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Unity 8 is, by the reckoning of Ubuntu daddy Mark Shuttleworth, a year late.And it's Canonical's founder who has given the engineering team the necessary latitude they need to complete their work. "Unity 8 has taken longer than I anticipated," he told The Reg during a recent interview. "I thought a year go we would be there."What's the big hold up then? High expectations and the very low bar on failure, he reckons.The ability to span different hardware isn't, as you'd suspect, the problem, Shuttleworth says. It's building something that works as it should everywhere and doesn't piss people off."The challenge to that [Canonical engineering] team is to deliver a desktop as good as this desktop," Shuttleworth said. "If we are going to deliver code to 20 million people, it's not a science project, it's not for fun – you can't screw up people's desktops. It's a very high bar and it's taken longer to get over."But I've given them that room. We [as people] have 30 years of desktop habits. If I put something out there that's not good quality, the comments on Reddit are going to be really ugly. We can't move that stuff in front of 20 million people until there are no rough edges."

Isn't it time to face reality and move on? If weeks spent in software development are like dog years on delivery, what are years? Surely, if Shuttleworth giveth the time Shuttleworth can taketh away."It may be my white whale," he admits. "I feel the team has earned a fair shot and I may take my carrots."A reference from the younger Shuttleworth's school days, I later learn: a metaphor for something you didn't enjoy at the time but that's probably good for you in the long run.Suddenly you get a flavour of why Canonical's founder has given the Unity 8 team so much of that lattitude."Unity 8 delivers a unified set of experiences across all the kinds of personal computers," he says. "I care about developers – I need to give them a Linux environment wherever they want to do their developing – if that's on a phone it needs to be on their phone. If it's on their goggles it needs to be on their goggles.Unity 8's saving grace then may be the fact so many Ubuntu Penguins run on Apple laptops, obviating the need to stretch to replicating the experience on a long list of devices that recedes to the horizon.Microsoft may have moved on, but he feels validated by the fact Microsoft was even there. "When we said we were going to do one piece of code for phone and tablet, people thought we were loopy! Now, I may be loopy but at least I have company. They gave up on the form factor but not the experience."

Canonical has a history of tackling the plumbing of its Linux to build a better distro for this core developer market.Ubuntu exploded on to the scene during the early 2000s when the year of the Linux desktop was permanently mañana and Microsoft had lost a generation of developers to Apple thanks to Windows Vista and the rise of MacBooks.Ubuntu 7.04 blew Linux heads away in 2007. Among its "innovations" the ever so humble and now taken-for-granted addition of Wi-Fi that worked out of the box. The Ubuntu installer was superior to those of Red Hat and Debian, with one early Ubuntu evangelist joking that the word "Ubuntu" was African for "Can't install Debian".Back then, Red Hat was the best-known and most successful of the commercial Linux distros, but Red Hat prioritised corporate users, not individuals, and its focus was the server, not the desktop or laptop.

Ubuntu established a loyal fan base through Canonical's work building community via forums and blogs and through tools such as its bug tracker."I genuinely love enabling other people to do amazing things," Shuttleworth says. "It's the most rewarding thing. Developers are a really interesting crowd. And they see the future before everybody else – they are a bit like artists. And if you can enable them to create things more efficiently, we help the future show up faster."How do we do that? By looking really closely at what developers are playing with and where they are struggling. I was one of those developers in 1997, I was looking at the internet and I figured I could use Linux to do things much faster but it was really hard."I said Linux should be easy and the established guys aren't interested, so I decided to make Linux easier, and that's what took us away with Ubuntu for the desktops, and it was very specifically Linux for developers."

The work to build that Linux has seen Canonical rework some of Ubuntu's fundamentals. Some have accused Canonical of suffering from a "not invented here" syndrome.Canonical has tackled system initialisation and management (init), combined desktop and web search (Dash and Lens), application development and deployment (JuJu and Charms), container hypervisors (LXD) and at volume manager and file systems (OpenZFS).Not everything has gone down well.Dash in 12.10 was an über search engine that paired your innocent desktop/laptop queries with returns designed "suitable" from Jeff Bezos' mega warehouse Amazon.Not surprisingly, people hit the privacy klaxon and Dash got turned off.In 15.04 Canonical forged ahead with controversial system management tool systemd despite protests from a similar move across the pond in the United States of Debian.

Init would have been preferred but in Ubuntuland but then there was no init; Ubuntu's author Canonical employed its own (natural) systemd – called upstart.With 16.04 Canonical implanted the open-source ZFS (OpenZFS) into the heart of its Linux. ZFS is a revolutionary storage system that combines volume manage and file system; it gives you not just the physical discs but also the volumes.ZFS was built by Sun for Solaris, now owned by Oracle, with Sun releasing the code as OpenZFS under an open-source licence it created called CDDL.Revered ZFS and OpenZFS maybe, but the Software Conservancy Council and open-source firebrand Richard Stallman have claimed OpenZFS binaries cannot be legally merged and distributed with any GNU Linux binaries, which are under a GPLv2 licence, because OpenZFS uses CDDL and the two licences are incompatible in what you are allowed to do with the code.

