cards and also include metrics for power consumption, performance-per-Watt, and performance-per-dollar.

 

 

The GeForce RTX 2070 as a reminder has 2,304 CUDA cores, 1410MHz base clock speed, 1620MHz boost clock speed, and with its RTX technology is capable of 42T RTX-OPS and 6 Giga Rays/s. The memory with the RTX 2070 is 8GB of GDDR6 and provides a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s.

 

 

There are around 10.8 billion transistors on the RTX 2070’s TU106 GPU core compared to 18.6 billion with the RTX 2080 Ti TU102. While the RTX 2070 is significantly cut-down compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, its price is much lower: while the RTX 2080 Ti flagship card commands a price of $1,199+ (or $799+ for the RTX 2080), the RTX 2070 launch price is at $449 USD or $599 USD for the NVIDIA Founder’s Edition card.

 

 

Like the RTX 2080 series, the RTX 2070 features RT cores for ray-tracing, Tensor cores, DisplayPort 1.4a, and other features in common with the Turing architecture.

 

As NVIDIA didn’t send out RTX 2080 Founder’s Edition review samples and most NVIDIA AIB partners not interested in the (admittedly small) Linux gaming population, I ended up having to buy an RTX 2070 for Linux testing. The retail graphics card I ended up purchasing for the Linux RTX 2070 testing was the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC GAMING (08G-P4-2172-KR). I went with this card simply as it was the cheapest (and closest to reference) model available on launch day. While the RTX 2070 cards are slated to start at $499 USD, this was the cheapest model I could find in stock and came in at $549 USD (or $608 for the fastest shipping and tax).

 

The RTX 2070 has a 175 Watt TDP and requires 6-pin and 8-pin PCI Express power connections.

 

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC GAMING matches the 1710MHz boost clock speed of the Founder’s Edition card and is aligned with the rest of the RTX 2070 specifications. The RTX 2070 XC GAMING features a dual fan cooler, which EVGA dubs iCX2 cooling and features an EVGA RGB logo.

 

 

EVGA only lists Windows 7 and Windows 10 as the supported operating systems for their GeForce RTX 2070 on their web-site but on the product packaging they do also mention Linux.

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Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS – See What’s New

Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS has been released and announced by Ubuntu MATE project. As part of official ubuntu flavor, this release using the latest MATE Desktop 1.20.1 as default desktop environment. Also introduces numerous improvements and new features, including better support for HiDPI displays, new desktop layouts, as well as support for indicators in all layouts by default.

Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS operating system received several improvements. Among these, we can mention the Caja file manager, which can now encrypt your most precious files, Marco window manager, which got hardware acceleration, MATE Dock Applet, which now features icon scrolling and matching, the Brisk Menu applications menu is now enabled by default and MATE Tweak, which now lets you toggle the HiDPI mode more easily.

For more informations you can read at Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS release announcements
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