Shuttleworth insists there's no legal issue, having taking advice from former Free Software Foundation general counsel Eben Moglen."Without that, I simply wouldn't have done it. Oracle has no issue. It was one of those issues where it was waiting for somebody to take that step."Now containers and micro services are here and Canonical's taken its own approach rather than simply use somebody else's. Called LXD, it's a pure container hypervisor for running Linux operating systems and apps unmodified in a VM. LXD is an extension of widely used LXC for virtualisation software at the operating system level within the Linux kernel and takes its place in the field with Docker and CoreOS.London-based payment processing firm GoCardless is warning customers that their personal information might have been exposed following the theft of 19 laptops from its offices last month.The "password protected" (not encrypted) laptops contained a file with customer personal data including email address, passport number, date of birth, and name. Leak of the data into the wrong hands might lead onto follow-up phishing scams or other potential malfeasance, such as identity theft. Payment data was not exposed.GoCardless is nonetheless offering exposed parties credit card monitoring services, as a breach notification advisory (extract below) explains.We wanted to let you know that on the 7 January 2017, our premises were the victim of a burglary which affected our office and another company in the building. Despite CCTV surveillance, locked doors, and a 24/7 security guard, nineteen password protected GoCardless staff laptops were stolen.
All of our payment processing systems are secure, remain uncompromised and were unaffected by the burglary. There has been no impact on our day to day business and we continue to process payments as normal.

We have already informed the police, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner's Office of this burglary. We have also conducted an exhaustive internal investigation so that we can communicate to you any potential risks from this burglary.Our investigation has concluded that the stolen laptops may contain a file with personal data provided when setting up an account with us. This information is stored by GoCardless to ensure we can evidence checks we needed to perform on you when you signed up with us. The file contains the following personal details of the person that verified your GoCardless account: email address, passport number, date of birth, and name.There is a very low risk that this burglary will affect you as none of your financial data was involved, all the laptops were password protected, there is no firm evidence that any of the data was available on any stolen laptop, and the burglars appear to have been targeting high value electronics rather than our data. However, we believe in transparency and so wanted to inform you of this burglary anyway.

Despite the above, we take even this small risk seriously. We are therefore offering to organise and pay for a web alert monitoring service from Experian for a period of 12 months.The incident illustrates that data breaches can result from causes other than hacking attacks, the most publicised cause. Lost and stolen laptops also pose a risk.A GoCardless spokeswoman confirmed the thefts, adding that police and other relevant authorities had been informed."I can confirm that on the 7th January 2017, we were the victim of a burglary which affected our office and another company in the building. Despite CCTV surveillance and a 24/7 security guard, 19 password protected GoCardless staff laptops were stolen," the spokeswoman told El Reg."All of our payment processing systems, remain secure and uncompromised and were unaffected by the burglary."We have informed the police, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner's’ Office. We have also conducted an exhaustive internal investigation and, despite the very low risk, have contacted all our partners and merchants," she added.

A proposed law will force porno-blocking filters onto computers and smartphones sold in the conservative state – with a charge to remove the censorship.Bill 1185 [PDF] will require laptops, cellphones and other internet-capable devices to be sold with a "digital blocking capability" that will bar the gadgets from displaying "obscene" material or performances, as well as websites that promote prostitution or human trafficking. It won't be applied retroactively to hardware already in people's hands, but will apply to all new devices sold after August 1 this year, if passed."An internet service provider's router, or a cell phone, laptop, computer, gaming device, or other product that distributes the internet or makes the content on the internet available, is classified as a pornographic vending machine and must be treated as such," the bill reads.

Those people wishing to disable the blocking must apply in writing, submit to a "face-to-face encounter, either in person or through other means" for age verification, acknowledge the receipt of a written warning about the dangers of deactivating the filters, and pay a $20 (£16) charge.It's not clear if that twenty bucks is per person or per device – if the latter, then given the number of internet-connected devices contained in the average family home, that's a lot of cash. There's been no response as yet from cosponsor Senator Janne Myrdal (R-District 10) to an inquiry from The Register on the topic. The draft law, introduced on Monday, will be scrutinized by the state's judiciary committee before it goes any further.The state government will collect porn filter fees from vendors and put the cash into a crime victims' restitution and gift fund to pay for the housing, legal, and employment costs of victims of human trafficking and child exploitation.Any manufacturer or wholesaler will also have to issue regular updates to the filter "within a reasonable time," and host a call center or website for concerned citizens to report material they have accidentally discovered online. If obscene websites aren't blocked fast enough, providers can be sued for $500 for each site not blocked, plus all legal fees.


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